-- On my interview, being told by Mark Mariani: "If you get
the job, that’ll be the last time you wear a tie."
-- Steve Miller doing his dance around a sombrero on the Newsroom floor to celebrate
the rising stock price.
-- Getting our favorite Frenchman, Arnaud Giudicelli, riled up
by telling him, “It should be called the Tour de Europe or the Tour de
France/Switzerland/Belgium/etc." after learning the race enters those countries, too.
-- Walking to the Fax machine to send a stock sell order
before being talked out of it by a co-worker, who made sense by saying we were
heading into March and the best time of the year for the company. The price
proceeded to free fall into oblivion.
-- Often asking Dave Fagan, “Buzz, how’d the Yankees do last night,”
knowing full well the Yankees had won.
-- Team Tylenol
-- Softball
-- Bullshitting with, learning from, and informing the Newsroom folks.
-- Ordering deep-dish pizza from Giordano's in Chicago and eating it with Dave Richard, Dave Salinas and Aaron Weisberg.
-- My all-time favorite Springsteen show memory with Joe Flynn, Mark Swanson and Scott Miller in Jacksonville. Made new friends; the entire day was an experience. You had to be there.
-- Talking to my Dad for the last time when he called to
tell me he had bought me a blueberry iBook laptop. A week later he died.
-- Covering the 2003 & 2004 NLCS, including the Steve Bartman
Game 6, and 2003 World Series with Scott Miller.
-- Playing in the CBSSports.com the golf scramble, mostly with Team Swanson and
Craig Stanke, but one year with Charlie’s Angels (Kira Harrell, Margaret Chow
and Kate Schafer).
-- Sept. 11, 2001 (9/11) and IM-ing a sarcastic comment concerning Mike
Kahn’s column to ... Mike Kahn. The message had been intended for Mike Millet.
-- Teaming with Microsoft for MMOD. (I should have purchased "I survived Silverlight" T-shirts for me, Joe Flynn and Lou Thomas.)
-- Giving Corey Guerrero an “official F—k You” on a
stressful opening Thursday of MMOD and the NCAA Tournament.
