Since news broke approximately two months ago that the Houston Astros used video cameras to steal opposing teams’ pitching signs at Minute Maid Park in Houston during the 2017 season, the dominos have continued to fall.
Major League Baseball suspended General Manager Jeff Luhnow and Manager A.J.… Continue Reading
I was 12 years old in 1986 when the Mets beat the Boston Red Sox to win the World Series. I was a die hard Mets fan who grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and I bled orange and blue.… Continue Reading
So I watched the Super Bowl tonight. It was a terrible matchup between the New England Patriots and the LA Rams. The Patriots won, but it was a really boring game.
But the football got me thinking of the concept of toxic masculinity, which has ingrained itself in academia, media, and people of good conscience.… Continue Reading
So my friend Mitch, who lives literally across the street from me in Astoria, Queens, tells me he has an extra ticket for a night of boxing at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. I’ve always liked boxing, and I’ve seen most of the major fights from the 80’s and 90’s, and even in to the mid- 2000’s.… Continue Reading
Remember when Kanye West stood on stage with Mike Myers at the Grammy’s some years back and boldly proclaimed that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people?” West was referring to the US government’s hamfisted, incompetent and racist response to the plight of black New Orleans residents in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.… Continue Reading
As a Jewish New Yorker, I was looking forward to watching Josh Rosen play quarterback on Sundays for one of my hometown teams. But my favorite team, the NY Giants, and the other NY team, the Jets, both passed on him in Thursday’s NFL draft.… Continue Reading
It’s a rainy Thursday in late March, but it’s Mets opening day, so I’m psyched. I’m a writer, and I mostly make my own schedule, so I have the luxury of watching a Mets game that starts at 1pm on a Thursday.… Continue Reading
On Saturday night I was feeling kind of bored, and I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do for the evening. I was also pretty tired after working hard on my website, genxchronicle.com, over the past week. We cover news, culture and lifestyle through a Generation X lens.… Continue Reading
It’s 11:16 p.m. on Monday night, and I’m watching the Winter Olympics. Men’s halfpipe qualifying round. Ayumu Hirano, all five foot three and 110 pounds of him, who is from Japan, just made an incredibly dope run down the snowboard halfpipe.… Continue Reading
I’m 43, and I’m a huge Knicks fan. I grew up watching Patrick dominate the league, and always come up just a little short against Michael, Hakeem and Reggie. But he was our guy, our superstar, and one thing you could absolutely not say about Ewing was that he didn’t give you max effort every time he stepped on the floor.… Continue Reading