Monday Musings

Finally a weekend to head to the beach, soak up the sun and cool off in the ocean. It took all of June but we finally got a summer weekend at the shore and I’m among the many that have the color to prove it this morning…even
if that color is a bit red. We can only hope it’s a sign of things to come as we head into the 4th of July weekend and the true start of the vacation season for locals and visitors alike.

You would expect this Mets fan to be upset, depressed and frustrated after having been swept by the dreaded Yankees at CitiField this weekend. However to be honest I have pretty much written off this season with the Mets putting out a punch less lineup each day which more closely resembles a minor league team than a division contender. Sure I know injuries are part of the game but you can’t expect a baseball team to compete without three of their top four offensive weapons, two starting pitchers and a key reliever.
Throw in the fact that they are fundamentally unsound and baseball stupid at times and you have a team that will be lucky to finish with a .500 record.

Five recent Ocean County high school graduates will be playing in tonight’s 31st Annual North-South All-Star Football Classic at Kean University. The South roster features Toms River North’s Evan Regas, Tom Rickmers of Lacey, Jeff Keffer of Point Boro, Toms River South’s Aaron Terry and Dan Cintron of Barnegat. All but the Temple University-bound Regas are also on the Ocean County roster for the US Army All-Shore Gridiron Classic which will be played at Brick Township High School on July 17th.

Billy Mays had become so popular as a TV pitchman that it was just a couple of weeks ago he was in New York to judge a Billy Mays lookalike contest. Sunday morning the spokesman for OxiClean, Mighty Putty and many other products was found dead by his wife in their Tampa, Florida home. The 50-year old, who was featured on the Discovery Channel reality show “Pitchmen”, was on a US Airways flight Saturday that had a rough landing in which he hit his head. It’s not known at this time if that had anything to do with Mays’ death.