Gin and juice > gin and tonic.

Sauerkraut is the best cabbage option with corned beef.

One of the often overlooked perks of minor/indy league games is that tickets are cheap enough that you don’t feel obligated to stay and watch the whole game.

In Salem MA, the boys teams are the Witches, and the the girls teams are called... wait for it... the Lady Witches.

I quit standing for the pledge in middle school, in the mid-90s. Partly because I was lazy and partly because pledging something once should be good enough.

I was at a triple A game back in 2004 or so, the mascot was driving a go-cart around the field between innings and it broke down in the middle of the outfield. I’m almost giddy at the thought of this happening with the bullpen carts.

Just use Australian rules, tell everyone it’s an improved version of the american game, see if anyone puts two and two together.

If you commit a penalty that would normally be 5 yards you have to sub out until someone gets a first down, 10 yard penalty = 2 first downs and so on.

I don’t have any cooking/seasoning tips, but when you plop down on the couch with a big bowl of popcorn, eat it with chopsticks. The popcorn will last longer and you won’t end up with greasy hand prints all over your couch.

I restrict (almost) all of my drinking to Friday-Saturday-Sunday, with some leeway for vacations and long weekends and the like. Pros are that its an easy rule to stick to and keeps the drinking under control, cons are that every time I do dryuary it isn’t much of a change and I don’t get any of the weight-loss/more…

The gay agenda includes changing the name of lunch to brunch? That’s a step too far.

NBC did a ~20 minutes ‘where are they now’ segment on the two of them during the last olympics. Nancy is raising a couple kids in the next town over from where she grew up, married some sort of sports exec, and does the occasional pro-figure skating show.

Hold my beer.

In my experience, irish guys (like grew up in Ireland, not ‘Boston Irish’) love Heineken. It’s bizarre and no one has been able to explain it, but it’s true.

When I was 17 I got pulled over driving my mom’s minivan because it had an outdated registration sticker on the license plate. I’d like to say I played dumb with the cop, but I wasn’t playing.

You’re an adult, buy your own socks. Let your relatives buy you the good scotch.

When you’re an adult, your christmas list is the booze that costs just a little more than your comfortable buying.

My Dad’s parents are both from West Kerry. They, along with countless siblings, all settled in Boston.

There is also an app (GAAGO) where, for a fee, you can stream any game televised in Ireland.

People in Boston can see the sport ‘as it was intended’ every summer weekend at the Irish Cultural Center just south of the city in Canton.