Your life list, non-sportswriting version

Better than HoF inductions at Cooperstown? Really?

 

Oh, and I just got laid. Trifecta! Yes!

 

TMI!!!!!


(Does he/she mind that your first post-coital act was posting on an internet board on your cell phone?)

 

Way, way, way TMI!!!!!

 

Maybe she went to go post on www.baseballwidows.com

 

Or maybe you left glitter all over her and she needed a shower

 

That shirt did not leave its plastic bag at the Palms. I glitterized the Holiday Inn, dammit!

 

My list is short, but I'm young-ish so...

• Been to to the Louvre.
• Saw the Tower of London.
• Played Pebble Beach.
• Played in the 2005 World Series of Poker Main Event.
• Met and took a picture with Daniel Negreanu.
• Went to the 2001 NCAA basketball national championship
• Went to the Swamp.

Not-so-great but memorable moments
• Lost all my money playing blackjack after getting fired from my job at a golf course.
• Had my heart broken by an Italian girl.

 

Mr Brecht,

Better than having your legs broken by her brother.

YHS, etc

 

In no particular order:

-- 41 states + DC (AK, HI, WA, OR, CA, ID, MT, WY, ME to go). I'll be using a passport for the first time in January.
-- Three "Jeezus, how did you survive?" moments in life with a few scars, bruises and a shoulder that will tell me when it's going to rain.
-- Ran a marathon. Will hopefully run another in February.
-- Hiked the Grand Canyon from the North Rim to the South Rim in one day.
-- Had the dice for 45 consecutive minutes at a craps table, converting three consecutive 8s the hard way -- 41 rolls for the third one (including back-to-back-to-back 12s). My $500 payday was dwarfed by the man who won $28,000.
-- Wayne Newton in concert.
-- My best speech ever as my friend's eulogy. RIP, Kyle. We still miss you, man.
-- Made a hole-in-one at age 15, yet never saw it go in. Have hit the flagstick six times since, but never another ace.
-- Back-to-back birdies on Nos. 16 and 17 at Augusta National.
-- The overnight line at Bethpage.
-- 11 consecutive years at the NCAA Tournament – not as a reporter.
-- Standing in line 14 hours for tickets to the 1995 World Series. Getting tickets to a Game 7 that never happened. Screw you David Justice.
-- A private show on the balcony of Cat's Meow in the French Quarter.
-- Became the first person on my dad’s side of the family to graduate from college.
-- Flying over Ground Zero and seeing the smoke still coming out of the rubble.
-- Spoke in tongues.
-- Watched Carl Lewis win his 4th consecutive gold medal in the long jump in Atlanta. From the 7th row.
-- Cried over music, women and money.
-- Alison Krauss from the second row center. Twice.
-- Learning how to ride a cow as a kid, seeing the horses of Shackelford Island hanging out in the middle of the water, petting a dolphin.
-- Threw up on a cop car. While the cop watched me. Didn’t get a ticket.
-- Road trip of the Jersey Shore, Eastern Shore, Virginia Beach, Outer Banks and Grand Strand. In a soft-top jeep. With a tent, gym bag of clothes, a cooler and a camera. Sex in said tent at the beach.
-- The sunrise the next morning. (And the flat tire. Karma, she is a bitch, sometimes.)

 

AgatePage - Your list was one of the best I've read. Thanks for sharing.

 

yes it was. that was solid.