Holy Crap Batman!!

Was going thru some old stuff and came upon this blog! Holy Crap Batman!! I did this 7 years ago? Boy have things changed. I guess I will have to get caught up and I guess so will my two readers as well!!

Still self-employed doing my labor relations/human resources consulting, but looking to ease back some. Not ready to retire and don't think I will. Remember I do have a wife, Linda, and now 5 grandkids, so I still have folks (both big and small) in my pockets looking for cash!! 

Started driving for Uber and Lyft two years ago this month on a whim! Let me tell you, it has been a trip (trips, and pun intended!) and have seen places in #CLE that I have never seen in the past 70 years! Oh, yes, hit the big 7-0 this past September. Seventy-Frickin-years-old? How can that be? (I'll seek the answers later and let you all know!) But I digress.

Still a Tribe season ticket holder now into my 27th year! Following the Tribe all my life has been like riding the Blue Streak from old Euclid Beach Park. Each season starts slow, climbing the first hill. Than...BOOM! Down and Up and Down and Up! And turn to the left, turn to the right and back again, and FINALLY the big finish! Only and sadly, exhaustion at the end w/o the gold ring :(  But as we all say in #CLE "Wait Till Next Year!"  So to make me even more of a Tribe die-hard, this season, I became a member of the Indians Organization as a Service Ambassador working the home games! Yep!  I, through my season tickets, am paying myself to work and watch the Indians home games! Genius, right!?

Well a few ground rules here and for the future. As a member of the Indians Organization I must fall in line with the MLB social media rules and policies. So, if you follow me on Twitter ( @jnmentor ) you will see no tweets about the Tribe/Players/MLB/MiLB or anything related to those. Yes, it was and is still difficult, knowing love to talk and talk baseball. But 'dems da rules! So, hopefully with this blog, I can explain why nothing has been seen or read from me on the passion of sports-Baseball I have. Hopefully you will see me around Progressive Field next season and we can share our views. So, done with baseball and now to the Browns!

Some may know I have only been to 2 actual games at FES since '99. Was an ardent Browns fan from '56 to '95 but the move left me and it has been hard to return. Oh, I follow, but not with the full throated manner from the past.  Until now! Not all the way, but WOW, what a change I see. Yes "Hard Knocks" helped, but for the 1st time in decades, there is a REAL football person, running the football operations. Dorsey has piqued my interest and with his moves is slowly turning the corner in bringing back the Browns to what I wanted for years, a competitive football team that I could get behind and live/die with each Sunday. Before I could view a Browns game in less than 15 mins.  DVR it; view it; and fast forward to the end since I knew what the end was going to be. Not now.

Better and more astute fans, such as @clvlnK8 on twitter can better pontificate than I, this is a real football team that will be in each game; win some; lose some; win some they shouldn't and lose some they shouldn't. But each Sunday till the end of the year, they will be watchable!! Something that could not be said for years.

Well that's a lot to catch up with, and I haven't even touched the CAVS. That will be for the next one! And I do have some views that may surprise a few of my three readers! ( got a new one just now!) So for now, as we say in #CLE, #WaitTillNextYear!

JNB

it has been a while....

Since my last entry, so much has changed that I need to totally update my blog.  So for the mean time, hang in there and I'll get a new one up that will cover....well I guess a whole lot!!