http://www.makkid.com The mindless rambling of a wandering writer, settled long enough to amuse, bore and annoy Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:59:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the words of Les Grossman, a nutless monkey could do my current position. The "Man" tells me I'm an IC Specialist. The eye tells me I pick up boxes and files and move them from point A to point B. Needless to say, I have tons of free time ... http://www.makkid.com/2010/01/09/a-tale-of-two-halves/ While our fat friend has started an admirable journey through classic films with pedigree, I have my own little aside into the business that is show. At least for one evening. With two little girls running around and a wife who works an overnight weekend shift, you can imagine just how ... http://www.makkid.com/2010/01/09/an-ideal-movie-night/ When you are growing up, people (and by people I mean adults) always ask you want you want to be when you grow up. Kids give kid answers like starting second baseman for the New York Mets or a lawyer or whatever it takes to quiet that adult who's decided ... http://www.makkid.com/2009/10/31/for-the-love-of-the-game/ I think it's safe now. I think it's OK to say this out loud... My name is Martin Kester and I'm a Mets fan. (HI MARTIN) I've been a fan since 1985-86 and have a memory of my mom taking me out of Lowell School in Teaneck, then driving me to Manhattan to ... http://www.makkid.com/2009/10/06/confessions-of-a/ Trying to post this without any help... Hey, it is a rough draft anyway. So let's see if this works. www.makkid.com/podcast http://www.makkid.com/2009/08/20/the-terminal-podcast-a-rough-edit/ Why does it seem that there’s a feeling of animosity towards Stewart Cink? I personally don’t feel that way, but you can’t help feel that’s the attitude of the general public with the outcome of this past weekend’s 138th British Open Championship. And what for? It wasn’t Cink’s fault that Tom Watson missed ... http://www.makkid.com/2009/07/20/its-not-cinks-fault-men-grow-old/ This website should have a different feel to it soon, should everything come to pass. Needless to say, here's a picture of one of the changes... And without further ado, Sini's thoughts on Major League Baseball at the proverbial halfway point. The first half of the 2009 Major League Baseball season has been ... http://www.makkid.com/2009/07/14/a-sign-of-changes-to-come/ This day started with me headed south to my sister's place to meet my friend Dru, driving up from Sarasota for the briefest of stays. In fact, he was in the city of Atlanta for about a total of 5 hours. Fortunately for him, 3.5 of that was spent in Turner ... http://www.makkid.com/2009/06/28/game-73-yankees-4-mets-2/ The way this team is playing, the Mets management should hire Harry Doyle. No, not Bob Uecker, but the fictional character from one of the greatest sports movies of all time. BTW, Slumdog Millionaire was amazing and Taken is cool cuz Liam is wiling to shoot a man's wife at her dinner ... http://www.makkid.com/2009/06/27/game-72-yankees-5-mets-0/ I've got nothing to say about this game. Call it a result of morning Michael Jackson. Or that CC vs. Pelfrey isn't a fair fight, so to speak. Or that this was a close game and then the Yanks pulled away late and after warming up with taking two out of three from ... http://www.makkid.com/2009/06/27/game-71-yankees-9-mets-1/ So much has happened since I kept track of this game on my cell phone with 15 second refreshers on the box score ESPN page and then sent off my last text to Josh, my Cards fan friend to rub in taking 3 of 4 from the NL Central leaders ... http://www.makkid.com/2009/06/25/game-70-mets-3-cardinals-2/ I could talk about Fernando Nieve moving to 3-0 with another quality performance, even though they took him out after six innings... Then again, they were up 7-0 at the time. How about the big bats showing up for a blowout win? Granted, they were facing Bobby Thompson or someone like that. ... http://www.makkid.com/2009/06/24/game-69-mets-11-cardinals-0/ Actually, the score for this game could have read: Joel Pinero 1, Mets 0 Or how about? Joel Pinero's hits 2, Mets hits 2 I guess this is the type of stuff I should get used to, but that Joel guy has our number, at least lately. Anytime he faces us, he seems to ... http://www.makkid.com/2009/06/23/game-68-cardinals-3-mets-0/ Able to get a big win tonight before a national crowd... Add to that, got to hear proof of how much of a moron Steve Phillips is. The fact he still gets credit for David Wright, like noticing a gap-hitting third baseman with a good glove was hard... He was talking about ... http://www.makkid.com/2009/06/22/game-67-mets-6-cardinals-4/ This is the fourth straight series loss for the Amazing and amazingly, they are actually closer to first place then they were when this down streak started... It's been a strange season and it's only gonna get worse before it shows any signs of getting better. I mean, David Wright is batting ... http://www.makkid.com/2009/06/21/game-66-rays-10-mets-6/