Sunday, June 17, 2012

Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to the fathers out there.  It is important, in my opinion, that all children have a positive father figure in their lives.  The father is the person from whom boys learn how to be a man.  The father is the person that shapes a girl's ideas of men.  I have a great father and it's from him that I learned how to be a man.  My dad taught me a lot about life.

Go to church every Sunday, situation permitting.

Never cross a picket line.  Never.

Recycle.

The proper way to eat a steak is rare.  The redder the better.

Men don't wear sandals or flip flops.  The folks working at the Pittsburgh steel mills he grew up near would beat you up for wearing them.

Never leave until the last inning is over.  You paid for nine innings, you watch nine innings.

The Beatles.  The Who.  The Rolling Stones.  Bruce Springsteen.  John Mellencamp.  Johnny Cash.

The Red Sox weren't cursed, they just sucked for 86 years.

Never start fights, but if somebody hits you, hit them back.

Read the newspaper every day.

The Dodgers should've stayed in Brooklyn.  The Giants in Manhattan.

I have a great dad.