Pushing on the Doors of Life Marked "Pull"

Some Flowers, Skies, And Terrific Friends

Ralph Zig Tyko — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:20:13 +0000

A Reductionist’s View Of The 2009 New York Mets

Ralph Zig Tyko — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:59:02 +0000

The season hurt less than the previous two… by far! :-)

The owners don’t cheap out. The Wilpons have no trouble spending money.

Payroll is right up there with Boston. This year they went out and got F-Rod to replace Wagner, as an example.

Injuries give them a mulligan for 2009.

The problem is, baseball windows have a way of quickly closing.

Will Reyes and Wright be okay?

More importantly, will Zig be okay? After all…

Health Care Bill A Bit Wordy?

Ralph Zig Tyko — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:46:14 +0000

Ya think?

The entire Declaration of Independence, including all 56 signatures, is contained on a single hand-written sheet of paper.

The full and complete original Constitution of the United States of America is printed on six pages. The first four pages contain the basic text of the founding document. Page five is the letter of transmittal to the British government. And the sixth and final page contains all ten of the initial amendments, known as the Bill of Rights.

Karl Marx laid out The Communist Manifesto in a mere 23 pages.

The English translation of Dostoevski’s Crime and Punishment is 718 pages, while Tolstoy’s War and Peace weighs in at 1,225 pages.

And try as she might, even Ayn Rand could manage only 1,069 pages in her magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged.

My personal, large-print New King James copy of the Bible contains 1,426 pages of text, a 64-page concordance and six pages of maps.

What do these momentous documents have in common with each other? They all contain fewer pages than the bloated Senate health care bill, S. 1796, which totals a ridiculous 1,502 pages.

Jeff Nelson, Woild Serious Factor

Ralph Zig Tyko — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:23:14 +0000

Who is Jeff Nelson? Thanks for asking.

He’s a baseball umpire with a “small strikezone,” working behind the plate [chosen to work behind the plate] in game 2 of the 2009 World Series.

Of course the strikezone should be the same for every umpire, and when an individual umpire’s calls are consistently inconsistent, he should be repromanded. Maybe fined demoted, suspended, or fired… NOT GIVEN A PLUM ASSIGNMENT, BUD SELIG.

“Christ, the Commish is a moron,” you may thinking.

Wrong!!… at least in this instance.

MLB is deliberately not standardizing umpiring. Why? Because who’s umping behind the plate becomes a factor in prognosticating the odds and probabilities of any given game.

Baseball, by doing everything possible to draw interest in itself through gambling… both legal [Fantasy/Roto] and illegal. They know that betting is right up there with apple pie, in the hearts of we ‘mericans. Want proof? Check out the the NFL.

Ralph Zig Tyko, Photographers Photographed…

Ralph Zig Tyko — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:22:26 +0000

… by the pride of Nelson, British Columdia, David Hersh:

Here’s some I took of David:

Larry Jansen, Former New York Giants Pitcher, RIP

Ralph Zig Tyko — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:10:56 +0000

Not only was Larry Jansen the winning pitcher in the famous ” Shot Hoid ‘Round Da Woild” game in 1951 [brought to you by Scottsman's Productions, in association with Russ Hodges], but he was Alvin Dark’s pitching coach on the 1962 Giants. The team had, five years earlier, carpetbagged out west and no longer represented New York by then… but I digress.

I was saddened to read of his passing, at the age of 89, today.

By all accounts, Mr. Jansen was a terrific teammate and a fine man.

My deepest condolences to his friends and family.

George Bernard Shaw…

Ralph Zig Tyko — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:08:17 +0000

… had a way with words, like no other. Whitness these thought provoking quotes:

“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”

“Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.”

“When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.”

“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.”

“The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.”

“The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.”

“Lack of money is the root of all evil.”

“A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.”

“Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.”

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to not get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.”

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.”

2010 Baseball Free Agents Whom Mets May Consider

Ralph Zig Tyko — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:10:36 +0000

1B
Hank Blalock (Age: 29)
Adam LaRoche (30)

2B
Orlando Hudson (32)
Felipe Lopez (30)

LF
Jason Bay (31)
Matt Holliday (30)

CF (Back-up OF)
Endy Chavez (32)

SP
Justin Duchscherer (32)
Rich Harden (28)
John Lackey (31)
Jason Marquis (31)
Ben Sheets (31)

For my money they should start with Endy, whom they should never allowed to leave, in the first place…

PC4DC Vehicle Donation Program In Full Swing

Ralph Zig Tyko — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:22:37 +0000

People Care 4 Daycare, Inc. Update

Ralph Zig Tyko — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:53:48 +0000

First and foremost I’m thrilled to announce the appointment of Janis Moyer as CFO of People Care 4 Day Care, Inc. She joins me [Ralph Zig Tyko], Andrew Dosa, Barbara Read, and Yolonda Schamoni on our Board of Directors.

Raised in the San Joaquin Valley, Janis graduated with a BA in Business and a Honors in English from California State University, Chico. After training at Touche Ross, she became Chief Accountant at Soyster & Orenschall and moved on to become CFO of Tannery West in San Francisco. In 1978, she and her husband opened San Francisco Tom’s, a wholesale snack and vending company. When her husband retired from the business in 1994, she became and is presently the CEO of that business. Janis has resided in Alameda, CA since 1972.

We’ve created “Klassics 4 Kids,” a vehicle Donation Program to help make children “school ready.”

I am extremely proud that our website has become a valuable resource to the childcare community.

These are our the programs we have scheduled for the remainder of 2009.