August 26, 2007
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Today was our annual family reunion/picnic. Normally, it is just the same 50 people that go, but this year, our cousins, Jimmy and Alan, from Florida actually showed up. Jimmy and Alan were the first set of twins in our family, so this meant that for the first time, and maybe for the only time, all 3 sets of twins in my family were at the same place. Of course, they are quite a bit older than us (they are actually 46) but it was cool to see them. Alan actually looks a lot like Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Jimmy has made tons of money doing one of those get rich over a gradual course of time schemes. After being up here, they (he, his wife and step daughter) will be driving to Canada, then New York followed by Pittsburgh before going home to Florida. It almost sounds like a road trip that a baseball team would take.
In our family, baseball/softball is a big deal. You know how the Kennedys have football, while we have softball/baseball. Everybody in our family is a baseball fan and although this might come as a surprise to some, our extended family has some White Sox fans. Sure, the majority of us are Cub fans, but its not like this was a reunion of short, Italians running around with a bunch of Cubs stuff on. Anywho, every year we play softball. Since we play with a 16 inch, I love to pitch because I can catch it and it probably will not kill me if it hits me in the head. This year’s game was fun, but nothing too crazy happened. For example, previous years John slide for a fly ball in center only to have it hit him in the balls. Another year, one of my extended cousins broke his fingers. Another year, I bruised my cousin’s shin when I slid into her at second base. Last year, I got ran over by my 14 year old cousin in one inning and a couple of innings later got run into and knocked to the ground by John. There was nothing like that in this year’s game, although it was still pretty fun.
I forgot t mention this, but a couple of weeks ago, I watched Raging Bull for the first time. Quite honestly, I don’t know what took me so long, it is after all, not only a Scorsese movie, but also quite possibly DeNiro’s best roll. I have to say, I really liked it, it was pretty good. A lot of people don’t know this, but Scorsese wanted Mary Kate and Ashley Olson to play DeNiro’s wife, but it turns out they were not born for another 6 years.
