stealthy1

“Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he’s got to play from the ground up — from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That’s OK You’ve got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you’ve got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you’re lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he’s never going to come off the field second.”

-Vince Lombardi

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I know the family(and the victim) well. They are a fantastic family, and she was an absolutely wonderful person. Her oldest son is one of my good friends. They have been a big part of the stm family forever. This is a sensless tragedy.

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Very sorry for your loss. My wife grew up on Queensbury. Great neighborhood and really nice neighbors.

I'm not sure who Mike L is, although he seems to know my name. Odd...

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Easy walking distance between the two makes for crimes of opportunity by 'transient thugs' as I call them(regularly walking between two ghettos).

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That's kind of the weird thing. There isn't much thug traffic on foot. All the cut through criminals are usually in cars. Occasionally on bikes, but 95% in cars. Almost unheard of the have someone walking around in a ski mask with a gun. It's still a very quiet neighborhood.

The human compulsion is to assume that there must be something else at play, that the crime is attributable to a domestic situation or someone they knew. It's far harder to contemplate the fact that this may be completely random, which means it could have been any of us, and any of us could be next.

Scary.

Mother in law lives 2-1/2 blocks away. 90+ years old. They built in 1968 and the neighborhood was very upscale for a long time -- businessmen, engineers, etc., but started to change some over the last decade as the generation that built the homes new died off or went into assisted living. Then the flood hit in 2016 and that part of the neighborhood (at the confluence of 3 canals) got about 3' of water. It's cleaned up now of course, but lots of houses for sale with not many buyers. Some minorities have bought homes, and by and large they are very nice people who are now able to get into homes maybe they would not have been able to afford a few years ago. But there is a lot of cut-through traffic from Florida Blvd to Blvd. de Province, and this could explain it.

It's a tragic situation and my condolences to the family involved.

I guess I'll be building a new gate for mom...

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This...carcinogenic particulate matter is the main difference...especially with the onset of low sulfur diesel and NOx mitigation systems.

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Yes. We have a winner...

Sweet Jesus..!

No Boston Baked Beans that weekend...

Obviously, we need larger barrels...

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I mean the guy lives in a fricking underwater tube filled with dudes and weapons of mass destruction for prolonged periods of time. Cut him a frickin break.

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Buddy of mine was on extended deployment during Cold War and was underwater for 90+ days.

Boat finally docks and he walks out into torrential rain at a port in the western Pacific. He just stands there in the rain, breathing fresh air for the first time in 3 months. Then he goes and gets laid.

You've got to figure the Captain's job is at least 10X more stressful, right?

10 girls...?? My man..!!

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You should let him learn a lesson of not living paycheck to paycheck instead of enabling his irresponsibility.

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I'd agree if you had any inkling of his situation, which of course you do not. A coastie with 4 kids, must not be easy making ends meet. Naturally, if he and everyone he works with left the CG for the private sector at double the salary, he'd be much better off, but where would we be?

That wall ain't gonna do you much good when they're driving right up to the beach, is it?

OP, if you need a few bucks to help this guy out, let me know.

I feel for the guy.

Imagine, knowing you have a guaranteed multi-million-dollar payday right in front of you, that could sustain you and your family for a lifetime, and for which you have worked many years to achieve, but to get it you have to leave the single greatest thing you have ever known, knowing that you can always come back, but it'll never be the same. Leaving your friends, your teammates, the practices, the locker room, the stadium.

Money can buy a lot of things, but it can't buy that. It must be like cutting off an arm.

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Have you seen this guy? Hes a physical specimen, he wont get hurt. He does the hurting.

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You may want to ask Michael Brooks about that logic.

Selfishly, I want him to stay. Logically, he needs to go.

He's already a Tiger Great, and I cannot imagine the struggle he's going through making this decision.