{"id":12257,"date":"2020-06-21T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/father-son-moments-to-treasure-especially-now\/"},"modified":"2020-06-21T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T11:01:00","slug":"father-son-moments-to-treasure-especially-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/father-son-moments-to-treasure-especially-now\/","title":{"rendered":"#Father-son moments to treasure \u2014 especially now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3fbf83734be\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3fbf83734be\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/father-son-moments-to-treasure-especially-now\/#Vac_Whacks\" >Vac Whacks<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/father-son-moments-to-treasure-especially-now\/#Whack_Back_at_Vac\" >Whack Back at Vac<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Father-son moments to treasure \u2014 especially now<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        We could go over the list of all the things that ail us, and sadden us, and confuse us, and infuriate us. That, it seems, is a part of every day now, isn\u2019t it? A personal accounting of how we miss our old lives, our old habits, our old hobbies. We wallow in that plenty.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s take a day off from that today.<\/p>\n<p>Because today is Father\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>And it is hard for me not to wake with a little broader smile this morning because it allows me to remember how fortunate I was to have a relationship with my own father that was so strong, and so affirming, that the memories I keep of him are as strong and as vibrant as they were when I lost him nearly 17 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>So, yes, I am a sucker for fathers and sons anyway, but especially on Father\u2019s Day, even though I have no children of my own and instead enjoy the status of \u201cfuncle\u201d for so many friends\u2019 kids, as well as my niece and nephew. I relish whenever I see the reflective joy in those fathers and sons, enjoying each other\u2019s company, expressing their mutual devotions.<\/p>\n<p>And on Father\u2019s Day I enjoy to remember so much:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u200aThe first time I saw \u201cField of Dreams\u201d \u2014 and the 700th time I saw \u201cField of Dreams\u201d \u2014 when Ray Kinsella finally <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roaches his father in the cornfield and asks: \u201cWant to have a catch?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u200aThe telephone call I made to my father on the first day of November 2002, telling him that 27 years after first bringing home the New York Post and tossing it to me after his commute home on the LIRR, I was actually going to write a column for his paper. He thought I was putting him on at first. But the first day I appeared in the paper, Nov. 11, he went to the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>stand in Fort Pierce, Fla., and bought all 10 copies. I still have a few of them. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15868108\"><img alt=\"Tiger and Earl Woods hug after Tiger's 1997 Masters victory.\" data- data- height=\"450\" width=\"300\"><\/img><figcaption><span>Tiger and Earl Woods hug after Tiger\u2019s 1997 Masters victory.<\/span><span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2014\u200aWatching Archie Manning\u2019s face the bone-chilling afternoon in January 2008 when Eli had walked into Lambeau Field and beaten Brett Favre and the Packers. Archie was always available during Eli\u2019s time with the Giants \u2014 and Peyton\u2019s time with the Colts and Broncos, too \u2014 but that day he\u2019d walked with a crowd of heartbroken Packers fans still possessing some basic Midwestern manners, and all of them had congratulated him. \u201cMy heart,\u201d he told Eli after hugging him, \u201cis bursting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u200aThe first time I held Ben Wojnarowski, my only godson, understanding the awesome and beautiful tasks of the job, so filled with wonderment at what he could be, and who he would become, and every day since when I\u2019ve watched him blossom into this amazing young man. I\u2019ve never known a greater privilege.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u200aFor all the ancillary stories that dented what never was exactly a fairy tale, the way Tiger Woods embraced his kids, Sam and Charlie, after winning last year\u2019s Masters, which so perfectly mirrored the joy he had once shared with his own father, Earl. Be as cynical as you like about the rest of the Tiger canon. That one is hard to forget.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u200aWatching the relationship my brother-in-law, Paul, has with Gavin and Audrey, his two kids, and hoping that if it had been in the cards for me, I\u2019d have had the exact same kind of bond with mine.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u200aListening to tough-guy Terry Collins tear up in the remarkable weeks that the 2015 Mets made their journey to the World <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Series<\/a>, whenever he talked about his old man, Bud, who had died not long before his boy finally tasted postseason champagne. And seeing Joe Girardi, minutes after winning the 2009 World Series, cradling his then 8-year-old son in his arms while talking with deep emotion about his own father, in the final throes of Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u200aThe memory, seared forever, of British 400-meter runner Derek Redmond pulling up in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, his hamstring shredded, but wanting to complete the race, able to do so because his father, Jim, emerged from the stands to help him across the finish line.<\/p>\n<p>And more \u2026 so many, many more. Happy Father\u2019s Day. Please enjoy your own storehouse of memories today. We can go back to the other stuff soon enough, starting tomorrow.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Vac_Whacks\"><\/span>Vac Whacks<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I can absolutely get behind the Twins removing the statue of Calvin Griffith from in front of Target Field, but I\u2019m also sort of curious why they thought it was OK to build it in 2010, when Griffith made his appalling comments in 1978 and they weren\u2019t exactly hidden or anonymous.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p>Even if it\u2019s a brief renaissance and even if the reasons for it are too depressing to recount, it is good to see the Sport of Kings return to its throne at Belmont Park if only for two minutes or so.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p>It worries me when my TV tour guide Alan Sepinwall is so unenthusiastic about a show, but I can\u2019t wait to see the new \u201cPerry Mason\u201d series on HBO anyway.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p>No sport seemed to be gathering more momentum than college football, so the news out of Clemson, Texas and Houston is like an instant cinder block wall appearing on the Autobahn.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Whack_Back_at_Vac\"><\/span>Whack Back at Vac<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Michael Diamond:<\/strong> At this point, I\u2019ve found better things to do with my time than baseball. Not sure I have the patience to watch a three-plus hour <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> with multiple replays. If you\u2019re keeping score: airplane food over hospital food.<br \/><\/br><strong>Vac:<\/strong> What\u2019s also interesting is how many baseball fans I\u2019ve heard from who are finding life about 20 percent more enjoyable without the daily agita following a baseball team brings.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p><strong>Lou Fanzini:<\/strong> I remember it well when \u201cNew York, New York\u201d started playing at Yankee Stadium. As much as I loved it in later years for big wins, I always felt it was a jinx at the time \u2014 103 wins, get swept by the Royals, lose a World Series the next year and spend the \u201980s in second or third every year.<br \/><\/br><strong>Vac:<\/strong> I\u2019m not sure any letter I\u2019ve ever printed in this feature better defines the nature of fanhood better than this one.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p><strong>@DZoneDraw:<\/strong> \u201cSweet Caroline\u201d in the middle of the eighth inning at Fenway is only about a million times better than \u201cNew York, New York.\u201d<br \/><\/br><strong>@MikeVacc:<\/strong> I mean, if the odds are becoming slimmer and slimmer that we\u2019ll have actual Yankees-Red Sox fireworks, we can at least start an old-fashioned barroom debate about this, right?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p><strong>Tony Gianetta:<\/strong> Manfred\u2019s 100 percent guarantee was not his Namath or Messier moment, but one of shrunken and weaselly credibility.<br \/><\/br><strong>Vac:<\/strong> That observation, I can assure you, is 100 percent.\n            <\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/06\/21\/father-and-son-moments-to-treasure-especially-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Sports News articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to watch Movies or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Father-son moments to treasure \u2014 especially now&#8221; We could go over the list of all the things that ail us, and sadden us, and confuse us, and infuriate us. 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