The day I made Tommy Lasorda laugh

I became a Los Angeles Dodgers fan fairly late in life. In fact, you could probably accuse me of being a bandwagon jumper (I’m wincing just a little as I type the words). 

When the Kirk Gibson hit his famous home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to beat the Oakland A's in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series, it was easily one of the craziest things I'd ever seen in sports. I was already a serious baseball fan, but Gibson’s homer was just so astonishing — so exhilarating — I fell in love with Kirk, the Dodgers and famous manager Tommy Lasorda right then and there.

I’ve never looked back.

Considering what 2020 has taken from us, Tiger and Charlie Woods are a needed gift

I've been a big golf fan most of my life, though not a huge Tiger Woods fan, simply because at some point he just got a little too good and too popular (call me a contrarian, I guess). That certainly didn't mean I didn't respect what he could do out there, I just wanted to see other players win, and for a stretch, that didn't happen all that often.