NYTimes Part Two: The Basketball Diaries..

In New York, almost everything is easy to get to. You know what's hard to get to? Blogging!
I've decided to go with the photo and video blog approach for the most part, but I do have a quick story that probably includes racism, but I didn't kill anybody, so I hope you'll forgive me...
It was Thursday afternoon, we were again shooting some hoops down at Bellevue South Park, about as close to the 'Hood as I have seen in Manhattan. A couple of ethnic gentlemen, both older than me, approached us and asked if they could shoot with us. Seemed harmless enough, so I said it was okay. Right behind them, came four more younger guys, obviously with much more court experience than Sawyer or I. Savannah sat out as what was them "shooting some with us" turned into more of a competition. I freely admit that I left Sawyer to the wolves and stepped back to avoid the coming embarrassment.
They started shooting three pointers. The oldest guy would fire it to each of the high school/college age fellas, and they would put it up from behind the arc. Most of them were hitting about fifty percent. Sawyer was still milling by them (it was his basketball after all), and the guy said, "let the kid shoot."...

Ummm....

Sawyer eyed the basket and then put it up (somehow in slow motion) and SWISHED the first one! The guy fired it back at him and he immediately put it up, it went right around the rim and just came back out. Old guy told the big ol' teen that rebounded it to give it back to 'the kid'. And damned if Sawyer didn't NAIL THE THIRD ONE! They passed it to him one more time, and it was another lipper that earned groans from all around. I couldn't have been prouder. It had to be the most pressure situation I've ever seen him in. One of the older guys, who had been watching us play for a while, took several minutes to tell Sawyer how much he liked his stroke, and that when Saw had time, he would "take him up to Harlem and let him really learn how to play."
We'll wait 'til the Zimmerman trial is over to see about that one....

Here's a bunch of pictures with captions talking about our trip to the High Line, Yankee Stadium, the Irish Hunger Memorial, Vietnam Memorial and Grand Central, Pooh Himself at the Library, and back down to Battery Park. (There are three different links there, but you might be able to go to 'albums' once you get to the first one...what do I know?)

That is TIGGER. No impostor, no lie...

Manhattanhenge as viewed from Bryant Square Park (look it up)...

Below Freedom Tower

And here's the latest in the video series. It includes some pics that were on Facebook already, and some video that wasn't.

See ya on here when I can get to it.... Papa Glenn out.