Monday, January 24, 2011

Baseball Bob






Susan and Bob
Mets Game at Shea Stadium, NY

LET’S GO METS!

Published Long Story Short, Pancakes in Heaven,
Lindy Gazette, Great South Bay
Baseball season begins
Cheering Mets onto win
Bob and Susan at opening Day
Let’s go Mets all the way
Stadium fans cheer and roar
Run the bases and score
Teams in field line up by name
To play the baseball game
It’s a pitch and hit to home
Under the stadium dome
By a swing not allow
The ball is toss to foul
Suddenly Bob stands up tall
Bob catches the foul ball
His lucky catch took aim
As the Mets won the game

Written by Susan Marie Davniero


Darryl Strawberry
Mets baseball player

We recently saw Darryl Strawberry in his free appearance as guest speaker at Faith Tabernacle in West Babylon, LI. The people had come to see a baseball player, yet, that wasn’t all they got - they got to know the man. 

Few know the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat as Strawberry has as a revered grand slam slugger. Yet, for all his glory he hit the lows and from there he spoke. Baseball has its place, but ego does not. Essentially, he walked the talk and he found his faith. He was eager to reach the attentive crowd. These days his new fans will come to know the new Darryl.

With a name familiarity with his fans he has turn his celebrity to spread the good word. Given the free appearance we can assume Strawberry is pricing himself available to reach the people and by the look of the crowds they came.

Strawberry’s candor, honesty and charismatic persona enlighten us in his new position as an evangelist spreading the good word. With his faith he rose out of his dark period to see the light of a new day – he played it right. This is one championship game Strawberry is winning in the game of life.  

My husband Bob is a big Mets fan and was excited to see the Straw.  And when Strawberry asked the audience to clap for Jesus - Bob clapped for Jesus!  I didn’t even know he knew him! 

Darryl’s past was not so forgiven but understood. He stayed positive in his inspirational talk to inspire others to find the right path leaving the world a little better than how they found it. There’s always room for improvement. Perhaps in talk there is redemption. With faith he found his voice and drove home the message.

Darryl fought through a lifetime’s worth of adversity and made it his life’s goal to educate the people. He is turning a page on a post-season stage in life. In his later chapter in life he may have found his second calling to be more than a team player, but as a leader leading people on the right path.

This is a page from Strawberry’s new playbook. He lived through it all to get here as he arrived in West Babylon. Strawberry was on his game. The Straw hit another home run as a quest speaker. Strawberry is still the slugger, after all. 

Susan Marie Davniero




THE GAME OF HIS LIFE

Published 50+ Life Newsaper, Pancakes in Heaven

Suddenly it’s summer at a baseball game. From the view of our box seats at Shea Stadium we were looking around at the baseball landscape.  I have to give a nod to my twin sister, Laura, who supplied the prize box seats tickets for the home game.

We were up close and personal to the Mets baseball star players on the field warming up; close enough to take photos and get autographs. Their names stitched on the back of the team’s jerseys read like an all-star line up - Mookie, Hernandez, Dysktra, and Carter as if to name their place on the team. 

The Mets 1986 World Series Championship wasn’t far behind cheering on the team this June 4, 1988 day.  They didn’t look defeated. The summer sun spotlighted the champs. Given that my husband, Bob, was the loyal lifetime Mets fan forever in the group, it was really his day. I was there with him as only a wife, who hates sports but loves her husband, would be.

And Bob is really a big Mets fan. He can rattle off all the World Series dates but can’t remember his Mother’s birthday. He can listen to FAN sports talk radio non-stop day and night, even in his sleep, yet can’t hear me when I ask him to bring out the garbage. Bob even brought a pocket radio with him to listen to the game when the Rockettes kick it up at Radio City. I’m talking a real fanatic fan. Get the picture of how excited he was that day my twin sister took us all out to the ballgame.      

 Before the game we browsed the souvenir stands catching sight of a circular dome to display baseballs. My intuition thought we might need one if Bob catches a ball. Suggesting we buy it “just in case” Bob laughed and we returned to our seats without the sale.

A slight breeze awakens the stillness of the summer day. It was the first inning, bottom of the first, as the first batter of the Mets, Dysktra, goes up to bat. He hits a foul ball racing to the stands in our direction. The crowd cheers as our section takes to their feet extending arms readily in place to catch the flying foul ball. All eyes are on the ball.

The moment was frozen in time. Then it happens – the ball falls into Bob’s hands. He catches the ball as the crowds cheer him on. That’s as good as it gets for this Mets fan!
And my prediction had gone beyond words and became true. With ball in hand we revisited the same souvenir stand to purchase the baseball circular dome (the same one I suggested we should buy earlier that day) to display his prize catch of the day!

Thru the lens of time Bob’s catch at the game was recorded on the VCR taping the televised game at home. We were all on television as Bob proudly waves the prize ball for the camera. Perhaps Bob’s catch couldn’t quite rival Carters – yet for a moment in time Bob felt like he was in their league.

Bob’s catch of the day lives on forever on tape and in memory. Memories are made of this. For a Mets forever fan like my husband, Bob, it wasn’t just a ball game – it was the game of his life!

A summer story had just come into being.  

Susan Marie Davniero


Susan and Bob Artist Drawing
Sunrise Services Summer Picnic 



THE DAY MY HUSBAND CAUGHT A FOUL BALL
Published 50+ Plus newspaper

The day my husband caught a foul ball began when my husband Bob and I attended a Mets baseball game at Shea Stadium. The tickets for box seats were a gift from my twin sister, Laura. Given my husband is a loyal Mets fan forever of course he was anxious to go to Shea.

Before the game we browsed the concession stands, merchants and vendors booths and paused at one souvenir merchant booth catching sight of a circular dome home to display baseballs. I wondered if it was for balls caught at the game.   

A presentiment of good luck enveloped me telling my feminine intuition that Bob will catch a foul ball and we will need the baseball circular dome. Suggesting we buy the display ball case, my prediction met with my husband laughing it off. We moved on to our seats without the purchase.

The game goes on into extra innings as a slight drizzle in the air awakens the summer June day. Then it happens, a foul ball is hit off a Mets player headed our way suspended mid-air from a pitch racing to the stands as a foul. It seemed to move in slow motion as everyone stands up with extended arms ready to catch the ball. The moment was frozen in time. 

The ball rides directly en route to my husband Bob’s extended hands as he catches the ball (he likes to mention that he caught the ball without a mitt). My premonition had gone beyond my words and became true.

With ball in hand we revisited the same souvenir merchant and purchased the baseball circular display dome to encompass and show off the foul ball Bob caught. The same one I predicted we would need. My words were proven right after all.  Since that day, my husband Bob listens to my feminine intuition.

The story plays on at home as the game was taped and recorded on our home VCR taping the NBC broadcast.  My husband catch of the day was caught on tape. The game lives forever on taped.  

As luck would have it the Mets rallied into extra innings and went on to win the game! A winning day all around - it is always better to go home a winner. We had a ball the day my husband caught a foul ball at a Mets game. It doesn’t get any better than that for a avid long-time Mets fan like my husband, Bob. Essentially the day was a home run!    



Dwight Gooden Signing Bob's Mets Ball!
 

SPORTS FRONT PAGE NEWS


Would anyone with the exception of a few over-the-hill sexist male chauvinists want to return to a gender-segregated society?  Yet, millions of men in our modern society apparently do – given the domineering proliferation of the media and news formats by way of predominate male sports agenda coverage eminence.

Sports reports coverage monopolizing news media, newspapers, and television/radio broadcasts invites a self-importance world of privilege that the male is privy to with  induction into a  select “boys” club’ superiority. (In my opinion, the women seeking membership chose to join the winning men’s team rather than fight a losing battle.)    

If newspaper editors really think that sports stories merits front page newspapers covers eclipsing hard news, are justify to pre-empt televised network broadcasts, or   monopolizing our news and media outlets, then those editors are just “dumb jocks.”

Susan Marie Davniero



Mets Game at Shea Stadium


DUMB JOCKS
Published New York Post
If sports fans agree with the newspapers editors and really think that sports merits front page newspaper covers eclipsing hard news, are justify to pre-empt televised network broadcasts or monopolizing our news and media outlets, then those men are just “dumb jocks” too.  
Susan Marie Davniero






Our mothers are gone, yet I will always remember how my mother arranged the blind date that changed my life. One day my mother went to a luncheon and exchange photos with family friend, Helen, my wife's mother. One of my mother Gig's photos was of her single son, me Bob. Helen gave my mother Susan's phone number and the rest is history. It was love at first sight. Apparently, Mother's do know best, after all. We both easily gave up our carefree single life to happily marry and never looked back. We married July 1, 1979 in Saint James Church in Seaford, NY. We have been happily married ever since.


Robert Davniero


BOB'S HIGH SCHOOL DAYS- At Holy Cross HS (To my husband Robert Davniero)


At Holy Cross he comes to depend As if it was his best of friend Faithful High School of command Rises above he will stand


Tuition befalls on his parent's concern His boyish thoughts are to learn Faculty's lessons to fill his need As he follows guidance to succeed


Knowledge rewards build to acquire To store away for this young squire Beyond the wealth of books for some He plays sports ballgames to be won


His term of school years forward on to date With honorable degree he proudly graduates Bygone High School days are of the past Yet, the memories found today still last

written by Robert's wife, Susan Marie Davniero




THE NEW YORK JETS
Published:  New York Post January 31, 2011

Given the onslaught of overblown coverage, monopolizing newspaper front pages and back pages and boasting of winning, the Jets got what they deserved.

Alas, braggarts never win. The Jets madness had to stop.

Susan Marie Davniero



1986 MLB World Series Logo Jersey Patch New York Mets vs. Boston Red Sox




METS VISIT AT WALTER REED


There are times when we re-examine that which is important or where we are going - perhaps for the Mets players visiting Walter Reed Hospital this was one of those times to honor the wounded military soldiers. It was one of those times to give back to the veterans.

From the battles waged in war to the wounded at Walter Reed the soldiers’ honors are enthroned forever. Glory is due them. Alas, sometimes the wounds are slow to heal; yet, however the aspiring visits by the Mets players may be therapeutic and boost morale.  

When the Mets players recently visited the Walter Reed Hospital Medical Center the fictional baseball superstar sports hero was quite suddenly replace by the real heroes - the wounded soldiers at Walter Reed. War brings heroes home. Essentially, the superstar overpaid pampered baseball hero is not in the same league.

On behalf of their patriotic service and sacrifice, we join in with the Mets players to salute the real heroes at Walter Reed.



Susan and Robert Davniero




Susan and Bob Bowling


SPORT PLAYERS HEROES
Published:  New York Daily News

Perhaps newspaper editors should cease referring to sports players as heroes when there are real heroes who risk their lives, such as firemen, police and military. Naming a sport player as a hero is a four-letter foul!

Susan and Robert Davniero




New York Mets Rico Industries Static Cling Decal


SPORTING A METS SHIRT

Attention all sports fans! I have a tip for fans to sportingly dress the part cheering their team on wearing their favorite team logos polo and tee shirts proudly on their chest.
Recently we struck out looking for METS polo shirt for my husband, Bob - #1 METS fan. None of the stores seem to have classic METS polo with the METS logo fitting Bob that he could boast wearing on dress down day. Whatever was left was just second rate tees, wrong sizing or illuminated with bright orange stripes looking like a crossing guard. It look liked we lost the game.
Yet, we rally at home plate and scored a home run. While glancing at the METS logo on one of Bob’s cards he had at home I thought it would look good a solid navy polo. An idea came to me as I cut out the METS circular logo and simply sewed it onto one of Bob’s navy polo shirts. Bob cheered; “It looks like one of the shirts in the stores. I’ll wear it Friday dress down day.” And we turned a lost into a win.
We stay in the game as we shop around for METS decals logos sold at crafts department to sew onto other polo shirts.
That being said, being sportsmanlike, I contacted the METS Official MLB Homepage online to even the score asking permission to use the METS insignia logo on my husband’s shirts.

We got a pass from METS homepage that we’re playing by the rules, allowing the usage of applying METS logo on polo/tee shirts for personal use. Yet, selling METS insignia logo is a foul and would be plagiarizing Major League Baseball trademarks. And now Bob can be decked out sporting a METS shirt! Game on - Let’s Go Mets! 

Susan and Robert Davniero



Doc Goodman Mets Player Autograph 





Newsday Newspaper Opinion


Letters: A-Rod must now pay the price




  Copyright © 2013 Newsday.




Published Newsday 8/7/13



Re: Yankees Alex Rodriguez - Letters to the Editor


Alex Rodriguez needs baseball more than baseball needs A-Rod. A-Rod’s career may end yet baseball will live on.


This is A-Rod’s Judgement Day. In lost income, he will pay the price of using drugs. This unsportsmanlike play tells of A-Rod’s need to win at any cost.

Susan and Bob Davniero




Published NY Post Sports
 



DAILY NEWS VOICERS


SUIT YOURELF

Sports Illustrated Bathing Suit Issue


Apparently, Sports Illustrated Bathing Suit Issue photo ops are of all women. Yet, men deserve to be included equality modeling swimsuits with the magazine’s sexist exhibition layout.


Let’s hear it for the men to be included in the issue and also be looked upon with the same bias evaluation, humiliation and indignity as women. After all, it should be equal rights for men and woman.



Susan Marie Davniero





Our mothers are gone, yet I will always remember how my mother arranged the blind date that changed my life. One day my mother went to a luncheon and exchange photos with family friend, Helen, my wife’s mother. One of my mother Gig’s photos was of her single son, me Bob. Helen gave my mother Susan’s phone number and the rest is history. It was love at first sight.

 Apparently, Mother’s do know best, after all. We both easily gave up our carefree single life to happily marry and never looked back. We married July 1, 1979 in Saint James Church in Seaford, NY.  We have been happily married ever since.

Robert and Susan Davniero

Bob Holy Cross 1970







BOB’S HIGH SCHOOL DAYS - At Holy Cross HS


(To my husband Robert Davniero)

Published Poet's Art, Pancakes in Heaven, Long Short Story and Holy Cross Alumni 




At Holy Cross he comes to depend
As if it was his best of friend
Faithful High School of command
Rises above he will stand
Tuition befalls on his parent’s concern
His boyish thoughts are to learn
Faculty’s lessons to fill his need
As he follows guidance to succeed
Knowledge rewards build to acquire
To store away for this young squire
Beyond the wealth of books for some
He plays sports ballgames to be won
His term of school years forward on to date
With honorable degree he proudly graduates
Bygone High School days are of the past
Yet, the memories found today still last
written by Robert’s wife,  Susan Marie Davniero






















THE NEW YORK METS



Ya’ Gotta Believe






Ya Gotta Believe - The Mets came out swinging and delivered a winning knockout of 3 Subway Series ball games. Staged at the stadium, it’s a ballgame of David beating Goliath when the second class Mets beat the high price Yankees.  

Apparently, the Mets just seem to have it this year to win and the Yankees seem to have lost their mojo. Crown the Mets the King of Queens at Citifield, as the Mets score off the Yankees errors.  
Let’s cheer on the Mets momentum to go the distance and hit it out of the park to take the Subway Series Title. Let’s go Mets! 
Robert and Susan Davniero


Great South Bay Poetry

 Let's Go Met's Again!
Published Great South Bay Magazine 

Baseball season begins
Cheering Mets on to win
Fans come opening day
Let’s go Mets all the way
The Stadium fans roar
Run the bases and score
Teams line up by name
To play the baseball game
It’s a pitch and hit to home
Under the stadium dome
The Mets win at home
The fans all hope and cheer
For the World Series this year!

 by Susan Marie Davniero 
















Bob's 60th Year
Published The Babylon Beacon








Susan and Bob
Mets Game at Shea Stadium, NY


THE GAME OF HIS LIFE

Suddenly it’s summer at a baseball game. From the view of our box seats at Shea Stadium we were looking around at the baseball landscape. I have to give a nod to my twin sister, Laura, who supplied the prize box seats tickets for the home game.

We were up close and personal to the Mets baseball star players on the field warming up; close enough to take photos and get autographs. Their names stitched on the back of the team’s jerseys read like an all-star line up - Mookie, Hernandez, Dysktra, and Carter as if to name their place on the team.

The Mets 1986 World Series Championship wasn’t far behind cheering on the team this June 4, 1988 day. They didn’t look defeated. The summer sun spotlighted the champs. Given that my husband, Bob, was the loyal lifetime Mets fan forever in the group, it was really his day. I was there with him as only a wife, who hates sports but loves her husband, would be.

And Bob is really a big Mets fan. He can rattle off all the World Series dates but can’t remember his Mother’s birthday. He can listen to FAN sports talk radio non-stop day and night, even in his sleep, yet can’t hear me when I ask him to bring out the garbage. Bob even brought a pocket radio with him to listen to the game when the Rockettes kick it up at Radio City. I’m talking a real fanatic fan. Get the picture of how excited he was that day my twin sister took us all out to the ballgame.

Before the game we browsed the souvenir stands catching sight of a circular dome to display baseballs. My intuition thought we might need one if Bob catches a ball. Suggesting we buy it “just in case” Bob laughed and we returned to our seats without the sale.

A slight breeze awakens the stillness of the summer day. It was the first inning, bottom of the first, as the first batter of the Mets, Dysktra, goes up to bat. He hits a foul ball racing to the stands in our direction. The crowd cheers as our section takes to their feet extending arms readily in place to catch the flying foul ball. All eyes are on the ball.

The moment was frozen in time. Then it happens – the ball falls into Bob’s hands. He catches the ball as the crowds cheer him on. That’s as good as it gets for this Mets fan!
And my prediction had gone beyond words and became true. With ball in hand we revisited the same souvenir stand to purchase the baseball circular dome (the same one I suggested we should buy earlier that day) to display his prize catch of the day!

Thru the lens of time Bob’s catch at the game was recorded on the VCR taping the televised game at home. We were all on television as Bob proudly waves the prize ball for the camera. Perhaps Bob’s catch couldn’t quite rival Carters – yet for a moment in time Bob felt like he was in their league.

Bob’s catch of the day lives on forever on tape and in memory. Memories are made of this. For a Mets forever fan like my husband, Bob, it wasn’t just a ball game – it was the game of his life!

A summer story had just come into being.

Susan Marie Davniero










THE DAY MY HUSBAND CAUGHT A FOUL BALL


The day my husband caught a foul ball began when my husband Bob and I attended a Mets baseball game at Shea Stadium. The tickets for box seats were a gift from my twin sister, Laura. Given my husband is a loyal Mets fan forever of course he was anxious to go to Shea.

Before the game we browsed the concession stands, merchants and vendors booths and paused at one souvenir merchant booth catching sight of a circular dome home to display baseballs. I wondered if it was for balls caught at the game.

A presentiment of good luck enveloped me telling my feminine intuition that Bob will catch a foul ball and we will need the baseball circular dome. Suggesting we buy the display ball case, my prediction met with my husband laughing it off. We moved on to our seats without the purchase.

The game goes on into extra innings as a slight drizzle in the air awakens the summer June day. Then it happens, a foul ball is hit off a Mets player headed our way suspended mid-air from a pitch racing to the stands as a foul. It seemed to move in slow motion as everyone stands up with extended arms ready to catch the ball. The moment was frozen in time.

The ball rides directly en route to my husband Bob’s extended hands as he catches the ball (he likes to mention that he caught the ball without a mitt). My premonition had gone beyond my words and became true.

With ball in hand we revisited the same souvenir merchant and purchased the baseball circular display dome to encompass and show off the foul ball Bob caught. The same one I predicted we would need. My words were proven right after all. Since that day, my husband Bob listens to my feminine intuition.

The story plays on at home as the game was taped and recorded on our home VCR taping the NBC broadcast. My husband catch of the day was caught on tape. The game lives forever on taped.

As luck would have it the Mets rallied into extra innings and went on to win the game! A winning day all around - it is always better to go home a winner. We had a ball the day my husband caught a foul ball at a Mets game. It doesn’t get any better than that for a avid long-time Mets fan like my husband, Bob. Essentially the day was a home run!







 











THE GAME OF HIS LIFE


Suddenly it’s summer at a baseball game. From the view of our box seats at Shea Stadium we were looking around at the baseball landscape.  I have to give a nod to my twin sister, Laura, who supplied the prize box seats tickets for the home game.

We were up close and personal to the Mets baseball star players on the field warming up; close enough to take photos and get autographs. Their names stitched on the back of the team’s jerseys read like an all-star line up - Mookie, Hernandez, Dysktra, and Carter as if to name their place on the team. 

The Mets 1986 World Series Championship wasn’t far behind cheering on the team this June 4, 1988 day.  They didn’t look defeated. The summer sun spotlighted the champs. Given that my husband, Bob, was the loyal lifetime Mets fan forever in the group, it was really his day. I was there with him as only a wife, who hates sports but loves her husband, would be.

And Bob is really a big Mets fan. He can rattle off all the World Series dates but can’t remember his Mother’s birthday. He can listen to FAN sports talk radio non-stop day and night, even in his sleep, yet can’t hear me when I ask him to bring out the garbage. Bob even brought a pocket radio with him to listen to the game when the Rockettes kick it up at Radio City. I’m talking a real fanatic fan. Get the picture of how excited he was that day my twin sister took us all out to the ballgame.      

 Before the game we browsed the souvenir stands catching sight of a circular dome to display baseballs. My intuition thought we might need one if Bob catches a ball. Suggesting we buy it “just in case” Bob laughed and we returned to our seats without the sale.

A slight breeze awakens the stillness of the summer day. It was the first inning, bottom of the first, as the first batter of the Mets, Dysktra, goes up to bat. He hits a foul ball racing to the stands in our direction. The crowd cheers as our section takes to their feet extending arms readily in place to catch the flying foul ball. All eyes are on the ball.

The moment was frozen in time. Then it happens – the ball falls into Bob’s hands. He catches the ball as the crowds cheer him on. That’s as good as it gets for this Mets fan!
And my prediction had gone beyond words and became true. With ball in hand we revisited the same souvenir stand to purchase the baseball circular dome (the same one I suggested we should buy earlier that day) to display his prize catch of the day!

Thru the lens of time Bob’s catch at the game was recorded on the VCR taping the televised game at home. We were all on television as Bob proudly waves the prize ball for the camera. Perhaps Bob’s catch couldn’t quite rival Carters – yet for a moment in time Bob felt like he was in their league.

Bob’s catch of the day lives on forever on tape and in memory. Memories are made of this. For a Mets forever fan like my husband, Bob, it wasn’t just a ball game – it was the game of his life!

Susan Marie Davniero
New York Mets Wall Border







LET’S GO METS!
Published Pancakes in Heaven, Great South Bay Magazine 

Baseball season begins
Cheering Mets onto win
Bob and Susan at opening Day
Let’s go Mets all the way
Stadium fans cheer and roar
Run the bases and score
Teams in field line up by name
To play the baseball game
It’s a pitch and hit to home
Under the stadium dome
By a swing not allow
The ball is toss to foul
Suddenly Bob stands up tall
Bob catches the foul ball
His lucky catch took aim
As the Mets won the game


 Written by Susan Marie Davniero


 

Susan and Bob Artist Drawing
Sunrise Services Summer Picnic
Birthday Bob December 23 2014


Unwrapping Christmas Day


My husband Bob's birthday
Is nearby Christmas Day
His December 23 birthday
Comes only two days away
Christmas Eve is tomorrow
And yet it is Bob who follows
The Lord Jesus Holy way
Unwrapping Christmas Day
Wishing Bob Happy Birthday


written by 
Susan Marie Davniero






Bob's Birthday Mets Present 
Met's Blanket

NY POST PUBLISHED 
Letter to the Editor

Congrats to American Pharoah path to victory! The horse with the misspelled name led all the way winning the Triple Crown - the first since 1978 putting New York's Belmont Stakes on the map making headlines. Could only happen in New York! I join the thousands of fans cheering the win! 

Jockey Victor Espinoza was on the ride of his life - as his name, Victor, is apt for victory! As American Pharoah also  lived up to his name - as a majestic thoroughbred 'Pharoah' wears the Triple Crown! 

American Pharoah is an American hero in horse racing history!

Bob Davniero

Published NY POST 

Football Tom Brady Suspension
Suddenly its deflategate headlines again...as appeal is denied and suspension enforce. Tom Brady is benched. Deflated footballs is unsportsmanlike...all is fair in football and deflated footballs.

Robert Davniero















Birthday Baby Bobby
Unwrapping Christmas Day
published Pancakes in Heaven


My husband Bob's birthday

Is nearby Christmas Day

His December 23 birthday

Comes only two days away

Christmas Eve is tomorrow

And yet it is Bob who follows

The Lord Jesus Holy way

Unwrapping Christmas Day

Wishing Bob Happy Birthday



written by Susan Marie Davniero



Bob's December 23 Birthday


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