Spent a thoroughly enjoyable couple hours last night with a bunch of Newsday subscribers who signed up for a chance to meet the paper's football hacks. Granted, there are plenty of better things to do on a Wednesday night in September, but the turnout was good, and the questions and interaction was downright terrific.
Giants beat reporter Arthur Staple, Jets beat man Tom Rock and NFL handicapper Ed McNamara regaled the crowd with plenty of anecdotes to give them a sense of what our world is like.
So thanks to all who came out, and thanks for continuing to pick up Newsday ... or read it right here on the Internet.
... of course, I couldn't resist re-telling the story of Rock and I seeing a rather unfortunate sight the other night in Baltimore, but folks took it with the humor with which it was meant. Heck, even veteran Newsday desk honcho Jeff Weinberg saw fit to reference the blog entry in yesterday's paper, so it couldn't have been too bad. I think he suggested that readers check out our glimpse of the moon in Baltimore.