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Mitch Melnick
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Just like Sting I was born in the fifties...but i still had to read david halberstam's book on the decade to fully understand it...earliest memory is coming home from nursey school in chomedey, laval and seeing my mother visibly upset...JFK had been assasinated...i was transfixed through a weekend of tv coverage....and still am by the number of otherwise intelligent people who are convinced that lee harvey oswald was merely a troubled mental case with a rifle...i am bothered by lies and injustice...turned off by hypocrites and selfishness...turned on by....so much.
Earliest sports memory was attending an oldtimers game at the forum in 1965....remember henri richard's game winning goal in overtime in detroit to win the stanley cup in 1966....watched sandy koufax on tv later that summer...one of his final starts....tried to watch and listen to as many boston red sox games in 1967; the year of "the impossible dream"...watched a journeyman lefty named dann mcginn hit the first ever home run by an expo at shea in 1969....was in attendance..high on the 3rd base side...for the first ever major league baseball game played outside of the united states..april 15, 1969 at jarry park...baseball got deep into my blood...still can't say bud selig, bob dupay or jacques menard without spitting...doug risebrough was my favorite hab of the 70's...maxim lapierre is this years most improved player on habs but please stop these silly comparisons to risebrough who had more toughness in one eyeball than mighty max has in his entire frame...bob gainey was always a leader of men...hockey's clint eastwood...
two voices changed my life: Danny Gallivan and Bob Dylan...other voices have enriched it....springsteen, neil young, steve earle, willie nelson, kris kristofferson, johnny cash, waylon jennings, merle haggard, emmylou harris, lucinda williams, coltrane's sax; miles' trumpet, jimi's guitar, hunter s thompson, norman mailer, kerouac, bill lee, jim bouton, jerry kramer, howard cosell, ali.
i've won awards and polls but nothing comes close to being "Aislin'd'...the montreal radio Gods taught me well....balcan, blackman, sinclair, finnegan, atkinson, dave patrick and those who are still among us especially dean hagopian, bob vairo, bob dunn and ted tevan....
favorite quote(s)
"Keep it in your mind and don't forget that it aint he or she or them or it that you belong to..." (Bob Dylan)
"Those who would make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable..." (John F. Kennedy)
"Is a dream a lie if it dont come true or is it something worse?" (Bruce Springsteen)
"When you lose say little; when you win say less..." (Dean Smith)
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