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Name: Jim MonaghanHeight: 5'8"Weight: 150
Prior to joining WDHA, Jim spent a number of years as part of the New York/New Jersey sports media corps covering the Mets, Yankees, Jets, Giants, Knicks, Nets, Devils and Rangers. Jim has over 25 years of experience coaching and playing baseball. He spent two years in baseball management with the Newark Bears. and coached the Don Bosco Prep freshman baseball team to back-to-back Bergen County championships for the only time in the school's history. He's also an instructor with Professional Baseball Instruction in Bergen County.
We buy tickets to see them, or we pay for a cable link/satellite dish to watch them play, we buy the shirt with their names on the back, we may even try to emulate them in some way. They play for OUR team and wear OUR uniform, so they must be nice guys, right?
This past Sunday Andy Pettitte made his return to the Yankees against the Seattle Mariners. He was met with a resounding ovation both before the game and as he was leaving the field, even though he had given up a pair of home runs and was on the losing end of what was happening. Meanwhile a couple hundred miles to the north, Red Sox Nation was blasting one of their starting pitchers, Josh Beckett, for what is being perceived as a lack of proper commitment to THEIR team.
Pettitte is regarded as one of the good guys ...
He was born in a small northeastern Pennsylvania coal-mining town, the kind of small town people reminisce about all the time. When his country called, he enlisted in the Navy right out of high school near the end of World War II. He came home from the war and after working for Pennsylvania Power & Light for a few years he enrolled in Fordham University and graduated in 1954. By chance, he had met a girl from Brooklyn near his home town in the early 50's. Never one for overly showing his emotions, he tapped her on the head with a newspaper after a date; that was when she knew he had fallen for her. They got married after he graduated from school and raised two kids in places like Elkins Park, King of Prussia, and Basking Ridge.
He never had a chance to meet his three grandhildren; they understand ...
It's the WDHA Morning Jolt broadcasting LIVE from Shenanigans Field for our 3rd Annual Opening Day festivities. Watch all the excitement live!
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It usually never happens this way...not with a "backup" quarterback at least. Amid a flurry of activitiy including a contract that may or may not have been fully examined before the trade was announced, a shirt for sale on the Jets website almost immediately, the trade in danger of not happening at all, a private jet with the player's number on the tail landing in Morristown, grade school kids in Chatham and Madison already running around claiming that a new Jet player is moving into their town, and assurances that Mark Sanchez is indeed still their #1 quarterback, the Jets managed to secure the back pages of the Post and Daily News for a few days with the announcement that they were bringing in Tim Tebow to back up Mark Sanchez.
In just a short while, the Jets will hold a press conference at their Florham Park training facility. They're ...
So last night I'm listening to the Yankees-Red Sox game on the radio on my way home from our annual Teachers Who Rock awards dinner and the Yankees radio dynamic duo of John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman are waxing quite poetically about Zoilo Almonte, who had come into the game to play right field for New York. A 6-year veteran of the Yankees minor league system, Almonte finally advanced to AA Trenton last summer.
John & Suzyn were in mid-season form talking about Almonte and by the time I got home I figured the kid was a lock to replace Nick Swisher by the time the All Star Break rolled around in July.
In the top of the 9th inning, the Red Sox sent Pedro Ciriaco up to the plate. He's number 77 on your scorecard if you're keeping score at home. Ciriaco is another one of those "Who is ...