My Personal Blog

Last night the news broke that Mike Lange, the longtime voice of the Pittsburgh Penguins, passed away at the age of 76.  With that, a part of me had died for the fifth time in my life. Folks still call me Michael Michael Motorcycle to this day.  That was just one of the catchphrases Mike Lange used after a Penguins goal (called Langeisms by the fans) which I sometimes use during my church softball podcasts, because those phrases were often imitated. I still plan to watch the movie Sudden Death (where Mike Lange made a cameo and dropped some of his catchphrases) as a tribute to Mike Lange, while I smoke him like a bad cigar, call Arnold Slick from Turtle Crick, eat some holy cheese and crackers, buy Sam a drink and get his dog one too, see how much fried chicken I can eat, scratch my back with a hacksaw, bring Eddie the spaghetti, see a silly seal slide sideways in Sausalito, leave them on the parkway going to the airport, and get in the fast lane with grandma so the bingo game...

This year in golf, I plan on getting in some practice between next Saturday and April 12, with plans to play my first round of golf for the year on April 19 at Tam O'Shanter in Hermitage.  My golf travels this year will take me to Castle Hills in New Castle (on April 26), the Links at Firestone Farms in Columbiana, Ohio, Kennsington in Canfield, Ohio, Pine Lakes in Hubbard, Ohio, Hickory Grove in Jefferson, Ohio (these four rounds in May), Highland Springs in Wellsburg, West Virginia, Pleasant Valley in Vintondale, Butler's Woodside in Elizabeth, Chippewa in Bentleyville, Linden Hall in Dawson (these five rounds during my U.S. Open vacation in June), Fox Run in Beaver Falls, Hunter's Station in Tionesta (these two rounds during the Fourth of July holiday weekend), Whispering Woods in Erie, White Oak in Dayton and Whispering Pines in Meadville (these three rounds in August).