Month: June 2017

I remember as a little boy I used to love to stay up late at night and watch old movies. On CBS TV at 11:30 pm there was no such thing as Letterman, they use to have “The Late Show.” We “old timers” remember exactly what that was, old classic movies every night. I must […]

This really is a special country when the men that help and advise the most powerful person in the world can take the time to congratulate a young person just starting his life. Such was the case when the NY Daily News wrote a piece on my son, Ricky Negron, and the fact that he […]

Today is Father’s Day. It’s supposed to be a happy day. This is actually the first without my parents. I was told that it would be a tough one. To say that it has been hard would be an understatement. I depended on my parents for true moral support. Their wisdom was thru the roof. […]

It’s with a heavy heart that I have to report that one of America’s all time great movie directors, John Avildsen, the Academy Award winner for Rocky (Academy Award for Director and Best picture) died yesterday. I got to know John during the last year and found him to be a really down to earth […]

Tyler Clippard was honored by NY Yankees co-owner Hank Steinbrenner  and The Hank’s Yanks organization Monday at the third annual Yanks Hank’s fundraiser that enables youngsters to play organized baseball in the New York City Tri state area. Clippard the Yankees righthander first came to the Yankees organization in 2006 and besides his responsibilities on […]

This week, I was reading about an incident that happened at Citi Field. Evidently in the game there was a pop up, and in the process of trying to get out of the way the batboy accidentally interfered with play. Mets manager Terry Collins argued that it should have been an out. But didn’t get […]