2009 A Review

• Part One: MAAC Tournament, Marist Alumni Weekend 2, Citi Field trip, June Vacation, Recap on my Connecticut experience
• Part Two: O’s Game, Meeting Zack Hample
• Part Three: Mets game with Keith & met Zack again, 2 more Met games to end the year, Postseason Baseball, Trip to Yankee Stadium, Marist Alumni Weekend
• Part Four: Thanksgiving, December fun and Christmas.

Also links to all the posts are previously chronicled on my web site or others. I tried my best.

Baseball Games

• 5/10/09 at Citi Field (1, Jenna: 1)
• 7/27/09 at Camden Yards
• 9/8 & 9/10 at Citi Field (4, Keith: 2; 7, Adam: 1)
• 9/22/09 at Citi Field (4, Danny: 2)
  

Reading List

• Watching Baseball Smarter
• As They See ‘Em
• Founding Brothers
• Losers: The Road to Everyplace but the White House
• Next
• Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity
• Power and the Presidency
• Season of Life
• The Audacity to Win
• The Men Who Stare at Goats
• The New New Thing

On Siena Saints Blog of course. In my new extra article I posted on the odds that Marist goes winless this season.

Ken Pomeroy (Kenpom.com): Just for the Marist faithful, I’ve added the chance of going winless for all teams. Looks like Marist leads the nation with their nearly 3% chance! Seems like yesterday they were owning the league.

This just in: you suck!

And anybody at our commencement from Marist in 2008 would most likely attest to that previous statement. In no way am I making fun of your professional aspirations, just your inability to deliver a quality commencement speech.

Every single member I met of our graduating class remembered the one fact about your speech. To quote the funny film Billy Madison and just rephrase this for yourself.

Principal: Mr. Madison, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Add to that a hot morning and your speech was unbearable.

You mentioned how you didn’t know how to deliver this speech after, then candidate, Barack Obama delivered a speech on an issue. So, if in some alternate universe, candidate Obama didn’t deliver as nicely as he did then your speech would have been completely irrelevant. As if it wasn’t already.

What I do remember is that you inconspicuously name dropped stories that we didn’t care about and that had no meaning. They were painfully boring and embarrassing that Marist trotted you out there because of, the relevant rumor at the time was that Stephen Colbert would speak at our graduation but did not because of, finances. But then again the relevant rumor the year after ours was that the Dalai Lama would speak but instead they got an embattled Governor.

Her major claim to fame? She was on 60 Minutes II, a six year extension of 60 minutes that was cancelled.

Good job, Marist.

Here’s one of a few Marist stories I feel like sharing. This one is comedic, or at least I feel it is.

True story. Anyone who went to Marist knows you get an advisor when you change majors or the previous advisor leaves. I got a new “advisor” at Marist at the start of my Junior year. So I send an e-mail to this person about meeting to get permission for scheduling:

Dear (Advisor),

I recently received a letter that said you are my new advisor. I think my past advisor left so there was a change on that by whomever is in charge. I need to talk to you to be allowed to add course requests for the Spring 2007 semester. I would like to do that as soon as possible considering that the period begins very soon. Let me know when you are available. Thanks.

Sincerely,
(Me)

Sounds okay right? So here’s what he sends back:

Ryan look on my office door for my hours .I’in (a building & room number).
(Advisor)

I changed advisors after that. I felt that if the advisor didn’t know how to look on his own door or didn’t know his actual hours, he probably wouldn’t be a help to me.

So I went to one of the professors I did have who not only knew when his office hours were, but was also able to know what classes I should take to fufill all my requirements and graduate on time.