Things I like

[maberger]

Because Ace's 'Things I Dislike" made me think of it

1. Netflix
2. Books by Cormac McCarthy
3. and David Foster Wallace
4. No-limit Poker with a 100 dollar max buy-in
5. Seeing the Pacific Ocean from my window
6. 94 Silver Oak Napa
7. with a medium rare NY strip and lyonaise potatos
8. Leonard Cohen
9. and Ella Fitzgerald
10. Bulldogs

 

[maberger]

oh ...
and Monty Python and Blazing Saddles.

 

[Songbird]

hemingway's dialogue

chapter 14 of cannery row

matt taibbi

my mashed potatoes

girls who play point guard

making googlie googlie conversation with babies and having them smile

audacity

playing in the pacific ocean

the train ride from central jersey into penn station

the way jd drew ran the bases

no-hitters being broken up with 2 outs in the 9th

4th and 1 from the 2, and seeing which coach has the balls to go for it

new york city at 5 o'clock

people with dark-chocolate layers

 

[Songbird]

oh, and the way oasis makes me feel: ******* fantastic.

 

[Cadet]

sunsets

good Mexican food

nerds

the interwebs

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

The aroma of the Carnegie Deli at 2 a.m. on a cold winter night.

Old baseball players who tell funny stories that are also accurate.

Buying books at The Strand book store, and paying a little extra to have them shipped home.

The ballpark before the gates open.

Old Steve and Garry radio shows.

The **** Van Dyke show.

Baseball card stores that have a "junk" box of 5/$1 cards that include some from the '60s.

Bacon.

 

[jlee]

Punk compilations

Kung Fu movies

The river near my house

Laughing out of frustration

 

[SoCalDude]

Body surfing in Maui.

Reminiscing about days as a traveling baseball writer.

Erin Andrews' sideline reporting.

Grilled top sirloin.

Frozen margaritas on a warm day.

 

[DanOregon]

ESPN SEC football on Saturday evenings - it's even better if you are coming back from another game, flip on the screen and have the replay starting up at 10 p.m. (1 a.m. Eastern) and you don't know the score.

Diet Coke

long drives on desolate roads

finishing one book and starting another.

 

[imjustagirl]

Cotton candy

spring days at Keeneland

nights on the couch, laughing and watching movies

slow jams

Curling up in a ball under an electric blanket

Reality TV

Laughing

Fighting

Loving

Air-popped popcorn

Inside jokes

People who have known me long enough to know too much, but love me anyway

People who haven't known me long, but still have dirt and like me anyway.

Aquariums

Zoos

My mom

Sales

Shoes

 

[Chef]

Pain

Good Mexican food

A frosty mason jar full of my favorite beer

Going back to the freezer and getting another mason jar.......

Watching my son grow up

The sound of a perfectly struck golf shot on a still day

Rain

The Rocky Mountains

 

[Guerrillascribe]

Comic books (more specifically DC's "Wednesday Comics" a 12-week-run of a few stories done on newsprint, oversized along with anything done by Darwyn Cooke)

Discovering new but old post-punk pop like Cannonball Jane, Rocketship and Talulah Gosh

Listening to American Forces Radio on 873 AM in Germany and hearing the PSAs and news (reminds of home and my childhood spent as an Army brat)

Watching SEC football in the fall.

Hearing my 4-year-old son walk up to me and say: "Hey, my Dad!"

Hearing my 2-year-old daughter tell me when I get home from work "Hi, Daaadee!"

Walking around a new city and finding a great used record shop.

Taking the 06:14 a.m. morning Sprinter between Frankfurt and Berlin. Almost always empty and the free coffee is good.

 

[mustangj17]

College football
Backwards hats
Hot pockets
Entourage/Sopranos/Curb Your Enthusiasm/other awesome HBO shows
Loud music
Taco Bell/Qdoba/anyothe burrito place
Cut off tee shirts
My car
Pickup basketball
Blue Moon/Summer Shandy/Bell's Oberson/Cherry Wheat/Bud Light/Busch Light
Playing outfield in softball
Driving
$2 pint nights and shots of Johnny Vegas.
Las Vegas/playing blackjack
Fantasy Football
Satellite Radio
Monday Night Football --- I am getting really juiced for this season.
Road Trips
Bars
Tailgates
Hotels
Football Saturdays and Sundays. **** football Thursdays are great. I love football.
Placido Polanco
90s rock music
Mustangs
My blackberry
Facebook/SportsJournalists.com/othersites I spend way too much time on
Coaching track and field - and hurdling without killing myself
Circus college football catches
Dodgeball tournaments
Baggy basketball shorts
out of control lists of things I like
Chinese food
oh yeah, I almost forgot, hot chicks

 

[JR]

1) Roast chicken
2) Saturday morning breakfast at the Lucky Dice with HC and my boys
3) Playing hockey on a pond with the sun shining and the ice as hard as glass
4) Road trips with HC
5) Staying in cheap motels with HC
6) Watching my kid play football on national TV
6) Spending Sunday afternoons in the winter at Brampton Battalion games
7) Wolfville, Nova Scotia
8 ) Freshly fallen snow
9) Used bookstores
10) The smell of napalm in the morning

 

[Magic In The Night]

Hearing the first strains of "Thunder Road," and then the entire song with Bruce singing live.

A perfectly made gin and tonic, with just the right amount of double lime.

Steak, grilled just right.

Making breakfast or going out for breakfast with the SO.

Surfing the Internets and posting on SJ and other message boards while I look out my window at the Detroit River and Canada.

Road trips, anywhere.

Great Thai food.

Dusk

Tomatoes off the vine in Ohio

Sunsets

Falling in love

 

[HC]

1) Roast chicken
2) Saturday morning breakfast at the Lucky Dice with HC and my boys
3) Playing hockey on a pond with the sun shining and the ice as hard as glass
4) Road trips with HC
5) Staying in cheap motels with HC
6) Watching my kid play football on national TV
6) Spending Sunday afternoons in the winter at Brampton Battalion games
7) Wolfville, Nova Scotia
8 ) Freshly fallen snow
9) Used bookstores
10) The smell of napalm in the morning

Thanks for mentioning me, babes but I'm aghast at your priorities. I got beat out by Roast Chicken???

 

[JR]

1) Roast chicken
2) Saturday morning breakfast at the Lucky Dice with HC and my boys
3) Playing hockey on a pond with the sun shining and the ice as hard as glass
4) Road trips with HC
5) Staying in cheap motels with HC
6) Watching my kid play football on national TV
6) Spending Sunday afternoons in the winter at Brampton Battalion games
7) Wolfville, Nova Scotia
8 ) Freshly fallen snow
9) Used bookstores
10) The smell of napalm in the morning

Thanks for mentioning me, babes but I'm aghast at your priorities. I got beat out by Roast Chicken???

This was not a top ten list. It was a list.

And you got mentioned THREE times.

Grumpy or what?

 

[kingcreole]

Pepperoni pizza

Coming home from dinner and seeing the queen has made one of my favorite meals.

When my son crawls on my lap while I'm watching a game and he'll sit there and watch it with me, even if it's just for a few minutes

Diet Coke from the fountain

Travelling

Blasting music in my car. Noboby to tell me to turn it down or changed the station.

Playing Guitar Hero with either of the princesses.

Best Buy

Movie popcorn

 

[HC]

Thanks for mentioning me, babes but I'm aghast at your priorities. I got beat out by Roast Chicken???

This was not a top ten list. It was a list.

And you got mentioned THREE times.

Grumpy or what?

Sorry, dear. Guess I got confused by the fact that they were NUMBERED FROM ONE TO TEN!

 

[Care Bear]

1. Strawberry rhubarb pie. I savored this dessert for the first time last night. The sweet and the sour...ooohhhhh.....
2. My 6'6 Viking boyfriend. Everything has changed. Everything.
3. Fishing in the bay at 6am. The sound of the water slapping against the kayak paddles. The fight of the red drum against the line.
4. Fishing in the bay at 10p. In spooky darkness. Bright moon overhead adding to the eeriness. Not knowing what the hell is going to surface when you're reeling it in...
5. True Blood
6. Absurd humor
7. Losing one's sensibilities
8. Dark bars with characters of a suspect nature
9. Striding purposefully through an airport
10. The sight of my pug cocking his head in bewilderment