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That went downhill fast.
Built up a little momentum at the start of the high school football season, had a two-week business trip to Pennsylvania and that was all she wrote. Or all I wrote.
I'm going to post the way I voted each week in the Register Top 10 poll just so it's on the record, and hopefully get back on track with this blog.
And since its intention was to be a blog about the NHR sports department as well as high school football (and fantasy sports when I'm so inclined), I hope to continue this blog throughout the year. But I've said that before.
Most people familiar with the NHR and New Haven-area sports know about the death of our columnist and friend Dave Solomon back in August. We still feel the effects of that, professionally and personally, every day. And now we've lost another.
Brian Baisley was a good guy. He came to the NHR through the Easter Seals program (he had Down Syndrome and a host of other medical issues) and was sort of an intern, but mostly just a guy who hung out for a few hours a couple days a week and watched the first hour of Red Sox games before the bus came to get him at 8. In recent years, he watched the first hour of Yankees games thanks to a sort of brainwashing courtesy of Bob Ehalt.
I called him Benedict Baisley.
I would ask him all the time, "How could you switch from the Red Sox to the Yankees?!" I think it was mostly influenced by schools editor Joe Morelli taking him to Yankee Stadium after the new incarnation of the Cathedral opened in 2009. Brian was a lifelong Sox fan but because of his medical issues, and because Fenway Park was built in 1912, going to Boston games wasn't that easy for him.
The new Yankee Stadium had ramps and more handicap-accessible features.
Brian appreciated that. I don't think he had to switch teams over it, but he did.
He was big into the Special Olympics, as a participant, advocate and even as a writer for the NHR.
He had a million things to complain about, but never did. And he had the biggest, goofiest smile you've ever seen. And it made you smile too.
He'll be missed.
Built up a little momentum at the start of the high school football season, had a two-week business trip to Pennsylvania and that was all she wrote. Or all I wrote.
I'm going to post the way I voted each week in the Register Top 10 poll just so it's on the record, and hopefully get back on track with this blog.
And since its intention was to be a blog about the NHR sports department as well as high school football (and fantasy sports when I'm so inclined), I hope to continue this blog throughout the year. But I've said that before.
Most people familiar with the NHR and New Haven-area sports know about the death of our columnist and friend Dave Solomon back in August. We still feel the effects of that, professionally and personally, every day. And now we've lost another.
Brian Baisley was a good guy. He came to the NHR through the Easter Seals program (he had Down Syndrome and a host of other medical issues) and was sort of an intern, but mostly just a guy who hung out for a few hours a couple days a week and watched the first hour of Red Sox games before the bus came to get him at 8. In recent years, he watched the first hour of Yankees games thanks to a sort of brainwashing courtesy of Bob Ehalt.
I called him Benedict Baisley.
I would ask him all the time, "How could you switch from the Red Sox to the Yankees?!" I think it was mostly influenced by schools editor Joe Morelli taking him to Yankee Stadium after the new incarnation of the Cathedral opened in 2009. Brian was a lifelong Sox fan but because of his medical issues, and because Fenway Park was built in 1912, going to Boston games wasn't that easy for him.
The new Yankee Stadium had ramps and more handicap-accessible features.
Brian appreciated that. I don't think he had to switch teams over it, but he did.
He was big into the Special Olympics, as a participant, advocate and even as a writer for the NHR.
He had a million things to complain about, but never did. And he had the biggest, goofiest smile you've ever seen. And it made you smile too.
He'll be missed.
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