I’m thinking about covering the game as a Giant Juggalo

I would rather take a beating than be stuck in the post-party Philly bar screaming into dead spaces and faces because the Phillies won the pennant. As soon as the game was over I went to the Weather Channel. I’ll tune in again for the first pitch of the World Series.

I have a pullover fleece 1996 World Series Yankees jacket I bought back in the day at the coolest store ever - Gershman’s on Rehoboth Avenue.

I may wear it over the next couple of weeks and really, unless you beat the Yankees in a seven-game World Series, you shouldn’t be screaming and shaking your head like a dog with ear mites.

The fans I saw on camera outside the stadium all looked to be drunk, under 30 years of age and marginally employable. And what Philly fans started using the word “Dynasty”? The Yankees have won the World Series 26 times since 1923 including five in a row from 1949 through 1953.

I am a forever Philly fan, which is why I want to see them kick the legs out from under the Yankee Empire.

DOWNWARD DOG - Yoga instructor Andrea Kennedy came to the beginning of field hockey practice last Tuesday to give the girls a tune-up on their stretching routines.

“We had Andrea work with the girls in the preseason and have adopted the yoga stretching into our daily practices and pregame,” said assistant coach Kay Miller. ”We haven’t had a muscle pull injury the entire season.”

“Yoga teaches more than stretching,” Kennedy said. “It also helps with stress relief; so many people breathe shallowly and have tight muscles.”

Kennedy teaches 11 classes a week at her yoga studio on Route 24 and says most clients are older just trying to stay healthy and mobile. The Yoga Studio can be reached - no pun intended - at 542-8529.

PASSING THE BLAME - Last week’s Athlete of the Week Justin Lopez had become Jordan Lopez by the time the paper hit the street. It was days later when a phone call to the paper gave a heads-up on this mistake. Because I took the picture and wrote the bio and didn’t know any Jordan Lopez, I just assumed some editor changed it because they knew a Jordan Lopez.

And wouldn’t you know - I was wrong - I changed it for a reason I will never know just like I didn’t understand why Justin Lopez wore glasses. He said he didn’t need them, he just liked to wear them. The bottom line is he is a great kid and first class multi-sport athlete.

GIANT JUGGALO - I was thinking of snagging a little clown paint for Friday night homecoming and covering the game as a Giant Juggalo.

Where do all the hippies meet? South Street! South Street!

Now you can’t be a hippy only a retro hippy, but you can be cool if you rock it old school.

Cultural and fashion trends have been coming and going in schools forever. What’s up with old guys in black turtlenecks chilling at the jazz festival like they get it? I’m just trying to figure how I lived a long life without ever owning a suit.

QUARTER GRADES - The marking period coming up the first week in November will knock some talented athletes right out of the participation box up and down the state. And you’re right - it is the kids’ responsibility, but isn’t there a responsibility of a well-paid staff to work hard not to let that happen? Who gets a job as a special education teacher then fails those kids because they don’t act responsibly? Who fails a college-bound senior in a class they need for eligibility without telling the coach and parent what is about to come down well in advance of the final grade on the report card?

If all students did all the things they are supposed to do, then 25 percent of those employed as premeditators of remediation would be out of work. All kinds of kids self-destruct with a smile on their faces and often a coach or a parent won’t get a heads-up until it’s too late. I used to tell my athletes: “I refuse to care about you more than you care about yourself.”

But they knew I did care about them more than I should. Some looked at themselves as not worth the trouble, but I kept after them and there were many rescues and some losses.

My heads-up to those who use grades like claw hammers: “It ain’t about you; it’s about them.”

SNIPPETS - Indoor hockey – gottaloveit - at Eagle’s Nest began Thursday, Oct. 22. Other dates are Fridays, Oct. 23, Oct. 30, Nov. 13, Nov. 20 and Dec. 4. The cost is $65. There will also be travel hockey opportunities. Show up to sign up or email coach Kathleen Fluharty at coachkk@aol.com.

There is a chicken barbecue at 10 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 24, in the parking lot of Home Depot to raise money for the Cape Crusader basketball program. So get in there and buy up some chicken, I suggest more than you think you need, then bring it home and watch some football in a garage wiping your mouth with an old T- shirt.

But that’s how I roll - with butter.