Having fun in Cleveland’s Tremont Neighborhood
May 13th, 2008 by Administrator
Kindlers/Amsterdam bar in Cleveland’s flats got demolished today to make way for new condos and office space.
Either the demolition crew has a sense of humor or they got lucky when the front door to the bar was the last thing standing after their work today.
May 13th, 2008 by Administrator
I was at last night’s Indians baseball game vs. Toronto slowly slipping into a coma induced by the scoreless pitchers duel when Lyle Overbay hit a broken bat looping liner with runners on first and second that Asdrubal Cabrerra made a backhanded diving catch on. The runners broke with the pitch and were easily tripled up as Cabrerra tagged second and then tagged the runner who had been on first. It had happened so fast that at first I didn’t realize it was a triple play. I was wondering why the players were leaving the field and then it dawned on me that I had just witnessed a unassisted triple play. When you watch a game live it’s a different experience then watching on TV where you have the announcers telling you what happened.
It’s only the 14th unassisted triple play in baseball history. In retrospect now I’m kinda amused at how fast it happened and with what little fanfare or none the players gave it as the inning ended. Such a rare occurrence it seems deserves some kind of celebration. A parade or a victory lap or something.
May 12th, 2008 by Administrator
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May 9th, 2008 by Administrator
Danilee Eichorne and Tom Kryss were the featured readers at Last night’s poetry reading here. 5/9/08.
Danilee Eichorne:
Tom Kryss:
at this Thursday’s poetry reading.
with the aftermath of the April showers, there will be the May flowers. I never know what flowers will pop up, perennials with their consistent production of beautiful and perfume, or annuals dropped from a bird’s meal (either end) or blown in from the wind. This next Thursday, May 8 at 9:30pm at the Literary Café, the flowers of Danilee Eichorne and Tom Kryss will be blooming in their full poetic color. Tom is a perennial for sure and Danilee has popped up like an annual.
Continue reading Steve’s scorecard for the May 2008 poetry reading here at the Literary Cafe..
May 8th, 2008 by Administrator
May 7th, 2008 by Administrator
Only two miles the way the Crow flies and four miles by car from Tremont is the Washington Park Learning Center Golf Course. It opened in 2006 nestled on the east bank just below Mittal Steel part of the continuing development of the valley joining with Steelyard Commons and the Tow Path for recreational and retail use. Money well spent. Less than a decade ago it was an inaccessible industrial wasteland. Just don’t pick and eat the fruit off the trees down there.
The Golf course is almost a par 3; 1,486 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 29. Don’t let that discourage you however if you’re an avid golfer. The course is beautifully shaped and molded with undulating greens, sand traps and tall rough. It’s a much nicer in terms of grass quality and build than both Little Met and Mastick woods. The course rewards accuracy and punishes shots that veer 10 yards to left or right. A very good short game challenge actually.
The most endearing thing about this course for me besides it’s close proximity, is that it’s nestled into Ye Olde Cleveland. Actually Newburgh Hts. Anyhow it’s the first course that I’ve been on where ramshackle boarded up homes butt up to some of the fairways.
I thought of buying them up, renovating and advertise as luxury golf townhouses. 
To be fair the neighborhood in general around the course is quite nice in a Lakewood kind of way.
It’s also the first course that I’ve been on where the Mittal Steel smokestacks form the backdrop for some of the holes.
Between the Ladies and Men’s tees are these Astro Turf tees that we call the drinking tees. Nice Touch.
Finally the course encourages kids to golf there offering lessons and kids club rentals.
May 6th, 2008 by Administrator
