This was a fantastic read Frank. Both for your absurd brushes with no-hitters, and the incredible work you do to help people dealing with trauma. Thanks for sharing!
I have a good friend who lost her husband to suicide a few years ago and the emotions you describe in your excerpt sound very familiar. Thanks for sharing - and for all you do to help people find a way to live for themselves and the people who love them.
Thank you. My stepson passed away on Halloween, 11 days ago, alone in a hotel, losing his substance abuse battle. He was 21. I have given my wife, his inconsolable mother, the links to several of the articles you listed. Free Thursday or not, I would have passed them to her anyway. It was not her fault. But try telling a mother that.
Thank you for turning up at exactly the right time.
I work in mental health tho I don't have the patience for individual or one on one work and these suicide resources are perfect. Thank you for speaking up and for putting all this together.
Thanks for the post Frank...some important stuff in there.
Less important is what I share with you in regards to perfect games and no-hitters. The week that ended with Wells' perfecto on that Sunday, I had already attended 4 Yankees games. 2 vs TEX and 2 vs MIN. Yankees split those games. So we were sitting in the Stadium as the Saturday game ended and my friends and I discussed going to the game on Sunday. I told them it was Beanie Baby day and didn't want to deal with that crowd. So yeah...missed it.
The other one was Doc's no-hitter in a couple of years before. The company I worked for had season tix and I was always offered them if they hadn't been requested. I turned them down for this game because...well, I was going to a lot of games back then and didn't want to deal with the hassle of going on a random Tuesday night. But wait...later that day I got offered tickets AGAIN for the game that night from a friend. Again...turned them down. A second time. I'm that guy.
By the way, in honor of Frank's ability to miss no-hitters, my talent is making the Dodgers lose when I watch them. They don't always win when I don't watch. But they manage to lose if I do watch. They still haven't sent me my World Series share from 2020. It's very upsetting.
Frank... THANK YOU. Thank you for this post, and for helping so many people. I'm sure your work feels Sisyphian sometimes, but I want you know that I sincerely thank you, and that it gives me more hope than I might otherwise have in what can sometimes feel like a cold world when I'm reminded that there are those like you out there, helping veterans and all kinds of people with mental health and substance abuse. Some of the issues you work with have cut close to and across my life. I like that you encourage people to write about those they've lost. Writing as therapy... it works. I've used it. I've etched words in the grooves of an LP about a friend who was lost to substance abuse, unfortunately something too prevalent in the music scene writ large. One more time, thank you.
And hey, if you're ever about to go to a baseball game, and on the spur of the moment make a decision not to do so, would you sell me your tickets or at least please let me know? ;)
This was a fantastic read Frank. Both for your absurd brushes with no-hitters, and the incredible work you do to help people dealing with trauma. Thanks for sharing!
I have a good friend who lost her husband to suicide a few years ago and the emotions you describe in your excerpt sound very familiar. Thanks for sharing - and for all you do to help people find a way to live for themselves and the people who love them.
Great read. I desperately want that Star Wars shirt.
Well written and moving, Frank. Thank you.
I almost broke out in tears on the subway reading this. Thank you Frank.
Nice to see a fellow Rutgers alum doing good.
Thank you. My stepson passed away on Halloween, 11 days ago, alone in a hotel, losing his substance abuse battle. He was 21. I have given my wife, his inconsolable mother, the links to several of the articles you listed. Free Thursday or not, I would have passed them to her anyway. It was not her fault. But try telling a mother that.
Thank you for turning up at exactly the right time.
Frank, you have a gift, a calling. Thank you for pursuing it so strongly. You and your work will have an amazing ripple effect.
Hey Frank,
I work in mental health tho I don't have the patience for individual or one on one work and these suicide resources are perfect. Thank you for speaking up and for putting all this together.
Thanks for the post Frank...some important stuff in there.
Less important is what I share with you in regards to perfect games and no-hitters. The week that ended with Wells' perfecto on that Sunday, I had already attended 4 Yankees games. 2 vs TEX and 2 vs MIN. Yankees split those games. So we were sitting in the Stadium as the Saturday game ended and my friends and I discussed going to the game on Sunday. I told them it was Beanie Baby day and didn't want to deal with that crowd. So yeah...missed it.
The other one was Doc's no-hitter in a couple of years before. The company I worked for had season tix and I was always offered them if they hadn't been requested. I turned them down for this game because...well, I was going to a lot of games back then and didn't want to deal with the hassle of going on a random Tuesday night. But wait...later that day I got offered tickets AGAIN for the game that night from a friend. Again...turned them down. A second time. I'm that guy.
Great read, and I bow to Frank on many levels.
By the way, in honor of Frank's ability to miss no-hitters, my talent is making the Dodgers lose when I watch them. They don't always win when I don't watch. But they manage to lose if I do watch. They still haven't sent me my World Series share from 2020. It's very upsetting.
Frank... THANK YOU. Thank you for this post, and for helping so many people. I'm sure your work feels Sisyphian sometimes, but I want you know that I sincerely thank you, and that it gives me more hope than I might otherwise have in what can sometimes feel like a cold world when I'm reminded that there are those like you out there, helping veterans and all kinds of people with mental health and substance abuse. Some of the issues you work with have cut close to and across my life. I like that you encourage people to write about those they've lost. Writing as therapy... it works. I've used it. I've etched words in the grooves of an LP about a friend who was lost to substance abuse, unfortunately something too prevalent in the music scene writ large. One more time, thank you.
And hey, if you're ever about to go to a baseball game, and on the spur of the moment make a decision not to do so, would you sell me your tickets or at least please let me know? ;)
Fabulous article Frank! Thanks for sharing. I was at one no-hitter by Craig's favorite team. It involved 3 pitchers. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ATL/ATL199109110.shtml
Frank...you do work that most simply cannot fathom. Thank you.
thank you for this.