Me and my Spuddy (Katie)
aka winners of "Spuddies of the Year"
My program had our End of the Year banquet on Friday evening. The slideshow is awesome. People cried...which means it was a success, I guess. But since I have no emotion, I will simply recognize that it was sad.
"When I was a kid, the worst of all days was the last day of summer vacation, and we were in the school yard playing baseball, and the sun was down and it was getting dark. But I did not want it to get dark. I did not want the game to end. It was too good, too much fun.I wanted it to stay light forever, so we could keep playing forever, so the game would go on and on. That's how I feel now. Come on, come on. Let's play one more inning. One more time at bat. One more pitch. Just one. Stick around, guys. We can't break up this team. It's too much fun. But the sun always went down. And now it's almost dark again."
- Mike Royko on the death of the Daily News in 1978
