My friend Dino is, among many things,the man that serves me and Mary weekly hot dogs and cocktails. When Mary and I first get to Shorty’s Coney Island every Wednesday at noon we find Dino and his few other regulars are enthusiastically discussing sports.
They aren’t very casual about it at all with their love for knowing everything about everyone on every team. Hurling statistics and opinions they all usually agree. Names,leagues,injuries,contracts,predictions: all of it. Meanwhile , Mary and I sit munching our hot dogs and making a game of trying to figure out what sport they are presently talking about.