Parleys Canyon Riders: PEOA Loop / Bait & Switch

Yesterday was one of those rides you just don't want to miss. For some, it took BIG MAN's best salesmanship to convince them to join the group. They were thinking of riding Emigration Canyon, which you can do any day of the week. The temperature was perfect and the scenery and TATS were inspiration. A few of us stopped to take pictures, talk with the locals and visit previous sites of injury and heart attack.

BIG MAN was excited about a chance of winning the final stage back to the cars and knew without little man's presence, he had a good chance of a victory. As he made the turn to head back to the car he yelled out, "LAST ONE BACK TO THE CAR IS A RIOT EGG". Mad Man Morgan took the bait and soon attempted a break away, in which the BIG MAN jumped on his wheel for the final decent. Coach Craig attempted a break away, but he too started his sprint too early. Lastly, Mr. MBA, a first-time rider on this route said enough is enough and took off. BIG MAN, having course knowledge knowing the last 200 yards is where you win this race and waiting for the right moment sprinted to the finish line for a SWEET victory.

TATS = Lou Gehrig's Farwell Speech

by Steve Hale & Bruce Jensen

"Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.

"Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn't consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day? Sure, I'm lucky. Who wouldn't consider it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball's greatest empire, Ed Barrow? To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins? Then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology, the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy? Sure, I'm lucky.

"When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat, and vice versa, sends you a gift - that's something. When everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies - that's something. When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something. When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing. When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.

"So I close in saying that I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for."

YIPPY SKIPPY

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