Josh Geppi Saved My Life…by Michael Davis – Straight No Chaser #291 | @MDWorld
I’ve known Steve Geppi for about 20 years (since I was 5, Jean). I met Steve’s son Josh and daughter Missy a few years ago, and they have become like family to me.
If I lived my life like today’s politics, that just should not be.
I’m a liberal, and the Geppis are conservative. That alone, according to the politics of our time, should prevent me from having anything to do with them. I should hate them with the very fiber of my soul and renounce everything they ever stood for.
If Josh gave me a kidney and it saved my life, I should continue to hate everything that he stands for. I’d keep the kidney, but I’d still blame Josh for my occasional discomfort from having been through major surgery. I’d never once thank him for saving my life because the people on the Left will see that as a sign of weakness, and those on the Right will use it to their advantage somehow.
That’s the kind of fucked-up political world we live in now.
That’s not who we are a country, and that’s not how I would ever treat someone I love like a brother.
On Facebook, I posted a photo of Big Bird that was not at all flattering to Romney. Josh posted that I should be a gracious winner.
Josh, dude, this is me.
Michael “Use Nigga Every Chance I Get” Davis.
Michael “Nothing Too Good to Do For My Friends, Nothing Too Bad To Do To My Enemies” Davis.
Josh, I’ve made being a dick an art form, and I’m REAL good at it.
But…damn it, you’re right.
I’m going to embrace Josh’s suggestion. I’d like to work to bring this country together, and no, that’s no joke.
I had SUCH a “FUCK YOU GOP” rant written the night of the election all ready to go, but I’m NOT going to run that today…however, if Karl Rove continues to blame the election loss on Hurricane Sandy, I reserve the right to revisit that decision.
I say this often: I really have a lot of Right-wing friends, and they are not racist, homophobic, women hating, rich motherfuckers.
Oh wait. Most of them are rich, but none of that other stuff.
I’m glad Obama won, but more glad that I have friends like the Geppis.
Besides — the best friends are friends that you can talk to, and nothing sparks a good conversation like politics.
Hey Steve — what would you call Romney if he was Black?
That, if anything, is a great way to start a dialogue with someone about why you believe something, and perhaps there may be some common ground that you both share.
Josh, I love you man, you are my boy, and I can’t wait to see you and your family in a few weeks when I come up to look at the museum space.
Oh, before I forget, the Orioles suck.
Gracious? Politically, I’ll try. Baseball? Oh HELL no!
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November 9th, 2012 at 10:21 am
The Orioles suck?
Tch, tch.
MOTU, you don’t know “suck” until you’ve been a Cubs fan for a half-century, like me. At least my other team, the White Sox, didn’t suck at least once in my life (2005 — the year they won the World Series).
What’s your baseball team?
November 9th, 2012 at 11:25 am
Russ — White Sox? 1959 Pennant? The Great Bill Veeck? Air raid alert? (No shit — http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-chicagodays-whitesox1959-story,0,2265469.story) Luis Aparicio, Nellie Fox and Ted Kluszewski? C’mon, I’m a north sider and I know all that.
Particularly the air raid part. Scared a lot of people shitless. Great fun.
November 9th, 2012 at 11:49 am
Agreed. The Orioles DO suck.
Great post bro. One your other conservative friends.
November 9th, 2012 at 11:54 am
This may be my favorite post ever. Michael I’m glad I could serve as inspiration for you. You are definitely my brother and I highly respect you. I am sticking to what I said and I am going to put aside all the political BS and just focus on doing things that bring all of us together as a nation.
By the way, there are 2 possible answers for your Mitt Romney question Michael… 1) (your obvious answer
) 2) Herman Cain. LOL.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:28 pm
Mike — I was 5 in 1959. If I heard the sirens, I probably thought it was just another Civil Defense duck-and-cover drill.
When I started following the Sox, it was about 1963, when they had guys like Pete Ward and pinch-hitter Smokey Burgess. I started following the Cubs about the same time, so for me, when they lost 100 games a season, it was “normal.”
November 9th, 2012 at 4:58 pm
Russ… it still is. It would have been nice if they at least one a pennant before Steve Goodman died.
November 9th, 2012 at 11:01 pm
If anyone wants to say that Obama won because of Hurricane Sandy, that’s fine by me.
In the Book of Nahum, God is quoted:
“In the midst of thw whirlwind, I will have My way.”
That means that God chose Obama. Rove is right. Just not in the way that he thought.
November 10th, 2012 at 2:43 pm
R. Maheras
My favorite baseball teams are the Mets and Yankees. I started as a Met fan and when they played each other in the World Series I had to root for them. When it comes to ANY sport I’m a New York fan.
I ran a entertainment division for Magic Johnson Enterprises and I HATED (still do) with a passion the Lakers but DAMN were my seats great.
November 10th, 2012 at 2:44 pm
Josh,
Thanks my brother from another mother!
November 10th, 2012 at 2:45 pm
Damon,
Thanks my other bother from yet another mother!
November 11th, 2012 at 12:39 pm
MOTU — A Mets fan? Oh, the agony! Since the 1969 “Miracle Mets,” just the mention of the name “Mets” causes old Cubs fans to cringe as old suppressed memories of that fateful year suddenly emerge once more.
Regarding the Lakers, I’ve never seen such a collection of drama-loving prima donnas. It must be their close proximity to Hollywood.
This season is no different. For example, what sane owner fires a coach only five games into the regular season? If they weren’t happy with Brown, they should have fired him at the end of the last season. Instead, during the off-season they acquire the guys Brown needs for his system, let him coach his style of basketball all through pre-season and the first two weeks of the season, and then fire him.
Now what? Use an interim head coach and continue using a system that obviously isn’t working? How long? If/when you get a new coach, his system will no doubt be different, and the existing players will need to learn it during the regular season, and the ones that can’t adapt will have to be traded, causing more uncertainty and instability. Can the Lakers — an old team — overcome all of these hurdles and make the playoffs? Stay tuned until next time, Bat-fans! Same Bat-time, same Bat-channel!