Three more nights..
Tonight at 11, Tomorrow at 6, and Friday at 6 and/or 11...
Assuming he';s there.. those are all the nights that I have left to watch the wonderful Jim Gardner.
Everyone who has read my posts on the subject knows the story. When I moved to Lancaster in 1999, I started watching the news. I couldnt quite take a liking to Gardner.. He seemed "Lame". After taking my mom's advice that he was very intelligent, I kept watching.. and gradually.. I became hooked.
I learned that at the time I moved here, he had been anchoring the 6 and 11pm news for WPVI TV Philly for 20 plus years, without a co anchor.
The more I watched him, the more I realized, this guy has something special.,
Other things I watched came to an end. I was a big fan of the TV show Dallas, and saw every episode, but that was only once a week. I was a big fan of Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine, but that was only every five days. Dale Murphy.. but I was .. a kid then.
This.. every night.. 50 weeks plus a year, 5 nights a week, for 13 years.. and.. in 3 nights.., he will still be at his anchor position at the desk at WPVI in Philly, but I will be gone, moved to New York.,
While its certainly not as traumatic as losing my mom, its like.. saying goodbye to a good friend, who you will never see again.
If there was a way to watch the entire WPVI 11pm news every night, online, I'd do it. I warched the weeknight acnhors in NY while my mom was undergoing her chemo and radiation in NJ last summer. Those people didnt grab me as much as Gardner does.
I know things dont last forever, He could have retired. I could have moved, with my mom still alive, or for another reason.
Yet.. in three short nights.. someone I've been with every night for thirteen years, through good times, and bad, will be gone.
I'm feeling it,, profoundly. I dont think I will just be able to turn on the news when I move to NY.
My relatives are excitedly waiting to welcome me. My schedule is filling, with plans with relatives, and friends.
Yet, at night, at 11pm, when i'm in my apartment in Queens, things will just never be the same.
I'll miss him. It will be profound.. In time, I will get used to it.
And to think.. how stupid I was.. I didnt like him at first.. now.. I'm saddened to have to leave him.
Goodbye, Jim, and thank you. For all the nights you kept me company, and kept me sane when my mom was sick, and after she died.
I know now why you have been at the same anchor position for 36 years. You are the best anchor I have ever seen.
Mitch
Tonight at 11, Tomorrow at 6, and Friday at 6 and/or 11...
Assuming he';s there.. those are all the nights that I have left to watch the wonderful Jim Gardner.
Everyone who has read my posts on the subject knows the story. When I moved to Lancaster in 1999, I started watching the news. I couldnt quite take a liking to Gardner.. He seemed "Lame". After taking my mom's advice that he was very intelligent, I kept watching.. and gradually.. I became hooked.
I learned that at the time I moved here, he had been anchoring the 6 and 11pm news for WPVI TV Philly for 20 plus years, without a co anchor.
The more I watched him, the more I realized, this guy has something special.,
Other things I watched came to an end. I was a big fan of the TV show Dallas, and saw every episode, but that was only once a week. I was a big fan of Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine, but that was only every five days. Dale Murphy.. but I was .. a kid then.
This.. every night.. 50 weeks plus a year, 5 nights a week, for 13 years.. and.. in 3 nights.., he will still be at his anchor position at the desk at WPVI in Philly, but I will be gone, moved to New York.,
While its certainly not as traumatic as losing my mom, its like.. saying goodbye to a good friend, who you will never see again.
If there was a way to watch the entire WPVI 11pm news every night, online, I'd do it. I warched the weeknight acnhors in NY while my mom was undergoing her chemo and radiation in NJ last summer. Those people didnt grab me as much as Gardner does.
I know things dont last forever, He could have retired. I could have moved, with my mom still alive, or for another reason.
Yet.. in three short nights.. someone I've been with every night for thirteen years, through good times, and bad, will be gone.
I'm feeling it,, profoundly. I dont think I will just be able to turn on the news when I move to NY.
My relatives are excitedly waiting to welcome me. My schedule is filling, with plans with relatives, and friends.
Yet, at night, at 11pm, when i'm in my apartment in Queens, things will just never be the same.
I'll miss him. It will be profound.. In time, I will get used to it.
And to think.. how stupid I was.. I didnt like him at first.. now.. I'm saddened to have to leave him.
Goodbye, Jim, and thank you. For all the nights you kept me company, and kept me sane when my mom was sick, and after she died.
I know now why you have been at the same anchor position for 36 years. You are the best anchor I have ever seen.
Mitch
