Chico Escuela was a fictional baseball player from the Dominican Republic. Portrayed by Garrett Morris on “Saturday Night Live.” Chico spoke only limited and halting English, so the joke centered on him responding to almost any question with his catch phrase: “Baseball … been berry berry good … to me.” Well, the Pacific Northwest has […]
Posts tagged Vegas Knights
Knights on Ice—Hockey Pizza Family
When I left New York City to move to Las Vegas to play blackjack professionally, I left behind four things behind that were very important to me: New York-style pizza, the New York Rangers, my family, and my brother and sister officers with whom I was proud to serve and protect; those friendships with my […]
Knights on Ice—Ship It and Tuck It
Two expressions often heard here in Las Vegas, especially in casinos, are “ship it,” in reference to winning a pot at a poker table, and “tuck it,” the action when you hold what you believe to be a winning blackjack hand. Well, T-Mobile Arena doesn’t have any poker and blackjack tables, but tonight there was […]
Knights On Ice—58 Seconds
Editor’s Note: Las Vegas’ first major-league sports team, the NHL’s Vegas Golden Knights, is in action and has begun its season 3-0. This is the first installment of a new blog, written by LVA’s Joe Pane, that will chronicle the VGK’s historic inaugural season and appear exclusively at LasVegasAdvisor.com. You could hear a pin drop in the […]
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