I got my first big break in Atlantic City where I climbed the ladder from weekends, to occasional morning show sidekick, and ultimatley to night drive where I spent some wild years on 102.7 WJSE. When that station turned top 40 I decided glow sticks and Ga Ga weren't my scene and wound up in Connecticut for WPLR and doing news and traffic on some other local Long Island stations where I'd commute 130 miles one way........for the love of the game. If there is one thing I love more than radio, it's Long Island. New Jersey was an excellent place to kick start my career but after 7 years of making right turns to make left turns and people calling cold cuts "lunch meat" it was time to go home. I'm like the kid in Bruce Springsteen's My Hometown: "Eight years old and running with a dime in my hand" sitting on the lap of my old man in that "big old Buick" It was actually an ugly brown Plymouth Volare Station Wagon in my case and I'm pretty sure the paper cost 50 cents but most of my childhood took place right here in Ronkomkoma. I'm a Long Islander born and bred. I love the Mets because I pain, and because my Grandmother would make sure I would be in a lot more of it than I could handle if I rooted for the Yankees. I played handball down by the lake. I spent many summer nights in Hamptons bars where I'm told I had a great time. I'm a Sachem grad. Long Island is MY HOMETOWN, and after doing radio in three states with five stations it's amazing where this ride has taken me. Home.