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  • 2 weeks ago | eagletribune.com | Scott Kerman

    I have never won anything that involves a game of chance. Not once. I’m 0 for 488. It’s the sad truth. I don’t know how it feels to be on the winning end of a raffle, contest, or spin the wheel. I wear a T-shirt that reads, “Buddy, can you spare a basket of spa products?”In between times of dreaming I pitch for the Red Sox and renting a room in the Playboy mansion, I actually dream of my wife yelling this to me:kAm“$4@EE[ x E@=5 J@F E96 p6D@A #6DFCC64E:@? w2?5 (2D9 $@2A J@F H@?

  • 4 weeks ago | eagletribune.com | Scott Kerman

    Editor’s note: The following is the first chapter from Scott Kerman’s new book, “ The Duke, Weekly Conversations with the Last Honest Politician.”I first met former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis in 1977 at the age of 11. My parents had an ice cream smorgasbord fundraiser for his re-election campaign in our back yard in my hometown of Methuen.

  • 1 month ago | eagletribune.com | Scott Kerman

    If you have been a loyal reader of my column for the last four years, you may realize that I’m not perfect. No, no it’s true, just ask my wife. Better yet, take my wife, please. I’ve never come clean until now, but growing up in Methuen I was a serial crank caller. From the ages of 8 to 12, if I wasn’t in school, playing sports or watching “Sanford and Son,” I was crank calling with friends or by myself, while using my best adult man’s voice. Cue the clearing of the throat.

  • 1 month ago | eagletribune.com | Scott Kerman

    The World According to ScottI have flat feet. Flat as a pancake. All babies are born with flat feet. They start to develop the curvature of their feet around 3 years old. My curve never developed. I’ve walked around this planet for the last 59 years looking like I’m wearing scuba-diver flippers. kAm“u@C v@5 D2<6D[ 5@?’E =@@< 2E >J 766E[ x’> 9:56@FD]”k^Am kAm#F?[ $4@EE[ CF?Pk^AmkAm|2?J @7 >J 72>:=J >6>36CD 92G6 7=2E 766E] pAA2C6?E=J[ :E’D :?

  • 2 months ago | eagletribune.com | Scott Kerman

    My wife and I like to make bets with each other. The definition of a bet is to risk something, usually a sum of money against someone else’s on the basis of the outcome of a future event, such as the result of a race or game, or to wager on the day the Martians will invade. “Hey you octopus-like creature with a huge head, if you can wait a moment while I find the app to translate Martian speak, I can give you directions to the nearest Chick-Fil-A.”kAm~FC 36ED 4@?D:DE @7 E9:?8D =:<6 H9@ 42? DE2J :?