finding a sports bar open..

on Christmas day---a hard thing to do in this city, but I just checked and several are open. Why? Four basketball games that I would find interesting are on during the day. Of course I can't find a bar and just "hang" and watch all of them, but I want to know where, in Manhattan and Brooklyn, there will be some open. Tomorrow is a free day, so I could be anywhere, at any time.
Today is "free" also; my plan (open to change) when this session is over, would be to go to Carnegie Hall and get a ticket for a Christmas Even concert, that is all Mozart. A violin concerto that I have not heard in a long time--I would really like to hear it---it is the last of 5 that Mozart wrote early in his career. Also the Marriage of Figaro overture (have heard it enough times) and Symphony No. 41, The Jupiter, a piece that i have heard many times but might be interesting to reconsider. The orchestra is a terrific student orchestra---I heard them a few years ago when my friend Richard played with them---very well conducted by Jaime Laredo. It is either that or a movie---but there should be plenty of movies to check out in the coming days.
  Some reports: Saturday evening, went to the 50th wedding anniversary of friends Ron and Liz. A nice time, very mellow, the atmosphere was friendly, not overpraised or self congratulatory---Ron and Liz just sat around and "schmoozed" with the guests in a very laid back manner. The couple who threw the party---the daughter and son and law of the anniversary couple, live on a street in south slope. On the fourth avenue corner is an old tenement---it appeared to me like a relic from the time the neighborhood was all working class Irish. I later found it it is (was) a Swedish cooperative. A really interesting look. I stayed until about 10, then took the subway home.
  Sunday---a nice day, went to Cobra in Bushwick--Olivia my "go to" baratender was on vacation, the substitute bartender, Talia, is a cross word puzzle freak, and I joined her in working on this week's NY Times puzzle. Believe it or not, we got most of it. Later, Matt, a bartender whom I have known for a while came in and we had a good talk. I left feeling very upbeat, then took the bus into downtown Brooklyn to hang out at the Gotham Market and the Fiction Center. I decided against going to a movie at BAM---had a nice meal at the bar-restaurant adjacent to the center, and then realized that I was tired and should go home. This meant I could not achieve my overall objective for the day:to visit Clem's, a bar in Williamsburg that a friend of mine bar tends at, but he starts at 9 o.clock. I would love to hang out and take in the scene there (I think it is very casual) but the way my metabolism is, I am always tired on Sundays around 7. Maybe for next Sunday, I can figure something out. I really want to visit this place.
  Yesterday was a "work" day---about three and a half hours of "sessions". I thought I might do something in the evening, but was far too tired---spent most of the evening in the apartment.
 Will report soon on the rest of today and my day of Christmas.