So Long Joe
It’s a sad day for Yankees fans as we are forced to realize it is the end of the Joe Torre era in the Bronx; lots of newspaper headlines shout the infamous New York City “Shove It!” rallying cry.
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Mets Fans Root for a Perpetual Loser
Well, the New York Mets have done it again: They made baseball history yesterday by creating the biggest, choking, collapse in the history of the game that left children weeping:
Fenway Fans in Blonde Masks: The Power of a Semiotic Social Mob
Over the weekend there was a tremendous moral correction of a public figure offered in public — in jest — but its semiotic relevance is an earth-shattering expression of contempt for the facade of stardom and its perks of temptation. New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez (A-Rod) — the highest paid player in baseball playing on the team with the highest player payroll in the biggest media market and currently stuck in last place in the American League East — was caught by photographers with a blonde stripper that was not his wife. Boston Red Sox fans — perennial rivals to the Yankees and currently in first place in the same division — jabbed A-Rod Friday in Fenway Park as he prepared to take the batter’s box:
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A Cursed Life
Do you believe there are some people who are born cursed and who are doomed to a life of misery for reasons beyond their direct control?
The Yankee Ingrate
There’s nothing quite as annoying as an ingrate. Add “surly” to the personality of the ingrate along with $43 million in salary over two years to win 34 games playing — not working — baseball and you have the nasty Randy Johnson.
Randy Johnson never fit into Yankee pinstripes.
The Fifty-Two Million Dollar Man
A clean-shaven and short-haired Johnny Damon finally gives the Yankees a strong arm in center field again and as well as a quick bat behind the plate.
You Look Like an Australian Cricketer
The other day I was in the Rutgers bookstore and a cashier told me I looked like Australian Cricketer Mark Waugh. After I asked for, and received, the definition of Cricketer, I told that student I was going to look up Mark on the web and I said, “if he is ugly there is going to be trouble!”
As I was leaving, the student told me Mark has a twin brother Steve and that I may be the missing triplet.
It’s interesting how people have never been shy about telling me who I look like.
In high school I was told I looked like movie star Tom Cruise.
In college I was told I looked like actor Tom Hanks.
In graduate school I was told I looked like former Yankees pitcher Matt Nokes.
As an instructor at both Saint Peter’s College and Rutgers-Newark my students told me I looked like outstanding actor Edward Norton.
Perhaps one day I will simply be recognized as me.
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