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?
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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.
Year of the Asterisk
by Evan Stair
As this is written two major league baseball players, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa are nearing a record which has stood since 1961. They are doing so amid the cheers and accolades of many major league baseball fans. However, the story was different in 1961.
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