Go Yankees. Last night was amazing.

Where is this concert?

If last night's performance was anything like the original (which I never heard or knew about before today), it must have been beautiful. I can't understand why anyone would have had a problem with it back in '68.

Sign...

On Saturday night at the Utopia Paradise Theater in the Bronx, just over a mile north of the outfield he used to roam, Bernie Williams will play the biggest musical gig of his life. He will headline a benefit show with Jose Feliciano, an event called A Night of Peace, Unity and Hope that is produced by Debbie Medina, founder of Events & Entertainment, Ltd. It will raise money for the Kips Bay Boys and Girls Club, a Bronx-based agency that serves more than 13,000 children, as well as Electchester Athletic Association in Queens.

Tickets range from $55 for mezzanine to $100 for the VIP section, and can be purchased online (www.peaceunityandhope.com.), at the Utopia Paradise box office, 2413 Grand Concourse (near 187 St.), or through TicketMaster (1-212-307-7171, www.ticketmaster.com).

[b]On the field I remember you were incredible
Hey shut up, hey shut up, yeah
On the field I remember you were incredible
Hey shut up, hey shut up, yeah
On the match with the boys, you think you're all alone
With the pain that you drain from love
In a car with a girl, promise me she's not your world
Cause Andy, you're a star[/b]

Tip yer cap, Bernie!

I wish more folks would figure out how to toss that gauntlet today; nobody seems to get pissed off about anything or much care. Glad we had courageous cats like him then. Where are they today?

and they definitely care about things... too bad it is all too often petty, inconsequential nonsense like a britney spears comeback attempt or something equally important.

(i realized as i typed that sentence that i spend the majority of my free time reading about or watching baseball. i am a hypocrite.)

(go yankees!)

20 MFD, thanks. I think there are gauntlets being thrown, but the throwers are not people with the stage of Feliciano at the Serious or Hendrix at Woodstock. And the current mainstream media seems far less interested in those folks than they do people like Britney Spears, as YFiB rightly points out. Unless there's a "sexy" component to "sell" it, like the racial tension in Jena, LA right now. Its not like those kids were convicted yesterday, but that's when the MSM seems to have finally decided to tell the world the story.

Sex and sizzle sells, thought, honor and integrity not so much. I guess that's a fairly smug and trite observation but it also maintains the underlying benefit of being true.

On a happier note: -(1.5) & +(5.5). In this way life is good, very very good.

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

0 Alex, what was the feeling in the Stadium in the 9th when Mo was pitching? Were folks worried about Mo, or cursing Mike Reilly, the awful home plate ump?

25 For what it's worth, you can consider me counter-COULTER (in fact if I cared at all what she said, I'd be anti-Coulter; not to be confused one bit with Auntie Coulter)

>;)

Or maybe we pray someone does - that way at least maybe something will get done about it.

Sorry, but I have to admit I did not even notice the typo when I read your post 20 (well said, BTW).

Also, nice to have you back, wsporter.

CNN just ran an interview with a 10 yr old boy who had asked Shelley Duncan for an autograph. The 10 yr old is a Red Sox fan. Shelley signed the kid's notebook, "Red Sox suck! Shelley Duncan".

Even the interviewer asked him, "As a Red Sox fan, why would you want a Yankee autograph?"

Here's hoping that Duncan and the rest of the team takes to tattooing that on some of RSN's (and like media here and there) foreheads in the very near future...

Seriously, I wouldn't be suprised if the mom tries to file a lawsuit against Shelley. The funny thing is that the autograph is actually worth more now than it ever would have been without Shelley's commentary.

If I was that mother, I'd tell all my friends and family who proudly sport "Yankees suck" or "Yankee Hater" gear (and their sad equivalents) to get rid of it, 'cuz when its directed the opposite way at your kid, even as a joke, it is not cool.

42 You gotta figure somebody either in the MLB office or one of the networks that broadcasts this "rivalry" has got to be licking their chops at the bred animosity, which will doubtless fuel anticipation, ratings and wanton consumerism to spite their "enemies"... That $#!+ will turn into blood money when somebody really gets hurt, though.

I say we fix them up with some lemon snowcones...

"Roger Clemens just completed six superlative innings against the hated Red Sox"

Why say "hated"? Is it really necessary?

Here's another line further down, though this one at least has a point behind it:

"Warming in the bullpen, Chamberlain blocked out the beer-soaked denizens of Fenway's bleachers who loathe everything Yankee."

Its great imagery, sure, and many of the bleacher sitters in Fenway are likely to be "beer-soaked" and probably do "loathe everything Yankee". But again, is it necessary? Can't the same point (Joba was really focused in a place its really hard to focus in) be made as descriptive, without having to resort to reminding us how much Red Sox fans hate the Yanks?

I'm going to stop now. This is what off-days do! =)

52 53 So I just went to SC expecting to find a listing of VOAF leaders for 2007, but I saw nothing. I think you two have some work to do. ;)

My wife, wonderful woman that she is, found a standard Yanks cap that has one slight alteration - the NY is pink with a white outline. Very classy, and that one is OK too.

I have no use for the orange and green and yellow caps though.

56 Nothing wrong with the cuties wearing a pink hat, but more often than not I see wankstas wearing them.

61 Thanks Alex. Those casual fans are going to regret not appreciating Mo when he's finally gone someday - if they still even care.