Daily Archives: August 14, 2005

We’ll be back in action tomorrow. In the meantime, here’s another open thread for ya.

I’ve been a little out of it for the past few days. As a gentle summer rain cools Vermont off this morning, I’m catching up on the latest dish in the papers. Here’s some Sunday tidbits I’ve come across:

From the Times:

[Bernie] Williams’s day started with a flat tire on his drive to the ballpark, an anecdote Manager Joe Torre shared. “It was perfect, but that’s Bernie,” he said. “That’s the way we categorize everything that involves him: that’s Bernie. Bernie being Bernie.”

…”I know I’ve got a lot to catch up for the year, as far as numbers are concerned,” said Williams, who has nine homers and a .245 batting average. “But hopefully they’ll see a value in me being on the team, more valuable than individual numbers. They’ll see that in a given situation, I can help the team win in that fashion.”

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