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Time Machine

Okay, so if you could go back in time and attend any event at Yankee Stadium what would it be? The Louis-Schmelling rematch? Reggie’s three-dinger game? Chambliss’s pennant-winning homer game? Which one of these?

Oh, and speaking of randomness, let me just say this: If I could go back in time and visit any place in New York City, I’d go to the old Penn Station and the Polo Grounds.

Finally, if I could re-cast movie history, I’d have Sean Penn play Ty Cobb, not Tommy Lee Jones. And while we’re on Ron Shelton, I’d also have cast Gene Hackman play the lead role in Blaze, not Paul Newman. But more than anything I wish Art Carney had gotten the chance to reprise his stage role of Felix Unger in the movie version of The Odd Couple. Jack Lemmon was good in the movie, but man, Art Carney was in a league of his own.

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