Daily Archives: July 2, 2009

CC and the Yanks look to make it eight straight tonight. Rain could be a factor. Let’s hope it doesn’t mess with a nice winning streak.

Let’s Go Yan-Kees.

What’s the rumpus?

Over at the Baseball Analysts, Rich Lederer has a great post on the 50th anniversary of Vin Scully’s Greatest Call Ever.

Just go already. And enjoy.

A young woman sat next to me on the subway this morning. I asked her how the death of Michael Jackson has hit her.

“Does it make you feel nostalgic?”

“I don’t have time to be nostalgic.”

This is morbid but Jackson’s death spells big TV ratings and special commerative issues of magazines like Time and People. What other icons would generate this kind of reaction? Madonna? Paul McCartney? Tom Hanks? I suppose part of it would have to be someone dying young, or in an untimely fashion.

Whadda ya hear, whadda ya say?

Good venue out in Brooklyn tonight:

Gelf’s Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, July 2, at 7:30 p.m., with a night dedicated to baseball. At this free monthly event in DUMBO, Brooklyn, hosted by Gelf and Jan Larsen Art, Scott Price, Selena Roberts, and members of the New York Daily News sports investigative team will read from and talk about their work, and take questions. Price has the wrenching tale of the life and death of a minor-leaguer. Roberts will speak about her controversial biography of Alex Rodriguez. And the Daily News team will discuss its exposé of Roger Clemens and steroids in baseball.