Hat Update

Stupid is wearing the hat at the Knicks game at MSG.

Knicks are getting mauled by LeBron and Co.

Film at 11.

Nice Hat (Not)

Is it over?

Like I said, Christmas in Beirut. Yankees win again (good thing they spent all that dough).

Anyway, check out Deadspin for another guys opinion. I don't drop F-bombs so I digress...

So as the floats drift by, can you explain why the purple-lipped A-Rod always looks like an A-Hole? And is he dating Jay-Z now?




And don't the Yankees wear Midnight Blue? I guess the black gangsta look is in.

Go away.

On the 6th Game

A prediction:

Phillies 5
Yankees 4

We're going to game 7!

I have no glee in either team winning. It's like Christmas in Beirut. Empty.

At least once this is over I can begin pontificating about free agency and the sun rising over Citifield once again. Ahhh, dreams.

Busy Busy

Today is busy. Besides the whole church in the AM thing.

Before I go on, rained a little last night, but the Halloween festivities in the local area went on as planned. My legs felt like a couple of water-logged stumps by the end of the evening. Couldn't make it past the 4th in the rain delayed game three. Yankees go up 2-1. A-Rod plunked twice.

Baseball tryouts today for our 12U and 11U programs from noon to 4PM. Gotta go get the fields ready in a few. Then it's travel hoops practice from 4:30-6PM. So I gotta mosey.

Check me out later, maybe I'll give a recap. Maybe not.

I Love a Good A-Rod Story

And this is a good one:

I AM A CENTAUR!


HAHAHAHAHA

Happy Samhain.

Even Up Redux on Planet Slam

I would be a bad host, particularly in the eyes of the Yankee fans who wait patiently for my blah-gs if I didn't mention that the team from NY beat the Phillies last night. Great pitching all around. Pedro was all anyone could ask for and Burnett put on his best ever in a big spot.

Is Girardi's plan to go Mo for a deuce everytime it's close? Bad plan Joe. He's not a wizard, folks.

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Now it's the night before Halloween, so here's a redux of last year's post. Enjoy!

So what did you call it when you were a kid? The night before Halloween I mean...

In my neck of the woods, we called it GATE NIGHT - and people give me a quizzical look when I say that name. And apparently, the yuppies and new citizens of my little slice 'o' heaven in North Jersey have won out because the kids call it GOOSEY NIGHT, which I always found a little fem. But c'est la vie, right?

So I started asking people at work, around town at the Shop-Rite, wherever - "what did you call it oh so long ago?" So here is a list:

GATE NIGHT

GOOSEY NIGHT

MISCHIEF NIGHT

EVILS NIGHT

CABBAGE NIGHT

HELL NIGHT

Let me know if you have a good one. Funny, I had a friend named Flanagan and he called it 'same as every other night - and I still have to get me Da' at the precinct house!'. Poor Flanagan.

And a word to the wise... even though I've grown up, I still play the game tonight. On defense. Like Jack Lambert, but better looking.

SoulSlam 2008.

Full Speed Ahead

Cause a diesel engine named Cliff Lee came runnin' through the Bronx last night and dropped off a can 'o' whoopass on the EE (Evil Empire).

Since I am like Switzerland on this one, here's some thoughts:

Chase Utley is an old school ballplayer, like a modern day Ty Cobb

The Phillies can hit!

CC pitched well, just not well enough

Jeter is money

A-Rod looked a little tight in Game 1

There sure were a lot of empty seats at the House that the Taxpayers of NY Built

Chicken or Egg - Has Giradi lost confidence in the bullpen or has the bullpen lost confidence in Girardi

Uncle Charlie looks like a good guy to have a beer with

What was Matsui doing on the infield grass?

Game 2 tonight. Pedro vs. AJ. One for the ages? All the Yankee fans are pretty boisterous about a win tonight. We'll see...