Sunny day.  Sweepin’ the clouds away.  On my way to where the air is sweet.  Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?  How to get to Sesame Street?  -Sesame Street Theme

Public Service Announcement:  Back in 1969, Sesame Street hit the airwaves.  Here we are, more than forty years later, and the Muppets characters created by Jim Henson are still going strong.  Still teaching us right from wrong.  Bang the gong!  Now I like Kermit, Oscar ans Big Bird  as much as the next guy, but my favorite parts were when athletes made their guest appearances.  After the jump, enjoy some of the best athlete appearances on Sesame Street of all time:             Read More »

I’ve looked at life from both sides now.  From win and lose and still somehow, it’s life’s illusions I recall.  I really dont know life at all.  -Joni Mitchell

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  Think Twoface.  Think Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Gilligan.  Think Sybil.  Think those folks there.  You have regular season Joe Torre, and then you have Post Season Joe Torre.  With six you get eggroll.  The regular-season version of Joe Torre has been known to cut his veteran starting pitchers some slack.  He’s been prone to leaving guys in close games in order to preserve the opportunity for them to earn their all mighty win.  Guys like Roger Clemens.  Guys like David Cone.  Guys line Andy Pettitte.  But come playoff time, abracadabra, presto-chango, it’s a new Joe Torre entirely.       Read More »

I’m winning.  I’m winning.  I’m winning.  I’m winning and I don’t intend on losing again.  -Santana

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  Move over Phil Jackson, there’s a new sheriff in town.  And I want the rest of you cowboys to know something, there’s a new sheriff in town.  And his name is Joe Torre.  So y’all be cool.  Right on.  Right on Joe Torre.  The Dodgers’ win yesterday was their 50th win of the season.  That’s the most in the majors.  That’s also the fifth time in his managerial career that Joe Torre’s team was the first  team to reach 50 wins in a season.  How about that? How about this?  Torre’s total is the most for a major-league manager since Walter Alston did it six times in his 23 years with the Dodgers.  Joe Girardi?  Feh!

Peace out homies.  Six two and Even!

Vote, baby vote.  Vote, baby vote.  Are you registered baby?  -Dee Lite

Public Service Announcement: Ok, here we go!  Everybody’s yakking about Manny Ramirez making the All Star team.  Everybody’s quacking about Manny making the All Star team.  Everybody’s talking smacking about Manny making the All Star team.  Bud Selig is weighing his options:  “I’m going to think about that.  It bothers me that someone would cheat.”  It didn’t seem to bother him when folks were hitting the ball a country mile while Major League Baseball was hitting the jackpot.  Joe Torre disagrees with Wilfred Brimley.  Joe Torre does not think it’s the right thing to do and the right way to do it:  “He didn’t earn, other than from his reputation, to be, this year, in the All-Star game.”  Funny, I remember back in 2001 Torre picking seven Yankees to the All Star team.  Seven!  Picking them for their reputation.  Mike Stanton?  Honestly.  Bernie Williams:  “‘You take care of him and do everything in your power to make him look good, and he’s going to do everything in his power to make you look good.”  I guess Manny carrying the Dodgers on his back into the playoffs didn’t make Joe look good enough.  So Binky, you’re all fed up with state of baseball?  You’ve had enough of the hypocrisy?  You wanna make a difference?  You wanna make a stand?  Huh?  Do ya?  Good.  Vote Manny! 

Peace out homies.  Six two and Even!

Don’t let them say your hair’s too long ’cause I don’t care, with you I can’t go wrong.  Then put your little hand in mine, there ain’t no hill or mountain we can’t climb.  -Sonny and Cher

Public Service Announcement: Ok, here we go!  At least A-Broad gots somebody in his corner.  Gots him some David Wells in his corner.  It’s all over the New York tabloids.  The man who lost a fight to some kid from Yonkers is fighting Joe Torre.  The man who broke his hand in a street fight in Ocean Beach is fighting Joe Torre.  So give me a stage where this bull here can rage, and though I could fight, I’d much rather recite.  That’s entertainment.     Read More »

It’s the dirty story of a dirty man and his clinging wife doesn’t understand.  It’s a steady job but he wants to be a paperback writer.  -The Beatles

Public Service Announcement: Ok, here we go!  Say it ain’t so Joe.  According to the New York Post, Joe Torre has a new book out.   According to the Daily News, Joe was a bitter man by the time he left the Yankees.   According to both of them, Torre rips A-Rod and the Yankees brass a new one.  This is gonna be good.     Read More »

Don’t you know I’m still standing.  Better than I ever did.  Looking like a true survivor.  Feeling like a little kid.  I’m still standing.  After all this time.  Picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind.  -Elton John

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  What’s that?  Uh — Playoffs?  Don’t talk about — playoffs?  You kidding me?  Playoffs?  I just hope we can win a game!   On Sunday night, the New York Yankees will play their final game at The House That Ruth Built.   Read More »

Theeeee Yankees lose.  Again.  Ha ha ha!  A-Broad right back where he left off.  Hitting a bomb when it just doesn’t matter.  Maybe Carl was right:

Peace out homies.  Six two and Even!

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.  -Henry David Thoreau

1.  Kobe Bryant headlines the list of 17 players who are expected to report for U.S. National Team minicamp this weekend in Las Vegas.  What’s the over/under on when Kobe begs to get traded to Argentina?  Don’t cry for me Argentina.  Kobe will cry for anybody.       Read More »

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.  Imagination is more important than knowledge.  Knowledge is limited.  Imagination encircles the world.  -Albert Einstein

1.  We’re not hearing too many Fire Joe chants anymore, are we?  Just so you know, when Joe Torre won his 2,000th game as a manager, he became the first person in baseball history with 2,000 managerial wins and 2,000 hits as a player.  I’m a player and I’m playin’ jus’ the bass.  I’m a player and I’m playin’ jus’ the bass.      Read More »