stuff in my head

A couple nights ago, the Yanks handily beat the Toronto Blue Jays 7 - 0. After breaking open a 2 - 0 game in the 7th inning with 4 runs, Ken Singleton (who I really like as an announcer) noted that this is how the Yanks used to win games in the late 90's, good pitching, wearing out the opposing staff with patient at bats, then delivering the KO against the bullpen. It was an astute observation by a genuinely knowledgeable announcer. The next day, the Yanks pulled off an unlikely comeback win against the same Blue Jays, getting a late home run from Hideki Matsui to tie the game and winning on a bases loaded single by relatively unknown Felix Escalona, who only entered the game to pinch run in the eighth. The following morning, Mike (Greenburg) and Mike (Golic) of ESPN radio noted that "this is how the Yanks used to win games in the late 90's, all those dramatic comebacks". OK, obviously someone is wrong here, and to the surprise of no one, it is the two amatuers on ESPN. Clearly neither of these two watched the Yankees in the late 90's or they would know that the recipie for success was exactly as Singleton had described it. Get a lead, get into the opponents bullpen, knock them around, bring in Mo, game over. There was rarely a need for late inning heroics. I suppose M&M were thinking about the Aaron Boone game, which was niether the late 90's, nor a championship year. This is the problem with sports talk radio. These guys have to fill all this air time with something, and the fact is, there isn't that much to talk about. So, what the hell, they figure, lets just make stuff up. So now there are people who think that's really how it happend in the 90's, because M&M just said so, and it saves them the trouble of doing any thinking of thier own. I really have to get my car's CD player fixed.

On to the next topic, my underwear. I noticed today while I was taking one of my many, many bathroom breaks at work, that my Jockey boxer briefs are labeled M/M/M, which indicates, in 3 languages (English, French, Spanish) that they are medium. I submit that there could simply be one M, and the reader of the tag could interpret it as he sees fit. This tri-lingual underwear labeling is just another instance of the enormous consumer benefits of NAFTA, yet some people still point to minor nuisances, like massive economic strife, tidal waves of illegal immigration and lawlessness in US-Mexico border towns, in their derision of the illegal and perverse legislation. Some people just don’t get it.

The French now think they have proof that Lance Armstrong used EPO, a performance enhancing drug, during his first tour victory. Never mind that every protocol in drug testing was ignored. After all this time, you would think the one thing the French could do is be gracious losers.

From the NY Daily News: Goldman Sachs Group Inc. agreed on Tuesday to build a $2 billion world headquarters near the World Trade Center site.

The deal came after months of negotiations with state and city officials who dropped plans to build a tunnel near the site after the firm objected and lured it with $1.6 billion in post-Sept. 11 Liberty Bonds.

Bless those Goldman Sachs boys. If anyone needs a 1.6 billion dollar handout, it’s those hardworking, minimum wage making bond traders.

Also from the Daily News: The Manhattan Container Store now offers a "Go Shop! Scan and Deliver" service, which allows for cart-free shopping and home delivery. For $15, shoppers searching for organization tools can use a scanning device to choose merchandise. Following the spree, customers take their scanners - which look like over-sized Palm Pilots - to the checkout counter, pay and give their address for the goods to be delivered home.

See that? With a little imaginative thinking, we can all find ways to have top flight jobs, like “crap store delivery person”, in the post NAFTA economy. By the way, what do you think the delivery success rate in NY will be?

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