>I Still Heart Jerry

>Another great quote.

“It’s fertile ground for a team’s growth and development. Sometimes fertile ground has fertilizer. Fertilizer is a good thing. It’s a good thing. You get the greatest results, get the most beautiful plants, when you put it in that type of fertile soil.”

Some people are saying he’s giving the fans crap. I don’t. I think he’s just saying it’s been a crappy year but there are some building blocks.

This team can go two ways. It’s kind of old. However there are Wright, Maine and OverReyes, and maybe Pelfrey has figured it out…and maybe Perez resigns, and maybe there’s enough to build around if Omar stops giving two year contracts to 44 year olds.

Thunderstorms tonight, and the Mariners come to Shea every 6 years so enjoy sitting there all night. Sure glad there’s no dome at Citi Field.

>George Carlin

>Baseball is played in a field. A field named after a bank. Citi Field. How quaint.

Football is played on a gridiron, in a stadium, sometimes called Soldier Field or War Memorial Stadium.

Baseball ends in September when you blow a seven game lead. Oops. We lost again!

Football begins in September and the season continues until the very last day when the New York Giants are named champions.

In baseball we ignore the New York Giants and pretend they never existed.

And in the words of George, the closer:

In football, the object is for the quarterback, otherwise known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his recievers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy’s defensive line.
In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! “I hope I’ll be safe at home!”


Rest in peace George, you shall be missed.

I Still Heart Jerry

Another great quote.

“It’s fertile ground for a team’s growth and development. Sometimes fertile ground has fertilizer. Fertilizer is a good thing. It’s a good thing. You get the greatest results, get the most beautiful plants, when you put it in that type of fertile soil.”

Some people are saying he’s giving the fans crap. I don’t. I think he’s just saying it’s been a crappy year but there are some building blocks.

This team can go two ways. It’s kind of old. However there are Wright, Maine and OverReyes, and maybe Pelfrey has figured it out…and maybe Perez resigns, and maybe there’s enough to build around if Omar stops giving two year contracts to 44 year olds.

Thunderstorms tonight, and the Mariners come to Shea every 6 years so enjoy sitting there all night. Sure glad there’s no dome at Citi Field.

George Carlin

Baseball is played in a field. A field named after a bank. Citi Field. How quaint.

Football is played on a gridiron, in a stadium, sometimes called Soldier Field or War Memorial Stadium.

Baseball ends in September when you blow a seven game lead. Oops. We lost again!

Football begins in September and the season continues until the very last day when the New York Giants are named champions.

In baseball we ignore the New York Giants and pretend they never existed.

And in the words of George, the closer:

In football, the object is for the quarterback, otherwise known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his recievers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy’s defensive line.
In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! “I hope I’ll be safe at home!”


Rest in peace George, you shall be missed.

>Yogi 1965

>
So I was trying to figure out why Yogi Berra played with the Mets for a month in 1965. Why sign in late April and play 4 games. Then he was cut. Whose choice?

So I’m looking up Yogi in Google News and I stumble across this:

Mets Say Berra’s Job Is Safe–Unless Fans Say Otherwise; Mets Say Public Opinion Can Decide Berra’s Fate

By JOSEPH DURSO

July 6, 1973, Friday

The mauled Mets return to New York today after a week of nightmares and will face Henry Aaron, the Atlanta Braves and new questions about Yogi Berra’s job which the management in sisted yesterday was safe for the time being

I guess things don’t really change.