Fox Trot 08/15/2010

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For anyone confused, Jason is channeling this YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSNhk5ICTI

08/15/2010

"It Was Twenty Years Ago Today..."

Youppi! is currently the official mascot for the Montreal Canadiens, but once upon a time he was the longtime mascot of Montreal Expo.



Youppi! was the first mascot to be thrown out of a Major League Baseball game!



On August 23, 1989, in the 11th inning, while atop the visitors' dugout, Youppi! took a running leap, landed hard and noisily on its roof, and then snuck into a front row seat. Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda complained to the umpires and Youppi! was ejected (though he would later return and be confined to the home team's dugout roof. )


The Dodgers eventually won the game, 1 to 0, in 22 innings!! Official attendance was 21,742 and the game lasted for 5 hours and 14 minutes.



Orel Hershiser started for the Dodgers, whose line up included Willie Randolph, Eddie Murray and Mike Scioscia.



Pascual Perez, in his final season with the Expos, started the game. The Expos boasted Larry Walker, Andres Galarraga, Tim Raines, and Tim Wallach as starters with Marquis Grissom pinch hitting late in the game.

A-Rod Backs Stimulus

A-Rod Backs Stimulus

Says Economy Needs Shot in Arm

President Barack Obama picked up support for his stimulus package from an unexpected source today as Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez said that he was "totally in favor of stimulus."

"Sometimes when you have to get the job done, you need a shot in the arm," said Mr. Rodriguez at a press conference in the parking lot of Yankee Stadium. "This stimulus sounds like it could be that injection."

The slugger, known to his fans and detractors alike as A-Rod, said that the U.S. economy may not seem very muscular at the moment, but that "juicing the economy" could change that overnight.

"Mark my words," he said. "If the economy gets the right injection, its muscles will bulge to monstrous proportions."

Mr. Rodriguez's words were in stark contrast with remarks made last week by another athlete, swimmer Michael Phelps, who said that the economy "just needs to chill."

"As far as the economy goes, I'm comfortably numb about it," Mr. Phelps said. "Dude, did I just say that out loud?"

At his press conference today, Mr. Rodriguez bristled when asked questions about steroid use, at one point throwing a car at a reporter.

*from The Borowitz Report

"Because there's no crying in baseball. THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL! No crying!"

Clemens heartbroken over Yankee Stadium snub

Estranged former Yankee Roger Clemens was "heartbroken" when his former team left him out of Sunday night's Stadium-farewell festivities, which included a video montage honoring the Bronx Bombers' greatest pitchers - but not him, a relative told The Post yesterday. Clemens was sitting at home in hurricane-ravaged Texas, in front of a battery-operated television on his living room couch, when the team delivered a final crushing blow to its former star. Clutching wife Debbie's hand on one side and mother-in-law Jan Wild's on the other, Clemens tuned in to his final team's last home game hoping for some recognition for helping win two World Series titles, Wild said. But that Rocket never launched. When the team played the video celebrating its greatest players at every position, the steroid-scandal-scarred Clemens was nowhere to be seen. "Debbie and I held his hand while we watched the game, and he was heartbroken," said Wild, 70. "Not mad. He still loves baseball and the Yankees, but it was sad what they did to him."

As Artie likes to say "Wah!"

From the "New York Post"

"It was twenty years ago today..."

So today is the "anniversary" of my brain surgery. I have lived longer without the tumor than I did with it.

There have been dizzyingly high highs and depressingly low lows...but it all got me to where I am today and I wouldn't change a thing.

I am such a lucky man. I worship my wife. I adore my children. I am blessed with a caring family, a phenomenal career and wonderful friends..

I love my life.

Double Meaning...

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