A Chance Meeting Inspires Thoughts About Morris Crute
The name on the man’s badge was familiar and somewhat unusual.
It was Crute and I asked the man if he was related to Morris Crute.
Morris Crute led Yonkers High School to a basketball crown in 1973.
Mr. Crute also hit a “Jerry West” type, long, desperation shot to tie a post-season game.
In West’s case it was in the third game of the 1970 NBA Finals but his team lost both the game and the series.
Crute’s shot was in a must win game for Yonkers High and they went on to stop a great high school player, college title winner with Marquette and NBA finalist, Bernard Toone, in their title win.
Coffee, tea, bakery items, sandwiches or specials, my suggestion for a truly great place is Panera Bread. There are so many delicious options there and this is less a review, than telling about a true personal favorite. There are many good reasons to try Panera Bread.
I now frequent the Panera Bread stores in both Yonkers and Scarsdale, New York each offering a great atmosphere and a truly personable staff.
Breakfast is my favorite and having experienced all the “franchise” establishments, I find Panera Bread to be the best. I like tea but am one of the many people who “must” have coffee; and at “Panera” one can choose from hazelnut (my choice), light and dark roast.
The price is reasonable as I usually get a medium coffee and a bagel with butter for about four dollars. At times, I order a delicious cinnamon chip with my coffee for an additional dollar. A “must” for coffee drinkers, free refills are available.
I have tried the soup and sandwich and other specials for lunch. They are excellent. Often included with the meal are delicious potato chips. Whether for lunch or dinner and in my case breakfast, one can choose items from the bakery.
My friend orders a cheese danish for breakfast the two time a week I join him at the wonderful Panera Bread in Scarsdale, New York. He does two things that I should do. He exercises at a nearby gym and he goes to Panera Bread each weekday.
Atmosphere, a friendly, efficient staff and great food. I wish I could be at Panera Bread each day and now come close to doing so.
“You WASN’T listening,” those were the words and disgraceful grammar (he is not the only one with such a malady, yet speaks over the airwaves with great financial compensation) of Stephen A. Smith, as he ridiculed a caller.
There is SO much wrong with all of it, few things illustrating it in sharper focus, than Stephen A. Smith.
When future sociologists, historians, archaeologists sort out what went wrong here, the fact those in charge sensing profit, put one as blatantly, arrogant and wrong as Stephen A. Smith in a position of power, will be among the exhibits of our failure as a society.
The Dodgers faced the Indians in the 1920 World Series.
Cleveland won the series, a best of nine, five games to two.
Stan Coveleski won three games in the series.
Speaking of three, the Cleveland Indians Bill Wambsgnass recorded an unassisted triple play.
The Los Angeles Dodgers are very likely to have the best record in baseball and thus the home advantage in any rounds of the upcoming baseball tournament.
L.A. sans a pennant or title since 1988, has a fantastic record of (74-31).
It is far from certain they will be in the ’17 W.S. however, in the near future, I will look at some of the past history involving World Series contested between the Dodgers and some of the top American League contenders.
Another day to note mistakes, oh Tim Kurkjian, the Yankees general manager is Brian Cashman, not Frank Cashman. In fact, the great general manager was Frank CASHEN.
Wikipedia states the 1968 title game Colts’ rout of the Browns was January 5th, 1969 when in fact it was December 29, 1968. However, the researcher, who pointed it out to me, praises Wikipedia for mostly great, accurate information.
Some dispute that.
FOOTBALL is prominently displayed in the casino circa 1947 in the movie “Bugsy.” I do not think it was a big betting proposition at that point in time.
Today Tim Raines went into the not so sacred Baseball “Hall.”
I am happy for “Rock” and below a recollection written earlier this year.
Last night in Montreal, Tim Raines newly and in my opinion, rightfully elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, received a great ovation when he was introduced before a National Hockey League game between the Canadiens and Florida Panthers.
I could not help but recall a night nearly 30 years earlier, Saturday May 2, 1987, when I spoke with the always friendly and personable Mr. Raines via phone from a New York City hotel room where he and the baseball Montreal Expos were staying.
Earlier in the day, Raines had returned to baseball with an incredible performance in his first game of the season.
We shared a laugh as we speculated that with the Canadiens easing to a 7th game “quarters” victory, Raines’ exploits would be relegated to page four.
Both the Cleveland Indians and Kansas City Royals are on lengthy winning streaks. The former has won eight in a row and leads the latter, which has won nine in a row, by two games.
The defending A.L. champion, Indians have a 4 game lead over the Minnesota Twins in the A.L. Central, as play begins today.
Cleveland, so close to ending their 68 year title drought last season, is the favorite in the one eighth/division.
Here are some thoughts after watching the fabulous movie, “Witness For The Prosecution” on TCM.
First off, continued kudos to hosts Robert Osborne and Sally Field in setting up the movies in “The Essentials” series on Saturday nights.
Field, whose mother studied with the fabulous Charles Laughton, cited Mr. Laughton as the best of all English speaking actors. In my opinion, if Mr. Laughton is not the best, it does not take much time to call his name.
In the film, actor John Williams is involved in a case involving a woman named “French” and years later played the other “Mr. French” on the television show, “Family Affair,” after Sebastian Cabot, the first “Mr.French” departed the show.
A stretch but here goes: Tyrone Power’s character in “Witness for the Prosecution,” remembers September 3rd as the day he was wed. Years later, “The Third of September” is a day “remembered” in “The Temptations” classic hit “Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone.”
Do the Chicago Cubs have the N.L. Central lead to stay?
Despite so often wrong (a person on the phone said “wrong,” literally as I typed the word) and sure, WFAN’s Mike Francesa saying the Cubs would ease to the division title, I also believe they will win it, perhaps easily.
After that if it happens, they will be a viable contender in the baseball tournament.
Andy B Sports 