In baseball going 6 for 6 in a game is a virtually unmatched great feat. This is not so in baseball telecasting, it is greed!
As always in all 3 possibilities, ESPN has chosen “played out” Boston Red Sox vs New York Yankees match ups for their Sunday night telecasts.
Now all three New York Mets at Chicago Cubs games have been telecast by ESPN, the Mets win in the middle game was in a “screw the fans” 6 p.m. local start. not on a travel day either.
Quite suddenly it is 3, with 4 and 7 in the WNBA loss column.
The Indiana Fever handed the Los Angeles Sparks their second straight defeat last night giving them 3 losses.
Meanwhile the Minnesota Lynx and New York Liberty won games to stand with 4 and 7 losses respectively.
Pretty soon I believe in a day or two the WNBA begins a lengthy break as some of their players will take part in the Olympic Games.
Tomorrow the answers to yesterday’s and today’s matching question will be answered.
The 1979 World Series was won by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 7 games vs the Baltimore Orioles.
This was the same result as 8 years earlier when the Pirates also prevailed in 7 games.
Each time the “Buccos” won game 7 at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore.
The odd year N.L. World Series titles of 1979 and 1981 ended with fly balls to the center fielder. Match the outfielder catching the last out with the player that flied out to end the World Series.
Choices: Omar Moreno, Pat Kelly, Ken Landreaux, Bob Watson.
The National League won the World Series in 4 straight seasons for the only time in history from (1979-1982).
The odd year N.L. triumphs ended on fly balls to the center fielder.
Meanwhile the even year victories were concluded with strikeouts.
Can you match the even year last out, pitcher with the batter who made the last out, striking out. Please put your answer in the comments section.
Gorman Thomas, Frank “Tug” McGraw, Bruce Sutter, Willie Wilson are the players involved.
After an easy ESPN “almost automatic” Cubs’ Monday night home win vs the Mets last night, the series resumes with another ESPN tilt tonight.
This one starts at 6 p.m. local time in Chicago.
Long ago television began to dictate starting times for games with little, if any regard for the fans.
The monster of greed that ESPN is does so with virtually meaningless regular games.
Someone start the process of tuning out this monolith before it swallows all of us.
Even if as a billion to one underdog, I succeed in exposing ESPN as a monster and people begin to tune it out, their alarmingly good commercial department will dig up not only Godzilla but Raymond Burr as well and spin it their way. Whoops I gave them an idea they will not need.
Yet try to watch less ESPN. You can do it. There is more in this life, trust me.
Yesterday, I saw the last half of a “Leave It To Beaver” episode in which Theodore “Beaver” Cleaver’s bicycle was stolen.
Seemingly never wrong wrong, “Ward Cleaver,” played by Hugh Beaumont, who also directed the episode, was a bit humbled as having forgotten to register and insure the bicycle.
Wife June, played by Barbara Billingsley, who famously talked “jive,” in one of many hilarious scenes in the 1980 movie “Airplane,” had to comfort him.
Tangental department: The great Muhammad Ali, whom we lost 6 weeks ago and in a large sense 3 decades ago from boxing’s brutality, started boxing after his bicycle was stolen from him.
A policeman named Joe Martin began the process. I do not care about, nor usually note a person’s skin color, but in this case a white officer (Martin) helped a young black male (Ali, bless his soul would joke “who are you calling boy?!” if I inserted that word instead of male) and that turned out well (maybe boxing and I detest it, largely due to what happened to Ali and others, caused heartbreak but it did “key” Ali’s road to being a world figure).
If only police and black males, for that matter, all people could start helping each other again! Minimum, stop hurting, and tragically in far too many cases, killing each other.
My green Raleigh bicycle was not as fancy as the one above, but would not it be great to be riding it again? “Look Ma, no hands!”
This month’s guest programmer on TCM is the superb actor, Louis Gossett Jr.
His first movie choice is the acclaimed “Blackboard Jungle.”
There will be comments from Mr. Gossett all night before and after his four movie selections.
I am going to watch until I fall asleep later. Keep cool and do the same.
At what point. if any will the Chicago Cubs win a game vs the new york Mets?
Last year, the Mets swept the Cubs in the NLCS and so far this season won all four games, albeit games played at the Mets’ home, Citi Field.
Tonight the Cubs host the Mets in the first game of a three game series at (as Lindsey Nelson might say,) Wrigley Field in Chicago.
The Mets will not sweep the Cubs in this series but will not get swept either.
Yesterday the Atlanta Dream coached by Michael Cooper, a great member of 5 Los Angeles Lakers’ title teams and the coach for both L.A. Sparks WNBA title teams, handed the Sparks just their second loss of the WNBA season.
Los Angeles still has a splendid (20-2) record, a start which ties the Houston Comets, the franchise that won the first four WNBA crowns for the best start in league history.
The Comets won the first four WNBA crowns (1997-2000) while the Sparks won the next two under coach Michael Cooper.
I recently met with some people who worked or still work in libraries, some of it on a volunteer bsasis.
They have inspired me with all there is to read, listen and learn as well as perhaps helping with a reading program.
Get a library card and there are movies and compact discs ready to be checked out for weeks at a time. After all, the libraries of today were once called “lending libraries.”
Years back the slogan was “a book for you, a book for me at the library.”
The library above, now the Grinton I. Will Yonkers Public Library was prominently displayed in the aforementioned library promotion. Good memory!
Andy B Sports 