One of those strange, lucky nights, when I had hockey on the brain. I ducked out to get a coffee around 4:30, and rather than zip over to my favorite Dunkin’ Donuts paradise, I stopped at the local Starbucks anticipating 10 minutes with the newspaper, something artery-hardening from the bakery case, and a [...]
Archive of entries posted on October 2006
3 Points, 1 Point
Poor Patty. He notches three assists in tonight’s shootout loss to the Predators, including flipping the puck to Gionta for the tying goal with 11 seconds left. In the shootout, after Erat scored the lone goal for the Preds, Patty dropped the puck, recovered enough to get a shot off but left [...]
The Caped Crusader
Just finished reading Rick Wakeman: The Caped Crusader, a semi-biography of the Yes keyboards player that covers his life from childhood through the “main sequence” of Yes albums ending with Going For The One. Found it on amazon.com through a used bookseller for about $30, which was significantly better than the occasional copy [...]
Say It Ain’t So, Joe
The New York papers are abuzz with rumors of Joe Torre’s imminent firing. I hope the reports of his coaching death are greatly exaggerated, because Torre was far from the one to blame for the Yankees’ post-season demise. He was handed a pitching staff that might have been young (as opposed [...]
The Young and the Restless
During our engineering conference this past week, I described advertising as repeated messages that make you buy things you didn’t know you needed. I don’t know what you call buying things you don’t need, and if I were to make a joke about it involving Yankees baseball management George Steinbrenner would fire [...]
Choking Into The Winter
Stick a fork in the Yankees. They’re doing their best Atlanta Braves imitation, consistently winning the division and then failing to advance in the post season. This season’s choke-fest, though, was spectacular: They went without a run for 20 consecutive innings. Want to call a turning point? [...]
