It
sounds like the beginning of a dirty joke. “Four tourists, a panhandler wearing
a yarmulke, and a baseball player were out in front of a hotel at 2:40 in the morning . . . “
But
it’s real, on the front page of both Detroit newspapers, headlines on
MLB.com. Delmon Young had gone out to sample the beat nightlife of New York City after checking in with his
Tiger teammates at the Hilton on Sixth Avenue. He came back drunk, in the wee hours of this morning, there
was a scuffle on the sidewalk, and he did the worst thing you can do in New York: called a Jew a Jew.
Young was arrested and charged with aggravated assault. The cops are also talking hate crime, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are noticeable by
their silence, and Young, this generation's John Rocker, isn’t playing tonight. (Where, actually, after the
publicity, will he be able to play besides his home park?)
So
they’re taking on the Yankees with 24 players. But one of them is Justin
Verlander.
JV
left after six with a 6-5 lead. Fernando Benoit gave up the tying run in the
eighth. In the ninth, Fernando Villareal wild-pitched Curtis Granderson, the
winning run, to third on ball four. He scored on a passed ball.
Everyone
in the pen, unless they’re Dotel or Phil Coke, is named Fernando.
Csey
Stengel said, of the 1962 Mets, losers 120 times in their first season, that
they’ve found ways to lose games that haven’t been invented yet.
This
one’s probably been invented already, but I never saw it before.
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