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Manny’s VIP honor was a very bad call
Bill Reynolds
FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH:
Manny Ramirez as the centerpiece of the Red Sox’ tribute to the 2004 World Series team, the one that broke the 86-year drought?
The same Manny who abused performance-enhancing drugs and once quit his team?
The same Manny who was a one-dimensional player, and always seemed to dance to some private rhythm, damn the consequences?
Please.
And it’s great that Manny says he’s now found God and has seen the error of his younger ways. But to make him the centerpiece of the night the Sox honored the 2004 team? A misguided public-relations act by a franchise that doesn’t make very many of them.
The more the Aaron Hernandez story unfolds, the more chilling it becomes.
You know the 1960s are officially, over, Bunky, with the news that Mick Jagger is now a great-grandfather. Jumpin’ Jack Flash? Yeah, right.
Here’s betting the Sox will be in it right to the end, thanks to a division that’s mediocre at best.
QUIZ OF THE WEEK: Since the NBA/ABA merger in 1976, which NBA team has had the most consecutive playoff appearances? (Answer near the end of the column.)
LINE OF THE WEEK comes from Aqib Talib, the former Patriot, when asked who was the better quarterback, Peyton Manning or Tom Brady: “You gotta go Peyton Manning. Tom is a good friend of mine. What’s up, Tom baby.”
LINE OF THE WEEK II comes from Kanye West: “The Kardashians are an industry.”
No wonder the economy is in trouble, right?
Some perspective on Josh Fortune deciding to transfer out of PC with two years of eligibility remaining? There are more than 500 Division I college basketball players looking to transfer.
Praying for the Ping-Pong balls to come up the right way in the NBA lottery is a sucker bet.
Kind of like hoping the General Assembly is going to straighten out this state, but that’s another story.
The Spurs might not win the NBA title, but no other team plays better together than they do.
If I were running the circus, when a batter enters the batter’s box, there would be no stepping out.
Manny in a Mohawk is just the latest example of the great old Hunter S. Thompson line: “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”
The commercial for DirecTV where a doll-like woman is on wires might just be the worst one I’ve ever seen, and that’s saying something
.
$2 billion for the Clippers? I’m not real sure Rhode Island would get $2 billion if it were on the market.
The word is that Kealen Ives, the All-State basketball player from Classical who is off to prep school in the fall, is drawing some interest from Ed Cooley and the Friars.
You know it’s bad out there when you can’t even watch the previews, never mind the movies.
Dwyane Wade has more basketball lives than a cat.
You know the cultural barbarians have won the war, Bunky, with the news that a daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore now walks around Manhattan topless as some form of social statement.
Yeah, Ray Allen took a lot of grief when he left the Celtics, but who’s laughing now?
There’s no truth to the rumor that the Sox should have kept Jenny Dell and gotten rid of Will Middle-brooks.
Or that the speaker of the House in the General Assembly should be called the ringmaster.
One of the hot rumors is that the Cleveland Cavaliers want old friend Billy Donovan to be their next coach.
R.I.P. Kutsher’s, the last of the old-time “Borscht Belt” hotels in the Catskills, that was the inspiration for the movie “Dirty Dancing,” and one of the centerpieces for the summer basketball leagues so famous in the ’40s and the ’50s.
Kevin Garnett looked like he should be playing in an over-40 league instead of for the Nets in the playoffs.
Brendan DuBois writes very good crime novels set in New Hampshire’s Hampton Beach, and “Dark Harbor” is his latest.
This from the New York Daily News: Of the 17 active players who have 250 or more stolen bases, six of them are current Yankees, and another is suspended Yankee Alex Rodriguez.
And yeah, one of them is Jacoby Ellsbury.
I’m not real sure that hiding on the Internet behind a fake name and throwing verbal bombs at people is progress, but who knows?
QUIZ ANSWER: The Portland Trail Blazers with 21, from 1982 to 2003.
Keeping up with the Kardashians? I stopped trying a long time ago, Bunky.
Pennant races don’t get decided in May.
Bryce Cotton is ranked the 26th - best senior in the NBA Draft by Draft Express, and Billy Baron is 44th .
Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
The Hernandez saga is just the latest example.
There’s no truth to the rumor that if Clay Buchholz were a state right now, he’d be Rhode Island, messed up without much of a clue how to get straightened out.
breynold@providencejournal.com On Twitter: @breynolds401
...Gotta Love FriarTown...
Stay Thirsty My friends
He once had an awkward moment, just to see how it feels.
Manny’s VIP honor was a very bad call
Bill Reynolds
FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH:
Manny Ramirez as the centerpiece of the Red Sox’ tribute to the 2004 World Series team, the one that broke the 86-year drought?
The same Manny who abused performance-enhancing drugs and once quit his team?
The same Manny who was a one-dimensional player, and always seemed to dance to some private rhythm, damn the consequences?
Please.
And it’s great that Manny says he’s now found God and has seen the error of his younger ways. But to make him the centerpiece of the night the Sox honored the 2004 team? A misguided public-relations act by a franchise that doesn’t make very many of them.
The more the Aaron Hernandez story unfolds, the more chilling it becomes.
You know the 1960s are officially, over, Bunky, with the news that Mick Jagger is now a great-grandfather. Jumpin’ Jack Flash? Yeah, right.
Here’s betting the Sox will be in it right to the end, thanks to a division that’s mediocre at best.
QUIZ OF THE WEEK: Since the NBA/ABA merger in 1976, which NBA team has had the most consecutive playoff appearances? (Answer near the end of the column.)
LINE OF THE WEEK comes from Aqib Talib, the former Patriot, when asked who was the better quarterback, Peyton Manning or Tom Brady: “You gotta go Peyton Manning. Tom is a good friend of mine. What’s up, Tom baby.”
LINE OF THE WEEK II comes from Kanye West: “The Kardashians are an industry.”
No wonder the economy is in trouble, right?
Some perspective on Josh Fortune deciding to transfer out of PC with two years of eligibility remaining? There are more than 500 Division I college basketball players looking to transfer.
Praying for the Ping-Pong balls to come up the right way in the NBA lottery is a sucker bet.
Kind of like hoping the General Assembly is going to straighten out this state, but that’s another story.
The Spurs might not win the NBA title, but no other team plays better together than they do.
If I were running the circus, when a batter enters the batter’s box, there would be no stepping out.
Manny in a Mohawk is just the latest example of the great old Hunter S. Thompson line: “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”
The commercial for DirecTV where a doll-like woman is on wires might just be the worst one I’ve ever seen, and that’s saying something
.
$2 billion for the Clippers? I’m not real sure Rhode Island would get $2 billion if it were on the market.
The word is that Kealen Ives, the All-State basketball player from Classical who is off to prep school in the fall, is drawing some interest from Ed Cooley and the Friars.
You know it’s bad out there when you can’t even watch the previews, never mind the movies.
Dwyane Wade has more basketball lives than a cat.
You know the cultural barbarians have won the war, Bunky, with the news that a daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore now walks around Manhattan topless as some form of social statement.
Yeah, Ray Allen took a lot of grief when he left the Celtics, but who’s laughing now?
There’s no truth to the rumor that the Sox should have kept Jenny Dell and gotten rid of Will Middle-brooks.
Or that the speaker of the House in the General Assembly should be called the ringmaster.
One of the hot rumors is that the Cleveland Cavaliers want old friend Billy Donovan to be their next coach.
R.I.P. Kutsher’s, the last of the old-time “Borscht Belt” hotels in the Catskills, that was the inspiration for the movie “Dirty Dancing,” and one of the centerpieces for the summer basketball leagues so famous in the ’40s and the ’50s.
Kevin Garnett looked like he should be playing in an over-40 league instead of for the Nets in the playoffs.
Brendan DuBois writes very good crime novels set in New Hampshire’s Hampton Beach, and “Dark Harbor” is his latest.
This from the New York Daily News: Of the 17 active players who have 250 or more stolen bases, six of them are current Yankees, and another is suspended Yankee Alex Rodriguez.
And yeah, one of them is Jacoby Ellsbury.
I’m not real sure that hiding on the Internet behind a fake name and throwing verbal bombs at people is progress, but who knows?
QUIZ ANSWER: The Portland Trail Blazers with 21, from 1982 to 2003.
Keeping up with the Kardashians? I stopped trying a long time ago, Bunky.
Pennant races don’t get decided in May.
Bryce Cotton is ranked the 26th - best senior in the NBA Draft by Draft Express, and Billy Baron is 44th .
Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
The Hernandez saga is just the latest example.
There’s no truth to the rumor that if Clay Buchholz were a state right now, he’d be Rhode Island, messed up without much of a clue how to get straightened out.
breynold@providencejournal.com On Twitter: @breynolds401
...Gotta Love FriarTown...
Stay Thirsty My friends
He once had an awkward moment, just to see how it feels.