- 06:55 PM
- 11/05/24
Where did this piano story come from? I've never heard of the Curse being music-related. This doesn't have anything to do with the piano, but there is a Curse music-relation of sorts. The Sox owner, Harry Frazee, sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees for $425,000 in 1918 largely so that he could finance sending the musical No, No, Nannette to Broadway, thus beginning the curse. But everyone within 500 miles of Boston knows this. I just really like writing No, No, Nannette.
posted by MarkAnd at 03:24 PM on February 25, 2002
Wow, that list is really bad. The #1 book isn't even the best book about Muhammad Ali (I'll take Remnick's King of the World). And what's with Plimpton's Paper Lion being left off?
posted by MarkAnd at 11:01 AM on February 20, 2002
At least in the NFL, there's a chance for parity. Any team can win any year (which is the only kind of parity anybody cares about anyway) which isn't something you can say about the NHL, the NBA or MLB. And I think it's tough to argue that the NFL is the way it is (i.e., fans in any town can honestly believe that their team is actually rebuilding) for any reason other than league policy (salary cap, revenue sharing, strength scheduling, etc.).
posted by MarkAnd at 10:11 AM on February 05, 2002
Dee Brown! That was the year the contest started to suck -- the year he won.
posted by MarkAnd at 10:56 AM on February 01, 2002
I think a lot of the players look at it as their best chance of getting hurt during all-star weekend. There's pretty much no chance of injury during the actual game -- there's only defense in the last two minutes of the game. If I were a player, I'm not sure I'd want to participate; where's the upside? (It's also possible that the owners don't want their superstars messing around for no reason.)
posted by MarkAnd at 09:16 AM on February 01, 2002
ALL SHOUTING, ALL THE TIME!
Oh, good. I can't wait until he's a successful comedian and I get to read his tell-all concerning life on the road: WHY THE BUS KEEP RUNNING OVER MY FOOT, AND OTHER STORIE FROM FUNY STRAIGHT-SHOOTER.