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October 23, 2004
'I've waited for this moment for 50 years': More World Series stuff. You don't get a lot of baseball coverage in the British press but the Times is doing quite a bit this week. They're getting Bill Bryson to cover it for them which should be interesting.
"My father disdained football and once memorably described it as a game played and watched by people for whom the invention of Velcro fastenings was a godsend."
posted by yerfatma at 05:31 PM on October 23, 2004
when Janet Jackson exposed an unfettered breast while performing onstage with Justin Timberlake (which actually makes for two tits out onstage by some counts) Quite possibly the best sentence ever written.
posted by wfrazerjr at 09:31 AM on October 24, 2004
Beautiful. Thanks.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 12:56 PM on October 25, 2004
Bryson, red sox fan says.... The last time this occurred was in 1986 when they were just one pitch away from winning the whole thing — one pitch! — and a batted ball rolled through the legs of a Red Sox infielder and they somehow then managed to throw the whole thing away.... so he blames Buckner but hey, the way he has written that ignores the fact that the game was tied when Buckner made his error in game 6, 1986 WS. So really, they were one pitch away from winning when Carter singled, and Mitchell singled and again when Knight singled, and still one pitch away when Bob Stanley unleashed a wild pitch to allow the game to be tied.... so Buckner's error was a the cherry on top a bad play sundae but it really didn't 'unwin' the game for them as much as the successful completion of the play would have allowed the game to continue into the 11th inning and is not the single contributor that turned a Red Sox victory into Red Sox failure. /Bob Buckner apologetics
posted by gspm at 04:24 PM on October 25, 2004
Awesome link. I'll have to add Bryson to all the other coverage I've been consuming so far.