By Eric Wolf Schoen
Mets
There’s nothing better than good competitive baseball games. I like baseball, but won’t listen to mundane, boring games where there’s no action or no chance for my team to win. That was not the case this week when the Mets first played Atlanta then San Diego. They have the firepower but it just didn’t workout.
My favorite baseball game was in 1996 when I got to see the World Series winning game at the old Yankee Stadium. Just to be in a place with the excitement of the fans was breathtaking.
We ended up jumping over concrete and a fence to get out, but it was all part of the fun. Everyone should have the opportunity to attend a World Series winning game once in their life.
So what happened to the Mets. We are all use to their falling off the cliff after the first half of the season. But all they had to do is win one more game and we would have had Pennant fever. Why do they always fade when the pressure is on. I wish I had the answer.
Next year’s Mets team may be a lot different player wise with so many players having options in their contracts. Let’s hope they remain strong and get another chance at winning the big one.
By the way, what do you think of these video replays of questionable calls. Sometimes it feels like you are listening to a football game. I really never listened to them before. I have enough confidence in the umpires that these calls are not needed, but in this day and age where everything is questioned maybe we need to have every play reviewed.
Give the Mets a lot of credit. They came from being a nothing team to a competitive team. Yes, one day we will see that long sought after Mets vs. Yankees Subway series. Maybe next year. But for now let’s hope by the time you read this paper that the Yankees advance in the quest for the World Series so we will have one team from New York advance to the big game.
Sid Caesar School? Ruth Bader Ginsburg School?
The current Yonkers Board of Education has been in the mood to rename Yonkers schools. They want the schools in Yonkers to be reflective of the students they serve and the community. I have an idea. Name the new school on the old Leake and watts property which is going to be a Yonkers Public Public School the Sid Caesar School. Or the Ruth Bader Ginsburg School.
One in entertainment, one in law, both of these giants in their respective fields deserve a school in Yonkers named after them. This would also be representative of the role the Jewish Community has played in Yonkers. Go into any school building in Yonkers and chances are the plaque naming the school has members of the Jewish community listed on it.
Sid Caesar was born in Yonkers. Isaac Sidney Caesar (September 8, 1922 – February 12, 2014) was an American comic actor, comedian and writer. With a career spanning 60 years, he was best known for two 1950s live television series: Your Show of Shows (1950–1954), a 90-minute weekly show watched by 60 million people and its successor, Caesar’s Hour (1954–1957), both of which influenced later generations of comedians.Your Show of Shows and its cast received seven Emmy nominations between the years 1953 and 1954 and two wins. He also acted in movies; he played Coach Calhoun in Grease (1978) and its sequel Grease 2 (1982) and appeared in the films It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Silent Movie (1976), History of the World, Part I (1981), Cannonball Run II (1984), and Vegas Vacation (1997).
Caesar was considered a “sketch comic” and actor, as opposed to a stand-up comedian. He also relied more on body language, accents, and facial contortions than simply dialogue. Unlike the slapstick comedy which was standard on TV, his style was considered “avant garde” in the 1950s. He conjured up ideas and scene and used writers to flesh out the concept and create the dialogue. Writers who wrote for Caesar early in their careers included Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Larry Gelbart and Woody Allen.
His TV shows’ subjects included satires of real life events and people, and parodies of popular film genres, theater, television shows, and opera. But unlike other comedy shows at the time, the dialogue was sharper, funnier, and more adult-oriented. He was “best known as one of the most intelligent and provocative innovators of television comedy,” who some critics called “television’s Charlie Chaplin” and The New York Times refers to as the “comedian of comedians from TV’s early days.”
Need I tell you the influence of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the laws of this country? Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg ( March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020)was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020.She was nominated by President Bill Clinton to replace retiring justice Byron White and at the time was generally viewed as a moderate consensus-builder. She eventually became part of the liberal wing of the Court as the Court shifted to the right over time. Ginsburg was the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Court, after Sandra Day O’Connor. During her tenure, Ginsburg wrote notable majority opinions, including United States v. Virginia (1996), Olmstead v. L.C. (1999), Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc. (2000), and City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York (2005). Well worth of naming a school after her.
Phone Company…are you Kidding?
A friend’s landline went out. She relies on the phone as she is of fragile health. Who do you call when your phone goes out? It was a Monday night, and when she called the phone company and finally got through after a million prompts, they wanted to make an appointment for later in the week. She told them it was an emergency and they said they would send someone out but she needed to show documentation regarding her bad health. The man from India said if she didn’t, the technician would leave.
Who in the world is the phone company to ask for medical documentation? Is the man coming out to fix the phone a doctor able to decipher my friends needs. Shame on you phone company for making such a request.
A NOTE OF INTEREST: Average date in this country is. $91. That’s awfully inexpensive considering 2 steaks, a bottle of wine, dessert and entertainment!
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