April 6, 2006
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The Daily News
1 It's hard to believe it's already baseball season. We are raining almost every single minute of every single day this year, and it's just weird to see that they already had Opening Night at Oakland the other night.
2 And as difficult as it is to get into it this year, I must confess that I always become reborn the second baseball arrives with the Spring.
3 I was all into it the other day, turned on the Giants/Padres game only to find it had rained out.
4 There aren't that many rainouts to begin with, but I was all pumped and ready, only to read there was a rainout IN San Diego, where I think the last time it rained, Taft was President.
5 Now that's a LONG time.
6 And with the whole steroid thing going on, it's really tough trying to get into the game. But I KNOW that if I don't, I may wind up with a season like last season, where I really didn't follow my favorite sport all summer.
7 So I think I'm going to jump right in with everything I have this year, and try to love the game that has defined much of my life.
8 Diamonds aren't just a girl's best friend.
9 Moving on: our rehearsal yesterday was just really fun. We were able to re-do a couple of classic songs from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and with the eight microphones, it all is sounding much, much more professional.
10 We also worked on the immortal Gee, Officer Krupke from West Side Story, a song I've just never had the pleasure of putting together, and our guys nailed it.
11 It's just a joy doing all those wonderful songs, as well as trying out different songs. It's like a good shopping day; some fit, some don't, some are heaven, some a catastrophe. But meanwhile, the road there is sure an interesting one.
12 There's no business like show business.
13 So yeah, Spring has sprung, most assuredly. Well, maybe it seems that it's just sprung a leak, but it has sprung anyway. Soon, the birds will be chirping, the cherry trees blossoming, and the Spring musical playing amid baseball games, longer days, and purple lilacs blooming in the drenched green hills.
14 May I share a poem with you.
in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman
whistles far and wee
and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring
when the world is puddle-wonderful
the queer
old balloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing
from hop-scotch and jump-rope and
it's
spring
and
the
goat-footed
balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee
e.e. cummings
15 I hope you all have a lovely, lovely day.
16 Go Giants. go e.e. cummings
17 Peace.
~h~
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