January 13, 2009
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SAFE!!!!
1 In 2009, you actually have to hold your breath and pray that Rickey Henderson makes it into the Hall of Fame. I figured the immortal Henderson was a shoe-in, and I’m guessing he felt the same way.
2 Clearly one of the greatest players in baseball history, and a guy who grew up in Oakland.
3 Good to see.
4 Rickey always had a bit of a mouth on him, but his skills in the greatest sport ever invented are beyond reproach.
5 I caught a little trivia about Rickey yesterday. He was named Rickey Nelson Henley after the great 50′s crooner Rickey Nelson, purportedly on Christmas day in the back of a ’57 Chevy on the way to the hospital.
6 Ya gotta love it. Famed baseball statistician Bill James once said, “If you split Rickey Henderson in two, you’d have two Hall-of-Famers.”
7 I couldn’t agree more.
8 Congrats, Rickey. Nine teams. That’s a lot of fans.
9 Moving on: Yesterday morning Bush was on a roll. I was his swan song interview, and he let loose with everything he had. I was fascinated hearing a President talking about the job in very human terms.
10 He finally got his Wall Street line honed to perfection. In the midst of his speech, he blurted, “Wall Street got drunk, and we got the hangover!”
11 This was a variation on his summer quote that went, “Wall Street got drunk and got a hangover!” I prefer the new version.
12 As much as this guy drove me crazy, I found myself listening to a guy who had lived through what must be the most insane job on the planet. The essence of his words were, “YOU try it.”
13 Thanks for the memories Dubya.
14 You’ll finally have a little time to finish My Pet Goat.
15 Moving on, Part the Second: Last night Jimmy Kimmel threw this one out there:
“As a baby I was left in a restaurant in the Bronx and raised by meatballs.”
16 Jimmy rocks.
17 He’s having some chef from Vegas coming on to tell all of us how to make the best meatball in the world, which prompted him to say that.
18 Unfortunately it was on late, and even though I’ve got the DVR thing goin’ on, I wasn’t sure if someone was recording stuff, so I may never know the best recipe for meatballs.
19 Sounds like a fun thing to try when the weather gets cold: make different kinds of meatballs.
20 When it’s freezing out, there’s almost nothing better than a super-hot meatball to make your eyes roll.
21 Which reminds me that I need to start my kajillionth diet at some time in the next twelve years.
22 The large-clothes diet is going out the window the second I see this goombah throw out his recipe.
23 I KNOW, I KNOW!
24 I absolutely HAVE to get some sleep.
25 But I absolutely HAVE to see the meatball recipe too.
26 It’s all too much.
27 Ah, I’d better hit the hay.
28 Too much to do this week.
29 Well, enjoy your day. I’ll search for good meatball recipes and if I remember, I’ll try posting one on the DN.
30 Meanwhile, enjoy your day. The weather is like beach weather. My, oh my we DO need rain, but yesterday it was all I could do not to hit the coast, lemme tellya.
31 Aight then, I’m packing it in.
32 WAIT!
33 The guy is on there. This guy is totally bald, Italian dumb guy, tattoos and bling, a total goombah, just as I thought.
34 I’m gonna watch. Here it is from this musclehead goombah:
Veal, beef an’ pawk put inna bowl. Mix in bowl. gahlic powduh. pahmuzhan cheeze. kosher sawlt, crack two eggs. ground peppuh. Day old crusty bread. Soak it with wawter. squeeze all the wawter outta it. Mix it up wid duh meat. Fry it in vegtubble oil. Make big bawls. Put it in da gravy. Meat gravy made from the veal, beef an’ pawk.
That’s almost word for word. You cook them in duh meat sawce. That’s duh secret. Make it wid a salad wid a little wine.
35 If that made any sense at all, yer eatin’ tonight.
36 Meanwhile have a great day.
37 Peace.
~H~
