El Duque's recent column reminds that most of this week has been a waste of time for great baseball minds and fans.
Note to editor: It should be clear, by the above statement, that the "great baseball" references would not include anyone from Boston, or anyone pretending to be part of Redsocks Nation ( that small market mentality).
So I left my favorite bar on Eighth Avenue and wandered back into the 30's near 10th, where the gypsies and fortune tellers ply their trades on second and third floors of brownstones with fire escapes for front windows.
I couldn't resist, " Lolita ( seen above)" for obvious reasons.
In addition, she let's customers sip a home made rye whiskey ( hard to find anymore ) while she fondles her ball. Even at $300 per half hour, I was transfixed.
One would think any and all predictions derive from her ball fondling and come straight
from " the ether or cosmos," but her point of difference from other ball handlers is that her stroking and caressing simply bring out the inner fears, desires and " expressions" of her sitting client.
So the following are my predictions for the Yankees/Angels:
1. Yankees fans will hate every Angel player by the time this is over.
2. It is going to rain Friday and Saturday.
3. It will be cold and windy in NYC based games. We may see some sleet.
4. The Red sox will be no threat to us at all in the post season.
5. If you get tickets to the Stadium, buy a steak sandwich.
6. Brian Bruney will not " step up" and be "lights out." He'll face one batter and walk him.
7. Freddy Sanchez will, again, not steal a single base.
8. Andy Pettitte should start game one, but won't.
9. Brett Gardiner will win a game with his speed.
El Duque is right. This week is dragging on forever and there is nothing more to say.
So I didn't.
I'm not going to be pilloried for possibly jynxing the team with bold predictions this round unless there is overwhelming public demand so to do.
Meanwhile, I'll have another rye whiskey neat at "Lolita's."
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Coward.
You hear me, Alphonso?
I said, coward.
PREDICT, DAMMOT. PREDICT.
Weather Update from the Al Roker Weather Center... Rain may be real light or over by Friday night's game after heavier rain earlier in the day. Saturday is in greater jeopardy for raining out, as well as a Sunday make-up.
One call for predictions does not suffice.
Contact your friends.
The hero of the series against the Angels wil be........
Another advantage of the steak sandwich stand is that it's 15 feet away from to the imported beer stand, so you can wolf down a steak sandwich, then grab a couple of bass ales as you meander through the concourse.
Hinske is off the roster
we will NOT win without Hinske.
Number 1 isn't a prediction as much as a statement of fact.
"We may see some sleet."
DR. ADAM SAYS: FALSE.
And isn't Brian Bruney not even on the roster? No clue why he has to stay in Tampa drinking Jamaican rum in the 75 degree sun instead of walking Bobby Abreu in 40 degree rain, but I guess that's how the world turns sometimes.
Some Madame Curie you are, whatever that is.
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