I was trying to figure out where to bat Stanton in the lineup and suddenly realized something that does not portend well.
If he bats fifth...
DJ (37)
Goldy (38)
Judge (33)
Bellinger (30) in July
Stanton (35)
Our one through five would be a combined one hundred and seventy three years old.
Doug - I would have happily slapped an interlocking NY on the waistband of that thingy for you . . . it just seems so.....naked
ReplyDeleteGo ahead. I'll sub it out. Thanks.
DeleteDo the pants go with it?
DeleteNot sure if you want NYY stitched on it. I’m interested though
I just want to say here that El Duque's history of the expression, "waiting for the other shoe to drop" is purest balderdash.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, it comes from the propensity of an early, New York City mayor, "Shoeless Corny" Steenwyck (served 1668-1670, 1682-1683), to shimmy up the steeple of the town's original, Trinity Church on New Year's Eve, and drop one of his wooden Dutch clogs off the side at the stroke of midnight.
Then, depending upon several factors, including how cold it was and his level of inebriation, Shoeless Corny would wait for several hours (or minutes; it was, after all, a Little Ice Age, back in them days), to let his second clog drop.
Once Steenwyck retired from politics to pioneer clog dancing in America, succeeding mayors were also forced to go through this ritual, much to the delight of the townsmen, who soon created a thriving betting pool, based on how long it would take the second shoe to drop.
This led inevitably to civic corruption, as unscrupulous mayors connived with the bookies over just when to drop that second shoe, and to incidents such as the "Black Stocking scandal" of 1735, when longtime mayor Robert "Chick" Lurting plunged to his death off the steeple, and onlookers discovered that in fact he was wearing a heavily insulated, black woolen stocking on his second-clog foot, something that was strictly illegal.
Mayors' waning enthusiasm for the ritual was said to account for why Trinity was set ablaze during the battle for the city with the British in 1776, though some sources attribute this to an act of revolutionary incendiarism by a young Alexander Hamilton, who reputedly proclaimed, "I'm not throwing away my clog!" as he torched the edifice.
I thought it originated with Ed Sullivan. Who, in the time of live television, had to wait for the show that was on just before his to end and have the network "drop" the feed and pick up the one for his show. As he would say every week, "Before we can get to our really big shoe I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop"
ReplyDeletea combined one hundred and seventy three years old….what could possibly go wrong?
ReplyDeleteAA - Thank you! It looks alot better.
ReplyDeleteAlso, isn't Mickey Moniak what they used to call Mickey Mantle when he was really on a tear? Just asking for a friend.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, The Yankees cannot bat a player that is not healthy anywhere in their order. He wil get injured again eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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