Thursday, April 24, 2008
61*
Anyone catch 61* on HBO last night? Great movie – it might be the most underrated sports movie of our time. Billy Crystal does a great job capturing the drama that was the home run race of 1961 based on his friendship with the late, great Mickey Mantle. I turned it on just in time to see the footage of Maris hitting #61 into the right field grandstands and running the bases as if it were any other home run. No ceremony, no photo-op, no video montage…he ran the bases, took his curtain call and got on with the game. Wouldn’t it be nice to get back to that? Instead of…. “Manny being Manny”
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Hey guys,
Great stuff on the blog so far. I mean really really good. It's great to see some variety.
As a Boston guy, I will continue to defend Manny's antics as high in entertainment value.
Still, I'm in total agreement about 61*. Great movie, saw it for the first time a couple of months ago with Ross Kaplan. The Yankees are definitely a classic team.
Just as an aside from someone who's posted on blogs a lot:
I think there's a way that you can put some posts in draft format so that you don't need to post them all at once. I would have recommended spreading these four posts over a couple of days because that encourages more commenting. Too much good stuff here to simply cruise right through.
- Marek Malik
Hey guys,
Great stuff on the blog so far. I mean really really good. It's great to see some variety.
As a Boston guy, I will continue to defend Manny's antics as high in entertainment value.
Still, I'm in total agreement about 61*. Great movie, saw it for the first time a couple of months ago with Ross Kaplan. The Yankees are definitely a classic team.
Just as an aside from someone who's posted on blogs a lot:
I think there's a way that you can put some posts in draft format so that you don't need to post them all at once. I would have recommended spreading these four posts over a couple of days because that encourages more commenting. Too much good stuff here to simply cruise right through.
- Marek Malik
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