It seems that Saturday, in none other than the New York Times, political columnist Ross Ramsey used a tortured metaphor to compare Democrats in the state of Texas to the Baltimore Orioles and suggested that in the afterlife, former Texas governor Ann Richards must be commiserating with Weaver on the current sorry state of their respective teams. Way to do your homework, Ross.
Not only is Earl still here with us on Earth (Florida, to be more precise), at 80 years old he hasn't lost his spark. Baltimore Sun reporter Mike Klingaman reached the Hall of Fame manager by phone yesterday to clear the air. His first reaction to the news that he'd been presumed dead: "I'll be damned." He also mentioned that he is no longer able to golf due to bad knees, and put a punctuation mark on his comments:
"I’ve always said that there were two places that I wouldn’t mind dying. One was Memorial Stadium; the other, the golf course...Now I’ve got to wait forever [to go], because both of those places are gone.”
Take your time, Earl. We'll be glad to put up with you for a while longer.
When I got his autograph at the National this year, he was scrappy as ever, chatting with fans and picking with others!
ReplyDeleteWow, that's embarrassing. I live in fear that something like that might happen in one of my stories.
ReplyDeleteRyan - Glad to hear it!
ReplyDeleteGreg - I feel foolish enough when I screw up something like the college that a player attended. I can't imagine doing it on that scale!