Pancho and Lefty by Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson

 

Maybe they will play it on tour this summer.

This is Frightening - Majority of Biden’s 2020 Voters Now Say He’s Too Old to Be Effective

 

Reading this story in the New York Times frightens me.  The alternative to Joe Biden is a man who was indicted 91 times and led a riot to overturn the results of the 2020 election for president.  I would rather have an elderly man as my president than someone with no ethics and who only cares about himself.  I certainly can't understand why a woman would vote for him when he was having relations with a porno star while his wife was caring for his baby. Also, a jury found him liable for sexual abuse and awarded his accuser $5 Million.

I dread the thought of this man becoming president again.  It could mean the end of democracy as we know it.

Book Review - The Fenway Effect by David Krell

Baseball fans and the general public must understand that sports teams affect society beyond the playing field.  Teams in every sport also have a history that fans should know.  In his book The Fenway Effect baseball historian David Krell offers a cultural history of the Boston Red Sox's hold on American Life for fans and foes.  Some of the topics considered include:

·                  David Ortiz’s speech to the Fenway crowd a few days after the Boston Marathon bombing.
·        The frustration of Red Sox fans not winning a World Series for 86 years
·        Bill Buckner’s error on Mookie Wilson’s grounder in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series.
·        The Jimmy Fund – reading that chapter motivated me to donate to that fine organization.
·        The TV Series Cheers
·        The Citgo Sign
·        Carl Yastrzemski
·        Ted Williams
·        Tom Seaver’s ending his career with the Red Sox.
·        Narragansett Beer – When I was a student at the University of Rhode Island in the early 1970s I drank it.

As a Met fan and a member of the Society for American Baseball Research, I highly recommend this book to all baseball fans.

 

New York Rangers 4 Columbus Blue Jackets 1 at Madison Square Garden

 

We usually don't attend sporting events in Manhattan during the week, but the tickets are lower than on weekends.  The Rangers won their 11th game out of their last 12 and sixth in a row at home as Artemi Panarin had two goals and an assist, Chris Kreider had a goal and assist, and Adam Fox also scored. Goalie Igor Shesterkin stopped 30 shots.  The score was inflated as two of the Ranger's goals were on an open Columbus net with less than a minute to play.

Most of the fans were in their 20s and  30s while many young kids were featured on the video screen.  I guess their parents must fork over the big bucks for the tickets.

Game Recap

Outlaw Music Festival 2024 to Feature Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson

 

The Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour is scheduled to resume on March 1 in Fort Lauderdale and stop in Austin Texas on April 6.  It was reported today in Rolling Stone Magazine that Bob Dylan will be joining Willie Nelson and others at the Outlaw Music Festival from June 21 - September 17.  The good news for me is that the tour will stop at the Jones Beach Theater on June 29.

St. John's 80 Creighton 66 at Madison Square Garden

Since prices for basketball tickets are so high, we decided to take in a college basketball game at Madison Square Garden.  After all the student-athletes don't command multi-million dollar contracts.

Daniss Jenkins scored 27 points and dished out six assists to lead the St. John's men's basketball team in a Big East matchup. As a team, the Red Storm shot 47.2 percent from the field and hit 32 of its 34 made field goals inside the 3-point arc. St. John's also shot a perfect 10-for-10 from the free-throw line. Defensively, the Johnnies allowed Creighton to shoot just 23.1 percent (6-26 3FG) from 3-point territory while forcing 13 turnovers.

St. John's is now 16-12 overall and 8-9 in the Big East Conference.  The men's basketball team has always been popular in the New York metropolitan area but has yet to be nationally ranked since Lou Carnesecca retired in the early 1990s.

Most customers got a free T-shirt.

 

First Bad News of 2024 for the New York Mets

The number one starter Kodai Senga was diagnosed with a moderate posterior capsule strain in his throwing shoulder  Senga is being shut down until his symptoms subside. He’s out indefinitely and will open the year on the injured list.  Teams spend millions of dollars in salaries for players who are injured. Hopefully, Senga can return early in the season.  The Mets shouldn't rush him back since that could aggravate his injury.

The pitchers most likely to replace Senga in the rotation are:

• Tylor Megill
• Joey Lucchesi
• José Butto
• Max Kranick

David Peterson will also start the season on the injury list.