OK ... let’s get right to it my loyal and faithful readers ... yesterday’s season opener for The Bronx Bombers against Tampa Bay @ Tropicana Field==>SUCKED!!
Our ace CC Sabathia gets hammered, 5 runs 8 hits in 6 innings, we leave 12 men on base (twice with the bases loaded) and ... gasp ... the biggest shock of all ...
Mariano Rivera blows a 1 run lead in the bottom of the 9th inning and we lose 6-7. BARF!!
Man, did the local papers have a field-day with this one ...
“MO BLOW! Yankees woe & 1 after Rivera disaster.” - NY Post front page
“Opening daze - CC rocked, Mo shocked as Yankees lose to Tampa Bay.” - NY Post back page
OH, MO YOU DIDN’T! - On what could be Rivera’s final Opening Day, closer blows save against Rays.” - Daily News - back page
"Yankees’ Game 1 Looks A Lot Like Game 162 - A rally ends in a Rays game-ending celebration as it did last September.” - NY Times sports section.
OK ... I know ... I know ... it is only one game out of 162 but ... it was soooooooo painful to watch that I just had to share the moment and my feelings with you loyal and faithful readers out there in the hinterlands ...
Now moving on to last night’s entertainment event ... and in doing so I know that I am going to get pilloried (when is the last time you saw that word?) by most, if not all, of my theater-nut friends as Billi Pod gives his report card on ...
THE LYONS, about a mega-dysfunctional family headed by a foul-mouthed matriarch played by Linda Lavin==>B<==the same grade as when it was playing downtown at The Vineyard. The only reason it gets a B from Billi Pod is because he likes Linda Lavin.
Yes ... yes ... I know ... there were a lot of laughs and stuff but ... folks ... be honest with me ... the majority of the laughs were not in response to something funny ... they were mostly an uneasy response to a What The Fuck Was That - Did She/He Really Say That? moment.
And ... really ... Daniel and others ... did you really like the characters ... really? My response is ... no wonder the kids turned out to be losers ... they were raised by two totally despicable parents.
OK ... let the flames and snarky texts and emails begin ... Billi Pod is ready ... bring it on ...
Today is yet another entertainment double header for Billi Pod ...
2:00==>LOST IN YONKERS - “A revival of the award winning Neil Simon comedy/drama. After the death of their mother, two young boys suddenly find themselves living with a stern grandmother they hardly know in the strange new world of 1940s Yonkers. ” (Off Broadway - discounted TDF ticket)
The original production won both the Tony and Pulitzer Prize in 1991. It is playing at a theater on my block and has received excellent reviews.
It is only running through April 14th and I have been advised that it will not be extended because their theater was pre-booked.
Then for the evening is a Broadway show that is transferring from a highly successful and award-winning run in London ...
8:00==>ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS - “About a young man whose ravenous appetite and empty wallet force him to go to work for both a gangster and a criminal in hiding, while desperately trying to prevent them from meeting.” (Broadway - discounted TDF ticket).
The show is in very early previews but the advance buzz is very good.
Well ... my loyal and faithful readers ... I hope that everyone has an awesome rest of the weekend.
GO YANKEES AND GO GATORS!!
Billi Pod
“Don’t pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he’ll just kill you.”
ALEX-233
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