Sunday, September 1, 2013

Saturday==>GOOD & BAD


Sunday==>In the name of fair and unbiased reporting your favorite blogger here in The Big Apple, The Greatest City In The World, has to admit to you loyal and faithful readers and followers that yesterday was indeed a GOOD and BAD day.

I know you loyal and faithful readers and followers out there in the boondocks, wastelands and hinterlands are anxious to get all of the details ... 

So ... let’s get started first on a positive note with the GOOD ...

The No.10 ranked Florida Gators beat the University of Toledo 24-6 before a crowd of 83,604 in The Swamp. 

Florida won with defense, an effective ground game and solid special teams, basically the same formula that lead us to a 11-win 2012 season.

The game was carried locally on MSG and that was a major GOOD.

Next Saturday, at noon, The Gators will face the unranked University of Miami, down in Miami.

Man, last night’s Georgia/Clemson game was truly exciting to watch regardless of which team you were pulling for. Clemson won 38-35.

The next major GOOD was The Yankees 2-0 win over The Orioles. Ivan Nova pitched a complete game, giving up only 3 hits.

With the win The Yankees moved past the Orioles in the wild card race.

At 1:05pm this afternoon out at Yankee Stadium, The House That Greed And Ego Built, it will be the final game of the 3-game series.

On the mound for The Bronx Bombers will be Andy Pettitte (10-9) vs. Wei-Yin Chen (7-7) for The Orioles.

What wasn’t GOOD was last night’s painfully inept Off Broadway show ...

TCHAIKOVSKY - A NEW PLAY, about the life, loves and death of one of the world’s most influential composers==>D

The show is dreadfully dull, poorly performed in a miserable venue, The American Theatre of Actors Chermuchin Theatre on West 54th Street.

Almost everything about this show was bad==>unlikeable characters, sloppy staging, whispered dialogue, confusing story line, distracting whirring noise from the AC unit, etc. etc.

The only positive note for me was a couple of decent ballet numbers (and I’m not a ballet fan).

The first act clocked in at 1:40 and it seemed as if the clock had stopped. At intermission I joined a flood of fellow audience members headed for the exit.

The final performance is this afternoon.

PROMISE TO SELF==>I will never, EVER, schedule another event at this wretched venue, I promise.

Another BAD was the announcement that Timmy Tebow was cut from The Patriots roster. I think his NFL days are over. Bummer.

So ... I think you loyal and faithful readers and followers will agree with my view that yesterday was indeed a GOOD & BAD day.

But, remember ... I report - you decide!

So ... why don’t we move on to today ...

I will stay in for the afternoon to watch the YANKEES/ORIOLES game and then it will be ...

8:00==>THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST HEMINGWAY - “A mash-up of texts from Oscar Wilde and Ernest Hemingway that outs the gay romance in Wilde's best-loved work and collides it with Hemingway's impossible machismo, exposing both artists' desperate search for an Ideal Masculinity.” (Off Broadway - complimentary ticket)

The show is playing at The Access Theatre @ Broadway and White Street, way downtown, has a running time of 2:30, with an intermission, and this is the final performance of its limited run.

Yeah ... I know ... it sounds kinda iffy, doesn’t it.

HAVE A GREAT REST OF THE WEEKEND EVERYONE.

Yesterday’s Pedometer mileage==>3.56 miles (or, 7,787 steps)

Total mileage for August==>108.86 miles (average 3.51 miles per day)

Total mileage since 7/1/13==>222.73 miles (average 3.59 miles per day)

GO YANKEES!! 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.”


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