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12/14/2004: "Bits & Pieces 2"
It's time to admit something.
This has become a blog, hasn't it? There are updates on a just about daily basis, more short entries than before, more photographic elements and the new look. I don't know why I don't like the word blog, but if it looks like one and smells like one, well, you should get a new computer, because the Internet really shouldn't have any odors. (Rimshot!)
It must suck to be Bernard Kerik right now. And yet, I don't care. I'm not even interested in the story. For some reason, the guy is still big news in New York. Shouldn't a celebrity be getting drunk or something?
Actually, the lead story on the local news tonight was Pedro Martinez. From what I've heard from everyone I know, the scorecard reads: Met fans annoyed that of all the big-name guys they could get, it's this one; Red Sox fans a little concerned about the pitching staff for next year, but not exactly sad to see Pedro go; Yankee fans laughing hysterically that something could make life difficult for Met and Red Sox fans at the same time.
It's cold! I bought a new "fall" jacket in Montreal in September. I expected to wear it when it was too cold for the real lightweight stuff but too warm for the winter coat. I have worn it zero times, which tells me that the weather decided to skip a step, kind of the way that we now seem to go from winter to summer every year with no real spring.
The guy who lives downstairs from me is convinced that the screwy weather has to do with pollution. I don't think he's wrong. I don't remember the seasons chaning so quickly when I was a kid, and that wasn't too long ago. Although maybe we did have fall this year, and I just didn't notice it. The leaves did fall... what happened to the leaf piles? I remember the sidewalks being covered with leaf piles -- they'd crunch under your feet. What happened to that? I had no crunching this year, can't remember the last time I did. Maybe I just don't notice these things anymore.
I never realized that Manhattan College was run by the Christian Brothers. Also, dorm rooms at Manhattan are wired with "JasperNet." Also, the Jaspers are named for Brother Jaspe of Mary, F.S.C.
Most interesting fact in the Manhattan College men's basketball media guide, though, is this:
During one particularly warm and humid day, when Manhattan College was playing a semi-pro baseball team called the Metropolitans, Brother Jasper noticed the Manhattan studets were becoming restless and edgy as Manhattan came to bat in the seventh inning of a close game. To relieve the tension, Brother Jasper called time-out and told the students to stand up and stretch for a few minutes until the game resumed.
Since the College played the New York Giants in the late 1880s and into the 1890s at the old Polo Grounds, the Manhattan College practice of the "seventh inning stretch" spread into the major leagues, where it has now become a time-honored custom practiced by millions of fans annually.
Of course, Manhattan College is actually in the Bronx, so who am I to believe anything they say?
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