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First, Smith's lead-off batter in the seventh rapped a single to center field. Two outs and two errors later, the hosts had the bases loaded against Harvard pitcher Lee Polikoff...
Alas, computer simulations are never like the real game. Any hacker who writes a baseball program that would allow any team--two runs back in the bottom of the ninth inning with two outs and two strikes against the batter--to go on to victory would be called an idiot. Probability and statistics said the Mets were losers...
...looking back, I'll remember this summer as a time of near-perpetual happiness. I'll forget many of the individual games, but I'll remember innings here and home runs there and where I was when Roger Clemens struck out batter number...
...Cuomo style is a mixture of warmth and wit. He is simpatico. As a reporter embarks on a question, Cuomo yells out, "I deny it! I deny it!" He describes something that irks him as "just a walnut in the batter of eternity." In the midst of a conversation Cuomo is having with an elderly woman from Queens, his press secretary, Martin Steadman, sneezes while she is talking. "That's a Yiddish sign," she says, "that the person talking is telling the truth." Cuomo turns to Steadman: "Next time, see if you can sneeze while I'm talking...
...Lunch, finally, at Chianti, a Melrose Avenue favorite of Molly's. Her usual cuisine is less fastidious: hash browns, fried chicken strips with an orange-whip drink and, a Ringwald special, catsup-drenched onion rings from which the onions have been eviscerated--fried batter au Heinz. Today, though, she orders sliced tomatoes with vinaigrette and char-grilled chicken over shoestring potatoes...