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...have a manager, Terry Francona, who failed at his prior stop as big-league skipper, but is now universally adored by his players. Doesn't he sound like Joe Torre, who had lost at all his previous managerial posts, but leaves the Yanks beloved like Yogi Berra? Young Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon saved three games in his first World Series, a performance reminiscent of Yankee reliever Mariano Rivera, perhaps the best post-season stopper of all time...
...draw in there), so for us, there have been just 51 ‘Games.’ The other 65 wins make it The Game for Yale and Yale only. And the other seven ties? There was no Game those years. Because as Yogi Berra said, “a tie is like kissing your sister...
Interestingly enough, it was also Berra who told us that “losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth...
When fabled Houston defense attorney Dick DeGuerin strode into an Austin courthouse last week to defend Congressman Tom DeLay, he quoted Yogi Berra, asserting that this would be "d?j? vu all over again." Given the trouncing DeGuerin had handed Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle 12 years ago in their last big face-off, few observers doubted this would be a battle royale. But no one anticipated it would be d?j? vu so quickly...
...looked like the staging area for the world's largest order of French fries. But no, it was merely one more odd happening in the life of Baseball Legend Yogi Berra, who last week wound up with a ton of taters on the lawn of his Montclair, N.J., home. The seed for Berra's bumper harvest was planted last summer at a celebrity golf tournament near Grand Forks, N. Dak. Berra reportedly asked what folks around those parts did for a living and was told that they grew potatoes. To which Berra replied, "I didn't think they'd grow...