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...worthwhile to have a postmortem on one moment of notable idiocy that occurred early on, when the Yankee pitcher, Roger Clemens, delivered a pitch that shattered Mike Piazza's bat, the broken barrel of which came flying out toward the mound to be fielded by Clemens. Clemens caught the jagged piece of bat and threw it toward the first base line...
...idiocy is what followed: The television play-by-play man, Joe Buck, went sanctimoniously nuts, howling at Clemens as if he were the Son of Sam; and other media joined in the braying, which reached such a pitch that the commissioner felt obliged to impose a fine of $50,000 on Clemens for his murderous act. The New York Times' columnist Maureen Dowd seized the occasion; she used the incident as a metaphor of male aggression in another one of her cheeky, tedious sermonettes on testosterone and the imbecility of the male...
...only bright spot in the starting rotation came from Andy Benes in the Cardinals' only win. Benes, who didn't pitch in the Cardinals' three-game domination of the Atlanta Braves, gave up just two runs over 8 innings in Game Three...
...game took on its most fevered pitch yet, Steffa was knocked down motionless after going up for a header. The crowd and players divided their attention between Steffa and the flow of play. In soccer, play does not stop until the ball is out of bounds, and amidst the distraction Kelly collected a loose ball just outside of the Yale box and released a rocket that beat Moss...
...writers pitch all these ideas with big stars and then wait for me to make the call," she fake-laments, snacking on cantaloupe between takes. "My God! Who knew?" Candice Bergen and Lily Tomlin were intrigued by the bit but had to pass--or rather, not pass. Finally Midler said, "Why don't we just go for the biggest star we can get? Why don't we call Jack Nicholson?" With the crew giggling around the phone, she rang up the Joker himself...