Word: rockers
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...disgruntled outfielders who played cards during pivotal playoff games, the insane manager who returned to the dugout in a Groucho Marx disguise after being ejected from the game, the grand slam single in the 15th inning in the NLCS, and New York's newfound love affair with John Rocker. These events transpired in roughly two months of the Amazins' 1999 Wild Card season. Now that's entertainment...
...honest. Would you rather have a front-row seat to see Pedro pitch on a given Sunday, or be anywhere in Shea when Rocker returns to Queens in June...
This year we have seen many racially charged incidents that were deemed either aberrations or coincidences. Some examples are the denigrating remarks of Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker, the killing of unarmed blacks in New York City and the racial profiling practiced by police departments across the nation. These racist acts no longer seem so unusual or exceptional when placed in context with the tenacity by which some southern states still cling to the cherished image of the antebellum South. Until the people of South Carolina admit that whistling Dixie isn't worth dividing the Union, South Carolina will remain...
Russ Gershon's resume must list at least nine professions.Russ Gershon's resume must list at least nine professions. In alphabetical order, he is a bandleader, player and producer; an entrepreneur; a composer; a jazz musician; a punk rocker; a saxophonist; and a touring musician. Your typical Harvard over-achiever? Yes. Your typical Harvard graduate? Not a chance...
...Dragons playing pit from whence it came. An early release by Kid Rock (you thought Devil Without a Cause was his first album?) got hammered by the angstful, flanneled, head-banging juggernaut that was "Here we are now, entertain us." But Mr. Hick-Hop was not the only rocker that suffered. Metallica was temporarily uncool and Megadeth was mega-dead. Meanwhile, Korn was chillin' on the West Coast in Bakersfield, Calif., gathering up rage motivated by not having dates to awkward high school formals, jealousy towards big jock bullies and their hot cheerleader girlfriends, and tolerating parents that would...