Pedro Baez's Blog – October 2011 Archive (4)

Baseball 2011

Pedro Baez



The just concluded 2011 Major League Baseball season ended with a bang. The old worn out theory of if the New York Yankees aren’t in the Series it isn’t a Series went out the window.



The Texas Rangers (nee Washington Senators) battled the St. Louis Cardinals in what turns out to be seven memorable games. Game 6 which started off as a game of errors, turned into the best cliffhanger of all time. By the time all was said and done, the Cardinals… Continue

The Soul of New York-Piri Thomas, An Appreciation

Pedro Baez



Piri Thomas perhaps more than anything symbolized what New York means to me. New York is the original melting pot. Where else in the 1950’s could you find a hodge podge of cultures, colors, ethnicities hanging out, playing stickball, singing doo wops on the corner, playing bongos in the park, dating girls who may not look like you?



That was the New York Piri wrote about. That’s the New York that I grew up… Continue

 

 

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Time to Stop being Mr. Nice Guy

Pedro Baez



In the movie “Kissinger and Nixon,” George Takei who plays Le Duc Tho, says about President Nixon that after the election he will “get tough.”



That is precisely what you need to do Mr. President. Take off the gloves and kick butt. The GOP seems to think they have you in such a way that he will submit to anything they say, like when an opponent giving up when wrestling icon Bruno Sammartino applied the “Italian Back…

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