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I thought Jaromir Jagr and Sergi Federov were dead
Legion – You must never have seen a cricket match. Doesn’t look at all like baseball. The vocabulary alone takes years to learn – even the positions: e.g., silly mid-on, 3rd leg. The entire game is really just an excuse for a rain-sodden civilization to enjoy some rare sunshine & a match takes forever – they even name it Centuries.
Kens, it should be interesting. There are a number of great teams who have a chance. At least the Russians beat the Czechs. That was a huge test.
Arkady,
my baseball addled brain won’t allow me to even consider another sport that looks like baseball.
It does look a lot more civilized though, with the white uniforms and tables by the sidelines,
not like Pete Rose barreling into home plate to permanently disable Ray Fosse’s career or Roger Clemen’s beaming Mike Piazza with a 90 mph fastball just for kicks.
I meant “Bet they’d make good copy for your column.” NOP
I am not commenting on Canada since Russia ain’t performing either. Biffo, looks like our bet might be moot as neither Canada nor Russia will take the gold but we shall see how this plays out.
Brownstoner:
I’m not usually part of the OT, but I just had to share some great information today.
Everyone, check out this site: http://gis.nyc.gov/doitt/nycitymap/
Follow the site’s directions and you’ll get aerial views of every block in NYC (and Brooklyn) in 2008 — and 1924!
Scoped out my own boyhood block in Crown Heights and discovered what I always suspected was true. Across the street from my family’s apartment was an empty lot that I guessed was once the site of a great mansion.
How’d Brooklyn’s smallest archeologist surmise this? By the beautiful bluestone coping wall at the base of the lot’s battered wood fence. And sure enough there wasn’t just one but TWO big houses sitting on open lawns with carriage houses at the rear along Atlantic Avenue — and as late as 1924. A veritable private park!
No wonder the architects for our apartment house put enormous French windows along the street. The view to the houses and the church steeples and Boys High School tower beyond must have been spectacular (the steeples and tower still there when I was a boy).
You’ll spend hours on this one. (Found it buried in an editorial in today’s paper entitled, “Above the Past,” which has its own link, just in case the one I put above doesn’t work.)
So Montrose, look up our block. Then find out about those two grande dames. But they’d make good copy for your column.
Nostalgic on Park Avenue
Hiya!
We tried Betty bakery on Atlantic this weekend. They have delish cupcakes! – the husband didn’t like it and called it a buttercake – but whatevs – I thought they did a good job!
actually I’ve never seen machine gun toting policemen in Soho – were they at the train station, or just randomly posted on a corner?
Legion – Cricket’s next!