Sunday, May 18, 2008
THIS IS PROBABLY SOMEWHAT POLITICALLY INCORRECT, BUT...
Alfonso Soriano of the Chicago Cubs is a fine baseball player. Lately he's been on a tear, which the Cubs needed, badly. He's been carrying the team lately.
Good for him.
But I just saw him interviewed on WGN before today's Cubs game, and people, Alfonso Soriano is the 21st century version of "Chico Escuela."
For those of you who don't remember Chico, he was a character developed by Garret Morris on Saturday Night Live about the time the Alfonso was two, so he obviously comes by this honestly. But the fact that Soriano clearly does not consider English his first language becomes obvious quickly.
And like Chico, whose catch phrase was "Beisbol bin berry berry good to me," Alfonso was stuck answering admittedly time-filling questions with answers like:
"No question. When you swing at de strikes and don't swing at the balls, you got berry good chance of getting on base."
This is funnier when you consider that one of his companions in the outfield every day is a guy named Kosuke Fukudome. You have to wonder what the between-batter chatter sounds like out there.
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This past week, I was able to spend some time with an old Wisconsin junior high and high school schoolmate of mine, Chris Tenaglia, and his wife Carol and daughter Tiffany. Chris was here for some training classes that his company sprung for, so he brought the family along. We met for dinner on Mothers Day at La Casa Vieja -- very good and nicely priced, I must say. Then I met up with them again on Tuesday night when they showed up to watch me play at an open mic.
Daughter Tiffany is quite an artist, and she drew a quick sketch of most of the player that evening. I'll have to scan mine and get it up here in the next few days.
Anyway, here are some pics, in no particular order (I think you can figure it out): Me and Chris, Carol and my wife Jan, my boys, Adam and Brendan, with Tiff. If you print all the pics and cut them into threes, you can make a set of those silly cards we all had as kids where you put one person's head on another torso, etc...
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Jan returns tonight from what I'm assuming is another successful trip to Sebastopol with her troupe for Tribal Fest.
Good thing, too. Five days without my wife is enough.
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Spent a pleasant evening last night at Alwun House. I caught Kara Kay's last gig in town on her western tour (she and bandmate Daniel Albertini -- DAMN that guy can play -- are headed to Telemagica in Jacumba, CA this week). I've known Kara now for 10 years and if it's creative, I don't think she CAN'T do it. Remarkable songwriter, incredible dancer, poet, model, you name it.
Drive safe, you guys!
TT
Alfonso Soriano of the Chicago Cubs is a fine baseball player. Lately he's been on a tear, which the Cubs needed, badly. He's been carrying the team lately.
Good for him.
But I just saw him interviewed on WGN before today's Cubs game, and people, Alfonso Soriano is the 21st century version of "Chico Escuela."
For those of you who don't remember Chico, he was a character developed by Garret Morris on Saturday Night Live about the time the Alfonso was two, so he obviously comes by this honestly. But the fact that Soriano clearly does not consider English his first language becomes obvious quickly.
And like Chico, whose catch phrase was "Beisbol bin berry berry good to me," Alfonso was stuck answering admittedly time-filling questions with answers like:
"No question. When you swing at de strikes and don't swing at the balls, you got berry good chance of getting on base."
This is funnier when you consider that one of his companions in the outfield every day is a guy named Kosuke Fukudome. You have to wonder what the between-batter chatter sounds like out there.
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This past week, I was able to spend some time with an old Wisconsin junior high and high school schoolmate of mine, Chris Tenaglia, and his wife Carol and daughter Tiffany. Chris was here for some training classes that his company sprung for, so he brought the family along. We met for dinner on Mothers Day at La Casa Vieja -- very good and nicely priced, I must say. Then I met up with them again on Tuesday night when they showed up to watch me play at an open mic.
Daughter Tiffany is quite an artist, and she drew a quick sketch of most of the player that evening. I'll have to scan mine and get it up here in the next few days.
Anyway, here are some pics, in no particular order (I think you can figure it out): Me and Chris, Carol and my wife Jan, my boys, Adam and Brendan, with Tiff. If you print all the pics and cut them into threes, you can make a set of those silly cards we all had as kids where you put one person's head on another torso, etc...
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Jan returns tonight from what I'm assuming is another successful trip to Sebastopol with her troupe for Tribal Fest.
Good thing, too. Five days without my wife is enough.
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Spent a pleasant evening last night at Alwun House. I caught Kara Kay's last gig in town on her western tour (she and bandmate Daniel Albertini -- DAMN that guy can play -- are headed to Telemagica in Jacumba, CA this week). I've known Kara now for 10 years and if it's creative, I don't think she CAN'T do it. Remarkable songwriter, incredible dancer, poet, model, you name it.
Drive safe, you guys!
TT
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