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Toll Gate High School, Class of 1982, is celebrating its 30th high school reunion Friday, July 27, from 6:30-11:30 p.m. at Valley Country Club, West Warwick. Full buffet dinner and great DJ. Please respond with a check for $50 per person made payable to "Toll Gate Class of 1982." Mail Checks to Thomas M. Madden, 72 Pine St., 5th Floor, Providence RI 02903.
Classical High School, Class of 1992, is having its 20-year reunion July 28 at Bravo Brasserie, 123 Empire St., Providence, from 7 p.m. to midnight. Tickets are $50 per person and includes dinner buffet, DJ, dancing, complimentary valet parking and lots of fun. Deadline is July 22. Contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
Cumberland High School, Class of 1982, is looking for classmates for their 30th reunion to be held Aug. 3, 2012 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Warwick. Please join their group on Facebook (Cumberland High Class of 82 30th Reunion) or contact Nancy (Farrell) Lajoie at 781-2209 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Johnston High School, Class of 1987, will hold a 25th reunion Saturday, Aug. 11 at 7 p.m. at Spirito's, 477 Broadway, Providence. The cost of the event is $45 per person. All reservations and payments must be received by June 23. To make your reservation, or for more information, respond to email@example.com or call 741-3382.
Cranston High School, Class of 1952, is celebrating its 60-year reunion Sept. 15 at the Crowne Plaza in Warwick. For more information contact Norma Hill at 942-5238 or e-mail email@example.com.
Cranston High School East, Class of 1962, will hold its 50-year reunion on Sept. 22 at The Crowne Plaza Hotel at the Crossings in Warwick. The committee is still seeking the addresses of many classmates. For further information contact email@example.com.
Warwick Veterans Memorial High School, Class of 1962, I splanning a 50th reunion Oct. 20 at the Quidnessett Country Club. For details contact Donna (Drew) Sherman at firstname.lastname@example.com or 397-2213 or Linda )Mallette) Nelson at email@example.com or 467-7663.
Pilgrim High School, Class of 1967, is having its 45th reunion Nov. 17. They are looking for contact information on all classmates. Please send contact information to Barbara (Brennan) Napolitano, email@example.com; Jack Lyden, firstname.lastname@example.com; Jean (Cunningham) Friel, email@example.com; John Spagnolo, firstname.lastname@example.com; Janice (Bargamian) McCaughey firstname.lastname@example.com, John Carroll at email@example.com.
Johnston High School, Class of 1976, is planning a reunion this fall. All classmates who are interested in attending are asked to contact one of the following: Susan (Cirelli) Rose at email@example.com; Robin (Antonelli) Leonti at email@example.com or Laurie Langford at Wishes Under Wraps, located at 225 Greenville Ave. at 232-1190.


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I've just spent two weeks travelling – doing family history, attending AFFHO's 13th Australasian Congress in Adelaide, and playing tourist in outback South Australia and New South Wales. Now that I'm home I have nearly 4000 photos to deal with, as well as all the books and brochures I collected along the way.
To attend the Congress in Adelaide my husband, Keith, and I decided to make a holiday of it. I have family history to investigate in Albury; we both have gold field ancestors; and he has ancestors who immigrated to South Australia and then moved to western Victoria; so we took the long way around, staying in Albury, Ballarat and Warracknabeal (western Victoria).
Albury is a lovely town, with many of its historic buildings remaining. I was disappointed to see that the old Mechanics Institute had been demolished, as my ancestor James Simpson was the caretaker there, but a visit to the library gave me a lot of new information on my Stewarts to follow up.
We visited cemeteries, churches and small towns and creeks all along the way. My ancestor Peter Hannah Stewart settled on the Indigo Creek near Barnawatha, Victoria, before moving to Albury where his elder brother had settled, and now I know what it looks like.
We then travelled down through Chiltern and Bendigo to Ballarat. I had been to other pioneer villages over the years but I'd never been to Sovereign Hill at Ballarat, and it was a revelation! I have so many wonderful photos that it is difficult to chose one. Sovereign Hill has actors in costume to give visitors a taste of how things were in the old days. As you walk around the place you can follow its history, from the early days when thousands of miners set up tents and panned for gold, to the establishment of shops, houses, churches and banks, to the large scale industrial mining once the surface gold ran out.
I had never been through Western Victoria before, and what I can say about it is that it's flat. Very flat. We found some cemeteries and churches from my husband's family history.
On to Adelaide. I spent most of the four days attending sessions and talking to other genealogists, and making short visits to local repositories such as State Records South Australia, the Supreme Court and Land Services. Keith spent much of the four days researching, with only some of his time attending sessions. He got a lot done in that time! He transcribed over 50 birth, marriage and death registrations at the Genealogy SA library, and obtained copies of wills from the Supreme Court.
Keith made a breakthrough on his early South Australian pioneer ancestor John Jones from Wales by finding he was listed in the Royal Adelaide Hospital Admissions Index 1840-1904 on the computers at State Records. This index states the name, age, residence and ship of arrival and was enough for Keith to make the breakthrough he never expected with such a common name. Had it not been available on the computers there he may never have sought it out to check it, as he had no reason to believe that the Joneses, who lived in the McLaren Vale, would ever have had reason to go to hospital in Adelaide. It just shows, you must always check indexes even if you think there's no reason to.
If you have never been to a Congress consider the next one, which will be in Canberra in 2015. They are only held every three years and are shared around Australia and New Zealand. Four days of concentrated family history is just too good to pass up.
We then drove north to Lyndhurst, with a detour through Mount Pleasant and Lyndoch for some more cemeteries and churches. Lyndhurst is at the end of the bitumen road towards Lake Eyre, and we had a flight booked over the lake and a room booked at the pub. It was April Fool's Day when we arrived and they tried to tell us there was no room!
The flight was magnificent. The lakes had water, with algae growing that made them look pink in places. There is no multitude of birds like you see on TV documentaries; they are all at Birdsville, and it isn't the breeding season. But it was a brilliant sight all the same. It looks like it should have flamingoes in it.
It is amazing country up there. Every few kilometres along the road you cross another dry creek bed, and flying over it you can see why. When it rains it really rains, and the countryside is covered by a network of creeks that drain into the lakes. One of the creeks we crossed had water in it, and when we got out of the car to take photos we could see small silver fish trying desperately to swim upstream across the road in an inch or two of water. Keith caught two and helped them to the other side.
Broken Hill was next. We spent three nights there so we could have a good look around and go out to the Menindee Lakes, which also has water in them. The road into Kinchega National Park was closed, but we saw quite a bit. We went out to Silverton, and old mining town that is pretty much a tourist village and movie set now, particularly the Silverton Hotel, which has Mad Max vehicles parked outside.
There is a lot of history in Broken Hill. We tried following the self-guided heritage trail and took lots of pictures of churches and old mines. The Miners' Memorial, up on the Line of Lode next to the lookout, costs $2.50 to visit but is worth it for a taste of the dark side of the mining industry. The names and causes of death listed are a stark contrast to the self-congratulation found in most other displays around town.
As I said, I have nearly 4000 photos to deal with. I spent some time last night sorting them into folders named by date and place, which makes the whole business of culling and processing much less daunting. Many of them are research-related and will need extra analysis, but even the tourist shots have to be sorted or I will have to buy another hard drive to keep them all.
I will post some more of the highlights on Google+ as soon as I can.

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Thursday, March 12, 2009
My Day in Chicago
I hate driving in the city because I can't stand inching along in traffic, I don't understand all the one-way streets, and I have a habit of getting lost. A lot. I hadn't looked up directions ahead of time because I was planning on taking the train, so I turned on my GPS and it worked like a charm until I got in the Loop at which point it started going all bonkers.
"In 2.7 miles, turn left on Michigan Ave."
OK, looking for Michigan Ave
"In 4.6 miles, turn left on Michigan Ave."
How did Michigan Ave. suddenly get farther away???
"Find the nearest road."
I'm ON the nearest road!!!
"In .5 miles, turn left on Michigan Ave."
OK, there we go, Michigan Ave. must be coming up soon
"In 4.3 miles, turn left on Michigan Ave.
What??? Now it's 4.3 miles???
"Off course. Recalculating."
Recalculating? Yeah, you do that!
"in 800 yards, turn right."
Right? I'm supposed to turn right now???
"In 680 yards, turn left on Michigan Ave."
Now we're back to Michigan Ave???
I took the GPS and chucked it out the window.
Amazingly, I made it downtown, found a garage, and headed to the Prudential building where WTMX is located. You know that diamond shaped building featured in Adventures in Babysitting? Across from the library? The Prudential Building?
Yeah, that building there. I walked in and told the gentleman at the front desk that I had an appointment with Susan at the MIX.
He said, "Who? Where?"
I repeated it for him. He looked at me like I'd just stepped off a bus from the middle of Kansas and had never seen a city before.
"Isn't this 130 E. Randolph?" I inquired.
"No, that's the Prudential building!" he said as if I was completely daft.
"You mean, this ISN'T the Prudential building?" I asked just to confirm his suspicions that I was indeed daft.
"That's across the street!" He pointed out the window. I followed his gaze and lo and behold right across the street was a building with a big sign that read "PRUDENTIAL". Yeah, note to self: read the signs on the buildings!
I signed in at the real Prudential building and was directed to the elevators. "The MIX is on the 27th floor," the gentleman directed me.
I walked over to a bank of elevators, got in, and noticed that they only went to the 15th floor. I pushed 15 and thought maybe there were elevators that went up higher from that point. Nope. I went back down and asked someone how to get to the 27th floor.
She gave me the same "You're An Idiot" look that the guy in the other building had given me and then she pointed out that there were 3 separate banks of elevators and each section was labeled with the floors they went to. Who knew?
So, I did my interview with Susan who was lovely and nice and I think it went fairly well. You can catch it on Mix Matters this Sunday at 7:00 AM on the Mix 101.9. I believe you can listen to it live Sunday morning by going HERE and clicking on the tab labeled "listen live".
When I was done with the interview, I walked across the river to the PR agency that's working with me where I met a nice, interesting guy named Frank who taught me a few things about handling media appearances. That was a fun and informative meeting. He even had coffee waiting for me which was really nice considering my legs had gone completely numb by the time I got there. Crazy weather. It was 60 degrees a couple days ago and only 20 today.
I was a couple days too early to see the river dyed green for St. Patrick's Day.
The Tribune Tower - a bad picture of one of the coolest looking buildings in the city.
The ginormous American Gothic statue
When I left the city, my GPS was still doing that funky thing so I ended up at Navy Pier. I guess only folks from Chicago would understand that only an idiot could leave Ontario and manage to get to Navy Pier before hitting 90. Then I took a fun-filled drive on Lower Wacker. This really shouldn't surprise anyone though. In fact, when I walked out of both the office at the MIX and the PR agency, I got turned around and started going down the wrong hallway. Yep, that's me.
Tomorrow I'm not doing anything but playing with the kids until I have to leave for the play I'm in. I've been too busy lately.
Posted by Dawn at 8:12 PM
40 comments:
- Amanda said...
Oh my gosh, I have had that same issue with my GPS numerous times. It is such a pain in my butt. It'll say 'Turn left in 0.5 miles' and I do. Then it says 'recalculating route'... what in the heck? You TOLD me to turn left! Don't you 'recalculate route' me. Tonight it brought me to a dead end and then asked me to turn left. How in the heck am I supposed to turn left at a dead end? Or when I was looking for a grocery store near my current location... it told me I "had arrived" while I was still driving in the middle of the road... no Dominick's in sight. I just turned around and started going my own way until it caught up. Argh! Maybe we should just go back to the days of Yahoo Maps and tape the piece of paper to our windshield.
- March 13, 2009 at 1:34 AM
- melech said...
Wow Dawn! What an amazing girl you are!You WALKED across the river? I thought only Jesus could do things like that!
Sorry..I am awake at 3:30AM..and noticed that you were adding comments to your BLOG..I just couldn't resist. I'll depart now so that your other 3 MILLION followers get a chance too!
- March 13, 2009 at 2:22 AM
- Bekah said...
So now I'm confused, the diamond shaped building is not really the Prudential building? I grew up in Chicago and that has ALWAYS been the Prudential building.
- March 13, 2009 at 6:55 AM
- Chas said...
When in Chicago we always print our directions because it's a guarantee the GPS will go all hormonal on us. Except the last time, when I forgot them at home, and we tried to exit the city according to the GPS and wound up on Lake Shore Drive before realizing that if we went much further we'd be very very wet. Driving in Chicago is always an adventure at the very least.
Wow. The Mix. How exciting. I live just out of range, but I will try to listen live.
- March 13, 2009 at 8:22 AM
- noexcuses said...
I have nightmares about your day! I think you handled everything very well! I'm sure you're glad it's over.
Enjoy the kids today, and break a leg!
- March 13, 2009 at 8:25 AM
I loved reading about your day! I would have pitched the GPS too. I hate when they say 'recalculating'.
Now... whoa down.... I am from the middle of Kansas and I HAVE seen the city! LOL
- March 13, 2009 at 8:49 AM
- A Mom in Jacksonville, FL said...
Looks like you had a great trip.
I used to LOVE the Adventures in Babysitting movie. Your photo of the building brought back memories of poor Sara sliding down the roof as her brother and babysitter try to figure out how to rescue her... Too fun!
- March 13, 2009 at 8:52 AM
Haha, I have a job that sent me to downtown Houston. I was as lost as you and just like you, I get in the elevator, go up and feel like an idiot when I have to go back down and walk to another elevator...
I was glad to get back into my car in the parking lot.
- March 13, 2009 at 9:10 AM
- mammacita said...
your kidding about the river being dyed green righ?
- March 13, 2009 at 9:40 AM
- Dawn said...
Nope, not kidding at all. They dye the river green!
- March 13, 2009 at 10:24 AM
- Byc said...
On a GPS, the satelite sgnals bounce off of the tall buildings in a city, which confuses the unit, and the driver. They work best away from the interferences, but unfortuntly are needed most in those settings.
- March 13, 2009 at 10:46 AM
I thought you threw the GPS out the window. HOw did it end up back in your car for the trip home? :)
Sounds exactly like something that would happen to me. Thanks for making me feel less alone in my directionally-challenged world!
- March 13, 2009 at 10:46 AM
I just received an email from Amazon, that your book I preordered, will arrive at my front door earlier than expected on March 19th! Can't wait!
- March 13, 2009 at 10:53 AM
- Erin T. said...
LOL! I go downtown a LOT to pick up payment checks for work and I cannot tell you how many times I've gotten on this elevator only to find out (too late to get off, of course) that the elevator I got on won't go to the floor I need!
And my GPS doesn't work so well in the Loop either! I think it's all the buildings... You would think that all the times I go downtown I'd know my way around by now, right? Nope! LOL!!
- March 13, 2009 at 11:13 AM
Dawn, I think you need to just stay in the suburbs for a while!
Wow, that's a lot of dye! I've seen fountains dyed for St. Patty's, but never a whole river!
- March 13, 2009 at 12:17 PM
- Tinagsmarykay said...
you had me giggling thru the entire post LOL Especially when you turned & saw the Prudential sign across the street LOL I enjoy you!
- March 13, 2009 at 12:33 PM
- Michelle said...
You are a brave woman to drive downtown! That is something I have no intention of ever doing.
- March 13, 2009 at 12:46 PM
Guess who was just at my door? Mr. UPS man, that's who. And what did he have for me? MY BOOK!!!!!!!! MYbookmybookmybook...YAYYAYYAY!!!!
Can't WAIT to read it cover to cover. I'll make sure I have my Depends on first, though.
Congrats!!! And, to Becky, on the EBay auction, she's a doodoohead...You can do whatever you want with your auction winnings. You deserve it. You go, girl!!
-Beth in MI
- March 13, 2009 at 1:30 PM
We used to tell my mother to be careful when she went out to hang the clothes on the line. She had inherited her sense of direction from one of the lost family branches, we're just not sure which one (there were several). My best advice for her was, "Now Mom, be sure you only turn clockwise when you go out the back door, otherwise you might lose the garage, which will be on your right." Could that be why she called me her "darling little smart alec?" %)
- March 13, 2009 at 1:57 PM
- Bella said...
My husband feels the same way about GPS lol Its GOOD for somethings but it is technology and a machine... ahhh much like a man they are bound to screw up.
- March 13, 2009 at 3:09 PM
- Diane B said...
Wow, you referenced Adventures in Babysitting. I don't even know what to say. So that makes you, me and 4 other people who saw it. JK
- March 13, 2009 at 3:29 PM
- Tammy said...
Hi Dawn, I always got turned around downtown Chicago, too. One time I lost the parking garage where I parked - I had left the stub in the car so I wouldn't lose IT. Duh.
It's so much easier to ride the train and take a cab. I was a nanny for an exec for the Chicago Tribune - inside of the building is super cool, too.
I miss living near the city. Now I live in the mountains. :0S
- March 13, 2009 at 4:43 PM
Too bad you went to the MIX and didn't get to meet Eric and Kathy. With your sense of humor (as well as theirs), that would have been a hilarious conversation! I think you should look into that :)
- March 13, 2009 at 4:50 PM
wow, you survived Lower Wacker. I think you get a medal from Cook county for that!
- March 13, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Sounds like you and I were blessed with the same lack of directional abilities, Dawn! Thanks for this post so that I know I'm not alone! I HATE driving in the city -- ANY city!
Can't wait to hear your interview!
Donna in PA :)
- March 13, 2009 at 7:41 PM
- Cheryl said...
We need you to go back downtown and get a picture of you or some of your kids standing next the the American Gothic statue so we can see just how ginormous it is! Please? :-)
- March 13, 2009 at 7:53 PM
- RefreshMom said...
There should be a rule against buildings having "banks" of elevators and elevators that don't go all the way to the top of a building. I mean, who wants to sit there giving directions to people who don't know you take Elevator A to the 12th floor, go down the west hallway until you reach Elevator D, take it to the 20th floor, head east until you get to Elevator C and push the unmarked button that's the same color as the "Don't push this button or you'll blast through the roof" button. ; )
- March 13, 2009 at 8:05 PM
- Kristy said...
- March 13, 2009 at 8:32 PM
What, no pictures of the "Willis" Tower?
- March 13, 2009 at 8:57 PM
- WhisperingWriter said...
I hate driving downtown too. It petrifies me. One time I drove through Boston and I thought I'd burst into tears. People would just walk right in front of my car without even LOOKING.
My GPS scares me. It's so loud and I can't figure out how to lower the volume. So it's just booming woman's voice telling me to go RIGHT up ahead and then to LEFT. It's like she's screaming at me or something.
- March 13, 2009 at 11:50 PM
- Magda said...
Adventures in Babysitting!!?? I used to LOVE LOVE LOVE that movie!!! Haven´t seen it in ages... aah, good memories...
- March 14, 2009 at 8:05 AM
- mommeeof9 said...
I never get lost, people are always willing to tell me hwere to go. No really, we occasionally take the scenic route, but usually have a real map, directions from mapquest and the gps with us. We use it for finding the nearest restaurant, grocery store, etc, but don't rely on it to provide the only directions.
- March 14, 2009 at 9:56 AM
- Arlene said...
LOL on you getting to Navy Pier before getting to 90! I'm always happier taking the train into the city. But I do know the elevator thing - I used to work across from the Sears (Willis!) tower and we'd have meetings over there on some high up floor.
- March 14, 2009 at 10:20 AM
Thank you to the commenter who let us all know your book is IN STOCK and SHIPPING from Amazon...I just clicked over there, and in addition to a delivery estimate of Friday (March 20), the book was ON SALE for about $10 and change! Way to keep us moms in mind! I hardly ever buy books because I read so fast (that's what libraries are for, right?), but when I heard Because I Said So was going to be available early, I just couldn't resist. I've been reading your words of wisdom from the Pokemon auction on, and even though you don't get much of the sales price, at least you get something back from us readers. Congratulations, and I can't wait to read it!
- March 14, 2009 at 3:18 PM
- Michelle said...
Ahhhh, I'm feeling better and better about now having a GPS. I love justifications about why I *don't* want things instead of the other way around. So how did you feel about the interview in general?
- March 14, 2009 at 8:23 PM
It just occurred to me that it was you birthday on Tuesday, wasn't it? Did you intentionally not mention it? Or do you just intentionally ignore birthdays? Cause I'm getting to that point in life where I'd rather just skip birthdays and pretend I'm not a year older. And I'm really not stalker, I just remembered because my 4, oops, I mean my 5 yr old shares your bday. At least, I think, or maybe I've just lost my mind and am way off on when your bday is. Because that is entirely possible too.
Andi in WI
- March 15, 2009 at 12:11 PM
You had me at hello. I get lost in a parking lot all the time. Not anything I am proud of but I am still laughing at your adventure :) Glad you got there where you needed to be. Yeah! Hip Hip Hooray :) Isn't technology great?! Have a great week :)
Angeleyes Blue
- March 15, 2009 at 6:13 PM
DAWN! I miss you! you were my daily laugh. COME BACK!
- March 15, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Thanks - this was hilarious!!!
"No problem. I just stopped by the bank, took out a second mortgage so I could pay for parking...."
And I love that word "daft."
As always, thanks for the laughs.
And looks like I'm going to have to start checking the book stores. Thanks for keeping us posted.
Happy Monday to you :)
- March 15, 2009 at 9:35 PM
- momto3cubs said...
I love Chicago. I'm impressed that you traveled downtown by car all by yourself!
No stop at American Girl for the girls? ;)
- March 15, 2009 at 9:55 PM


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Saturday, August 16, 2008
SPEED At MIS: Sunday TV Schedule
RaceDay will be live at 11AM ET on SPEED as host John Roberts leads his cast of characters through a two hour pre-race program. Jimmy Spencer and Kenny Wallace will be alongside to talk about all the news stories of the week and preview the Sprint Cup Series race.
Kyle Busch, Jimmie Johnson and Sam Hornish will be live guests on the show. Wendy Venturini's popular Real Deal feature will focus on an interview with Ryan Newman. There will be a look back at Dale Earnhardt Junior's win at MIS last season and a look at what Kyle Busch has done in the Sprint Cup Series since February.
Following the race, SPEED will return with The SPEED Report. This week Leigh Diffey and Adam Alexander host the show with live reports from Ray Dunlap at MIS and both Doug Richert and Robin Miller will be guests in the studio.
Up next at 8PM is the popular Victory Lane show that brings back Roberts, Spencer and Wallace. This program talks to the winner of the race, his crew chief and the winning owner. They also review the race highlights and let TV viewers have an inside look at the raw emotion immediately after the race.
Dave Despain comes along with his Wind Tunnel program at 9PM. He hosts a wide-ranging show with a dry sense of humor that looks at motorsports in general. Dave likes to poke NASCAR with a stick and makes no bones about his strong feelings for other forms of racing both in the US and abroad. He has several guests on each program and this week Robin Miller will be featured.
This post will serve to host your TV-related comments about the Sunday of motorsports coverage on SPEED. We have broadened this post to include The SPEED Report and Wind Tunnel at the request of readers. To add your opinion, just click on the COMMENTS button below and follow the easy instructions.
The rules for posting are located on the right side of the main page. Thank you for taking the time to stop by The Daly Planet.
46 comments:
- Rockin Rich said...
Controversy Alert:
According to a post on the That's Racin site this AM, both of Gibbs' Nationwide teams were accused of attempting to rig the chassis dyno tests following the Michigan NW race.
Should be some interesting back & forth on both Speed,and ESPN pre-race shows today.
- August 17, 2008 at 9:45 AM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
The RaceDay "walk on" is certainly new. This is the series responding to being earlier and losing pit road interviews and Venturini's pit walks.
With a crowd as big as the RaceDay crew has at Michigan, it is almost impossible for the crowd to hear the show.
- August 17, 2008 at 11:05 AM
- Matt said...
Wow look at that crowd.. wish I was there.
- August 17, 2008 at 11:06 AM
- Rockin Rich said...
In & out of the house at the moment, and not watching the show. What is this new "walk on"?
- August 17, 2008 at 11:20 AM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Kyle Busch on the RaceDay stage!
- August 17, 2008 at 11:23 AM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Looks like there has been a big change in this show. Don't know if it is sponsor-driven or they are just trying to re-define the program after being stuck between NASCAR Now and NASCAR Countdown.
All three panelists came out of the trailer and walked up to and onto the stage to start the show.
We need more crowd and fans. Less talking heads. Keep the audio going but show us the fans.
- August 17, 2008 at 11:29 AM
- bevo said...
I disagree about showing more of the crowd. ESPN ruined College Gameday with so much emphasis on the crowds. What used to be a great informative show to start the day for college football turned into a mess.
Just my two cents...
- August 17, 2008 at 11:39 AM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
The difference is that the football crowd is there for only two teams and they go to all the games.
These people drive from very far away, make homemade signs and will most probably not get to another race this season.
Taking time to acknowledge the NASCAR fans in this show would make a big difference now that it is on so early.
NASCAR Now just covered most of this info and at 1PM NASCAR Countdown is going to cover it again. RaceDay has to change and change fast.
At least they are changing somethings already in this show.
- August 17, 2008 at 11:43 AM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
btw..adding Hermie as a second reporter was also a good idea.
- August 17, 2008 at 11:44 AM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Wow...lots of changes. College football and Rutledge.
- August 17, 2008 at 12:00 PM
- Erik said...
I actually liked that Rutledge bit. Probably the first one I ever have.
- August 17, 2008 at 12:02 PM
- Erik said...
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- August 17, 2008 at 12:02 PM
- bevo said...
Wow! Didn't think my analogy with college football would come into play today :)
- August 17, 2008 at 12:12 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
If you knew the reality behind the college football chaos on ESPN this year you would be livid.
Disney is in charge of college football like they took over the NFL on ESPN...have you seen Musburger on the college football daily show?
Gameday is now only promoting the ESPN games and talking about the conferences that ESPN shows. It is a mess.
- August 17, 2008 at 12:12 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
SPEED has been trying to re-define RaceDay after the schedule change.
- August 17, 2008 at 12:13 PM
- bevo said...
I noticed the lack of covering non-Disney games at the start of last year but they had to mention them towards the end of the season.
Be a good time for Fox Sports Net or Versus to step up with a morning show.
- August 17, 2008 at 12:19 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Nice Real Deal with Newman.
- August 17, 2008 at 12:27 PM
- bevo said...
Noticed Mrs. Newman's controversy was not addressed.
- August 17, 2008 at 12:32 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
You mean the David Newton stuff?
- August 17, 2008 at 12:37 PM
- bevo said...
Yep. It's one thing to say no comment but another to be indignant about it. Not taking ESPN's or Newton's side in it, but I'm sure the thought has occurred to everyone in the wake of the signing.
- August 17, 2008 at 12:41 PM
- Anonymous said...
West Coast Diane said:
I thought I remembered several other RD's where the gang walked or came in on carts at beginning of show. Love Wendy, but her piece on the JGR "magnet" NW issue was the worst. Not even sure what she said it was so convoluted. Glad we can DVR some of this stuff.
- August 17, 2008 at 12:48 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Newton just said what Newman asked the media not to say until he had made his final decision. Do you think there is still an issue?
- August 17, 2008 at 12:50 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Good memory. They sure did try that before and also had a wide variety of guests and displays around the stage.
It should be interesting to see what this show becomes down the stretch.
- August 17, 2008 at 12:51 PM
- Sophia said...
I wondered the same thing about the omission of the ESPN reporter. :)
Also I do not enjoy seeing the fans waving signs and screaming on the live tv shows. If I can BARELY hear the tv guys due to the crowd, I turn OFF the tv.
This happens a lot on Trackside. either make the show for the viewers at home or the fans. but if the fans TAKE AWAY from the ability to "hear interviews" or look at tv screen without needing a dramamine, not good tv picture imo.
- August 17, 2008 at 12:53 PM
- Newracefan said...
JD why would the producer not want Kenny to mention Macon?
- August 17, 2008 at 12:53 PM
- Sophia said...
I am glad somebody else noticed Wendy's 'explanation' of the magnet issue.
I thought I needed another cup of coffee as I was not following her at all..wonder if somebody was talking in her ear with updates as she spoke. :)
- August 17, 2008 at 12:55 PM
- bevo said...
I think it would have been a good time to wrap up the issue, it's not like everyone suddenly has amnesia about it.
Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things.
- August 17, 2008 at 1:00 PM
- Sophia said...
Has amnesia about what?
I got distracted and thought I was watching a very long promo for Wrecked..then realized, time to turn the station, lol.
- August 17, 2008 at 1:02 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
No clue nrf. Don't forget Robin Miller on SPEED Report and Wind Tunnel tonight.
- August 17, 2008 at 1:03 PM
- Newracefan said...
Wendys explaination of the JGR issue was a mess but the follow up cleared it all up for me. Real Deal on the other hand was great and I am OK with not mentioning the Newton/Chrissy issue, Chrissy addressed it in her blog and that the only place she commented on it in the first place as far as I can tell.
- August 17, 2008 at 1:04 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
I went at it pretty good with Newton. He thinks he has an obligation to report what the teams tell him. Almost all of the NASCAR media waited like Ryan asked them to until he signed the deal. Its a choice.
- August 17, 2008 at 1:06 PM
- bevo said...
Has amnesia about what?
I love that! :)
The dust up with the reporting that Newman was going to Stewart-Haas and Mrs. Newman's response.
- August 17, 2008 at 1:08 PM
- bevo said...
Not to get into this again but did Newman ask them not to say anything about Stewart-Haas or the whole process of deciding where to go?
- August 17, 2008 at 1:10 PM
- Anonymous said...
Isn't Wendy's husband a Gibbs employee? I believe he is a member of the #20 team. That could explain her convoluted explanantion.
- August 17, 2008 at 1:10 PM
- Sophia said...
I knew about the dust up...I just couldn't resist playing the ditzy blond. :)
Course, my roots are dark.
Still, as JD said, reporters have a choice. I would rather sit on a story and keep the respect of the drivers if I worked in the biz but that's easy to say from home I guess.
- August 17, 2008 at 1:11 PM
- Anonymous said...
West Coast Diane said:
One general comment: Can ALL the shows on ESPN, FOX, SPEED, TNT, etc., stop with the loud music when anyone is speaking and especially when doing "scanner" plays. YIKES! Do you want us to hear what is being said or are you selling a CD!! Thank you...think I'll have another cup of coffee!!!
- August 17, 2008 at 1:12 PM
- Sophia said...
AMEN about your loud music comment. They need to STOP doing that on TWIN as well.
sigh... ;-)
- August 17, 2008 at 1:14 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
He repeatedly told the media that just because anonymous team PR folks are leaking that he is signed does not mean he has signed anything. He was flat-out in his denial.
Newton has pressure from ESPN to scoop stuff and be first. He feels that as long as he says it is from anon sources that he is OK in doing it.
When almost none of the traveling NASCAR media reports the same thing, that points to the difference between the way ESPN treats fact and the way other mainstream publications treat it.
Where ESPN is concerned, this is going to be an on-going debate as silly season plays out.
- August 17, 2008 at 1:37 PM
- Newracefan said...
Hopefully the other "Media" will not go the same route as ESPN, I will be really disappointed if they do.
- August 17, 2008 at 1:42 PM
- Lisa Hogan said...
Mr. Newton will have a "gotcha" in his future. It will come when he least expects it and from a direction he least expects.
Going to be interesting. :)
- August 17, 2008 at 1:54 PM
- Anonymous said...
@anon 1:10--yes she's married to Jason Shapiro...he's now the Car Chief but was the Engine Tuner for many years :). But she definitely has 'sperience in having to be unbiased in reporting...she reported on ARCA for many years where her brother Billy ran. And I remember when Billy got hurt that thin line.
- August 17, 2008 at 2:09 PM
- Anonymous said...
Gymmie - sorry to say but you are wrong. Wendy is married to Jarrad Egert - not Jason Shapiro. Jarrad does work for Joe gibbs racing in the engine department.
- August 17, 2008 at 3:31 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Ray Dunlap referred to the Yates teams as "Roush Lite." That is a good one.
Hey, its Mr. E. and not Mr. S. on the Wendy deal.
I don't see a conflict of interest with her talking about the Gibbs penalty. She was straight-up as usual. That is a college educated and very experienced TV personality. She is not going to risk a credibility gap in her reporting on any NASCAR subject.
- August 17, 2008 at 7:11 PM
- bevo said...
I'm tuning in late but what happened to the stage?
- August 17, 2008 at 8:36 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
At several tracks, the location and size of Victory Lane make the guys sit in chairs. Sometimes, it is off to the side.
If memory serves me, the same thing is up for Bristol on Saturday night.
- August 17, 2008 at 8:44 PM
- bevo said...
I don't watch every week, in fact I haven't watched since before the Saturday races. Just looks odd, they don't seem to know which camera is on and the cuts are really slow.
- August 17, 2008 at 8:51 PM


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Career Service Center sponsoring event to connect job seekers with employers
Taft's unemployment rate is 13.9%, and the The Kern County Department of Human Services is going to offer some help.
So the Taft JobFest will be held here on April 3. at the Taft Veterans Memorial Building, 218 Taylor Street 9 a.m. until noon.
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The Taft JobFest is one of a series of similar events being held around Kern County.


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Osborne Brings Young Students to their Feet
Waverly, Neb. – Two Nebraska football stars received enthusiastic applause here Tuesday morning. So did an Olympic gold medal wrestler, two Husker volleyball players, a Hall-of-Fame softball coach, an NU track and field captain returning to her roots and two Nebraska basketball representatives – one a member of the current men's team and the other a former Husker star serving as an assistant coach for the women's team.
An estimated 1,700 middle school students packed the Waverly High School gym for the first-ever Sportsmanship 4 Life Pep Rally, co-presented by the Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame (NHSSHOF) and the University of Nebraska Athletic Department. For nearly two hours, the gym was loud and proud, but never louder – or prouder – than it was when Tom Osborne delivered the program's keynote speech.
The young students took it upon themselves to give Osborne a standing ovation before his speech and then another "standing O" after he finished. The Hall-of-Fame football coach, three-term Congressman and Nebraska Athletic Director Emeritus both crystalized and reinforced a strong sportsmanship theme. Somehow, he also managed to give sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade students from across Southeast Nebraska a short but effective lecture on the importance of integrity.
Character is Only Thing that Endures
"Horace Greeley said something many years ago. He said fame is vapor and popularity is an accident," Osborne said. "He said the only thing that really endures is character." Later, Osborne pointed out that character is a choice, not a trait, and went on to use two sterling examples to explain why that's true.
Jack Guggenmos, former president of the Nebraska Coaches Association and now an NHSSHOF executive board member, thought the entire program delivered an important message. He also thought the nine speakers preceding Osborne built a solid platform, enabling T.O. to become the ideal clean-up hitter to drive everyone else's points home.
Nebraska Associate AD Keith Zimmer coordinated the program with Larry Munksgaard, the NHSSHOF's executive director. Tuesday morning's action never waned in front of a positively charged crowd that included the Waverly High School band, the Nebraska Spirit Squad, Husker mascot 'Lil Red and the South Dakota-based Bruce Crevier family that spun basketballs and rode unicycles while the ringleader discussed goals, attitudes, morals and overall excellence.
High School Leader: Osborne Nailed It
"Coach Osborne hit the nail on the head when he spoke," Guggenmos said. "He explained to everyone in the room how you can choose to be a champion in the game of life because of the choices you make when no one is looking."
Husker receiver Kenny Bell kicked off the program, talking about how "positivity breeds happiness". Nebraska volleyball players Meghan Haggerty and Sheridan Zarda explained how to appreciate privilege, why there is no such thing as entitlement and how teamwork enables dreamwork. Waverly native and Nebraska track and field captain Anne Martin emphasized the importance of first and last impressions, "being there from the start" and being consistent.
USA gold medal wrester Jordan Burroughs commanded the gym's attention while discussing the importance of everyone in the room "protecting their brand" on social media. "Your name is everything!" he told the students.
Abdullah Focuses on Patience, Humility
Ameer Abdullah described his strategy for succeeding an injured Rex Burkhead at running back last season – by using patience and humility and surrounding himself with positive role models.
Nebraska softball coach Rhonda Revelle was her usual motivational self – from mentioning that a smile is a "universal language" to why everyone should do their best. Revelle said the three most important words are "I am sorry", the two most important are "Thank you" and the single most important word is "Please".
Erynn Nicholson, a former Husker dancer and NFL cheerleader who now manages Nebraska's Spirit Squad, said she not only cheers for the Huskers, but also strives to convince others why they should not cheer against the opposing team. Jessie Pflug, a Spirit Squad member from Omaha, said having that honor is all about positive energy and respect.
Osborne: Big Difference Between Good, Bad
Osborne compared and contrasted Nebraska's football atmosphere with others, describing how poorly a Southern team's fans once treated Nebraska and how well Big Red fans treated Florida State, even though the Seminoles upset the Huskers in Lincoln. "Our fans gave Florida State a standing ovation because of how hard they played," he said.
Character goes hand-in-hand with class, and 1,700 students went home Tuesday knowing what it takes to make that a reality.
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Ansible, Inc. has announced Tower 2.0, an upgrade to its orchestration, configuration management, and application deployment software for DevOps teams.
Ansible is an open source IT automation project. Ansible Tower is a user interface (UI) and dashboard designed to help DevOps teams centralize their Ansible IT automation.
CEO at Ansible Saïd Ziouani reminds us that Ansible Tower is used as DevOps tool in organizations like NASA, GoPro, EA and Hughes. "Ansible Tower enhances the Ansible open source engine by providing role-based access control, Ansible job scheduling, auditing, and graphical inventory management," he said.
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As I sit down to write this post I remember that the oven hasn't been on in over four days. Wow. Is that a new record for me? I think so. The heat and the humidity have taken over very early this summer and the last thing I want to do is add more heat. So I've been eating a lot of salads, subs, tomato & mozzarella, etc.. and of course ice cream.
I asked on twitter what ya'll wanted me to post next and almost everyone said salad. OK. To be honest I never thought to share salads, but maybe someone out there will dig it as much as I do. My salads are a little out of this world, but that's because I love my salads kicked up too, just like my desserts and meals. But I think you might like this salad as it has a lot of flavor and textures going on in it. Not to mention protein. It's pretty easy to guess what's on this one: avocado's, tortilla strips, black olives, feta, red kidney beans. The dressing is catalina. Yeah big gourmet surprise. But have ya'll tried Catalina? Man that stuff is goooood. I've just tried it in the last two years. That stuff goes with everything. Amazing in taco salads too. What's not in the photo are banana peppers; I saw those in the fridge last minute and had to have them.
What's your favorite way to kick up a salad? Do you eat more salads in the summer?


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Stephen Colbert loves music and loves to sing. That's why Fresh Air's Terry Gross asked him to bring a few songs that mean a lot to him and tell her why. For example, as a kid, Colbert discovered his first lesson about character acting through "King Herod's Song" from Jesus Christ Superstar, even though he thought the words were scandalous at first: "Oh, so you are the Christ? You're the great Jesus Christ. Prove to me that you're no fool. Walk across my swimming pool."
"That opened my eyes as a kid — that you could actually be — well, you could be wrong in character," he tells Gross. "You could be blasphemous in character and it doesn't negate how you feel about the subject."
Colbert says he also loves the work of Elvis Costello, who he says tried to write anthemic, Bruce Springsteen-like songs when he was younger, but eventually stopped because he'd end up with wry, sardonic or character-based songs. Colbert says it's an odd parallel with his own artistic evolution and relationship to Jon Stewart, especially because Stewart's favorite artist is Springsteen.
Ben Folds Five is another of Colbert's favorite groups. "The Best Imitation of Myself" spoke directly to him as an entertainer. "When I first heard the song, just a few years ago, I just thought he had written it for me," Colbert says. After listening more, he says he realized the song is "just a beautiful expression of how we are toward each other as people — we don't think that we are sufficient for each other; that no one wants to know the real me or the whole me."
Stephen Colbert is the author of America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't and I Am a Pole (And So Can You!).
Interview Highlights
On the parallel between Elvis Costello's relationship with Bruce Springsteen and Colbert's relationship with Jon Stewart
"[Elvis Costello] was trying when he was younger to try to write Bruce Springsteen songs — and that he really liked Bruce Springsteen's sound. And he said, but then he eventually stopped doing that because he would try to write these songs like Bruce Springsteen and he would end up writing things that were a little bit wry, sardonic or even character-based. And they didn't have that sort of sincere, anthemic quality that Bruce's songs sometimes have. And that kind of blew me away, because he's describing his relation to Bruce Springsteen kind of like my relationship to Jon Stewart. And Jon's favorite artist is Bruce Springsteen, and my favorite rock artist is probably Elvis Costello. So there's an odd parallel between Elvis' evolution from what he was trying to do like Bruce and my evolution from what I was trying to do when I worked with Jon."
On falling asleep onstage
"I've fallen asleep onstage in a scene literally, and I wanted to do it for years. I felt like, 'I wonder if I could get so comfortable on stage that if I was playing a sleeping person I could fall asleep onstage,' which is a dumb idea because you'd miss every cue, of course. But I did it one day. I had been traveling. We'd done shows in Chicago — this is Second City — and we'd done 10 days of shows in Vienna. And when we came back from Austria — it was the night after I came back — I had such terrible jet lag that I went out onstage. I sat down. I was supposed to be onstage when the lights came up. When the lights came up, I was sound asleep. Somebody had to come up wake me up — well, actually, the man next to me onstage had to wake me up."
On why he likes comedy more than drama
"I did drama and I did comedy. I like comedy more, because if you mess up onstage or if you mess up doing a comedy, there's just incessant mockery of what you did rather than if you mess up in a drama — at least my experience of having done it onstage. There's just a kind of chill of disappointment in the fact that you ruined the scene. There's almost a celebration of the fact that you failed when you fail in comedy."
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. At the end of my interview with Stephen Colbert earlier this month, I promised there would be a part two, and we've got that for you today. His show "The Colbert Report" is largely political satire, but Colbert loves music and loves to sing, so he often has on guest performers, and when we're really lucky, he sings with them. He even sang a duet with General Odierno of "I'll Be Home For Christmas" last December in honor of the troops returning from Iraq in time for the holidays.
Last year, Colbert also performed in the New York Philharmonic's production of Stephen Sondheim's musical "Company." So part two of our interview is all about music that has influenced him. I asked him to bring a few recordings that mean a lot to him and tell us why. Colbert has a new book called "America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't."
So I've made it clear to you several times on FRESH AIR when you've been a guest in the past that I love it when you sing. I love it when you sing onstage. I love it when you sing on your show. I love it when you sing with guests on your show. So someday I hope maybe you'll sing on our show. But in the meantime...
STEPHEN COLBERT: That'd be fun.
GROSS: In the meantime, we asked you to bring some of your favorite recordings so we could talk about music. And so you sent us, you know, the names of a few recordings; we have them ready to play. So I thought we'd start with the first one, which is a song from "Jesus Christ Superstar," which I assume you first heard when you were very young.
COLBERT: Yeah, I think I was probably 7 or 8 when I first heard it, the Broadway cast recording.
GROSS: The Broadway cast recording, OK. And how did you hear it?
COLBERT: One of my brothers and sisters had it, maybe my sister Lulu(ph) or something like that. And just for the record, Terry, the three songs that I sort of, I picked for today, they're not necessarily my favorite recordings. I just felt like, oh, what are three songs that mean something to me and almost specifically aren't my favorite recordings.
I just thought of three different aspects of my life, and I thought, OK, are there any songs that just speak to that. And the first one would be Herod's song, "King Herod's Song" from "Jesus Christ Superstar," and I just remember hearing it as a kid. And, you know, it's an upbeat, contemporary song in an otherwise very, very serious, you know, musical.
And it's the only song that's sort of comedic in "Jesus Christ Superstar," and as a child, I remember thinking it was scandalous because, you know, the lyrics go - Herod is facing Jesus, and he says:
(Singing) Oh, so you are the Christ, you're the great Jesus Christ. Prove to me that you're no fool, walk across my swimming pool. If you do that for me, then I'll let you go free. Come on, King of the Jews.
And I thought as a kid, like, oh that's so blasphemous, that's so scandalous.
COLBERT: And yet I loved the song. Because I was from a fairly devout family. But even as a young kid, my mom said no, no, that's fine, that's exactly how they would have spoken to him. That's just...
GROSS: Far worse, yes.
COLBERT: That's just - you know what I mean, but that's like a theatrical expression of contempt. And that opened my eyes as a kid that you could actually be - well, you could be wrong in character. You could be blasphemous in character, and it doesn't negate how you feel about the subject. You know, like...
GROSS: Oh, so...
COLBERT: The greatest example is just because I play a murderer doesn't mean I'm a murderer. In the same way, you could actually mock Christ in this song, effectively mock Christ, and, you know, comedically mock Christ, and yet it's not a mockery of the story.
GROSS: Wow, that's kind of like you were seven and figured out what it means to be in character, which you now are so much of the time on your show. It's like this is the roots...
COLBERT: Yeah.
GROSS: This is the roots of your character.
COLBERT: Well, certainly my ability - certainly it's the first time I thought, oh, you can make jokes about religion that aren't anti-religious.
GROSS: Right, great, OK. So let's hear the version from the original cast recording, 1970, "Jesus Christ Superstar," and here it is.
MIKE D'ABO: (As King Herod) (Singing) Jesus, I am overjoyed to meet you face to face. You've been getting quite a name all around the place. Healing cripples, raising from the dead, and now I understand you're God, at least that's what you've said.
So you are the Christ, you're the great Jesus Christ. Prove to me that you're divine, change my water into wine. That's all you need do, and I'll know it's all true, c'mon King of the Jews.
Jesus, you just won't believe the hit you've made around here. You are all we talk about, the wonder of the year. Oh, what a pity if it's all a lie. Still I'm sure that you can rock the cynics if you try.
So you are the Christ, you're the great Jesus Christ. Prove to me...
GROSS: So that's "King Herod's Song" from the original Broadway cast recording of "Jesus Christ Superstar," one of the recordings that Stephen Colbert brought with him when we asked him to bring some recordings that have meant something to him over the years. And we did this because...
COLBERT: I could do that whole musical, by the way. You just start the...
GROSS: Really? Were you ever in it? It's one of the musicals everybody - you know, like "Hair," like everybody was in "Hair."
COLBERT: No, no, I'm not really a musical guy, but if you just started like the opening, (vocalizing notes), like the opening of "Jesus Christ Superstar," I could probably sing every note and every word from beginning to end. I love that musical.
COLBERT: I don't even know if it's good. Do you know what I mean? At this point, I have no idea whether it's even a good musical. It's just, it's just too much, like, in my DNA.
GROSS: Right, right, OK. So let's move on to another recording that you named as one that's been important to you, and this is Elvis Costello, who unlike King Herod has actually been on your show several times, including on your great holiday special a few years ago.
COLBERT: Right.
GROSS: And tell us what this recording is and why you chose it.
COLBERT: This is a recording - this is a demo that Elvis Costello did in a hotel room. It wasn't released on an album originally. I think it was - I've loved this song for about 20 years. It was released as an album extra off of "My Aim Is True," a reissue in the early '90s. And it's called "Jump Up."
And what I like about it is - one of the nice things about having a show is I've gotten to meet a few of the people, artists that I really love, and Elvis and I have become, you know, somewhat friends, which I just can't believe that occasionally there'll be a voicemail on my phone from Elvis Costello, telling me he just ran into Bill O'Reilly in Reykjavik.
COLBERT: You know, that's a completely surreal message to get on your cell phone to a kid who was rocking out to, you know, "Armed Forces." But I love the song because it's sort of a satirical song. It's got a parodic nature to it, or not a parodic nature, but it's really, it's got sort of a political, satirical song.
And I've never discussed this song with Elvis, so I might get a message from Elvis Costello after this interview with you, saying, "You know nothing of my work. What are you talking about?"
COLBERT: But I've always thought of it as a - it's sort of like a - it's a person who is talking about insignificance in the name of power or of something that they want, and also talking about the hypocrisy of politicians. The second verse goes:
(Singing) Candidates talkin' on the radio from the Cheaters Jamboree. He must be their latest fool, 'cause it's a two-horse race, and he changed his bets like it was just another brand of cigarettes. Some people judge, then they just guess the rest. They can't understand it don't mean that you're blessed. They got to catch the express, next stop: nowhere. That way you can't forget. Jump up, hold on tight. Can't trust a promise or a guarantee, 'cause the man around the curve says that he's never heard of you or me.
And I've always loved that line, you know, it's a two-horse race, and he changes bets like it was another brand of cigarettes. And back long before I did political satire, I thought, yeah, isn't that interesting, there are only two choices, and people flip back and forth as if it doesn't matter, when there should be bold lines between these two people.
And it's just got one of my favorite lines of any song in it. The poetry in this line about - it's a young man, he says - I'm not sure who the character is, but the young man says: I was a statue standing on a corner. Tell me, how else can a boy get to see those pretty pleats?
And that seems like a young man who does - like, has no personal power. He's a statue standing on the corner. No one's noticing him. But he's looking at the girls going by, and he's trying to figure out how I am someone significant enough to be noticed. How else can a boy get to see those pretty pleats, which clearly means their skirt?
But also it's got the word pretty please in it, and so by describing what he wants, he's also describing how he feels about what he wants. You know, let me see your skirt, pretty please. And those kind of lyrics are all through Elvis Costello's work, and I'm sort of in awe of his ability to often write in character, like as, you know, Spike the Entertainer. He sort of writes in that character. He's wry. He's sort of sardonic.
And I'm not a musician, but his music speaks to me and is - if there was somebody's songs I wished I had written, it would be Elvis Costello's songs, and this is a song, one of the first songs I can remember thinking, God, I wish I had written that.
GROSS: OK, so let's hear it. This is Elvis Costello, "Jump Up." It's a demo recorded in a hotel room or a bedroom or something in the mid-'70s, very lo-fi Elvis Costello, a great recording.
ELVIS COSTELLO: (Singing) Everybody's talking like they can't sit down and looking like they can't stand up. It must be the latest style, and they've seen a lot of things that you never see back on the mile up to the hanging tree. Some people can't keep their fingers clean, just clicking their heels to the beat of the scene, trying to keep careen until the first edition of last night's obituaries.
Jump up, hold on tight, can't trust a promise or a guarantee 'cause the man 'round the curve says that he's never heard of you or me.
No tombstone would ever surprise me when I'm locked in a room about half the size of a matchbox. Got holes in my socks. They match the ones that I got in my feet. I put my feet in the holes in the street, and somebody paved me over. I was a statue standing on the corner. Tell me, how else can a boy get to see those pretty pleats?
Candidate talkin' on the radio from the Cheaters Jamboree. He must be their latest fool, 'cause it's a two-horse race and he changes bets like it was just another brand of cigarettes. Some people judge, then they just guess the rest. They can't understand it don't mean that you're blessed. They ought to catch the express, next stop: nowhere. That way you can't forget.
Jump up, hold on tight, can't trust a promise or a guarantee, 'cause the man 'round the curve says that he's never heard of you or me.
GROSS: So that was an Elvis Costello recording from the mid-'70s, which was chosen for us by my guest, Stephen Colbert. We asked him to bring some of his - some recordings that mean a lot to him because I love his music so much, because I love Stephen Colbert's singing so much. We wanted to go musical today on the show, and the occasion for this interview is Stephen Colbert's new book "America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't."
Something else you want to say about Elvis Costello?
COLBERT: Oh, well, yes. I had a conversation with Elvis maybe about six months ago, which again is a very weird thing, sentence for me to say. But I had a conversation with Elvis about six months ago, and we were talking about the song "Radio Radio." And I don't - you know, this is Elvis' story, so I hope he doesn't feel like I'm stealing something from him, but he said that the song "Radio Radio" was originally sort of anthemic.
It wasn't sort of a biting, kind of aggressive song. It was about how great radio feels. I said oh, that's interesting. And he said, yeah, people don't ask him much about it but that he was trying when he was younger to try to write Bruce Springsteen songs, and he really, he liked Bruce Springsteen's sound. And he said, but then he eventually stopped doing that because he would try to write these songs like Bruce Springsteen, and he would end up writing things that were a little bit wry, sardonic or even sort of character-based, and they didn't have that sort of sincere, anthemic quality that Bruce Springsteen's songs sometimes has.
And that was - that kind of blew me away because he is describing his relationship to Bruce Springsteen kind of like my relationship to Jon Stewart, and Jon's favorite artist is Bruce Springsteen, and probably my favorite rock artist is Elvis Costello. So there's an odd parallel between Elvis' evolution from what he was trying to do, like Bruce, and my evolution from what I was trying to do when I worked with Jon.
GROSS: That's actually really interesting.
COLBERT: Oh, God, I hope so.
COLBERT: Because I just stole Elvis Costello's story, and if I didn't make it interesting, God, I'm in trouble. All right.
GROSS: My guest is Stephen Colbert. He has a new book called "America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't." We'll talk more about his music life after a break. This is FRESH AIR.
GROSS: Let's get back to part two of my recent interview with Stephen Colbert. This part is about his music life. We asked him to bring some recordings he loves. OK, so let's go another recording, and this is a Ben Folds Five recording and perhaps not coincidentally, he was just on your show.
COLBERT: Yeah, he was on my show two nights ago, and I really like Ben Folds. Every night, actually, on my show, just for fun at one of the commercial breaks, we usually play his song "Steven's Last Night in Town." And we'll sometimes play - I love the song "Philosophy" by Ben Folds. And I mean, I like a lot of his stuff.
But there's one particular song that is - that I just love called "The Best Imitation of Myself." And there's sort of an obvious resonance for me because I do an imitation of myself professionally. And the lyrics go: You know, I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you who you want to see. I got the gesture and sound, got the timing down. It's uncanny. Yeah, you'd think it was me.
Do you think I should take a class to lose my Southern accent? Did I make me up or make the face till it stuck? I do the best imitation of myself. And when I first heard the song, it was just a few years ago actually, somehow this song had escaped my notice, I just thought he had written it for me.
But then when I listened to it more, I though it's just a beautiful expression on how we are toward each other as people. We don't think that we are sufficient for each other, that no one wants to know the real me or the whole me. I just want to give you the part of me that I think you expect to see from me and almost as if that little part of me is more than the whole of me, 'cause I don't want to give you any of the poison, I only want to give you the meat of me. Do you know what I mean?
GROSS: Yes.
COLBERT: And this constant slight changing of our mask, or as Eliot says in "Prufrock," time to prepare a face for the faces that we meet. I just hadn't heard in a song in the same way as this one. And I just, I couldn't love this song more.
GROSS: Were you already doing "The Colbert Report" when you heard this?
COLBERT: Yeah, I had already done the show for a few years when I heard this song. And, I mean, even it says, like, you know: If it's all the same, I have people to entertain. You know, I'll juggle one-handed, do some magic tricks and the best imitation of myself. And...
GROSS: You could probably do that. I know you could stand on your head.
COLBERT: Right, yeah. You know, it's a great song for an entertainer to listen to, but what's beautiful about the song to me is that we all play the entertainer for each other, just some of us do it professionally.
GROSS: And some better than others. OK.
GROSS: So this is the Ben Folds Five, "Best Imitation of Myself," one of the songs chosen by my guest, Stephen Colbert.
BEN FOLDS FIVE: (Singing) I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest, so I can be free what you want to see. I got the gesture and sounds, got the timing down. It's uncanny, yeah, you think it was me. Do you think I should take a class to lose my Southern accent? Did I make me up, or make the face till it stuck? I do the best imitation of myself.
The problem-with-you speech you gave me was fine. I liked the theories about my little stage. And I swore I was listening, but I started drifting around the part about me acting my age. Now if it's all the same, I've people to entertain. I juggle one-handed, do some magic tricks and the best imitation of myself. Maybe you think...
GROSS: That's Ben Folds Five, "Best Imitation of Myself," and it's one of the songs Stephen Colbert brought with him today because we asked him to bring a few songs that really mean something to him, and we did that because I really love Stephen Colbert's singing so much.
So what's some of the music you grew up with in the house, that your parents or older siblings were playing?
COLBERT: Well, I'm the youngest of 11 kids. So a lot of the music I listened to was, like, hand-me-down albums from them. As a kid, I listened to a lot of James Taylor and Gordon Lightfoot and Deep Purple. I mean, it was pretty eclectic. It's whatever the older ones left behind: Nancy Sinatra, Paul Anka, Elvis Presley, you know, Creedence Clearwater.
It's - because my eldest brothers and sisters, my brother Ed bought an original 45 of Bill Haley and the Comets' "Rock Around the Clock," but my closest brothers and sisters, you know, left behind Cat Stevens' "Tea For the Tillerman." So I listened to all that because those albums were just laying around.
So basically from the beginning of rock 'n' roll through the, you know, mid-'70s soft-rock, folk, post-folk, Feel Good Festival, I listened to all of it. I don't - I didn't really have a singular music that I listened to. I can't say that I was like, I was a Who guy, or I was - I mean, The Beatles were gigantic. They just, they eclipsed, The Beatles still, they eclipse everything on the musical landscape. It's hard to imagine a band more important than them to me. I don't know musically, but that argument can be made, obviously, but The Beatles were the biggest and most important, but I wasn't, you know, I wasn't sort of slavishly devoted like some people. Their identity was associated with a single group.
GROSS: Stephen Colbert will be back in the second half of the show. His new book is called "America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't." I'm Terry Gross, and this is FRESH AIR.
GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. When I recorded an interview earlier this month with Stephen Colbert, we had more than we could fit into one broadcast, which is why we're getting to hear part two today. And part two is devoted to Colbert's love of music.
As his fans know, he often has on music guests, and sometimes even sings with them. Last year, he performed in the New York Philharmonic production of Stephen Sondheim's musical "Company." Colbert has a new book called "America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't."
So when you were very young did, your parents play music in the house?
COLBERT: No, not really. No, not really. We sang. We were all encouraged to sing at all times. And...
GROSS: What, around the piano or a guitar?
COLBERT: No, just around the house. Just around the house. Nobody in the family played piano or guitar. No one played any musical instruments. As a matter of fact, my sister, my sister Mary beat up my sister Margo one day because Mary had been taking guitar lessons and Margo started playing - running her toes across Mary's guitar.
COLBERT: And Mary, Mary beat up Margo. And, like, my brother Billy had to pull Mary off of Margo and say, why did you do that? Just because she put her toes on your guitar? And Mary said no, because she sounded better than me playing.
GROSS: Oh, no.
GROSS: So when you sang around the house did you sing harmony? And what songs did you sing?
COLBERT: No, we didn't sing harmony. Like, we have a few family songs, like, you know, at a drop of a hat, anyone in our family will sing...
(Singing) I am I, Don Quixote, the Lord of La Mancha. My destiny calls, and I go.
Or we'll sing, you know, we'll sing "Men of Harlech" from the movie "Zulu," which is kind of our family movie. We'll sing, you know, this is what they're singing when the Zulus basically breach the line and kill everybody, and Michael Caine, you know, dies in his movie debut. You know, how does that go?
(Singing) Men of Harlech, stop your dreaming. Can't you hear those - men of Harlech, stop your dreaming. Can't you see their spear points gleaming?
COLBERT: (Singing) See the warrior banners streaming through this battlefield.
At weddings, at family weddings, the men will get on one side of the room and we'll sing "Men of Harlech," and the women will be across the room and do the "Zulu" chant, and they'll attack us.
COLBERT: And then we'll meet in the middle of the room and hug. It's really lovely.
GROSS: That's so funny.
COLBERT: True story. True story.
GROSS: Now, were you ever in summer camp or anything like that, where you had...
COLBERT: No. No. No. I mean, I - well, 11 kids, it was always camp. So we - I didn't go to camp.
GROSS: Right. Right.
COLBERT: I just - I hung around - we lived on a, you know, a street with a dirt road, and it was - we had all the outdoorsy I needed.
GROSS: Were you ever in a band?
COLBERT: Yes. Oh, yeah. I was in two bands. I was in a band in elementary school. I was in a band called Nebula Five, and there were only three of us in Nebula Five.
GROSS: Cosmic. Yeah?
COLBERT: And - because nebula was a cool word and a cool thing. And five, I didn't - we kind of picked five because we thought five was the best number. It never occurred to...
GROSS: This was just to shadow Ben to foreshadow Ben Folds.
COLBERT: Exactly. Exactly. I actually talked to Ben about this the other night, is that I didn't realize - it never occurred to us that the Jackson Five were because they were five of them. You know, as an elementary school kid, you're always, like, what's the best color? It's blue. Wrong. It's red. It's blue, stupid. Or, like, what's the best number? It's three. It's five. Five is definitely the best number.
And so we thought five was the best number. So we were Nebula Five. It was me, Tommy Whittle(ph) - who, at the time, in third grade, called himself Tommy London, that was his stage name - and Gray Motsinger(ph) on drums. And I sang.
And then in high school, I was in a band, briefly, called A Shot in the Dark, is what we called ourselves. And we did mostly, like, Rolling Stones covers. And we would, like, play at a party for free beer or something like that.
GROSS: So did you do Mick Jagger parts?
COLBERT: Yeah, yeah, yeah, like "Honky Tonk Woman" and stuff like that, "Brown Sugar," all that kind of stuff. It'd strut around on stage in New Jersey.
GROSS: Would you really?
COLBERT: Oh, yeah, yeah. I mean, you got to move, baby. You gots to move. You got to give the ladies what they want.
GROSS: What would you wear?
COLBERT: I would wear a pair of jeans, and I would wear my brother Peter's jersey, which had a zero on the back.
GROSS: So it wasn't really tight leather pants?
COLBERT: It wasn't tight leather pants, but it was a pretty tight jersey.
COLBERT: Nor did I have the physique to pull it off. But, again, you got to just - you got to put it out there.
GROSS: Did you sing in church?
COLBERT: Uh... No. I was never in a choir. I was in my school choir. I was a bass in the school choir and, you know, we did a lot of religious music. And my church was - it was a religiously affiliated school, and so we did things - we would do like Mozart's "Mass" kind of religious music. And I still remember the bass line to things like the national anthem.
You know, in my mind I almost can't sing the national anthem, the melody anymore. I have to sing, you know...
(Singing) Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light? What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, o'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the...
COLBERT: You know, I can't remember the melody anymore.
GROSS: You have quite a range, though, because I wouldn't imagine you being able to get that low...
COLBERT: Thank you. Thank you.
GROSS: ...because I know you have a nice high range.
COLBERT: I'm actually much more comfortable really low.
GROSS: Seriously?
COLBERT: I'm much more - oh, yeah, yeah. I'm much more comfortable singing, you know, oh, "Jesus Christ Superstar," Caiaphas, great bass role, is...
(Singing) No, wait. We need a more permanent solution to our problem. What than to do about Jesus of Nazareth? Miracle, wonder man, hero of fools?
That's the part for me, is Caiaphas.
GROSS: Well, now you just need to be in a production. So one more music question: If you could perform in any kind of music venue, would it be a Broadway show? Would it be a rock band? Would it be a country band? Would it be an opera with Audra McDonald?
GROSS: What would it be?
COLBERT: Probably a show, you know, because I'm an actor and I like a story, so a show. I mean, King Herod. Man, playing King Herod: one song, it's in my range. Call me.
GROSS: OK. Well, Stephen Colbert, thank you for bringing music with you. Thank you for singing for us. It was just such a treat. Thank you so much.
COLBERT: It's always a pleasure. Thanks, Terry.
GROSS: Stephen Colbert's new book called "America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't." Earlier, he talked about why he loves Elvis Costello's music. We're about to hear the Elvis Costello song that Colbert sang on "The Colbert Report," accompanied by Costello on guitar. On our website, you'll find a link to that performance, as well as links to all the songs Colbert discussed, and Ben Folds Five recent performance on "The Colbert Report." So, here's Stephen Colbert and Elvis Costello.
COLBERT: (Singing) Oh, well, I feel so loose tonight, I might fall to pieces. So be prepared to sweep me out the door. And I might be horizontal by the time the music ceases. So I think I'll get acquainted with the floor. Oh, I was trying to get away from those things I always do. Hello, floorboards once again, how are you? Lip service - well, that's all you'll ever get from me. Well, how could you believe I would take you seriously? With your cheap rewards, your blackmail, and your comical rage, just remember you'll only be the boss so long as you pay my wage.
(Singing) Oh, the sign posts on this road that point one way. Don't act like you're above me, just look at your shoes. I'll turn the light out now, 'cause there's nothing more to say. And it's all been lost before, so there's nothing to lose. Oh, but you could say that you love me very painlessly. I would've done the same...
GROSS: Coming up, Tom Wolfe talks about his new novel, "Back to Blood."
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They scare me.
Earlier in the year we had an incident where Alex was bullied and that spurred the question of, "What do the kids know about Autism? Do they know anything? Do they even know he has it?" The answers came back as no, no and no. The kids knew nothing.
I though that maybe if they knew something, heck anything, there may be some compassion. They may have some understanding of why he does what he does and maybe with understanding would come some form of acceptance.
I'll be the first to tell you, I worked with our school to do this. Our teachers are great and in some ways I am really blessed. They get it. They get Alex. They get me and they are willing to work with the things I suggest.
I had a PowerPoint presentation and from that presentation, I made a book for each child in Alex's class. I wanted each one of them to have something to bring home so their parents could see what we went over in class. Truth be told, I did it in the hopes that the parents would know what I talked about, and maybe just maybe, there would be further discussion at home.
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Anyway, it turned out to be really interesting. And enlightening. For all of us. The kids were really interested. The teacher had told the students on Monday I would be coming in, later in the week, and asked if they had any questions about Autism. None of the kids new a stitch. They wanted to know things like:
- Can I catch it?
- How do you get it?
- What is it and where does it come from?
So when I went in last week, we had the presentation on the White Board. They use this all the time in class and its basically a computer screen on a white board (imagine that) on the wall. The kids all sat around in a circle eating their snacks and before I could even start a boy asked, "What is it?"
"So you had questions about how do you get Autism and if you can catch it. Those are really good questions..."
Still, twenty-three sets of eyes, all wide open, all with blank stares, looking right at me. It was like looking down the barrel of a gun.
"A person is born with Autism. You can't catch it. You just have it. It's like you have brown eyes or blond hair. You have what you were born with. When a person is born with Autism, it means their brain is a little different. Its just the way a person is born. So just like your hair or eye color, you're born with it. It's not good or bad, its just different."
"Let me ask you guys a question, do you guys know the gaming devices, what are they Nintendo and PlayStation??"
They all started talking at once. I think at first they wondered how an old person like me would even know about Nintendo or PlayStation. Either way, you would have thought I told them Halloween was in twenty minutes.
They all started talking, "Oh My God, yeah! We have those at home! Do you know we have both?!? You can't play them with each other....my dad says its a conspiracy." No lie, that's what one kid said. It was perfect.
All the kids were talking about which games they liked to play and which ones were better....
"Well yeah, OK, lets go back to those two kinds of games. They both have different operating systems. They are the same but different, right? And like the brain, you can't see those differences, they are on the inside, right? Just like the operating systems of the games---the differences are on the inside."
I had them thinking. They were really quite and pondering. The Doritos's were left off to the side of a criss-crossed applesauce set of legs.
"Well, lets say our brains are like those operating systems. Lets say for this class you all have brains with a Nintendo Operating System, OK? And let's say that Alex's brain, his brain, he has a PlayStation Operating System. You guys following?"
Now a lot of heads were nodding up and down and there were a few hushed, "Ohhh's."
"So what that means is this, when your brain receives information from the world, lets say right now--me talking, the lawnmower outside, the hum of the computer, the rattling of your snack bags, all of it---your brain processes it with a Nintendo operating system. Well, Alex's brain takes all that same information---me talking, the lawnmower outside, the hum of the computer, the rattling of your snack bags, all of it---he processes all that same information....but with a PlayStation operating system. Ya still with me?"
I had twenty-three nodding heads and dead silence. I could tell they were getting it, they were totally getting it.
"So what that means is....you all process information one way, and he processes that same information a different way. It's not wrong, its not bad, its just different."
A hand went up. "Is that why Alex uses headsets?"
It was like the floodgates had opened. "Yeah, is that why he wears those things??? Can we see them? Is that why he wiggles? And shakes? And leaves the class sometimes? Hey, can we try the headsets?"
The kids knew. They knew he was different, they always have. They just didn't know why. And they were afraid to ask, you could see it on their faces as plain as day. All this time---they knew.
"Yeah, that's it. His brain processes things differently from you so he responds differently. So when you see him wiggle or.....you know how he pulls his shirt up over his mouth sometimes?" And I had the kids. They all looked around and were a bit uncomfortable here---Alex pulls his shirt up over his face as a stim. The kids got it, they understood it. They knew it was weird, it was different, it was kinda sorta not right. They all knew it but they didn't know what to do or if it was even OK to ask why he does what he does.
"Well with Autism, sometimes the brain can get overloaded. When that happens he needs a break. That's when he leaves. He goes down to the OT room and takes a break. It gives his brain time to catch up with his body. He's not in trouble or anything. His body and brain just need a little extra time to catch up with everyone else."
And that, hands down, was the start of a the best time I've ever spent in the classroom.
I went through why he does what he does and how they can help. How to be a friend, what to do with him and what not to do. And that sometimes being a friend is work but in the end it would be worth it.
The whole time I kept my eye on Alex. I was so worried about how he felt, about what I was saying. I was outing him.
To be clear: I asked him before I even agreed to talk to the class if he was OK with it. I asked if he wanted me to do it and he agreed. He wanted me to come in and talk to the class, he just didn't want to be there. At the last minute, that morning, he changed his mind and we all agreed that we would keep to his wishes. We would do what he wanted to do. This was not about us. This was about us helping him and if he was not happy with that, or uncomfortable in any way, then the deal was off.
The amazing part was? As soon as the kids asked to see his headsets, Alex piped up from the back of the classroom, "You wanna see them? That would be awesome! Let me show you how they work...." He worked his way from the back of the room to the center, with his headsets, and started showing them to the other kids. And he smiled, a big happy smile.
And in that moment I found hope.
I found hope.
Things we did that worked:
- We respected what Alex wanted, every step of the way.
- The teacher asked the students questions about what they knew, and didn't know, about Autism a few days prior to me coming in. I worked those questions into the presentation.
- I did a PowerPoint so the kids had something to look at.
- The PowerPoint was turned into school prior to me coming in so they knew what was going to be discussed. No surprises.
- A booklet, made directly from the PowerPoint, that went home with each child so their parents could see what we talked about.
- Using the comparison of a Nintendo Operating System to a PlayStation Operating System to define the differences in their brains. For whatever reason, they totally understood what I was saying.
- We kept it short. The whole thing lasted 25 minutes, tops.
- I could not have done this without our teachers and their support and understanding.
So that's it, I hope in some small way this helps if you are going into the classroom.


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In the end, this was like another game Cliff Lee was pitching against the Yankees, which means the Yankees kept swinging and missing with the guy. It happened last July, when the Yankees tried to make a trade for him. It happened in October, the one time they faced him in the American League Championship Series, in Game 3 at the new Yankee Stadium.Ian O'Connor, ESPNNewYork:
Now it happens in the crazy, free-agent winter of 2010, when Lee turns down what the Yankees offered him ... and takes less money and fewer years to go back to the Phillies.
They were so sure of opening the 2011 season with CC Sabathia in Game 1 and CC's dear friend, Cliff Lee, in Game 2, they figured the one hurdle to clear in contract talks would be whether to guarantee Lee a monument or a plaque. ...Joel Sherman, Post:
Girardi's rotation looks like it was hit by a nor'easter. The Yanks were hoping A.J. Burnett would be required to throw only celebratory pies next season; now he'll actually be needed to throw fastballs and curves. Andy Pettitte? Now Cashman will offer to build him his very own retirement community if he agrees to give it one more go. ...
[T]his one hurts. It hurts to the bone.
[T]he double-barrel rejection feels overwhelming. ...(And sure enough, a reader's comment: "No biggie...Lee had a what, 7.00 era, in the WS last year, he's declining already at 33 years old next season...We'll be fine and we don't have to listen to the whiners say we bought it..." And more than one fan says NYY should simply trade for Felix Hernandez -- who signed a contract extension less than 12 months ago that runs through 2014. Morons.)
The Yankees will say now they are relieved because, by leaving so many dollars on the table, Lee was signaling he really did not want New York. They will say they were uncomfortable going to age 39 with a pitcher who had back problems last year or that they have some of the best pitching prospects in the majors coming or they now have great financial flexibility to pounce on what they want during the year.
But that is all spin that could be heard a lot in the future of what has become The Not Cliff Lee Era for the Yankees.
Gordon Edes, ESPNBoston:
In the post-midnight hours, after news broke that Lee was going to the Phillies, Red Sox officials did not respond to e-mailed requests for reaction. Sleeping? Perhaps.
Or perhaps they decided that gloating in public is unbecoming.
It is believed Lee will take a five-year deal for $100 million from the Phillies, far below the Yankees' best offer, believed to be seven years in the $160 million range. The Rangers, Lee's final team this season, countered with a six-year pact with a vesting option for a seventh season.Mark Feinsand and Bill Madden, Daily News:
So now what? ...Danny Knobler, CBS Sports:
Shortly before midnight, the Yanks received a call from Lee's agent, Darek Braunecker, informing them that Lee was headed to another team. ...
With the Yankees and Rangers seemingly going head-to-head to acquire the lefty, Lee approached the Phillies, telling them how much he enjoyed playing for them and asking them if there were any way for him to return ...
Players almost never turn down the Yankees when the Yankees are desperate to sign them ... Cliff Lee told the Yankees no. ...Brian Cashman, Monday afternoon:
The Yankees now need Andy Pettitte more than ever, which means they need to convince him not to retire. ...
I really don't think we've got a lot of holes. ... I really believe that A.J. Burnett is going to bounce back for us next year.
SoSHer ThatsMyPeskyPole: "And Mrs Lee spits back."


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