September 2005

Pennant Fever

Sports Columnist (and novelist) Mike Lupica of The NY Daily News is an excellent writer.  Often he can
be annoying, sappy, self-righteous, or just too full of himself.  But
then sometimes he comes up with a column full of prose so wonderful it
makes it worth the effort to always scan what he has to say.

From today's column, regarding last night's game -- with the walk off bottom-of-the-9th Home Run by unlikely hero Bubba Crosby: