Mike Lupica Biofile

BYH · Apr 21, 2011

Small Town Guy said:

YankeeFan said:

LongTimeListener said:

A person has to be pretty insecure to be unable to come up with a painful moment or an embarrassing memory in the entirety of a career that long. Especially when "Summer of '98" would qualify as either.
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I agree:

On Wednesday, President Obama held a town hall at the headquarters of Facebook in Palo Alto, California, during which he was asked, "If you had to do anything differently during your first four years, what would it be?" Obama, it turns out, is no better at analyzing his own missteps than Bush.

The president began his response haltingly, pointing out that he has actually been in office just two and a half years, and "I'm sure I'll make more mistakes in the next year and a half." But what mistakes has he already made? "There are all sorts of day-to-day issues where I say to myself, oh, I didn't say that right, or I didn't explain this clearly enough," Obama said, "or maybe if I had sequenced this plan first as opposed to that one, maybe it would have gotten done quicker."

But the president mentioned no actual mistakes.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/04/obama-mistakes-cant-think-any#ixzz1KC9LeDXj
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So now Yankee Fan was writing a comparison between Obama and Mike Lupica. The Messiah and the Midget. Old Tony said that once, he thought, and he liked it. It was 4 p.m. in the big city of Chicago, the great city - maybe the last of the great cities as Mailer said and Ben_Hecht quoted and Breslin agreed with - and as he cut and pasted a line from Obama, he thought, "Nailed him." And he thought of Boom and Fenian and of Politics boards long since dead and of political discussions still discussed, though often disguised.

This would make the crowd roar the way it once did for Reggie, Thurman and a tough-old pitcher they called Catfish. The post hung there for awhile, tantalizing, beckoning, begging to be placed on the board.

Now it was 4:15 p.m. and he hit post and you were again reminded of Bernard and Parcells and McConkey and all the other old New Yorkers who had a bit talent but a ton of guts.

Now people started reading it. Was there really much point in comparing a president to a sportswriter? Maybe not. Was there really much point in comparing a two-year-old career to a four-decades long one? Of course not. But Yankee Fan shook off the doubters, shook them all off on this chilly afternoon in Chicago. He posted it and people read it and some loved it and some hated it but he'd do it again. They call it the Chicago Way, but it takes a New York guy to show us what that phrase really means.
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This is a Hall of Fame post. Just needed something about how Yankee Fan is April for it to be perfect!

Boom_70 · Apr 21, 2011

"At the Presentation of the Gifts during the funeral Mass, Bulakowski and Piel Pennington, an old UMass quarterback, brought up wine and cheese and then the kids from the last baseball team Coppo ever coached, a group of 13-year-old All-Stars who played in a big travel league in the next town over,"

slappy4428 · Apr 22, 2011

A friend writes....

"My first game as the Tigers asst. PR guy. Tigers Yanks, 1987. Lost the game 2-1 in 10. Larry Herndon with a HR off the facing of the bleachers in dead CF. Morris goes 9.2 and loses.

I get to the press box an hour before the game. Crazy busy. Ewald is on the field helping with the pre-game. He has armed me with a seating chart. I know the Yankees PR guy, Harvey Greene. (Later the Miami Dolphins PR guy)

All of a sudden a press box attendant comes up with this short guy in a long-ish dark gray overcoat. The short guy is clearly agitated. The attendant starts to explain to me, and the short guy cuts him off and says "I told Harvey Greene to tell Dan Ewald I was coming and to save me a seat."

I say, "Let's find Harvey Greene and find out what's up."

The short guy says, "That's not important. I need a seat."

I say, "It is important. I don't know who you are."

The short guy is really agitated and says, "I'm Mike Lupica. New York Daily News."

Who?

(sigh) "Mike Lupica. New York Daily News."

I see Harvey Greene. "Harvey..."

Lupica says... "Look we don't need to make a federal case out of this, I just need a seat."

"Harvey... is this gentleman from your press corps?"

"Yeah... Mike Lupica. New York Daily News. Just needs a seat."

I say "Mr. Lupica... you can sit right down there." (pointing) Lupica turns without a word and follows the attendant to an open seat.

Harvey sez to me, "What was his problem?"

"Says he told you that he was coming and asked you to have Ewald save him a seat. I'm sorry, man."

"No, he didn't. Never does. He's an asshole. Don't worry about it."

Ben_Hecht · Apr 22, 2011

Boom_70 said:

"At the Presentation of the Gifts during the funeral Mass, Bulakowski and Piel Pennington, an old UMass quarterback, brought up whine and cheese and then the kids from the last baseball team Coppo ever coached, a group of 13-year-old All-Stars who played in a big travel league in the next town over,"
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