What I Learned Friday

I get it about Barack. I do. But when I start seeing Clinton rejects such as Rahm Emanuel surface, I begin to get the feeling that my definition of change is vastly different from Messiah's. Some things are not his fault. Like the hayride the media went on with him throughout the election. And you had to figure that the comparisons with the 1960s Kennedys were inevitable. Comparisons of his two girls with John-John peeking through the desk. C'mon now. The family does not yet occupy 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. and I'm already sick of them.

If there's a god in heaven, the Jets lose this lead in the fourth quarter. It's 24-21after having been 24-6. I like Bob Papa on the NFL Network--a huge upgrade over Bryant Gumbel.

Newsflash: Former Guns N Roses front man Axel Rose has finished "The Chinese Democracy." At $13 million, the New York Times once called it, "the most expensive recording never made." At any rate, the disc hits the store during the Thanksgiving week.

Not a day after the Matt Holliday trade, Brian Cashman redeems himself. Yankees get Nick Swisher from the White Sox for Wilson Betemit and a minor league pitcher. Good move. I like the versatile Swisher who can play outfield and first base.

Homework assignment: Go to Youtube And punch up the 2003 Smarty Jones/Birdstone duel in the Belmont Stakes. If Tom Durkin's call of Birdstone running down Smarty Jones in the home stretch doesn't grab you by the throat, you aren't living. "The whip is out on Smarty Jones!"

Take a listen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4Z49x11smk