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December 11, 2007
Searching For The Elusive Fogyballer
From the Greenwich Time:
Craig Marin asked an audience at The Nathaniel Witherell home to tell him their favorite number and then wrote that numeral on a blank sheet of paper.
With a few more quick strokes from his pencil, Marin transformed each number into a famous character -- including Popeye, Fred Flintstone and Dick Tracy -- and gave the finished picture to the audience.
Devin, 10, Michael, 8, and John, 4 -- attended with grandmother Nancy McGrath, a Witherell volunteer, and Devin received a drawing of W.C. Fields, composed around the number '2.'
"I'm not quite sure he knows who he is, but his grandmother does," Nancy McGrath said after the show.
The 30-minute show by Manhattan-based Flexitoon, sponsored by a $500 gift from Sempra Trading, featured Marin and partner Olga Felgemacher interacting and joking with Witherell residents, singing, dancing, drawing and using puppets.
The home's therapeutic recreation director, Mary Bruce, said the performance was creative and original.
"We don't get to have a performance like this every day and the residents loved it," Bruce said.
For one Witherell resident, though, the performance didn't quite reach the home's most recent standard. At the nursing home's annual Christmas party over the weekend, Witherell resident and renowned curmudgeon "Big" Jim Shipman sat down and talked baseball with New York Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman, whose wife's cousin volunteers there.
"I thought the puppet show was adequate, but there's no comparison," Shipman said. "That isn't fair, really, because Cashman is a friend and we talked about a lot of things."
Cashman at a nursing home. Scouting for pitching, no doubt.
Posted by Steve Lombardi at December 11, 2007 04:28 PM
Comments
I'm glad Cashman has replaced Hughes who replaced Arod who replaced... as your pincushion, it was getting redundant.
Posted by: Basura ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.waswatching.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at December 11, 2007 06:32 PM
Cashman at a nursing home. Scouting for pitching, no doubt.
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Leave no stone unturned :)
Posted by: Raf at December 11, 2007 08:27 PM
I'm glad Cashman has replaced Hughes who replaced Arod who replaced... as your pincushion, it was getting redundant.
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Cash is quickly getting redundant too. Can we switch to Pavano for the week he's causing us trouble?
Posted by: sju38621 at December 11, 2007 08:32 PM
I don't understand how you can assign so much blame to a GM for not having developed more young pitchers when he has only had control over the farm system since 2005, especially when you then consider that from that time forward, he has accumulated more high end pitching talent than any other team in MLB.
The future's so bright, you gotta wear shades (assuming that Hank doesn't force him to make short-sighted trades).
Posted by: Rich at December 11, 2007 08:32 PM
~~~I'm glad Cashman has replaced Hughes who replaced Arod who replaced... as your pincushion, it was getting redundant.~~~
Ah, yes, the Yankees blinders crowd.
Yankees blinders, you know, the device that fits on your head, only allowing you to see good things (albeit real or wishful thinking) about the Yankees - while "blinding" (blocking out) anything from the hard factual world.
You can buy them, or, you can make them yourself (with Mommy's permission, of course) out of cardboard using safety scissors and pipe cleaners.
Seriously, with the blinders crew, it really doesn't matter. Say something about A-Rod, and you're an A-Rod basher. Say something about Cashman and you're...whatever.
The truth is, with you blinder people, it really doesn't matter if I'm writing about A-Rod, Hughes, Cashman...or Jeter, or Torre, or Cano, or Abreu....it's never going to sit well with you because...HEAVEN FORBID!...I'm saying something that's NOT positive about a member of the Yankees organization.
Oh, the HORROR of such an act! I should be banned from the Internet AND Yankeeland for just thinking such thoughts!
Enough...let me go find a sword to throw myself on...in shame...and hope that the blinders crew will learn to forgive me for these sins.
Posted by: Steve Lombardi at December 11, 2007 10:25 PM
I think most people probably believe that criticism is fine if it is narrowly tailored to a specific fact pattern.
Posted by: Rich at December 11, 2007 11:29 PM
I think most people probably believe that criticism is fine if it is narrowly tailored to a specific fact pattern.
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I have no problem with criticism, but if I think you're wrong, I will call you on it.
It may not be the case here, but the application of blinders go both ways.
Posted by: Raf at December 12, 2007 06:49 AM