Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
August 26, 2007
Maybe They Should Get an I-Mac

MetsGrrl offers her thoughts on transfering the home run apple to the new ballpark.

Before you all get bent out of shape, and call me a heretic, let me explain. I [heart] the Home Run Apple as tacky, cheesy, the 70s at its best. I spent way more money than I should to acquire a Home Run Apple alarm clock on eBay earlier this year, and consider it the Holy Grail of my Mets collection. But I do not want that worn out piece of crap in Citi Field. Would I be upset if there wasn't a Home Run Apple? You bet your sweet bippy. But we already know there's going to be an apple, so why are we getting bent out of shape? For all you know, they could build a new apple that looked like the old apple and you would never know. Hell, they could have replaced the original apple six times now, and no one would ever know. So what's the point?

I remember seeing a juggling comedian once. He held up an axe, claiming it was the axe George Washington used to chop down the cherry three. He then explained the blade was new and the handle was replaced, but it occupied the same space. I think that MetsGrrl is looking for George Washington's axe.


Posted by David Pinto at 03:44 PM | Stadiums | TrackBack (0)
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Jefferson Airplane is still around, still touring, etc. I think they're called Jefferston Starship, actually, but no matter. What's important is that not only are none of the original members still in the band, but none of the members currently in the band ever played with any of the original band. However, there has been uninterupted continuity in the band, with each member having been replaced at least twice. They're like the third generation of Jefferson Starship. Just like Washington's ax.

Posted by: James Cole at August 26, 2007 05:38 PM

Jefferson Airplane founders Paul Kantner and Marty Balin are still in the Jefferson Starship. There is a splinter band called Starship Featuring Mickey Thomas, which may be what you're thinking of.

Posted by: Steve H at August 26, 2007 05:58 PM
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