Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
March 28, 2008
I Met Him in a Swamp Down in Dagobah

Tyler Kepner finds an important similarity between Joe Girardi and Yoda:

Yoda's most famous quote, of course, was: "Do, or do not. There is no try." Turns out Girardi believes the same thing.

"He expects you to get the job done," Treanor said. "One time in spring training, somebody said, 'I'm going to try to do this.' I remember his comment was, 'I can get a truck driver to try.'

"So basically that means, you're out there to do it, by whatever means you have to do it."

There you have it, the distilled wisdom of the Yankees' new manager, straight from the playbook of a three-fingered puppet.

That's enough to link to a Weird Al video:

I saw Al perform this live at the old Jonathan Swift's in Cambridge, MA in 1983. He opened with this song, and really rocked. He still has the same guitar, bass and drummer he had then.


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Didn't that bass player appear in the Cantina seen on Tattoine?

Good stuff.

Posted by: Dominic Rivers at March 28, 2008 11:18 PM

I dont think it gets much nerdier than a crowd shot of a guy with a mullet singing along to a Weird Al song about a Star Wars character.

Well... maybe if he was wearing a SABR shirt... LOL

Posted by: MH at March 29, 2008 09:08 AM
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