Brooklyn Johnny

@Jimfrombaseball I hope these anecdotes about The Mick and Murcer are true!😀

"The first time I ever heard of Bobby Murcer, they said a kid from Oklahoma was gonna be the next Mickey Mantle. They were right. Sure enough, he couldn't play shortstop either." Mickey Mantle. "The respect Mickey Mantle showed me as a young kid coming up, how helpful he was. Back in those days, veteran guys could be pretty tough on rookies." Bobby Murcer. In 1970 at the end of August, the Yankees announced that Mickey Mantle was returning to the team as a coach. It was a peculiar situation: The Yankees essentially platooned First Base coaches. Elston Howard would coach the first three innings, Mickey would coach the middle three, and then Elston would return for the final three. The Mick didn’t like the job, and he left after the 1970 season, never to appear in a uniform for a MLB game again. Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn had fined Murcer $250 for saying that Kuhn didn’t have the “guts” to stop Hall of Fame pitcher Gaylord Perry from throwing the spitball. That night, Bobby Murcer hit a two-run homer off Perry that put the Yankees ahead in a 7-2 victory over the Cleveland Indians. Murcer said after the game: “I hit a hanging spitter.” Murcer maintained a somewhat friendly feud with Perry during his career. He once caught a fly ball for the last out of an inning and spit on the ball, before tossing it to Perry. Another time, he sent Perry a gallon of lard. Perry retaliated by having a mutual acquaintance cover his hand with grease before shaking hands with Murcer and saying: “Gaylord says hello.”

@For_Film_Fans REALLY good! Surprised it hasn’t had a remake! Shhh…🫢

One of my favourite 70’s Films & one of my favourite comedy-drama-heist Movies too. THE HOT ROCK (1972) A brilliant Cast is directed by Peter ‘Bullitt’ Yates. Hunt it down.

@GarysheffieldJr ⚾️🤡

Holy shit we’re brain dead

@LouDPhillips Epic!!

Next level. Total Pro.

@CarlBanksGIII Yes you did, but it was beautiful football!🏈

We cracked the code and rendered this play usless

@shagbark_hick @MerkyAgua Love the map! 💯

@MerkyAgua I grew up here and you're just... wrong. I drew this map years ago and stand behind it for the most part. Western NY is part of Upstate NY in spite of all babbling to the contrary.

Case in point here is Upstate NY. This place should be a paradise. It's superlatively gorgeous -- maybe the most beautiful place east of the Mississippi -- and fertile. The housing's cheap, there are OK jobs, soil's fine, life is easy. But people here are MISERABLE. Daily interactions involve leering, awkward staring, cold shoulders, nervous energy. Loner-hermit types avoid others; elderly are crotchedy and skittish. DinerGoth types are lurking, vaping, being gay, mumbling to themselves in the Stewart's parking lot. No one's stopping to chat, no one's your friend, everyone is kind of tense in public. Guys are shooting up on the street in Watertown, Utica, even Tupper Lake. Any cop will tell you WEIRD, dark stories about what goes on here. The Kulak class is overtaxed; the State Workers dream of Florida once the pension hits. Young guys are all planning to move to South Carolina, Texas. Local government is a good old boys club for the dumbest, most cynical drunkards in each county. The whole vibe is "soviet." Except in lib enclaves, where the vibe is "tense, judgemental, 'in this house we believe', paranoid about MAGA, cloistered." And so this place is cheap, low-rent, undesirable. Gentrifiers try to come but they don't stay here. This place resists any attempt to "reinvigorate" it. The dysgenic darkness hangs over every inch of it; no amount of bright-eyed yuppies can fix it. Albany can't fix it. It's all graft, corruption, awkward stammering parochial nutcases wandering the streets in between disability checks. The residents of so many places here are the genetic remnants of those who didn't have the gumption or the brains to go West when the time came, and it shows. Literally the best move we have is to pay people to LEAVE. If I was the governor I'd allocate massive amounts of money towards this. I'd straight-up pay people to clear out, get out of here, move along. I'd pay their moving expenses, send them to Florida or whatever. And we'd flourish.

@shagbark_hick @MerkyAgua Honest question: who’s denying that Western NY is part of Upstate?🤔

@JustineBateman I’ll take it!🙏

Good morning. If you’re feeling lost or blah or bored or anxious, throw a prayer up for a few of the people in this chain. Your mood will change.

@nlyonne Don’t forget the unheralded fifth brother Milton “Gummo” Marx! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummo_Marx

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@WendellPierce Well…they should!

Shakespeare Theatre Company to Honor Actor Wendell Pierce With ‘Will Award’ georgetowner.com/articles/2026/…

Y’all remember when there was an Entemanns factory in Brooklyn ???

From early Nirvana to Phish, a Chicago fan’s secret recordings of 10,000 shows are now online. blockclubchi.co/4t6zW7R

@JenRizzotti 🔥🏀😍

Dang, now everyone knows how old I am 🤣🤣

@HSBFans Personally, I never bought Coffey and Bayrs.

Trivia: Producers paired up Officer Patrick Flaherty with Officer Tina Russo to try and recreate some of the Coffey and Bates partnership chemistry.

@Creamofthe1960s @HSBFans 💯

Who watched - HILL STREET BLUES 1981-1987 ?

@nlyonne You’re not alone!

I miss Nora Ephron.

@PopularPup5247 @etanthomas36 Is this real or just more AI nonsense?

Baby followed her ball toward the road. The dog stopped her🥰

@AnnCoulter Blow me…please!😂

The New York Times neurotically insists that anchor babies’ citizenship is “well-established through the 14th Amendment and nearly 130 years of case law.” The Newspaper of Record is lying about the record. Actually, the idea that babies of illegals have won the citizen jackpot was invented by Justice William Brennan in 1982 and inserted as dicta—i.e., idle chitchat, not part of the court’s ruling—in a footnote. He cited no law, no constitutional provision and no court holding. There’s your “well-established” doctrine that anchor babies are citizens—Doctor Demento’s crayon scribbling on the Constitution in the 1980s. The legendary “130 years of case law” said to establish the citizenship of anchor babies refers to an 1898 case, U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, that took the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of citizenship to freed slaves and gave it to a child of legal immigrants. Manifestly, the opinion in Wong had nothing to do with illegal immigrants. Otherwise, Brennan wouldn’t have had to announce his personal opinion in 1982 that children born to illegals should be treated as citizens. It would already have been the law.

@AnnCoulter And who are you, exactly?🤔

Me with Artie Lange!

@BBGreatMoments It’s not even a question. Not Core Four but Core Five!!❤️⚾️

Should Bernie Williams be in the Hall of Fame?