Gary Pippa

@AlTheBoss03 Paul Blair or Andrew Jones

Who’s the greatest defensive center fielder you ever saw? Not stats. Not highlights. What you felt watching them patrol the outfield. Drop a name.

@mendo3522 Thanks

@PippaGary Good luck in the finals. Let’s get it done !!!!!

Be First Boxing’s Derek Pagan got the win tonight at John’s gym in the Bronx advancing to the finals of the Metropolitan Jr Olympics, 14 yr-old 106 lb division. Derek is a great fighter, but tonight wasn’t his best performance, we need to clean up a few things before the finals.

@BoxingCertified Thanks, Gus.

@PippaGary Sorry for your loss, Champ.👊🏾🙏🏾👊🏾🙏🏾

Sad to report that an old friend,Kenny Fusco passed on Monday. A welterweight who boxed in the 70s & 80s. finished with a record of 11-3 - 9 KO’s. He got cancer after volunteering at the World Trade Center after 911. He’s the third person I know who died after volunteering there.

@DanielGaylor @rkmatchmaker The Westchester County Center was a hot bed for Boxing. The area had a lot of local boxing talent in those days that got started there. Snipes, Billy Costello, Doug DeWitt, Carl Williams, Larry Barnes. I saw Michael Spinks and Jerry Cooney fight there early in their careers.

@PippaGary @rkmatchmaker Mr Snipes on the undercard. Probably my favorite boxing nickname. I met him in the Trump Plaza Hotel lobby before Holyfield v Foreman and he was a Unit.

@rkmatchmaker 47 years ago tomorrow.

@rkmatchmaker His cousin called me with the news this morning, even though I knew it was coming because he had been sick for a very long time it’s still very sad. I was at both of the Dragone fights,Ron, and just about every other fight at the County Center back then. Those were great times.

@glensharp33 Thanks, Glen.

@PippaGary I am sorry, Gary.

@loudibella Thanks Lou, it’s truly a sad situation.

God bless him. During the 15-20 years that Broadway #Boxing was going nearly every month. I used off duty/retired first responders in transportation and security roles ... our guys who we knew personally. Watched so many of our friends, heroes of 9/11, get sick and die from illnesses that originated at the World Trade Center's rubble. Ran into a retired firefighter friend who drove for us ... we talked about how many of that old crew are now gone. He got emotional... he was one of the last few standing. Prayers up for Kenny Fusco.

@DonovanKasp Glenwood Brown was a regular at the Felt forum in NYC. I saw him fight many times early in his career. Saoul Mamby, Edwin Curet, Larry Barnes, just name a few… he was a tough customer, always competitive.

A friend of mine met up with Glenwood Brown recently. Love seeing him smile. 🥊

@CorpasWriter @BreadmanBoxing I guess I was off by a couple of weeks… Still gonna be an electric atmosphere

@PippaGary @BreadmanBoxing Parade is always on second Sunday of June. So june 14 this year

Zayas vs Ennis is very close to being a Super Fight. It's like a Chavez vs Taylor or McCallum vs Curry type of Big hardcore fans dream fight.

@aakashgupta @WilliamDettloff I’ve been involved with amateur Boxing for over 50 years and it’s incidents like this that remind me why I advised kids not to turn pro. Get an education, learn a trade, 99% of pro boxers do not earn enough 💰 to support themselves. Most are trading in their brains for peanuts.

What you're watching is a 24-year-old whose brain was hemorrhaging while his body kept boxing. Simiso Buthelezi was winning this fight. Dominated all 10 rounds. His trainer said he barely took a clean shot. In the final round, he knocked his opponent through the ropes. When the ref separated them, Buthelezi turned around and started throwing full combinations at an empty corner. Back to his opponent. Punching air. The neuroscience of what's happening here is the part that stays with you. Boxing drills combinations into procedural memory, stored in the basal ganglia and cerebellum. Those motor circuits can fire without conscious input. When a brain bleed compresses the prefrontal cortex, spatial awareness goes first. Decision-making goes next. But the motor strip, located in the posterior frontal cortex, is often the last region to lose blood supply. So the body keeps executing the only pattern it knows. He wasn't confused. He was already gone. The body just hadn't received the message yet. Buthelezi was placed in a medically induced coma and died two days later. Record was 4-0. Never lost a professional fight. He was 24. The part that makes this the darkest moment in the sport: the brain bleed wasn't caused by a visible punch from his opponent. His trainer confirmed nothing unusual happened in the fight. No heavy blows. Perfect health going in. The brain can hemorrhage from cumulative subclinical impacts across hundreds of rounds of sparring, or a vascular malformation that ruptures under the adrenaline and exertion of competition. The punch that killed Simiso Buthelezi might not have been one he took. It might have been one he threw.

@PeterNunn3 @AlexTran677026 Funniest performance of Brando‘s career, even though he hated the film and it failed miserably at the box office.

@AlexTran677026 This a straight remake of BedTime Story, featuring David Niven and Marlon Brando (1964). Hilarious film. Once you've seen the original, the Steve Martin version pales in comparison

🤣 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) and the legendary “leg test” scene: Steve Martin pretends to be paralyzed, Michael Caine seriously checks, while Freddy suffers so much he nearly bursts out crying but has to stay calm. The contrast between Caine’s composure and Martin’s over‑the‑top expressions makes it one of the funniest moments of the 80s.

@rileysbetter Why waste your time responding to anything that one of the empty Talking Heads on television said about you. They get paid to create controversy “hot takes“ it’s just verbal, diarrhea, don’t give it the energy that it craves.

Jaylen about Stephen A. saying that talking to the media is his job "It ain't your job to be a clown"

@OleTimeHardball Ellis Valentine

Who is your all-time favorite Montreal Expos player? 1. Gary Carter 2. Tim Raines 3. Andre Dawson 4. Vladimir Guerrero 5. Larry Walker 6. Rusty Staub 7. Steve Rogers 8. Tim Wallach 9. Dennis Martinez 10. Write in a player

@BigDogLukie Davis is an A-level talent, but his antics are getting tired. As you point out, he’s a 27 year-old fighter in his prime. He needs to grow up.

Maturity will define Keyshawn Davis growth as a boxer. Reaction to Nahir Albright fight.

@For_Film_Fans A misunderstood masterpiece, The King of Comedy did not do well at the box office upon its release. A lot of scenes in this film will make you uncomfortable. One of my favorite De Niro performance.

"I think 'The King of Comedy' (1982) really was an examination what it's like to be a celebrity and what it's like to be a person on the outside looking in." — Martin Scorsese

@podoffame Of the three players who flirted with .400 in my lifetime, Brett, Carew and Gwynn, I felt like Brett came the closest. He was over .400 in early September… Gwynn got interrupted by the strike.

George Brett's 1980 season is one of those where you wonder what the production would have looked like if he had played the entire season: 117 Games 9.4 WAR 87 Runs 175 Hits (33 2B, 9 3B, 24 HR) 118 RBI 15 stolen Bases 298 Total Bases .390/.454/.664 Slash Line 1.118 OPS with a 203 OPS+