Mark Langston, Alan White and an unknown Mariner, c. 1988
Clip: “Stormy Weather” by Lena Horne
This post is an homage to a great blog. I’m trying to mimic the format.
The blog in question is Mark Sullivan’s Irish Elk. In it, he hits on something with which I totally agree. To quote him:
4) Marilyn Monroe: Picking up on a theme earlier sounded by the Llama Butchers: At a time when you had the likes of Grace Kelly or Audrey Hepburn or, say, Pier Angeli around, how did MM get placed in the celestial pantheon? Try sitting through The Misfits, sometime: of the two main actresses, Thelma Ritter ultimately is the one you’d want to take home, and that’s saying something.
I agree, I never understood the fascination with Monroe. I’ll save my comments for another post, though. This one is an homage to Mark.
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He generally throws out a sentence at a time. They are usually loaded with gems.
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Irish John has the list of bases to be closed.
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I picked the picture above because I’ve been a Mariners fan since 1979. I was born in Philadelphia.
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That’s yet another story.
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Mark Langston signed a card for me when he was an Expo, I’m such a huge fan I even forgive him for that whole “Captain Planet” thing. One of his Fleer baseball cards is actually a picture of him signing a baseball card of his I brought to Vet Stadium with me.
I still geek out over that.
More Langston pictures here and here.
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