Wednesday's Child

We hope you will enjoy the show.

---Last Saturday, I attended the Hollywood Bowl's 40th aniiversary tribute to the Sgt. Pepper album featuring Cheap Trick and a host of others. It was awesome.

---Nothing like a little late 60s Beatles music to return a bunch of middle agers to their youthful roots.

---And those roots included quite a bit of wacky weed.

---Which may explain why this was my slowest Bowl exit in years. People battling silliness, the munchies, and arthritic knees all at the same time.

---A fun sidelight to the Bowl affair was our run-ins with Penny Marshall, who apparently was seated in an adjacent section.

---We watched her smoke, buy blankets at the souvenir stand, and then turn the top of a trash can into a table for her white wine bottle.

---All the while, she's hiding her face under a Yankee cap.

---But, when the mouth opens, the mystery is over.

---You never do lose the Bronx, do you?

---Unless the Dodgers can put together a decent second half of August, it will be a September to dismember.

---Met fans last weekend found out something that I did when the Marlins played the Dodgers a while back.

---Haley Ramirez is the best young shortstop in the National League.

---Sorry, Jose Reyes.

---And Ramirez does it in classy silence. He doesn't do his pre-game calisthenics during the National Anthem.

---Well, it finally made the news. Our country is being overrun with bedbugs.

---Old news to me. I heard about this last year when a friend in NY told me his house was saturated with these little creatures. They apparently had crawled into his suitcase during a stay at NY's posh Rhiga Royal Hotel.

---This is one more thing we get from our open door policy. These little suckers are coming in from overseas.

---These idiots fly over from Europe and Asia. They ooh and aah at all the wonderful sites of Times Square, including that "amazing" M&M store.

---Meanwhile, back at the hotel, their insect hitchhikers are disembarking from their Louis Vuitton conveyances and kissing terra Wamsutta.

---There was a huge computer glitch at LAX that prevented tons of international passengers from getting through customs.

---Well, that's one way to stop them. I'm hoping somebody goes down there with a pair of wire clippers and finishes the job.

---The only time Larry King's CNN show is worth a watch is after a celebrity dies. After Merv's checkout, he had Vanna White, Alex Trebek, Merv's kid and ex-wife, Seinfeld, Ed McMahon, and Joan Rivers.

---Does Joan go in for plastic surgery every week? Her eyes are so tightened that she's starting to look like Miyoshi Umeki.

---That name gets you 66 points in Scrabble if you hit a triple letter square.

---Too bad Phil Rizzuto checked out. Steinbrenner issued a statement.

---"I guess Heaven needed a shortstop."

---When Steinbrenner goes, I will issue the following statement.

---"I guess Heaven needed a rat bastard."

---My good friend, the Bibster, asks, "Has there been one season in the last 30 where the Yankees weren't wearing a black arm band on their uniform?"

---Aren't they already wearing one for Cory "Wrong Way" Lidle?

---Pretty soon, the Yankee uniform will be black with white pinstripes.

---If Phil got you a Money Store loan in the late 70s, the thirty year term is almost up.

---Pee Wee Reese died on the same day as Rizzuto several years ago. Bad day for NY shortstops.

---If I'm Bud Harrelson, I'm looking both ways when I cross the street next August.

Dinner last night: Salami sandwich.