An 80-year-old Japanese man became the oldest person to reach the top of Mount Everest on Thursday. And what were his first words at the top? Presumably “You punks get off my mountain.”
Wonder if he did the whole ascent with his right blinker on?
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And a few comments about a Fleetwood Mac concert tonight in San Jose:
One reason to go to a Fleetwood Mac these days, – looking around at the crowd and feeling reasonably young by comparison.
(As my friend Gil says, “want to feel really young, check out the stage.)
-The Fleetwood Mac demographic actually works very well indoors. Up in the cheap seats where all the air rises, it’s not only a concert, it’s a free glaucoma treatment.
Another advantage to the cheap seats, you can’t see how old the band really is.
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So yesterday San Francisco was thrilled to win the right to host the 2016 Super Bowl. Have to assume the first protests against the game started today.
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Twit alert. A British 20 year old was suspended from her job after tweeting “Definitely knocked a cyclist off his bike earlier – I have right of way he doesn’t even pay road tax #bloodycyclists.” And her perhaps former job…. she was a trainee solicitor(lawyer.)
Phil Jackson says now that when the Los Angeles Lakers told him they were hiring Mike D’Antoni instead of him he just laughed. Does kind of make you wonder how the team ever managed to fit Phil and Kobe’s egos in the same locker room.
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The NY Yankees have partnered with Manchester City to buy a NY soccer team that will start competing in MLS in 2015. Does this mean we’ll finally have a soccer team that gets coverage on ESPN?
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So rumors are that Aroldis Chapman may have blown a save Sunday because someone gave the Reds’ star closer 100 Cuban pastries, and he ate 18 of them before the game. This wouldn’t happen in SF. For Pablo Sandoval, 18 pastries would be PEDs.
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There’s light at the end of the tunnel. As of May 21, we are now definitely within a month of the end of the NBA playoffs. And no doubt about six weeks from the beginning of the 2013-14 preseason.
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Nationals’ closer Soriano complained about Bryce Harper Tuesday night in the 9th – ” “With 2 outs & the tying run at 1st, you have to play the outfield so the ball doesn’t go over your head.” SF Giants will take it but how about “with 2 outs & tying run at 1st you have not to throw a fat pitch with an 0-2 count.”
NY Jets rookie QB Geno Smith has hired Jay Z’s agency Roc Nation as his agent. Well, this ought to dispel the increasing sense that Smith is an image conscious diva.
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Haven’t really followed the Jodi Arias trial, but I see that Arias is now pleading that she not get the death penalty because she could start a book club in prison and donate her hair to sick kids. Can’t imagine how the jurors found her self-centered and insensitive enough to commit 1st degree murder….
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And just a nice story for a change:
Left Coast Sports Babe 