What about Bob?

Before we get to the comment contest winner, I would like to pay homage to Chicago Norm of Final Score fame. On his most recent post, he writes:

" I offten visit TMZ.com, both for laughs and because I am turning into a moron."

lol ... (CN: I will still file too many words for the Sunday newspaper. Sorry.)

Ok, on to more important matters.

This week's contest winner is a regular poster on this and other Newsday blogs. This time, he went above and beyond, taking one of our shots aimed at WatchDog's Neil Best and turning it into a stroll down memory lane that any baby boomer would want to read. I had take a line from the Jay Mariotti rant against former Chicago Sun-Times teammate Rick Telander, in which JM said that RT was stuck in 1973, and applied it to Best. To which Islander505 replied:

"Okay Glauber.....1973??
Nothin wrong with being stuck in 1973.
It was a pretty good year...some downers....but mostly highs.

Steinbrenner bought the Yankees. CBS has never been the same.
The KNICKS won a championship. The Knicks have never been the same.
Roe V Wade. A lot of kids have never been the same.
John McCain released from prison. Staying at a Hilton has never been the same.
A Republican President ended 13 years of Democratic inspired misery in Vietnam after over 50,00 lives lost. The Dem's are still the same.
The same Republican President got his dickey caught in a Washington Hotel. Wiretapping has never been the same.
The World Trade Center opened in NY. No comment.
Ron Blomberg became the answer to a trivia question. Baseball has never been the same.
505 graduated High School. Insanity has never been the same.
The DEA is founded. See above
Coincidentally the Watkins Glen Festival is held, no members of the Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers or The Band are arrested. Live Music has never been the same.
Secretariat won a Triple Crown. Siring has never been the same.
Billie Jean King kicks Bobby Riggs' butt. Male Chauvinism has never been the same.
The Israeli's introduce "pre-emptive strikes" in the successful Yom Kippur War. Warmongering has never been the same.
Billy Joel writes Piano Man. "What are you doin here" has never been the same.
OJ runs for over 2000 yards without the benefit of a white SUV.
Running for Daylight has never been the same.

Kids were allowed to leave, and in fact encouraged, to get the hell out the house without parental escort or adult supervision.
Fun has never been the same.
Kid's could get into school without enduring a cavity check by TSA forerunners.
Education no longer knows the same.

Six of the top 10 movies were The Exorcist, The Sting, American Graffitti, Papillon, Magnum Force, and Live and Let Die. We'll be lucky to get ONE MOVIE of that caliber this year. But everyone in Hollywood is certain of who belongs in the White House now.
Entertaining has never been the same.
Gallon of Gas? 40 cents
Runnin on Empty has never been the same.
The "Endangered Species Act" is signed into law, thereby guaranteeing Woody Hayes continued employment.

Johnny Damon is born, Steinbrenner is livid.

Marlon Brando refuses an Oscar for The Godfather over the plight of our own Indian Nation.
Casino gambling has never been the same.

George Harrison's, "Concert for Bangladesh", recorded at MSG in 1971 wins a Grammy for Best Album. (505 sold ice cream at the concert....the show... sucked).
The Grammy's are still the same meaningless off base awards today.
Miami completed an undefeated season in winning the Super Bowl.
Don Shula has never been the same.
The King of Afghanistan was deposed by his cousin while having eye surgery in Italy.
Revolutions have never been the same

1973 was a GREAT YEAR.
2008 doesn't have a chance of coming close.
We should all have the chance to live the same as those of us who lived in 1973.

Anyone (you and Mariotti) who thinks otherwise is simply insane.

And that's just my rant for the month, from the same two time zones away."