The Yankees and Mets have a couple of talented catchers in Jorge Posada and Paul LoDuca. And I made a pretty sweet catch on that Hideki Matsui foul ball this past summer. But we ain't got nothin' on Felix Vazquez, a 39-year-old Housing Authority supervisor who caught a one-month-old baby tossed by his mother from a third-floor Bronx apartment engulfed in smoke and flames.
The mom, who one can reasonably assume thought death was a likely scenario, was rescued moments later by firefighters who burst into the apartment, rendering the catch even that more critical, since the baby would have been saved as well.
Video of dramatic moment is linked from this Yahoo! news story. Didn't look like the best set-up in the world. No one could throw down a bedsheet first? Couldn't someone get his arms under Vazquez's as a back-up? But everything worked out.
Today's New York Links:
• Yankees Tickets on Sale Friday at 10 a.m. — It's an annual rite of frustration, as the club seems to release only the crappiest seats for such "premium" games as Opening Day and contests against the Red Sux and Mets, saving the rest for mini-plans offered throughout the season.
• Craig's List: 'To the Woman Who Danced in My Pee and Stepped on My Heart' — A simple case of boy meets girl. Boy pees on street. Girl dances around pee, then splashes in it. Boy freaks out and can't get "the necessary blood required to bone" her. Boy realizes, three days later that he's "down with pee."
• The Naked Cowgirl 2006 Calendar — Looks like our boy in Times Square has some competition.
• What's Left of the Mob — New York magazine runs down the state of the five families, including a mention of guy who's kid I used to hang with in grade school. Always did wonder why he had a Doberman and surveillance cameras.
• A Journey into Dorothy Parker's New York — My buddy Kevin gets his ass out of the bars long enough to write a book that Publishers Weekly calls "part biography, part walking tour," focusing on the Queen of the Algonquin round table by using photos and maps to highlight her many haunts.
• City Rag — A quality NYC blog I haven't yet had the chance to link to.
• Man Dressed in Jeans and Tank Top Calls El Quijote Restaurant 'Tacky' — I was looking over reviews for one of my favorite Spanish restaurants and couldn't help but chuckle at the guy who was pissed because they had a problem with his jeans-and-tank-top attire. Mr. Fashionplate even bashed the decor as "tacky."
• Makor Events — Lectures, classes and events on the Upper West Side. From music to food to screenings to singles meets.
• Dog Sees God — An off-Broadwway production that sets the Peanuts gang 10 years into the future, addled with drugs and hormones, while managing to cleverly avoid copyright issues.
"...saving the rest for mini-plans offered throughout the season."
Nope. We got our tickets for the May 9 and June 6 Sux games in the pre-sale and we are in the hinterlands of the upperdeck for both of them. But the silver lining is that we are covered by the overhang, which is fine considering our bad luck with weather. Also, even though we are offered presale at the same time as everyone else with season tickets, and jump online right away, we have NEVER gotten better than the fourth or fifth row of tier reserved for any of the "premium" games. So I'm not sure who exactly is getting all the "good" seats...
Posted by kabsy77 at December 16, 2005 7:12 AM