Old man's baseball reference

March 10, 2008

Stealing a thought from The Tony Kornheiser Show and his penchant for the “old man radio” intros for his segments…

It probably won’t last long, but the new FOX program New Amsterdam will have a special place in my heart. The police drama stars Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (as opposed to Game of Shadows’ Mark Fainaru-Wada) as the eponymous, basically-immortal detective. In one scene , two of his co-workers are arguing about the best Yankee pitcher of all time. Ron Guidry, offers one cop, recalling his 25-3, Cy Young-winning season in 1978. Goose Gossage, says the other. But Amsterdam, who has been around since the Dutch settled in New York more than 350 years ago, says, definitively, Red Ruffing. His amigos are stunned that this 30-something ‘tec would even know about Ruffing, who pitched for the Yankees from mid-1930-1946. Amsterdam just grins to himself.

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