Mark Sarvas Wins the Booker, Angels Dump Yanks
If you know anything about Mark Sarvas he’s been on the John Banville bandwagon since the beginning of his blog The Elegant Variation. Banville won the Booker Prize for his novel, The Sea, and Mark went beserk with joy. In fact, he was interviewing Banville when the big news arrived, so both men find themselves in altered circumstances. Banville defeated a very talented field at the intercession of the prize committee’s chairman, a tie breaker, and the rest is history. The Forty Third Earl of Watership Down had this to say: “Mark Sarvas was a dark horse. My money was on Zadie.”
Mike Lupica has a list of ten reasons to explain the Yankees failure in the playoffs. Here are my ten reasons: The Angels won more games. The weather in Southern Califronia is better than the Bronx. Jet lag works westbound differently than east bound. The Angels used to be from California but have narrowed their search to Anaheim. Benjie Molina. They left Mike Mussina on the coast so he wouldn’t have to fly. What is he, the charter pilot? Four days in California and the normally tense Mussina looked like his biggest worry was valet parking. Yankees need to be tense. Judith Regan couldn’t make the games. The Yanks were focused on the Booker Prize. The trip gave them sun affect disorder. We wuz robbed. Is that ten?