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Friday, July 11, 2014
It turned out the writers and producers had a backup plan if Hernandez’s nerves got to him. If the memorable performance was average, Hernandez could have seen his scene cut. The hour-long double-episode could have been a single episode, with a greater emphasis on George Costanza’s subplot.
Bullet dodged. I love that episode.
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1. Batman Posted: July 11, 2014 at 07:37 PM (#4749105)I believe this was after they taped the George Steinbrenner sequences that never ran because he sucked?
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/remembering-steinbrenner-as-a-seinfeld-star/
Ichiro could have played the Hernandez part perfectly if he wanted to.
It took a couple of years for the show to take off. Most of the episodes of the first couple of seasons are barely watchable. I'm sort of surprised the show stayed on the air long enough for it to realize its potential. (For an analogy I'm trying to think of a crappy baseball player who was given years of chances and then suddenly got really good.)
Jose Bautista?
Randy Johnson?
(Though "crappy" would be a bit harsh. 101 ERA+ and 49-48 record isn't really crappy, but he did lead the league in walks for three straight seasons.)
Those were different times.
"Cheers" finished last in the ratings its first season, and was given more time.
Hernandez committed only one error in a loss at home that season, and no runs scored in that inning.
(Top of the 5th.)
Finishing last in those time frames still meant you had 10 million viewers, nowadays that would be a top 10 show.
Buddy of mine was a huge Seinfeld fan from the early 1980s, somehow would alert us whenever he was on the Tonight Show.
Then we all caught him at Bananas comedy club in Fort Lee, NJ a couple of years before his TV show - great show, and killed with a closing number of some mooses being relocated via helicopter and what the ground-based mooses (or meece, if you're a Republican) must have been thinking. Had the crowd snorting their drinks out their noses, they were laughing so hard.
#yaddayaddayadda
Brady Anderson was a career .219 hitter until he broke through with his .271-21-80 season at the age of 28.
Jamie Moyer. To his credit, after his career appeared to be over at age 28, he put in some very good work in AAA, and came back up in the middle of his age 30 season and was immediately a solid to excellent starter for the next 15 years.
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