Cookie Monster Hasn’t Turned into Veggie Monster…But He Does Eat a Balanced Diet
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Rumor has it that Cookie Monster is turning into a health-crazed Veggie Monster in an effort to combat childhood obesity. This isn’t the case, but Cookie Monster isn’t quite what he used to be, either. The Big Change in cookie monster actually occurred in 2005, but the rumor has found its way back to the Web. three years ago:
My beloved blue, furry monster — who sang “C is for cookie, that’s good enough for me” — is now advocating eating healthy. There’s even a new song — “A Cookie Is a Sometimes Food,” where Cookie Monster learns there are “anytime” foods and “sometimes” foods.
“What’s going on with Cookie Monster?” I asked the “Sesame Street” press office. “Why are you doing this?”
They sent me to Dr. Rosemarie T. Truglio, the show’s vice president of research and education.
She said the show changes every year, focusing not just on teaching numbers and letters but also emotional and physical health. With the rise in childhood obesity, Truglio said “Sesame Street” is concentrating on the need to teach children about healthy foods and physical activity.
Truglio said “Sesame Street” also will introduce new characters, such as talking eggplants and carrots, and offer parodies, such as “American Fruit Stand.” Even guest stars will address healthy activities, such as Alicia Keys talking and singing about the importance of physical activity.
Even politicians have gotten into the act, filming public service announcements with “Sesame Street” residents. In one taping, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist taught Elmo to exercise — jumping up and down. In another, Sen. Hillary Clinton and the small red monster discuss the various textures and tastes of foods.
“Even Cookie Monster is learning to control his cookie cravings,” Frist told me by e-mail. “His sage advice opened our eyes to the simple joys of a tasty cookie and now reminds us that moderation is the key to healthy living.”
“Cookiegate” was just another chapter in a long tradition of social forces intervening in kids’ shows. More recently, Disney after consumer groups claimed that exposing kids to TV at an early age hampered play in favor of corporate brainwashing. Sid the Science Kid is now thanks to a multimillion dollar government PR campaign.
The big question is: Does this stuff work? It has to, to some extent. Companies like McDonald’s fatten kids by luring them in with attractive Happy Meals. Surely Cookie Monster and talking vegetables can make healthy food look less nasty to young ‘uns, too. But parents remain the bottom line. Social propoganda campaigns remain peripheral to the lifestyle parents encourage their kids to live.
Personally, I’d rather see reams of money being pushed into organizations that promote better parenting. If parents are responsible, TV won’t ever have the final say.
Get it Right – Cookie Monster: Do not go gentle into that good night
would like to be completely upfront with my readers for a moment, lest Daniel Leifer accuse me of irresponsible journalism. The poem I referenced in my title is a famous work by Dylan Thomas. When, later in the article, I refer to Sesame Street, I may in fact draw basic info of Sesame Street’s origins from Wikipedia. I assure you, however that the opinions presented here are my own, which is the important feature of a column. Thanks for keeping me honest, Daniel.
To the point: I suffered a minor panic attack last week, when I heard it mentioned that Cookie Monster, the simple yet lovable connoisseur of culinary concoctions, had been replaced by a “Veggie Monster” on Sesame Street. Horrified, I dashed to my computer for confirmation. It transpired that the claim was false. Happily, Cookie Monster remains the lovable blue beast that he was in my childhood days.
Or does he?
Further investigation yielded some disturbing information. While Cookie Monster has not been replaced, his role on Sesame Street has certainly undergone significant changes. Most notably, the sacred song of Cookie Monster is no longer: “C is for Cookie, that’s good enough for me.” What is it now, you ask? “Cookies are a sometimes food.” Updated Cookie Monster is educated about moderation and now consumes a balanced diet of fruits and veggies.
Bemused, I sought answers for this radical change in Monster’s eating behaviors. Sesame Street’s Web site offers some insight, advertising the fact that the show is now “addressing the need for nutrition and exercise education.” There you have it. The popular children’s show is caving in to the political pressure to intervene in American dietary habits. Labeling nutritional content is not enough, banning trans fats in some restaurants is not enough and the suggestion of a “soda tax” to address the obesity epidemic is not enough. Sesame Street will conquer childhood obesity by dropping a silly song and decreasing the Monster’s cookie calorie intake.
Personally, I am sick of seeing my peers, politicians and lobbyists of all kinds desperately seek a target to blame for the nutritional problems of the nation. Cancer due to smoking can be handed off to tobacco companies. Eating disorders can be attributed to models, actresses, fashion magazines, the vegan movement…etc. The responsibility for obesity is laid at the feet of fast food restaurants, soda companies, dining halls, high fructose corn syrup and now, apparently, Cookie Monster’s gluttonous eating habits.
In this warped world of finger pointing, Americans have forgotten the simple fact that we, as autonomous individuals, are capable of modulating our on behaviors. Thus, we bear personal responsibility for the health decisions we make. I don’t have to consume Big Macs just because McDonald’s provides them. Camel doesn’t compel me to smoke! And Coca-Cola certainly doesn’t hold me down and force-feed me sugary delight. People who are obese are victims of their own volition. Children who are obese are the victims of irresponsible parenting.
Seriously, how weak-minded are we as a society that we believe a change in Cookie Monster’s eating habits will have a significant influence on behavior? Will cookies be any less appealing now that they’re no longer good enough for Cookie Monster? Will children leap off of the couch and run to the fridge for a delicious celery stick instead? And, since I’ve mentioned the couch, maybe parents should encourage kids to turn off Sesame Street, jump off their obese bums and engage in some exercise?
That would be too simple, not to mention asking far too much of parents. Instead, society places trust in Sesame Street to educate our children and bequeath upon them the information necessary to form healthy habits, as they sit, staring at the screen.
If this is to be the new trend–behavioral manipulation through childhood entertainment–I would like to point out a few necessary changes. Disney movies must be altered to promote healthy relationships. I mean, we’re teaching children that the ways to a man’s heart are silence (Little Mermaid) and to value things like superficial beauty (see any princess movie), servitude (Cinderella) and insipid femininity (Snow White). HORROR. How can this be inflicted on young minds? We must change these characters to strong, intelligent, average-looking, loud feminists. Think Hillary Clinton.
Alternatively, we could accept personal responsibility for the choices that we make. We could encourage interactive parenting to help children distinguish between healthy and unhealthy choices. We could allow children, as we were allowed, to enjoy the simple entertainment value of an unaltered, classic Disney Movie and a cookie-hoarding, floppy blue beast.
Policy-makers and lobbyists: Please stop your fruitless efforts to manipulate me. Focus your energy on something more important–like combating socialized healthcare, for instance.
Ticker Tape Parade 2009
The lively nations celebrate each and every moment they can. Ticket Tape Parade 2009 is another way to have a celebration and this time it is being celebrated after quite some time. The ticket tape parade for Yankees has been planned on Friday at 11 am at the same formal route. Past records show that Yankees ticket parade was being attended by 3.5 million people and it is being anticipated that this time this record is going to be broke.
Ticket Parade has quite an interesting history behind. The first ticket parade was celebrated in 1986 in New York. The waste papers were showered on the route from the building on reaching of convoy. The term ticket tape is usually used for the ticket tape machine’s paper, which is used in the stock exchanges for the updating of the market rates. The shredded paper has been used to greet the convoy.
Yankees were on the road back in 1996 and 1998 to celebrate the parade. It was attended by the millions of people to grace the occasion. The same famous route for Ticket Tape parade has been used in the past and will be used in upcoming parade. The parade will go by the Canyon of Heroes route and the Yankees players are quite familiar with the route as they did it before. The parade will also overtake Battery Park, Up Broadway and after passing though Financial District, the parade will arrive at City Hall Plaza. At the City Hall Plaza the Mayor Bloomberg will handover the keys of the city to the team.
Well, the last time Yankees parade was attended by 3.5 million fans and no wonders if this year parade might break all the records behind.
If you can’t make it to the parade, you can be a part online with live streaming. The only difference you would have is that, you won’t be able to shower the papers on the Yankees team but you can watch the Memorial Day.Pinstripe Victory In The Bronx
For the first time under the lights of their new Bronx stadium, the New York Yankees celebrated a historic World Championship win Wednesday night, beating out the Philadelphia Phillies 7-3.
It's the team's 27th world title and first since 2000.
It's also the fifth World Series ring for the "core four" of Mariano Rivera, Derek Jeter, Andy Pettitte and Jorge Posada.
"You never know when you're going to get back here, you know, so for all my teammates that have been here before and we couldn't do it," Posada said. "This really says a lot about our team. I'm excited. I mean I'm speechless. I'm really enjoying the moment right now."
Rivera closed out Game 6, getting the Phillies' Shane Victorino on a groundball to second to end it.
"Now it's over. Now there's a lot of celebration, a lot of smiles and that's it," said Rivera. "We win today and I'm going to rest now."
The star of the game was Hideki Matsui. The Yankees DH was awarded the MVP following his two-run homer, two-run single, and two-run double.
Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte picked up the win, adding to his record of postseason wins and series clinching wins.
The World Series celebration could be heard all across the city, especially in the Bronx.
Fans who came pouring out of the stadium following the Bombers' victory said it was only fitting they clinched the win at home.
"Amazing, amazing! Greatest game I ever went to. About time. A-Rod, Jeter, Pettitte, Matsui MVP, what more can be said," shouted one Yankees fan.
"New president, new stadium, new champions, New York!" said another enthusiastic fan.
In Times Square, fans wasted no time stocking up on World Series souvenirs at Modell's sporting goods.
From T-shirts to hats to collector's mugs, World Championship gear went on sale almost immediately after the last out of the game.
Fans say they couldn't wait to grab the merchandise and show their pinstripe pride.
"I'm supposed to be at work and I figured when I get off work in the morning, it's gonna be sold out, so sorry boss, I gotta be here," said one Yankees fan.
"The city's finally back, yo. This is what we needed for the city of New York. This is what we needed," said another Yankees fan.
A ticker-tape parade celebrating the team's win is scheduled for Friday at 11 a.m.
The parade route will begin on Broadway at Battery Place and continue north through the "Canyon of Heroes" to Chambers Street. It will then be followed by a ceremony at City Hall where Mayor Michael Bloomberg will present the team with Keys to the CityFla. baby missing for 5 days found alive under bed
CHIPLEY, Fla. (AP) - A baby missing for five days was found alive and well under her baby sitter's bed, and Investigators found 7-month-old Shannon Dedrick in a box tucked under a bed surrounded by items intended to hide the child at Susan Elizabeth Baker's home near Chipley, a rural Panhandle town, Washington County Sheriff Bobby Haddock said in an interview early Thursday. The baby was placed in protective custody. "Statistically speaking this should not have ever happened, that we found this child alive, especially after so many days. Time was against us," Haddock said.
Shannon was taken to a hospital but appeared healthy, Haddock said. "It was very emotional for us, because once we got her to the hospital, we called our wives and every one of us was crying. Grown men crying. It's just such a relief," he said. "We've had missing children cases in the past, but nothing like this." Haddock said deputies were working to charge Baker, her husband James Arthur Baker and the child's mother, Chrystina Lynn Mercer. He wouldn't provide details about the possible charges or say how they believe the mother was involved, but said more information would be released later Thursday. Authorities don't believe the child's father, James Russell Dedrick Jr., was involved but the case is still under investigation, Haddock said. He said Susan Baker and the father are related. Haddock confirmed that Baker was the Susan Elizabeth Baker cited in court records as being convicted of assault in South Carolina in 1987, and questioned but not indicted in 2000 for a 3-year-old child's disappearance, also in 1987. He confirmed that Baker wrote an e-mail to Florida Gov. Charlie Crist's office in August, pleading for the governor to help Shannon Dedrick. "And my response is, 'We saved the child, Ms. Baker," Haddock said. Court documents released Wednesday showed that child welfare workers in Florida began looking into allegations Shannon was being abused less than two weeks after she was born. Her parents reported her missing around 11 a.m. Saturday. They told authorities that they had not seen her since about 3 a.m. About 100 law enforcement agents and others scoured the woods around the couple's home, Haddock said. Investigators contacted the Bakers again on Wednesday and they allowed them into their home, Haddock said. "They gave us consent to search the home and found the baby in a box under a bed, with stuff pushed around the box to hide the baby," he said. Court records released Wednesday said investigators frequently went to the infant's home from August to late September and reported that both parents used marijuana and kept a messy home. But investigators reported that Shannon seemed to be cared for and repeatedly noted that the risk to the baby was "intermediate." In September, an investigator said a physician determined that the child was healthy and expressed "no concerns regarding the baby." Court records show that Susan Elizabeth Baker had been suspected in another child's 1987 disappearance in South Carolina and convicted of assaulting her daughter. In 2000, Susan and James Baker were extradited to South Carolina and charged in the disappearance of their 3-year-old son more than a decade earlier. Susan Baker had told authorities Paul Leonard Baker disappeared from the family's Beaufort, S.C., home on March 5, 1987, while she was napping. But a massive manhunt in the swampy area around the Bakers' home turned up nothing, and Susan Baker was never indicted. Authorities could not immediately say Thursday what became of the charge against James Baker. The child was never found, according to the Beaufort County, S.C., sheriff's office. When the couple reported their son's disappearance, the Bakers' 6-year-old daughter was taken into state custody, where officials discovered she had been severely beaten. Susan Baker was charged with causing the girl's injuries, including sores on her back and broken hands, and charged with assault and battery with intent to kill. After being convicted, she was sentenced to 10 years in prison. The sentence was suspended to 80 days. A sheriff's investigator from Beaufort County was sent to Florida to assist in the missing child case, sheriff's spokeswoman Robin McIntosh said Wednesday.
Florida authorities said Thursday they plan to charge the sitter, her husband and the child's mother.
Paul Leonard Baker Shannon Dedrick!
Shannon Dedrick has been found. But now Shannon Dedrick’s cas is being compared to that of Paul Leonard Baker with questions of Susan Baker swirling.
Paul Leonard Baker’s disappearance has remained a cold case since 1987. That could now change. On March 5, 1987, Paul went missing while napping inside his family’s Beaufort, SC home. The woman who reported him missing was Susan Baker.Paul Leonard was 3 years old at the time. His parents James Baker and Lynda Solorzano separated years before. Paul would be awarded full custody and marry Susan thereafter.
A full manhunt for Paul Leonard never turned up clues. In 2000, Susan Baker would be questioned in Paul Leonard’s 1987 case. But Susan Baker would never be indicted.
Now Shannon Dedrick has been found, five days after she went missing. And Susan Baker’s name is coming up again. Dedrick’s father James Russell Dedrick Jr is related to Baker, claims Washington County Sheriff Bobby Haddock to AP Thursday. Baker has not been charged.
CNN.com Gets More Social for Relaunch
To beef up entertainment coverage, CNN.com has inked content partnerships with corporate siblings Entertainment Weekly and People. The site is also planning to launch an online game show, CNN Challenge, which will feature the network's top anchors such as Anderson Cooper and Larry King challenging contestants on news trivia. For commentary, CNN.com appears to be looking to replicate HuffingtonPost’s successful blend of celebrity columns and serious political news. The new CNN Opinion section will feature contributions from conservative journalist David Frum and social networking expert Pete Cashmore, CEO of Mashable, as well as actor John Leguizamo. “Not many people think of CNN for commentary. I’d like to challenge that,” said Estenson. Finally, CNN.com will look to recreate the mega-success of its partnerships with Facebook during this year’s presidential inauguration and Michael Jackson’s funeral. On Nov. 9, the site will host a 90-minute Webcast during which Oprah Winfrey will discuss her latest book club recommendation. Facbook users will be able to instantly log in and share their opinions on the latest book, Say You’re One of Them by Usem Akpan. Advertising was not a major focus of CNN.com’s presentation. However, it will play an upfront role in the site’s relaunch next week. On Monday, users will encounter the old version of the site, followed by a unique home-page takeover ad from Lexus which will then pull back the ‘virtual curtain’ on the new site. BlackBerry will receive the same treatment on Tuesday.
What’s Up with Google Dashboard?
Did anybody from Google just leaked out information about a new service called Google Dashboard? GOS blog was reporting about Google Dashboard and even pointed a YouTube video explaining Google Dashboard, which is currently now set to “private” viewing.
Anyway, Google Dashboard is supposed to be a feature of Google Profile. In fact, it should appear just below the security options under the personal settings of your Google Profile.
The Google Dashboard will contain various information relating to the various Google services that you are using, including the number of conversations in your Gmail inbox. It serves like a historical account of your Google activities if you have this habit of logging into your Google account while using Google services.
Let’s see whether Google is on to something here. But as of now, I don’t really see any use for this, specifically the need to know the number of conversations in my Gmail inbox. What’s Google up to this time?
Cybersecurity Fears? Check Google Dashboard
Google is attempting to allay growing concerns about privacy by unveiling a one-stop shop for users to see what information it holds on them. The launch of google dashboard is the search giant's response to critics who argue its dominance of the web allows it to collect too much personal data. The page lists details of the Google products and services the account-holder uses, from which YouTube videos have been viewed to details of their Gmail inbox. It offers a single place for people with accounts to adjust their privacy settings or delete content. Although the dashboard shows only what a user does when logged into a Google service, it reveals the breadth of the information collected. "Some concerns have been raised about Google and privacy in the past few years and we always try to take proactive steps. No one asked us for this," Google spokesman Anthony House told Sky News Online. "The information you're seeing, we've always been transparent about that. But it has never been easy for people to go to one place," he added. "For many people, what you're seeing is not a surprise but others might remember they signed up for a service they don't use anymore... They can make a more informed choice." He admitted it was "not a total coincidence" that the dashboard was unveiled during a meeting of privacy regulators in Madrid, Spain. Bloggers offered a mixed response to the launch. described it as "disappointing," and suggested "there's nothing really new about this list." He wrote: "Unfortunately, it's also an unpleasant reminder of just how much data you're giving out to Google (and other online services)."
Tropical Storm Ida a Big Caribbean Storm: Could Become Hurricane Ida?
Tropical Storm Ida formed today. Tropical Storm Ida formed in the Caribbean. Could Tropical Storm Ida become Hurricane Ida? Only time will tell.
According to the Associated Press, Tropical Storm Ida is causing Hurricane Watches to pop up around Nicaragua. Tropical Storm Ida is up to 65 mph winds, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Tropical Storm Ida could bring major flooding and major landslides wherever she makes landfall. Nicaraguan officials are already taking precautions and making shelters.
Tropical Storm Ida will likely cause evacuations in the coastal city of Bluefields and the towns of Laguna de Perlas, Cruz de Rio Grando and Kukra Hills.
Tropical Storms need to be watched quickly. As a tropical storm makes its way across warm water, the storm will strengthen. As a tropical storm strengthens, it could turn in to a full-blown hurricane.
Whether or not Tropical Storm Ida will turn in to Hurricane Ida has yet to be seen. We can only cross our fingers and hope for the best. However, those that live in the path of the storm should evacuate if encouraged by local authorites. As mentioned before, Tropical Storm Ida will bring forth a lot of flooding and potential landslides.
Hurricane Ida
Miami, Fla.
000 WTNT31 KNHC 051226 TCPAT1 BULLETIN HURRICANE IDA INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER 4A…CORRECTED NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL112009 700 AM EST THU NOV 05 2009
CORRECTED TO ADD EXTENT OF HURRICANE FORCE WINDS
...IDA BECOMES A HURRICANE AS IT NEARS THE COAST OF NICARAGUA…
SATELLITE IMAGES INDICATE THAT IDA HAS STRENGTHENED TO A HURRICANE.
AT 700 AM… 1200 UTC… THE GOVERNMENT OF NICARAGUA HAS ISSUED A HURRICANE WARNING FOR THE EAST COAST OF NICARAGUA FROM BLUEFIELDS NORTHWARD TO PUERTO CABEZAS. HURRICANE FORCE WINDS ARE EXPECTED SOMEWHERE WITHIN THE WARNING AREA DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.
A HURRICANE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE EASTERN COAST OF NICARAGUA FROM NORTH OF PUERTO CABEZAS TO THE HONDURAS/NICARAGUA BORDER. A HURRICANE WATCH MEANS THAT HURRICANE CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE WITHIN THE WATCH AREA.
A TROPICAL STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE NICARAGUA/COSTA RICA BORDER NORTHWARD TO BLUEFIELDS AND FROM NORTH OF PUERTO CABEZAS TO THE HONDURAS/NICARAGUA BORDER. A TROPICAL STORM WARNING MEANS THAT TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED SOMEWHERE WITHIN THE WARNING AREA WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
FOR STORM INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO YOUR AREA PLEASE MONITOR PRODUCTS ISSUED BY YOUR NATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE.
AT 700 AM EST… 1200 UTC… THE CENTER OF HURRICANE IDA WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 12.8 NORTH… LONGITUDE 83.4 WEST OR ABOUT 60 MILES…100 KM…NORTH-NORTHEAST OF BLUEFIELDS NICARAGUA AND ABOUT 85 MILES… 135 KM… SOUTH OF PUERTO CABEZAS NICARAGUA.
IDA IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHWEST NEAR 7 MPH… 11 KM/HR…AND A GRADUAL TURN TO THE NORTH-NORTHWEST WITH A SLIGHT DECREASE IN FORWARD SPEED IS EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT DAY OR TWO. ON THE FORECAST TRACK… IDA WILL MAKE LANDFALL ALONG THE EASTERN COAST OF NICARAGUA THIS MORNING AND MOVE ACROSS PORTIONS OF EASTERN NICARAGUA AND EASTERN HONDURAS DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS.
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 75 MPH… 120 KM/HR…WITH HIGHER GUSTS. IDA IS A CATEGORY ONE HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON HURRICANE SCALE. WEAKENING IS EXPECTED AS IDA MOVES INLAND OVER NICARAGUA TODAY.
HURRICANE FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 15 MILES… 25 KM FROM THE CENTER. TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 55 MILES… 90 KM FROM THE CENTER.
THE ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 987 MB… 29.15 INCHES.
IDA IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE TOTAL RAINFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF 5 TO 7 INCHES OVER THE ISLANDS OFF THE COAST OF NICARAGUA WITH MAXIMUM AMOUNTS OF 12 INCHES POSSIBLE. RAINFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF 15 TO 20 INCHES ARE EXPECTED OVER EASTERN NICARAGUA AND EASTERN HONDURAS WITH MAXIMUM AMOUNTS OF 25 INCHES POSSIBLE. THESE RAINS COULD PRODUCE LIFE-THREATENING FLASH FLOOD AND MUD SLIDES.
A STORM SURGE COULD RAISE WATER LEVELS BY AS MUCH AS 3 FEET ABOVE GROUND LEVEL ALONG THE EAST COAST OF NICARAGUA…WITH LARGE AND DANGEROUS BATTERING WAVES…NEAR AND TO THE NORTH OF WHERE THE CENTER OF IDA MAKES LANDFALL. WATER LEVELS SHOULD BEGIN TO SUBSIDE LATER TODAY.
...SUMMARY OF 700 AM EST INFORMATION… LOCATION…12.8N 83.4W MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…75 MPH PRESENT MOVEMENT…NORTHWEST OR 310 DEGREES AT 7 MPH MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…987 MB
THE NEXT ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER AT 1000 AM EST.
$$ FORECASTER BRENNAN/BROWN/BLAKE
Yankees Parade Route
Yankees Parade Route, Parade to celebrate winning the World Series New York Yankees have been designed. Parade held Friday, November 6th, at 11 am through the Canyon of Heroes. They can not attend, the parade will be streamed live online.
Canyon of Heroes parade route usually goes Broadway Bowling Green City Hall Park, however, the official parade route Yankees Parade has been reported.
Yankees won the Philadelphia Phillies with a 7-3 and earned a Division 4 game 2 New York Yankees are once again crowned the World Series title. They are prepared to parade down the Canyon race of Heroes in Manhattan, a place known as the parade. The parade will begin at approximately 11 am on Friday morning, the celebrations and win the title by defeating the Phillies in New York. Parade is a trip to Broadway and Chambers Street. Teammates receive from the confetti shower and all the spectators along the route. Team presents the key city of City Hotel in New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
According to sources, sidewalks and the route will be opened to the public. Large screen outside the city into public view inside the house to celebrate the town hall is too small to hold such a mob. Mr. Nutters with the New York Yankees and the mayor of Jersey and paint a mural on the walls Albert Einstein School.
Hedaki Matsui has played a key role in the success of the Yankees score 6 out of 7 He is the first native Japanese to win the MVP, and he himself is the second hitter, who has scored eight RBIs with Jackson, who made a record in 1977 and 1978. After the match, he talked about the performance and said he is happy and surprised by his performance.
“The Boss” is the team’s accession to the party, because he is at home and enjoy the success there. Yankees talk about his health, but it is sure that he is sick and not feeling well. He was here in New York in the first two games but then went back home to his wife.
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Yankees Win 2009 World Series
Chang W. Lee/The New York Times The Yankees won their 27th World Series championship Wednesday night with a 7-3 victory against the Phillies in Game 6.
Times reporters David Waldstein, Tyler Kepner, Ben Shpigel, Jack Curry and Richard Sandomir provided updates and analysis during Game 6 of the Yankees-Phillies World Series in the Bronx.
A season of redemption came to its conclusion Wednesday night for the Yankees, who beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 7-3, in Game 6 of the 2009 World Series. The victory gave the Yankees their 27th championship, a quest nine years in the making.
Hideki Matsui, who may have played his last game as a Yankee, became the first Japanese-born player to win the Most Valuable Player award. He led the Yankees’ offense with a record-tying night — he had a home run, a double, a single and six runs batted in — and Andy Pettitte, who also may have played his last game in pinstripes, handled the pitching chores on three days’ rest.
Pettitte, a veteran left-hander, threw five and two-thirds solid innings, allowing three runs on four hits. He earned his fifth World Series ring with his second victory of the 105th World Series, which began and ended in the Bronx, in the first year of the new Yankee Stadium.
Yankees Manager Joe Girardi, who last season failed to take the team to the postseason in his first year in charge, became the first Yankees manager not named Joe Torre to win a World Series in 31 years. He was questioned for going with a three-man rotation in the postseason, but it worked perfectly as the Yankees went 11-4 and outpitched and outplayed the opposition.
Alex Rodriguez, who has faced withering criticism over his 16-year career for never having ultimate success in the postseason, won his first championship, and although he didn’t do much in the World Series, he carried the Yankees through the first two rounds of the playoffs.
General Manager Brian Cashman, who has been blamed for various moves since the Yankees last won the World Series, in 2000, signed C.C. Sabathia, Mark Teixeira and A.J. Burnett over the winter with money from the Steinbrenner family chest. It proved to be the difference, and Cashman stood behind Girardi after his disappointing inaugural season.
Matsui, who joined the Yankees in 2003, when they lost to the Florida Marlins in the World Series, tied Bobby Richardson’s record of six R.B.I. in a World Series game. He went 3 for 4 and finished the series with six hits in his final nine at-bats, including three home runs.
Pedro Martinez did not pitch well for the Phillies, allowing four runs on three hits in four innings, including Matsui’s home run in the second and his two-run single in the third.
Mariano Rivera, who was on the mound at Shea Stadium the last time the Yankees won the World Series, secured the final five outs, although he did not get his third save of the World Series because of the four-run lead. Rivera, along with Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada and Pettitte, won his fifth championship with the Yankees. — DW
Update | 12:00 a.m. The on-field celebration of the Yankees’ 7-3 victory was properly covered by Fox as a team event, not one replete with crowd shots.
After Shane Victorino grounded out to end the game, Fox showed the pulsing group of Yankees who gathered and jumped in the infield. They were seen from 10 different angles before the first cut was made to the Phillies’ dugout. A subsequent sequence of 10 more replays of the final out culminated with isolated shots of Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Alex Rodriguez and Jorge Posada. — RS
Update | 11:38 p.m. We go to the ninth inning. Three more outs, Yankees fans, and we don’t expect a repeat of Game 7, 2001. It’s starting to looking a lot like 2000 at Yankee Stadium. — DW
Update | 11:19 p.m. After Fox cameras at Yankee Stadium showed a montage of celebrities in the crowd — Jimmy Fallon, Kurt Russell, Donald Trump, Regis Philbin and Spike Lee, Joe Buck said: “I’ll give Spike credit; he wore all that Yankee stuff in Philadelphia.”
What else would he be wearing and why should he get credit for sporting exactly what a sports fan would expect him to wear?
Whether in New York or Philadelphia, Lee is instantly recognizable as a film director and obsessed New York sports fan, most notably, even infamously, of the Knicks. It would make little sense for Lee to act unobtrusively in Citizens Bank Park. After all, he showed up in Knicks regalia at a hostile Market Square Arena in Indianapolis during those heated mid-1990s Knicks-Pacers playoff series. — RS
Update | 11:15 p.m. Mariano Rivera is coming into the game with one out in the eighth inning, so game over. Marte certainly did his job and then some. He struck out Utley in the seventh and he just struck out Howard, who is now the official World Series strikeout king with 13. Willie Wilson is off the hook. — DW
Update | 11:06 p.m. Incredible as it may seem, Eyre struck out Matsui, thanks in part to Gorman, who once again called a check swing a strike from third base. Here’s some numbers on Matsui:
He has eight R.B.I. in the Series, the most for a Yankee since Reggie Jackson had eight in both the 1977 and 1978 World Series. Matsui (Mr. October-san) has six hits in his last nine at-bats, with two singles, a double and three home runs.
It’s 7-3, Yankees, in the top of the eighth. Marte, who relieved Chamberlain with two outs in the seventh, is back on the mound for the Yankees. — DW
Update | 11:02 p.m. Matsui is coming to bat again in the seventh inning, so the Phillies are bringing in the left-hander Scott Eyre to face him, as if that’s going to do anything. One more R.B.I. and Matsui breaks Bobby Richardson’s World Series record of six. He gets a huge ovation as he comes to the plate. — DW
Update | 10:50 p.m. Marte strikes out Utley on an appealed check-swing, third-strike call by the third base umpire Brian Gorman, and the threat is over. Marte, Girardi’s new left-handed specialist, first threw a fastball low and outside for strike one, then looped a curveball in for strike two. Gutsy pitching. Ryan Howard will be up first in the eighth, so Marte could stay in, with Rivera possibly ready to come in soon after. — DW
Update | 10:40 p.m. Joba Chamberlain is still on the mound for the Yankees. With a four-run lead, he’ll get some latitude before the Yankees call on Mariano Rivera to close it out. Chamberlain looks strong, but we wrote those very words right before he gave up the home run in Game 4. And what do you know, Carlos Ruiz singled. Chamberlain walked Victorino, so the left-hander Damaso Marte is coming in to face Utley. Utley has five home runs in the series, four of them off left-handers. Two on, two outs in the seventh. 7-3, Yankees. — DW
Update | 10:17 p.m. With the Yankees leading, 7-3, it’s reasonable to think that they will win tonight and that a trophy ceremony in their clubhouse will follow. If the middle relievers don’t melt down, it will be the first World Series celebrated since 1996 with George Steinbrenner in a full public retreat. No doubt, his son Hal Steinbrenner will accept the Commissioner’s Trophy, made by Tiffany & Company, with Randy Levine, the team president, and Lonn Trost, the chief operating officer, alongside him.
A Bossless celebration reminded me of something he said to me six years ago amidst rumors he might retire: ”I didn’t say I’d step aside, but there will come a time in the not-too-distant future when I’m going to step aside and let the young elephants in the tent.” He added, “What I mean is that the young elephants, the young sons and the son-in-law, will be more and more active.” The elephants, it appears, have arrived in the Bronx. — RS
Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images Ryan Howard hit a two-run homer in the sixth inning to cut the Phillies’ deficit to 7-3. Update | 10:12 p.m. With Chase Utley on base after a walk in the sixth, Ryan Howard hit an opposite-field home run on a pitch high and on the outer third of the plate. The score is 7-3. Pettitte struck out Jayson Werth looking, but Raul Ibanez doubled, and that’s all for Pettitte. Joba Chamberlain is on the hill warming up. Pettitte received a loud standing ovation. The fans erupted as he jogged off and then gave a wave with his cap. Was that Pettitte’s last pitch as a Yankee? Hopefully not. — DW
Update | 10:00 p.m. Hideki Matsui ties Bobby Richardson’s record for R.B.I. in a World Series game, with six. — TK, via Twitter
Update | 9:57 p.m. The reigning World’s Most Dangerous Hitter just whacked one off the wall for a two-run double. Matsui now has a two-run homer, a two-run single and a two-run double for six R.B.I. as the Yankees lead, 7-1. M.V.P.? — DW
Update | 9:54 p.m. Chad Durbin is gone and the left-hander J.A. Happ is on the mound to face Matsui, the most dangerous hitter in the world at this moment. — DW
Update | 9:50 p.m. The Yankees are now up, 5-1. Jeter led off with a ground-rule double against reliever Chad Durbin, and moved to third on a sacrifice by Hairston. Teixeira then singled to right to drive in Jeter. Martinez could have done that. — DW
Update | 9:45 p.m. Pettitte is really pitching well. He gave up a one-out walk to Ruiz, but got Rollins to hit into a double play, so he’s safe through five.
As for Martinez, he’s done, allowing four runs in four innings. Chad Durbin is pitching now, which is too bad because A) we don’t get to see Pedro walk off the mound to a serenade of “Who’s Your Daddy?” and B) because he would have had to face Hairston, who hits him well. I asked Hairston on Tuesday if Martinez had ever thrown at him and Hairston said he had.
“He’s buzzed the tower a few times,” he said.
But Hairston said he didn’t mind because his grandfather, a former major leaguer, used to throw at Jerry Jr. in the backyard to toughen him up. “I got used to it,” he said. “I am not afraid of getting hit at all.” — DW
Update | 9:35 p.m. Good lipreading by Tim McCarver: In the fourth, Andy Pettitte lowered his glove from his mouth, spoke to catcher Jorge Posada, and McCarver said, “Looked like he said, ‘back door slider.’ ” That appeared to be the pitch to Pedro Feliz (mlb.com’s Gameday said it was a cutter).
McCarver said the “problem was that the hitter sees it, too.” Of course. (In the bottom half of the fourth, he returned to the sequence and amended what he thought Pettitte said to, “Back door cutter.”) The lipreading raised an unanswered question: What sort of semaphoric miscommunication would prompt Pettitte to announce his pitch selection rather than choose from a selection of Posada’s fingers? — RS
Update | 9:26 p.m. Andy Pettitte just pitched his way out of a jam after walking two men with two outs. He finally got Pedro Feliz to ground out to Alex Rodriguez, but it looked as if he had thrown four strikes to Raul Ibanez first. O.K., enough whining about the umpiring. Pettitte has thrown 62 pitches. The Yankees still lead, 4-1, and Pedro Martinez is still in the game. Can he really last beyond this inning? Chad Durbin is warming up. — DW
Update | 9:24 p.m. One thing about Andy Pettitte: even though his command is not as precise as he may like, he is not giving the Phillies anything good to hit. The slider he used to strike out Utley probably would have been a called strike on the outside edge — a tough pitch for a left-handed hitter.
But at the same time, Pettitte seems to be getting squeezed a little bit, but at least the plate umpire Joe West has been consistent: the 2-0 fastball to Pedro Feliz that was called a strike hit the same corner (or at least West thought it did) as Martinez’s called third strike to A-Rod in the third. — BS
Update | 9:20 p.m. An analyst can enter a danger zone by being too precise in his assertions and having them proved wrong. Not that analysts shouldn’t go out on a limb, but appearing close to being dogmatic can be risky. In the second inning, Tim McCarver said that Pedro Martinez was “pretty much” locked into an 85 m.p.h. fastball. “If you don’t have a fastball in the first couple of innings, it won’t get much faster,” he said.
But subsequent pitches climbed to 86, 87 and 88 m.p.h. and, by the third inning, to 90 m.p.h. Not Nolan Ryan fire — and not all that meaningful, because the Yankees were leading, 4-1. But Joe Buck noticed, saying, “So his velocity has steadily gotten better” after Hideki Matsui slammed a 90 m.p.h. fastball foul in the third. — RS
Al Bello/Getty Images Derek Jeter, left, and Johnny Damon scored on Hideki Matsui’s two-run single off Pedro Martinez in the third. Damon injured his calf on the play, and was replaced by Jerry Hairston Jr. Update | 9:14 p.m. Johnny Damon has left the game with a strained calf, which he injured running home on Matsui’s two-run single in the third. Jerry Hairston Jr. is in left and batting second. — DW
Update | 9:08 p.m. Quiz time: What’s better, a two-run homer or a two-out single with the bases loaded? Same thing, and Matsui has them both. He just stroked a high fastball to center to drive in Jeter and Damon, and the Yankees lead by 4-1. Matsui has all four runs batted in. Again, the Yankees have to keep Matsui. This cannot be his last game as a Yankee. — DW
Update | 9:05 p.m. A-Rod strikes out looking (Joe West will call those pitches on that side of the plate, as long as they are down), but here comes Matsui, looking for his third home run against Martinez … or just a base hit. — DW
Update | 9:01 p.m. Martinez just hit Mark Teixeira to load the bases with one out in the third inning, with A-Rod coming up. Even before that, J.A. Happ was warming up. — DW
Update | 8:53 p.m. Note to Joe West: home plate is the white thing in the ground in front of the catcher. It is 17 inches wide. — DW
David J. Phillip/Associated Press Carlos Ruiz tripled in the third and scored on a sacrifice fly by Jimmy Rollins. Update | 8:50 p.m. The Phillies get one back as Jimmy Rollins hit a sacrifice fly to right to score Carlos Ruiz, who had tripled with one out. And how about the bounce on Ruiz’s triple? It hit the wall in right-center and then scooted back toward center with Brett Gardner running back after it. It looked as if he was chasing a white mouse. Pettitte gets Victorino to pop out, but it’s 2-1, Yankees, now. — DW
Update | 8:48 p.m. The Japanese reporters that cover Hideki Matsui are obsessed with knowing whether the Yankees will re-sign him for next season. I can’t blame them. If Matsui is not with the Yankees, the reporters who have covered him in New York for the last seven seasons will not stay here, either. If Matsui’s address changes, their addresses will change, too.
Before Matsui even finished rounding the bases with his two-run homer in the second inning, I thought of those reporters who have politely asked me if I think the Yankees will bring Matsui back. When I asked General Manager Brian Cashman about Matsui toward the end of the season, he was noncommittal. Matsui’s solid postseason will help him, but his inability to play the outfield will hurt him. The Yankees don’t want to clog the D.H. spot with one player. — JC
Update | 8:47 p.m. I’m a bit confused. I like the Fox graphic toy that shows pitch speed at release and at home plate, and then the batter’s reaction time. But can you calculate reaction time if you don’t swing? A few pitches before Hideki Matsui hit his two-run homer in the second inning, a pitch from Pedro Martinez was timed at 83 m.p.h. at its release and 76 m.p.h. at the plate. Matsui’s reaction time was then displayed at .463 of a second. But he didn’t swing. He moved slightly. Maybe Godzilla exhaled with great vim and vigor. — RS
Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images Hideki Matsui hit a two-run homer in the second, and has six R.B.I. through five innings.Update | 8:35 p.m. Designated hitter Hideki Matsui took Pedro Martinez deep again in a classic at-bat. Martinez was ahead, 0-2, before Matsui worked the count full in an eight-pitch at-bat and then sent a tailing fastball high and over the middle of the plate into the stands. Alex Rodriguez walked and scored in front of Matsui, who also homered off Martinez in Game 2. The Yankees really should bring this guy back, knees or no knees. — DW
Update | 8:31 p.m. During the workout Tuesday, some of the Yankees dismissed the idea that the Phillies had put some pressure on them by winning Game 5. In fact, Jerry Hairston Jr. said the Yankees were pleased with their overall accomplishments in Philadelphia.
“Do you know how good those guys play at home?” Hairston said. “For us to go there and take two out of three against a great team, the defending champs in a hostile environment, that’s a big plus for us, a big positive.”
But the Phillies are better on the road. They come into the game with a 4-2 road record in the postseason. They also had a better record on the road in the regular season than they did at home, going 45-36 at Citizens Bank Park and 48-33 on the road, including a 2-1 record at Yankee Stadium in May. — DW
Update | 8:27 p.m. Statistics can be expressed in interesting, if dubious, ways. In the second inning, Fox’s Tim McCarver said that one thing that Yankees pitchers have done was “neutralize” the Phillies’ left-handed bats. “Except for Chase Utley,” he added. Quite a big exception, considering that Utley’s six-hit output includes five home runs.
I would have been interested in hearing the Phillies’ combined average against Yankees left-handers, but McCarver added only that the Phillies’ left-handers were hitless in their last 12 at-bats against tonight’s starter, Andy Pettitte. (What about before that?) Not much nourishment in those stats. — RS
Update | 8:24 p.m. Is Pedro Feliz not reading what we’re writing? He just swung at a high pitch that would have been a ball (with Joe West’s strike zone) and fouled out to the catcher Jorge Posada, stranding Jayson Werth at second in the top of the second inning. What are they doing in that Phillies clubhouse between innings, reading scouting reports? Watching TV? Get online, boys. — DW
Update | 8:18 p.m. The Phillies are 1-1 in their last two Games 6s. In 1980 they beat the Kansas City Royals to win the World Series and bring on the Royal Philadelphia Mounted Police, and in 1993 Joe Carter hit the winning home run in the ninth inning to give the Toronto Blue Jays their second consecutive championship. — DW
Update | 8:15 p.m. The plate umpire Joe West’s strike zone looks low and inside to lefties. A couple of pitches to left-handed hitters just above the belt and on the outside edge were called balls. Two pitches inside to Utley were strikes. A good, old-fashioned National League strike zone. — DW
Update | 8:13 p.m. That was an amazing first inning for Pedro Martinez: 13 pitches, no fastballs. He threw first-pitch changeups to Derek Jeter, Johnny Damon and Mark Teixeira, and 10 in all. Might be a sign of no fastball command, or might be that Martinez is planning to incorporate that pitch a little later. With him, you never know. — BS
Update | 8:11 p.m. Pedro Martinez is taking his sweet time, but he got through the first inning in order. He’s looking extremely deliberate with every pitch. He still has that classic changeup, though, which he used to strike out Johnny Damon. — DW
Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images Andy Pettitte pitched a scoreless first inning against the Phillies in Game 6.Update | 8:08 p.m. Andy Pettitte just showed how to pitch to Chase Utley without feeding him only breaking balls. He started Utley off with a slider that was high and outside, but came right back with a four-seamer that tailed over the plate for strike one. On a 1-1 count, Pettitte threw another four-seamer, jamming him, and Utley grounded into a double play. — BS
Josh Haner/The New York Times Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter helped turn a double play in the first inning of Game 6. Update | 8:06 p.m. No worries for Pettitte in the first inning. Shane Victorino reached on an infield single, but Chase Utley hit into a 4-6-3 double play. Pettitte pretty much went after Utley, at least with a runner on first. Here comes Pedro. — DW
Update | 7:56 p.m. We’re under way at Yankee Stadium as Jimmy Rollins just grounded out to shortstop. The atmosphere is electric, especially with Pedro Martinez pitching. As he walked into the dugout from the bullpen while Andy Pettitte was warming up, Alex Rodriguez jogged over and gave him a high five. — DW
Eric Gay/Associated Press Fans walk around Yankee Stadium before Game 6 of the World Series.Preview
The most anticipated baseball game in New York over the last six years is less than an hour away, and the excitement at Yankee Stadium is building.
It’s Game 6 of the 2009 World Series, with all the accompanying drama of Philadelphia’s Pedro Martinez pitching in a potential championship-clinching game for the Yankees. Martinez’s opposition, Andy Pettitte, is the game’s most experienced postseason pitcher.
The Yankees lead the series, three games to two, and with a victory tonight they will win their 27th World Series title — and their first since 2000, when they beat the Mets in five games.
Martinez and the Phillies are hoping to extend the World Series to seven games for the first time since 2002, when the Angels, behind John Lackey, beat the Giants.
The last time a World Series stretched even six games was 2003, when Josh Beckett, pitching on three days’ rest, carried the Florida Marlins to a championship with a five-hit shutout of the Yankees at the old Stadium.
But this time, many people are favoring the Yankees to close it out. They are playing at home, they have designated hitter Hideki Matsui back in the lineup, they have the usually reliable Pettitte on the mound, and they have a well-rested Mariano Rivera ready to pitch at least two innings of relief.
Also, many people seem to assume that whatever trickery Martinez used to confuse hitters in Game 2 will not be so effective against the Yankees’ potent lineup the second time around. Could the next scheduled Yankees event be a parade?
“Any time you get a chance to close it out in front of your own fans, it’s special,” Yankees Manager Joe Girardi said this afternoon, “especially during the first year at the Stadium and what it would mean to the Steinbrenner family and the Yankee organization and all the people of New York.”
Maybe things are lining up in the Yankees’ favor, but in the history of the World Series, teams with a three-games-to-two lead are only 23-37 in Game 6. The Phillies’ Chase Utley has already tied Reggie Jackson’s record of five home runs in a World Series, but don’t expect him to see many good pitches. That’s because Ryan Howard, who matched Willie Wilson’s record of 12 Series strikeouts, is providing no protection in Philadelphia’s lineup.
Utley has great discipline at the plate, and will gladly take a walk ahead of Howard. That means the slumping Howard could be the one to see some decent pitches. Moreover, Pettitte is starting on three days’ rest for the first time in more than three years, and his command and his stamina could be issues.
It’s a compelling series of plots and subplots for Game 6 of the 105th World Series. — DW
The lineups for Game 6.
Phillies 1. Jimmy Rollins, SS 2. Shane Victorino, CF 3. Chase Utley, 2B 4. Ryan Howard, 1B 5. Jayson Werth, RF 6. Raul Ibanez, DH 7. Pedro Feliz, 3B 8. Ben Francisco, LF 9. Carlos Ruiz, C Pedro Martinez, RHP
Yankees 1. Derek Jeter, SS 2. Johnny Damon, LF 3. Mark Teixeira, 1B 4. Alex Rodriguez, 3B 5. Hideki Matsui, DH 6. Jorge Posada, C 7. Robinson Cano, 2B 8. Nick Swisher, RF 9. Brett Gardner, CF Andy Pettitte, LHP