April is tired of being known as the cruelest month. (Here we go, sighs February the dreariest.) But April has a point. With the news full of cruel teens, Cruella De Vil adoptive mothers, and general meanness, let’s focus elsewhere:
The Air Force medical team deserves a “Sully” award, in honor of Captain C.B. “Sully” Sullenberger — the US Airways pilot who safely landed his powerless plane on the Hudson River last year — for remaining calm in a potentially any-second-now deadly situation they had prepared for, but had never before faced, performing their duties as trained, resulting in no loss of life.
May this admirable action, true grace and skill under unimaginable pressure, bring a little perspective to our everyday the-sky-is-falling debates.
The 5-foot, 114-pound Yoshida learned how to throw a knuckleball by watching video of Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield. Of course she did. (Sounds like learning a second language in your sleep while listening to subliminal tapes, but why foul up a charming story?)
With the Mariners’ deep Japanese ties, Yoshida is a natural prospect for them. A team always needs pitching. And because the minds behind the M’s commercials can already see, among endless possibilities, a spot with Yoshida, Ichiro and Ken Griffey Jr. doing a “Charlie’s Angels” kind of thing. (Charlie being manager Don Wakamatsu, as played by himself.) Plus, Yoshida would make Ichiro look like he bulked up. Not that he needs to.
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