Some editor at ESPN has deep ambivalence about Stephen Jackson:
A CLEAN LOOK
People have lots of ideas about Stephen Jackson. Almost none of them are quite right.
To quote Miller’s Crossing (again), “Don’t let on more than you have to.”
Numbers Game
News out of the Yankees’ camp is that they’ve issued Morgan Ensberg a jersey with #21. This makes me a little sad because, Paul O’Neill was one of my favorite Yankees during the 1996-2000 run. My two O’Neill images from the World Series are of him falling off the pile during the 1996 (?) celebration, and of him walking around right field in a daze after the 1999 sweep over the Braves, two days after his father’s death.
I know O’Neill wasn’t a home-grown Yankee, but I’d have given #51 out way before Paulie’s.