In a week marked by the deaths of Bob Sheppard and George Steinbrenner, it was rattling that Yogi Berra fell at home Friday night and had to miss Saturday’s Old-Timers’ Day at Yankee Stadium.
According to ESPN, Yogi fell on his front steps and was treated and released at Mountainside Hospital.
His family released a statement today saying that the 85-year-old baseball icon is now resting at home.
Yogi fell down last night near our house, and suffered some bruises. He is now recovering at home. He is extremely disappointed he is unable to participate in today’s Old-Timers ceremonies and see so many of his friends. He appreciates all the well wishes and hopes to be up and about very soon.
Baristanet sends its wishes for a speedy recovery.
Photo of Yogi Berra, by Kristie Cataffi, from Tuesday’s press conference at the Yogi Berra Museum in Little Falls.
Feel better, Mr. Berra! Hope you are back out golfing soon.
Yogi-
You are a part of me and so many others lives! Please feel better soon. We hope to see you around town soon.
What happened to all the other comments made here from the other day…I’m sure I had read about 5-6, that are not hear today…just wondering
I’d like to think that Yogi injured himself running down a foul wiffle ball one of his grandkids hit in the back yard, and that it wound up in his glove.
Wayne, in this case you’re thinking of the comments on Tuesday’s story about Yogi and Steinbrenner. I posted this last night shortly after 11, and there was only one comment when I went to bed.
Thanks Deb for the reply..maybe I thought that because it looks like the same photo ..did you use the same photo?
Yogi, I hope you’re feeling better. You are special to us….Take care of yourself….
I cropped the old photo, Wayne, but that’s why it looked familiar.
What about Jamming For a Cause–the item about the band that plays backyards? There was a whole exchange of comments — three or four — now apparently gone.
One was me complaining about Kristie’s sloppiness, another was one of the band members giving us information about how it all got started, etc.
Has the Barista been wielding her airbrush?
Yes, Walleroo, the Jamming story was replaced wholesale, for the quality control reasons you yourself pointed out. Now… back to Yogi?
Wholesale replacement of an item, even down to comments made about it, is certainly a novel approach to the special challenges of a slow news day.
Can we also assume that the same “recycling” (anyway, “bleaching”) process will now be applied to, say, items about crime which are often rife with inaccuracies and community-wide thirst for vigilante-style retribution?
Wow. Removal of comments without a note of explanation or any mention of having done so is pretty much universally acknowledged to be one of the most disingenuous (putting it kindly) moves a site’s proprietor can make. Attempting to reshape history for your own benefit really does not reflect well at all on Baristanet; I hope it’s not a trend.
the Jamming story was replaced wholesale, for the quality control reasons you yourself pointed out.
Busted!
What he said!
We replaced a poorly-written item for a better-written one. I was trying not to embarrass the writer. If you are out for blood, you may have it. Can we move on?
The problem isn’t in the having done so; it’s in having done so without comment.
Barista has lost my trust. Sneaky cleaning up history does not instill confidence.
Get over it!!
If Baristanet had a “delete comment” option, I’d use it for this one. One of the biggest traps of the Internet is the proximity of the “submit” key; on further reflection, my comment above expressed a strident tone and sentiment that neither Debbie, nor the site generally, deserved. They both have my apology.
The problem isn’t in the having done so; it’s in having done so without comment.
If this is strident, then my real name is Lucille Ball.
You had it right the first time, Tom. Barista erred in swapping out a piece, comments and all, without an editorial note, and again in suggesting that we are out for blood because we called her on it.
Are you being facetious?
I don’t see it as Debbie being sneaky. She was simply trying to clarify the details about Music in the Yard, which is a respectable story that deserves to be accurately told. She attempted to do so without a lot of attention–I now understand why and I apologize for calling attention to the matter. Besides, on fb, she blatantly posted that the story was refiled.
Yogi–wishing you a speedy recovery!
Perhaps, but the comment before the one you quoted, on second read, really threw the baby out with the bathwater, which was certainly not my intent.
Oh, you might have deleted “putting it kindly,” but it wasn’t a bad note. On the other hand, an apology rarely does any harm.
I, walleroo, am now ready to move on.