Hey, didja hear the one about Brandon Finnegan pitching in the College World Series for TCU this past June?
Well, if you’ve watch any of the Kansas City Royals games this postseason you have, as it appears as though TBS announcer Ernie Johnson has a love affair with the idea…having mentioned it at least 52 times.
Okay. That number might be a slight exaggeration, but if the a 21-year-old mowing down batters in October doesn’t make you feel old…these facts about the day the postseason’s youngest player was born (April 14, 1993) will.
The number one song at the time was “Informer” by Canadian rapper/reggae star Snow. Somehow, the song would spend seven consecutive weeks (March 13-April 24, 1993) atop the Billboard Hot 100.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StlMdNcvCJo]And speaking of music that doesn’t suck. In February 1993, the band Nirvana spent two weeks in the studio recording “In Utero”…it would be released September 13. The band’s frontman Kurt Cobain would be found dead less than a week before Finnegan’s first birthday in 1994.
If you wanted to see either of the two big releases the Friday before Finnegan was born (“Indecent Proposal” or “The Sandlot”), it only set you back, on average, a mere $4.14. The highest grossing film of the year, “Jurassic Park” would be released June 10, 1993. And to get you to and from the theater…it would run you $1.10 for a gallon of gas.
President Bill Clinton, elected in November 1992, was just two weeks away from celebrating his first one hundred days in office. And because I can’t leave well enough alone, future psychology major (and White House intern) Monica Lewinsky was finishing up her associate’s degree at Santa Monica College.
On June 23, 1993, John Wayne Bobbitt became a household name after having his penis, um, severed by wife Lorena. And speaking of hackneyed Lewinsky and Bobbitt references…Jay Leno was closing in on one year behind the desk of “The Tonight Show”.
Already 141 games into his Major League career, renown octogenarian Jamie Moyer started 1993 in the Minors. He’d make his return to the bigs on May 30 and go on to appear in 555 more games…winning 235 of them.
And because you asked (we both know you didn’t), a fresh-faced Derek Jeter was the starting shortstop for the Single-A Greensboro Hornets. He’d commit a career-high 56 errors in 126 games.
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