Deja Vu All OverAgain

In honor of the opening of baseball season I selected this week's topic -as quoted by former Yankee great Yogi Berra. Besides being one of the best catchers ever to play the game and being part of 10 championship teams, Yogi was famous for his Yogi-isms (colloquial expressions that lack logic). Truth be told, many of them are just attributed to Berra, even if he never actually said them. As he so perfectly put it: “I never said most of the things I said.” It's time to sit back and have a chuckle or two and take a break from the seriousness that dominates life these days.

1. It's like Deja Vu all over again.
2. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
3. You can observe a lot by just watching.
4. Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.
5. A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.
6. Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.
7. We made too many wrong mistakes.
8. Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
9. You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.
10. Never answer an anonymous letter.
11. The future ain’t what it used to be.
12. I tell the kids, somebody’s gotta win, somebody’s gotta lose. Just don’t fight about it. Just try to get better.
    
13. It gets late early out here.
14. We have deep depth.
15. Pair up in threes.
16. I don’t know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.
17. He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.
18. You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.
19. I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
20. It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.  
21. So I’m ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face.
22. Take it with a grin of salt.
23. The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
24. Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
25. I usually take a two-hour nap from 1 to 4.

This is my favorite time of year as a sports fan. As I have said in many blogs, all I ever wanted to be is a baseball player. As a kid - until moving to the SF Bay Area I loved Yogi and the Yankees, but that all changed when I had my own team to root for - the  Giants of Willie McCovey, Willie Mays, Orlando Cepeda and the rest. Plus, along the way I discovered hockey and the Stanley Cup playoffs started this past Wednesday. That makes me a happy guy. It happens the same time every year -  it's like deja vu all over again.

Be sure to check Ramana's blog here. I suspect his take will be decidedly different - perhaps there is a cricket player equivalent to Yogi Berra.