I dont think anyone out side the NY tristate area is going to understand this one

You're right, I don't get it. I think I got you beat, though. Two thirds of my parodies involve the plots of Shakespearean plays. I'm not particularly in to Shakespeare. It just happens to be what I'm studying in English right now.

Well, I live in the New York Tri-State Area, and I do get the joke, though I never heard Sam Champion's connection to Piazza. Though Channel 7 did once do a piece showing weekend weather guy Lee Goldberg walking out of a steam room wearing only a towel and holding a mike -- a microphone. Put it this way: If Sam wasn't the only champion Piazza has had anything to do with, if the Mets had actually won a World Series since Piazza arrived, or he'd been man enough to not whine about the bat-throwing incident but charge the mound in the 2000 WS and try to take Roger Clemens out -- well, Clemens probably would've knocked him into next season -- then we wouldn't be talking about Piazza possibly being gay. After all, Derek Jeter, who really does own New York, has won four rings, and the only people who think he's gay are Met fans, possibly having fantasies they'd rather not share publicly. On a mostly unrelated note, if Mr. M. Florio can set me up with Channel 7 reporter Michelle Charlesworth, all of his parodies will get triple fives from now on.

sam is queer. saw in in nyc clubs. so is carl lewis

great

as queer duck would say - I'm queer as a goose, yeah.... GAY PRIDE! so what's the big announcement? is it any big deal? Who's pitching? who's catching? who the *$@% cares.