Soccer Dad

Striking amy

One thing I've discovered about blogging is that if you've blogged for two years and aren't particularly well read, about half your hits will come from random searches of people looking for something you wrote about quite a while ago. So when one of those topics you've written about makes the news you'll see a surge of traffic.

A few weeks ago when PBS ran Martin Scorsese's biography of Bob Dylan, my post on Peter Himmelman generated quite a few hits. With Theo Epstein's resignation yesterday as GM of the Boston Red Sox, my post on him gave me a traffic boost yesterday.

Getting back to Himmelman, he did the music for the recently cancelled show "Judging Amy". I didn't much like the show, which was essentially an Amy Brenneman vanity project, that was centered around a couple of self-absorbed women. It was hard to feel much empathy for Judge Amy Gray or her mother, social worker, Maxine Gray, because of their never ending sanctimony. Nor were they particularly nice to the men in their lives. (Nor were any other women in the show.)

Two of the suffering men in the show were Amy's brothers Peter - whose wife brought a date to their son's christening while they were having marital troubles - and Vincent - whose wife took up with her oncologist after he - Vincent - devoted himself to her recovery.

That's where it gets interesting. I chose the title not because I wish any physical harm on Amy Brenneman, but because I needed a baseball themed verb. The actors playing the older brothers both have baseball ties.

The older brother, Peter, was played by Marcus Giamatti (and his look alike acting brother Paul) are the sons of the late (President of Yale and ) baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti.

The younger brother, Vincent was played by Dan Futterman who is the brother in law of above mentioned ex-GM of the Boston Red Sox, Theo Epstein!

So I was able to drive traffic cynically to my blog provide my readers with what they want, more info on Theo Epstien.

Posted by SoccerDad at November 1, 2005 6:47 AM