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Separated At Birth
91. Baseball/Music (Derek Jeter/Lance Bass)
Now that I'm in a baseball mode (see previous #90) what about Yankee shortstop (3000 hit man and HOF-er!) Derek Jeter and former 'N SYNC-er Lance Bass. They both seem to maintain that boyish yea cherubic countenance though they aren't young guns anymore. Jeter is actually pretty likeable even for a diehard Red Sox fan like me. There are plenty of Bronx Bombers I have found detestable over the years but it's hard not to like some of 'em like him or Mariano Rivera or Hideki Matsui or Aaron Judge for that matter. It's easy to forget Jeter is a member of the 100-RBI club since he usually batted at or near the top of the order. but nevertheless (and you can look it up) he knocked in 102 back in '99...and for some reason his 100 ribbie season is a bigger deal to me than the 3000+ hits he amassed. It put him at the big boys' table reserved for the sluggers in my mind instead of having to hang with the singles hitters at the little people's table.
Anyway, it's funny how often I keep bumping into the ubiquitous Lance, not to the extent we all do with overexposed fellow ex-bandmate Justin Timberlake, but nonetheless quite a lot. One minute he's coming out in People magazine, then he's almost an astronaut, but later he's on Broadway doing Hairspray but then doesn't he almost win the DWTS competition on TV. Oh then he's making headlines marrying his male partner but then one day I see he's on the N.Y. Times Best-Seller List with his biography Out of Sync. Then didn't I run into him in some funny movie called On the Line one day. And I still hear 'NSYNC songs on the radio sometimes. Darn they were catchy but no they didn't make it to either of my music lists Misakman's 1001 Greatest Songs of All-Time 20th Century or Misakman's 180 Greatest Songs of All-Time 21st Century. Let's not get carried away now.