BEg2 ch27 El Atildado, Jay Payton

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 08:43:59 UTC 2022


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On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 1:42 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Atildado translates to “dapper” (related to “atildar” - to put a tilde on,
> which seems reasonable - a good haircut can change a plain old “n” to a
> spiffy “ñ”)
>
> “The barbershop, El Atildado, is below street level. There’s a noisy
> subarctic air conditioner, back copies of OYE and Novedades, and 90 percent
> of the conversation, like the commentary to the Mets game on the TV, in
> Caribbean Spanish. Horst has just gotten absorbed in the game, which is
> with the Phillies….”
>
>
> Mets won Sept 2, 3, and 4, over the Phillies, despite a lower won/lost
> ratio going into the games.
>
>
>
> “Hey, look,” sez Otis, as his brother makes dummy-up signals, “it’s
> Carmine—hey! hey, Carmine!”
>
>
>          “Yo, guys,” Detective Nozzoli’s eyes flicking to the TV screen.
> “How they doin?”
>
>          “Five–nothin,” Ziggy sez. “Payton just homered.”
>
> https://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=paytoja01
>
> Jay Payton played for the Mets from 1998 to 2002 - looks like he was traded
> mid-season to the Rockies.
>
> He hit 8 home runs in 2001.
> Not finding the granularity for which games tho.
>
> He had uniform number 44 that year.
>
> A nice article on him:
>
> https://www.amazinavenue.com/platform/amp/2020/8/31/21407723/mets-prospect-retrospective-of-jay-payton
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