(you should mentally prepare for the fuckin’ possibility that Nick Punto sucks)
Michael Imperioli attended the Yankees’ 8-0 demoliton of the Twins Tuesday, and graciously allowed the New York Times’ Jack Curry to intrude on his night out.
In the television movie œFor One More Day, Imperioli said, he will play a former major league catcher who wonders what it would be like to see his mother one more time. So Imperioli requested a meeting with Yankees catcher Jorge Posada.
œI like to get a lot of different information and different impressions, find out where their heads are at, Imperioli said. Then he shifted from actor to fan and added, œHe™s my favorite catcher.
Imperioli said he attended his first Yankees game on Mickey Mantle Day in 1969, when he was 3.
œIt™s one of my earliest memories, he said.
In the final season of œThe Sopranos, Christopher and Tony were involved in a car crash. A severely injured Christopher, who had been driving, told Tony that he would never pass a drug test and asked for help. Tony began to dial 911 but stopped. He covered Christopher™s nose and smothered him.
œTony Soprano would like to think that it was justified, Imperioli said. œBut it wasn™t.
Imperioli said the final episode of œThe Sopranos was œjust genius, and added that the dissection that occurred over the series™ ambiguous ending was brilliant.
While quoting part of a review he had read, Imperioli said: œ ˜Instead of Tony Soprano getting whacked, David Chase whacked the audience.™ I thought he gave it closure without tying things in a bow.”