And who can blame him? While The Boss and Billy are portrayed by bonafide famous thespians, Reggie Jax’s role was cast to a guy best known for playing second (or third) banana to Denis Leary. From the New York Times’ Joe LaPointe.
œThey didn™t ask me; I feel betrayed, Jackson said on the field at Yankee Stadium before the Old-Timers™ Day game that preceded the current team™s game against the Los Angeles Angels. The ESPN series is based on a book by Jonathan Mahler, œLadies and Gentlemen, the Bronx is Burning, and focuses on a turbulent year in which the Yankees won the World Series.
Jackson sounded bitter toward the network, for which he once worked as a baseball analyst.
œAnd they didn™t have the decency to ask me a question, Jackson said. œPortray me when you don™t know the story? Why would you do something like that and no one asked me? You™re doing a documentary? You™re doing a biography? What are you doing? Why wouldn™t you ask somebody that was there or in the middle of it? I™ve got a right to do it if I want to, just to set the record straight.
ESPN released a statement through the spokesman Dan Quinn, saying: œIt™s unfortunate that Reggie is disappointed. We felt strongly that to maintain the objectivity of the story line, we get equal input from all of the key characters, or none of them. Fortunately, the 1977 season was extremely well documented, so we relied on our advisers and consultants, including Reggie™s best friend on the team, Fran Healy. And, at the end of the season, as any Yankees fan knows, Reggie Jackson is the hero.
Though I ususally don’t take Reggie’s side in most disputes, I can’t believe there’s a tele-flick about The Summer Of Sam in which the producers thought Fran Healy would be a better consultant than Ricky Luanda.
Given the toll taken on their respective bullpens yesterday, Mike Scioscia and Willie Randolph can be forgiven (I guess) for leaving Ervin Santana and Dave Williams out there to die earlier today. In the former ballgame, A-Rod’s padded his midseason totals to 30 HR’s and 86 RBI’s. Clearly, his hamstring is bothering him far too much to play on Tuesday night.
Did you notice the cameo by the Giambino as an NYC cabbie, in the commercials?
I couldn’t stop laughing at the bad makeup and wigs in the promos. Reggie does have a lot to be upset at.
eh, to some of us Daniel Sunjata is best known for showering onstage in the prize-winning Broadway gay baseball drama Take Me Out. Trust me, Reggie comes up short.
there’s a Reggie Bar joke in here somewhere, but it’s been a long day.
Daniel Sunjata is a bad actor and a bad man in true life. Hes a cheater on his old emigrant girl Ro, a liar, a bisexual, he uses girls for sex and he goes around pretending to be a honorable guy. Right. Everyone of a certain age in Evanston, IL knows Danny Condon
as the man who abandoned his two daughters. Who are only 6 months
apart by two different women. He had to be sued many times to pay his
child support. They live on welfare, he is a low life.
….so you’re saying, what, he’s typecast as Franco?
Hilarious. Sooooo untrue. So obvious that this person knows nothing of the real Daniel Sunjata since NOBODY of ANY age in Evanston remembers Danny Condon AT ALL because he was only BORN there and never LIVED there at any point in his life! I went to St. Barnabas with him in the 80’s and was an aquaintence of his (kinda) till freshman year of high-school. I don’t know a ton about Daniel but I do know that our memories of him are faaaaar from what this jackass is saying.