Friday night, it was Freddie and Gary in town for Phillies/Cubs in South Philly. (Cubs win!)
Saturday night, it was my man E Ray’s bachelor party and the Hopkins/Tarver in Atlantic City. (Hopkins loses.)
Alas, I was still tied up dining at Buddakan when that punch up there was delivered on the undercard [Lavarn Harvell (R) connects on Tony Pietrantonio (Tim Shaffer/Reuters)].
Here’s one vignette from the evening: On the cab ride from Harrah’s to Caesar’s — for which one friend was left behind — the driver held court spectacularly, in which spectacularly means “undertaking an impassioned sales pitch for a ‘tranny’ prostitute who ‘has lighter skin than’ a friend from Strong Island and only charges ‘$250’ for assplay.” I’ve of the mind that the driver was, in fact, the prostitute as well.
Chad Dawson enters the ring; he'd beat Bernard Hopkins
Soriano looks back to the left-field stands