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16 July 2011

Elin Nordegren: Investor Jamie Dingman New Boyfriend?

Does Elin Nordegren have a new boyfriend?

Elin Nordegren
Yes, according to the New York Post. The paper reports that Tiger Woods' ex-wife and mom of two has been dating American investor Jamie Dingman, the son of billionaire Michael Dingman, for several months.
Dingman, who works for his father, has previously been linked to model and actress Bridget Moynahan--the mother of John Edward Thomas, her son with Tom Brady--and Princess Madeleine of Sweden. The New York Post reports that Dingman splits his time between China and the Bahamas, and also Florida and Sweden--where Nordegren has homes--as of late.


Swedish newspaper Expressen spotted Nordegren and Dingman kissing outside her Stockholm apartment earlier this week. Nordegren recently put the three-bedroom, two bathroom penthouse on the market for $5 million.


Nordegren was last linked to a 35-year-old South African student whom she met at the Florida college where they both were studying. Since that report, she has largely avoided the limelight, though she made news again when she purchased a $12.2 million Florida mansion last March, 10 miles from Wood's new pad in Jupiter, Fla.


Nordegren and Woods officially divorced last August, nine months after Tiger's Thanksgiving day car accident that eventually exposed the golfer's many indiscretions, costing him millions of dollars in corporate endorsements and forcing him to take time away from the game.


Elin reportedly received $110 million and joint custody of couple's two children in the divorce settlement.

15 July 2011

Movie Review: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2″


I can be redundant and tell you how many years Harry Potter has impacted the world (14 years), or how much money it has made through books, movies and other merchandise (Billions, with a capital B), or how many books there have been (seven), or how many movies there have been (eight), but I would just be repeating what most people have said in their openings (which I just did). Regardless, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is a fitting end to a lengthy series and after the dramatic set up in the first half Part 2 ends with one emotional bang.




Before I get into this review I have to be honest with you and say that I have never read the books. I did watch the movies however, and found them to be an excellent form of magic, mystery, and intrigue. So while it doesn’t pain me to see this franchise come to an end, I can certainly respect the people who have cherished this franchise shed a tear or two watching their beloved franchise turn its last page.

Now if you haven’t seen the first half, I suggest you do so now, otherwise you will not understand the quest or reasoning behind it. Yes, I am giving you homework.

For those who think that WB is just splitting the films into two parts to milk it for what its worth, you need to understand that if the film was shot as a singular entity it would have been difficult to tell the story and it also would have been a disservice to the fans. Those who have been following the franchise who haven’t been reading the books or haven’t watched Part 1 will be confused with some of the relationships that seemingly pop up out of no where, who has survived and who hasn’t, or how Harry and the gang came across Godric Gryffindor’s Sword. That being said, let’s start with this review.



The second half literally starts where it left off with the final scene in the first half. Our hero and his band of merry friends have been forced to run. Dobby has died. Hogwarts is being controlled with an iron fist, and everyone’s most hated snake looking wizard has just acquired the most powerful wand ever created. Now its up to our heroes to save the world and wizardry. Can it be done? According to some, no it can’t. But Harry be damned if he didn’t try.

From there that emotional build up that we saw in the first film is gone and is turned into a full on action movie. Again, if this had been shot as one film, it would not have made as much as an impact for the audience. All the teenage angst is out of the way. Unfortunately the action scenes either move too fast or takes too long get through that it can get confusing at times. But the set pieces in all these action scenes give new meaning to devastation and destruction, as the world of Hogwarts crumble before the students’ eyes. But as visually stunning as these action scenes are, the performances and the quieter moments that happen during the action scenes that are the best.



Watching Ralph Fiennes become the sinister Voldermort is exciting. With every wand wave and slithering vocals, you can tell than Mr. Fiennes has been waiting for this moment and will milk it for what its worth. And I can tell you one thing, every scene he is in is truly frightening, and that’s a good thing. The relationships that are finally established can give out a cheer and a laugh. These long-awaited relationships that have been building up to its dramatic end also mark how long this film has come along.

The lack of color also makes for a whimsy apocalyptic end to the school. Its gray stone color like scheme also adds to the emotional scenes, giving it a cold feeling of dread.



I cannot tell what stays true and what has been modified, but based on the screening reaction, fans will be happy. Despite what Yates may have kept and may have left out, the one question that is on everyone’s mind is why choose to do post-conversion 3D, especially when post-conversion 3D has been widely panned. Sure the effect may be unnecessary and may not work at times, but when it works, it works.

Rarely does a franchise as large as the Harry Potter series stay fluid. From the start we watch the three leads Daniel Radcliff, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint grow up to be strong actors, and it shows in the franchise finale. It must not have been an easy task, but the cast has been able to stay true to the character without skipping a beat. But it is not only our leads that carry the film, but also the supporting cast that help bare the burden of making the franchise what it is today.



As the film comes to a close, we see (this really shouldn’t be a spoiler) how much our beloved characters have gone through, and after eight films that have spanned a decade, the audience is rewarded with a somewhat quick and seemingly unsatisfying ending. But despite its quick action scenes and ending, I feel as though the emotional build up, the performances, and the relationships that are formed redeem all those minor flaws.

As an audience member who has only seen the world of Harry Potter on the big screen as opposed to the text, I found that the movie did tie up all the necessary loose ends. To say that Part 2 is the best of the franchise would be an understatement, because there are no words to describe how spectacular this film really is. Sure there are flaws in it, but every Harry Potter entry had its flaws.

I may not have understood the Hogwarts lingo, but what makes the entire Harry Potter franchise so special that it was about the character struggles, the underdog stories, the romance, the friendships, and the boy who becomes a man.

Clemens Mistrial Declared After U.S. Shows Barred Evidence

The perjury trial of former Major League Baseball pitcher Roger Clemens ended in a mistrial on the second day of witness testimony after prosecutors showed the jury evidence that violated a court order.

U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton in Washington said today that he's considering barring further prosecution of Clemens on double-jeopardy grounds and set a hearing for Sept. 2 on whether to let the case proceed.
Clemens, 48, a seven-time Cy Young Award winner, is accused of lying to Congress about his use of steroids and human growth hormone. Prosecutors said that Andy Pettitte, a former teammate, would testify about his close relationship with Clemens and how Clemens told him in 1999 or 2000 that he had used HGH. Clemens told Congress that Pettitte misheard the conversation.

Walton said that prosecutors violated a court order today when they showed the jury of 10 women and two men a video clip of the 2008 hearing where Pettitte's wife was discussed. Walton ruled earlier that any reference to an affidavit given to Congress by Laura Pettitte couldn't be admitted into evidence in the government's presentation of its main case.

"Mr. Pettitte's testimony is critical as to whether this man goes to prison," Walton said, noting that the video improperly bolstered Pettitte's credibility with the jury. "I don't see how to unring the bell."
'Better Not'

Clemens's defense attorney, Rusty Hardin, when asked to comment after today's proceeding, said, "I'd love to, but I better not."

Bill Miller, the spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, said in a statement that Walton's order barring anyone involved in the case from discussing it precluded comment.

Clemens's mistrial is the second federal perjury trial of a former Major League Baseball player in three months to end inconclusively. Barry Bonds, the home-run record holder, was convicted in federal court in San Francisco in April of obstructing justice for statements he made to a grand jury in 2003 when asked whether his trainer ever gave him anything that required a syringe injection.

Jurors in the Bonds trial couldn't agree on whether he lied in saying he didn't knowingly take steroids and take human growth hormone or receive injections by his trainer. A mistrial was declared on those counts.
The U.S. has yet to say whether he will be retried.

Thirty Years

Clemens was charged with one count of obstructing a congressional investigation, three counts of making false statements and two counts of perjury in connection with a congressional probe of ballplayers use of performance-enhancing drugs. If convicted on all charges, he faces as long as 30 years in prison and a $1.5 million fine.

The charges stem from statements Clemens made to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in February 2008, in an interview with committee staff and later at a public hearing. Clemens, under oath, denied ever using anabolic steroids or human growth hormone, according to the indictment.

During the public hearing on Feb. 13, Clemens testified while a few feet away from the government's main witness in the trial, his former trainer Brian McNamee, who said he injected Clemens with both drugs while Clemens pitched for the Toronto Blue Jays and the New York Yankees.

Opening Statement Stopped

Walton stopped Durham during his opening statement as the prosecutor told jurors that Clemens's former Yankee teammates Pettitte, Chuck Knoblauch and Mike Stanton would be called to testify how they used HGH. Walton ordered jurors to disregard the reference to the other players, which violated a pre-trial order.
Walton also ruled July 6 that the government was barred from using or referring to any part of an affidavit by Pettitte's wife, Laura, who swore her husband had told her about a conversation with Clemens in which Clemens acknowledged using the drugs.

Laura Pettitte could only be brought up in the trial to rebut information from the defense, Walton ruled.
The trial was stopped as Durham took testimony from the government's third witness, Phil Barnett, the House staffer who deposed Clemens.

Durham played a clip of Representative Elijah Cummings questioning Clemens during the Feb. 13, 2008 hearing. As the video played, a transcript of what was being said was highlighted on the lower portion of the screen.

Pettitte's Wife

Cummings mentioned an affidavit the committee received from Pettitte's wife.

Walton stopped the trial and ordered the lawyers to the bench. After a few minutes, he sent the jurors out of the courtroom.

"I clearly ruled that Mr. Pettitte's wife and what Mr. Pettitte said to his wife could not come in," Walton said. "This clearly runs afoul of my pretrial rulings."

Walton said that he was "perplexed" that the government's exhibits hadn't been altered after his ruling.

"A first-year law student knows you can't bolster the credibility of one witness with clearly inadmissible evidence from another witness," Walton said.

A half hour later he declared the mistrial.

Normally, a criminal defendant can't be tried twice for the same crime. Exceptions include when a jury fails to reach a unanimous verdict, said Stanford University criminal law professor Robert Weisberg.

'Procedural Goof-Up'

"A procedural goof-up shouldn't preclude a retrial, unless the judge believes it involves intentional, egregious misconduct by the prosecutor," said Weisberg, citing a Supreme Court ruling.

A mistrial so early in a case is "almost unheard of," Weisberg said.

The government's last high-profile loss in a Washington courtroom was the case against the now-deceased Alaska Republican Senator Ted Stevens. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan threw out Stevens' 2008 conviction for corruption the following year because federal prosecutors withheld evidence from the defense. Sullivan ordered an investigation into whether the government's "shocking" conduct was criminal.

During the course of a Justice Department probe of the matter, one of the prosecutors, Nicholas Marsh, killed himself. Unlike the Clemens case, Stevens prosecution was handled by the Justice Department's public corruption unit, not by the U.S. Attorney's office in Washington.

The case is U.S. v. Clemens, 10-cr-00223, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (Washington).

--With assistance from Greg Farrell in New York. Editors: Fred Strasser, Andrew Dunn

14 July 2011

Callie Thorne: Wrapping Rescue Me was 'Terrible!'


Callie Thorne: Wrapping Rescue Me was 'Terrible!' | Callie Thorne
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After seven seasons with the Rescue Me "boys club," Callie Thorne says she can more than hold her own with the guys.

"I developed my own truck driver mouth," the actress tells PEOPLE with a laugh. But when the cast filmed the final season – which will air Wednesdays (10 p.m. ET) on FX – the gang of tough guys softened up.

"The final days of Rescue Me were terrible," she says. "There were a lot of tears. Especially when people heard, 'That's a series wrap on Denis Leary.' A lot of the guys got really choked up."

Even the man who helmed the series?

"Denis didn't cry, but he was very quiet," says Thorne. "Which is a big deal for Denis Leary."

Still, Thorne says the reaction made her feel good because, "the show touched everybody that deeply," she explains. "This was a family – seven years together. The set of Rescue Me was our playground and our home."

Luckily, she's got a new project to keep her busy: Thorne stars on the new USA series Necessary Roughness, which also airs Wednesdays (10 p.m. ET).

"It's the millennium," she jokes of having two shows on at the same time. "You can TiVo!"

Tommy faces the backdraft on ‘Rescue Me’

Every hero’s journey comes to an end.

What Tommy Gavin has to hope is that his upcoming finish is more reflective of his good intentions than his bad decisions — because seldom in the annals of TV has a hero stepped more outrageously, hilariously and at times tragically wrong. Which is precisely what has made Rescue Me such a treasure, a groundbreaking, under-appreciated series that, like its firefighter hero, is willing to risk it all, even if that occasionally has meant going down in flames.

Born in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks and out of star and co-creator Denis Leary’s fascination with firefighters, Rescue Me now begins a nine-episode final run that will conclude, fittingly enough, close to the 10th anniversary of that national catastrophe.

A complex, often darkly funny rumination of the nature of heroism, the cost of survivor guilt, and the joys and limitations of firehouse camaraderie, Rescue Me now prepares to answer its last, crucial question: Is redemption possible for a man like Tommy Gavin, a selfish, alcoholic philanderer who, thanks to Leary’s fully formed and insufficiently rewarded performance, is one of TV’s most fascinating characters?

After years of bizarre battles and reconciliations, his wife, Janet (Andrea Roth), is simply looking for something resembling a normal life.

But Tommy makes it clear tonight that what she wants may be beyond him: “Normal’s dead and buried underneath Ground Zero. I’m just trying to make sense of what’s left above ground.”

And in that speech, you have one of the factors that makes RescueMe an important, and yet for some, off-putting, work of art: its characters’ steadfast refusal to put 9/11 behind them. In a nation that prefers to move on, Rescue Me‘s firefighters are stuck.

Leary is working with a fabulous cast, which is why he and co-creator Peter Tolan can dance so nimbly between realism and surrealism, drama and comedy. This is a show that can make you laugh at the crew’s attempts to help John Scurti’s Lou pass his physical without letting you forget that someone may die, or Tommy may explode, at any moment.

The journey is ending. Surely you don’t want to jump off the firetruck before it does.

Copyright © 2010 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc.

12 July 2011

Triple-A Home Run Derby thrills fans, gets festivities off to good start

SALT LAKE CITY — While many of the game's biggest sluggers were busy bashing the ball at the major league all-star gathering in Arizona, those at the next level and a few notches below put on quite a show at Spring Mobile Ballpark.

Monday's Triple-A All-Star Game Home Run Derby came down to a showdown between Stefan Gartrell of the Gwinnett Braves and Spanish Fork High School standout Kayden Porter.
And the duo didn't disappoint the 9,183 fans in attendance, who saw Gartrell edge Porter 7-5 in a thrilling finale.

The 27-year-old outfielder in the Atlanta Braves organization acknowledged it was a great way to start off the all-star festivities.

"Just being able to come out here to win it and have my family and my fiancee here, everybody and a few Braves fans cheering for me over on the other side, too, that was really fun," Gartrell said.

Porter, who was able to a metal bat, drew praise from the champion. Gartrell said the high school senior-to-be is a "future star in the making" and wished him well.
The experience was something special for Porter.

"It was the loudest baseball experience I've ever had in my life," he said. "Everybody was going crazy. I'm still shaking but it was an awesome thing."

Salt Lake Bees third baseman Jeff Baisley reached the second round after hitting four homers in the first. The blasts were his first in an all-star derby. He came up empty in the Single-A event in 2006.

"It's a little extra pressure but it's fun," Baisley said of being the hometown guy before the competition. "It's your own park, you get your own (batting practice) thrower. So it's a little bit of an advantage."

Unfortunately for Baisley, it wasn't enough. He failed to clear the fence in the second round and was eliminated. Gwinnett Braves infielder Mauro Gomez, who led the derby with five homers in the first round, also failed to make the cut. He hit only two in the second.

Former Ogden Raptors outfielder Trayvon Robinson of the Albuquerque Isotopes and Bonneville High slugger Sam Hall were eliminated after the first round.8

Former major league star and Utah resident Dale Murphy opened the derby with a ceremonial hit. He later presented a retro jersey from his playing days with the Atlanta Braves to Gartrell, who is a step away from getting his own uniform from the organization.

LOOKING BACK: When Salt Lake City hosted the Triple-A Home Run Derby in 1996, Tacoma's Greg Pirkl took top honors and a check for $500 — same as this year's prize. He saw limited action in the majors, however, hitting just eight homers in his career at the next level.

NEXT UP: The Triple-A All-Stars are scheduled to work out at the stadium today, beginning at 12:30 p.m. An autograph session with fans is set for 2:45-3:45 p.m. Both events are open to the public, free of charge. The players will be involved with a "Miracle League" game with kids from Shriners Hospital at 4 p.m.

ON DECK: Wednesday's Triple-A All-Star Game between the International and Pacific Coast leagues is scheduled for 7 p.m. Earlier in the day, Hall of Famer Rod Carew will be the guest speaker at an all-star luncheon.

Home Run Derby winner press conference

ROB BUTCHER: By way of introduction, to your left here is Raquelle. She is 14 from the Lehi Branch of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdale. Todd Fischer, he's the manager of National Sponsorships for State Farm. And we have Robinson Cano, his father, Jose, and his mother, Claribel. I will turn it over to Todd.
TODD FISCHER: Thanks, Rob. Another incredible evening tonight. First of all, congratulations to Robinson, and a big thank you on behalf of State Farm to everybody for making this night happen, from Major League Baseball to ESPN, Arizona Diamondbacks, the City of Phoenix and so many other folks. It was arguably the most exciting State Farm Home Run Derby in recent memory, and probably a new chapter in the Yankees and Red Sox rivalry although these guys were teammates.
The impact left on fans and everybody watching across the country on the broadcast is probably only matched by what the guys were able to do for great kids like Raquelle and so many others in the donations that were raised tonight.
State Farm is proud to make a donation to worthy charities and the community in the amount of $603,000, and over the course of our five years as a partner of Major League Baseball, we cracked the $2 million barrier in our donations to the Boys & Girls Club of America and other worthy causes.
We could not be happier and prouder of this event and the way that guys like Robinson Cano represent baseball and everything that it stands for, and the way that great folks like Raquelle represent their club and the good that comes with this event cannot be understated. So congratulations to both parties involved.
Q. For Jose, can you just put into words how gratifying that must be to throw, to, do what you did tonight, to throw BP to your son and see him win the Derby like that?
JOSE CANO: That's what I do all the time at home, just throwing BP. When he called me at home, that he wanted me to come to the United States because he's going to be in the Home Run Derby, I said, "I'll be happy to pitch to you, because that's what I do at home," you know. Whenever got the season off, we are working on a lot.
So it's worked today, because sometimes you work and you never know what's going to happen, when he's going to need you. It worked. Thank God it worked.
Q. Robinson, was it more special because of your dad being involved with this whole thing?
ROBINSON CANO: Yeah, 100%. First, I want to thank God, and second, my dad, and my mom. Also want to thank my friends and my family that came with me, because when they find out that I'm going to be in the Derby, they say, you are going to win; wow, we have a lot of guys, we have Ortiz, Fielder, Bautista, we have a lot of power. But even my mom said, you never know. You know, I told her I'm going to go out there and do things the best I can, and good thing is it went my way.
Q. You've been wanting to compete in one of these for a long time. What was the feeling when you hit that last one to win?
ROBINSON CANO: That was a great, great feeling. I mean, it's like when you are in the game, last inning to win the game, you get excited.
As a kid, you dream to be up here with a bunch of guys, that you watched back in the day like Sosa, Griffey, McGwire, Giambi, how much fun they have, and it's the same thing, as a kid, you say, I want to be one day and see how they feel.
So now that I'm here, it's a great feeling. I also want to thank Major League Baseball, the way they put it together, it was a great job. Everything was good and fine. And now I'm looking forward to tomorrow.
Q. When you are hitting, Gonzalez is hitting first, 11 home runs and you need 12 home runs, what did your father tell you when he went to talk to you?
ROBINSON CANO: First thing that goes through my mind is wow, he got 11.
So I say, "Wow, that's a lot." But I was positive. My dad said, "You can do it." The other thing was, he never get nervous.
Q. Would you talk about your relationship with Jordan the barber from the Bronx who was here and what it meant to have him here?
ROBINSON CANO: He was the first guy that said last night, he said, "Don't worry, you're going to win. You've got a chance." I look at him, "A chance?" I said, "I'm going to go out there and have fun, not even try to win it." And it's good. It's always good to have a friend like him that always gives you positive advice, always got you on his side, and he's always been there for me. And we have been friends now for ten years. He's a great person, and it's always great to have a good person around you.
Q. Any added pressure of trying to do this tonight with the absence of Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and Alex Rodriguez?
ROBINSON CANO: I was sad when I heard they are not coming, because you always like when you're teammates are here, because you feel like you're in the clubhouse. But I know they have their reasons and I hope fans understand that it's not that they don't want to come. There was a reason and I know nobody else wants to be here more than them.
Before I forget, I want to say thanks to C.C. Sabathia, Granderson, Alex, the guys that came to me and says, "You're going to win it, don't worry, be relaxed." Like I say, it's always great to have people around you like that, not like, "Oh, this guy is going to go, don't care if he doesn't win."
Q. Can you just tell us about, it's obviously exciting to win this event, but the way you won it, as you mentioned, breaking the record, hitting the home runs and then those Yankees against Red Sox and the whole drama.
ROBINSON CANO: You know, I never thought that it was Red Sox and Yankees. I know that I was facing Gonzalez, but I don't have that in my mind, because it's like I said, I always focus on winning. But now that I went so far away to the end, now you have to put in your mind that you are going to win. You don't want to waste almost 40 swings to say, wow, congratulations to another person. You want to beat the total, take that trophy, and that's a trophy that you can show to your kids when you retire or one day they grow up.
Q. You displayed a lot of power, and also you were quite consistent, getting off to a good start and you kept it rolling. Was that one of the main keys?
ROBINSON CANO: Well, the main key was every time I done my round, I went in the training room and told the trainer if I can get a stretch, put a heat pad on my back so that way I get loose all the time, and also want to thank the trainer, he did a great job. That's the thing, you've got to be always positive, try to stay loose and stretch yourself.
Like I say, I don't want to say that I win the trophy. I want to say that my dad has won the trophy.
Q. For Raquelle, you are sitting there next to a girl wearing a Red Sox hat, and although he said the rivalry was not that important, what was it like for you two sitting there watching this?
RAQUELLE: It was -- I don't know, it was sort of --
ROBINSON CANO: It's all right. Take your time. Take your time. (Laughter.)
TODD FISCHER: Were you rooting for Robinson all the way?
RAQUELLE: Yeah.
Q. How cool was this for you guys to be able to sit there and watch it?
RAQUELLE: It was cool. I liked it. It was awkward because we were -- I don't know, against each other, I guess, and we were the last two.
Q. For you, in terms of your career and the development of it, winning the Home Run Derby, does it have importance for you in terms of your career overall?
ROBINSON CANO: Yeah, of course. It's like one of the dreams come true, because it's always good to be here, but to win it, like I said before, it don't matter how much money you make, how long you play.
But those are the kind of things, the memories that you can bring home and always share with your family, not only now, but when you retire, you can look, you can look over and say, "Wow, I was good back in the day" (Laughter). Because I got a trophy. But when you don't have anything, you just look, wow, my son made a good play one day, I was at the Derby. But this is a good memory and something that I'm always going to have in my mind and my heart.
Q. From throwing Robby batting practice all those years, did you know where he likes the ball to try to hit home runs?
JOSE CANO: Sure. He asked me to throw it inside and low. I said, that's the way I throw you the whole year, so it's going to be easy for me. ROBINSON CANO: I might bring him to New York. (Smiling broadly).
Q. What was it like for to you have three of your teammates out there? They looked like they were more excited about this than you were. ROBINSON CANO: That was great. That was great the way they support me from the beginning. They said, "Hey, dude, I got you."
I said, "Man, if you don't got me, something must be wrong, because I'm your teammate." And he was laughing about it, Granderson before we left New York, he told me, "I've got Robby to win it." And you know that you're people go down, you can step up and win it.
Q. It looked like he said, "I love you, dad," when he tied Gonzalez; what did that mean to you?
JOSE CANO: We counted every home run he hit today and when Gonzalez got 11 home runs, I'm for sure that we are not going to win, because the way he hit the ball and the way he feel today, every time he hit a home run in the last round, I said, ten more, nine more, eight more, and when he got the last one, I said, "Just one, just give me the one, that's it."
ROBINSON CANO: So can we split the trophy half and half? (Laughter.)
Q. There's a lot of fun things in right field, the pool and --
ROBINSON CANO: Don't forget the Miller Lite sign. (laughter) say that again?
Q. How fun was that?
ROBINSON CANO: It was a lot of fun. I already told you in the beginning that I can hit the ball that far, I can hit it out of the park but not like that. I know for sure that I surprised my dad and everyone, because I know a lot of people, besides my teammates, they told me that I can win this Derby. But it's like I said, you never know, and we are here.
Q. Since you mentioned it, which was the favorite one you hit? Was it the Miller Lite sign?
ROBINSON CANO: Yeah that, was my favorite one. I'm going to have that in my mind for the next two or three weeks.
I wonder how far could it be, that in New York?
Q. It said 472.
ROBINSON CANO: Wow. (Laughter.) That was the longest one I hit, right?
JOSE CANO: Twice.
ROB BUTCHER: Thank you very much.