I can't resist all the cliches....."Can't Buy Me Love", "The Long and Winding Road", "Things We Said Today", "We Can Work It Out" etc.....all songs written by Paul McCartney in the 1960's. Here in 2008, those words offer a different meaning to Sir Paul. The divorce settlement for he and his ex-wife Heather Mills has been handed down and the numbers are staggering. Mills gets 48 million dollars. Sounds like she won doesn't it? Wrong! She wanted about 100 million. The judge saw things differently. Reportedly McCartney's estate is worth about 1.6 billion dollars so that 48-million is a fraction of the former Beatle's fortune. However its more than he wanted to pay. Its widely been reported that McCartney offered 25-million to Mills to settle out of court.

Mills is appealing, but not against the judgement. She's appealing against the publication of all the sorted details of the settlement. Paul, on the other hand, is happy to have the public know exactly what was given and what was asked for. McCartney said only this upon leaving the courthouse, "All will be revealed." (Sounds like the title of a new hit song).

McCartney was also ordered to pay 70,000 dollars a year in child support for the couple's 4-year old daughter. Mills has been portrayed in a very negative light through the media since marrying the music icon. She has tried to improve her "approval-rating" but has been unable to do so. People can't help but think she married McCartney for all the wrong reasons. Paul met Mills shortly after his wife of 29 years, Linda, died of breast cancer in 1998. Mills looked like Linda did when Paul married her in 1969. Friends said that's where the similarities ceased. It was widely reported that one of Paul's daughters, Stella, did not get along at all with Mills. It was also reported that shortly before their marriage, Paul threw Mills' engagement ring out of a hotel window. Things just didn't seem right from the beginning. Of course, all the monetary details would've been a moot point if Paul asked for a pre-nuptial agreement, but that's just not Paul's way....(that would be John's way).

Now its all over for Paul and Heather.....lets just say he will now "Let It Be". (see....I told you I couldn't resist).

How can this be???? I've spent my entire life hating the Yankees and now I'm one of them!?!?! You see, I'm a life-long Mets fan, so its just natural for me to despise that other baseball team from New York. That being said, I was informed a few weeks ago that the name of my son's little league team was the Yankees. Suffice it to say, I was stunned by the news. (I know what you're thinking.....and I believe the word is...........let me see.......oh yeah....."immature"). I know, but I can't help it. Those who really know me wouldn't expect anything less.
Then I was asked to be a coach for the team. Yep....that's right....I'm a coach for the YANKEES!!!!!! So every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday for the next 2 months, I'll be wearing a Yankee shirt on a baseball field. We've played 4 games so far and I'm already breaking out in hives.

Right now, those of you who aren't big New York baseball fans, think I'm a crazy person. You just don't understand. I feel the need to explain. I became a Mets fan when I was 3 years old, just after they won the world series in 1969. My older brother was a Mets fan so I just followed in his footsteps. Then we recruited my little brother. By the mid-70's, we were all one big happy New York Mets family.
UNTIL......my older brother decided to stop liking the Mets and switch to the Yankees. I still haven't forgiven him for his lack of loyalty. Soon after, my little brother betrayed me as well. It made sense to them, the Yankees were on the rise and the Mets were going in the opposite direction.

I didn't understand their logic at all. I held firm and my love for the Mets grew even stronger. To this day, one of my proudest accomplishments is that I didn't give in to the peer pressure. Meantime, the Yankees won the world series in 1977 and 1978 and the Mets were horrible. I had to watch my brothers celebrate while my Mets lost over and over again. To make it even worse, because they outnumbered me, I had to watch the Met games on a black and white television in the basement while they watched the Yankee games on the color TV upstairs. When we moved from New York to Arizona in 1979, we all suffered because our beloved teams were across the country. I got the worst of it because the one major league game televised nationally each week was usually....you guessed it...a Yankee game.
Fast forward to 1986. The Yankees were horrible and.........MY METS WON THE WORLD SERIES!!!!!!!!! I was a junior in college and I cried like a baby. My loyalty paid off and my love for the Mets grew even stronger, in fact, I've been living off that high for 22 years now. Which brings me back to my original point.......I'm now a Yankee. My family certainly gets a kick out of seeing me with that shirt on.

But you know what?!?! I'm certain that I'll have the last laugh when the little league Yankees win the championship and then later in the year, the Mets once again win the world series. Funny thing is, I don't know which team I'll be more proud of.

Hey wait a minute.....I may be maturing after all.

During last years major league baseball playoffs, seemingly every commercial break had a promotion for a new television series on TBS called "Frank TV". Even Frank himself got sick of the promos. The reason why TBS was promoting the show so heavily was they new what they had.....the sheer talent of Frank Caliendo. He puts Rich Little to shame. Caliendo is simply the best impressionist I've ever heard. He's starting to gain quite a following and its much deserved. His spot-on imitations include John Madden, Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, George Bush, Charles Barkley, Bill Walton, Jim Rome, Jay Leno, Terry Bradshaw, Robin Williams, Jerry Seinfeld and David Letterman. Those are just a few of voices he does. Just go on "youtube" and watch any number of performances by Caliendo and you will be amazed.

He's gained a lot of attention through the sports media having spent a lot of time on the NFL pregame shows, but his impressions go far beyond just sports celebrities. The interesting thing about Frank is that he spends a lot of time here in the Valley. In fact, he came by the station a few years back and did many of his impressions in our sports office. I remember thinking back then that this guy was incredible and it was just a matter of time before he got really famous. Now he's getting there with his own show and his many performances on Letterman and Leno as well on the TNT NBA telecasts as well as his NFL appearances.

He's probably most famous for his John Madden imitation....in fact I think he's the first guy to ever "do" a Madden impersonation. As the story goes, John himself isn't a fan, apparently, he doesn't see the humor and talent. (He's the only one).
I just saw Caliendo on Letterman recently and to watch Dave watch him is something I'd pay to see!!!

If you don't know him yet....remember the name....but no doubt you'll just remember all the voices.