30th
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Joe Posnanski: A reminder that there are still sports writers who don’t just provide fodder for FJM (RIP) and, apparently, a huge Springsteen fan who knows how to get me excited.
At one point, when someone asked him how he planned to pack all of the intensity of a three-hour Bruce show into a 12-minute halftime show, he went into a classic meandering Bruce story. Bruce asked people to imagine You were going to a Springsteen show at the Meadowlands, but then you got lost. So you stopped at a bar, to ask for directions. And right then bar got held up. The police arrived and settled things down. And when you finally were able to get out of the bar, you started driving feverishly, but then you missed the exit, and so you had to drive around New Jersey, looking for you way back. And after finally finding your way back, you pull into the Meadowlands and you rush into the stadium, and you get there after the three hour show had been going on for two hours and 48 minutes.
“THAT,” Bruce said, “is what it will be like.”
