Steve Gosset

Veteran ink-stained wretch and flack, father of two; husband of one. Views are mine.

[Steve Gosset @SteveGosset]

Could Stearns be more clueless than we thought? Yes, as it turns out.

[Anthony DiComo @AnthonyDiComo]

David Stearns on why the Mets held onto Luis Robert Jr.:

"It's the possibility of what he can do for us in the second half. The understanding that there is a club option [$20 million], and the excitement of of still having here him here for the next two months of the season."

[Steve Gosset @SteveGosset]

@MetsdUp After today, the Mets could be a really good team. In 2029.

[Steve Gosset @SteveGosset]

@ZoeGutier While the threat of a penalty is harsh, what was asked was not unreasonable or a burden. I always run the dishwasher and take out trash at an Air BnB. No big deal. Stripping bedsheets takes, what, 20 seconds? And the cleaners have a lot more to do than that.

[U2 @U2]

Sometimes I would wonder if Glen Hansard really existed….

Seriously, he was such an angelic presence… not otherworldly…in fact, very present this presence…
A smiling rascal if you needed him to be… this most musical and mischievous archangel of Ballymun… no airs, plenty of graces...

Of course, Glen was the shining star of the Christmas Eve busk… sometimes the only one reminding the rest of us that Christmas began with a refugee born in a manger, which is hardly a step from living on the street.

To be utterly yourself by being more interested in others - a clue for any of us trying out different personas. He really was who you thought he was. He could never walk by a person living rough without checking they were OK… and more than that, he worked very hard so that less people had to live on the streets in the first place.

When the crowds got bigger and for safety’s sake Glen had to agree to move the busk to a stage kindly provided outside The Gaiety Theatre, he would say 'we’ll give it our best but it’s not a busk if we’re not on the street!’ …because that’s who he was - a performer at eye level in any situation. The stage was a separation he wouldn’t recognize. Of all the grand and gigantic venues he and The Frames played, you sensed the street was his most favoured place to perform. And street people, his favourite audience.

Voice of the streets. A choir of angels in one man. The rest of us blessed to stand there beside our very own and very earthed Angel Gabriel… All of us welcome in his choir, whatever shape or form.

….and I’m telling myself this morning that if he never existed, then he can never cease to exist. For me, he will always be everywhere I see a coin spinning into an open guitar case.

May you rest in the peace you gave to so many.

Bono

[Steve Gosset @SteveGosset]

@TheKjMoody Subway all the way. Have never taken an Uber in New York. Walking is also rather inexpensive.

[StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites]

House of Blues Chicago canceled Jewish artist Matisyahu's sold-out show after threats of protests.

Yet it has no problem platforming rapper Saint Levant (aka Marwan Abdelhamid), who publicly praised those responsible for the violent attacks on Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam, thanking Moroccans "for what they did the other day" and saying they were "taking care of business", remarks he later reinforced on social media.

That's not consistency.
It's a blatant double standard.

Shame on you, @HOBChicago. You're sending a clear message about which artists are welcome and which Jews are not.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: Lifeguards save a young boy who was caught in large waves in Santa Cruz, California.

"The lifeguard just had a gorilla grip on that young man, held him from getting swept back out," said Scott Vander Dussen, who filmed the incident.

Heroes.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Have been a member of the @whca almost continuously since the 1990s. Our mission is to defend the First Amendment rights of White House correspondents to report on the president without fear or favor. Unfortunately last night did not advance that cause. Time to rethink the dinner.

[Josh Wolfe @wolfejosh]

Our NYC family Rabbi Angela Buchdahl

👇 🇺🇸 🗽🇮🇱👇💯

[Steve Gosset @SteveGosset]

Baller prof!

[Boochie is the Name @stoppfeenin]

32/35 students failed this professor's midterm using AI because he secretly hid some white font in his text.

[Steve Gosset @SteveGosset]

@DanRaviv @DuaneReade Interesting. Bargains and Duane Reade are rarely uttered in the same sentence.

[Steve Gosset @SteveGosset]

@AugensteinWTOP @frankpepepizza Looks like they need a little more training on the coal oven at the Bethesda location. Until then, stick to the clam pies.

[Steve Gosset @SteveGosset]

Oy vey.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Wishing a peaceful Tisha B’Av to Jewish New Yorkers across the five boroughs.

From sundown tonight until tomorrow, mourners will pause and reflect on the history and resiliency of the Jewish people.

May all observing have a safe and meaningful fast.

[Elisheva Abramson 🇮🇱🌴 @ElishevaSays]

I’ll never forget when one of my closest friends - on October 8, 2023 - called to tell me she wouldn’t be making it to our coffee date. When I told her I looked forward to rain checking, she told me she “had Palestinian friends to think about.”

I never heard from her again.

[Steve Gosset @SteveGosset]

@capelizzzy @CitiField @KahanHQ Bottom line: this show could’ve been rescheduled. They chose not to. Even if it wasn’t Noah’s decision alone he has to own it. For someone who professes to care so much for his fans, he came up short.

[Steve Gosset @SteveGosset]

So, get postponing @NoahKahan show at @CitiField (should have made that call a few hours earlier). But why cancel outright and not reschedule for Monday? No baseball and still time to make the next show 7/22 in DC. Big bummer, man.

[Steve Gosset @SteveGosset]

Yeah, about that….

[Rico Bo$co @Return_Of_RB]

Excited for Noah Kahan tonight … that’s a guy who never shies away from big moments, big spotlights and big cameras.

God Bless

[Steve Gosset @SteveGosset]

@NoahKahan How about stop drinking and reschedule tonight’s show to Monday?

[Steve Gosset @SteveGosset]

@RealRobReinhart Stop. Just stop.

[Steve Gosset @SteveGosset]

@RealRobReinhart No they’re not. And you know they’re not. Stop with the BS clickbait. You’re fooling no one.