News Item: Mario Vazquez Drops Out of ‘American Idol’
I don’t watch the show, so this doesn’t really matter to me, except for one thing. Mario’s departure means that the show will bring back Nikko Smith, who was voted out last week- and Nikko, I discovered today, is the son of former Cardinals shortstop and baseball Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith.
I’ve mentioned before that when I used to go to ballgames with my dad, we would fill out our All-Star ballots, and since he didn’t know who any of the NL players were, the only one he’d vote for each year was Ozzie Smith, for shortstop. And after Ozzie retired, he would vote every year for St. Louis’ shortstop (this year, it’s the famed David Eckstein).
I say this only because I think my dad should bring back this tradition by watching “American Idol” each week and voting for Ozzie’s son.
Posted by Stephen Silver at March 14, 2005 08:08 PMI just found out that factoid today too!
It will not surprise you one bit that I was/am an Ozzie Smith fan.
I once interned at a house & garden magazine in St. Louis, and the secretary knew where Ozzie Smith lived because the magazine had done a story on the house once. So she drove me by it one day. The windows around the front door were Wizard of Oz themed with a yellow brick road and a lot of stars on it. Engraved on each star was a milestone of some kind. There was one big empty star; the mag secretary told me that it was being saved for when he gets inducted into the Hall of Fame.
How's that for a factoid?