To return to an earlier metaphor, if this season is an elevator and the seasons are floors, it seems we got on at the 3rd floor and rode it all the way to the 5th with only a brief stop to see that the 4th floor was under construction. The only purpose this seemed to hold is to end a sloppy storyline from last season and to bring in someone of authority (Chief Feinberg) to force Tommy to seek psychiatric help next season (he "Section 8's" Tommy in the finale). The first half of the season was spent cleaning up the mess from the end of last season, and then it quickly moved on to setting up plot for next season, and Chief Riley's suicide midway, is indicative of this. Meanwhile Leary's already talking about stories already written for next season, which it seems like he started thinking about midway through this one. My guess is they'll wait to make an announcement either way until after the Emmys (Leary's nominated for best actor).
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Speaking of next season, there's still no renewal notice so one has to wonder if that might have been the series finale. Putting his Boston allegiance aside for second, the fact that Leary brings up a healthy living Yaz is surely meant as a contrast to Mantle's troubles with alcohol, and the hope that Tommy's looking to turn the corner next season. Mantle's battles and eventual death by the bottle (at age 63) are why he's a reference point for Tommy, with his addiction battles.
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Yaz said once about Mantle, "If that guy were healthy, he'd hit eighty home runs," and Yaz would know, because he was as healthy as they got, playing mostly injury free for 23 seasons. Mantle is the last player to win the Major League Triple Crown (1956) and Yaz was the last to win the American League Triple Crown (1967).īesides being rivals, the major difference between the two was health and alcohol. Both had the pressure of replacing true baseball legends - Mantle took over for Joe DiMaggio in 1952, and Yastrzemski replaced Ted Williams in 1961. " The Mick" and "Yaz" are two similar, but contrasting references for the series. Getting back to baseball, early in the season, the Yankees great Mickey Mantle was referenced in a biography playing in the background at a bar. After that touching moment of song, "Good Times Roll" by Boston's own The Cars plays out the episode, backing a montage that sees many characters starting and ending plot lines, the most touching of which was the death of Tommy's father (while quietly watching the game). Later on, though, while Tommy and his father (played by the always amazing Charles Durning) take in a minor league baseball game, they invoke The Green Monster, Carl Yastrzemski ("Yaz," for whom the episode is named) and even quietly celebrate the 40th anniversary of the BoSox's Impossible Dream season of 1967 by singing a few bars of "The man they call Yaz" (mp3 download). Whether it be cameos from Boston area sports figures like Boston Bruin greats Phil Esposito and Cam Neely and Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, or the occasional song ( The Del Fuegos) Leary and co. In the song Evan Dando and Juliana Hatfield sing "I'm too much with myself, I wanna be someone else," which speaks to the yearning that Tommy has for a drink (and maybe why he likes to dress up as his dead cousin while fighting fires off-duty?) At this point, using a Boston band in the soundtrack is only Leary blowing a kiss to Beantown, which he likes to do often in the series. It worked well with the flashback montage of Tommy's losses - cousin Jimmy on 9/11, carrying his dying son Connor, his brother's funeral. Last night the Boston referencing began innocently enough, with the use of Lemonheads' "(My Drug) Buddy" to back Tommy's (still) internal battle with alcohol. And since baseball is being brought up here (and with the Yankees taking on the Red Sox this weekend) creator Denis Leary has to show his stripes (or lack thereof) to make sure you know he's a Boston man.
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There were long bits of boredom that lulled you to sleep, until the crack of the bat (or a fire engine siren) would wake you up. Here they used the cliché of "baseball is like life" to set up a joke, but it really encapsulates the season as well.
Another apt metaphor for the season would be the game of baseball. It's the end of the fourth season of Rescue Me and like the elevator that Tommy and Lou got trapped on momentarily, it had its ups and downs but really didn't seem to get anywhere.
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