Happy Birthday to Willie Mays

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Willie “Say Hey Kid” Mays, one of baseball’s all-time greats, is celebrating his 81st birthday today. Twitter is celebrating with him and sharing fond memories of Willie Mays.

Today Willie Mays turns 81, here's the cake the Cardinals gave him when he turned 38 in 1969: http://t.co/H04MJiqY

— Stirrups Now! (@uniformcritic) May 6, 2012

have a faded autograph from him passed down to me MT @buster_espn: Happy birthday to Willie Mays, http://t.co/CNX5uCDU

— Shayne Forsyth (@shayneforsyth) May 6, 2012

Willie Mays hit by a pitch in 1966. Cardinals' Tim McCarver looks on: http://t.co/cFvcw6tE

— Stirrups Now! (@uniformcritic) May 6, 2012

Great photo RT @MLB: SAY HEY: Happy 81st birthday to MLB's greatest living ballplayer, the iconic Willie Mays! pic.twitter.com/gXJg4QAo

— Tyson Densley (@TysDensley) May 6, 2012

Happy birthday, Willie Mays. In my book, he is still the best ballplayer still breathing. the "Say Hey" kid is 81.

— Tim Sullivan (@TimSullivan714) May 6, 2012

RT @EdgeofSports Happy birthday to "Say Hey" Willie Mays, in my opinion "the greatest living player" since 1951. #SFGiants

— Don Rhoades (@TheGonzoSEO) May 6, 2012

For "youngsters"..How good was Willie Mays? Imagine if Magic Johnson had been a baseball player and you will have a clue! @EdgeofSports

— Bob Davis (@kozmicfunk) May 6, 2012

Happy Birthday to my boyhood idol… Willie Mays. I'm a fourth generation Giants fan and he was my hero.

— Steve Wronker (@SWFB) May 6, 2012

ESPN’s Dick Vitale offers his thoughts as well.

Say Hey Willie was THE BEST I EVER saw-Happy 81 WILLIE MAYS Dad loved Joe D my uncles The MICK but to me NO ONE was better than Willie!

— Dick Vitale (@DickieV) May 6, 2012

We join in wishing Mr. Mays a very happy birthday!

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2012/05/06/happy-birthday-to-willie-mays/

Report: David Shuster joining Al Jazeera America; Tweeters note perfect match

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Al Jazeera America has already poached Ali Velshi and Soledad O’Brien from CNN, and the latest report is that the network that will begin airing on some outlets in the U.S. next month has signed former CNN lefty anchor David Shuster.

As Neil Clark Warren of eHarmony.com might say, some tweeters see multiple dimensions of compatibility:

http://twitter.com/#!/DonIrvine/status/359305156447309824

Not exactly surprising; birds of a feather… Report: @DavidShuster Joining Al Jazeera America huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/21/dav…— johnny dollar (@johnnydollar01) July 22, 2013

Even though there are reports that David Shuster will join Al Jazeera America, what remains to be seen is to what degree Al Jazeera America joins America:

http://twitter.com/#!/SandiBehrns/status/359348576884768770

Here’s the real funny part:

The Times’ Brian Stelter wrote that Al Jazeera America will cover more domestic than foreign news and “operate much like CNN (though the employees say they won’t be as sensational) and Fox News (though they say they won’t be opinion-driven).”

And what better way for a network to prove they won’t be opinion driven than going out and hiring David Shuster and Soledad O’Brien?

In a separate story, Al Jazeera America also announced that their new president will be a 30 year veteran of ABC News:

http://twitter.com/#!/DylanByers/status/359362667221221376

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Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/07/22/report-david-shuster-joining-al-jazeera-america-tweeters-note-perfect-match/