Archive for May, 2009
Do your duty, feel guilty..and root for Hockeytown. Pshaw!
Forget rooting for Detroit. Congress and the Obama administration should model the re-structuring of the automobile industry after the only successful business venture in the whole forsaken city: The Red Wings. They’re the only entity in town with unionized labor that has managed to be innovative and successful, all while making a profit. What a concept - and they’ve never had to give up their chartered jet.
It’s Cowbell Hell @ The Trop
Maybe Tropicana Field seemed so bad because I was sitting in the stands, in the sun, with my family, on my daughter’s first birthday at Wrigley Field just two days ago. Maybe it was those annoying cowbells being clanked by all 10,000 in attendance when Evan Longoria stepped to the plate. Maybe it was that I never had any interest in attending a game at a replica of the Kingdome.
The Audacity of Dopes
Sometime way back when I was having a conversation with my friend Alex and his dad Tom. The topic of the conversation was the then seemingly exorbitant salaries being paid to professional athletes. Ryne Sandberg had just received a contract that would pay a gasping $7 million to the future Cubs’ Hall of Fame second […]
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