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Huston Street Represents Padres For 2012 All-Star Game
That's what they claim, at least with what you can do over the internet. There were a couple more San Francisco Giants there than would reflect a more fair process. Those players performed well though, so the only complaints seemed to come from television media. If the outcome of the game didn't affect the home field advantage for the World Series, I think all of it would be harmless fandom-frenzy fun. I mean, it's fun to read about how the Cincinnati Reds stuffed ballots one year in the late '50's and got 7 starters that were position players, but back then the game didn't much matter because it was an exhibition game that stood for entertainment only. Now it actually affects the World Series. When you consider that 6 of the last 9 World Series played since this rule was instated by Bud Selig were won by the team with the home field advantage, that seems to be pretty big.
— July 10, 2012 10:08 p.m.
Tim Sullivan Joins Louisville Courier-Journal
Sullivan can be found both on Facebook and Twitter for anyone wishing to follow his columns from afar, I'm sure that his twitter handle will reflect his new employer in some fashion, but his Facebook account can be accessed by using his name. Tim begins writing for the Courier-Journal on August 1st.
— July 10, 2012 9:51 p.m.
Padres Complete Three-game Sweep of Diamondbacks
When I return to San Diego in a week or two, I'll go back to writing daily. If it helps, then I've accomplished what I set out to do here. Thanks for the encouragement, Mindy.
— July 10, 2012 11:46 a.m.
Fourth of July: Caesar Would Have Turned In His Grave?
Hey, good stuff!
— July 9, 2012 9:41 p.m.
UT Bringing in VP of Sports
I predict that the U-T will cease to print within two years. Lynch ran 1090 into the ground and he'll do the same thing with the U-T. Posner can be annoying but he's a smart newspaper man. One by one, those people will be gone. The toy department is the least of their worries there, so it's interesting how Lynch is supposedly focusing on that. Nothing they go after is relevant anymore, it's a damned joke. Bill Center is near retirement, thankfully, and Nick Canepa has always been unreadable and he's getting old as well. Kevin Acee has been promoted from beat writer to columnist, proving that the Peter Principal is alive and well, because Acee can't write his way out of a parking ticket. This latest purchase of the U-T is a great example of how to completely wreck a newspaper. And not that their sports section was ever anything to write home about, but firing Sullivan was entirely idiotic, he was the only person who could write sports with dignity and clarity for that paper. Man, I'm telling you, take a look at how the old L.A. Herald Examiner ran their sports page and make that your blueprint. Greatest sports page ever from a daily, all of those writers went on to accomplish some great things in sports journalism.
— July 6, 2012 7:45 p.m.
Fourth of July: Caesar Would Have Turned In His Grave?
The precise explanation concerning the inventing of the salad is elusive and confusing. Perhaps all good stories should be that way. What I've both heard and read, was this: In the 1920's, Tijuana was the playground of the rich and famous from Hollywood, and on the weekends (and even weekdays at times), many of them would come down to gamble (there was no Del Mar or Santa Anita back then) and drink (remember, the Volstead act was passed in 1919 and prohibition wasn't lifted until 1933) and generally do stuff that wasn't legal in the U.S. at the time. So, at some point there was an actress (I'll do some research and see if I can find her name later) who always enjoyed going back into the kitchens of wherever she and her posse ate. So, one time she went back into the kitchen of the Hotel Cesar and found one of the cooks eating something on his break. The cook had simply combined some of the leftovers into some sort of a salad. She, ever-so-gregariously, grabbed a fork and demanded to try some, and then proclaimed it to be wonderful and ordered it to be made for everyone in her particular party. Now, I have no real idea as to the accuracy of this particular tale of the salad's beginnings, but it certainly does sound interesting enough, and I've seen this in multiple places so maybe there is some sort of validity to it.
— July 6, 2012 7:32 a.m.
As You Like It at the Old Globe
My favorite Shakespeare piece.
— July 1, 2012 1:02 p.m.
Fugitive Wanted On Murder Charges Arraigned
I am very much anti-death penalty, but I would lobby for an exception in this case. They should kill the bastard twice.
— June 12, 2012 8:01 p.m.
A letter I sent to the CA state legislature concerning CSUs
Young lady, if you are the future, then I want that future. Good luck with the politicians, they won't listen. They will rape the future of America in order to get re-elected by funneling money into areas that will benefit them in order to gain votes every four years. It's tragic. Graduate anyway, in spite of them. And then change this world. I dare you.
— June 7, 2012 2:44 p.m.
Another Honest Journalist Canned by
U-T
I have heard the same. He's a great writer, I've criticized him for using BIG words, tongue-in-cheek, us sports fans wake up, hungover, we can't handle big words that early in the morning. He'll work wherever he wants to, question is what they'll pay him in this down market for writers.
— June 4, 2012 4:41 p.m.
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Huston Street Represents Padres For 2012 All-Star Game
That's what they claim, at least with what you can do over the internet. There were a couple more San Francisco Giants there than would reflect a more fair process. Those players performed well though, so the only complaints seemed to come from television media. If the outcome of the game didn't affect the home field advantage for the World Series, I think all of it would be harmless fandom-frenzy fun. I mean, it's fun to read about how the Cincinnati Reds stuffed ballots one year in the late '50's and got 7 starters that were position players, but back then the game didn't much matter because it was an exhibition game that stood for entertainment only. Now it actually affects the World Series. When you consider that 6 of the last 9 World Series played since this rule was instated by Bud Selig were won by the team with the home field advantage, that seems to be pretty big.— July 10, 2012 10:08 p.m.
Tim Sullivan Joins Louisville Courier-Journal
Sullivan can be found both on Facebook and Twitter for anyone wishing to follow his columns from afar, I'm sure that his twitter handle will reflect his new employer in some fashion, but his Facebook account can be accessed by using his name. Tim begins writing for the Courier-Journal on August 1st.— July 10, 2012 9:51 p.m.
Padres Complete Three-game Sweep of Diamondbacks
When I return to San Diego in a week or two, I'll go back to writing daily. If it helps, then I've accomplished what I set out to do here. Thanks for the encouragement, Mindy.— July 10, 2012 11:46 a.m.
Fourth of July: Caesar Would Have Turned In His Grave?
Hey, good stuff!— July 9, 2012 9:41 p.m.
UT Bringing in VP of Sports
I predict that the U-T will cease to print within two years. Lynch ran 1090 into the ground and he'll do the same thing with the U-T. Posner can be annoying but he's a smart newspaper man. One by one, those people will be gone. The toy department is the least of their worries there, so it's interesting how Lynch is supposedly focusing on that. Nothing they go after is relevant anymore, it's a damned joke. Bill Center is near retirement, thankfully, and Nick Canepa has always been unreadable and he's getting old as well. Kevin Acee has been promoted from beat writer to columnist, proving that the Peter Principal is alive and well, because Acee can't write his way out of a parking ticket. This latest purchase of the U-T is a great example of how to completely wreck a newspaper. And not that their sports section was ever anything to write home about, but firing Sullivan was entirely idiotic, he was the only person who could write sports with dignity and clarity for that paper. Man, I'm telling you, take a look at how the old L.A. Herald Examiner ran their sports page and make that your blueprint. Greatest sports page ever from a daily, all of those writers went on to accomplish some great things in sports journalism.— July 6, 2012 7:45 p.m.
Fourth of July: Caesar Would Have Turned In His Grave?
The precise explanation concerning the inventing of the salad is elusive and confusing. Perhaps all good stories should be that way. What I've both heard and read, was this: In the 1920's, Tijuana was the playground of the rich and famous from Hollywood, and on the weekends (and even weekdays at times), many of them would come down to gamble (there was no Del Mar or Santa Anita back then) and drink (remember, the Volstead act was passed in 1919 and prohibition wasn't lifted until 1933) and generally do stuff that wasn't legal in the U.S. at the time. So, at some point there was an actress (I'll do some research and see if I can find her name later) who always enjoyed going back into the kitchens of wherever she and her posse ate. So, one time she went back into the kitchen of the Hotel Cesar and found one of the cooks eating something on his break. The cook had simply combined some of the leftovers into some sort of a salad. She, ever-so-gregariously, grabbed a fork and demanded to try some, and then proclaimed it to be wonderful and ordered it to be made for everyone in her particular party. Now, I have no real idea as to the accuracy of this particular tale of the salad's beginnings, but it certainly does sound interesting enough, and I've seen this in multiple places so maybe there is some sort of validity to it.— July 6, 2012 7:32 a.m.
As You Like It at the Old Globe
My favorite Shakespeare piece.— July 1, 2012 1:02 p.m.
Fugitive Wanted On Murder Charges Arraigned
I am very much anti-death penalty, but I would lobby for an exception in this case. They should kill the bastard twice.— June 12, 2012 8:01 p.m.
A letter I sent to the CA state legislature concerning CSUs
Young lady, if you are the future, then I want that future. Good luck with the politicians, they won't listen. They will rape the future of America in order to get re-elected by funneling money into areas that will benefit them in order to gain votes every four years. It's tragic. Graduate anyway, in spite of them. And then change this world. I dare you.— June 7, 2012 2:44 p.m.
Another Honest Journalist Canned by U-T
I have heard the same. He's a great writer, I've criticized him for using BIG words, tongue-in-cheek, us sports fans wake up, hungover, we can't handle big words that early in the morning. He'll work wherever he wants to, question is what they'll pay him in this down market for writers.— June 4, 2012 4:41 p.m.