Say Anything Blog

In some old boxing flick
James Cagney a boxer, and Pat O’Brien his priest and coach observe a boxer in the ring genuflect before answering the bell.

Cagney asks, “Father does it help him to do that.

O’Brien the priest answers,
“Not if he can’t punch.”

Maybe the curse will backfire???

Why do you care about a t-shirt buried with the lunchboxes, Elvis, and Jimmy Hoffa in the latest taxpayer funded abomination, Rob?  Isn’t it bad enough that the taxpayers are being fleeced something like $800million to pay for 25 men to run around in tights playing a kids’ game for bazillions of dollars?

BB,

The sad thing is there is a much more logical and appealing location for the new Yankee Stadium over on the East River.  Granted it would have required official condemnation of the property, taking it from the current owners, and subsequent conversion for private development much like was done for the NY Times new midtown tower (Hello, Kelo!).  But, hell, the United Nations isn’t doing anything worthwhile with their East River/Turtle Bay property anyway, and they certainly aren’t paying the tax revenues that Yankee Stadium will.

“Capitalism is optimism monetized.”

It’s worth it. Wooo hoo! Baseball season is here and I love it. Go ASTROS!

You guys are so screwed!

1% of Americans pay 40% of the income tax.
5% of Americans pay 60% of the income tax.
10% of Americans pay 70% of the income tax.

Are you talking about the ASTROS?

Yeah, two championships in the last three years really sucks.  Anyways, the Yankees sucks.  They just buy their team and have the highest payroll in the mlb.

http://blog.sportscolumn.com/story/2008/4/1/231932/3450

I’m sure an extra $76 million will give allow you to buy some talent so you don’t have to cultivate it.  Doesn’t Alex make more than an entire team rob?

Companies shouldn’t go to bed with the government because the government has herpes.  You can try your whole life but you’ll never get away from that one night.

Bat One; that’s a great suggestion.  Sad that it’s too late to give it a try (and spare the legitimate businesses that were displaced for the billion dollar replacements to Yankee Stadium and the Big Blue Toilet Bowl.).

Are you talking about the ASTROS?

I thought they were disbanded in the interests of baseball.

1% of Americans pay 40% of the income tax.
5% of Americans pay 60% of the income tax.
10% of Americans pay 70% of the income tax.

Why do you care about a t-shirt buried with the lunchboxes, Elvis, and Jimmy Hoffa in the latest taxpayer funded abomination, Rob?  Isn’t it bad enough that the taxpayers are being fleeced something like $800million to pay for 25 men to run around in tights playing a kids’ game for bazillions of dollars?

It may be a taxpayer-funded abomination, Bubba, but it’s a taxpayer-funded abomination for my favorite team in the whole world.

This was meant to be a fun post about my favorite sport, Bubba.  Not a serious discussion about the problems with public subsidized sporting arenas.

I, personally, don’t have a problem with the money baseball players are paid.  But I do have a problem with the public being forced to pay for it.

Anyways, the Yankees sucks.  They just buy their team and have the highest payroll in the mlb.

The Red Sox don’t suck…but the Yankees do because they have the highest MLB payroll and just “buy” their teams.

But who has the second-highest payroll in MLB?  Why, the Red Sox of course.

Proving once again that the Yankees are pretty much better than the Red Sox in everything.

The purpose of government shouldn’t be to do good, but simply to refrain from doing evil.

So the Red Sox suck at sucking?

1% of Americans pay 40% of the income tax.
5% of Americans pay 60% of the income tax.
10% of Americans pay 70% of the income tax.

Rob, the Red Socks have the 4th highest payroll.  The Tigers are second and the Mets are third.

Companies shouldn’t go to bed with the government because the government has herpes.  You can try your whole life but you’ll never get away from that one night.