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.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

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

You guys are so screwed!

The Debate is over!  Global Whining has been confirmed.

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?

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

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.

The Debate is over!  Global Whining has been confirmed.

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 war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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So the Red Sox suck at sucking?

The Debate is over!  Global Whining has been confirmed.

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

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.