OCTOBER 24,
2004 --
Has The New
York Times No Baseball Loyalty to NY?
The New York Times, in an editorial on the amazing Boston Red Sox comeback
-- after three losses -- to win the 2004 American League Championship over
the New York Yankees, four games to three,
admitted that the Times is part owner of the Red Sox.
The editorial did not report that Russell T. Lewis, chief executive officer
of The New York Times Company, was seen arriving at Yankee Stadium for Game
7 of the ALCS, on the Red Sox owners' bus and entered the Stadium by the press
gate, wearing a Red Sox fan's baseball cap.
Red Sox Nation
LPR met one Red Sox fan outside Fenway Park, October 23, looking to exchange
his preserved ticket to the
storied Woodstock festival, in Sullivan County, New York, August 15 to August
18, 1969, for tickets to the first game of the Red Sox - St. Louis Cardinals
world
series.
On October 24, again outside Fenway Park, LPR spoke with another Red Sox fan
who reached Boston from Seattle, Washington, via Washington, D.C. and was willing
to trade his collection of Jim Rice baseball cards for a ticket to Game 2 of
the world series.
One fan who camped outside the Fenway Park ticket window on Landsdowne Street--some
tickets were put on sale two hours before Game 1 -- succeeded in getting a
grandstand seat at face value -- $145. Another successful Fenway Park camper
paid face value -- $190 for a box seat. World Series bleacher seats at Fenway
went for $70 and standing room for $50. There were, of course, people willing
to pay a thousand dollars and more for a Fenway Park 2004 world series ticket.
There were also, LPR learned, people who paid hundreds of dollars for tickets
to Game 1 that turned out to be counterfeit.
It should be noted that Red Sox fans who gathered outside the ballpark for
a glimpse of their heroes arriving for the world series games were permitted
to stand much closer than Yankee fans outside Yankee Stadium to the players'
parking lot.
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Red
Sox fans outside Yankee Stadium after Game Seven.
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Tow-Away Nation
Surprisingly, it is far easier to park on
the streets in the vicinity of Yankee Stadium
than in the vicinity of Fenway Park. As far
as LPR could tell, it is
impossible to park in the Fenway Park vicinity, without getting 1) a parking
ticket and 2) towed.
Perhaps it was to make LPR feel at home,
but on October 24 there was a $75 ticket
on the LPRmobile across from Fenway Park.
OCTOBER 24,
2004 --
Behold The House that Ruth Built
Is it true Yankee Stadium is to be no more?
Even the Coliseum of Rome was never razed
Do matters of purse count more than history's score
No more baseball at the Stadium?
The Bambino is in tears, and amazed
OCTOBER 25,
2004 --
Surprise, Surprise--Not
First The New York Times and now The Washington Post
Endorsing for president John F.Kerry
And should he win -- hear them boast
Over a glass of the president-elect's favorite sherry
Think of
them not as merchandise, but as mementos.
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LPR
mugs, caps, T-shirts, coming soon.
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OCTOBER
16, 2004 --
The
know-it-alls
By word,
they defend diversity
But in deed they command coerce-ity
By word, they defend open debate
But in deed, they would silence speech that they hate
From this we can derive a principle
Words are just tactics to becoming invincible
Once free speech meant a multitude of voices
Today, the Kerrygogues would, I guess, limit our choices
OCTOBER
15, 2004 --
On October
15, The Washington Post ran an editorial, "Remember Abu
Ghraib?"
A Questionable Battle Cry
" Remember Abu Ghraib?"-- but don't mention the beheadings
To take notice of anti-western barbarism I guess there are lots of frettings
In those comfy editorial offices from where
non-lefties are barred by strict vettings
How politically proper steadfastly to ignore any barbaric blood-lettings
OCTOBER
17, 2004 --
For a very interesting election poll map of the US, see the following link,
thanks to LPR's Webmaster (Terri Fassio from Skullco.com)
http://www.electoral-vote.com
OCTOBER
17, 2004 --
The Adams Rule, or can a Presidential term fall far from the tree?
Once we had father and son presidents named Adams --
it is not likely that they knew any Saddams --
Could there be an unwritten rule that is very firm:
(this is not meant to make George W. squirm)
fathers and sons get only one term as did John and John Quincy Adams?
OCTOBER
10, 2004 --
Just
a Thought …
It's time for motorists to organize to defend themselves against the
depredations of the politicians who would fine and tow and surcharge them into
penury.
Great
News!
Those exposed steel rods at the 95th Street / Henry Hudson Parkway exit have
been covered -- probably when a nearby section of Riverside Drive was repaved.
Not likely, of course, that City Hall will apply a penalty to itself for taking
its time to fill this particular pothole. Penalties are for the citizenry.
Think
of them not as merchandise, but as mementos.
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LPR
mugs, caps, T-shirts, available by Election Day.
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OCTOBER
3, 2004 --
Debate Doggerel
...
Bush reads in print
better than he speaks
Accusing Kerry (among other things) of having flopped and flipped
At the next debate, due within two weeks
He should refer viewers to The New York Times transcript
How about both sides tossing in the debate towel
We know one will say he is compassionate, while the other decries tax cuts
for the wealthy
Of course suspension might cause the moderators to howl
That a halt to these predictable events for the country -- and broadcasting
careers? -- would be rather unhealthy
Now to remove something in my political craw
By way of proposing a new election law
Next campaign let us fail to have nominees from Yale
Certainly no more clones from the secretive Skull and Bones
The Washington
Feds …
Here is a plan to make it rational
That the major league known as National
Has returned a team to our capital city
All we need is a federal law
Baseball can't leave Washington anymore
Plus a permanent U.S. government subsidy
Poor Martha …
The bad news -- Martha Stewart won't be at liberty to attend World Series games
this year. The good news -- she should be released from prison to be at the
2005 opener.
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Martha
Stewart at Yankee Stadium Opening Day, last April.
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Going to work …
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Gary
Sheffield heading to Yankee Stadium for the last home game of the
2004 season.
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Going to Iraq …
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Army
Staff Sergeant Danny Machiovello, with wife Gloria, photographed
outside Yankee Staduim, September 30. Danny is a security supervisor
for the Yankees. His National Guard unit was activated last May.
He stopped by the ballpark while on leave.
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