Tuesday, August 23, 2005 |
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No, I'm not making this up: the Comeback Player of the Year Award Presented By Viagra. One of the candidates is Bob Wickman.The Texas Baseball Massacre
Via AP, notes from the Rangers' worst road trip in history, a 1-12 disaster that has seen the club fall nine games below .500. Mariners Morsels (via Lookout Landing) recently suggested that the M's should make their 2005 goal getting to third place in the division. With Texas's pitching a mess (again), it's not a bad idea.USA Today On The McCourts
After a division title, things don't look as bad, do they? At least, that seems to be what's happened to reporting on the McCourts since 2004, and this USA Today story on them is no exception. Of course, I'd have been willing to cut Jamie McCourt a bit more slack if I had known she keeps score at the games...Even today, as McCourt tells it, her mother Jean likes to say, "You are the only person — forget girl — that I ever knew who said they wanted to buy a baseball team. And you were 9 at the time."McCourt says: "I loved, loved, loved baseball. I would drag my dad to Orioles games, and I would always keep score."
When she was at MIT Sloan School of Management, she tried to do her thesis on the economics of buying a baseball team or building a new ballpark.
"But I could not find a professor to sponsor it," she says. "Those were the heady finance days, and Wall Street was on everybody's mind. But look at how things turned out. It's just so bizarre. Now, here I am. You take these weird paths in your life that really end up leading to the same place."
"I believe there's a market for non-traditional sponsors," she says. "I think women would love to walk out of here with a lipstick tube instead of a rally cap. Seriously. Don't you think that would be fun?"
Nice try, Jamie. Stick with rally towels that can be turned into dishtowels, if you're so intent on traditional roles.
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