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Sunday, May 24, 2009 06:08 AM
Original article: I Like to Watch

NBC sucks

Absolutely the worst network on TV. It used to be Fox, cancelling good shows after they move them around so much on the schedule that the audience couldn't find them, so naturally the ratings died. But NBC doesn't even do that and still kills good shows in lieu of bad.

Cancelling Earl? Really? Jay Leno at 10, cockblocking Conan? That whole network should be given the pink slip so they can start over. If I was developing a new show I wouldn't even bother going to NBC with it. They just don't seem to want to make television any more.

P.S. -Can someone please explain how they can get over the mind numbing absurdity of Dollhouse's premise enough to take the show seriously? There hasn't been a show so implausible since The Beverly Hillbillies.

Friday, May 22, 2009 10:14 PM

Still empty seats at Yankee stadium

I love how this whole enterprise is blowing up in the Yankees faces. They can't fill their precious new stadium. And while teams really don't make the majority of their money off ball park attendance (its in the merchandising and TV contracts), the fact that they have priced their team outside of the range of the middle class means that they're fan base will slowly dwindle in the long term- nobody wants to root for the team that tells them they're too poor to be a real fan.

This will hurt their merchandising and TV revenues when everyone in NY switches to the Mets. I bet it'll only take ten years or so before the Yankees are the second team in the city, with an income worse than the Pirates.

They could turn it around of course, if they would cut their ticket prices to something that isn't absolutely crazy. That would be the rational move. And I'm talking way more than half. A seat along first base line in any stadium, for any regular season game, should NEVER, NEVER have a face value of more than $150, and that's for the seat where you can smell Arod's bengay you're so close.

I admit, I was initially worried when this new stadium came along, that this would mark the end of competitive baseball in the AL for decades. But thankfully the son of Steinbrenner is just as scummy as his father, and a total buffoon to boot, and is totally screwing this up big time. He may have actually supplanted Peter Angelos as the dumbest owners in MLB.

Sunday, May 3, 2009 04:54 PM
Original article: Former Rep. Jack Kemp dies

RIP Jack Kemp

One of the few national conservatives that I respected. I disagreed with him on many things, but I never doubted his integrity.

He may or may not have been wrong on various economic issues in his life, but you never could doubt his philosophies came from a sincere, honest place.

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