Andy Pettitte turned down a $10 million, 1-year guaranteed contract in November. In December, when the Yankees signed Mark Teixera, they took this deal of the table. Nobody was really sure if we’d seen the last of Pettitte, and I hoped we hadn’t. Yesterday,…
The cameras caught Bill and Hillary Clinton greeting the elder President Bush and Barbara. Bill hugged not only Barbara, but George Sr. as well, in a very warm fashion. Hillary shook hands from a distance, and patted George Sr. on the shoulder.
So, why does our President take office on January 20th? Well, it used to be March 4th. In the olden days, Presidential candidates needed this long to get their affairs in order. Also, when the date was first selected, there were no commercial flights,…
Thanks to my good friend Gary for pointing this one out: AA is offering up to 2500 miles if you sign up for e-mail notifications. They did this about a year ago as well. You need to stay signed up for at least 3…
Not much else to say here. Being widely reported that Spagnuolo is gone. Once we know a bit more about the Giants of 2009, I’ll comment some more.
I’m a couple of days late on this story, but I wasn’t keeping track of the news closely while I was gone. Barack Obama selected a veteran of Raytheon to be Deputy Director of Defense. William Lynn is a very accomplished man. He served…
So, I played the Noon tournament at Venetian on Tuesday. The tournament got 130+ entrants, which was both good and bad. Good, in that it was a decent sized field for payouts, bad in that we got just enough players for the tournament to…
So, the title of this post will sound like I’m bitter from today’s loss. No question, I’m very bitter about today’s loss. But I see very little to blame on Coughlin. Eli really looked horrible all day. The defense was playing great. But how…
Sorry for the delay in posting. Cutting our trip short, we were able to get back and see Michelle’s grandmother. She’s still hanging in there, good days and bad. We stayed at two enjoyable hotels, Le Meridien Barcelona, and Le Meridien Ra Beach. First,…
Well, this definitely comes as a surprise: Bill Richardson withdraws his nomination as Commerce secretary. I’d be really surprised to hear he actually did something wrong. He has always struck me as a pretty honest politicians, as far as politicians go.