Baseball's blackball
In Cooperstown, NY today, Goose Gossage, former Cardinals manager (the late) Billy Southworth, and three deceased executives. Not to be found at the podium was 91-year-old Marvin Miller, who revolutionized the game as director of the players union from 1966 to 1983.Peter Dreier and Kelly Candaele (brother of former big leaguer Casey Candaele) explain how we arrived at this injustice.
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Adam Wainwright's strikeout of Carlos Beltran to end Game 7 of the 2006 National League Championship Series may wind up being the final post-season image of old Shea Stadium in New York, but Billy Joel was still creating new memories with a series of Shea concerts this week.
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Roger Ebert wrote this week, "Sometimes I think I am living in a nightmare. All about me, standards are collapsing, manners are evaporating, people show no respect for themselves. I am not a moralistic nut. I'm proud of the X-rated movie I once wrote. I like vulgarity if it's funny or serves a purpose. But what is going on here?" The film that sparked Ebert's existential anguish is Columbia Pictures' "Step Brothers".
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The immigration raid of Agriprocessors, Inc. in Postville, Iowa in May still has the attention of The New York Times. Working conditions at the meatpacking plant read like the muckraking accounts of turn-of-the-century Chicago in Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle." Corporate America has managed to roll back the clock a full century on child and slave labor.
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Here's a photo gallery from Comic-Con 2008. Remember to laugh with them.
posted by CM @ 7:22 PM
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