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This Steve Lopez column in the Times is about a week old, but some of you might have missed it. It highlights Dave Pearson, a longtime chef at Dodger Stadium. The video accompanying the article is worth a gander as well. Vin Scully says that he needs a "decompression chamber" to adjust to food on the road after enjoying a homestand of Pearson's cooking.
Also from last week, in the New York Times, KNBC reporter Doug Kriegel recalled his days as an Ebbets Field hot dog vendor.
400 of those are Variety stories, which technically I could read at work tomorrow - but it's going to be a really busy day.
The next biggest chunk is Defamer: 113 posts.
They grow up fast. :)
"They don't like consistent players in this game unless you're older," Ethier said. "They want to see the young guys flash a lot of stuff or they get impatient."
Andre Ethier.
That was posted earlier, but given the rash of NPUTs, it probably didn't get the coverage it deserves.
Not only does Management only like consistency in older players, but it's perfectly fine if those older players are consistently bad.
I am loving being a parent and being married. And yeah, ups and downs galore but my younger colleagues (teachers) who are "terrified" of both, they ask me what it's like. I like telling them how happy I am. I like telling them--without being specific--about the ups and downs. I like being a "voice of experience."
But I wish I would've kept a diary.
He emerged from hiding before Saturday night's game, but when the Dodgers' gun-shy GM was approached, he said he had a telephone call to make and took off down the right-field line. Here's hoping he's not working on another trade."
Speaking as a historian, nothing good ever comes out of the bunker.
We need the Official Dodger Thoughts Analogy of Ned Colletti to a Civil War General.
It's safe to say Ned's a Confederate.
NPUT
It might work.
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