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On left, my view of the 1993 Presidential Inauguration
Feel free to chat below - without making politically tinged comments - about today's Inauguration. (Yes, baseball talk is still welcome.)
But I had the same feeling about being in a crowd of 2 million people. No thanks. I'll watch it on TV, like everyone else.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sf-boys-chorus/3207894174/
We just found him during a shot on channel 4. You go Sean Coughlin
I miss CJ & Josh Lyman already. And Leo, of course.
Tony Jackson referred to Repko as a "four plus arbitration" player in his story. But, since he accrued almost no MLB service in 2008, wouldn't Repko still be considered "three plus"?
I still worry that Obama will pull a William Henry Harrison and not bundle up properly.
He said it took two hours to get there. Sam's place is not two hours from the Washington Monument.
But you know, it was hard to find a parking place.
Sorry, uh. USA! USA!
She has a Facebook profile. See if she accepts a friend invitation now. Her name is Ashley Blazer Biden.
19 Nice. Er, my g/f may suspect something, though.
Put a white cat in his lap and you've got Blofeld.
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Sometime in my lifetime, I'd love to see a Rabbi lead the invocation at the inauguration.
Or CNN.com or CSPAN.com
http://www.cnn.com/live/
Catholics now preside over both Houses of Congress.
Fortunately, neither Biden nor Pelosi attended Notre Dame.
High school term paper topic you brought up there.
Sorry.
This is a watershed moment in our history.
According to Fangraphs, Cody Ross was worth $17 million in 2008.
It was Roberts. He transposed two phrases.
"I (Barack Hussein Obama) do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
It is believed that no president has opted to "affirm" instead of "swear." Pierce might have. Hoover was often reported to have "affirmed" since he was a Quaker, but news reports of the time don't say that.
I was sure, and enjoyed that class a lot.
I'm betting the class had a different name in 1973 though.
I'll never forget the teacher, either...a guy of Greek extrapolation named Papadapoulis. A good guy.
45 :)
I'm always amazed that people still find that remarkable.
Now if Aretha Franklin had belted out a soul rendition of "O Canada" that would have been something.
I'm guessing it was "Afro-American" history. That term shows up a lot in old library catalog records.
See: American Basketball Association
We only play the National Anthem at important events.
Like baseball games.
Tony Jackson referred to Repko as a "four plus arbitration" player in his story. But, since he accrued almost no MLB service in 2008, wouldn't Repko still be considered "three plus"?
This is something that I'm not sure of. I asked Diamond Leung about Repko's 2008 salary (earned in arbitration) and he said he believed Repko earned his major league salary of $487,500 throughout the year, even while in the minors.
I scoured the CBA, and can't find exactly where this is explicitly stated. Perhaps the players get 3 years of arbitration no matter what (not counting Super Twos of course). Very weird.
Ouch. That's pretty harsh.
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/9108250/Source:-Dodgers-give-Martin-1-year,-$3.9M-deal
I just watched the oath and speech in our library, where the largely African-American janitorial staff had also gathered to watch. It was a joyous place to be.
Prediction (/hope): That deal gets ripped up as part of a long-term deal signed before the season starts.
Is this some plan to keep Mark Sweeney from ever batting again?
Dodgers sign Marin for 3.9 million and Broxton for 1.825. I thought they'd be a little higher.
http://blogs.pe.com/prosports/mlb/dodgers/
Lefties in handedness that is. Not in the "Waiting for Lefty" sense.
But you can pitch forever!
They were informed at renewal time that if they weren't willing to extend to larger package of games, they'd face the risk of losing their seats to someone else. They paid their deposit and hoped for the best.
They got the call last week that indeed the seats were sold. They were offered seats behind homeplate (too expensive) or down the line by the foul pole (bad seats), and they could essentially take it or leave it. I don't agree with the choices they were given, since it seems to me that in this economy, you'd want to keep every paying customer you have and if there aren't enough wheelchair seats to meet the demand, maybe they should look at that.
At any rate, I emailed Derrick Hall and within an hour he responded. Obviously there wasn't a resolution, but he said they'd work to find comparable seats and that he didn't want to lose them.
Has anyone ever emailed Frank McCourt, does he respond to customer issues?
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