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Mets
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Despite The Captivating Performances, The Mets Shouldn't Rush Their Prospects In 2010
Hello friends and welcome back once again! Well, even while stars Jose Reyes and Carlos Beltran are out nursing injuries rather than playing daily Grapefruit League games, spring training is nevertheless chugging along swimmingly. And as this spring training has progressed we've seen some pretty decent performances out of some guys, as well as some particularly forgettable ones too. And as I've followed the Mets this spring, if there's one thing I can say I have learned, it would be that the barrel containing the Mets prospects isn't quite as dry as us fans have been led to believe it is so often. Some of the club's best performers this spring are really making the Mets farm system look not so shabby.
Thursday, March 18, 2010 12:00 AM EDTIs Contending In 2010 Insurmountable Now That Reyes Is Officially Hitting The Shelf?
If you're a mobster, or a mafia movie fanatic like myself, the first thing you think of when you hear the words "This thing of ours" would be Cosa Nostra itself. However, if you're a Mets fan, the phrase "this thing of ours" refers to something else. The thing I'm referring to would be this horrible never-ending rash of injuries our beloved team just keeps on suffering. And this "thing" doesn't appear to be just a "2009 thing". A one and done fluke. No no. The plague has now dipped into 2010, claiming both Carlos Beltran and Jose Reyes. No my friends, I'm beginning to fear that "this thing of ours" may wind up being a permanent unlucky fixture, much like the Chicago Cubs century and change of never winning the World Series.
Friday, March 12, 2010 6:35 PM ESTMore PR Confusion? Here We Go Again...
Here is a little exercise I'd like you to do for me. Imagine you're reading a story regarding a baseball player getting injured. However in this particular story, the name of the player isn't revealed. It's blurred out, and you don't know the identity of the player, you just know that he's suffering from some sort of ailment. Now imagine that a few days later you read another story regarding the same player - still with his identity a mystery - and in this story the player is denying the original injury, claiming he never suffered from it, and instead has something totally different. Now knowing all of this, who would you suspect that player to be?
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 7:29 PM EST
Music
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Arts & Entertainment
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'Magical, Musical Moments IX' Salutes Eight Great Shows
In “Magical, Musical Moments IX: Back To Basics,” Beari Productions shares highlights from eight very different musicals. Act I opens with four songs from “Pippin.” There is a stirring solo of “No Time At All,” and three ensemble numbers.
Thursday, March 18, 2010 5:15 PM EDTWillson vs. The Gershwins this Weekend
Two great musicals are running on concurrent weekends here in Queens. I had the pleasure of attending both of them this past Saturday and Sunday. If you could only see one, how would you choose? Let’s see.
Monday, March 15, 2010 2:52 PM EDT
Sports
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Penner's Pen
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AS DEVO WOULD SAY "WHIP IT GOOD"
It must have been a slow news day for the New York Post to run "Whip it! I was a dominatrix in Midtown Manhattan" (Susannah Cahalan -- February 21) as their Sunday front page headline. Even more surprising was that a dominatrix can earn $200 per hour without obtaining a license from the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs. No visits from the Department of Taxation to insure taxes are being collected on each "transaction" with clients? No visits from the Department of Health to insure safe sex is practiced by all?
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 6:55 PM EDT
Fred's Gripes
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Searching for my sons
I have just read in the New York Post that there are bills in front of the New York State Assembly and the Senate to open records on adoption after the child reaches 18 years of age. Joyce Bahr, who heads a group that advocates to unseal records for adoptive children in New York State, says keeping them closed makes little sense. She has bill # A8410 and S5269 before the Legislature, which would allow adopted children to contact their birth parents at age 18 via an agency, and the parent has the option of meeting the child or not. Now I hope and pray these bills are passed. You see, I have been looking for my two sons, Tommy and Bobby, who were adopted while I was in the Navy. My wife left us and I had no means to support them. I would like others who might feel the same way and wish to make peace with the children they adopted to give support for these bills. This can only happen if these bills are passed. If you feel as I do, contact your elected officials and tell them how you feel about these bills. The time is now.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 6:55 PM EDT
Internet In Bloom
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Too big too fail?
"Too big to fail is too big to exist," stated famous radio talk show host and progressive author Thom Hatmann in a fairly recent televised debate. Too big to fail is too big to exist, according to the Sherman Antitrust Act, first enacted by Congress in 1890. The Sherman Act was named for US Senator John Sherman of Ohio, who was an expert on the regulation of commerce. This legislation successfully brought suit against Standard Oil in 1906 under President Teddy Roosevelt's administration where the New Jersey company was forced to divest itself of a total of 33 companies. Another noteworthy example of the Sherman Act was the 1984 breakup of American Telephone & Telegraph into one long distance phone company, AT&T, and seven regional Baby Bell companies. In 2001 a court-ordered breakup of Microsoft, due to its Internet browser software monopoly was overturned by an appeals court, in large part due to former CEO Bill Gates' threat to close down Microsoft and stop supporting its global server software empire, which would have caused widespread corporate chaos as national business computer networks crashed as well as vast consumer PC problems due to the inability to download patches and apply other typical maintenance or repair, support services.
Thursday, March 4, 2010 5:32 PM ESTA few tricks of the trade
Ever notice how on TV or in the Movies the detective always solves the crime within the allotted program time slot, such as 30, 60 or 90 minutes? If you talk to professional sleuths crime resolving takes much longer. The Internet can save you time and money even if you are not a professional investigator. Amateur private eye librarians, like me, can show you a few tricks.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 5:42 PM EST
