Month: February 2010

$14 million is not chump change, and it just might be enough to get Johnny Damon to wear the Old English “D”. But do we want him in The D? The Tigers traded Curtis Granderson because they could remove some cash from the payroll. They did the same with Edwin Jackson, instead choosing to take on Max Scherzer and his […]

Villa 1-Man U 1. Not an exciting way to walk away from the stadium. Villa took a 1-0 lead at the 19 minute mark off a great Carlos Cuellar header. Less than 4 minutes later, Ryan Giggs blasted a ball towards net at about the six yard line and it deflected off of James Collins for an own goal and […]

That’s the plan I’m hearing resides in the latest budget to come out of Washington. Who in their right mind wants to wake up Monday and say “I’m going to work for free today.” That same person can come back home, wake up Tuesday and say “I’m going to work for free today.” And even Wednesday, “After lunch, I’ll finally […]

I’m not sure which way is supposed to be worse, east to west or west to east. I tried to hang in and avoid the jet lag coming from Hong Kong to England. I think I did well staying up on Friday and made it until about 11 pm on Saturday. But an English Super Bowl (11:30 pm kick-off) had […]

My friend put me on hold one day this week. Instead of getting elevator music, I got cell phone on the desk sounds, including him answering the phone by calling his boss Dr. Smith. He came back to the phone needing to answer why the heck he was calling his direct boss Dr. Why not use her first name? Where […]

– How much pressure did that 13 year old just put himself under by signing with USC? His opponents are going to have a field day talking trash. – Who else but Donald Sterling would think it is a good idea to consider Isiah Thomas for a GM/coach role? – Who wins the Super Bowl, Colts or Saints? I’m rooting […]

I muat have been lucky. Very lucky in fact. And I had no idea. All of my transatlantic long-haul flights the last few years have been with Northwest/KLM. Most of the time these flights were on A330s, easily my favorite planes solely for legroom and the individual movie screens. Lufthansa delivered a blow from the start by weighing my carry-on […]

A group of co-workers went to see Avatar last night as one of our Hong Kong colleagues informed us there was an extreme screen which provided the 3D hit in 4D. We got wet, had bubbles coming out of the ceiling, had fans blowing and had smoke coming out from under the screen. I think they could have taken this […]