Money For Nothing

The rumor Kirk Gibson is peddling Dodger memorabilia to distance himself from that organization sounds plausible - and characteristically fiesty. The 1988 Dodger MVP isnt parting with Detroit Tiger or Michigan State loot, and the auction comes right on the heels of Gibson's managerial extension in Arizona.



So this is a targeted discard and he doesnt appear financially wanting.

thrilling climax and denouement >>>

My Mother, The Plagiarist?

Two women in my life share connections with the late George Steinbrenner, however it should be made clear, for tax purposes, that neither was a shipping magnate, nor contributed to Nixon.

My wife grew up, in and around Columbus, Ohio, and like the Yankee kingpin attended Ohio State. Nothing earthshattering there. He was a grad student a generation before she arrived - and one in five Americans seem to have enrolled in that vaguely fascist institution at one time or another. I guess, the more I reflect on it, my better half can also be a hard charging, perfectionist pain in the ass. So there's that similarity as well.


Parallels between my genteel mother, seventy nine years today, and The Boss are more curious. He attended Williams College in the sparsely populated, extreme northwestern corner of Massachussets. Just a few miles north, over the Vermont border, my mom simultaneously studied at Bennington. He graduated in 1952, she in 53. They were both English majors. The curious part? They each wrote a senior thesis examining figures in Thomas Hardy novels.

This Week's Hacks

• In Tucson, the Diamondbacks are fit to be tied.

• My family is a demographer's dream. The teen pines for Barack. The wife insists on Hillary. Dad's got 'em McCain, Obama, Clinton - in that order - but it's all very fluid. In some respects, Hillary's a miserable candidate, but even I recognize she might make the best president of the three.

• Mark Reynolds, who we call "Cabana Boy", is shortening his stroke.
  

• I recently bought these baseball books at the huge VNSA sale held @ the county fairgrounds. Which book should I read first?
  

Summer of '49, David Halberstam

Whatever Happened To The Hall of Fame, Bill
James

1998 Arizona Diamondbacks Media Guide

The Mind of Bill James, Scott Gray

Tales from the Diamondback Dugout, Bob Page

Or, like a good boy eating his vegetables before dessert, must I first finish wading through Thomas Friedman's pretentious globalization tome, The World is Flat ?

• Finally, what women want