Maddow covers Ricketts hypocrisy (DUer's blog mentioned)

[wndycty]

Run time: 01:12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFf6GA4JrqI   Posted on YouTube: November 17, 2010 By YouTube Member: sigmonkeyataol Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: November 17, 2010 By DU Member: wndycty Views on DU: 854

 
Yes that is my blog! Woo hoo!

http://blog.windycitywatch.com/2010/11/ricketts-family-is-against-wasteful.html#links

[pinboy3niner]

1. Nice work!

:toast:

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. Good for you!

K&R

[herbm]

3. Its not spending on a stadium, its an investment. Surely you can see the difference!

[Saturday]

4. Good job! nt

[mucifer]

5. One of the Ricketts was on the show "undercover boss" . he got fired from

2 of the jobs he tried to do. he REALLLLLY looked like a moron. It was hilarious! He got fired from cleaning the bathroom. He got busted for not selling his hot dogs as a vendor and throwing them in the garbage (although he did pay for the hot dogs).


My poor Cubbies!

I wan Bill Veeck back!

"Bill Veeck once said that "baseball must be a great game, because the owners haven’t been able to kill it," a sardonic comment from a man who often infuriated the stuffed shirts in the executive suite. The starched, button-down fraternity of baseball owners (or, as Veeck called them, the "forward-looking fossils who run the game") viewed his promotions and innovations as undignified "travesties." Probably the low point of his popularity among fellow owners came in 1972 when he testified on behalf of Curt Flood’s effort to overturn baseball’s reserve clause, which Veeck had always regarded as illegal. (It was not unusual to find Veeck championing liberal and sometimes unpopular causes, both in and out of baseball. Although he had an artificial leg, he participated in the day-long civil rights march in Selma, Alabama in March of 1965, without the use of crutches.)"

http://www.baseballreliquary.org/veeck.htm

He owned the Cubs for a while. He died years ago. Sniff.

[Boudica the Lyoness]

6. Well done!

:thumbsup:

[Tx4obama]

7. Congrats. n/t

[mmonk]

8. Excellent. Good work.