Ryan Faces the World

ESPN - Torre agrees to 3-year deal to manage Dodgers - MLB
Will this be really good for the Dodgers?  Who knows?  I do know that they are in the national headlines for the first time in a million years.  Lots of buzz can’t be bad going into the hot stove season.

Apparently, there was a tornado-type weather event in Brooklyn.  What did that mean for us Queens-dwellers.  Well, it rained like hell this morning and, as it turns out, the subway system is allergic to water.  Like Bruce Willis in Unbreakable.  Just about everything shut down.  I took the 7 in.  The Wife ended up walking […]

Been a little while since I’ve updated the blog here.  Lots of stuff to report.  I’m watching the Dodger game on MLB extra innings, thank you very much.  That’s the good, the bad is the Blue Crew is losing.  Perhaps by the time I finish writing this entry, they will have pulled it out.
Right ear […]

Its been a great week.  Here’s a rundown:
We finally got a parking spot in our building.  This is huge.  Now every time we use the car I won’t have think about where we’re going to park.  No more parking 10 blocks away.  No more hunting for a spot.  No more digging out the car.  No […]

11:35pm, Wed April 4th and I’m watching the Extra Innings Package on cable. They came to an agreement a few hours ago, flipped the switch and I’ve got baseball. I actually watched the end of the Dodger game (they won!) on the internet, not thinking the Package would be on this quickly. […]

Ah, opening day of the baseball season.  Truly, one of the best days of the year.  I’ve been watching baseball games for about 10 hours now.  As detailed before I was at work when the Dodger game started.  I took my lunch break at 2 and was able to watch the first hour uninterrupted.  I […]

Now the word is the talks between MLB and cable are “serious”. What were they before? A lighthearted romp through the dandelions? MLB says the chance of deal happening is 50-50. Of course, I don’t believe anything they say at this point. Cable is more “pessimistic”. Honestly, I don’t believe […]

Now reality is starting to set in.  First Dodger game of the season is Monday.  It starts at 2pm.  I work till 5pm.  I asked to come in early, work from 5am-1pm, so I could get home in time.  My request was denied.  So, I’m forced with the choice of leaving early and losing money […]

Surprisingly, MLB didn’t just bow down before congress and John Kerry and just throw away this whole exclusive directv deal.  So I’m guessing its still going to happen.  The whole hang up appears to be the MLB channel which will not exist until 2009.  So cable said:
“Even now, we would enter into a deal for […]