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January 10, 2012
Time to say: "No way, San Jose!"?
By Bob Patterson
Who says exploiting sports fans isn't fun for the one percent of team owners?
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"smile when you say that, stranger!"
Is that a Grateful Giants fan we see?
Did the graphics artist just scoop the Sports Department?
In order to frame the topic of the exploitation of sports fans let's outline an impossible hypothetical situation: Would citizens of
Would tax payers in
Would football fans in Los Angles agree to let
If the politicians in
Has any team owner been shameless in the exploitation of eminent domain in the pursuit of personal wealth? Is there any example of a humble rancher or homeowner being Bushwhacked by such a move?
If low-income housing is being defunded at the same time that sports owners are counting on getting government subsidies and tax breaks can that be used by the OWS protesters as an example of their contention that the one percenters are insatiable in their hunger for profits via the trickle up principle?
While we were traveling in
We can not say the name of the Football team in Fremantle Western
How much revenue could be raised in
Are regional license plates in a huge diverse state such as
Obviously there would be some folks in
According to an urban legend, years ago when one California town was given the three letter combination of "CBS," broadcasting personnel from all over the state flocked to that city to buy a new car which would get one of the prized letter prefixes.
While traveling in the WA, we were told that the "KBC" letters combination indicated that the car's owner was a resident of the
Recently there was a news story in
Do sports team owners use regional factionalism to keep fans from organizing in much the same way that Republicans use a multitude of wedge issues to keep the squabbling Democrats from forming a consensus on a party platform? How hard would sports team owner work to discourage a national union for fans? Would they bring in the Oakland Police Department to break up any rallies urging the formation of such a group?
Recently while visiting the Westwood section of
Would publishers be able to getaway with it if they could convince the politicians in
Would fights between people wearing Strand Books T-shirts and City Lights Bookstore T-shirts ever make the national news?
We heard a report on KCBS news radio Monday about the conditions being imposed on 49ers fans who want to buy season tickets when (not if) the team moves to San Jose. They mumbled something about an additional "$20,000 builders fee" to be extorted from the fans. Would soccer fans in
Is it an oxymoron for nudist camps to sell souvenir T-shirts?
When the
Are sports fans part of the one percent or part of the 99%?
Will regional rivalry inspire Occupy San Francisco protesters to taunt the people from Occupy Oakland with cries of: "Our cops can beat the snot outta the Oakland PD!"? Or "The bankers in
Is it true that in
If there is going to be an unused football stadium in
Did Yankee fans meekly surrender "the House that Ruth built" and get an inferior replacement? Are they paying more for tickets to the new venue?
Didn't
Is it time for sports fans to Occupy the empty football stadium and join together for their own good and form a union or are they afraid of being labeled "socialists" by Uncle Rushbo. (Doesn't he usually get to sit in the owner's suite when he goes to a sporting event?)
Leo Durocher, the manager of the New York Giants provided a T-shirt suggestion for the one percenters when he said: "Nice guys finish last."
Now the disk jockey will play Teresa Brewer's "I Love Mickey" (featuring Mickey Mantle), which is not to be confused with "Gimme Mick," "Do you know the way to
BP graduated from college in the mid sixties (at the bottom of the class?) He told his draft board that Vietnam could be won without his participation. He is still appologizing for that mistake. He received his fist photo lesson from a future Pulitzer Prize winner. (Eddie Adams in the AP lunch room told him to get rid of the everready case for his new Nikon F). A Pulitzer Prize winning reporter broke BP in on the police beat for a small daily in Pa. By 1975, Paul Newman had asked for Bob's Autograph.
(Google this: "Paul Newman asked my autograph" and click the top suggested URL.)
His co-workers on the weekly newspaper in Santa Monica,(in the Seventies) included a future White House correspondent for Time magazine and one of the future editors high up on the Playboy masthead. Bob has been to the Oscar ceremony twice before Oscar turned 50.
He is working on a book of memoirs tentatively titled "Paul Newman Asked for my Autograph." In the gold mining area of Australia (Kalgoorlie), Bob was called: "Col. Sanders."