BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND
The news as I see it and the views as I want them.
DATE: January 6, 2011. January 6 is …Bean Day. Stay away from Glenn.
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Yesterday the 112th Congress was sworn in. For the first time in 64 years, a member of the Kennedy family does not hold a federal office.
1994 - Nancy Kerrigan, a favorite to win the women’s U.S. Figure Skating Championship, was assaulted after she finished a practice session in Detroit. The assailant used a blunt object to strike the skater on the right knee, although she recovered in time to compete in the Olympics. Four men, including Jeff Gillooly, the ex-husband of Kerrigan’s rival, Tonya Harding, were later sentenced to prison for their roles in the attack; Harding, who denied advance knowledge of the attack, received probation after pleading guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution.
This is one of those situations where both main players were casualties. Tonya has continued to have problems but does not seem to go away. She crawls out from under her rock every once in awhile. Nancy Kerrigan faded away after she made a fool of herself and belittled Mickey Mouse during a paid endorsement parade. Her tirade was caught on tape and played over and over for weeks.
The purge at the White House is gearing up. Rahm Emanuel was just the first advisor to go. Now Robert Gibbs is gone and he is just a spokesperson. He didn’t create policy. He just explained it to the press. Robert Gates, Sec. of Defense will be gone shortly. David Axelrod will be gone shortly. I wish Geithner, Sec. of Treasury, and Holder, Attorney General, would leave.
Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on Wednesday. I have no problem with Bert Blyleven. He was a fine left-handed pitcher who chucked the ninth most shutouts in the history of the game. He is still around as an announcer.
Roberto Alomar is a different story. He also was a fine player, a second baseman. His athletic prowess likely merits his selection into the Hall. He was, however, an idiot. During an argument with home plate umpire John Hirshbeck on September 27, 1996, Sandy Alomar spat in the face of the umpire. After the game he tried to justify his actions by playing the race card and by saying Hirshbeck had a problem with him ever since his son died of ALD and a second son received the same diagnosis.
Alomar was a rumored bisexual. After his playing career ended, he was sued by a girlfriend in 2009 who claimed Alomar kept hidden the fact he had AIDS so they could have unprotected sex. Alomar paid her a settlement amount to dismiss the case. In 2010, Alomar’s wife sued him with the same allegations.
This guy is a real piece of work. He should be banned from the Hall of Fame for spitting on another human being and then publicizing the personal family tragedies of the person he spat on.
Talk about dropped property values. The White House has also lost value. This happens when the neighborhood declines. Do you think the value of your house has dropped this year? Take a look at the White House. The value of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has dropped nearly $80 million from its $331.5 million value at the peak of the housing boom to today's $253.1 million, reported the Los Angeles Times. A year ago, the President's home was worth $292.5 million.
Notable births on this date in history;
1854 Sherlock Holmes Mycroft, fictional detective (via Arthur Conan Doyle)
1878 Carl Sandburg US, poet/biographer of Lincoln (The People, Yes)
1914 Danny Thomas Deerfield MI, comedian (Danny Thomas Show)
1989 Baby lion-tailed macaques at Woodland Park Zoo (Seattle)
Music at the top of the charts on this date over the years;
1950
1958 At the Hop - Danny & The Juniors
1966 The Sounds of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
1974 Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce
1982 Physical - Olivia Newton-John
1990 Another Day in Paradise - Phil Collins
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Statistically Alomar is one of the top five 2nd basemen of all time. Spitting on an umpire is one blemish and I think can be overlooked. The off the field things should not be considered. OR we could take Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Mickey Mantle and quite a few other Big names out for what they did on and off the field. From what I have seen and heard about Ty Cobb he is just above Hitler on the "I'm A Good Person" scale. His stats from 1988 to 2001 are crazy good. In 58 post season games he hit .313 with 33 RBI and only 32 strikeouts. Please, check out his stats on Baseballreference.com and tell me he is NOT a hall of famer. We are all adults and we should consider the fact that these are professional athletes, not saints.
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