Friday, May 04, 2012
Braves attempting to save Chipper's momentos | Braves.com: Guy Curtright - Braves assistant clubhouse and team travel manager Chris Van Zant is trying to collect all of Chipper Jones' home run balls during the future Hall of Famer's farewell season. The one Jones hit on Wednesday was one Van Zant had to get. Thanks to a little extra negotiating with the fan who got the ball, Van Zant was able to retrieve the memorable keepsake. The game-winning blast in the 11th inning was Jones' eighth career walk-off homer, in addition to being the 500th of his Major and Minor League career during the regular season.
Do Nothings and Know Nothings - NYTimes.com - Timothy Egan - If you worked at a place where barely one in 10 people approved of what you did, if you took a six-figure salary for a job that let you go on “recess” for about 29 weeks of the year, and if you were addressed as “honorable” for said employment, you might suffer an occasional bout of shame. Or you could fight back. How else to explain a proposal in the 112th Congress — that is, the one known as worst, ever — to ban the word “lunatic” from federal law. Sure, the honorable gentlemen behind the measure say they want to reduce the stigma of mental illness. But they may also be trying to shield themselves from a public that has their number. The House run by John Boehner is stuffed with zealots and intellectual dead-enders who think compromise is a synonym for treason. Americans agree on very little, but there seems to be shore-to-shore consensus on a view of this Congress: We hate you.
Thursday, May 03, 2012
Video: Mariano Rivera hurts knee, season in doubt - USATODAY - Mariano Rivera will fly home to New York on Friday for an examination by Yankees team doctors to determine whether a devastating preliminary diagnosis is accurate: That major-league baseball's all-time saves leader suffered a season- and potentially career-ending knee injury.
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