Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Greg Walker on leaving Chicago for Atlanta: 'It's a lot of fun' | Mark Bradley - AJC - Greg Walker, the Braves’ new — and, if early returns are to be trusted, wildly successful — hitting coach, returned to Chicago on Monday and made the media rounds. Walker had spent nine seasons with the White Sox, helping the Pale Hose win the 2005 World Series but ultimately falling from favor with general manager Kenny Williams. As Bruce Levine of ESPN Chicago writes, Williams fired Walker after a clubhouse spat last August only to be overruled by owner Jerry Reinsdorf. (And here we thought Frank Wren could get impatient.)
Nielsen: Smartphone owners now the majority - USATODAY - Smartphone ownership has now reached the majority, albeit by a slim margin, says a Nielsen survey. As of March, 50.4% of U.S. mobile subscribers owned a smartphone, up from 47.8% last December.
Is This the Most Boring Election Ever? | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone - But this campaign, relatively speaking, will not be fierce or hotly contested. Instead it'll be disappointing, embarrassing, and over very quickly, -- It's just impossible to take Mitt Romney seriously as a presidential candidate. Even the news reporters who are paid to drum up dramatic undertones are having a hard time selling Romney as half of a titanic title bout. -- The Republican base is angrier and more determined than it ever has been, yet Republican voters picked as their nominee the one candidate in their slate of primary challengers who depresses them. This is exactly the John Kerry scenario. Kerry was never going to win, either, and everyone pretty much knew that, too
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