Should A-Rod play football?
The A-Rod situation continues to amaze. His weekend in Boston ended with a home run to silence the fans...overshadowing his off field antics.
Apparently A-Rod was an all-state high school quarterback in Florida--on a losing team, of course. He could throw laser-like passes 70 yards had full ride offers to several of the traditional southern powerhouses.
Why did he have to show up here and ruin our team? It is going to be a long summer...my time might better be spent blogging if they don’t get it in gear. Maybe Clemens can light a fire under them in the clubhouse...but he is 20 lbs. overweight. If he comes in and flops Cashman should be fired.
It sounds like A-Rod has some amazing women in his life....too bad he has to stoop to hanging out with women who resemble trannies.
His mom busted her butt working 1 fulltime and 2 part-time jobs to keep him in school there at Westminster..his sister was his first agent when Piniella came there to draft him the spring of 93…and he dated the same gal pretty much from the beginning of his professional career until he made her his bride….everything he has gotten…he has earned.
A-Rod is a Marked Man
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Spotted in the Hamptons
$3.05 for a gallon of Shell 93 octane gasoline. Who can afford to drive at these prices? Ferrari owners. Join them for a sprint through Rome, NYC, Monaco, Rio...
Digital Baseball
The bull market in stocks might be dead
But you can always find some upside action if you look hard enough
Today’s big winner is a baseball card
Nicknamed the “Flying Dutchman,” Wagner was the National League batting champion in eight of his 21 seasons and finished his career with a lifetime .329 average. He retired in 1917 with more hits, runs, RBIs, doubles, triples steals than any National League player.
In 1991 Wayne Gretzky and Bruce McNall paid $451,000 for the card pictured above. In 1996 it changed hands for $640,000. A few years later the card sold for approximately $1.265 million, including buyers premium.
The card just changed hands again...for $2.3 million.
But Honus represents the past.
Bob Bowman is baseball’s future...and its MVP.
Bob Bowman
President, CEO, MLB Advanced Media
Some online players work in content, some are specialists in fantasy or e-commerce. Many of the larger sites combine a couple of these capabilities. But Bowman and MLBAM can claim a sizable foothold in all of the above areas, as well as a growing stable of outside development work. Fervently driven about the company and its position among baseball fans, Bowman’s ability to execute the original, collective MLBAM vision for a group of often parochial team owners — and then continue to build upon it — cannot be overstated. 20 Most Influential/Street & Smith’s
The CEO of MLB Advanced Media was once an up and comer on Wall Street. He joined Goldman Sachs fresh out of the Wharton Business School but burnished his legend as the youngest Treasurer in the history of the State of Michigan back in the 1980’s.
He was credited for steering Michigan’s pension fund to outsized returns in the 1980’s. although the bull market certainly might have helped. He was also once known as a stockpicker and achieved some notoriety for championing the purchase of Digital Equipment Corporation which was The Apple of its day. Bowman bio
Let the sellers have their way with this market today...and spend a little time at the MLB site.
48 Hours: Rennsport
Did you miss Joe Kernen on Squawk Box friday? We did too...and we can’t be sure but he might be on assignment giving the new Porsche 911 GT3 RS a workout. Joe knows German cars and could tell you in a heartbeat what “RS” stands for.
Detroit’s struggles are good fodder for the front pages...but there are no worries at Porsche. The Cayenne might keep the lights on and pay the bills, but cars like the GT3 RS will remind you that enthusiasts still run the shop.
Not everyone can justify a new supercar...but even average Joe’s can go here and give the car a test drive of their own.
Speaking of Porsche...we will be back soon and finish up some business with Richard Sloan.
After all, it is almost spring.
Say it Isn’t So
Look in the mirror lately?
Earnings season takes its toll...hang in there. So you will have a life again.
Spring is almost here...although this season things will look a little different in The Friendly Confines:
MESA, Ariz.—Bricks and ivy have made up most of the outfield walls at Wrigley Field for the last 70 years, but the Cubs will alter the ballpark’s famous backdrop for at least the next two years with advertisements on the old green doors.
The Cubs announced a multiyear deal Wednesday with Under Armour, a sports apparel company, agreeing to place its logo and name on the outfield doors. Terms of the agreement were not announced, but the ads will be in place at least through 2008. Chicago Tribune
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Monkey Business
The monkey business is over...welcome back to work
We are licking our wounds ‘round here...and to add insult to injury the commercials were weak.
Miss the chimps?
The Careerbuilder ads were a favorite on Wall Street...given that they accurately portrayed life in the Jungle.
PETA came down pretty hard on Careerbuilder, who pulled the ads amid allegations of animal mistreatment.
They were certainly were popular, 84% of the respondents in this poll claim to miss the rambunctious simians.
After helping CareerBuilder climb over Monster.com to become the largest online job site, the chimps are being let go--right before the second anniversary of the 2005 Super Bowl commercial that vaulted them, and the company, into public consciousness.
With 83 million MONK-E-MAILS downloaded, it would seems fans are legion:
These are hysterical. I applaud PETA for their organization, but feel it should focus their efforts on baby seals, or furs. These monkeys don’t appear to be mistreated…they have better suits than my husband. Seriously, I don’t think any animal should be mistreated, but I also believe God put things on this earth to make us laugh, and monkeys were one of them. (p.s. These meetings are JUST like corporate America…I love it!) Duncans.tv/comment
Don’t fret
Monk-e-mails are still alive, even if the chimps are retired.
Maybe Monster (MNST-NASDAQ) can return to form next year...they were once in the game
Sweetness
New Payton Book with DVD
10 Things About Walter Payton You May Not Know:
1) Only Missed 1 Game His Entire 13 Year Football Career. This Was His Coach’s Decision, Not His.
2) In 1985 He Led The Chicago Bears To Their Only Super Bowl Win, 46-10 Against The New England Patriots.
3) Elected To Hall Of Fame In 1993.
4) He Loved To Fish, But Hated Eating It.
5) Favorite Candy Is Banana Laffy Taffy.
6) As A Child, His Favorite Team Was The New York Mets.
7) He Always Practiced In The Same Clothes And Took The Same Route To Practice. If A Teammate Needed A Ride He Would Send A Car For Him As He Had To Follow Game Routine.
8) Walter And His Teammates Loved To Out Do Each Other In Who Could Find The Best Way To Training Camp. Walter Arrived Once By A 20 Person RV And Helicopter.
9) He Once Owned 6 Cars At One Time.
10) He Retired As The All-Time Leader In Rushing With 16,726 Yards And Held The Single Game Rushing Record At 275 Yards.
Bonus Trivia
He threw 8 touchdown passes
“The best football player I have ever seen”
“One of the best people I have ever met”
~Mike Ditka on Walter Payton
