Articles for April 6th, 2009

Notes From Opening Day

I’ll leave the real sportsy stuff to Evan over on InsideCorner. Clearly Rangers fans have reason to hope. You know, because they’re undefeated so far. More other stuff: I miss the old-time scoreboard in left field. The digital thing must make money (thanks to Southwest). So whatever. However, the digital board that rings the stadium (a la AAC) works. Thumbs up on that. My only real complaint: traffic. With the construction on I-30, egress was a total disaster. We dallied for 40 minutes before getting to our car. It STILL took nearly an hour to get on the highway. Cowboys games will be a nightmare if that ain’t cleared up before their season starts. Just for fun, here’s the view from our seats today (apologies again to the guy I accidentally punched in the back of the head while going for a ball).

posted by Tim Rogers | April 6th, 2009 6:16pm | filed under Local News | 6 Comments »

Trying To Figure Out W

In line at Tom Thumb this weekend, I read the Globe’s new account of how former President George W. Bush is suicidal, depressed about Dallas and pining away down in Crawford for Condi Rice. But, darned if I didn’t just hear W helping call the Texas Rangers opener on The Fan 105.3 with Eric Nadel & Co., and he sounded great–exuberant even. These days, you just don’t know who to believe.

posted by Glenn Hunter | April 6th, 2009 2:25pm | filed under Celebrity, Media, Sports | 27 Comments »

Opening Day Twitterage

A good portion of your D Magazine staff is headed out to the Rangers Ballpark to take in opening day. Here are your feeds, should you care to follow:

Nancy: twitter.com/NancyNichols
Zac: twitter.com/zaccrain
Eric: twitter.com/EricCeleste (Except Eric says don’t follow him because he doesn’t want the pressure.)
Tim: twitter.com/timmytyper
Liz Lavin: twitter.com/SpideyMonkey
Evan Grant: twitter.com/InsideCorner

posted by Tim Rogers | April 6th, 2009 11:24am | filed under Sports | 9 Comments »

DMN Layoffs Start Today; Newsroom Tomorrow

The much-delayed A.H. Belo cuts are scheduled to begin today and conclude tomorrow. According to DMN Cuts blog, the bylines you may recognize will be told tomorrow.

posted by Eric Celeste | April 6th, 2009 10:25am | filed under Hold On To Your Effin Hat, Media | 10 Comments »

Irving Mayor Herb Gears Tries a Middle Way On Immigration

And ends up getting attacked from both sides.  Here’s an indepth look by Randy Kennedy from yesterday’s NYTimes on how Irving’s deportation policy is playing out.

posted by Wick Allison | April 6th, 2009 8:20am | filed under Law |

Leading Off (4/6/09)

1. I didn’t support the smoking ban in the first place, but if it’s going to happen, I want it to happen on Friday instead of six months from now, as Tennell Atkins is suggesting. I also want a police escort to work, and would prefer someone on council work on making that happen.

2. Conspiracy theory: Steve Blow is serving up these Mayor Leppert apologist columns (like this week’s, which makes the case that T-Lep is a leader because…he is a leader) solely so Jim Schutze can respond to them, keeping them both in public eye. I may or may not have stole that idea from the first half of the Judd Nelson vehicle From the Hip.

3. The Mavs took the Suns to the woodshed yesterday, effectively ending the Suns’ hopes of passing Dallas for the last playoff spot in the Western Conference. They could still get in, but they’d have to go 5-0 while the Mavs went 0-5. Implicit but rarely mentioned in that scenario is my death.

posted by Zac Crain | April 6th, 2009 8:15am | filed under Local News | 5 Comments »