Leading Off (8/11/10)

1. More than 46,000 people showed up last night at the Ballpark in Arlington to watch the Rangers take on the Yankees. And in the 10th inning, David Murphy did that. I’m still trying to figure this out. I mean, it’s football season, right?

2. The city of Dallas is once again making it harder for cool things to happen (see also: food trucks). Now they’re putting rules and restrictions on community gardens.

3. And if you haven’t heard yet, the motorcycle crash during President Obama’s motorcade was caused, apparently, by a pothole — or, as the cops are calling it, an “unforeseen road hazard.” Hereinafter, all typos and grammatical errors on this blog will be referred to as “unforeseen word problems.” Just like the city, we are are struggling to find money in our budget to fix them.

Open Letter to the Dallas Sanitation Workers Who Flipped Me Off

Dear Three Guys:

I’m sure that you, like me, love the playground that is LBJ. What’s not to love? People who don’t know how to merge, people who don’t know how to exit, people who find DART’s insistence that only carpoolers use the HOV lane a mere suggestion – all of these antics just make for the kind of trip home that every commuter loves.

That being said, I find it curious that, when you discovered you were going too fast for the traffic in the far right lane this evening, you decided to tailgate me and then honk several times in succession. Never you mind that there were five cars in front of me, and I couldn’t go anywhere. That sudden surge of adrenalin from thinking, “Dear, sweet, merciful Jesus, this is how I’m gonna go out – sandwiched between a City of Dallas trash truck and a Ford Explorer,” was clearly something I needed.

But when I pointed at the cars in front of me, as if to say, “Darlings, I can’t possibly go faster without a DeLorean. Perhaps we can simmer down?” your bright idea to whip across four lanes of traffic, and then slow down to make sure I could see you, so that all three of you could flip me off?

That was awesome. But you probably shouldn’t flip off your boss.

Yours in Christ,

B

Cowboys Stadium To Host ‘Bama and Michigan?

Scuttlebutt has it that Alabama and Michigan may have an epic throwdown in Jerry Jones’ stagium. Sports writers in both states are parsing the semantics on statements from both coaches, and deciding if “not imminent” is the same as “not a chance.”

There’s a rundown of the back and forth here.