I am happy everywhere a girl can be happy tonight. But I thought I’d set up this open thread so everyone can talk about how happy they are, too, that the Rangers shut out the Yankees at their house. Cliff Lee was a hoss, and Neftali Feliz admirably closed to keep the score big fat nothing. I like big fat nothing when it’s next to the Yankees.
So what did we learn? Don’t do a Taco Bell commercial if you want to win all your games in the ALCS. Posada looks a lot like The Situation when he doesn’t have his mask and cap on. Cliff Lee answered Michael Kay by making the rosin spots on his cap even larger tonight. Fifteen strikeouts for the Rangers, with Mr. Lee responsible for 13 of them. Oh, and Woo Pig Sooie Razorbacks!
The New York Times has announced that it will start covering Texas on Friday and Saturday in a zoned edition, partnering with the Texas Tribune for its content.
Apparently similar editions in San Francisco and Chicago have done well. TT’s editor, Evan Smith, will edit the content for the Grey Lady in addition to what he already does at the Tribune.
So would you read about Texas in a New York paper?
Tonight, sometime after 7:07 p.m., Cliff Lee will take the mound and do work against the Yankees on their home turf. Hopefully, the first game of the series has been relegated to The Game That Must Not Be Named, yes?
In the meantime, you can head over to Major League Baseball’s website, and vote on its 2010 This Year in Baseball awards. Are any Rangers on the ballot? Why, yes. Let’s jump. (more…)
I spent the better part of Saturday at the second installment of TEDxSMU, which was — as you may have sussed out from the headline I wrote — held at the Wyly Theatre this year. I will begin talking more specifically about it as soon as you click-thru.
So I’m sure you saw the absolutely ridiculously horrible last play of last night’s game versus the Vikings. A friend suggested it needed to be backed by some “Yakety Sax.” Someone agreed, because you can find it here.
Dallas Cowboys. Is that still a thing we do?
Oh my gosh, you guys. Bobby Flay is in town. Squee! I can’t break away from my desk for this momentous occasion, sadly, but maybe you can. And if you do, I’d like an autographed copy of the new Throwdown cookbook, please. You’ll be my best friend ever, and I’ll even let you keep whatever change is left over. A representative at Sur La Table tells me tickets are still available, but the fans are already lining up, so you’d best get going now. Thanks a bunch.
I bet the DSO’s latest performance, recently reviewed on our Dallas arts blog, whetted your appetite for Brahms, yes? Well, you’re in luck. Tonight the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will perform his clarinet quintet in B minor, in addition to pieces by Mozart and Mendelssohn. It should be a beautiful concert. Beautiful, but not necessarily fun. For that, you’ll want to take your guitar or bass to tonight’s play-along R&B show, which also happens to be free.
Don’t like my selections here? Fine. I don’t need validation from you people. Browse these other things to do in Dallas, and have a wonderful night.
This is cool. Major League Baseball apparently set up a camera in center field during Game 3 of the Division Series and Game 1 of the American League Championship Series at Rangers Ballpark. The camera took a whole lot of photos, and they stitched those together to create an impressive picture of the crowd.
Zoom in on where you were seated, and you can spot yourself, and even “tag” yourself for your Facebook friends to see. Or find me seated in section 332.
If the producers of Law and Order hear about this, I can see it being worked into a future episode — an innocent man, seemingly without an alibi, is freed thanks to Big Brother watching him watching a playoff game. Or maybe the opposite — a man has his buddy who works at MLB headquarters Photoshop him into the image, thereby helping him to get away with the perfect murder.
What are you doing? Nikki McKibbin needs your help. Or maybe you’re in the mood for a little Casey James this morning. Either way, it’s time to vote. There are eight folks left, and we need your help to take it down to the final four. So when you get a break, click here and vote for your favorite reality star. When you’re done, you can get back to checking out the Mad Men recaps.
If you just can’t wait till 7:07 tonight, here’s a little sumptin sumptin to tide you over: a Wall Street Journal story about the pitch that made Cliff Lee an ace.
The tracks are apparently blocked between Park and Lovers lanes. I’m one of hundreds of train riders who are now waiting for a bus.
1. The State Fair of Texas set a revenue record this year, according to officials, bringing in $37 million on food and amusement rides during its month of operation. And although that figure doesn’t say anything about the fair’s ability to cover what have been historical net losses in fair operations each year, on behalf of all the merchants near the park I’d like to say: You hear that Fort Worth? This thing brings in cash. Make a bid for it!
2. Steve Blow had an interesting column Sunday [double take]. He took a look back at a 1991 study called “The Peirce Report – Defining the Future,” which tried to predict what kind of city Dallas would be in 2010.
The consultants imagined constant gridlock on our freeways, the collapse of DART before a rail system could be built, downtown as a virtual ghost town, a soaring murder rate and declining tax base.
Underlying all these problems was a lack of leadership. Most of the city’s best and brightest had long since left for the suburbs. What remained was a City Council and school board completely stymied by bitter racial politics.
Change the DART prediction from “could be built” to “could be completely built” and you tell me: did this prediction come true?
3. The death of a 17-year old Irving girl in a drunken driving accident is drawing attention to a Texas law that holds the owners of the home where underage drinking occurred liable for damages caused by intoxication, a law which many are unaware of, excluding, as Park Cities People readers are more than aware, residents of the Park Cities.