Stories Of The Great Fall Classic – Only In Our Town
I love it. I love every nerve-shattering moment. Even in the final moments, the heart was racing faster, the body was tingling on the nerve endings, the butterflies were flying inside. Even in those final moments, there were visions of the high drama comeback that are so great in 08. So, we lost the second game. But, all around us, there are signs of the emotional drama.
Pennsylvania Turnpike -West of Willow Grove. Somehow, the operating engineers union manages to place a crane almost over the turnpike with a Phillies sign. This, is, by far, the most creative show for drivers in both directions. I love it.
Strangest TV interview. Some guy in a South Philly taproom wears a Tampa Bay hat. He says he is a Phillies fan, but he’s rooting for the Rays. Why? Because he wants the Eagles to be the first team to win a championship in this century. Only in Philadedlphia!
I am honored to speak two dinners this week benefiting the Main Line Chamber of Commerce and the Montgomery County Commission at families. As the clock strikes 8:30 p.m., men and women hide their cellphones in their laps or cradle them in their armpits as they sneak a peek at the score.
Driving home, I noticed that it feels like being in the middle of Montana. There are few people on the street, and few cars. Traffic is a breeze. I listen to the radio and try to picture the field, and the players. I can’t wait to get home to watch it. You know the feeling!
A woman is walking on 4th street near Market. It is cold and windy. Her baby, in the carriage, is wrapped in a wrap-a-around wool Phillies Hat. The blanket is red, as in Phillie’s red.
In campaign 08, McCain bashes Obama for rooting for the Phillies and praising the Rays. The World Series is now a campaign issue?
At Broad near Locust, a homeless man, wearing a brand new Phillies hat, holds out a tin cup. Sad, but very true.
Every station in town is your best station to watch and listen about the Phillies. Where were these bandwagon jumpers when the Mets were in first place?
The Septa buses are flashing electronic GO PHILLIES messages in the front end message boxes.
It is a great time, in a great city, with the best fans. And it is fascinating how a team can bring such an exciting , entertaining, and all-encompassing feeling to people in three states, who want to taste what the thrill of victory tastes like.
There are two fall classics – The World Series. And the election. First we’ll win the series. Then, we’ll decide who gets to run the country.
Comments(32)
Larry,yes there is a Phillies Pfeeling in the air,they have given the city a boost hopefully they can bring it home,a note Charley Manuel he is a down home boy from Virginia who is pushing all the right buttons he comes across as a good man.
No surprise that Obama is rooting for both teams he’s been playing that game for two years.
Larry did you give that homeless fella with the Phillies cap at Broad and Locust some help in his tin cup if you did ,he will blog you forever.
I almost drove over a bum this summer with my LExis he had a Phillies hat and a bunch Of Obama buttons, I think that is the same person, sad, but very true.
GO PHILLIES!!GO MCCAIN/PALIN!!
Larry,are you trying to be ironic when you spell the city Philadedlphia ? Is there a hidden meaning,like one of those old Beatles songs ? I won’t even get into the last paragraph.But yes,there is an air of excitement,one that won’t last long.Sports titles don’t bring people together.The Phils in the World Series & six people were shot in the last two days.Guess the shooters weren’t Baseball fans.And the Septa buses are flashing Go Phillies but meanwhile I’ll bet they’re still dirty & people are still eating breakfast & lunch on them,with their feet on the empty seats.
Didn’t mean to rain on anyone’s parade,must be the late hours this week.
the buses are dirty because PEOPLE leave their trash and filth behind when they leave the bus.SEPTA didn’t put the dirt there,people did!
When are people going to take responsibility for their actions? It will soon be to late,when we are under socialist/communist rule.Never thought I would live to see an old book come to life.The Journal of David Q.Little
Larry you’re waxing poetic today, what’s gotten into you? Markets are crashing around the globe this morning, U.S is limit down. A full blown Depression is underway, the Bush Depression. They have pulled out all the stops at the Fed and Treasury,but now pulling out stops just scares people even more, the Great Panic of ’08! Baseball is a nice diversion but there will be a hard cold reality for all of us after the world series, and its going to be depressing even if the Phils win.
George, Larry is feeling “tingling” and waxing poetically as you say. Is this this the feminine side of Larry showing. Has he been watching too many episodes of I Love Lucy? Has he died his hair red and wearing it in a scarf?
Leo, nice shot at impersonating JR.
Not me on the jr tip.
Larry, you need a proofreader again.
jr, the funny thing about McCain’s attack on Obama for supporting the Phillies and the Rays is, as Jon Stewart pointed out through video evidence, is that Sarah Palin supported the Phillies in Philadelphia, the Red Sox in Boston, and the Rays in Florida. And she said the exact same canned line each time about the city knowing how to turn an underdog into a victor. It’s like once commentator said: the McCain campaign has no political antenna and no consistency.
Go Phillies! Go Obama!
You said a mouthful, Larry.
I need a proofreader, too. Larry, your bad spelling and grammar apparently is catching.
Larry, what an inspiration you are. This ode to Philadelphia has made me so proud to live here and be able to root for the home team. You make the streets of Philadelphia seem like a magical mystery tour. (Except for that homeless guy). Your uplifting words arouse a passion in me unequaled even beyond the outcome of the series. Win or lose you will always be my favorite Philly. That is of course next to Jim Gardner, Hurricane Schwartz, Larry Mente, Malcolm Poindexter,
Herb Clark, Cathy Gandolfo, Vernon somebody, the guy who does Don Pollak’s World, all the weather girls and of course afternoon sportstalk radio host Howard Eskin…….
Malcolm Poindexter! Now that is a warm chestnut Ed. Vernon ODUM! He’s the Visions dude with 1970s vibe, Vernon is down with that. Didn’t he get into some kind of trouble?
Speaking of great black Philadelpia newscasters, does anyone remeber Jack Jones? He was a class act. I admired how he worked until just about the last day of his cancer. He’d gotten so thin he had to wear sweaters under his suit jacket. They dont make em like Jack Jones anymore. Imagine the way Larry Mendte would whine and “tabloid himself” if he was on air and living with cancer.
Larry, PLEASE change the topic. How long do we have to suffer through this post.
ToO, Larry does not monitor this blog. Larry doesn’t comment on posts. Larry is only doing this to sell books. He’s an absentee landlord. He must get a message when blog topic hits 100 posts. He then begins his exhaustive search for a new topic and waxes poetically.
Larry, the substance of these News Flashes has really slipped. Perhaps the regular bloggers and sock puppets should help you understand how far you’ve fallen by not posting anymore? I’m thinking of turning on you the way I did on McCain, you know, find a cool younger multi-ethnic blogger to post to. Someone who gets me and respects the time I take to post on his/her/transgender site.
You need to kick it up a notch or larrykane.com is going to my McCain/Palin trash bin before November 4th.
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I agree with the Phanatic.
The national baseball league is actually going to play a game tonight. If that doesn’t create more cynics like myself than nothing will. These greedy fat cats have ruined every sport and continue to do so, one game at a time. Yeah, I know, I’m going to spend another fall in Philadelphia………..
I have worked with the other six dwarfs my whole life, and have never had to stay up until after 1am to view a baseball GAME!!!!! I am getting tired already and I know for a fact that I will never make it to the last pitch. Grumpy agrees with me and Happy ain’t so happy.Sneezey was at the game but caught a cold. He had Doc take him home. Bashful said he couldn’t believe that these money hungry mother f.c.ers wouldn’t cancel the game. Dopey told me that he would watch the game and let me know what happened.
You can be happy they didn’t cancel unless you sat in the rain for 90 minutes.
PHILLIES WIN!!PHILLIES WIN!!PHILLIES WIN!!
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JR, if the polls are saying 5 points, it’s really much closer. Middle Class America may finally being waking up.
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Ahhh, that felt so good!
George, I thought that I may get the jump on you with regards to critiquing tonight’s rendition of the National Anthem sung by Patti LaBelle. Let me just say this, Joe the Plumber never smelled anything quite so bad.And he has done work at jr’s house.
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I have been going over obamas redistrubution of wealth,if I understand it he wants to give your payroll taxes back, well if that is true ,what about social security? If he gives it back, then there won’t be any social secruity benfits to draw from,so all us,the old(me) and the young will no longer get SS because he will have given it all back.I guess I’ll have to go on welfare bcause I only get SS
pat, he’s proposing to lift the cap on FICA taxes for those earning in the $200K+ range.
As for redistribution of wealth, I was unaware that we were living in a communist state (as Mrs. Palin would have it) in the 1990s. I know some people who made scads of money in the 1990s. They’d probably be surprised to hear that they did so in a “socialist” system.
Just got home from work (%) ahh!
This blog is starting to suck some major wind. There’s a lot of election news, but Larry must not follow it anymore. It would be so easy to post something, but he doesn’t. Yet a handful of fools (myself included) come here and respond to nothing.
Does anyone know the universal symbol for passing gas? I’d like to fart near bloggers I disagree with.
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In Radio Interview, Obama Laments Failure of Civil Rights Movement to Redistribute Wealth
A taped radio interview from 2001 that has re-emerged has Barack Obama saying the civil rights movement failed when it became so dependent on the Supreme Court that it never got around to working toward redistributing income.
FOXNews.com
Monday, October 27, 2008
A 2001 taped interview of Barack Obama discussing the failure of the Supreme Court to rule on redistributing wealth has given fresh ammunition to fans of Joe the Plumber.
The interview — conducted by Chicago Public Radio while Obama was an Illinois state senator and University of Chicago law professor — delves into whether the civil rights movement should have gone further so that when “dispossessed peoples” appealed to the high court on the right to sit at the lunch counter they should have also appealed for the right to have someone else pay for the meal.
In the interview, Obama said the civil rights movement was victorious in some regards, but failed to create a “redistributive change” in its appeals to the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Earl Warren. He suggested that the Legislature is the place for such change to occur since the courts did not interpret the U.S. Constitution to permit such change.
“The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of basic issues of political and economic justice in this society and to that extent as radical as people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it has been interpreted,” Obama says in the recording.
“And the Warren court interpreted it generally in the same way — that the Constitution is a document of negative liberties, says what the states can’t do to you, says what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf, and that hasn’t shifted.
“And I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was that the civil rights movement became so court-focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and organizing activities on the ground that are able to bring about the coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change and in some ways we still suffer from that,” he is recorded saying.
The interview evokes recent questioning by Joe Wurzelbacher, a Ohio plumber who asked about Obama’s proposal to raise taxes on people making more than $250,000. Obama said he wants to hike taxes on the wealthy so that the government can spread the wealth.
But Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said Monday the comments on the tape have ” nothing to do with Obama’s economic plan or his plan to give the middle class a tax cut.”
“Here are the facts. In the interview, Obama went into extensive detail to explain why the courts should not get into that business of “redistributing” wealth. Obama’s point — and what he called a tragedy — was that legal victories in the civil rights led too many people to rely on the courts to change society for the better. That view is shared by conservative judges and legal scholars across the country,” Burton said..
“As Obama has said before and written about, he believes that change comes from the bottom up — not from the corridors of Washington. … And so Obama’s point was simply that if we want to improve economic conditions for people in this country, we should do so by bringing people together at the community level and getting everyone involved in our democratic process,” Burton continued.
National Review reporter Byron York, a FOX News contributor, said the U.S. government already has a progressive tax system that gives to one group money earned by another group, but it’s a matter of degree. He added that Obama’s outlook on that system hasn’t changed.
“It seems clear from listening to this that the Obama of 2001 and probably the Obama of today feels that the government doesn’t do that enough, and I think that’s probably the big point in this tape,” York said.
“You’ve got to take him at his word,” York added. “It seems to me that the tape shows that this is simply a goal he has had for a long time.”
This is for all you McSame proponents:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/obama_linked_to_ayers_and_wright/redistribution_of_wealth/poll_lead_slips/