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Bud Selig Should Retire in Two Years – Rendell Should Become Baseball Commissioner

Think of this.

The simple fact that Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig did not take any disciplinary action against Alex Rodriguez for using steroids is enough to make you wonder if the leaders of baseball have any integrity . As we stated previously, the suspension of Phillie’s hurler J.C. Romero till June for use of substances. stands in contrast to the treatment of A-Roid. What’s wrong with Selig? This is the man who , despite arguments to the contrary, is afraid to take action even though he has extraordinary powers to do so. A-Rod should receive some sort of suspension, and don’t tell me that the punishing boos he will receive all season is enough. He needs much more than that. Barry Bonds is in big legal trouble. Others, Olympians included, have paid the price.

Here’s my plan. The owners should give Selig two years notice, and let him retire in some style. They should begin talks with Pa. Governor Ed Rendell now to sign him up for a long term contract as baseball commissioner when he leaves office.

My advice: Get smart. Lock Rendell into a deal now. Restore some integrity to the game. And in the meantime, let “the greatest player of his generation.” pay a price for the example he has set.

On to the White House.

The stimulus bill is a done deal, but eyebrows are raising over the pleas by Treasury boss Timothy Geithner and top economic adviser Lawrence Summers to block an attempt by Congress to restrict bonuses to $500,000 a year for financial executives who make a million dollars. This would only apply to banks that get bailout money from the federal governnment. Geithner , Summers and others, lobbied hard to kill the restrictions.

You tell me? Is it worrisome that the two most important money men in the White House don’t seem to get the public outrage over bank executives, some of whom may have ignited the crisis, getting rich from bailout money?

The restrictions are now law, despite the fact that the most trusted advisers in this very scary economy argued against them.


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Comments

  1. Smokey
    February 15th, 2009 | 4:16 pm

    Lock Rendell into a deal now. Restore some integrity to the game.

    Wow, an oxymoron if I ever saw one.

    Fast Eddie and integrity should never appear together in the same sentence unless the word NO preceeds integrity.

  2. the other, other, other jim
    February 15th, 2009 | 4:34 pm

    Smokey, ditto on your comments about Fast Eddie. Larry, you are parochial to a fault. Last week you were touting Fast Eddie for a big Cabinet position. This week MLB Commissioner. When are you going to recognize that only you hold FE in high regard. The rest of the country views him as a loose cannon. He’s over his head in PA. Enough promotion of FE, please.

  3. the other, other, other jim
    February 15th, 2009 | 4:36 pm

    BTW, Larry, I know you changed the blog topic to steer the viewers away from George’s last comments. I can’t believe you let them go without making a comment. George jumped the shark and you change the topic?

  4. the other, other, other jim
    February 15th, 2009 | 4:40 pm

    Larry, why not sit down tonight and come up with some of your positions and comments on the stimulus package? Other than calling out two more Obama embarrassments, Geithner and Summers, you have failed to take a stand again.

  5. Leo Bloom
    February 15th, 2009 | 4:45 pm

    As we stated previously, the suspension of Phillie’s hurler J.C. Romero till June for use of substances. stands in contrast to the treatment of A-Roid.

    At the same time, I wonder if you might not want to seek out grammar-enhancing substances. TV viewers couldn’t hear it when you put the apostrophe in the wrong place or when you misspelled “until” or when you put periods in the middle of sentences. However, you’re in the big leagues now, and there’s competition.

    Larry, what should be done to Phelps? He broke the law. Should he lose all his medals?

  6. the other, other, other jim
    February 15th, 2009 | 4:46 pm

    Leo, this stimulus package as crafted by Pelosi and Reid, is exactly the kind of bad legislature we can expect from ‘Bonnie and Clyde’. It’s a $750B of pure pork. Obama’s got to get a grip before this thing gets away from him in the first 100 days. Pelosi and Reid can not run this country. Obama should have been involved in the details and not left it to these hacks. There is about $30B of stimulus and the rest is ‘dividing up the pot’. Even you have to be very disappointed in this package.

  7. the other, other, other jim
    February 15th, 2009 | 4:49 pm

    Leo, you can not evoke or provoke a conversation with Larry. He’s gone for another 8 days…

  8. Whiner2
    February 15th, 2009 | 5:05 pm

    Any way you can get Rendell into that job immediately? Anything to keep him and his state budget proposal from sacking 2,500+ state employees, including 51 of the 57 at our State Library!

  9. jerry russel
    February 15th, 2009 | 5:40 pm

    hello Larry, Ed Rendell would be a perfect pick for Commissioner. Who knows sports like ed. A-Roid is a hemorrhoid on the sport of baseball.I’ve never had them but he seems to be a good example. Geitner and summmers are two losers that should be taking steroids. Maybe then they wouldn’t have to compensate for their little penises, they could blame the HGH

  10. Ed
    February 15th, 2009 | 7:09 pm

    Larry, this is a joke isn’t it?

  11. the other, other, other jim
    February 15th, 2009 | 7:57 pm

    Maybe we need to have Larry tested for controlled substances? That might explain his aberrant behavior…

  12. George
    February 15th, 2009 | 8:01 pm

    Ed Rendell running baseball might be a good idea Larry, almost as good as trusting your money to Bernie Madoff. Tonight 60 Minutes, the liberal friendly network reported some news you all might care about. That nice Jewish couple the Sandlers, sold a bunch of option ARMs to the good people of California, they then sold their bank, World Savings, to Wacovia and these loan brought that bank down. Wells Fargo had to rescue Wachovia with the hekp of the federal governmnent. Apparently Larry , those Wall Street vultures you speak of, happen some times to be nice Jewish couples. Mrs, Sandler use to like to knit during analysts meetings. Their loan fraud is over $30 Billion, Wachocia is now gone and Wells Fargo is trying to pick up the pieces after this nice elderly Jewish couple conned Wachovia. Look it up home boys, its all all true, thanks for letting me print it here Larry.

  13. Connie Lingus
    February 15th, 2009 | 8:22 pm

    Please dont’t let Ed head baseball, it will be one big oral job, plus he thows snowballs at Eagles games

  14. Ed
    February 15th, 2009 | 9:39 pm

    George you are a fucking asshole. i sure glad that i personally don’t know any one like you. may you and your fucking kind rot in hell.

  15. Derek Jeter
    February 16th, 2009 | 8:37 am

    Larry,Kiss my black and white ass.

  16. Leo Bloom
    February 16th, 2009 | 10:18 am

    OOOJ, the stimulus package isn’t laden with pork. A lot of it consists of tax cuts and maintaining relief from the AMT. Yes, there is a lot of spending, but that’s what stimulates the economy. Simply increasing tax cuts to the wealthiest will not do so — they’ll hoard the money, not spend it. Anyway, there’s no pork along the lines of the Bridge to Nowhere, which money Palin took irrespective of her stance on pork. The Republicans are looking like a bunch of idiots on this one, unwilling to take risks to try to help the common man.

    Larry, why are you so infatuated with Ed Rendell? Wouldn’t Josh Shapiro make a good MLB commissioner? Also, why don’t you think you’d make a good MLB commissioner? With your nose for news, I’m sure you’d ferret out all of the bad apples within a few decades. And you could mandate FREE AIR NIGHT at all of the ballparks in the league. That would be great! Reach for the brass ring, Larry!

  17. February 16th, 2009 | 10:56 am

    Larry-Why would anyone connect MLB & Rendell ? Getting Rendell another job seems to be your mission in life.And Selig should be forced out immediately.All of this happened on his watch.
    George-I thought of you yesterday while reading Trudy Rubin’s article in the Inquirer.In it, she talks about the rise of anti semitism relating to the current economic crisis.I believe you predicted that very thing within the last two three weeks.Once again you’re ahead of the curve.Regarding your comments in the last post,I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for an honest,open dialogue between Whites & Blacks.My sense is that Whites aren’t allowed to criticize Blacks without being accused of racism.Hence no dialogue.William Raspberry covered this subject about three years ago in one of his syndicated columns.

  18. the other, other, other jim
    February 16th, 2009 | 12:14 pm

    Bud Selig is a complete fraud and in-house man. He has no idea of what he is doing as a Commissioner. He saw interest rise and ticket sales increase and looked the other way on steroids and HGH. Shameful. His false indignation now is laughable. His time as Commissioner reminds me of the Jimmy Carter days in the White House. Even Fast Eddie would be an improvement. I think W is the next Commissioner. He almost had the job 9 years ago. Since its largely a ceremonial position he’ll be perfect. Throwing out first balls. As long as he does not bring Dick Cheney with him…

  19. Jimmy Dean
    February 16th, 2009 | 3:21 pm

    This here stimulus package has more dern pork than my sausages.

  20. the other, other, other jim
    February 17th, 2009 | 7:01 am

    Are we consciously boycotting site until Larry decides to participate or has everyone just lost interest?

  21. Leo Bloom
    February 17th, 2009 | 12:45 pm

    oooj, Larry has been on autopilot for months now. He might just have finally crashed into a house near Buffalo, only there was no heat or fire accompanying the crash.

  22. the other, other, other jim
    February 17th, 2009 | 1:46 pm

    Just Cheetos residue…

  23. Leo Bloom
    February 17th, 2009 | 3:43 pm

    It amazes me that the sock puppets have moved on. I thought this was their playground. I guess Larry just hasn’t been furnishing sufficient “equipment” for them to play upon.

  24. February 17th, 2009 | 4:03 pm

    The puppets are probably still around,just waiting for inspiration.I wonder if Ed Rendell is interested in the NHL job,word in the locker room is that Gary Bettman is on his way out.

  25. Alex Roidriguez
    February 17th, 2009 | 4:06 pm

    Beso De Larry Mi Asno Marron.

  26. the other, other, other jim
    February 17th, 2009 | 5:09 pm

    I wonder if Larry has already taken the NFL job. Perhaps he’s been hit in the head with a puck too often. Actually, Larry looks more like the goal judge type.

  27. the other, other, other jim
    February 17th, 2009 | 5:09 pm

    Goallllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

  28. Donald Trump
    February 17th, 2009 | 8:18 pm

    “I’m Fired”

  29. George
    February 17th, 2009 | 8:28 pm

    I found all of my puppets dead in the chest in my basement tonight, I misunderstood that we could still use them, and I think they suffocated over the last week. With due humuilty and respect to some of the other puppeteers here, we lost some of the great ones tonight in a careless accident. I blame myself, I feel terrible!

    I am so distraught about this I am even willing to offer an olive branch to Ed. It’s a one shot deal Ed, take it or leave it.

  30. Donald Trump
    February 17th, 2009 | 8:37 pm

    Join me on the Apprentice. This year I show a group of prospective employees how to go bankrupt. I give each contestant one of my companies and see how long it takes or them to declare chapter 11. It’s all part of the economic times we live in.

  31. Donald Trump
    February 17th, 2009 | 8:53 pm

    George I’d like to offer you a chance to appear on my up coming Apprentice season. We need a controversial figure like yourself. Sort of like Amarosa a few years back only in reverse. You’ll be the stereotypical middle aged white guy who is mad as hell and can’t take being PC any longer. The only twist is I need you to come out of the closet. Hopefully we can do that during sweeps week.

  32. George
    February 17th, 2009 | 9:09 pm

    Donald, first of all I am star struck that you have noticed me and want me on the show. Second of all, I already have an angle for my type. We will describe me as suffering from: MCWMSS, what is that you say Don? Oh you dont know yet, its Middle Class White Male Stress Syndrome!

    In a nut shell it is suffered by white men who find themselves raising children and paying the full freight for them, taking care of elders, and maximizing our careers while paying a full load of taxes, not getting any affimative action credits, having every known minority look at you like you’re a god damn devil, even though you pay a multiple in taxes to what they make, but somehow you owe them, even though you never knew them or did anything bad to them. What do you think Don, do we have a character for the show?

    Can you imagine how enraged Yvonne Allison would be if she suffered from MCWMSS. And how she’d go off the hook if she were paying my freight and heard a black man complaining about her( someone who paid more taxes to his government by valentines Day than he and his two black dinner guests earned in a year)

    Don I think we have a program idea!

  33. Amarosa
    February 18th, 2009 | 4:15 am

    Go ahead Donald, put that middle class white ass cracker up on yo show. We in the age of Obama, Cecily Tyson could cut that mother fucker up, you know what I’m sayin? you smell me you stupid white as ,model fuckin, mother fucker! By the way, I’m hotter than the big M, and I just coined that cracker phrase for your white cracker ass to say to Martha Stewart when you talk about Michelle Obama. The big M, Dats right the big God Damn M, get use to it you white mother fuckin haters.

  34. Mrs Kaighan
    February 18th, 2009 | 6:30 am
  35. Andrew Dice Clay
    February 18th, 2009 | 6:32 am

    Am I a tool or what? Even Donny Trump could not do that. And when did I become a celebrity?

  36. Andrew Dice Clay
    February 18th, 2009 | 6:36 am

    Yo, if Joanne Rivers has another facelift she’ll look more like Skeletor than Skeletor himself. Ouch. Maybe she needs to start wearing a Freddy Krueger mask in public. Refreakindiculous.

  37. Andrew Dice Clay
    February 18th, 2009 | 7:02 am

    Me and Mrs.Kaighan
    We got a thing goin’on
    We both know that it’s wrong
    But it’s much too strong
    To let it go now

    We meet every day at the same cafe
    Six-thirty and no one knows she’ll be there
    Holding hands, making all kinds of plans
    While the juke box plays our favorite songs

    Me and Mrs.Kaighan
    We got a thing goin’on
    We both know that it’s wrong
    But it’s much too strong
    To let it go now

    We gotta be extra careful
    That do we don’t build our hopes up too high
    Because she’s got her own obligations
    And so, and so, do I

    Me and Mrs.Kaighan
    We got a thing goin’on
    We both know that it’s wrong
    But it’s much too strong
    To let it go now

    Well, it’s time for us to be leaving
    It hurts so much, it hurts so much inside
    Now she’ll go her way snd I’ll go mine
    Tomorrow we’ll meet
    The same place, the same time

    Me and Mrs.Kaighan
    We got a thing goin’on
    We both know that it’s wrong
    But it’s much too strong
    To let it go now

  38. Sarah Palin
    February 18th, 2009 | 7:31 am

    My favorite time was being when I was the filling in an Oreo and also when Todd watched.

  39. Sonny Lee
    February 18th, 2009 | 9:42 am

    Sarah Palin you hot I take a you to Panda Express and then bang a you all night long.

  40. Leo Bloom
    February 18th, 2009 | 10:09 am

    Ah, the puppets are back. Finally, the Larry Kane Report has some zip to it, some vim and vigor.

    Larry, I’m going to start a new practice in the hopes that you will once again pick up the torch for FREE AIR. Every day at 12:30, I will go to Reading Terminal Market and deposit 50 cents in the Pig in your honor. Perhaps I’ll carry a sign that reads: “I’m a warrior in Larry Kane’s FREE AIR army.” Afterwards, I’ll hang out in the Market-Frankford station under the Gallery, working my vigilante justice on those who would hit their children or leave chicken bones on SEPTA. If I’m caught, I’ll be sure to tell the public about your blog. ¡Viva la revolución!

  41. February 18th, 2009 | 10:50 am

    What a sight that would be-Leo in the latest from Christobal Balenciago, shoes from Allen-Edmonds & a sign around his neck declaring his allegiance to both Larry Kane & FREE AIR.As Ms.Yankee is fond of saying,truth is stranger than fiction.

  42. Leo Bloom
    February 18th, 2009 | 3:51 pm

    Allen-Edmonds because they’re made in the U.S.A. U.S.A.! U.S.A.!

    Larry: Your FREE AIR army has contributed 50 cents to the Reading Terminal Market Pig.

    I’m going to double up the 50 cents and buy a Powerball ticket. If it wins, I’ll use $5 million to start a Larry Kane’s FREE AIR Army Trust Fund that will subsidize the cost of air at local gas stations for the great unwashed AND hire people who will police the SEPTA vehicles to remove chicken bones and to stop people from abusing their children. They’ll wear Larry Kane’s FREE AIR Army uniforms. You’ve inspired me, Larry. Keep your fingers crossed!

  43. the other, other, other jim
    February 18th, 2009 | 4:25 pm

    Don’t you think ‘panhandling’ for Free Air is a better description?

  44. Mrs Kaighn
    February 18th, 2009 | 5:01 pm

    My Larry has moved on to bigger and better things. He has lost so much recently in the stock market that he is now into venture capital investments. His new project is called “You Go Girl”. It’s a device that enables women to go tinkle while standing up. Just imagine the profit margins on this patented one of a kind revolutionary invention. I use it all the time. At the golf course, down on South Street, parking lots, and most of all on the subway stairs. Whee what a relief. I would describe how it works but I don’t want those cheap Oriental knockoffs popping up. So remember “You Go Girl”, you can now go anywhere……..

  45. February 18th, 2009 | 6:37 pm

    George-Any idea why Sharpton is upset about the N.Y.Post cartoon ? We are living in the new,post racial America,aren’t we ?

  46. Leo Bloom
    February 18th, 2009 | 7:03 pm

    YBP, Rupert Murdoch subscribes to Oscar Wilde’s view that the only thing worse than being talked about in public is not being talked about in public. He’ll do anything for attention and money.

  47. Ed
    February 18th, 2009 | 7:24 pm

    Isn’t it great that we now live in an all inclusive world, yet when one has the mind to lampoon a current event the racial nature of past sins and inequities comes to the surface. I find it reprehensible that everything that has a hint of racial impropriety is proclaimed an affront to racial harmony. The cartoon was funny, not because of Obama, but the cartoons(congress) who came up with all this pork in order to save America. In the end we all suffer.

  48. Leo Bloom
    February 18th, 2009 | 7:27 pm

    Ultimately, the cartoon isn’t worth talking about because it isn’t about Ed Rendell or FREE AIR.

  49. Mrs Kaighn
    February 18th, 2009 | 7:33 pm

    Please buy my Larry’s “You Go Girl” before they are all sold out….. We have a buy one get one special. Buy one for your wife and get the second free for your significant other.

  50. Mayor Nutter
    February 18th, 2009 | 7:51 pm

    We definitely need more guns in this country. Especially for those treading the streets of Philadelphia.

  51. Bonzo
    February 18th, 2009 | 8:14 pm

    Sure my cousin went wild all over the face of an unexpected guest. Sometimes our kind just can’t take the incredible injustice that our species suffers from. Give us a Paris Hilton or a Britney Spears every once in a while than I will be happy.

  52. George
    February 18th, 2009 | 8:22 pm

    YAP, I signed up for post racial America. Does Shatpton not realize the president does not write bills, that the congress does. Shaprton has often complained there are not enough blacks in Congress, (only one in the senate and he was appointed by Blogo.) Since monkeys wrote the bill, than he’s confusing a primate with a white man. We should also point out that there is no way the monkey in the cartoon is a black man given the penis size depicted, Sharpton cant have it both ways YAP!

  53. Ed
    February 18th, 2009 | 10:15 pm

    We are a “nation of cowards” when it comes to race relations according to our Attorney General Holder. So I guess I should approach the Scrugs of this world with open arms. Maybe the cops who were killed in Philadelphia over the past year might have a different opinion.

  54. Leo Bloom
    February 18th, 2009 | 10:27 pm

    YAP, I signed up for post racial America. Does Shatpton not realize the president does not write bills, that the congress does.

    Is that why so many far right pundits call it “Obama’s Porkulus Plan,” etc.? They don’t seem to get it either, do they?

  55. Jimmy Dean
    February 18th, 2009 | 11:58 pm

    Porkulus, with a price tag nearing $1 trillion, includes much that the heartland of America might find objectionable. In its original version, it included money that would likely have ended up filling the coffers of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America which, according to some news reports, is laying off personnel thanks to a financial bind attributed to Bernie Madoff and his magic pyramid.

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, after first defending the money, agreed to drop it from the bill. But Porkulus still includes over $300 million to combat sexually transmitted diseases, an earmark of more than $2 billion for national parks being pushed by an organization whose chief lobbyist is the son of House Appropriations Committee Chairman Wisconsin’s David Obey, $200 million for new sod for the National Mall (the old sod apparently having been wrecked by the near record turnout for Obama’s inauguration), $44 million to repair the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (also on the National Mall) and $600 million so the federal government can buy some new cars from Detroit (well, someone has to).

    When push came to shove this pork-laden, special interesting supporting, mother-of-all spending legislation did pass the House– but without a single Republican voting for it. As a result, its prospects in the Senate have gotten worse, with Republicans and Democrats both suggesting Porkulus is in trouble.

    The partisan nature of the support for Porkulus has sparked a stream of confused comment from the Democrats and the liberal allies — who suddenly seem to have forgotten they won the election. The scheme to make Porkulus a bi-partisan effort is collapsing, stripping them of the political cover they were depending on to protect them once America learns what is really in the bill.

    So the gloves have been taken off. MoveOn.Org let its members know by e-mail over the weekend that Porkulus is in trouble.

  56. Ed
    February 19th, 2009 | 9:55 am

    Larry, how about moving on to a new topic already. I think we’ve proved that it’s possible to move on to different topics, even without your input. But this is your blog and we are all dying to hear what you have to say. I understand that pleading with you is of no use, yet here I am. Let me just ask one question. What are your feelings towards Ed Rendell now that we know the law firm he worked for is doing millions of dollars worth of business for SEPTA and the DRPA? Conflict of interest, or just business as usual?

  57. February 19th, 2009 | 10:10 am

    Speaking of the DRPA,are they going ahead with plans to develop the area around 7th & Race Sts ? A restaurant or cafe or some other waste in a true wasteland.If their so flush the bridge fee should be lowered.The New Jersey sheep should rise up & fight,this is way more important than FREE AIR.

  58. February 19th, 2009 | 10:10 am

    ……they’re so flush,that is.

  59. Ed
    February 19th, 2009 | 11:26 am

    YAP it looks like those hard spent dollars crossing the bridges to NJ and back are going to give us a new restaurant down at Franklin Square. 2.5 million dollars from the DRPA has been granted to build it. I am sure you’ll be one of the first in line to patronize the new eatery because I have no idea where the Franklin Sq. is located. These people promised that all toll receipts would go towards DRPA business. I didn’t know that they were in the restaurant business.

  60. February 19th, 2009 | 12:07 pm

    Ed-As I said,a wasteland.Albeit one with wonderful views of the bridge traffic.YAP,however,will not be dining there.

  61. the other, other, other jim
    February 19th, 2009 | 12:37 pm

    Just one giant Dunkin Donuts by the Police Station… and tokens for Atlantic City Expressway.

  62. Leo Bloom
    February 19th, 2009 | 2:27 pm

    Larry, I didn’t see you at Reading Terminal Market today when I deposited 50 cents in the Pig. I was hoping you’d show to try to unmask your blog-inspired vigilante. True, I’m not Ed Rendell or Josh Shapiro, but does that mean I should get no coverage at all? I mean, we’re talking about Larry Kane’s FREE AIR Army here.

    Also, I didn’t win Powerball last night, so we’ll have to wait until Saturday to start that trust fund.

  63. Willie the Pimp
    February 19th, 2009 | 5:09 pm

    Mister Kane is da man! Mister Kane should stop by the library. If Mister Kane writes about the Post cartoon I’m gonna get sick like I did when he wrote about that other lady’s article about the restaurant.

  64. Harry Chrisna
    February 19th, 2009 | 7:37 pm

    Leo do not be taking my space at Reading Terminal. I have been there a wery long time.

  65. Jimmy Dean
    February 19th, 2009 | 7:46 pm

    Harry I’m setting up a kiosk in Reading Terminal to sell sandwiches. I’m going to call it Porkulus. What do you thing toga boy?

  66. Leo Bloom
    February 19th, 2009 | 9:32 pm

    Jimmy, Tony Luke, Jr. would have you for lunch.

  67. Jimmy Dean
    February 20th, 2009 | 5:59 am

    Is dat some sort of homosexual reference?

  68. Willie the Pimp
    February 20th, 2009 | 9:47 am

    Mister Dean stop by the library and we will take care of your sausage.

    Mister Kane there is anoter dead police. Why aint you writting bout dat? Softball city man.

  69. the other, other, other jim
    February 20th, 2009 | 11:03 am

    Jimmy, you be a big hit with visiting Democrats!

  70. Bernita
    February 20th, 2009 | 11:26 am

    How is babby fed pork sandwhiches?

  71. Leo Bloom
    February 20th, 2009 | 12:21 pm

    Larry, I’m heading over to Reading Terminal Market. Will you be there with your laptop to liveblog my 50 cent deposit into the Pig? If I don’t do it well, maybe you could write a blog about how Ed Rendell could replace me. I’ll be the one with the LARRY KANE’S FREE AIR ARMY sandwich board.

  72. February 20th, 2009 | 2:40 pm

    I think Ed Rendell should tap the opening keg for Philly Beer Week.

  73. Leo Bloom
    February 20th, 2009 | 4:19 pm

    Larry, I didn’t see you. I’m not one to get discouraged easily, but how about a show of appreciation for the little guy? We need FREE AIR to climb out of the recession.

  74. Humpty
    February 20th, 2009 | 9:26 pm

    People say I’m funny lookin. Thats ok cause I get things cookin.

    Step off chump I’m doin the hump.

  75. Ed
    February 20th, 2009 | 10:20 pm

    Larry thanks for chiming in on the death of another Philadelphia cop. Although I have mixed feelings regarding the police force of Philly I am moved by the death of another fallen servant who was on the streets providing protection for the citizens of the city. Your silence can only mean one of two things. You are so shocked by the brutality of the this officer’s demise or you couldn’t care less. Larry why don’t you move back to New York……..

  76. Thomas Jefferson
    February 21st, 2009 | 6:39 am

    My fellow Americans, you no longer live under the Democracy that your Forefathers and I conceived of and provided you. We are very disappointed in the 21st Century version of our baby. Many of us turn over in our graves routinely. Certainly we expected evolutionary change over time as the dictates of period required Congress to take action to preserve our great union. Unfortuately, we barely recognize the great country we left 200 years ago. You people have done us a great disservice.
    For a growing number of natural born Americans and illegal aliens, ‘Democracy’ has been replaced by ‘Dependency’. Nearly 25-30% of the population is wholey or largely dependent on the government for daily survival. That percentage grows daily as more and more people look to government to bail them out for irresponsibile living. Trying to live the American Dream and the life of the rich and famous on a McDonald’s salary. Most were encouraged by their government to spend beyond their means. Everyone is complicit in this situation. And no one has an answer. Sad, isn’t it?
    For those that the ‘Democracy’ is not now a ‘Dependency’, it has become a ‘Complacency’. You are so self absorbed in your own lives and possessions that you are no longer interested in who represents your district or state. You vote on name recognition. You vote for photogenic people with nice hair and white teeth. You don’t take the time to investigate the candidates. You don’t care what they do once elected. You keep voting them back in because you really don’t care. They become career politicians (which is not what we intended). They get their Washington lifestyle for 20-30 years and retire in luxury. During times of drama and national crisis, you have a tacit knowledge of what you need to do but fail to do it. You get what you deserve.
    So, America is no longer a ‘Democracy’. It has become a ‘Dependency’ for a growing number of Americans and illegals. That percentage sadly grows daily. The rest of you live in a ‘Complacency’. Wake up America! This is not what we intended.

  77. Kitta Kunte
    February 21st, 2009 | 10:38 am

    Tom how many slaves were you sleeping with while you were wring the Declaration of Independence?

  78. February 21st, 2009 | 5:41 pm

    Well,everyone knows about Sally but not everyone knows about Aquanella,Tielisha or Daneka.I was a playa before it was popular.

  79. Abe Lincoln
    February 21st, 2009 | 9:20 pm

    Four score and seve…….. oh forget it I haven’t been the same since I went to Ford’s Theater back in April 1865. My thought processes are hampered by this rather large hole in my head. However seeing all of you current citizens running around like you’ve already lost your head indicates that my services might be needed again. I guess that is why Obama keeps evoking my name. Why I am so beloved now makes me wonder how you people think. I happened to be responsible for the loss of mankind equivalent today to 6 million Americans. That’s right folks, when I presided over this country we lost 600,000 in the war and we only had 35 million people living here. I can only imagine what Keith Olberman and Rachel Madow would say about that. This bailout package to me smells worse than Atlanta after Sherman marched through it. I hate to tell you people that the worst is yet to come. Until America wakes up and rids itself of corrupt and incompetent leadership and begins to fight back against all of the manipulators of the system no one will be exempt from the downward spiral that we are now experiencing, except maybe Bernie Madoff, now there is someone who knows how to play the system.

  80. John F Kennedy
    February 21st, 2009 | 9:36 pm

    Abe I haven’t felt the same either since I got that big hole in my head back in ‘63.

  81. John F Kennedy
    February 21st, 2009 | 9:46 pm

    What’s ironic is that I got America to the moon and now years later America can’t even take a poop without looking over their shoulder.

  82. Kermit the Frog
    February 21st, 2009 | 10:31 pm

    With celebrities like Larry Kane it’s no wonder that the Britney Spears of the world dominate the airways;

  83. Kermit the Frog
    February 21st, 2009 | 10:48 pm

    Does anyone think that I would vote for Ed Rendell or Arlen Specter for Frog catcher of any community in Pennsylvania? Two numnuts that gained notoriety by working for the city now run by the brothers and sisters……These two did such a great job while they were here, that we’ve only lost 7 cops in the last two years.

  84. Leo Bloom
    February 21st, 2009 | 11:56 pm

    Larry, I went to Reading Terminal Market again today and give 50 cents to Philbert the Pig. Still no Larry Kane. The FREE AIR Army needs your moral support.

  85. the other, other, other jim
    February 22nd, 2009 | 6:27 am

    I had to stop at a local Mobil station yesterday to put air in one of my tires. It cost me 75 cents. Is is an absolute outrage! Leo, what can I do to help the FREE AIR cause?

  86. Vince Fumo
    February 22nd, 2009 | 10:39 am

    Larry I think I have an air compressor or two hanging around that I can loan you. I don’t think I’ll be needing one for quite a while. Besides I didn’t pay for it anyway. It was a gift from my son inlaw or some such schmuck. It could have been from one of my girlfriends that I didn’t have under surveillance. Most likely though it was given to me by my baby the non profit Citizens Alliance group. They are such a charitable bunch, why they even gave me 6 vacuum cleaners. Larry if you want one let me know. I need to charge you for it though. My legal bills are killing me.

  87. Bobby Kennedy
    February 22nd, 2009 | 11:32 am

    Abe, I’ll give Martin Luther King a holler. With you, John, Martin and myself, we can form “The Hole in The Head Gang”. Then we can challenge the “Philadelphia Deceased Police Force” to a game of “Who Wants to be a Hero?” or maybe “Hero or No Hero”. If we could only get Howie Mandel to emcee.

  88. PC Police
    February 22nd, 2009 | 12:53 pm

    A little insensitive puppets regardless of your political leanings or personal feelings.

  89. PC Police
    February 22nd, 2009 | 12:54 pm

    If you think your outrageous behavior will draw out Larry then good luck. He’s nowhere to be found.

  90. February 22nd, 2009 | 1:36 pm

    You guys should all go to Twitter. 134 characters is enough for some of the garbage here.

    C’mon! You can do better.

  91. The Three Puppeteers
    February 22nd, 2009 | 1:48 pm

    PC Police, the previous post was not insensitive it was actually sensitive. Four great American heroes shot in the head vs somewhat less recognized Phila Heroes who gave up their own lives serving the public. The real shame is that the Phila Deceased Force outnumbers the Great Hole in the Head Gang by almost two to one…..I can see no better tribute than to have these two groups in Heaven playing games…….

  92. March 14th, 2009 | 11:21 pm

    Larry, Ed Rendell for Baseball commissioner, unbelieveable! Today they reported that he is trying to get $1.50 to $2.00 from everyone’s unemployment check as a withdrawal fee. These people, some have never used the program and now that they are down, alongs comes ED with this big idea to bilk the public to offset state deficets. I think we need someone else for Baseball Commissioner and Rendell should take a seat on Lincoln Field and watch the game and stay out of the broadcast booth and pregame shows in Philly.

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