User Comments, Suggestions, or Complaints | Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Advertising
Vivid Seats is a sports ticket broker, concert ticket broker and theater ticket broker offering the best baseball tickets like Yankees tickets, Cubs tickets, and Red Sox tickets, as well as Police reunion tour tickets and Jersey Boys tickets. |
We have baseball tickets, the NFL schedule, college football tickets and Cowboys tickets. We have NBA tickets like Celtics tickets and Lakers tickets. Plus, buy Giants tickets, Patriots tickets and Colts tickets. Also check out our MLB baseball schedule |
Concerts Theatre NFL Angels Dodgers MLB Celtics Theater NBA Tickets Venues NHL Lakers Tickets NFL Yankees NHL Phillies NBA Wicked Marlins MLB Concerts Cubs Mets Red Sox Wicked WWE Red Sox Mets Yankees Dodgers |
Page rendered in 0.6895 seconds
81 querie(s) executed
Reader Comments and Retorts
Go to end of page
Statements posted here are those of our readers and do not represent the BaseballThinkFactory. Names are provided by the poster and are not verified. We ask that posters follow our submission policy. Please report any inappropriate comments.
Didn't I just read a thread concerning how Coonelly claimed they would take the best player they could sign?
This is one of my favorite lines of 2008 thus far.
Seriously.
Not to highjack, but I just can't believe that my hometown may decide the results of the Democratic primary. Pittsburgh is going to get some serious media coverage at the end of April... Philly will go fundamentally and almost universally for Obama. Pennsyltucky will go universally for Clinton. Pittsburgh, according to many polls is very much in play; I'm hoping the candidates even set up shop there for the primary.
Philadelphia in the East, Pittsburgh in the West, Alabama in the middle : God bless Pennsylvania.
Getting back to baseball, I agree about the city deserving a better team. The fans in Pittsburgh are very good about supporting competitive sports teams that are not necessarily championship teams. They just ask that the teams be competitive.
For those who don't know, Pennsyltucky is the state's warm, redneck center.
Although to be fair, calling it "Pennsyltucky" is probably unfair to the progressive types that make their home in fine state of Kentucky.
I don't know about that. Mayor Nutter endorsed Clinton. So has Rendell, who still has a lot of pull here. The Democratic machine still matters and it is in Clinton's camp as far as I can tell.
I just moved back here this summer and forgot about Pittsburgh homerism. One can never forget this city's allegiance to the Steelers, but during Game 3 of the World Series, I was at a sports bar, where 9 of 12 televisions were on the Pens game and the other 3 were on an NCAA football game. I understand this isn't a baseball town (right now), but, come on, it's the World freaking Series!
Which World Series? 1979? I find that unlikely...
Cherry picked and taken completely out of context for laughs.
No, this past year. Yeah, Boston-Colorado wasn't a dream Pittsburgh matchup, but, seriously, it's the championship of a major North American sport. Less important than a regular season Penguins game? False. I could at least get it if it were the Steelers, but really, the Pens? When was the last time any regular season NHL game mattered?
Yes, IMO. The Pens have a bunch of fun young players like Crosby and Malkin, while the Rockies were starting Josh Fogg.
Pirate fans already know how much entertainment value you get from watching Josh Fogg. We didn't have to watch that game to know that the Rockies were dead men walking.
And it's not even close.
You don't actually still live here, do you? Because I can't believe anyone can be looking forward to what this next six weeks or so is going to be like. Nearly six weeks of two politicians with nothing to do but spend time in Pennsylvania campaigning. I like politics, but I shudder to think how bad it's going to get before April 22 gets here.
Time and money. They're both raising $1-2M a day to flood the PA airwaves with. Soon your TV will be telling you, "There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission."
If by "Right now" you mean "since 1990", then you are right on. The thing is that right now it's basically:
Steelers >
Penguins >
University of Pittsburgh basketball >
Penn State football >
University of Pittsburgh football >
Local high school football team >
Former Steelers >
Altoona Curve >
Pittsburgh Pirates
Good luck and Godspeed Frank.
And the Russ - Vlad continuum continues... someday our paths will cross, but it may rip a hole in some sort of space-time fabric.
That....is....awesome.
What are the Pittsburgh demographics like these days?
Working class or older -> advantage Clinton
More educated or younger -> advantage Obama
...no?
Pittsburgh is even more schizophrenic in this respect than a lot of other places. There is a huge gap between older working class and educated/younger student/young professional types. Here are the marginal demographics:
Link
Here are the results of the most recent PA Quinnipiac poll.
I've told others that the thing that could really tip the scales in Obama's favour is the weird Pittsburgh politeness factor. Although Pittsburgh has a very working-class mindset, they are exceedingly (and sometimes annoyingly) polite and friendly. I think that HRC's aggressive attacks on Obama will come off very badly... the more she attacks him, I think the more you'll see even the older people shift more towards HRC. The angry, combative liberal types are simply nearly non-existent in Western PA, so I expect Obama to do very, very well in Pittsburgh in April (assuming there are no major slip-ups until then).
People will tell you all kinds of places, and there are some cool spots, but the original Primanti's in the strip district is truly unique.
They're both raising $1-2M a day to flood the PA airwaves with.
Hillary calls me every day; so do her friends (Ohio and PA governers, random semi-celebrities, etc.). Of course, they're all recordings, but it doesn't stop me from talking back to them.
"Hello. This is Hillary Clinton..."
"HEY, Hil; what's up?!"
(she never answers because it's a pre-recorded message)
I'm still trying to figure out why my Republican friends think the Republicans know how to manage an economy and why my Democrat friends think the Dems still care about poor people. Politics is a weird thing. The disconnect between what is popularly believed and what is reality makes me dizzy sometimes. It's probably why I waste a lot of time with baseball.
I don't think it's that surprising.
Because, setting aside the minority of voters who would avoid - or be attracted to - one of the candidates for other reasons (one's a woman, the other had a black father), the things that make Obama appealing to some segments of the party are the very same things that turn off other segments of the party in a major way.
Depending on your worldview, Obama is either a charismatic leader full of hope and inspiration who can bring change to Washington, or an inexperienced smooth-talking yuppie spouting catchphrases, getting Hollywood stars falling at his feet, and pretending that the warm fuzzies can solve everything :)
You must be Registered and Logged In to post comments.
<< Back to main