Sunday, April 21, 2013
New York Times: Thrown for a Curve in Rhode Island
(www.nytimes.com)
Read More...You have to imagine what it was like being Don Carcieri in the harsh winter of 2010. As Rhode Island’s governor, a Republican in an overwhelmingly Democratic state, he had come into office seven years earlier as a business executive turned politician, vowing to retool the state’s corroded economy.
But that winter, Rhode Island was on the precipice of economic ruin. Its unemployment rate was pushing up against 12 percent — fourth worst in the nation — and three of its cities were ...
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1. Ivan Grushenko of Hong Kong posted on October 17, 2012 at 02:14 PM # hit 0 | hit 0i could name, oh, hmmmmm, maybe elebenteen
what a disappointment
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/27/sports/baseball/27tigers.html?_r=0
That was a lot of fun to go back and read!
That would have been a good villain. I think most of these choices were somewhat lame. I can see Denkinger/Twins Stadium/Jimmy Fallon....beyond that, the rest as mentioned were just people having a good series. That isn't a villain. A villain is someone who does an action (see Holliday's slide) that upsets the fanbase in some reason, it helps if they also then have a good series, but that isn't really necessary.
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