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Come By and Get a Trailer… Or Don’t… I Don’t Care
Presenting the most brutally honest commercial for a man selling quality manufactured homes that you will ever see:
Of course if comes from my former stomping grounds of Alabama
StubHub: Foolishly Optimistic
There comes a time when you have to give up on your dreams of your favorite sports team making the playoffs… like, when the season is over for example.
Ticket site StubHub hasn’t quite gotten that memo on the Cubs and White Sox though:
The company sent an e-mail Monday offering tickets for Cubs and Sox playoff games.
“Be there alongside your Chicago Cubs as they chase baseball immortality,” the e-mail to Cubs fans said. “Go to StubHub, where you’ll find a fantastic selection of tickets to every playoff game — so you experience the championship chase live and in person.”
StubHub told the Associated Press that similar e-mails were sent to fans promoting several teams not in the postseason, including the Sox and Mets.
“This was due to an e-mail glitch,” spokeswoman Joellen Ferrer said in a statement. “Follow-up e-mails will be sent to every person that received the e-mail, notifying them of the error on our part.”
Madison, AL moves up in the world
When I saw that U.S. News and World Report had come up with a list of the top ten cities in America to grow up in, I immediate clicked to see where my beloved hometown of Chicago was on the list… it turns out they aren’t. But imagine my surprise when I saw this little nugget:
Madison, Ala.: Of the roughly 43,000 residents in the friendly, churchgoing town of Madison, Ala., about 12,000 are under 18 years old. And this bedroom community of Huntsville, Ala., offers no shortage of outlets to keep these young folks active. “There is an event almost every weekend–whether it is in Madison, Huntsville, or Madison County–that families can attend,” says Paul Finley, the mayor of Madison. Children can take advantage of the area’s expansive outdoor amenities: watching beavers plunge into Bradford Creek or rabbits dart through the 130-acre Rainbow Mountain Trails park. And if they behave well enough, perhaps some lucky children can even persuade their mom and dad to send them to Space Camp at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in nearby Huntsville.
Way to go Madison! Finally when people mock me mercilessly for all of the time I spent in Alabama I can proudly refer them to my former stomping grounds.
Cubs Release Gatorade Dispenser
I thought they would give it at least a full season, but a couple of temper tantrums by Cubs pitchers have led them to re-think their Gatorade fountain experiment:
Foxsports.com reporter Ken Rosenthal quoted an unnamed Cubs official Saturday as saying the Gatorade dispenser will be removed from the Cubs dugout.
“We’ll get it out of there in a couple of days,” the high-ranking executive said.
The machine, which replaced the decades-old water cooler that dispensed Lake Michigan water to thirsty Cubs players from Joe Pepitone to Mark DeRosa, lasted only two months. It was brought in this season as a way to enhance advertising revenues through a sponsorship with Pepsi, which owns Gatorade.
The Pepsi service technician who came out to fix the dispenser twice last week — after a wayward punch by Ryan Dempster on Monday and Carlos Zambrano’s bat-whacking episode on Wednesday — will be glad to hear the news. He thought he might be on call the rest of the season.
While the technician said he missed the Dempster incident, he watched the Zambrano destruction on TV on Wednesday and immediately said: “I guess I know where I’ll be tomorrow.”
Shocker: Media Workers Are Heaviest Drinkers
This particular study was across the pond, but I think we can all agree that it’s the case here in the states too…
Media workers are the heaviest drinking professionals in England, consuming the equivalent of more than four bottles of wine or more than 19 pints of beer a week, according to government research.
People in the profession drink an average of 44 units a week, around double the recommended limit, a Department of Health survey finds.
The NHS recommended maximum alcohol consumption for men is 21 to 28 units a week – three to four units a day. For women, the maximum is 14-21 units a week – two to three units a day.
Media workers are the biggest consumers of wine, drinking on average one and a half bottles a week. They are also the biggest drinkers of spirits, liqueurs and shots, taking on average 3.2 measures a week, finds the poll by YouGov for the government’s Know Your Limits campaign.
People in the profession also drink 10 units more a week than the next heaviest drinking professionals – IT workers, who are closely followed by service-sector workers at 33 units, and people in finance, insurance and real estate at 29 units.
I’m not shocked by this news at all… my question is this, would broadcast engineers fit into the media category or would they be with the IT folks?
I also know a few executives and middle managers who have obviously been doing some drinking, but that’s a story for a different day.
Change I can’t Believe in…
The landscape of my beloved home town has changed forever.
Sears Tower name to change to Willis Tower:
Sears Tower will change its name to Willis Tower under the terms of a new lease signed by global insurance broker Willis Group Holdings.
Willis Group plans to consolidate five area offices and move nearly 500 Associates into Willis Tower, at 233 S. Wacker, initially occupying more than 140,000 square feet on multiple floors.
London-based Willis said its move to the new space, at $14.50 per square foot, will result in significant real estate cost savings, and that there is no additional cost to the company associated with renaming the building.
“Having our name associated with Chicago’s most iconic structure underscores our commitment to this great city, and recognizes Chicago’s importance as a major financial hub and international business center,” said Joseph J. Plumeri, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Willis Group Holdings.
“What you talkin’ ’bout Willis?”
I have no problem with this at all. Sears left the Sears Tower many many years ago after all, so there’s really no reason for them to continue getting the free advertising. It’s not like they bought naming rights or anything, they leased space.
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Keith Conrad
Radio producer, internet enthusiast, all around nice guy. Keith can talk your ear off on everything from NASA's latest plans to what the Cubs need to do to win the World Series.