I can't wait until Cone has his way with this guy.  Eric Muller is having fun with it all.

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A friend just called to ask if I have connections for tickets to the opening game at the new First Horizon Stadium.  The Greensboro Grasshopper's first opponent will be their parent team, the Florida Marlins, and apparently tickets to the event go on sale Saturday.

I assured him that I didn't have any such connections, but then asked why he asked, knowing that he was about as far as one can get from being a baseball fan.  He said, "They just showed some guy on the news camping out for tickets, so I thought they might be hard to get."

My immediate and skeptical answer was, "They will be if the Grasshoppers pay people to camp out for the cameras."

I'm probably just projecting, because that's what I would do if I was in the Grasshopper's management.  But then again, the camping-out guy is probably just a Marlins fanatic.  Someone ought to at least check.

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Update: I checked.  The camping-out guy is Spaz.  He was on the baseball team's payroll last year as a 'crowd pumper'.   Perhaps he got a contract extension.  Isn't that like paying someone to dance with your sister?

If the N&R runs with this tomorrow, I'll puke.

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Sometimes I talk to myself.  It's the only way I can have an intelligent conversation....

Self1 - You've got to get over this baseball stadium conspiracy stuff.  People think you are crazy.

Self2 - I am.

Self1 - No, I mean like 'I see dead people' crazy.  Like, you know, dellusional

Self2 - Well, they don't know what I know.  Just because I don't have gonads big enough to put it out doesn't mean...

Self1 - You need hard evidence, not feelings and innuendo.  Otherwise you are seeing dead people.

Self2 - But what about the contamination report?

Self1 - Buried.  It will never see the light of day.  It was a private matter.

Self2 - What about the conversations with...

Self1 - You promised them you would keep it all to yourself.

Self2 - What about how the bid process was changed, the appraisal report, the KPMG report, what the P&R master plan actually says?  What about...

Self1 - All publicly vetted, no one cares.  They built it and the Marlins are coming.  You lost, they won.  You told Maria you were over it and she told the world... Do what you said.  Get over it... move on.

Self2 - But, Skip Alston says I may be right, the Graham's too...

Self1 - David, there's over $1M that has been flushed down the toilet over there on S. Eugene.  There will be a lot a straw grasping over this, don't be stupid.

Self2 - Who thinks I see dead people?

Self1 - Most everyone.

Self2 - Oh, that bad?  What about Skip calling everyone a racist - am I wrong on that?

Self1 - Nope, that's the straw grasping going on.  Stay with it but give up the baseball angle.  Got it.

Self2 - Got it... but what about...

Self1 - It's over, David.  Move on.

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