At the very top of Deadspin at this very moment you’ll find the photo of mini-Ron Washington at left, which began with a tweet from one Gordon Keith. I asked Gordon where he got it: “Someone sent it to me,” he reports from San Francisco. And then Jerod at Midwest…
Says GlobeSt.com this morning, there used to be a time when investors wanting to gobble up multifamily properties kept their coin on the coasts. No more: Now, “Dallas-Fort Worth is at the top of that list,” per a director at Institutional Property Advisors. Which means more and more out-of-towners –…
[jump] If I’m Ron Washington I put Nelson Cruz back in right field, David Murphy in left and have Vladimir Guerrero be my first bat off the bench. It didn’t really cost them in last night’s blowout, but Guerrero misplayed four balls by my count, two resulting in 8th-inning errors. In…
Love and money: When a divided city council voted in August to open up bidding to all comers for food and retail concessions at Love Field Airport, City Hall probably hoped it’d heard the last of a fight that pitted Mayor Tom Leppert and white council members against minority council…
The contest for the 30th Congressional District of Texas has taken Dallas back to its cuckoo-town roots in a way nobody here has seen since 1963. First, U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, the incumbent Democrat, went on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 and insisted she had done nothing wrong by diverting…
Ron Washington should’ve been fired. I know it. You know it. Shoot, even he knows it. “Wouldn’t have blamed them if they did,” the Texas Rangers manager said of team president Nolan Ryan and general manager Jon Daniels back in spring training. “But they stood by me. My team stood…
10. Bigger Giants’ ass-kicking: New York 41, Cowboys 35 or San Francisco 11, Rangers 7? The football Giants ran off 31 unanswered Monday night in Arlington. The baseball Giants erased an early two-run hole with eight consecutive runs in the middle innings. Either way, ouch. Dare I say tonight was …..
To wrap a long night, this just in from the Dallas Police Department:Tonight at 7:35 p.m. Dallas Police Officer William Shumpert was traveling northbound on the Dallas North Tollway when he witnessed an older model Cadillac stalled in a lane of travel. Before he could close down the lane of…
I am now headed home to watch Game One with my 7-year-old son and the man who took me to my very first ballgame at Arlington Stadium in 1972, my father. I thought my dad would be cheering on the Giants. He grew up here but spent his Park Row…
Ever since New York Baseball Digest’s Frank Russo posted his “Five Reasons Why the Yankees Will Sign Cliff Lee” on Monday, it has made the rounds, and several of my fellow Texas Rangers fans have expressed their concern that, well, he makes a lot of sense. To summarize, Russo argues…
Yesterday, I rode shotgun in Dwaine Caraway’s Beamer while he balled it up as only Dwaine Caraway can do, chatting with reporters, fist-bumping constituents and checking in on campaign workers encouraging voters to vote against the beer-and-wine proposition. It was an effort to counter the naysayers (though that’s probably a…
You may recall: On the eve of the American League Championship Series, we posted Mark Cizdziel’s pro-quality recap of the Rangers’ ouster of the Rays, complete with pre-, post- and in-game audio and video stitched together from various outlets. Mark was kind enough to let me know that he’s just…
A few days ago I stumbled across a promotional video posted to YouTube by self-proclaimed “sports painter” Dave Choate, who lives in Shelton, Connecticut, and has had his work featured on MLB.com. I found his website and browsed his work — very nice stuff. (My father would love the Willie…
Personally, I don’t see much sense in spilling blood, sweat, tears, worry and blogosphere space on your Dallas Cowboys. At 1-5 and with Tony Romo out at least six weeks, the season is over. Considering it started not that long ago with Super Bowl aspirations, this has to be the…
Dallas County Democratic Party chair Darlene Ewing said she’s accustomed to dealing with typical political gamesmanship during campaign season like distorting records and taking words out of context, but she felt it necessary to “take a stand” against the Republicans and chair Jonathan Neerman for running “an orchestrated campaign of…
This photo of Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, taken when he was adorable years old, ran with this morning’s New York Times piece to which I linked earlier. But because I didn’t want to lift it from the paper of record, I asked Chris Heinbaugh, the mayor’s chief of staff, if…
Last week we bought a few of the DropWear.com fellas’ Ron Washington tees. And, despite rumors and reports to the contrary, the Texas Rangers have not officially commissioned anyone to do a “That’s the Way Baseball Go” tee. Says spokesman John Blake via e-mail, “This is actually an unlicensed product.”Which…
Poor Mark Cuban. With his billions and success, seems weird to type that. But think of his plight: In August he came this close to buying the Texas Rangers. Now not only are those same Rangers on the verge of winning the World Series, they’re taking a big steamy, stinky…
Dallas Police officers don’t often find themselves coaxing people off a rooftop ledge, but Tuesday afternoon at the InterContinental Hotel, a few of the lucky VIPs needed a little pep talk before taking the plunge. They were well strapped in and harnessed, of course, and it was all part of…
Maybe you’ve heard: Tomorrow the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees will vote on a proposal that will allow district higher-ups — which is to say, employees at the executive director level or higher — to live outside DISD’s boundaries. And, yes, that would even include the superintendent. Per…
View more news videos at: http://www.nbcdfw.com/video.Attorney Darrell Cook, to whom we introduced you yesterday, is on a plane at this very moment — San Francisco-bound. We exchanged e-mails moments ago, just as the flight attendant was asking him to turn off all electronic devices, and the judge in Irving has…
Tom Leppert Fact: He pitched a few innings of junior varsity at Claremont McKenna College in Southern California. So notes The New York Times this morning, in a pitching duel between the Dallas mayor and San Francisco’s mayor Gavin Newsom, a former first baseman for Redwood High School in Larkspur,…
