From below, this pointed comment posted moments ago: “As a longtime fan, I am beginning to cautiously think that the Rangers have a chance of being in the World Series this year.” Not surprisingly, the Unfair Park in-box has been filling up World Series random notes this morning. Let’s review.Sabernomics…
It’s 1972 vs. 1958. It’s also, unless I’m seeing something terribly wrong and homerish, a clear advantage for your Texas Rangers over the San Francisco Giants. Right? The Rangers, born in ’72, have never been to the World Series. The Giants have been here three times since moving from New York…
In mid-December, 16 Dallas Water Utilities workers sued the city in federal court, claiming City Hall engages in a “pattern and practice of disproportionate enforcement of policies with regard to their minority employees.” They also alleged the city “has engaged in blatant segregation amongst its workforce whereby teams of employees…
Dallas City Hall sends word this morning: When you’re next at Love Field and don’t see Waldine Tauch’s The Texas Ranger of 1960 statue keeping watch over the terminal lobby, don’t fret. The Ranger, who took his place in 1961 courtesy Mr. and Mrs. Earle Wyatt and stands above the…
October victories: Texas Rangers 8, Dallas Cowboys 0. This is better be the week the Cowboys stop making mistakes and start salvaging their 2010 season. In going 1-4 they have committed 62 penalties and forced only four takeaways. (Giants’ defensive lineman Osi Umenyiora has forced six fumbles over the last three games…
So writes George Vecsey this morning in The New York Times — referring, of course, to The Commerce Comet himself, Mickey Mantle. Insists the sports scribe, of the myriad comparisons made in recent days — Barry Bonds and Ken Griffey Jr. chief among them, per vanquished Yankees manager Joe Girardi…
This weekend they’re laying the first of the concrete beams over Woodall Rodgers Freeway for the deck-park-to-be, including the Ceremonial First Beam pictured above, which served as a centerpiece for a wet ‘n’ wild celebratory picnic Saturday afternoon. With 15 more trucks waiting just down the access road with the…
Another Art Con, another conflict on this end — we had the boy’s elementary-school fall “county fair” last night, which got damp but was not drowned. But our Mattie Stafford was on hand for the fund-raising, noise-making winding on W. Commerce, where more than 100 artists donated pieces sold to…
Groans Erik Boland of Newsday: “All the elements that put the Yankees in a three-games-to-one series hole materialized Friday night, ensuring they wouldn’t be able to completely climb out of that hole. It was another night of ragged starting pitching, ineffective relief pitching and next to nothing on offense from…
10. In retrospect, a great call by Rangers’ manager Ron Washington taking Nelson Cruz out of Game 5 early with a tight hamstring. Cruz hit the biggest homer in Rangers’ history in the four-run 5th tonight, shoving Texas to a commanding 5-1 lead. 9. Claw > Antlers? Very cool surprise…
Couldn’t sleep the other night and watched, for the second time, The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town, which airs again on HBO over the weekend. That’s my favorite Springsteen record — beautifully overwrought Jersey pop-opera tinged with the exposed-nerve punk of which Springsteen had become…
Is tonight THE night? The lights are on. Clouds are circling but so far nothing but sprinkles. The wind is howling in from the south/right field, which means — as evidenced by Josh Hamilton’s extra-hitting session right now — the jet stream out to right-center is in full effect and it…
Joe Nick Patoski’s a friend — a hero also. One of the sharpest, wisest, wittiest and warmest nonfiction writers Texas has ever produced; one could do worse than attempt to emulate the Fort Worth native and UTEP’er presently at work on that book about the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Texans…
Speaking of the Bush Institute …Its new director for education reform, Kerri Briggs, has been on the job for about two weeks now, after abruptly leaving her old job as D.C.’s state superintendent of education — jumping ship from lame-duck mayor Adrian Fenty’s administration almost a month before school chancellor…
I was looking for something entirely unrelated on Flickr yesterday when I stumbled across a cache of illustrations by the great Justin Claus Harder, who counts among his clients Disney, Cartoon Network, The Fray and, once upon a time, something called the Dallas Observer. As it turned out, the artwork’s…
Perhaps you’ve heard: Dallas is no longer the city of J.R. Ewing. Mayor Tom Leppert said as much during the topping-off ceremony at the convention center hotel, and his message was reiterated today at the House of Blues during the Dallas Convention and Visitor’s Bureau annual meeting. Dallas CVB CEO…
No doubt you’ve read by now Melanie Mason’s wrap-up of Brad Watson’s interview with Stephen Broden, who’s vying for Eddie Bernice Johnson’s seat. Above is the piece itself, by request. (Well, not this guy’s request.) Incidentally, Schutze’s promised profile of the pastor pops in next week’s paper version of Unfair…
It seems like only yesterday that we were at the parking lot in front of the Dallas Convention Center to celebrate the groundbreaking of the new city-owned hotel, where Mayor Tom Leppert donned a bellhop’s hat and twice shoveled dirt into a hole before a large “D” was pulled out…
Friend of the show Amanda Warr forwards along this item from Gawker (which sprang to life on Reddit), in which a Dallas resident goes to the Audelia Road Library to early-vote for Rick Perry … only, the machine switches his votes to all-Green Party. Or does it? Another heated Reddit…
In this week’s paper version of Unfair Park, Noah provides all the details concerning the sixth installment of Art Conspiracy, which kicks off tomorrow night at 7 at 511 W. Commerce Street. The first auction’s at 7:30, Paul Slavens is MC’ing, and subsequent sell-offs will be broken up by sets…
They won’t break ground on the George W. Bush Presidential Center at SMU till November 16, around the time his book’s released. But beginning tomorrow locals and road-trippers so interested can sneak peek some of the collectibles in Dubya’s prize closet at the Meadows Museum. The exhibit’s called “Breaking New…
Writes Mike Lupica in the New York Daily News: “The Yankees showed up on Wednesday in Game 5, they did, hundred percent. Now they have to do it again in Texas, or they become another big, bad Yankee team of this decade that got hit somewhere before the World Series…
