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January 30th, 2012 by terrybenishThis morning upon returning from Safari having missed the tiny burp that was the M’s off season Geoff Baker recaps the activity he missed and the implications for Mariner baseball for the next four or five seasons:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/marinersblog/2017375627_mariners_have_shown_they_are_t.html
Jeff Sullivan notes that the attendance at Fanfest this weekend was a little over 9,000 which was about half of the 2010 attendance of 17,500. It is like a country western song, 196 Losses Ago…fill in Willy Nelson singing On The Road Again.
Joe Paterno passed a week ago Sunday and was buried last Wednesday. One of the speakers was Phil Knight of Nike who had become a friend of Paterno and his family in the last twelve years:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pbkZFriUZLk#!
I suppose there are circumstances that would explain the head football coach at Penn State becoming the close friend of Nike Chairman and CEO Phil Knight. I’m sure he and Chip Kelly are boon companions too.
That smells wrong too.
Other than money, what could there be between them? Portland to Happy Valley is probably not a road traveled very often. There are no Nike factories there, since the shoes are made in Vietnam and China for $.50 a pair…maybe someday soon, when people here will work for tea and a bag of rice, but I digress.
In a related situation, the longer the NCAA waits to penalize University of Oregon’s football program for abuses under Chip Kelly the worse that smells too…
Less than two weeks until pitchers and catchers are on the field in Peoria.
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