Reply #7: Last Saturday's NYT article is fun to read [View All]

[karynnj]

knowing he won - I love Ross's comment about how unusual it was seeing a Senator trying to broker a deal in public. (Funny people here seemed to think it was standard Kerry)


"“It was just amazing,” marveled Stephen F. Ross, a sports law expert at Pennsylvania State University. “You had a United States senator trying to broker a deal in public.”

The senator in question, however, wasn’t trying to solve the trouble in the Middle East or the health care mess. No, Senator John Kerry was trying to figure out how to get more baseball on television. And he wasn’t having much success.

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What’s the possibility of having a face-to-face meeting in the next 48 hours?” Senator Kerry pressed.

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And supposedly that’s what they’re doing even as you read this, with baseball season starting tomorrow. Which is not to say there’s a high likelihood of any kind of breakthrough. That would be the smart play. And let’s face it: the men who run baseball have a history of not making the smart play."


http://select.nytimes.com/2007/03/31/business/31nocera.html?_r=1