Las Vegas should be big enough by now to support a major league franchise, surely?

From what I understand from hockey and basketball, there's huge interest in the city for major league teams, but there's a big fear in the leagues about gambling and a hometown franchise and the chance of undue influence on games.

I didn't mention the Angels because they do seem to be the one East Coast team ESPN will talk about.

It's still tremendously irritating...granted, I've only been seriously following baseball maybe a couple months longer than you, but in the time I've been watching it seems that they'll talk about the Angels (a little, a very little, but more than any other West Coast team) year in and year out no matter how well or poorly they're doing or how likely they are to make the playoffs; the A's still didn't rate more than grudging passing mention even a couple of years back when they made it into the post-season and swept their first round. When Barry Bonds was closing in on the home run record the Giants got some airtime, but mostly around the edges of the Barry talk. And all the other teams combined? A web gem nominee here, a nod to Ichiro's genius there, and that's about it.

not only are the east coast games done earlier, making for more consistently easy-to-report games, the eastern time zone counts for half the US population.

Bah. There's still a whole other half. And even the coverage of that one half has been tilting more and more over the past year to Red Sox/Yankees/Mets coverage. Sometimes those three teams take up fully half a BT broadcast, with every other team in the country dividing up the remaining bits of time between them (unless even that is bitten into by some idiotic special report about Those Dangerous Shattering Bats! or Are Both Chicago Managers Short-Tempered Dipshits, Or Only One? or whatnot).

Ummm... That's not actually possible.

Well, okay, I'll settle for everyone east of the Mississippi just going down in flames sometime in the post-season so we end up with a repeat of 1989 (minus the earthquake).

Susan, one of the many current objects of scorn and hatred chez Zmayhem is ESPN's "Baseball Tonight" and its incessant East Coast MLB ass-kissing.

I KNOW!! I swear the most mediocre Yankees or Red Sox team gets more attention from them than the M's did in 2001 when we won 116!

I know, I know, population densities, etc. But still.

Work rush is making my shoulders incredibly tense. I wish our deadline would go away, but...yeah, no. It's only a matter of how much cleanup we'll have to do on the other side.

This post is taking me over half an hour, what with the interruption of nasty work things I have to do, with a phone ringing off the hook (my personal best of the afternoon is two lines going on the land line, and one on the blackberry and an incoming email ticker like a disco strobe light.

But if I only do that I'll stroke out.

Just not Dan Patrick. Keith would be sad if his bff's head burst. Weekend: Dem event Saturday. Sunday:videos grey & foggy sounds nice to me, JZ. But I'm held hostage by The Orb.

I just spent half an hour on the phone with an author friend from one of my writing email loops, asking her advice on an area where she clearly has more expertise than I do. At the end she asked me where I was located. I said Seattle, and she said she would've sworn I had a Southern accent. I told her I grew up in Alabama, but I'm feeling suddenly self-conscious about my speech. It's been awhile since anyone has said I sounded Southern unless I was deliberately putting it on. (Not that sounding Southern is a bad thing, you understand. I'm just suddenly listening to myself talk, you know?)

It's Friday, right? I can go home soon.

Mmm. Home.

In an effort to distract myself, I'm obsessing over Hall and Oates again. Poor SA is getting the brunt via IM.

Man, that fandom would have been HUGE if the Internets had existed 30+ years ago. Woulda made Popslash and Bandom into small potatoes.

That sounds horrible, ita.

Hopefully it will be over soon.

It is crazy quiet here today which only makes me worried that someone will have some fire drill that I have to perform at 6 pm on a Friday.

You have a faint Southern accent, Susan. Not a strong one, just a flavor, like my in-laws do.

((tamara and aunt))

Happy birthday, JZ!

I hope the moisture in the fog washes away some of the particulates in the air. At 8 PM last night, there was so much smoke in the air, I could look directly at the sun, and it was the color of a watermelon Jolly Rancher. It didn't bother me until last night and now it's really bugging: eyes, throat, blech.

Weekend: Think I'll leave early and go see Wall-E.

Tomorrow: Suzi farewell, then I'll go to work afterward nd finish up what I'm not doing now.

Sunday: who knows. House and sister stufff probably.