We have another ticket giveaway for our loyal bloggers who have made Opinion Talk one of the best-read blogs in the region. The game is at 7 p.m. Saturday at Chukchansi Park in downtown Fresno. The Fresno Grizzlies will be playing the Tacoma Rainiers. This is the final homestand of the year.
To score these tickets, send an email to me at jboren@fresnobee.com. Do it soon because time is getting tight.
Jim Boren, how come you have no other rewards for us bloggers? Like a free ticket to something other than a ball game. Though it is very nice that there is recognition for us bloggers.
I love free stuff. Just wish I could get a bus from the courthouse to my house on a weekend after 7 pm.
But it is the thought that counts. Thanks Jim.
There must be, somewhere, lex non scripta which compels Mr. Boren to render "rewards."
Rewards are nice, I really enjoy them I get so excited. What is wrong with base ball it's fun!
Thanks for the sentiment. I'll pass though... there are too many targets on my back.
Jim, a very nice offer once again. We had a very nice evening last time we took you up on the tickets. Sorry the Grizzlies didn't. Unfortunately we'll be out of town this weekend. Many thanks to you and the Bee for the offer.
I would encourage others to take up the offer of nice seats and a nice evening. You can watch and feel sorry for the right fielder as he looks straight into the sun during the first inning, although maybe the sun position has changed some since July 4.
Nothing is wrong with baseball; but not everybody thinks it is fun. But the point is that is fun for a lot of people, and those free tickets are a most thoughtful gift.
"You can watch and feel sorry for the right fielder as he looks straight into the sun during the first inning,..."
As I have said earlier, it ain't fun for everybody to watch "the right fielder" who and whatever that is, look straight into the sun. Why is that fielder looking into the sun? I rather watch what they are doing on the stage during an opera performance. There used to be an opera performance (on TV) every Saturday afternoon on Public Television. It was free.
Thanks for the gererous offer but we have plans for Saturday already. I have never seen them win.
"I have..." Jackie I lost a mouth full of fresh lemonade on that one.
The last time I went to a Grizzlies game I was taken aback by the "fans" who were heckling the Grizzlies players. They called them all sorts of names and booed and such. I think it would be hard to win or even care about it if all my efforts were heckled all the time. What ever happened to the type of fans that shout support? I know they are out there, I wish there were more of them. One is supposed to have pride in their home team... well because they yours. It doesn't really matter if they win or lose, the fun is in the journey, the game, the cheering, the hot dogs. Maybe they are just depressed.
When I said that this culture is turning predatory, that we are showing earmarks of earlier great deomocracies and republics that have gone sour, I was blogger-boo(ed). And my biggest fault was that I am foreign born. Do I care? No! But this culture must swing the pendulum back to a more comunal yesterday or we are in trouble sooner than we think.
Actually you are usually blogger-boo(ed) by implying that your foreign birth and country is far superior to America. Especially funny since you said that earlier great democracies and republics have had the same growing pains. Is it your foreign culture that also caused you to complain about the gift the Bee was giving us as you did in your first post here? A simple thank you would have been the mannerly thing to do. Believe me your biggest fault is not being foreign born.
For those of you that will react to my blog. I'll cut to the chase. Yes, my words are mean as they were intended and you don't have to like it or me. How can I be mean to such a sweet old lady? Look back over the past year and you'll figure I am tired of her whining and tired of her potshots so I am giving her a taste of her own. Heck to her I'm just another ugly American. Since I am behaving ugly, I'll return the blog to you folks for awhile.
I guess the above post is referring to me. I am not a sweet little old lady. Though I have shrunk I am still 5.7, I can not be characterized as sweet, but I am 83 years old at my next birthday under the sign of Aquarius. I guess my younger detractor had earned her BA degree and she went out into the world to earn money. I went out into the world to be a druggist, and then returned to education. 11 semesters at Fresno State, with an unerring 4.00 GPA. When our Fresno Pacific connected writers' circle still met it was said of me...Isabell is the only person I know who seems to absorb knowledge through her skin. I was a rebellious youngster. When upon one of my visits to Vienna, Mother said to me..."Pip I am proud of you, I am proud of what you have become" those words are still with me many years later. The words of one of the last of yesteryear's grand dames, and co-builder of a democratic republic out of the remains of a once vast and powerful empire. . And now, being done with this personal biography (which I consider to be in poor taste on this opinion blog) I shall continue to voice my opinions, I shall welcome and respond to earnest opposing views, with my self-worth and self-respect fully in tact, and pandering to nothing or nobody. And I am not going to apologize for my upper class background. And those who have a problem with it, well it is his or her problem.
Then an upper class clock floated by slowly as the pine cones dragged the bottom of the shallows.
LOL.
Ms.Lawson, you are a real doozy!! (and I mean that in the best sense of the word.) I'd love to hear more of this upper class background of yours.
In American phraseology; VIPs. "common sense"; I am still not apologizing for it. And I can't know good or bad sense of "doozy" because it is not in the dictionary. And no more of this soap opera stuff....lol
No one wants you to apologize for your upper class background. It is the way you lord it over people, consider your background makes you superior to others and continually shout your own praises to all who can hear. My mother use to tell me when someone has to put all their "best stuff" in the front window for all to see it is usually because there is nothing left in the store to draw the worth viewing. You keep wearing your badges of honor for all to see and when you are with all your upper class relatives, ask them it they can explain to you what class really is; then you can soak it up.
...she slowly sinks to the bottom hot with the embarassment of allowing herself to be provoked beyond good manners by a soggy coo coo clock...
Common sense... I had your same sentiment until I got what I requested. Give her your email address and you can be berated by her in all things. Maybe she will stop emailing me like I asked her to on two occasions.
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