Cynics will speculate about why she’s really stepping down, but I choose to take her at her word: she’s quitting because hunkering down is a quitter’s way out and the media has been making fun of her disabled infant and also here’s how basketball works.
“Before this was a book idea, it was just something I planned to do after the completely exhausting 2008 campaign and election,” Mr. Layne is quoted as saying in the interview. “And then I started thinking about how nice it would be to collect strange tales and stories at such a leisurely walking pace, in this fantastic setting with the pounding Pacific and the beach towns, the enclaves of the ultra-wealthy and camps of the homeless, the stretches of wilderness and military bases and railroad track, Mexican drug shipments rolling ashore on lifeboats, toxic harbors and sewage lagoons, and a million-dollar ocean sunset every day.”
From this week’s ESPN The Magazine, that has the Angels ranked numero uno in “Ultimate Fan Experience” out of the 122 professional MLB, NHL, NBA, and NFL franchises:
Tickets to root-root-root for the 2009 Halos cost an average of just $20.05, and the total fan cost to attend an Angels game is the fifth lowest in MLB and 32% less than it costs to attend a Dodgers game. The team also has low-cost parking and concessions and the least-expensive caps in all of sports. Yet the Angels aren’t luring fans to the park on the cheap out of necessity: Since the start of the 2007 season, they’ve won 232 games, more than any MLB team except the Red Sox.
Not noted: Dodger Stadium is a shithole.
