March 20, 2015 With considerable fanfare, the name of the new minor league baseball time that has migrated from New Britain to Harford has been announced. After multiple entries, 35,000 people voted on line and decided to call the team the Hartford Yard Goats. At first, I was disappointed that my name, The Fleecers – as this is what this team will do to the taxpayers – was not chosen. But the Yard Goats is even better. A Yard Goat is the term used for a locomotive that moves rail cars in a rail yard. Apparently, this is a reference to bygone days when Hartford was a railway center, sort of like the Steelers refers to a bygone time when steel was made in Pittsburgh, before these good paying jobs for working class people were shipped overseas. But the logo for the team does not depict a locomotive. It depicts a goat. To the average person, a Yard Goat will conjure the vision of a poorly-kept yard surrounded by a rusting chain link fence, with an abandoned boarded-up house, a few open tin cans and a goat chewing on the few stubbles of grass that remain. This is what the Democrats and the crony capitalists are doing to what was once the great … [Read more...]
Some Friendly Thoughts from Steeler Nation
January 30, 2014 Now that the Steelers are officially in the play offs, there is actually serious discussion among some sportscasters and so-called pundits that we are not going to garner our 7th Super Bowl ring. I assure you, this is a complete delusion. While the regular season has its ups and downs, it will become obvious that no one even belongs on the field with the Steelers. With Ben Rothlisberger at quarterback, Le’Veon Bell (We pray his knee is OK) as our running back and receivers such as Antonio Brown and Heath Miller; how can anyone think that some quiche-eating, blueberry-latte-sucking Puritans like the New England Patriots have a chance? Or the Dallas Cowboys. Tony Romo? Are you serious? You would think these people would have learned their place in the 1970’s. But then again, what do you expect from a team whose fan base is depicted in evolutionary textbooks as falling between Java Man and Neanderthals. In fact, archeologists routinely find Dallas Cowboy paraphernalia amidst stone chisels, fertility statues and spear points during their expeditions. We Steeler fans prefer hard-hitting, rough-and-tumble football. We are perplexed by this new … [Read more...]