The Return of the King*

Well I mistook my Yankee pride and A-Rod's agent miscalculated his net worth. The result is that A-Rod decided to come crawlin back to the Bronx with a modest USD 3m pay raise and Warren Buffett's sound financial advice that he would maximize his net worth in um Gotham (as opposed to say LA).
I fully realize that this rant is about a week-and-half too late, but I needed to figure out, well is my blog worth it at this point? I mean mr. 28m man will be in pinstripes. I will once again resume my 32nd year on this earth routing for the Yankees. So I guess everytime A-Rod hits an A-Bomb (I must never quote John Sterling ever again)..I will probably clap my hands cheer. But when we approach October again and A-Rod hits .223 in the league championship series, I will once again resume my arguments that this dude will simply never close to Reggie in terms of being Mr. October. So I say to that Alex, prove me wrong, you have seven years and oh what..300m if you get the record
As for my blog, well we all need an escape..especially for this mild-mannered business writer tha sometimes forget he become creative some times..especially when a great story is at his fingertips..So every Sunday or so..I'll sit down..drink my coffee and perhaps try and illuminate you with some sarcastic observations..some witty banter and engage in topics..that hopefully will be more serious, and a level of realism that far eclipse Mr. Rodriguez's pursuit of fame and glory in the Bronx.

Knocked Up, Coming Back For More, and a tribue to a runner

Well I just watched Knocked Up last night and I must say again..Judd Apatow is sheer genius. He taps into that inner voice of ours where we think alot of things, but never say them. Only this time around Seth Rogen's protagonist character says alot of it and more. His castmates follow suit. And it may have been raunchy, over-the-top (zero need for the "scene" within the pregnancy scene). And this gets my utmost Berke's Law 6 stars out of 5. I was so amazed that I linked up immediately to the SuperBad website-the next Apatow production--but saw zero info when its coming out of DVD.
Now to the news of the week. Merrill kicked Stanley O'Neal out of the exeutive suite and Chuck Prince of Citigroup is following him. I never saw this coming, but when Wall Street takes catastrophic losses then somebody needs to be ushered out the door. Ultimately, do we know what kind of stewardship Prince or O'Neal had over their mortgage lending units and super-advanced SIVs? Hard to say, when you are a running a multi-zillion dollar global conglomerate. What is certain is like any other high profile "corporation" this fall somebody has to be the sacrificial lamb.
I can't digress any further on pop culture or wall street.
As a fellow runner, yesterday's death by Ryan Shay was tragic and just a devastating loss for the running community. I've run a NYC Marathon. I endured pain that was unbearable...and yet I fought, I walked some and ran some over the last 10 miles and finished somehow in 5 hours and nine minutes.
I was very lucky that my sister could be there that weekend to usher me through those last 10 miles and talk to me and encourage me.
Mr. Shay was a world class athlete who had a shot at qualifying for the US Olymic team yesterday. Its tough to come up with more words, but to life is precious gift and its simply unfair what happened yesterday.
My condolences to the Shay family.