Texas Rangers spokesman John Blake just sent word: For World Series Games Three and Four at the Ballpark in Arlington — oh, right, Game Five too, fingers crossed — the team’s done beefed up (heh) its sports menu. Also: The team’s added more places to buy beer in the park,…
And in further marijuana news …Below, a Friend of Unfair Park wonders if perhaps Newy’s new friends up on “Weed Rock” were to blame for the Rangers committing four errors last night: “Would this constitute fan interference if players were affected from inhaling second-hand smoke?” Not a bad question, turns…
This morning, as expected, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood passed out $2.4 billion in funding to 54 high-speed rail projects in 23 states. Among the recipients: the Texas Department of Transportation, which’ll take home $5.6 million intended to allow a further look-see at the Oklahoma City-South Texas Corridor Plan. From…
Speaking of Dazed and Confused, all right, all right, all right …The Dallas-based Safer Texas Campaign — formed, in part, to “address increasing concerns that our laws prohibiting the marijuana market are sending a dangerous message to the public that alcohol is more acceptable than marijuana” — has issued a…
I felt like I was watching Dazed and Confused last night — though, to be honest, the whole Tim Lincecum-as-Mitch Kramer meme’s been around for a good long while, well before The Wall Street Journal asked Wiley Wiggins about it during Giants-Braves. And speaking of pot — well, I was…
At the very top of Deadspin at this very moment you’ll find the photo of mini-Ron Washington at left, which began with a tweet from one Gordon Keith. I asked Gordon where he got it: “Someone sent it to me,” he reports from San Francisco. And then Jerod at Midwest…
Says GlobeSt.com this morning, there used to be a time when investors wanting to gobble up multifamily properties kept their coin on the coasts. No more: Now, “Dallas-Fort Worth is at the top of that list,” per a director at Institutional Property Advisors. Which means more and more out-of-towners –…
To wrap a long night, this just in from the Dallas Police Department:Tonight at 7:35 p.m. Dallas Police Officer William Shumpert was traveling northbound on the Dallas North Tollway when he witnessed an older model Cadillac stalled in a lane of travel. Before he could close down the lane of…
I am now headed home to watch Game One with my 7-year-old son and the man who took me to my very first ballgame at Arlington Stadium in 1972, my father. I thought my dad would be cheering on the Giants. He grew up here but spent his Park Row…
You may recall: On the eve of the American League Championship Series, we posted Mark Cizdziel’s pro-quality recap of the Rangers’ ouster of the Rays, complete with pre-, post- and in-game audio and video stitched together from various outlets. Mark was kind enough to let me know that he’s just…
A few days ago I stumbled across a promotional video posted to YouTube by self-proclaimed “sports painter” Dave Choate, who lives in Shelton, Connecticut, and has had his work featured on MLB.com. I found his website and browsed his work — very nice stuff. (My father would love the Willie…
This photo of Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, taken when he was adorable years old, ran with this morning’s New York Times piece to which I linked earlier. But because I didn’t want to lift it from the paper of record, I asked Chris Heinbaugh, the mayor’s chief of staff, if…
Last week we bought a few of the DropWear.com fellas’ Ron Washington tees. And, despite rumors and reports to the contrary, the Texas Rangers have not officially commissioned anyone to do a “That’s the Way Baseball Go” tee. Says spokesman John Blake via e-mail, “This is actually an unlicensed product.”Which…
Maybe you’ve heard: Tomorrow the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees will vote on a proposal that will allow district higher-ups — which is to say, employees at the executive director level or higher — to live outside DISD’s boundaries. And, yes, that would even include the superintendent. Per…
View more news videos at: http://www.nbcdfw.com/video.Attorney Darrell Cook, to whom we introduced you yesterday, is on a plane at this very moment — San Francisco-bound. We exchanged e-mails moments ago, just as the flight attendant was asking him to turn off all electronic devices, and the judge in Irving has…
Tom Leppert Fact: He pitched a few innings of junior varsity at Claremont McKenna College in Southern California. So notes The New York Times this morning, in a pitching duel between the Dallas mayor and San Francisco’s mayor Gavin Newsom, a former first baseman for Redwood High School in Larkspur,…
This morning’s headline is brought to you by C.J. Wilson’s favorite website, Jorge Parrales and Jacob Herrera’s Cliff Lee Facts. Here’s another fact, courtesy Jeff Francoeur, who recounts in this morning’s New York Times how nervous he was during dinner before Game Five against Tampa Bay. Cliff Lee, however, was…
OK, so the announcement didn’t come “early next week,” as I wrote in September. And the opening date’s a few months away. Still. The hip-n-affordable clothier’s a-comin’. To NorthPark Center, specifically. (You were right!) No one’s saying just where in the mall, but you can guess. The just-sent release says…
A good Friend of Unfair Park just sent us what has to be the greatest legal document ever filed in Irving Municipal Court. “That’s high praise, indeed,” says Greenville Avenue-based attorney Darrell Cook when reached by Unfair Park this afternoon. But, you see, the doc has nothing at all to…
Long story short, a friend of the show sent word that he was looking for something entirely unrelated today when he stumbled across the website for The 40/40 Club, a lounge-y “all-American sports bar and lounge owned by hip hop mogul Jay-Z and partner Juan Perez,” per its about-us. There…
Several Friends have asked, privately, in recent days: Whatever happened to Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway’s threat to drown Keep the Dollars in Dallas? As you may recall, when it came time for the council to call the election that will allow the off-premise sale of beer and wine citywide,…
A few weeks back we noticed that Mark Cuban and Jim Crane wanted their millions back for trying to buy the Texas Rangers out from under Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan (and Ray Davis and Bob Simpson). Long story short: Cuban and Crane, as Radical Pitch LLC, figured they’re owed…
