Baseball team capitalizes on Spitzer scandal
You can call former New York governor Eliot Spitzer a lot of things, but according to the FBI you can’t call him cheap.
Slipping
•Ticket prices: The minor-league baseball team the Macon (Ga.) Music has invited Spitzer to throw out the first pitch at its game June 13, The Associated Press reported Thursday. June 13 is going to be Eliot Spitzer Night and anybody with the name Eliot, Spitzer or Kristen or anybody from New York or anybody who has ever resigned any position will get $1 off admission.
This is unfair.
What about hookers? Shouldn’t they get a $1 off, too? Especially since the city was once home to the minor-league hockey team the Macon Whoopee.
Or governors? Or anyone who has ever overpaid?
I’ll keep an eye on this situation to make sure the Music plays fair. (OK maybe that was one pun too many.)
But this was a good way to get some attention. On the surface, a governor who leaves office after being embroiled in a prostitution scandal has nothing to do with minor-league baseball in the middle of Georgia. But with a little creativity you’ve got a perfectly good publicity stunt.
By the way, there is no way Spitzer is going to show up for this. But if the Music has about $3,500, Ashley “Kristen”Dupre might show up for a couple of hours.
•Tom Brady: Cleveland star LeBron James is posing with Brady’s girlfriend, Giselle Bündchen, on the April cover of Vogue magazine.
First Brady loses the Super Bowl — which, by the way, Joe Montana never did — now this.
James is only the third male to appear on the magazine’s cover in its 116-year history. (Actors George Clooney and Richard Gere were the two others.) And James proved he’s King of the understatement when he told reporters how it felt Thursday.
“It’s pretty good,” he said.
Holding steady
•Billy Crystal: The Hollywood star turned 60 Friday. For a birthday present the Yankees gave him a one-day contract and let him play in a preseason game against Pittsburgh.
He struck out in his only at-bat. But so what? Good for him that he got a chance to fulfill a lifelong dream. We should all be so lucky. And he took his cuts, too. No standing there with a bat on his shoulder like a scaredy cat (that’s right, a scaredy cat.)
By the way, my wife was an extra in Crystal’s movie “61*,” and since she never reads this column, I’ll share a secret with you … I didn’t think that movie was very good.
Climbing
•Skip to my Lou: The Rockets are on a 21-game win streak.
So for everybody who though that the Streetball phenomenon would destroy basketball, Houston’s starting point guard Rafer “Skip” Alston — whose playground highlights started that whole craze — might make you want to rethink what you think you thought.
Skip is averaging 15.0 points and 6.7 assists during the streak.
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