A couple of months ago I wanted to write a post touting the virtues of bringing another baseball team into the market. I thought that downtown Dallas would make a fine home for the Florida Marlins. But that's not what this post is about. This post stems from the attendance at the Rangers' second home game. The double header against the Baltimore Orioles saw a dismal 15,560 paid attendance. Talk radio (i.e. the Ticket) lamented the fact that a team playing in the 4th (or 5th) largest media market should never draw those types of numbers - even if the team sucks. Yet as I thought about that opinion, I asked myself a question: What does media market have to do with attendance? Of course one would throw out the fact that you can translate media market stats into population, and I'd go to the MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area) for that. That nets us nearly 5,000,000 potential Ranger fans/game attendees for any given home game - right? WRONG!!! In 2004, the Rangers had their last winning season and I lived in Grand Prairie, exactly 7 miles from the Ballpark. I, along with my family, attended ...

Since posting Part One of the American InJustice video about Lakeith Amir-Sharif, there's been a spirited discussion going on in the comment section. As I mentioned in the earlier post, I met Sharif two years ago, before this form was made available. To my knowledge, what happened is that I was standing around at the Faith Summit on Poverty when out of the blue Sharif asked me to take a picture of he and Dick Gregory. That picture -I believe- is the one you see below. Now our paths cross again. Funny how God works. Sharif maintains his innocence in two felony cases that include charges of stalking. I'm not going to go into the specifics of the case at this time, due to legal activity currently taking place. But if someone were interested, the information is out there.