Shellshock on the S.S. Mariner
Published 11:05 pm Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Pennant fever? After the Angels completed their three-game sweep of the Mariners on Wednesday, it’s more like a mild case of wild-card wooziness for Seattle fans.
Maybe if Felix Hernandez hadn’t given up a homer to noted Angels nonslugger Jeff Mathis, who now is 758 career dingers behind Barry Bonds.
Or perhaps the Angels are just better the better team.
Picture, if you dare, the Marlboro Man in lederhosen. Phillip Morris International, maker of Marlboro cigarettes, will be headquartered in Switzerland as part of some corporate jockeying.
According to the Associated Press, the move is intended to give Phillip Morris “more freedom to pursue sales growth in emerging markets,” which anti-tobacco critics say is code for selling smokes to women and children in the Third World.
Pardon The Buzz while we retch.
Speaking of smokers, Keith Richards is hacked off about Swedish newspapers’ negative review of the Rolling Stones’ concert in Stockholm recently. Two papers noted that Richards appeared to be drunk and had trouble with basic Stones stuff, such as the riff in “Brown Sugar.”
The critics don’t get it. Richards sober? Give me my $145 back!
