Sporting News: Pittsburgh is Best Sports City

Damn straight it is!

Though, I'm not sure why since people there really don't care much about sports at all.

 

Good point, oop.

Which happens first: Pirates in the playoffs or a Republican mayor?

 

People think the Pirates have a long streak of losing years. The last Republican mayor of Pittsburgh was John S. Herron, who was in office from 1933-34. Not sure I would want the job given that two of the last five died in office (Richard Caliguiri and Bob O'Connor).

I love the range between Ravenstahl and Sophie Masloff, who was the mayor from 1988-94. She was 70 years old when she first took office and had been working at city hall since she started there as an 18-year-old secretary in 1929. She famously held a press conference to push for a new baseball-only ballpark to be built on Pittsburgh's North Side in 1991, for which she was laughed at and heavily criticized.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19911012&id=-OsNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SG4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=4657,4162583

Nice forward thinking for a woman in her '70s.

 

That's the thing I don't get. I've got no problem lumping Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill into one metro, but if you do that then Denton should be part of Dallas-FW. College Park should be part of Washington and Bristol, Va. should be with Bristol, Tenn.

 

I know. The only people who care are the college kids.

The high school has a few good sports but only because it's only one of about four schools in its classification in the section. So its got about a gazillion Section IV titles but gets creamed when it plays anyone out of section.

 

The sad thing is the Republican guy who ran this last time actually had a lot of really good ideas. Unfortunately he didn't have the labor unions and blue hairs in his back pocket so he had no shot of winning......

 

Hey, my hometown - 4x the size of Auburn with Single-A baseball - didn't even make the list. Count your blessings.