Sports Editor, Liberal KS

God's spiteful, spiteful retribution.

 

Want it done in your sleep or would you perfer to see it coming? =oD

But seriously, folks, that little "no paid holidays your first year" policy pretty much eliminates anyone with experience. Even our chain isn't that cruel (You don't get to use your PDO's your first six months unless you choose to take an "advance" for legal holiidays....if you're hired in August, it'll be about 10 months before you can take anything other than a holiday off without hurting yourself).

 

Don't worry, I know that too.
I remember applying for this job out of college. I went in and bought a paper before interviewing. Lots of sexual molestation and lewd acts with a minor charges in the court docket, but nothing on the front page about crime.
I asked during the interview why they didn't have any of that.
"We don't like to see bad news on the front page here."
that was when I decided to not take the job.
Well, that and the lady at WalMart on the Sunday that actually scanned the beer I was trying to buy, turned the little screen toward me, and said, "Can't you read the sign?"
I didn't know you can't buy beer in Kansas on Sunday, I just thought the damn case was burnt out like the rest of the run-down town.
That and the crappy town, and the middle of nowhere atmosphere, and, and, and.
Nevermind.

Oh, but the best part about the town is the semi-pro team.
The Liberal BeeJays



Go BeeJays!

 

BJs? Seriously?
Now they're not even trying.

 

fixed.

 

The Kansas claim for the largest ball of twine in in Cawker City. I've seen it. I've touched it.

I did a brief stint at the Southwest Daily Times back when I was a migrant worker, waiting for graduate school to begin.

It's the only place I've been where folks walk outside and utter, "The must be burning blood, today" when greeted by the stench from the beef packing plants.

If you really need to buy beer on Sunday, you can drive about 3 miles south to Oklahoma.

The publisher while I was there later got in trouble with what he thought was a bottomless charge card when he was executive of the Kansas Press Association.

 

They were named after Ban Johnson, the first American League president. It used to be spelled "Bee-Jays" sometimes.

 

To continue the thread jack, what exactly is semi-pro? Either you're paid or you aren't. The BeeJays are a wooden-bat summer league college team and aren't paid. Money, that is. Although I hear local high school girls like to go after them.

As for the job, if you like West Texas without the great high school football and with colder winters, that's Liberal for you.

 

Liberal's actually more like the Oklahoma Panhandle than it is like Kansas or Texas.

 

Liberal, Okie panhandle, Texas panhandle, it's all the same.

 

I can't speak for the city, but yeah...that area?...NOTHING. At all. Miles and miles and miles of nothing between Liberal and Perryton, Texas (home of Mike Hargrove, Liberal BJs manager this past season, if I remember correctly).