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StoriesNationals won’t let Lo Duca catch Bush’s first pitch; President Loudly Booed
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The President was LOUDLY booed….
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On Sunday, President Bush will be throwing out the ceremonial first pitch for the Washington Nationals. The team’s starting catcher Paul Lo Duca — who was mentioned 37 times in the Mitchell Report — was originally expected to catch Bush’s pitch, despite the President’s repeated denunciations of performance-enhancing drugs. But the Washington Post now reports that Lo Duca is being replaced by Manager Manny Acta:
The White House said it played no role in determining who would catch the pitch.
“Whatever the decision the Nationals make is up to them,” White House spokesman Tony Fratto said by telephone Thursday. “In no way did we, or would we, raise any issues.”
Lo Duca said after Thursday’s final Grapefruit League game that he had no animosity about the situation. […]
Lo Duca declined to speculate as to whether his role in the Mitchell report had anything to do with the decision.
Play Ball! Fans learn to play concession waiting game
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Heh.
Just got back from Wrigley this weekend.
I THINK Sam Adams was $5.50 at Murphys across the street. And the post-game St Pauli Girl was $5.50 at Sluggers, I believe.
Only got one or two brews inside the Friendly Confines on Fri/Sat, Id have guessed it was $5.50 for 12 ounces of Bud?
But dont hold me to it – its not like you walk away if the price doesnt seem right, lol.
Hmm, I think Shea is $8.25. Maybe thats 16 ounces?
At these prices, not sure anyone becomes enough of a regular to have it memorized.
The Wrigley kosher dog was $4, the regular kind $3.50. I noticed that.
Florida Man Drops a Dime on Governor Elliot Spitzer; Tells F.B.I. About Sex
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Posted on Fri, Mar. 21, 2008
Beach man told FBI of alleged Spitzer sexscapades
Almost four months before Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned in a sex scandal, a lawyer for Republican political operative Roger Stone sent a letter to the FBI alleging that Spitzer ”used the services of high-priced call girls” while in Florida.The letter, dated Nov. 19, said Miami Beach resident Stone learned the information from ”a social contact in an adult-themed club.” It offered one potentially identifying detail: the man in question hadn’t taken off his calf-length black socks “during the sex act.”
Stone, known for shutting down the 2000 presidential election recount effort in Miami-Dade County, is a longtime Spitzer nemesis whose political experience ranges from the Nixon White House to Al Sharpton’s presidential campaign. His lawyer wrote the letter containing the call-girl allegations after FBI agents had asked to speak to Stone, though he says the FBI did not specify why he was contacted.”Mr. Stone respectfully declines to meet with you at this time,” the letter states, before going on to offer ”certain information” about Spitzer.
”The governor has paid literally tens of thousands of dollars for these services. It is Mr. Stone’s understanding that the governor paid not with credit cards or cash but through some pre-arranged transfer,” the letter said.
”It is also my client’s understanding from the same source that Governor Spitzer did not remove his mid-calf length black socks during the sex act. Perhaps you can use this detail to corroborate Mr. Stone’s information,” the letter said, signed by attorney Paul Rolf Jensen of Costa Mesa, Calif.
The letter also notes that while Stone believes the information is true, he ”cannot swear to its accuracy” because it is second-hand.
James Margolin, a spokesman for the FBI’s New York office, would not say whether the bureau had received the letter. A spokeswoman for Spitzer also had no comment.
The letter was written several months after allegations were leveled at Stone that he had left a threatening phone message at the office of Bernard Spitzer, the ex-governor’s father, regarding ”phony” campaign loans involving his son’s unsuccessful 1994 bid for attorney general. Stone denied making the call but resigned as a consultant for state Senate Republicans in Albany.
Spitzer, the crusading attorney general who became governor, resigned March 12 amid allegations he was a client of a high-paid prostitution ring, the Emperors’ Club. Four people have been charged with operating the ring. Spitzer has not been charged. A federal affidavit described a rendezvous between Spitzer and a prostitute known as Kristen, since identified as Ashley Alexandra Dupre, at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington on Feb. 13.
One of Stone’s lawyers, Fort Lauderdale attorney Robert Buschel, said the letter’s release is an attempt to set the record straight about Stone’s possible part in the Spitzer drama. Stone confirmed the letter and referred The Miami Herald to his lawyer for comments.
”The conspiracy enthusiasts on the Internet are going wild over Roger Stone’s role in the fall of Eliot Spitzer. We felt it was important to lay out for the public exactly what Mr. Stone did tell the government,” said Buschel, a partner in Rothstein, Rosenfeldt, Adler of Fort Lauderdale.
Stone works as a partner in a separate public affairs and consulting company with the same name — Rothstein, Rosenfeldt, Adler — in the same office as the law firm.
”We trust this information was helpful to federal authorities in making their case against Mr. Spitzer,” Buschel said.
Beach man told FBI of alleged Spitzer sexscapades – 03/21/2008 – MiamiHerald.com
Sirius-XM Merger Approved by Justice Department
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Justice Department gives thumbs up to satellite radio merger more than one year after it was first announced.
In its decision, the Department of Justice determined that an XM-Sirius merger was not anti-competitive. The Justice Department argued that other media companies such as Clear Channel (CCU, Fortune 500), CBS (CBS, Fortune 500), or even Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) with its iTunes software and iPod music player served as alternate options for music and media customers.
The Department of Justice did not place any conditions on the merger.
“Since we determined that there was no competition between the companies, we did not need to set any conditions as such,” said Assistant Attorney General Thomas Barnett during a conference call with reporters Monday afternoon.
But the Federal Communications Commission must also approve the deal. The FCC has yet to make a decision on the merger and it could decide to place conditions on the deal. A spokesperson for the FCC was not immediately available for comment.
Since Sirius and XM are still awaiting approval from the FCC, it is unclear exactly what a merger would mean for consumers. Both companies charge their customers a $12.95 per month subscription fee for their most basic packages. Some have feared that if Sirius and XM are allowed to merge, the two companies would raise the monthly price.
However, the companies said last year that they would be willing to offer a so-called “a la carte” price plan where consumers could pick certain packages for less money.
The merger would combine the nation’s only two satellite radio companies and create a company with about 14 million subscribers. It would bring together Sirius’ most well-known content, including shock jock Stern and National Football League games with XM’s Major League Baseball as well as programming from Oprah Winfrey.
Currently, subscribers for either Sirius or XM can only receive broadcasts from one of the two services with their satellite radios. But in a statement Monday, XM reiterated that radios owned by its current subscribers would not need to be replaced in order to continue receiving programming.
Shares of XM (XMSR) and Sirius (SIRI) both rose after the announcement. 
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Ann Coulter Credit Card Declined Publix Palm Beach
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Ann Coulter was left with egg all over her face in the checkout line. The chatty conservative had her credit card rejected at Publix Supermarket in Palm Beach on Saturday night.
The New York Post reports:
According to our spy, the nutty arch-conservative was caught at 9:45 p.m. Saturday night in the 10 Items or Less line at the local Publix when her card was rejected. “She was embarrassed but didn’t make a scene. She just paid with cash and ran out of there. But at least she’s eating.”
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YouTube Rocks The House
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YouTube makes video sharing easier
Article Launched: 03/12/2008 05:29:16 PM PDT
In a move likely to broaden its reach globally, YouTube today unveiled an easier way for people to share with the world the videos they create. The video-sharing subsidiary of Mountain View-based Google said it is providing free access to so-called Application Programmer Interfaces – or APIs as techies call them – that will let people greatly expand their use of YouTube on Web sites, cell phones and even video games.
Previously, people could place the YouTube player on their personal Web sites and view videos from the YouTube library. But they had little control over how the videos were displayed on their sites and were unable to play videos they created themselves or send comments back to YouTube about what they had watched.
Now, people will be able to customize the YouTube player, comment and send YouTube the videos they make – all from their own Web sites and cell phones.
Users even can share animated monsters they create on their personal computers.
Redwood City-based Electronic Arts has already incorporated the advanced YouTube feature into its upcoming video game Spore, in which players design their own horrific creatures. As a result, gamers will be able to share images of their ogres with YouTube users everywhere when it hits stores in September.
That ought to please Spore aficionados, according to Will Wright, an Electronic Arts vice president and designer.
“By allowing players to seamlessly broadcast their experiences on YouTube, we’re giving the community even more tools to easily create and share their content,” he said in prepared comments that YouTube has posted on its Web site. The new service was offered in large part because many people want to put a personal touch on their video sharing, said Jim Patterson, YouTube’s product manager.
“Ultimately, they want to make it their own,” he said. “They want to use it in ways you couldn’t imagine.”
So how does YouTube benefit from the deal?
Aside from noting that the new service should make YouTube accessible to a vast new audience worldwide, Patterson demurred on that point.
“Trying to make money with the APIs now isn’t our focus,” he said. “We’ll work that stuff out.”
In fact, one feature of the new service allows people to customize the way the YouTube video player appears on their own Web sites so it fits more with their sites’ designs. That allows people to remove some of the YouTube identifiers that normally appear on the player.
Still, a small company emblem will remain so everyone can tell it’s YouTube’s technology, Patterson said. Moreover, by letting people use the video-sharing service in ways they couldn’t before, YouTube is likely to become much more widely used, he noted. As a result, “it does get the YouTube brand out there,” he said.
Contact Steve Johnson at sjohnson@mercurynews.com or (408) 920-5043.
Ashley Alexandra Dupre at center of Spitzer scandal
StoriesMarch 12, 2008
Ashley Alexandra Dupre has been named as the woman named in the Eliot Spitzer scandal.
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Dupre is a 22-year-old would-be singer from New Jersey, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
The newspaper said that Ashley Youmans – now known as Ashley Alexandra Dupre – was identified in court documents as Kristen, the high-priced prostitute who met with Spitzer at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington on February 13.
Dupre has not been charged with any crime. She made a brief appearance Monday in U.S. Magistrate Court as a witness against four people charged with operating Emperor’s Club VIP, the prostitution ring, the Times said.
Click for more pictures >>> Ashley Alexandra Dupre says she left a broken home at age 17 and came to New York City to work the nightclubs as a rhythm and blues singer. Now, at 22, she is the unwitting, and as yet unseen, star of the seamy drama that is the downfall of Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York.
From the NY Times:
“Kristen”, described in a federal affidavit as having a Feb. 13 rendezvous with Mr. Spitzer at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, has spent the last few days in her ninth-floor rental in an upscale apartment building in the Flatiron district. On Monday, she made a brief appearance in federal court as a witness in the case against four people charged with operating the prostitution ring, Emperor’s Club V.I.P. In a series of telephone interviews on Tuesday night, she said she had slept very little over the past week due to the stress from the case.
“I just don’t want to be thought of as a monster,” the woman said as she told the tiniest tidbits of her story. Born Ashley Youmans but now known as Ashley Alexandra Dupre, she spoke softly and with good humor as she added with significant understatement: “This has been a very difficult time. It is complicated.”
She has not been charged. The lawyer appointed to represent her, Don D. Buchwald, told a magistrate judge in court on Monday that she had been subpoenaed to testify in a grand jury investigation. Asked to swear that she had accurately filled out and signed a court financial affidavit, she responded affirmatively.
A person with knowledge of the Emperor’s Club operation confirmed that the woman interviewed by The New York Times was the woman identified as Kristen in the affidavit. Mr. Buchwald confirmed various details of Ms. Dupre’s background but would not discuss the contents of the affidavit.
Ms. Dupre said on the telephone Tuesday night that she was worried about how she would pay her rent since the man she was living with “walked out on me” after she discovered he had fathered two children. She said she was considering working at a friend’s restaurant or, once her apartment lease expires, moving back in with her family in New Jersey “to relax.”
From Ashley Alexandra Dupre’s MySpace page
I am all about my music, and my music is all about me… It flows from what I’ve been through, what I’ve seen and how I feel. I live in New York and am on top of the world. Been here since 2004 and I love this city, I love my life here. But, my path has not been easy. When I was 17, I left home. It was my decision and I’ve never looked back. Left my hometown. Left a broken family. Left abuse. Left an older brother who had already split. Left and learned what it was like to have everything, and lose it, again and again. Learned what it was like to wake up one day and have the people you care about most gone. I have been alone. I have abused drugs. I have been broke and homeless. But, I survived, on my own. I am here, in NY because of my music.© AlaskaReport.com All Rights Reserved.
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