Gregor Smith http://www.gregorsmith.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:53:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Old Firm, New World http://www.gregorsmith.com/blog/2010/04/26/old-firm-new-world/ http://www.gregorsmith.com/blog/2010/04/26/old-firm-new-world/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:50:46 +0000 Greg http://www.gregorsmith.com/blog/?p=2426 A few day ago I heard the first rumblings of what could be a great spectacle, but now I can’t help feel it’s a recipe for disaster… I am, of course, talking about the proposed Ranges vs. Celtic “friendly” at Fenway Park in Boston.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m so there, but while I read more about Red Sox officials saying how they handle rivalries like Sawks vs. Yanks at Fenway, I’m thinking they are completely unprepared in every sense… Simply put, there is no rivalry in America that comes within a million miles of Rangers vs. Celtic, they claim games like Red Sox vs. Yankees, but at the end of the day, those fans sit together in peace and harmony at both stadiums. Try that with these two teams and you’ll end up with a proverbial bloodbath. It’s not just a game, it’s religious, it’s political, it’s life and death and that’s not just hyperbole.

Fenway Park is a nice baseball stadium, a little cramped, holding only around 37,000, some say it has poor sightlines, and it’s jammed into a city neighbourhood with plenty of bars within spitting distance. How can they possibly try to segregate these fans? In fact how can they even begin to sell tickets publicly? I’d love for it to happen, but there is still a lot of unanswered questions right now.

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This really hit me a week or so ago when I was at the Ballantyne tweetup when an aquaintance I hadn’t seen before we went to Scotland in January (yeah, we went to Scotland again) asked me if there was a blog post regarding this… My flippant reply was “these hands don’t write” and that is both true and decidedly untrue. I don’t blog (is it still called that?) but I tweet my days away like no-ones business.

So right here, right now, I’m trying to get back into it, whatever it is…

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With the addition of facial recognition to Picasa 3.5, here are some of the faces I chose to ignore, some famous (for example, first 11 on the top row are Sheryl Crow), some just faces in the crowd, 7,643 in all…

Ignored

Originally uploaded by FLC.

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]]> http://www.gregorsmith.com/blog/2009/08/18/desicions-desicions/feed/ 0 ESPN Reach Premier League Deal http://www.gregorsmith.com/blog/2009/08/15/espn-reach-premier-league-deal/ http://www.gregorsmith.com/blog/2009/08/15/espn-reach-premier-league-deal/#comments Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:29:35 +0000 Greg http://www.gregorsmith.com/blog/?p=2398 In a move mirroring their deal in Britain, ESPN has reached an agreement to televise a package of Premier League matches in the US for 2009-2010 beginning Saturday and through the completion of the season in May. Double the amount of Premier League games I can watch now… All they need now is to reach a deal with the SPL and I’ll be as happy as a pig in shit…

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