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The Daily Numbers - Sept 19
Moving Beyond 10,000 Losses: An occasional look at why it’s so difficult to be a Phillies – hell for that matter a Philadelphia – sports fan.
Yes, it’s tough these days to be a fan of the Iggles. Which makes what the Phils are doing all the more delectable. What could be better? Well, watching the Mets disintegrate before our eyes doesn’t hurt.
The Daily Numbers: 1.5 games back. Wild card or N.L. East? Take your pick. It’s the same for both.
6 straight wins for the Phillies. Somebody get a hose and put this team out.
14 innings, what it took the Phils to subdue the Cards last night.
5:04 that’s as in hours and minutes, the time it took to play last night’s game. Or should I say this morning’s game.
2 pygmy whales that beached themselves yesterday at Woodland Beach, Del. Despite valiant efforts to try to get them back out to sea, they had to be euthanized.
24 hours and counting, time that busy Route 70 in Medford, N.J., has been closed after a tanker truck overturned and spilled its load, causing a traffic nightmare.
38 hours every year. Speaking of traffic nightmares, that’s how long we actually wind up sitting in traffic during our commute to work, according to a new study. Almost the equivalent of one work week. There’s no truth to it that most of it is spent on the Blue Route.
128 million dollars left to The George School in Newtown, Bucks County, by an alumna who just happens to be the daughter of Warren Buffett. How many books does that buy?
210 thousand dollars, what the Great Valley School District in Chester County will pay their superintendent, who got a four-year extension on her contract over the protests of some parents.
2 and a half years old, age of toddler caught on a security tape looking up at the gun-wielding man robbing a bank in Allentown. The man snatched the child and walked him up to the teller’s window as he announced the heist.
11 criminal charges filed against O.J. Simpson in connection with that bizarre hotel break-in out in Vegas. One of them is first-degree kidnapping, which could leave him looking at life in jail. What’s that about justice delayed?
54.4 percent of his passes, what Donovan McNabb has been completing so far this season.
I Don’t Get It (with apologies to Jack McCaffery): Federal officials have announced they will investigate claims that one or more security officers at the Peach Bottom nuclear plant were caught being "inattentive to duties." That’s how bureaucrats describe sleeping on the job. Not a comforting feeling.
Today’s Upper: We’re not in favor of robbing convenience stores. But you almost have to admire the tactic of a man out in Carbondale, Pa. He tried to rob a store out there with a fairly distinctive attire. He was wearing nothing but a hat. The man left without getting any cash. Hat in hand, you might say.
Quote Box: "I say enough is enough."
-- Parkside Borough Council President Tom Deitman, in calling for the resignations of the troubled Penn-Delco School Board.
Yes, it’s tough these days to be a fan of the Iggles. Which makes what the Phils are doing all the more delectable. What could be better? Well, watching the Mets disintegrate before our eyes doesn’t hurt.
The Daily Numbers: 1.5 games back. Wild card or N.L. East? Take your pick. It’s the same for both.
6 straight wins for the Phillies. Somebody get a hose and put this team out.
14 innings, what it took the Phils to subdue the Cards last night.
5:04 that’s as in hours and minutes, the time it took to play last night’s game. Or should I say this morning’s game.
2 pygmy whales that beached themselves yesterday at Woodland Beach, Del. Despite valiant efforts to try to get them back out to sea, they had to be euthanized.
24 hours and counting, time that busy Route 70 in Medford, N.J., has been closed after a tanker truck overturned and spilled its load, causing a traffic nightmare.
38 hours every year. Speaking of traffic nightmares, that’s how long we actually wind up sitting in traffic during our commute to work, according to a new study. Almost the equivalent of one work week. There’s no truth to it that most of it is spent on the Blue Route.
128 million dollars left to The George School in Newtown, Bucks County, by an alumna who just happens to be the daughter of Warren Buffett. How many books does that buy?
210 thousand dollars, what the Great Valley School District in Chester County will pay their superintendent, who got a four-year extension on her contract over the protests of some parents.
2 and a half years old, age of toddler caught on a security tape looking up at the gun-wielding man robbing a bank in Allentown. The man snatched the child and walked him up to the teller’s window as he announced the heist.
11 criminal charges filed against O.J. Simpson in connection with that bizarre hotel break-in out in Vegas. One of them is first-degree kidnapping, which could leave him looking at life in jail. What’s that about justice delayed?
54.4 percent of his passes, what Donovan McNabb has been completing so far this season.
I Don’t Get It (with apologies to Jack McCaffery): Federal officials have announced they will investigate claims that one or more security officers at the Peach Bottom nuclear plant were caught being "inattentive to duties." That’s how bureaucrats describe sleeping on the job. Not a comforting feeling.
Today’s Upper: We’re not in favor of robbing convenience stores. But you almost have to admire the tactic of a man out in Carbondale, Pa. He tried to rob a store out there with a fairly distinctive attire. He was wearing nothing but a hat. The man left without getting any cash. Hat in hand, you might say.
Quote Box: "I say enough is enough."
-- Parkside Borough Council President Tom Deitman, in calling for the resignations of the troubled Penn-Delco School Board.
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