LSJ Blogs: John Schneider

Now coming up to bat … your Lansing Loopholes

Of course there’s no logical reason why the Lansing Lugnuts can’t keep the name, even without the Oldsmobile Park connection. We still make cars here, after all.

U.S. Census keychains made in China

 This week a local government office received a marketing packet from the U.S. Census Bureau promoting the national nose-count now underway.
The packet included keychains bearing stickers that said, “Made in China.”

Dear Motor Trend: Don’t hold your breath

The THIRD NOTICE from Motor Trend magazine said:
“Dear John Schneider: We’re concerned. Several weeks ago we sent you an invoice for Motor Trend, but we still haven’t heard from you.”

Oldsmobile heritage in rear-view mirror, fading fast

Congratulations to Cooley Law School for making the Lansing Lugnuts’ home field its namesake.
But it’s sad, nonetheless, to the see the Oldsmobile name driven further into oblivion.

Snow plows MII (Missing In Inaction)

Why weren’t any roads plowed Monday morning?
My 8 a.m. commute included some pretty well-traveled roads -  Okemos, I-96, U.S. 127, I-496, Saginaw, Washington, Capitol, Hillsdale and Grand, and as far as I could tell, no work had been done on any of them.

Plugging city meter takes Olympic effort

What kind of mountains should a person have to climb to plug a parking meter?

At MSU, second chances are for athletes only

 If, for example, you have what it takes to win football games, then, by all means, you deserve some slack. If not, well …

The cruelest show on earth?

Sending second-graders to the circus?
Shame on us, says Beth Rhodes of East Lansing.

East Lansing “IED” overblown

So now the use of “IED” is creeping into some MSU documents describing the device used by four MSU students in their harebrained stunt in East Lansing last fall.

‘The Young and the Medal-less’

You can find “soap opera  digests” all over the Internet — and I’m just talking about the winter Olympics.

Even a casual perusal of    NBC’s coverage will drive home the fact that the drama goes well beyond the question of who comes in first, second and third.
NBC admits as much.
“David Neal, executive vice president of NBC Olympics, said in a statement:
“The Olympics is not just a sports broadcast, it’s a two-week miniseries and the essential element to any Olympics broadcast is storytelling. You have to establish that critical connection between the viewer and these mostly-unknown athletes …”
I think NBC’s reporters  often carry the melodrama to ridiculous lengths. What do you think?