LSJ Blogs: John Schneider

Tigers pitcher a role model of civility

You'll recall that Armando Galarraga was robbed of his rare perfect game by umpire Jim Joyce's blown call at first base. You'll also recall that Galarraga handled the injustice with super-human grace.

Dantonio executes yet another trick play

As you probably know by now, Chris L. Rucker went straight from the Ingham County Jail back to his job as cornerback for the MSU Spartans.

Shoot the messenger? Yeah, when it’s a robot

I can hardly wait until Tuesday. Not because I’m so eager to vote for Virg (which I’ll do), but because election day will silence the robots that have been hounding me in recent weeks.

After 64 years, Dylan disappoints

Paying big money to see Bob Dylan in concert is always risky business; half the time you'll get the poet-genius, and half the time you'll get the crusty old eccentric with a mouth full of walnuts.
Reader Sharon Byers took a chance on Dylan, who performed Tuesday night at the MSU Auditorium. It was the first rock concert ever for the 64-year-old Byers.
She got the crusty old eccentric with a mouth full of walnuts.

Painful though it may be, Rucker must go

Coach Mark Dantonio said it himself:  Zero tolerance on second chances, and “… Our integrity will not be in question …”

Start spreading the news …

I’m not saying I would trade my set-up in Michigan for an apartment in Queens, or Brooklyn, but NYC is surely an intriguing neck of the woods.

‘Schneider’ versus ‘Bernaro’

On the radio this morning I heard a clip of Bill Clinton’s Detroit speech, in which he gives his hearty endorsement to Virg “Bernaro.”
Geez — couldn’t Clinton have taken the time to learn how  to pronounce the candidate’s name correctly?

There are recalls, and then there are recalls …

About that frog in the frozen vegetables … and the “recall” to which Meijer spokesman Frank J. Guglielmi referred …

An epidemic of compassion …? In high school SPORTS?

I blogged a few days ago about a couple of high school football teams conspiring to facilitate a touchdown by a player with disabilities. Now this, in DeWitt …

PROCEED PUNCTILIOUSLY

If you’re westbound on I-96, as you approach the construction at the Okemos Road exit, you’ll see, on one of those temporary digital signs, a exhortation that is almost Victorian in its courteous formality. It says: “BE ATTENTIVE.”