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tracker7 ([personal profile] tracker7) wrote2007-08-23 11:10 pm

Departures

I learned today that the Lexington Horsemen, our city's United Indoor Football League team, is being disbanded.  The franchise has lost too much money to continue on, says the owner, and he's got to close up shop.  This news put me in a funk all day.  I've greatly dug on the Horsemen (and arena football) since the team was organized a few years ago.  A Horsemen game figured prominently in the day that Erin and I met.  They were my football team, honestly even moreso than the Raiders.  Now, they're gone.  I feel like I've lost a friend.

I also learned today that one of the members of my employer's editorial board was canned, and that is much less of a loss.  Homophobia, racism, and anti-Semitism don't fly too well with our management, and a self-created mythology as a crusading minority journalist is not enough to allow that sort of thing to go unanswered.  So long, Jimi.  You won't be missed.

[identity profile] tragical-mirth.livejournal.com 2007-08-24 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
Huh. I was not familiar with that individual, but a quick search of articles teaches me that he was quite an idiot. My guess is he's an alum of this fine institution. Am I correct in understanding that he wrote an article in favor of cockfighting?

[identity profile] tracker7.livejournal.com 2007-08-24 11:24 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, about how it appealed to his "inner warrior."

Dude, you're my height, with an extra 35-40 pounds, and you waddled down the halls, usually wheezing. Inner warrior? Please. The Golden Corral all-day buffet is beating you.

[identity profile] tragical-mirth.livejournal.com 2007-08-24 12:17 pm (UTC)(link)
wow. ok, I'm down with pigeon racing, I confess, but cockfighting is just seriously ghetto. not to mention sick.

[identity profile] tracker7.livejournal.com 2007-08-24 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
No - dogfighting is ghetto. Cockfighting is redneck hilljack.

[identity profile] tragical-mirth.livejournal.com 2007-08-24 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Haha
Big money in it, though

[identity profile] kinepela.livejournal.com 2007-08-24 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
awww that sucks about the horsemen! i know how you feel - there's still a hockey puck-shaped hole in my heart from when the thoroughblades moved *pouts*

[identity profile] tracker7.livejournal.com 2007-08-24 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm hoping to get over to Rupp tomorrow and see if there's a merchandise fire sale. Keep the spirit alive for awhile, if nothing else.

As for you, you know the T-Blades are now the Worcester Sharks, right?

[identity profile] kinepela.livejournal.com 2007-08-25 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
yep! wish i had the time to get out there for a game...