*I’m back after a couple of days in Cincinnati, where I watched the Reds take on the Indians in the Battle for Ohio. I like Dusty Baker’s team. The pitching is considerably improved, and there’s a good mix of sluggers combined with speedsters who can manufacture runs. Case in point — in Saturday’s loss, Jerry Hairston Jr. laid down a two-out bunt that brought up slugger Joey Votto, who nailed a three-run homer to put the Reds ahead. Starting pitcher Homer Bailey couldn’t hold the lead, however, and now he’s been sent back to the minors.
*The N&R catches up on big plans for the Greensboro Coliseum area, reporting on the proposed ACC Hall of Champions and the $12 million aquatic center;
*Picked up the Sunday Lexington Herald for the long ride down I-75 through Kentucky. They nail the Lexington Public Library for using official credit cards to float lunches, parties and booze, bought in bulk from a place called The Liquor Barn. But then I suffered through metro columnist Tom Eblen’s piece advising Lexingtonians that they need “a change of attitude,” adding that the city “must do more to leverage its ‘social capital.’ All of it.” Pee-yew. Over on the op-ed page, William Gorton says Lexington must “bring back the joy” of bicycling, because when “motor vehicles are banned and citizens get to use their streets, community breaks out!”
*Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm for Supreme Court?
*The Rhino’s John Hammer says that during meetings, the Greensboro City Council “should just throw the agenda out the window” because Mayor Yvonne Johnson “refuses to follow the agenda and seems unable to treat everyone equally.”
Good to be back.
