The World Around You

This morning’s Montgomery Advertiser reports,

The Biscuits named Megan Frazer and Greg Rauch as co-general managers Monday, and the Michigan graduate and Michigan State fan will move to Montgomery next month.

Just don’t expect “Hail to the Victors” to be the Biscuits’ fight song.

“I don’t think I’ll go that far,” Frazer said, “but I’d like it to be.”

Frazer and Rauch are already general managers at Class A teams owned by Tom Dickson and Sherrie Myers, who are buying the Class AA Orlando Rays and moving them to Montgomery next season.

Frazer, 29, runs the Charleston (W.Va.) Alley Cats, while Rauch, 32, is in charge of the Lansing Lugnuts. Rauch was already working for Dickson and Myers in Lansing when Frazer joined the Lugnuts in January 1997.

Frazer may pay for saying he’d like “Hail to the Victors” as the team’s fight song. I know he intended it lightheartedly, but I’m sure others will seize on the “invading Yankees” theme.

It sounds like Tom and Sherry are bringing their best people in to run this venture, this continues to bode well for the long-term success of the team.

BAGHDAD, Iraq Aug 19 — An explosion tore through the United Nation’s headquarters in Baghdad causing scores of casualties, U.S. military sources and witnesses said.

UPDATE:

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Paul Newman has a great item in today’s New York Times. He outlines his reasons for suing HUD for copyright infringement, then follows up with,

A coalition of the willing — i.e., the Bratwurst Asphalt Company and the Ypsilanti Hot Dog and Bean Shop — has been pushed forward and is prepared to label its products “fair and balanced,” knowing that Fox News will sue and that its newscasters will be so tied up with subpoenas they will only be able to broadcast from the courtroom, where they will be seen tearing their hair and whining, looking anything but fair and balanced, which would certainly be jolly good sport all around.

Dean Esmay has started a good discussion on a little acknowledged problem in our society, battered men.

No surprise, the same group that claimed responsibility for the airliner in Kenya and the Jakarta hotel bombing is now saying they are responsible for the blackout of 2003.

The new communiqué says that in compliance with the orders of Osama bin Laden to strike at the American economy, the Brigades struck two important electricity supply targets on the East coast, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute. The Brigades say that they cannot reveal how they did it, because they will probably have to use the same method again soon. The communiqué also claimed that the operation was meant as a present for the Iraqi people.

Are they really responsible? I guess a second shutdown would prove it.