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Let them eat kiwi cheesecake
Stuffed lobster, beef tenderloin, marinated salmon and kiwi cheesecake, leftovers from corporate parties, were all on the menus at Atlanta’s homeless shelters during the Olympics.
On the last Friday of the Games, staff and volunteer workers collected and sorted 67,000 pounds of food, compared with a normal night’s 2,500 pounds.
Did that include the huge bag of McDonald’s fries that posed as the Olympic flame?
Lasorda’s first bet
Vin Scully, the longtime voice of Dodgers baseball, found out about Los Angeles manager Tom Lasorda’s retirement through an unusual medium - an international newspaper. Scully was on a nine-day vacation in Europe when the news broke.
“My first reaction was shock, but the more I thought about it, I thought it made sense,” said Scully, who has the longest consecutive service of any current major league broadcaster for one team.
Scully has known of Lasorda since Lasorda was a minor league pitching prospect in the ‘50s.
“One of the things I remember was in Vero Beach around 1951 or ‘52. Buzzy Bavasi came up to me and said he had this kid he bet $100 with. Lasorda said he was going to throw batting practice to every player in camp. Now, the Dodgers had about 640 players there. If he did, it would have killed him.”
Look what Mo didn’t bring me
Some of Mo Vaughn’s Boston teammates, miffed when he didn’t bring any All-Star Game souvenirs back with him last month, made up some T-shirts with a message aimed at the big first baseman.
On the front, they said, “All-Star Game ‘96” and on the back: “MO gets a $50,000 bonus and didn’t bring us any T-shirts back so we bought our own. Thanks for nothing!”
Vaughn laughed when he saw them and told his teammates they should have put “All-Star Game 1997” on the shirts too, because “If I go next year, you all will get nothing. Again.”
And he hasn’t brought them a pennant, either.
Reggie goes techno
Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson is director of new business development at Viking Components in Orange County, Calif., which makes computer memory products.
The former American League slugger is expected to spend much of his time meeting with potential customers around the country.
Jackson, 50, is going to be responsible for new business development. The company’s objective, however, is to use his name, and his fame, to open some doors that we can’t open ourselves with Fortune 500 accounts and to generate new business.
If he’s paid by the word, Jax soon will be a member of the Fortune 500.
The last word …
“The biggest question is, will I have to give back my AquaSox jersey?” - Pitcher Randy Johnson, after being “called up” from the Seattle Mariners’ farm club in Everett
, DataTimes