This week’s Sunday Times, with the front page tribute to anointed Mayoral Candidate, had an interesting article on the editorial page about our outgoing mayor by none other than Mr Joe.
Sports writers are generally, pretty funny guys and Mr Joe does does write some funny stuff. They have to be funny, if you think about it. Really, there not many interesting things about baseball games so you make funny. (Well maybe the shortstop and the left outfielder colliding while going after a fly ball….. but I digress).
So picture this: Mr Joe is sitting at his desk, thinking about what to say nice, nice ( that’s a deliberate double ) about our “to be former Mayor”. (Bear with me, the spell check just crashed)
Let’s see:
He had an “open door policy” every Friday for all Constituents.
“Mr. John, the ankle biters Schecter and Gilbert are here to see you ”
“Tell them I’m meeting all day with the Mayor of Dell City”.
“I told them that last week”.
“Tell them its the the Mayor of Ysleta”
Don’t think that will work. He keeps it simple and kisses babies
How about “he plays the Banjo and sings to his constituents“.
“Its a guitar and he only knows 3 chords, C, F sharp and B flat”.
“His singing voice has no vibrato and he’s usually a little off key”.
Or maybe:
“He really was against all the hair brain ideas of the City Council like tearing down City Hall and building a postage stamp baseball field downtown……”
“He just voted…. well… wrong. Only once ………. maybe twice?”.
I got it!
Well, we can say; “the Devil made him do it”.
Maybe he needs an exorcist?
Does Pastor Brown do this type of thing? He beholding since he has a judgment against him.
Come to think about it, I may have come up with something else.
Now I know
“What was that old Show biz saying: “Never follow a Banjo player“. Well,…. Guitar? Banjo? What’s the difference.
“That should scare the beje_us out of that Mama’s Boy used car salesman along Mister Bagel-guy from taking on our Stevie”.
We deserve better.
elpasospeak 
The credibility of this post is diminished by your statement that there are “not many interesting things about baseball games”. You, sir, know a lot about local politics, but nothing about sports. The future ain’t what it used to be. 🙂
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Yogi, I said it with tongue in cheek. Its a sad day when the only local Newspaper prints only their slanted opinions as news.
We love this city. Moved here in 1965. Its a great place.
I don’t want to see us go bankrupt with this wild spending just on whims of people who will soon be out of office. we want good government. We are in desparete need of eduacted voters.
Please stay with us. We welcome your critiques, Yogi
We want to be a reliable source of the local government Shananigans.
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Many centuries ago at Wrigley – decent seats, l witnessed a pop-fly where the portly guy next to me selling beer (beer container back-pack with a hose) stopped, looked up, caught the ball, and gave it to a kid. That was the only non-boring baseball memory l have. As the great Yogi Berra would probably say,”Fortunately for us, there is no such thing as ‘bankruptier.'”
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Yogi — I loved your comment!
And Cicero: I agree that we need more educated voters. That’s why I’ve never agreed with “get out the vote” campaigns. People who just remembered at the last minute to vote most likely have not studied the issues. It’s scary how many people vote one way or the other for no good reason at all. I heard it today. “I may vote for Leeser. In his commercials, he seems like such a nice person.” “Do you have another reason you might vote for Leeser?” “No, not really.”
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