Acorn Books closed last year (not before I bought a ton of titles I didn't, technically, need). I'm walking distance to Karen Wickliff Books, which (thankfully) is so overwhelmed with piles and boxes of books on the floor and in the aisles, that it makes it kinda inconvenient to visit. Books, man....
Crazy night of storms in Central Ohio... Dayton is wrecked. Hope all our Crew brethren avoided everything.
I only heard about it checking local weather on Accuweather.com. The Weather Channel has been utterly useless except for a commercial-break look-in. They'd apparently rather play re-runs of "British People Experience Hurricane Katrina", because why not?
NBC4 broke in with a couple minutes left of Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final, and I just never turned it off. On Twitter and Facebook, I've seen some pretty ugly pictures from Dayton. The word I keep hearing is catastrophic. The pictures we get in the light of day aren't going to be pleasant.
Likely a significant (>EF2) tornado or two hit Northern Dayton. https://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/today.html https://www.weather.gov/iln/20190527_prelim
I still think this award, in the words of @captaincbus, is gross. But from a purely cynical and business perspective, Garber has a lot going for him. Consider... His league gets 22,000 people per game to pay for admissions to and concessions at a product that, while superior within its own country, is clearly inferior to its easily watchable competition. His league gets support from fans - like us - who know they're playing with the devil but still ante up like it's a regular neighborhood home game. His league has national broadcast partners - ESPN and Fox - paying money for a product that is clearly inferior to its easily watchable competition. His league has multiple groups seeking to pay $150 million or more for the right to become a part of his league, excluding any other costs to actually run their teams. His league has multiple groups seeking to become part of a rights-marketing group (valued at about $2 billion, I think) whose fingers touch so much: MLS, US Soccer, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, FIFA tournaments, Mexico games in the United States, and more. His league successfully pulled an end-around to place a team in a city which didn't even apply for expansion - the country's ninth-largest (I think) by population - while extracting an entry fee from a new ownership group to keep an existing team in-place. His league has ownership groups that are successfully extracting funding from municipalities to help get new stadiums built. All of that is gross...yet, from a purely business perspective, I'm sure a lot of sports business people find that pretty impressive. I will now go take a shower.
Gross though it may be, I agree that Garber is doing his job well. I don't like him, I think that his time in office is nearly done, and I think the owners have him on a short leash. So as much as it pains me, he probably deserves this award more than anyone else in contention. I'm glad that I wasn't the first one to say it, though. I almost said it on Facebook, because it would be hilarious to watch the reactions from that crowd, but I'm trying not to instigate so much over there.