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March 23, 2016

Obama and Jeter

As the spring training season winds down, there’s actually stuff going on! For starters, our President went to Cuba as everyone knows, and among his esteemed delegation was our own Jeets. I love the above photo. You can just hear them ribbing each other about their golf games. Jeter did an interview with ESPN that day and reiterated his desire to buy a baseball team. Are the Tampa Rays be on his radar? I would think so unless MLB is planning to move the team to a bigger market and more hospitable stadium.

Meanwhile, in Tampa, A-Rod told ESPN’s Andrew Marchand today that he would retire after his contract is up in 2017. Not exactly a shocker, unless he planned on playing for another team, but at least he put a finite end to his career, which allows him to have some version of a victory tour in ’17. Of course injuries could derail his plans, but if he’s still productive for the next couple of years and conducting himself as he did last year, good for him.

Starlin Castro has created a buzz at camp, so I’m eager to see him play in the Bronx. And Luis Severino continues to impress. CC, on the other hand, has been having his problems on the mound. Will he end up in the bullpen? Stranger things have happened.

In the feel-good department, there was a terrific story today in Tampa! If anyone needs a lift – and given the horrors in the world this week, who doesn’t – just read this.

Filed Under: Confessions of a She-Fan Tagged With: A-Rod, Barack Obama, Derek Jeter, Luis Severino, Starlin Castro, Yankees

I Have To Agree With The GOP On This One

June 4, 2012

When the above Obama campaign video was released on the same day as the dismal jobs report, even I had to wonder what the Prez’s campaign was thinking…or whether they were thinking at all. If I were the GOP, I’d produce a rebuttal video too, only mine would have been snarkier than theirs. (I’d post the link but there was something wrong with the audio.)

You just cannot say you support the disenfranchised and then have Anna Wintour, the symbol of  the “Let them eat cake” mentality, appeal to voters on your behalf. It’s beyond tone deaf.

No, Wintour can’t help her upper crust British accent, nor was she the actual character portrayed in “The Devil Wears Prada.”

http://youtu.be/1LVptO7o4L8

(God, Meryl was brilliant.)

But when you pick a fashion icon to invite “real people” to support your Presidency, you might as well stop picking on Romney for putting an elevator in the garage of his house.

 

Filed Under: Fashion, Mainly Jane, Politics Tagged With: 2012 Presidential Campaign, Anna Wintour, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, The Devil Wears Prada

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Jane Heller is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. Her fourteen breezy, witty novels of romantic comedy and suspense are now entertaining millions of readers around the world, along with her two books of nonfiction.

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