Comments for Pete's Blog http://www.petewilliams.net/blog Offical Blog of Pete Williams Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:32:30 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 Comment on Why the Buc$ won’t stop here by Glazer’s Blasted By Noted Author | Tampa Bay Buccaneers - Bucs Central http://www.petewilliams.net/blog/?p=530&cpage=1#comment-498 Glazer’s Blasted By Noted Author | Tampa Bay Buccaneers - Bucs Central Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:32:30 +0000 http://www.petewilliams.net/blog/?p=530#comment-498 [...] Noted author Pete Williams, who penned The Draft. A chronicle which follows a handful of NFL hopefuls through the ups and downs of the 2004 college football season and the pre-draft process, culminating with the 2005 draft. Takes a gander through a detailed blog entry, at the Glazers lack of spending and profit margin concerning the Buccaneers and the lack of fans at last Su.... [...] [...] Noted author Pete Williams, who penned The Draft. A chronicle which follows a handful of NFL hopefuls through the ups and downs of the 2004 college football season and the pre-draft process, culminating with the 2005 draft. Takes a gander through a detailed blog entry, at the Glazers lack of spending and profit margin concerning the Buccaneers and the lack of fans at last Su…. [...]

]]> Comment on Finding Rob Brown some more work by PoliticalPearl http://www.petewilliams.net/blog/?p=516&cpage=1#comment-495 PoliticalPearl Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:44:17 +0000 http://www.petewilliams.net/blog/?p=516#comment-495 He's so handsome. . . I love his character, Jamal, in Finding Forrester. Brown also does a great job in The Express. He’s so handsome. . . I love his character, Jamal, in Finding Forrester. Brown also does a great job in The Express.

]]> Comment on The case against Al Groh by Dick Bestwick http://www.petewilliams.net/blog/?p=312&cpage=1#comment-492 Dick Bestwick Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:00:58 +0000 http://www.petewilliams.net/blog/?p=312#comment-492 Pete: You're dead on with this column. I'll add something else: Name me another NFL coach so gutless and lacking in confidence that he would resign from the New York Jets after going 9-7 to go coach a college team. I don't think the move Groh made has ever been duplicated. He was just looking for a temporary free ride using Welsh's recruits because he knew he'd be fired the next season and back to being a defensive assistant. Groh's such a joke he makes my tenure look good. Great column! Dickie B Pete:

You’re dead on with this column. I’ll add something else: Name me another NFL coach so gutless and lacking in confidence that he would resign from the New York Jets after going 9-7 to go coach a college team. I don’t think the move Groh made has ever been duplicated.
He was just looking for a temporary free ride using Welsh’s recruits because he knew he’d be fired the next season and back to being a defensive assistant. Groh’s such a joke he makes my tenure look good.
Great column!

Dickie B

]]> Comment on World Series memories by Pete http://www.petewilliams.net/blog/?p=526&cpage=1#comment-466 Pete Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:37:35 +0000 http://www.petewilliams.net/blog/?p=526#comment-466 Neil -- So true. That game was on a Sunday night, but at least back then we had a shot at watching at least some World Series games at reasonable times. I was rarely allowed to miss school but this was an obvious exception. I covered the 1992 Francisco Cabrera LCS. Man, it's been a long dry spell for the Bucs. Neil — So true. That game was on a Sunday night, but at least back then we had a shot at watching at least some World Series games at reasonable times. I was rarely allowed to miss school but this was an obvious exception. I covered the 1992 Francisco Cabrera LCS. Man, it’s been a long dry spell for the Bucs.

]]> Comment on World Series memories by Neil Stratton http://www.petewilliams.net/blog/?p=526&cpage=1#comment-465 Neil Stratton Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:14:46 +0000 http://www.petewilliams.net/blog/?p=526#comment-465 Pete, you have no idea how this series shaped my life. I picked up the Pirates during this series, which has consigned me to a woebegone subsequent three decades. But it sure was sweet being part of the Family back then. I remember waking up in the morning and listening for the Series scores on my parents' clock radio while I got ready for school because I couldn't stay up to watch. Pete, you have no idea how this series shaped my life. I picked up the Pirates during this series, which has consigned me to a woebegone subsequent three decades. But it sure was sweet being part of the Family back then. I remember waking up in the morning and listening for the Series scores on my parents’ clock radio while I got ready for school because I couldn’t stay up to watch.

]]> Comment on The most tone deaf woman in America? by Pete http://www.petewilliams.net/blog/?p=462&cpage=1#comment-448 Pete Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:25:29 +0000 http://www.petewilliams.net/blog/?p=462#comment-448 Thanks for the reply, Don. Hopefully you'll write the St. Pete Times demanding a correction on your home size (20,000, not 21,000 square feet. Okay, got it.) Gotta admit, maybe some of us who mow our own lawns around our modest homes might enjoy reading about how the other half lives, but not everyone does. I don't know what it's like to have a nanny, personal chef, four-ton dining room table, wife with $100,000 worth of shoes in her closet, etc. And I'd be willing to bet that many of us have given away more of our net worths as a percentage than your father-in-law. Ever read about the Widow's Mite? What is it they say about it being easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle? Please. I'm going to go back to work now. Enjoy what I assume will be your front-row seats at the U2 concert tonight. Perhaps you can show off your studio to Bono and the boys....And, no, I don't sell sports memorabilia, never have. But I do offer my expertise on what people pay for it. Cheers. Thanks for the reply, Don. Hopefully you’ll write the St. Pete Times demanding a correction on your home size (20,000, not 21,000 square feet. Okay, got it.) Gotta admit, maybe some of us who mow our own lawns around our modest homes might enjoy reading about how the other half lives, but not everyone does. I don’t know what it’s like to have a nanny, personal chef, four-ton dining room table, wife with $100,000 worth of shoes in her closet, etc. And I’d be willing to bet that many of us have given away more of our net worths as a percentage than your father-in-law. Ever read about the Widow’s Mite? What is it they say about it being easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle? Please. I’m going to go back to work now. Enjoy what I assume will be your front-row seats at the U2 concert tonight. Perhaps you can show off your studio to Bono and the boys….And, no, I don’t sell sports memorabilia, never have. But I do offer my expertise on what people pay for it. Cheers.

]]> Comment on The most tone deaf woman in America? by don miggs http://www.petewilliams.net/blog/?p=462&cpage=1#comment-446 don miggs Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:45:25 +0000 http://www.petewilliams.net/blog/?p=462#comment-446 hey there pete. seems like you spend way too much time speaking about the lives of others and not enough time with your shameless selof-promotion. author! triathalete! life saving heck of a guy with no personal flaws!!!! you sound like a dream! how's the wife? the house? the family god? everyone love pete, the swell do-gooder who gives away all of his money and lives in a shack, right? we didn't approach anyone about an article about the house. you actively SEEK self promotion. they came to us because we live in a great place! only people who never want to see anyone else living well have issues with that. what is it? misery loves company? first, the house isn't 21,000 sq ft, it's only 20,000. second, you obviously believe all you read and make an awful lot of assumptions. my father in law did better than "reinvent" himself. if you knew the story, you'd know he lifted his family back up after some terrible financial times but i guess being bitter is your best attribute, not research. nobody here is blissfully ignorant. we know what's going on in the world and in our own backyard and if you did more than write some lame blog you'd have found that out. why should ANYONE feel bad about the money they make? and if you had it, wouldn't you pass it along to your family? ever meet a rich girl who doesn't act it? well that's my wife. your picture shows you to be more concerned with YOU than anyone else so i wouldn't guess you'd dig that deep. as for me. i married better than well for reasons you don't write here but i'd happily talk it over with you at our really long dining room table whenever you'd like. and i am an obscure musician but i'd bet all the creatine and weight lifting equipment you own that i work harder every day than you do and take nothing for granted. the truth is out there, pete. why not find it? while you're at it, check out miggsmusic.com and debartolofamilyfoundation.com. we will give you a discount the music and the next gala! hey there pete. seems like you spend way too much time speaking about the lives of others and not enough time with your shameless selof-promotion. author! triathalete! life saving heck of a guy with no personal flaws!!!! you sound like a dream! how’s the wife? the house? the family god? everyone love pete, the swell do-gooder who gives away all of his money and lives in a shack, right?

we didn’t approach anyone about an article about the house. you actively SEEK self promotion. they came to us because we live in a great place! only people who never want to see anyone else living well have issues with that. what is it? misery loves company?

first, the house isn’t 21,000 sq ft, it’s only 20,000. second, you obviously believe all you read and make an awful lot of assumptions. my father in law did better than “reinvent” himself. if you knew the story, you’d know he lifted his family back up after some terrible financial times but i guess being bitter is your best attribute, not research. nobody here is blissfully ignorant. we know what’s going on in the world and in our own backyard and if you did more than write some lame blog you’d have found that out. why should ANYONE feel bad about the money they make? and if you had it, wouldn’t you pass it along to your family? ever meet a rich girl who doesn’t act it? well that’s my wife. your picture shows you to be more concerned with YOU than anyone else so i wouldn’t guess you’d dig that deep.

as for me. i married better than well for reasons you don’t write here but i’d happily talk it over with you at our really long dining room table whenever you’d like. and i am an obscure musician but i’d bet all the creatine and weight lifting equipment you own that i work harder every day than you do and take nothing for granted.

the truth is out there, pete. why not find it? while you’re at it, check out miggsmusic.com and debartolofamilyfoundation.com. we will give you a discount the music and the next gala!

]]> Comment on The most tone deaf woman in America? by Pete http://www.petewilliams.net/blog/?p=462&cpage=1#comment-445 Pete Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:33:27 +0000 http://www.petewilliams.net/blog/?p=462#comment-445 Barbera: No doubt Ms. DeBartolo has done much for charity. But sitting for a nine-page profile solely on the topic of her life of privilege and over-the-top consumption at a time when many people are suffering in the worst economy of our lifetimes strikes me - and apparently many readers of that story - as being completely tone deaf. As for Donald Trump, he takes a lot of criticism. If Ms. DeBartolo continues to angle for this kind of publicity, she likely will hear more herself. As for bashing "someone you do not even know," many people don't know Barack Obama or George W. Bush but that doesn't stop them from voicing their opinions. Barbera:

No doubt Ms. DeBartolo has done much for charity. But sitting for a nine-page profile solely on the topic of her life of privilege and over-the-top consumption at a time when many people are suffering in the worst economy of our lifetimes strikes me – and apparently many readers of that story – as being completely tone deaf. As for Donald Trump, he takes a lot of criticism. If Ms. DeBartolo continues to angle for this kind of publicity, she likely will hear more herself. As for bashing “someone you do not even know,” many people don’t know Barack Obama or George W. Bush but that doesn’t stop them from voicing their opinions.

]]> Comment on The most tone deaf woman in America? by Barbera http://www.petewilliams.net/blog/?p=462&cpage=1#comment-444 Barbera Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:32:50 +0000 http://www.petewilliams.net/blog/?p=462#comment-444 I dont understand how you can completely bash someone you do not even now. Do you know Donald Trump? Mosty likely not, he has his lifestyle and riches broadcast everywhere as well as the rest of the millionaires in the world...You have nothing better to do then complain about a women who does her part for charity, please let us know what you have done for the "poor" economy? You have no place to pass judgement on anyone. Get over yourself and write about the good she and the DeBartolo family have done. I dont understand how you can completely bash someone you do not even now. Do you know Donald Trump? Mosty likely not, he has his lifestyle and riches broadcast everywhere as well as the rest of the millionaires in the world…You have nothing better to do then complain about a women who does her part for charity, please let us know what you have done for the “poor” economy? You have no place to pass judgement on anyone. Get over yourself and write about the good she and the DeBartolo family have done.

]]> Comment on A jersey by any other name… by marty bronson http://www.petewilliams.net/blog/?p=166&cpage=1#comment-438 marty bronson Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:19:27 +0000 http://www.petewilliams.net/blog/?p=166#comment-438 thanks for voiceing your opion...I bought my first jersey ever last year...it is a home Yankees...Ive been a fan since 1962 when i turned ten due to my hero #7....it has the 2008 patches on it and #7 only number i respect.. I want an away jersesy #7 with 2009 patch ...found two one with mantle on it one without....I HAVE BEEN TORN...but leaning towards tradition. You have helped thank you.........marty thanks for voiceing your opion…I bought my first jersey ever last year…it is a home Yankees…Ive been a fan since 1962 when i turned ten due to my hero #7….it has the 2008 patches on it and #7 only number i respect..

I want an away jersesy #7 with 2009 patch …found two one with mantle on it one without….I HAVE BEEN TORN…but leaning towards tradition.

You have helped thank you………marty

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