The Good, The Bad, The Ugly - White Sox vs Jays Edition

Back from the Jays game. Just a quick run down of the good, the bad and the ugly I witnessed at the dome today.

The Good

Ricky Romero - RR Cool Jay was lights out in his second start of the season, striking out a career high 12 batters in 8 innings. With only one hit allowed, it was easily the most impressive start of young Romero's career. Gems like today's game makes us all forget about Troy Tulowitzki and trading away Roy Halla...okay, maybe not.

The Bullpen - Sure, they only pitched one inning but it was an important one as Kevin Gregg got the job done without allowing a runner on base. Faith in the bullpen has once again been restored. Now the question is, should Frasor still keep his job as closer?

Melons - Props to the girl who lifted her shirt on the jumbotron during the 8th inning. Sure, she had a bra underneath but I won't complain. Also, was today D-Cup night at the dome or something because the ladies sitting in and around our section appeared to be extra busty tonight.

Luchadore - Shout out to the dude sitting behind me with the luchadore mask. I really don't have much to say other than keep being awesome.

The Bad

The Klansmen - There were 4 guys in the 500s who wore white hazard suits or something which had a faint outline of "JAYS" on their suits. The letters were so faint that you couldn't see them from far. They just looked like white hooded suits...

AJ Piershitski - Faked getting hit by a pitch in the 8th right before Rios belted a home run...the only hit Romero gave up. Who knows what would have happened if the umps didn't mess up the call. Actually, I do. Pierzynski would have struck out swinging like he did the two other times he was up.

Booing Alex Rios - Personally, I don't see what the booing is all about. Rios was never good enough for me to be bitter about his departure. It's not like he has become the 5-tool guy we've always wanted him to be with the White Sox. I'm going to credit his home run to karma!

Furry Vengeance - The advertisements were all over the ball park. I can't believe a movie with the title "Furry Vengeance" is G-rated.

Man who packs dinner to the game - Dude in front of me brought a whole meal to the game. His main course was some home made lasagne, followed by some green olives and topped off with some honey roasted peanuts. It was more weird than bad but olives are gross. EWWW

The Ugly

Lyle Overbay - After today's one for four performance, Overbay raised his batting average to .100. It's no wonder that seven of Vernon's ten hits has been for extra bases. He knows that with Overbay stepping up to the plate after him, there's no way he's advancing along the basepaths.

Random Sports Jerseys - What is it about sporting events that makes people think they can get away with wearing random sports jerseys to them? I saw a Barry Bonds jersey, an A-Rod jersey, a number of Raptors jerseys, a number of Leafs jerseys, a couple of Team Canada hockey/baseball jerseys and a Colin Doyle Toronto Rock jersey. Though to be fair, that could very well be Colin Doyle sporting his own jersey. I wouldn't know because I don't know what Colin Doyle looks like.

The group of Jersey Shore stand-ins behind me - There were a group of 5-6 Ed Hardy/Affliction wearing douchebags with their guidette girlfriends. This probably explains the bustiness in my section but man, were those broads annoying. From the 3rd inning on, I kept hearing them talking about how Amanda and Tamara got into a big fight and that they don't think Amanda will be coming back. I was hoping Amanda would come back so I could record that scrap and put it on youtube. Unfortunately, she never did, making a loser out of everybody within earshot of them.

99 Balloons

The Second Team

Tonight's Leafs win against the Habs marks the end of another dismal season. It will be the fifth straight season without making the playoffs...sixth straight if you count the lock out year. Without a team to cheer for in the playoffs, I find that many people adopt a second team. Most will just cheer for any remaining Canadian team left. This is a thought process I simply cannot fathom. How can anybody call them self a Leafs fan if they would even consider rooting for the Habs or Sens? Anybody who admits to doing so should get their fandom revoked. Luckily there is still another Canadian team to cheer for come mid April.

THE AL EAST LEADING BLUE JAYS!!!

Youth Conference Junkie

I'm in the middle of a youth conference frenzy. I'm currently in lying on an air mattress in a church hall in Blackheath. Someone is snoring and someone else's stomach is grumbling. I'm up here with my youth group for KYCK which is a conservative Christian youth conference in Katoomba. It's been good so far. The talks have been solid, Dave Miers spoke well tonight and I got to pray with some guys who recommitted their lives to Jesus. Excellent.

On Tuesday, after working Monday and Tuesday, I'm heading up to Newcastle for Soul in the City. I'll be there doing video stuff at night and seminars in the mornings. Every spare moment I get now is for seminar prep. Except perhaps for the youth leaders meeting on Monday night. Goodness. I'm just living youth ministry these days. Once I just did it for a job, now it's my volunteer life too! Still, youth ministry rocks, so I'm not complaining.

KELLEY LYNCH CALLS GIBSON DUNN’S SCOTT EDELMAN “PATHETIC”—VOWS TO FILE PAPERS AGAINST MUSIC LEGEND LEONARD COHEN

Former Leonard Cohen Manager Kelley Lynch in a Boulder, Co. PD photo

April 2, 2010
By Blogonaut

On August 16, 2005 Grammy award winning singer song-writer Leonard Cohen sued his former business manager Kelley Lynch in a Los Angeles Superior Court Complaint for fraud, theft, and mismanagement.

A multi-million dollar judgment was subsequently entered in Cohen’s favor after Lynch failed to respond to the complaint—she has said—because defending herself from the suit would be “participating in” the entertainer’s alleged “tax fraud”. [EDITOR’S NOTE: No tax charges have ever been filed against the entertainer.]

Legally established by the suit is Cohen’s $5M+ loss as a result of Lynch’s siphoning off of assets in excess of the 15% management fee to which Cohen admits Lynch was verbally entitled. The judgment has been accumulating 10% legal interest ever since.

Now, almost six years later, Lynch has contacted this blog to announce her (belated) plan to “file a document against Cohen” in Los Angeles Superior Court “within the week”.

Lynch, claiming that she had not read Cohen’s complaint against her “in its entirety” until this week, announced to this blog in a written statement her intended court filing, and had this to say about Cohen’s complaint that has now blossomed into an approximate $8 million judgment (with interest) against the former manager:

“[Leonard Cohen’s] Complaint was deranged. It's unintelligible. Pathetic . Shameless, Rotten lawyering. A child could have done a better job.” --Kelley Lynch

The August 15, 2005 complaint was filed on Cohen’s behalf by Scott A. Edelman of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, a partner with the litigation powerhouse who co-chairs its Media, Entertainment and Technology Practice Group.

A review of Mr. Edelman’s resume reveals anything but an amateur trial lawyer.

Mr. Edelman has substantial experience trying high stake fraud cases, including representing the plaintiff in obtaining a $122 million dollar federal jury verdict in Intertainment v. Franchise Pictures, and achieving the dismissal of two toxic torts cases against Dole Foods because of fraud on the court by plaintiffs and their counsel. The Dole victory was featured as the cover story of the October issues of California Lawyer and Corporate Counsel, and received wide-spread newspaper coverage, including a front-page feature story in the Wall Street Journal.

Mr. Edelman received his law degree from the University of California (Boalt Hall) in 1984, where he was Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Ecology Law Quarterly. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Stanford University in 1981, where he graduated with distinction. Prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Mr. Edelman clerked for United States District Court Judge Jesse W. Curtis in the Central District of California.

In 2010 Mr. Edelman received a Clay Award as "Lawyer of the Year" from California Lawyer and was recognized as an "Attorney of the Year" by The Recorder. He was named in 2009 as one of the Daily Journal's Top 100 Lawyers in California, 2009 "Litigator of the Year" by the Century City Bar Association, one of ten litigators named in the Los Angeles Business Journal's 2009 Top 100 Lawyers in Los Angeles, "Best of the Bar" by the Los Angeles Business Journal, and one of the "Best Lawyers In America" by American Lawyer Media.

Mr. Edelman has been profiled as one of Hollywood's top litigators in Daily Variety's Hollywood Law Impact List, and has been named one of the top 100 "Power Lawyers" by the Hollywood Reporter.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher is among the finest law firms in the United States, and the oldest corporate law firm in Los Angeles.

American Lawyer magazine ranks Gibson Dunn on its prestigious A-List for the fourth consecutive year in 2009. The American Lawyer considers the 20 A-List law firms to be the most elite law firms in the country.

In 2010 The American Lawyer magazine Gibson Dunn as the "Litigation Department of the Year", over other national finalists law firms.

Kelley Lynch refuses to disclose the identity of the counsel whom she says will be filing against Leonard Cohen next week.

In the past, attorneys who Lynch has claimed to be consulting with have informed this blog that they have no relationship with her.

Most recently Kelley Lynch claimed in a written statement to this blog to be represented in certain matters by an attorney named Benjamin Shafee. When informed that there was no attorney admitted to practice in California surnamed “Shafee”, Ms Lynch elaborated that her attorney “spells his name in a variety of ways”—accounting (she claims) for our incorrect conclusion that there is no such lawyer licensed in this state.

Lynch’s written statements also asserted that she is now writing a tell-all book about Cohen, under the working title “The Dark side of the Love Generation: Leonard Cohen”.

Lynch claims to be represented by Jim Goudarzi and Universal Management Professionals, Inc.

A Google search turned up zero results for either Goudarzi or Universal Management Professionals, and Lynch refused to provide their contact information to this blog.

Stay tuned folks, because we predict that this story is only going to get stranger.

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UPDATE 6/1/2010:

We have heard from Jim Goudazari, and it turns out that he is just another Kelley Lynch victim!

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While KL was writing us in early April claiming that she was being "represented" by Goudazari, it turns out that that Goudazari hired Lynch as a "paralegal" in early January, immediately figured out that she was neither credentialed nor qualified for the post, and had to call 911 to get her to leave (which she did in April).

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True to character, KL then started bombarding Goudazari--who owns a Santa Monica paralegal service for attorneys--and his clients with harassing emails to the IRS etc.

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Goudazari was very much relieved to learn that he was not the only one on the receiving end of this kind of KL harassment and that the IRS DOES NOT TAKE HER SERIOUSLY. ("Thank God", Goudazari exclaimed in relief.)

This Good Friday

Good Friday is good.

I love that we spend a day considering the death of Jesus. I love the sombre mood of church. The darkness. The quiet.

The King is dead. Our Lord crucified. Naked, alone, suffering the wrath of man and God. It's hard to know how to feel on Good Friday.

Sad. Contemplative. Thankful.

So often we jump straight to the resurrection from the crucifixion. But at Easter we have time take it slowly, to let the reality sink in.

Now, at this time on the Friday, darkness had fallen on the land. Jesus was in the grave. Hope crushed. The creator's lifeless body, on a cold rock shelf, in a darkened tomb.

Tomorrow our Lord does not stir. Decay begins. The dawn was coming, but who really knew?


He was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.

Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,
and he will divide the spoils with the strong,
because he poured out his life unto death,
and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors. - Isaiah 53:5,12

He has done it. - Psalm 22:31c

Photo by: jurek d.

Bunny Boy

I got real excited the other night because I've been trying to figure out how to connect to my neighbours and I realised I could give them all a packet of Easter eggs. I thought I could door knock, say "G'day" and hand over some eggs and an Easter card.

However, while I have the eggs, now that it's not 1am on Tuesday night, I'm not feeling so excited. My house mates asked me if I'm going to dress up in a bunny suit and hand them out. Bah! I wish I didn't believe in community.

But I'm going to do it. Sunday 11:30am. You can hold me accountable to that.