Tuesday Evening Blogging

A few items for your blog reading pleasure...

- Since we all know that I love news about Eagles' prodigal son, Terrell Owens, it's only right that I post a link about T.O.'s birthday party, held at Jay-Z's 40-40 Club in Atlantic City on Monday. Apparently he still loves Philadelphia and all of his teammates still love him. Somewhere in the middle of that is a suspended, disgruntled athlete with an obnoxious agent, a handful of perennial Pro-Bowlers on the Injured Reserved list, and a team with a 5-8 record that consists of a bunch of players that should be on the practice squad...

- Great quote by Cincinnati Bengals' wide receiver Chad Johnson (as found on the Bill Simmons' webpage): "I'm traveling to all 51 states to see who can stop #85."

- The RPR is keeping a close eye on the potential transit strike that could happen in New York City, effective 12:01am on Friday. Right now, the Transit Workers Union and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) are farther apart than Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson. I heard on the news this evening that the union is demand an 8% salary increase each year for the next 3 years or so. MTA only wants to give them 3% per year over that time period. This could mean an estimate of $500 million of business activity lost per day in the city during the strike. But, my interest in this story lies in how people who depend on the subway will get around. Additionally, in the event of the strike, the city is imposing mandatory carpooling, and no cars with less than 4 passengers will be allowed to travel south of 96th Street. What a zoo this will turn into. Since the strike won't effect me or the Jessica at all, I secretly hope it happens just so I can head into the city on Friday night and check out the craziness. My gut feeling is that it'd last for about a day or so, and then the two sides will find a compromise. I'll have an update on this story as time goes on.

That's all from me. I'll check back tomorrow...