Can't complain Blitz. Beers in the bars are running 25 pesos which is about $1.25US or $1.75CDN. Hambone
I'll share a funny story with you Hambone. I took my first trip to Mexico in 1984. Mazatland had just experienced a storm. I had booked a 3 star hotel, thinking that was mid-range. In Mazatland, at the time, a 3 start hotel was worse than a 1 star hotel here.
On my first night in Mazatland, I went down to the bar and ordered a tequila, sprite, and lime. I asked how much and the waiter told me in pesos. I paid him, thinking that was the price. I ended up paying him $16.50 for the drink. I would learn the next evening how much I had overpaid. Of course, as my two weeks progressed I got better at both bargaining for cabs as well as realizing that prices were never set in those days.
On my last night in Mazatland, I was in the hotel bar, spending my last pesos. A new tourist had arrived and was sitting at the next table. He asked how much for his first drink and was told in pesos and I knew it was about $16.50, the price I had paid on my first night. I didn't know whether to tell the tourist or not. I decided not to. I figured the waiter needed the money more than him and sometimes life's lessons are best learned by experience. I hope the waiter's children ( I had learned he was married and had four children) got a few better meals out of our very, very expensive drinks.
Dano T - I enjoyed your post and your sharing of Jennings comments. Good for Jennings, who obviously has a sense of humour, even though Jennings renogiated contract before training camp turned out to be up to be less than Lulay's contract as our backup contract.
Wally being cheap (or frugal, depending on how one looks at it) is sometimes good and sometimes not funny at all. It wasn't humerous when Wally brought players like Paris Jackson and Bobby Singh in and forced them to renogiate their contracts substantially down or Wally said he would release them, with Wally knowing that they were B.C. boys with strong involvements in the community - Jackson was coaching a local team and Singh was on the School Board. Those are just two Leo players that Buono has done that to.
But on the lighter side of things, Carl Kidd was one of my favorite Leos ever. He drove Wally nuts because he was not a "Yes, sir, No sir, Three bags full sir" type of player but he was so good in his hay day that he was one of the rare players that could get away with it under Wally. I rememver Carl Kidd saying, when another player was negotiating his contract..."C'mon Wally, open up that wallet, don't be cheap" and laughing his head off.
But then again, a Carl Kidd's comment, after a Leos victory, in which Kidd played incredible, he was interviewed after the game is perhaps my all time favorite. Every one of Kidd's fingers and his thumbs were taped and he could hardly bend a digit. Kidd's hands had taken a beating in his career. So Kidd had to tackle without much use of his fingers or thumbs.
A sports reporter, looking at Kidd's taped fingers and thumbs, asked Kidd what the toughest challenge he had to deal with, based upon his fingers and thumbs being so taped up.
Kidd just dead panned the reporter and said "Going to the bathroom at half time" and then chuckled.
"When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team". (George Raveling)