To it's credit the LA Times is trying something quite different: an actual consumer written editorial opinion. But what is the over/under until the "wiki" is swamped by Move On Dot Org or some other Left Wing bandit group just as soon as the LAT publishes something they don't like.

A baseball comment: went to an Angel game at Anaheim Stadium with my son last nite and found the experience totally different from Dodger Stadium. Everybody is very polite at every concession stand. Ushers too, and very helpful. Great looking women abound (and I mean 9s all over the place). The stadium is really a pleasure to look at and enjoy with a ton of high tech scoreboards and so on. A laid back sense of community I haven't experienced in a long time. Then there is the crowd---the place was nearly full---unlike most every LA sporting event where people leave during the 7th inning, early fourth quarter, before the curtain calls no matter what the score or performance---almost nobody left the stadium til the end of the game. Some reasons: the place is very easy to enter and leave (no traffic jams believe it or not), no drunken fans, a team that has a reputation of pulling games out of the fire in the ninth inning===they won last night in the tenth inning---and a fireworks display after the game that at least a third of the families stayed for. Baseball is far from dead if Anaheim Stadium is an example. I felt like I was in Kansas City, St. Louis, Pittsburg, or any of the smaller cities in the country. And I had a good time.

Now for a comment that many will consider racist: all the concession workers were white. No nasty blacks, indifferent Mexicans, or surly resentful minority group ushers anywhere. It is my experience in SoCal that wherever white poeople deal with the public the experience is pleasant; local city government especially. Wherever you deal with minorities, especially Blacks, you can expect slow (the Plantation Shuffle), an indifference that may mask stupidity---and blatent hostility. So there. I heard one guy in a slow moving line last week say: "The only thing these assholes can do fast is run." I'd say that about sums it up. Anyway the white manned Anaheim Stadium is clean, fast, polite, and too cool. Late Add: the Angels won in the bottom of the tenth again on Saturday. Pretty good reason to stay til the end.