California may be out of cash in a couple weeks, but they do have enough money to throw a multi million dollar victory parade for the Lakers. While the club may cover half the cost, the LA city budget will be covering the rest of the festivities unless there are private donations. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is adamant about this.
We're going to have a parade. People can complain about it, that's fine, but we're going to have a parade."
No word yet on who will be paying for Kobe's victory parade.
L.A.'s Broke but Still Wants a Party [WSJ]
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 3:56PM
California
Knows how to party
Cal-i-forniaaaa
Knows how to partyyyy
In the cityyyyy
City of LA
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 3:57PM
Compton
South Central in da house
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:00PM
I heard private donors were covering the other half. Oh well, I still hate the Lakers.
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:01PM
i kno theres probably 5 ppl who watch sports on this site.. but nobody likes kobe and nobody wants to go to his parade
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:01PM
Californication.
That word exists for a reason.
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:01PM
Dumb story Greg
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:01PM
Dumb story Greg
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:02PM
In similar news Pelosi will be flying in on her jet for the parade. Obama is sending his plane too but he wont be on it.
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:02PM
@7 what are you talking about? this site is like 95% male readership. guessing more than that watch sports.
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:03PM
If BLANUS is a sport, sign me up!
Greg
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:04PM
@2- Always good to see CPT in da house.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ0_HYuR_fk
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:04PM
Lakers are covering half and private donors are covering the other half. This has been expressed by a few outlets. Come on DB, you're better than this.
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:07PM
It's not the most interesting topic to begin with, but the fact that it's not even accurate...
Someone please excuse Greg for the rest of the day.
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:07PM
@12 Did you see the byline?
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:10PM
i think sports viewing here is well below the mean.
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:10PM
i think sports viewing here is well below the mean.
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:11PM
I guess you could blame the WSJ for more C-level journalism. Still... pretty much every other news outlet (ESPN, CNN, etc.) had this right.
Posted by Clown Capital , Jun 17, 2009 4:16PM
How do you define irony???
Watching a bunch of multi-millionaires laud themselves on an elevated platform distinctly separated from the hoi polloi while being regaled by those very same peasants in a state burgeoning on a historic bankruptcy...
Oh yeah, AND paid for by the peasants...
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:19PM
Unfucking believable. Why can't people just tell themselves no? This is why this country is going to shit.
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:27PM
It's OK greggie, you gave sports a try but failed.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2009/news/story?id=4263680
fucking idiot.
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:31PM
The sunshine state where the bomb-ass hemp be. A state where you never find a dance floor empty.
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:33PM
Hey Greg, how does Kobe's ass taste?
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:35PM
Man, that is some douchy clip art right there.
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:35PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmgE9csoMek
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:37PM
The parade and Coliseum celebration came after several days of controversy over who should foot the bill. The City of Los Angeles originally planned to cover the estimated $2-million cost, but that spurred objections from members of city unions, who said the spending didn't make sense amid city budget cuts and layoffs.
Now, private donors are covering the costs.
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:37PM
I wonder if Gregg reads these posts. If so, I bet he's crying in the fetal position right now.
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:42PM
Wouldn't it just be cheaper if they had some kind of rally in a fixed location... Greg's anus?
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:43PM
What!?!?
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:44PM
They could have the rally in Greg's anus.
Where's my Shaq pack?
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:45PM
@26 crying because of weak put downs from a bunch of nerdy spreadsheet jockeys??? I think not.
- Johnny Bravo
Posted by trojan , Jun 17, 2009 4:47PM
clips in 2010. lepoof is their lone fan.
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:48PM
@25
So Greg is full of shit? Then he should hand his badge at EOD.
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 4:56PM
Journalistic abortion, Greg.
Try to thread some narratives next time. See below:
from espn:
Not far away, Letitcia Gutierrez was crammed against a chain-link fence separating fans from the parade route. But she didn't mind the cramped quarters.
-- she got to LA by disguising herself as a cocaine bag in a goddamn shark.
from usa today:
In the days before the parade, Fisher, Bratton and others pleaded with fans to remain well behaved and avoid a replay of the looting and vandalism Sunday night that led to 18 arrests
-- you can bet your sweet ass that Mark Walsh is long whatever they damaged.
Peace
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 5:06PM
California is discovering the same problem that blacks learned years ago and hispanics are about to learn - that the Democratic party knows their vote is a sure thing so they don't have to work to earn it. The reason Obama is telling California to sort out their own shit is because he can. Stupid tree-hugging Californians will still vote for him.
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 5:14PM
@33 we nominate you to be Greg's writing coach, because Beth sure isn't
-cliff
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 5:23PM
Greg,
I didn't support the rampant bashing of your writing. I think that there is a transitional period in any new job. I was hoping you would come around. But you ripped off an article from Opening Bell yesterday, and fucked this one all to hell...CA isn't paying for the parade. Get with it, or the readers are going to tear 13-14 new assholes.
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 5:29PM
The fact that the Lakers won the championship is the first sign that the world order is getting back on track, and may presage our economic recovery. The stupid Celtics winning last year was a clear sign that the world was off track.
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 5:30PM
I am a fucking bad-ass.
signed,
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 5:42PM
hiring Timmmay to write under the pen name "Greg Michaels" was obviously a mistake by the DB editorial board
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 5:44PM
@25 When Greg posted this story, the private donors had already stepped up. Greg is beyond help and it only makes sense that he came from the structured products desk of a failed bank.
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 5:49PM
@34
YOU are out of place here. Find the proper forum for your drivel. For example:
http://freerepublic.com/
Posted by guest , Jun 17, 2009 6:43PM
To be fair, it is the bankrupt LA City that's doing the parade. The California budget has its own problems:
The state continues to hand out 10,000s of Blackberrys to employees, even during this crisis.
The state spent $4 million to produce this "Sid the Science Kid" TV show: http://pbskids.org/sid/ .
Over 4800 people get over $100k/year for life pensions from the state's CalPERS account.
Posted by guest , Jun 18, 2009 2:16AM
does anyone think the magic coach looks like ron jeremy?
f the lakers, Go warriors