With Major League Baseball in full swing and coming up on their All Star game, I naturally turn to football. We're still about three weeks from the first NFL training camp opening but we're only 9 weeks now from Opening Day.
About today's QOTD: Not sure what the outrage is about unless it's pure theater, tilt at windmills, fight the good fight nonsense for public consumption. Did someone think that process was going to be completely painless?
63 days until football season ...
Quote of the Day
GM and Chrysler have come under withering criticism in Congress for their plans to close dealers.
David Shepardson, Detroit News Washington Bureau
Blog of the day here.
Quote from said blog: "The termination of the dealer franchise agreements would be effective this week if G.M. is allowed to cut free of the holdout dealerships."
GM at least had an appeals process that appears to have been real and wind-down assistance. That goes a long way as far as I'm concerned. It sounds like Chrysler just hung them out to dry.
50-50, Dave. A lot of the customers, creditors, and employees of those GM dealerships that signed a wind-down agreement are in the dark about it. Chrysler put their terminated dealers out in the sunshine. GM's method was surely better for their dealers but Chrsyler's was better for the customers, creditors, and employees. I guess which method is better depends on who you think should be protected.