Chez Chesler

Fan arrested for unruly behavior - BostonHerald.com

Officers on paid detail assisted Fenway Park security in removing 24-year-old Warren Woods and another fan for their behavior during the game. Police said the men became verbally abusive and continued to be belligerent once outside the park. Woods was charged with being a disorderly person and drinking in public.

It seems he was drinking before he was ejected, that is while he was at Fenway Park. If drinking at Fenway Park is drinking in public, then there are tens of thousands of people guilty of that every game (assuming the stuff they sell as "beer" contains alcohol.)

Labels: beer, drinking, drinking in public, Fenway, Jagermeister

Menthol the bait to trap smokers, researchers say

Hoping to lure a new generation of smokers, tobacco companies routinely manipulate levels of menthol so that their cigarettes prove more appealing and less harsh to novice users, Boston researchers reported yesterday. Scientists from the Harvard School of Public Health scoured thousands of pages of industry documents from the 1980s through 2006 and commissioned laboratory tests of cigarettes to confirm a long-suspected link between menthol levels and marketing strategies. The researchers found that tobacco companies embrace a Goldilocks approach when launching brands: Add too little menthol, a chemical that has an effect akin to anesthesia, and tobacco retains its intense bite. Add too much, and first-time smokers are overwhelmed. Add just the right amount, and cigarettes become powerfully seductive.

Evil I say, Evil! Next up: This salsa comes in mild, medium, and hot - is this part of the Mexicanization-of-America plot? And what about coffee coming in Decaf, regular, and French roast? Are the French in on it too? (Note how Kraft too suddenly and quietly took Postum off the market -- they're part of the conspiracy too.) How dare they give us consumers what we want?

Labels: tobacco

As I write, the Major League Baseball All-Stars are playing for the last time ever in the stadium where Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle played. Or so they tell me. Has everybody forgotten that New York City built Steinbrenner a new stadium in the early 1970s, while the City was going broke? If this 35-year-old stadium is the same as the stadium built in the 1920s, why won't the new Yankee Stadium, which I understand is situated on a different part of the same parcel, and which I presume will preserve features like the plaques of great players, also be the same stadium?

Labels: Yankee Stadium, Yankees