{"id":572,"date":"2004-09-28T07:45:33","date_gmt":"2004-09-28T07:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=572"},"modified":"2004-09-28T07:45:33","modified_gmt":"2004-09-28T07:45:33","slug":"brewers_reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=572","title":{"rendered":"Brewers Reality Distortion Field?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/sports\/brew\/sep04\/262308.asp\">Tom Haudricourt and Don Walker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Attanasio not playing to lose<br \/>\nEx-partner thinks he&#8217;ll increase payroll<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> ???<br \/>\nThe article contained not <i>one<\/i> word from the new owner, former Drexel Burnham Lambert employee and Global Crossing Director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/000732.php\">Mark Attanasio<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/sports\/brew\/sep04\/262275.asp\">Michael Hunt is a bit more suspicous<\/a>&#8230;.<br \/>\nKeep in mind that the Milwuaukee Journal-Sentinel was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madisonblogs.com\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&#038;search=brewers\">major partisan cheerleader during the Miller Park fiasco<\/a>&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\nFinally, I take a look at my web site activity logs periodically.   This deal could have been called for Attanasio some time ago, based on the inbound searches\/visits with arguments such as &#8220;Brewers and Attanasio&#8221; from the likes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithbarney.com\/\">Salomon, Inc.<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cowen.com\/\">Cowen &#038; Company<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;q=%22SAC+CAPITAL+ADVISORS%22&#038;btnG=Google+Search\">SAC Capital Advisors<\/a> and other financial firms.  Anyone interested in the those who play on Wall Street should read Michael Lewis&#8217;s classic primer:  <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/booksearch\/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=BQv11nj9UJ&#038;isbn=0140143459&#038;itm=1\">Liar&#8217;s poker<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Haudricourt and Don Walker: Attanasio not playing to lose Ex-partner thinks he&#8217;ll increase payroll ??? The article contained not one word from the new owner, former Drexel Burnham Lambert employee and Global Crossing Director Mark Attanasio. Michael Hunt is a bit more suspicous&#8230;. Keep in mind that the Milwuaukee Journal-Sentinel was a major partisan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}