It's a beautiful Spring day in Big D and opening day at Ranger Park.  The Dallas Morning News reported this morning that the average cost of a ticket for the game with the White Sox is $270.  When did "America's Pastime" become the pastime of the 1 per cent?  Incidentally, the paper reported that the game is a sell-out! 

Today on Good Morning, Texas, the hostess did a segment on scam artists who pry on people following tragedies such as the tornadoes that hit Dallas this past week, reminding people to beware of "fly-by-the-seat-of-their-pants" contractors.  She had a guest who hired two of these such characters.  One roofed the wrong house, and the second went to prison!  Some people can't win for losing!

It's Good Friday, which represents the day that Christ was crucified.  I have always wondered why it is called "GOOD Friday."  Seems to me a more appropriate sobriquet would be "BLACK" Friday.  Instead, we use that term for the day after Thanksgiving, the biggest shopping day of the year.  Merchandisers, I'm sure, look upon that as "Good" Friday. Makes no sense to me.

George Stephanoupolos' wife guest hosted this morning on GMA while Robin Roberts took a long Easter weekend.  She is a riot!  She had George, week-long guest hostess, Katie Couric, and the rest of the people in stitches the whole time.  By the way, the early morning show format really is Katie's genre.  GMA should try its best to get her to a long-term contract.  I'm betting they could quickly overtake Today if they did.

Something I read this morning: 

Failure of April, 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference:  An event notable for intransigence on the part of the United States and China and for public indifference following the disclosure that Tiger Woods had sex with women to whom he was not married.  Not even close, though it's nice to see golf and the people who love it doing even more to f..... up the environment.

Similarly, see the June, 2009, failure of the Iranian "Green Revolution" after Michael Jackson died and suddenly no one gave a s....t.

That's it for this Friday From Dallas...Look for my report next Friday on the life of this liberal in the heart of conservatism.