Beijing is the New Baltimore

Where would the Olympics be without Baltimore? Probably still going on and none the wiser, but let’s just say its a lot more fun with Charm City’s influence on the games.

Carmelo Anthony, Katie Hoff and Michael Phelps are three of the biggest story lines in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and are the favorites for gold in their respective events. Anthony and Phelps have made good on their efforts thus far in the games, and are even comparing notes. Hoff’s quest for the gold standard has come up just shy in two events, but she has medaled in a team and an individual event.

Criticize the crime, poor education, and government corruption if you will. Lament the health and pride of its citizens, but you can never say that we don’t put the courts and pools in the area to good use.

Comments

By Truth About It Dot Net on August 11th, 2008 at 12:49 pm

So I guess that B-More is going to put up impromptu walls in front of the blocks and blocks of boarded up houses just as Beijing has done to their lower-income areas.

By JC on August 11th, 2008 at 1:46 pm

Nah. There’s a certain charm to boarded up row houses and tenements that lends itself to great cable and network prime time television production.