Keith Whamond

This morning, Danbury‘s own Mayor Mark Boughton — who’s currently mounting a long-shot bid for governor — appeared on NBC‘s ‘Today Show‘. The segment featuring Boughton centered mostly on the state’s many multi-millionaires who are running for statewide office, a stark contrast from Boughton’s shoestring campaign.

Pardon me for pointing out that the basis of the segment was eerily similar to Hearst Connecticut’s ‘Running of the Rich‘ Sunday package from March. At least they were nice enough to give us a shout-out.

You can see the clip here:

You know the expression about never knowing what you’ll see at the ballpark on any given day?

Baseball fans saw history in Oakland Thursday: The Yankees turned their first triple play since 1968 to end the 6th inning. The play was turned by Alex Rodriguez, who stepped on third for the force out and flipped to second. Robbie Cano tossed to first to complete the triple play.

You can watch it here (I’m sure MLB will pull this off of YouTube momentarily):

From the Associated Press:

With runners on first and second in the sixth inning, Kurt Suzuki hit a sharp grounder to Rodriguez, who stepped on the bag and threw to second baseman Robinson Cano. Cano’s relay to first baseman Nick Johnson barely beat Suzuki.

An inning earlier, Rodriguez had engaged in a shouting match with A’s starter Dallas Braden. It was not clear what they argued about.

The Yankees had gone 6,632 consecutive regular-season games without a triple play. Their last one came on June 3, 1968, with first baseman Mickey Mantle catching the final out on a ball hit by Minnesota’s John Roseboro.

File this one under “For what it’s worth”:

The Onion, the satirical newspaper/Web site that calls itself “America’s Finest News Source,” is running ads for Greenwich resident Linda McMahon‘s senate bid:

The ad in question

When you click on the link, it takes you to McMahon’s “Linda 2010″ Web site.

Knowing a thing or two about how online advertising works, it’s possible that this ad was part of a much larger campaign on a major ad platform — such as Google AdSense or Yahoo!’s APT platform. If so, this ad probably appears on thousands of Web sites, and was specifically served up to me because my I.P. address is from Connecticut.

Linda’s campaign almost certainly didn’t specifically target The Onion, a faux-news site with headlines like “Man Attempts To Assassinate Obama, ‘But Not Because He’s Black Or Anything’” and “Survival Of Autoerotic Asphyxiation Closest Thing Man Got To Christmas Miracle”.

Still, in a race where appearances are seemingly everything, the ad placement is worth a chuckle or two.

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