CHICAGO — We're mostly stalking the Cup. But we also made time to read some stuff today.
Type Emoji, Receive Pizza: There's nothing — NOTHING — as glorious on this earth as a hot slice of pepperoni 'za. Domino's — whose history of innovative pizza ordering has always impressed reporter Ariel Cheung — is upping their game once again, according to National Restaurant News. After creating an online pizza profile, customers can simple text the pizza emoji to DPIZZA and, in a stunning display of technology of the future, the pizza will come. Now the question is: how long until taco and burger emojis work at Chipotle and Burger King? Come on guys, it's 2015! (Also, Apple — we're going to need a cheesy bread emoji ASAP.)
Loose Pucks, Foul Balls: Senior editor Andrew Herrmann is reading a sports story of another kind — Arizona Republic columnist Laurie Roberts' lament of how Phoenix suburb Glendale has got itself into financial do-do wooing professional teams, including the White Sox. Glendale's problems include making payments on a $180 million loan to build a rink for the Phoenix Coyotes hockey team (while also giving the team $15 million annually to run the pace.) As part of its deal with the NFL's Phoenix Cardinals, Glendale is also on the hook to build a $46 million parking garage by 2018. They're also paying on a $200 million loan used to build a spring training and rookie league facility for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the White Sox (the teams each pay $1 annually in rent.) Roberts writes that the baseball complex won't be paid off until 2038 but that the teams can leave in 2028, ten years earlier. "Genius plan, that one," Roberts writes. Go team!
White Sox groundskeeper Roger Bossard prepares the field at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Ariz. in 2009 ahead of its grand opening. [Getty Images/file photo]
Yippee-Ki-Yay Mr. Bush: Someone in Republican Jeb Bush's presidential campaign is stuck in 1988, the year Bush's father, George H.W. Bush, won his presidential bid. Buried in the code of the younger Bush's campaign website is a very detailed synopsis of the entire "Die Hard" franchise. The web designer who squirreled this away is not a "Die Hard" die hard, inserting comments about when the franchise should have ended.
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