{"id":907,"date":"2008-05-07T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2008\/5\/7\/Earth-to-NYT-Earth-to-NYT-"},"modified":"2008-05-07T14:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T22:36:00","slug":"earth-to-nyt-earth-to-nyt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/earth-to-nyt-earth-to-nyt\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth to NYT, Earth to NYT &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They don&apos;t call the <i>New York Times<\/i> &quot;the gray lady&quot; for nothing. Today, she seems a little more hard of hearing and out of touch than usual. Four of the six &quot;New Titans&quot; pictured in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/06\/business\/06youngvegas.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\" class=\"broken_link\">this story<\/a> haven&apos;t been in the casino industry for <i>more than three years<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, there could be worse things than if Messrs. <b>Breitling<\/b>, <b>Agassi<\/b> &amp; <b>Rogers<\/b> pooled their pennies and bought the <b>San Remo\/Hooters<\/b> out of its interminable &quot;for sale&quot; limbo. Or maybe they could scare up the $1 billion necessary to persuade <b>Columbia Sussex<\/b> to part with the <b>Las Vegas Tropicana<\/b>. They seem like just the fellows to bring class back to that much-abused dowager.<\/p>\n<p><b><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Tim Poster<\/span><\/b><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold; \"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: normal; \">, though, they should probably leave at home. As depicted in Breitling&apos;s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvcitylife.com\/articles\/2008\/05\/01\/ae\/books\/iq_21164454.txt\" class=\"broken_link\">Double or Nothing<\/a><\/i>, Poster comes off as temperamentally ill-suited to running a casino. After all, if you raise the limits on high-end play, you&apos;ve got to lie in the bed you&apos;ve made, not have a meltdown and get resentful toward the player(s) who took you to the cleaners.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They don&apos;t call the New York Times &quot;the gray lady&quot; for nothing. Today, she seems a little more hard of hearing and out of touch than usual. Four of the six &quot;New Titans&quot; pictured in this story haven&apos;t been in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/earth-to-nyt-earth-to-nyt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}