My cold Miller High Life next to the tip-jar at my favorite joint (Angel's Icehouse in Spicewood, TX)
As many of you know, I’m a Miller High Life-kinda guy. It’s my go-too daily drinking beer. If I just finished mowing the grass or I’m working in the garage, it’s Miller time.
Don’t get me wrong — I like all beer. And especially love a good IPA (I’m looking at you, Pliner the Younger, and Pliner the Elder). But I still knock back more Miller High Life than any other. After all, it is the champagne of beers!
At the same time, I’m also a guy who boycotts lots of companies and their products based on their politics (hello, Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, hello Bank of America), the way they treat their customers (yeah,I’m talking about you, Best Buy), and sundry other reasons.
So this story makes me even happier to support the good folks who make Miller High Life:
Companies are stepping up to help and honor the fan who returned Derek Jeter’s 3,000th hit ball.
If Christian Lopez, a 23-year-old cellphone salesman from Highland Mills, N.Y., has to pay taxes on the goods he received from the New York Yankees after returning the ball, companies are ready to strike out his debt…
According to accountants contacted by the New York Daily News and New York Times, that tax bill could end up being anywhere from $5,000 to $14,000…
Well, it looks as if he will get plenty of help. Miller High Life issued a statement Wednesday saying that the company would cover Lopez’s tax bill.
“Miller High Life believes you should be rewarded for doing the right thing, not penalized,” Miller High Life brand manager Brendan Noonan said in a statement. “We want to recognize Christian Lopez, and in turn everyone like him, for doing the common sense thing and help him continue to live the High Life.”
Now…don’t get me wrong…I’d have sold that ball to the highest bidder without blinking an eye. Especially since I’m neither a Jeter nor a Yankees fan. But that’s just me (and, I’m guessing most of you).
But good on you, Mr. Lopez. And Miller High Life.
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I’m essentially a non-drinker, but Miller High Life(not any of the other Miller variants) is the only beer I buy, as I always keep some in the fridge for cooking and/or to enjoy. It’s the only beer I have cared to drink for several decades. It is just a great beer, not some gimmicky flavor.
That they would step up for this young man is fantastic. I understand this young man still owes over $100,000 in student loans and is unemployed, but instead of ransoming the ball he gave it back. Commendable, no doubt, but certainly not what I would have done either, since Jeter makes something like $17million per year.
Robbie, remind me again why Best Buy is on your Shit List.
Here is my reason, no2liberals; the Austin area Best Buys (don’t know about all of them all across the nation) never says the word Christmas, more like some generic crap like “holiday season.” But I was in one of the stores and picked up a sale flyer. On it is said “Best Buy celebrates Eid al-Fitr” and I found it again on their website.
I called for the manager and told him that I had never seen any flyer for Best Buy that used the word “Christmas” and since I was a Christian who celebrated Christmas and not a Muslim who celebrated Eid al -Fitr, I would not be shopping at Best Buy again and that I would be advising all my Christian friends that Best Buy only celebrates the holidays of the religious radicals that have, and still want to kill us. And I haven’t been back.
Thanks, I just couldn’t remember the things they did, but I do recall now their not allowing Merry Christmas in their stores.
Just wanted a reminder as I can now eliminate them from my list of stores that I will consider when I buy my new plasma tv next month. Only 50 days until college football kicks off.
My qualm with Best Buy is personal. The one time I used their Geek Squad, I felt I was ripped off to the tune of nearly $100 (they held my backed up storage hostage — showed me the discs it was on, and said they wouldn’t hand it over unless I paid an additional $100 that was never previously discussed or agreed upon. I let the manager know that if I had to pay that charge that I would never buy from Best Buy again. And I haven’t.
On the other hand, I have gone into Best Buy (we have one between my office and home) to try out products, hands on. Then I go home and buy it from Amazon Prime.
Now, don’t get me started on the IRS going after this young man who caught the ball. Timothy Geithner didn’t pay his damn taxes until he was nominated for Secretary of the Treasury and then the IRS eliminated all his fines and interest. And he has the cajones to go after that kid?
Remember, John Cornyn voted to put Timothy Geithner in as SoT.
1. Only a bunch a jerks from New York (ok…maybe California and Illinois too) would consider taxing someone who received goods for doing something considerate.
2. Best Buy, my foot. Everything in the store can be purchased cheaper somewhere else.
3. Keep your Miller High Life….Shiner Bock or Shiner Black Lager is what you will find in my fridge.
Ben and Jerry’s suck ass…all Veteran’s should boycott that shit…
Best Buy? Yep, couldn’t agree more…
Beer? Yum. Cold and with a bite I love
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so if Miller cuts a check to Lopez for 14K to cover his taxes, does Lopez have to pay taxes on the money recieved?
is anyone here besides me a bit taken back at how many times the government gets paid for doing absolutely nothing?
this all started when a guy caught a ball at baseball game…
The policy of government getting your money for doing absolutely nothing is a long standing tradition.
You are a serf, give me half of your potato crop, says the colorfully attired man wearing armor and a sword, on his charger in merry old England, France, Spain etc. Serf, with no more than a digging stick and even fewer rights, must comply or loose a hand, head or pre-teen daughter.
Comrad, you must work every day for the next five years to accomplish our great leaders goals. If you complain, we will transfer you to another much colder place to work till you die.
Hello, we are from the IRS, we need to see receipts and documentation on every penny you earned or thought about earning for the last seven years. If you cannot provide adequate documentation you will be subject to fines imprisonment or both.
At least government was smaller when the word Democrat was considered an epithet.
What a great story!
Miller should also be commended for acknowledging that gay couples exist. See their ad here:
http://openlygaymarketing.com/tag/miller-lite-great-to-see-you-out/
This ad was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award in Advertising.
Is there anybody (even those opposed to it) that actually denies that gay couples exist?
I don’t know, but before recently, they didn’t exist in advertising.