Its called "The Big Apple" because of betting on horse racing in the 1920's apparently.

Just arrived in New York for the week with our creative agency and a couple of things of interest happening over here. Firstly, saw Bush on TV night doing a press meeting, the guy looked liked that creepy uncle that tries too hard to be funny and informed. He is neither. Unconvincing was not the word, when asked about the state of the economy he said “I’m not an economist” – whilst factually correct you’d want a bit more than that from the man steering the ship of the world’s economy. Perhaps a more telling story in the NY Times this morning was the agreed sale of Anheuser Busch, brewers of Budweiser to InBev of Belgium for $52bn. The are some fairly candid responses to this sale of one of America’s flagship businesses but my favourite was from Opal Henderson, St Louis “Why can’t those foreigners just stay at home and leave us what we have?”. Another guy interviewed on CNN when asked what he thought about “Bud” being bought by a company from Belgium replied, “what, Belgium in Germany?”. Excellent.

Last night was also the Baseball All Star Game at Yankee Stadium, it looked like a great event and I really like this idea of the best players picked by the fans coming together to play an exhibition game and celebrating ‘Hall of Fame’ players as well. I wonder why we don’t try this with the Premier League.