The Pecan Park Eagle

While doing a little IMDB surfing research on the major actors from the ABC television series “Once Upon A Time”, I learned that Lana Parrilla, the actress who plays “The Evil Queen”, is the daughter of Sam Parrilla, a career minor league outfielder who also earned short time MLB service as a Philadelphia Phillie back in 1970.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/parrisa01.shtml

My thoughts jumped immediately to another daughter of baseball, former Speaker of the House Nancy (D’Alesandro) Pelosi. Her father was Thomas D’Alesandro, the Mayor of Baltimore who successfully fought to acquire the St. Louis Browns for his city so that he could bring them home in 1954 as the reincarnation of the half century-lost Baltimore Orioles.

“I AM (or was) THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE!!!”

Then I had to think deeper: What else, besides having baseball-connected fathers, does this former Speaker of the House really have in common with an actress whose major claim to minor TV fame is playing the role of “The Evil Queen” in a clever tale of story book characters now gathering in reality in a little New England town called, what else, “Storybrooke”?

We all have to decide for ourselves, but let’s see. ….

(1) The “Evil Queen” only cares about her own needs. Nancy Pelosi only has the same retirement and health care plan as the other members of Congress.

(2) The “Evil Queen” possesses the magical power to instantly travel anywhere she wishes. As Speaker, Nancy Pelosi had a private jet that we taxpayers provided for her regular and/or whimsical flights home or anywhere.

(3) The “Evil Queen” destroys whole villages when the people do not give her what she wants. Nancy Pelosi treats the same situation by apparently staring into space without blinking.

(4) The “Evil Queen” rips people’s hearts out. Nancy Pelosi has no fear of that sad fate ever happening to her.

(5) The “Evil Queen” just lies and lies and lies. – Nancy Pelosi, on the other hand, just does what she does what she does.

“I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag, of the United States of America, and to the Republic, for which it stands, One Nation, Under God, Indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for All.”