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It’s great to be in [insert name of city]!
How about them [insert name of local sports team]!
For politicians and rock stars, pandering to the local customers is a tradition as old as the world’s oldest profession. And it works, routinely drawing loud cheers from the people who live in the city that gets named and who root for the local sports team that gets gratuitously praised.
Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones took that tradition to the next level over the weekend. Via USA Today, the seventy-something Jagger had this to say on the opening night of the Zip Code Tour on Sunday night: “We are having such a great time in San Diego.