While I try to figure out why TBS was showing a replay of Game 5 of the 1977 ALCS tonight, I thought this quote might be relevant: Tony, when you get into the playoffs this year [sic], tone down the aggressive baserunning a little bit....
Month: October 2010
You know the Yankees are a great team when they can have the greatest pitcher athlete in Yankee known human history pitching long relief! ...well, my praise of the Ranger.
Nice way to start an ALCS.
Ah, the time of year when even George W Bush can be unequivocally right about something for 10 days or so... YANKEES v. RANGERS. While I always think that the Twins have even less chance against the Yankees than the (fairly lopsided) paper matchup would...
This could potentially have been a sitcom-worthy awkward situation. Tom Ricks and Hugh Shelton's memoirs: First, he reports, a bit mysteriously, that late in the Clinton administration, the president's authorization.
Alex Wendt would be proud. [cross-posted at Duck of Minerva]
In hye-larious fraternity hijinx, some Yale assholes engage in threatening pro-rape slogans around student housing for women, and have not yet been disciplined by the university. You wonder how many of these people will be coming up with defenses for America's latest idiotic military adventure...
And yet, because the horrible question was at least about an important policy question, the moderation in this debate might have been above-average by our current standards.
With the LCSes about to start and with Posnanski pointing out the problems with the wildcard in general, I thought I might as well revisit the idea of a second.
To say Christine O'Donnell knows nothing about the responsibilities of a Senator to, for example, be able to name any Supreme Court decision she might deem objectionable is to state an already oft-stated obvious. Less obvious, but much more telling about her qualifications, were 1)...
I have some wonky thoughts about the possibility that a Republican Congress would impeach Obama over at TAPPED. The answer: maybe! Given prior assumptions about presidential politics it's very unlikely,.
Via Plumer, I award this the Lee Atwater memorial award for outstanding achievement in the field of excellence in negative advertising: The city deserves an NHL team again for this.