The Yankees won eleven pennants and 7 world series championships during George Steinbrenner's 37 year ownership tenure. That's certainly more impressive than any other team since 1973, but is somewhat less sterling than the nineteen years of Topping, Webb, and MacPhail ownership, which resulted in...
Author: Robert Farley
Rozen, via Glenn Greenwald: Our colleague Ken Vogel reported yesterday that Sarah Palin's SarahPAC has paid Kristol's Weekly Standard colleague Michael Goldfarb and former McCain campaign foreign policy advisor Randy.
More than a few people have noted that the foreign policy vision of the Republican Party appears to have moved to the far right of the Reagan administration; thus, when.
This is nothing short of genius: But then there are some shows that go completely beyond the pale of enjoyability, until they become nothing more than overwritten collections of tropes impossible to watch without groaning. I think the worst offender here is the History Channel...
Some fabulous work from the LGM readership; two teams in the 99.9th percentile: RNK ENTRY, OWNER GROUP RND16 QTR SEMI FINAL TOTAL PCT 1 greller49 1, A. Greller 22 20 24.
This is the fifth installment of an eight part series on the Patterson School’s Summer Reading List. Hide and Seek, Charles Duelfer The Accidental Guerrilla, David Kilcullen The Limits of Power,.
Kinda exciting. Wish the Reds could score a damn run so he doesn't have to pitch 13 innings. ...C'mon guys. 1 run. ...Sheehan asks whether it made sense to hit Wood in the eighth, given that the Reds are in a race. First, Dusty has...
While pride prevents me from fully withdrawing my critique of Dusty Baker for letting Mike Leake hit last week while Scott Rolen sat on the bench, I will concede that.
Huh. I guess I always suspected that Tony La Russa was evil: St. Louis Cardinals Manager Tony La Russa on Tuesday said he's a "supporter" of Arizona's immigration law and.
This is a depressing story: The Olympia was a successful museum vessel, at least according to the numbers. More than 100,000 visitors annually paced the same decks where Dewey uttered the immortal fighting words, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley." In 1996, the...
Fred Kaplan and Pavel Podvig show Mitt Romney why it's a mistake to let the morons and fanatics at the Heritage Foundation write your op-eds for you....
If you watch carefully, in slow motion, you can see his heart break... UPDATE [By SL]: Although this tastefully fonted missive is also pretty entertaining. I generally defend players from.