How to put Schilling, Game 6, into historical perspective? The referents aren’t Koufax in 1965, Beckett last year, like that; he was outstanding, but it’s not about dominance per se. Lots of guys have thrown 7 innings 1 run in the postseason. It’s about drama, historical significance, not just quality. Connie Mack starting Emkhe and […]
Author: Scott Lemieux
Since I was (justly) hard on the umpires yesterday, I must note that they got their two egregious blown calls tonight correct, which is all you can ask. Memo to Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez: why don
I had intended to blog about Jim DeMint’s ridiculous dodging of questions about the implications of his abortion position on Press the Meat, but fortunately Atrios nails it. He brings up anoth
Yessssssssssssh. Particularly appropriate given the previous two atbats, which culminated in an awful third strike call, and then a blown call on a stolen base that even the late Ray Charles could have made. (I mean, when the guy doesn’t come close to tagging him, and he would have been safe even if the tag had […]
This is a great trick. I wonder how often it happens? The really strange thing, though, is that these arguments really aren’t any less plausible than the ones generally offered to oppose gay mar
Michael Berube has a good review of the strangely gripping piece of science fiction published by the New York Times today. I’m not really a big fan of the genre, but I quite liked it, and I
“When I criticized John Edwards for gratuitously mentioning Dick Cheney’s gay daughter, I got lots of email suggesting that Edwards was simply being nice. Sorry, that won’t fly after Kerry bizarrely, needlessly and explicitly raised the subject again (“I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney’s daughter, who is a lesbian, ….”) There […]
Completely routine 2-out groundball hit to Derek Jeter. He doesn’t have to move. Any decent college shortstop makes the play easily. He boots it. “How will that be scored? It was an in-bet
As part of her invaluable roundup of reactionaries making their first and last argument in favor of gay rights, World O’ Crap cuts to the heart of the issue with the title/introduction of said
The next issue of PS will contain 7 election models, 6 of which predict a Bush victory. I don’t think this should influence expectations at all (remember, almost all predicted a solid Gore victory.) What it tells us is that the exogenous factors overwhelmingly favor Bush, which makes the fact that Kerry is in fact the current […]
As readers of this blog know, I (like many people) was outraged by the attempts to gin up a “scandal” over Kerry’s invocation of Mary Cheney. If you have any doubt that this is the p
I never thought I’d write that, but James Wolcott is on Norville right now discussing O’Reilly. This should be pure gold… …alas, he was on with two wankers who resemble network