Well, that was a tough day. But it was poignant to be at Shea for such a sad, momentous day: the retirement of Todd Zeile. Every time between innings, when they showed highlights of his long career accompanied by string quartet arrangements of Kiss songs*,...
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A list of superb choices from the Poor Man. (Although I must admit to liking pretentious Latin phrases.) However, I would like to reiterate that any such list absolutely demands.
Make sure to catch a special Saturday Howler, as Somerby catches Maureen Dowd dead to rights making up the "Who among us doesn't like NASCAR?" Kerry "quote", which needless to say.
Ichiro! Very classy all the way. Did it in his first 2 ABs, Randy Newman's soundtrack from The Natural playing, George Sisler's daughter in attendance. Cool.
One of Yglesias's commenters nails it: Bush was at times defensive, insecure and peevish. Sometimes he almost seemed to be defending his intelligence, as when he kept insisting "I know how.
I watched it on the first floor of the college, where NBC set up cameras to interview students, before and after. I felt as nervous as before a game 7.
Well, the inevitable is now official. Since I'll be going to Shea to see their last game ever on Sunday, I'll post more about it then. I do wish to note that you'll be hearing a lot about how baseball could never have worked in Montreal...
Bad things are happening in Congress. For more read Belle Waring, Ted Barlow, and Katharine at Obsidian Wings, Kevin at Lean left, Jeanne at Body and Soul. If you don't know what "extraordinary rendition" means,.
According to Glenn Reynolds, citing an article in the NY Post, the 60 Minutes scandal has had the salutary effect of destroying Dan Rather's ratings. "No wonder Big Media folks aren't.
I simply can't urge you strongly enough to read the article in the most recent Vanity Fair about Florida 2000--it's just magnificent, clearly putting inside baseball from the court's clerks in the larger political context. Courtesy of the superb SCOTUS blog, you can (and must) read...
A brilliant post by Jeanne D'Arc about the staggeringly dishonest bait-and-switch being pulled by hawks who 1)strongly favor intervention in the Sudan, and 2)wish to remain hack Bush apologists. Very difficult.
Bob Harris on the terrorist threats that still threaten this great land. As long as Air Supply can cross borders with immunity, we might as well install bin Laden in.