This is a pretty nice stat line. Ziegler's story has Billy Beane's and thus Bill James's fingerprints all over it. A 20th-round draft pick out of college who spent a few years struggling in the low minors, the A's converted him to a submarine-style pitching motion...
While messing around with my computer this morning, I accidentally uninstalled Civilization IV, and I'm not sure where I put the installation disks.So now I'm wondering; should I panic, or.
On this, I agree with Michael Totten:If you're using Internet Explorer 7, do yourself and me a favor. Stop it. Seriously. It's crap. Use Firefox. It's free and vastly superior..
Given that the White Sox appear to have been historically terrible in terms of center field defense this year, I suppose that the Griffey acquisition makes sense, even allowing for his demand to return to center. I'm kind of glad, though, that I didn't take time...
In other news, TIDOS Yankee shows the world once again why he's The Champ.
I generally agree with Mark Tushnet that Robert Jackson's much-cited and lauded concurrence in Youngstown is overrated, in the sense that it effectively describes the puzzles of evaluating the constitutionality of presidential action without providing any useful way of resolving the most interesting and important questions....
Steve M. has a nice catch on the cavernously stupid notion that Barack Obama might not have enough body fat -- acquired from gobbling seals and rummaging the ice pack.
Mr. Trend talks a bit about the resumption of the Brazilian (civilian) nuclear power program:The power plant was originally decreed in the 1970s as part of the military dictatorship's demonstration.
Cernig:The head of the Missile Defense Agency, General Trey Obering, has previously justified the massive expense and foreign policy jeopardy of placing land-based anti-missile facilities in Eastern Europe on the basis that ship-based defense using the tried-and-tested AEGIS system would be prohibatively expensive - 40 ships...
For most of the reasons cited by Dylan Mathews, I wouldn't be happy if Obama chose Tim Kaine as his running mate. Still, I can least imagine an argument on.
Because looking around the major news sites on the intertubes it's rather amazing how relatively little attention this story is getting.And not to go all Truther or anything but that.