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The Non-Commissioner of Baseball is an Idiot. What's New?
Allen Barra over at Salon.com has some good and well-written insights into the meaning of the playoff outcomes on the predilections of the dumbest guy ever to hold the job of Commissioner of Baseball.
What do you say now, Bud Selig?. The victories of the Angels, Twins and Cards show how empty the owners' and commissioners' arguments were. [Salon.com]
There is no rejoinder here, folks. No ground on which Mr. Selig could stand even if he had a backbone to keep him erect and a brain to tell him where his feet were. The guy's a moron. Only his unbelievable arrogance will prevent him from resigning, slinking off in shame, and committing some sort of ritual somewhere (not death, but perhaps sliming?).
9:45:14 PM 
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Dave Anderson of the NY Times Agreed With Me
In my blog last night of the Giants-Braves NLDS baseball playoff game, I groused a bit about the way the schedule was handled. I suggested that TV has become more important than the quality of play, safety of the players, or enjoyment of the fans. Nice to have good company in the person of the NY Times' great columnist (and I thought he was great before he agreed with me, so there!), Dave Anderson:
Baseball's Sleepiest Showdown. At its best, sports is a survival of the fittest. Game 5 between the Giants and Braves was survival of the sleepiest. By Dave Anderson. [New York Times: Sports]
2:02:59 AM
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ABC, NBC, CBS Skip the Bush Ramble, So Why Did FoxSports Carry It?
As part of my blogging of the Giants-Braves games last night, I commented on the fact that the game started 30 minutes late to accommodate our selected president's desire to speak to the nation about Iraq, a subject which bores the public.
Then I discovered this piece that indicates the major networks didn't carry the talk due to lack of public interest. So who the hell's in charge at FoxSports? A bunch of Bush Cronies?
Citing Lack of Request, 3 Networks Skip Speech. Three major broadcast networks ABC, CBS and NBC chose not to carry the president's speech live on Monday. By Jim Rutenberg. [New York Times: Politics]
1:59:57 AM
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Yes! Send Buck to the Mets!
Mets Interview Showalter. Buck Showalter has become the second candidate to interview for the Mets' managerial job, meeting on Monday with team executives at Shea Stadium. By Rafael Hermoso. [New York Times: Sports]
Buck Showalter is the worst manager in baseball. What he did to a talented D-Backs team with his Gestapo-like management style and his baseball ignorance was an abomination.
So of course I'd be simply delirious if the Mets hire him as their new manager. They deserve each other.
1:55:57 AM
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Well, Dave Winer and Robert Scoble Were Paying Attention...and Thought It Was Cool!
Congratulations to the San Francisco Giants for defeating the Atlanta Braves this evening and advancing to the National League Championship Series against the St Louis Cardinals. What a cliff-hanger, what a surprising ending. And thanks to Dan Shafer for blogging the play by play. That made it even more interesting. [Scripting News]
Dan Shafer is blogging the Giants game tonight (Dan is a big sports fan and an even bigger Giants fan). Go Giants! Hey, Dave, you happy that the Yankees got knocked out? The playoffs this year are actually interesting. Oh, and Dan is absolutely right about Barry Bonds. The guy deserves far more accolades than he is getting. So what if he's arrogant. Arrogance is OK if you can back it up year after year. Barry does. [The Scobleizer Weblog]
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© Copyright 2002 Dan Shafer.
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