It’s a White Sox winner! Wow, and wow, and wow again. That was an amazing game. Fantastic pitching, great defense, hitting when they needed it the most. What a great, great game, and what a great, great series. All four games were tense, exciting, and filled with drama. This was the most entertaining World Series [...]
Archive for October 26th, 2005
My Great Baseball Idea
Posted in MLB/MiLB, Satire, Sports on October 26, 2005 | Comments Off
Now that the Red Sox have ended their curse, and the White Sox have ended their curse, I want the Milwaukee Brewers, the team with the longest postseason drought in the same city in the four major North American team sports, to rename themselves to the Blue Sox next year. What could be more patriotic? [...]
A Car that Makes Its Own Fuel?
Posted in Economics, Science on October 26, 2005 | Comments Off
This is from the company that designed the process, so take with some salt, but it still looks interesting: The Hydrogen car Engineuity is working on will use metals such as Magnesium or Aluminum which will come in the form of a long coil. The gas tank in conventional vehicles will be replaced by a [...]
A Sign Of Sanity
Posted in General on October 26, 2005 | Comments Off
Kudos to the Bush Administration for coming to their senses: The Bush administration has abandoned research into a nuclear “bunker-buster” warhead, deciding instead to pursue a similar device using conventional weaponry, a key Republican senator said Tuesday. Sen. Pete Domenici (news, bio, voting record), R-N.M., said funding for the nuclear bunker-buster as part of the [...]
If You Squint, It Kind of Looks Like Idealism . . .
Posted in Culture, General, Media, Politics, Terrorism on October 26, 2005 | 6 Comments »
Richard Cohen has been on a bad streak for some time now. Today he criticizes the Democratic party for “ceding idealism to the GOP“. Logically, this implies that (a) the Democrats have lost their idealism, and (b) the Republicans have acquired some. To be sure, nobody is impressed with the Democrats’ performance post-Clinton, though the [...]
Not a Post-Racism Society: Brooks Thinks Middle Class Whites Only
Posted in Culture on October 26, 2005 | Comments Off
David Brooks wrote something revealing: In part because of Bush’s shift, the G.O.P. has become the party of the middle class. Bush beat Kerry among whites earning between $30,000 and $75,000 a year by 22 percentage points. Brooks apparently thinks that whites do not count as middle class. Including minorities in the statistics shrinks Bush’s [...]
Rumors and Flights of Fancy
Posted in Legal Issues, Politics on October 26, 2005 | Comments Off
Fitzgerald is going to indict tomorrow: An uber-insider source has just reported the following to TWN (since confirmed by another independent source): 1. 1-5 indictments are being issued. The source feels that it will be towards the higher end. 2. The targets of indictment have already received their letters. 3. The indictments will be sealed [...]
Wow. And, again, wow. That was an incredible game. 14 innings, longest game, in terms of time, in World Series history, the winning run provided a player who was taking his first postseason at bat who proceeded to hit his first postseason home run, the Sox used every single reliever in their pen and called [...]
Tim McCarver Must Die
Posted in MLB/MiLB, Sports on October 26, 2005 | 3 Comments »
Here’s what passes for “color commentary” with McCarver on the mic: [After an obviously unplanned high pitch] “That may have been an intentional pitchout.” “A pretty good pitch by Astacio, but better hitting by Dye.” “In the time it takes to watch this game, you could fly from Baltimore to Iceland.” “Some balls are hit [...]
Looks like Kevin picked up another game on me to make our race interesting, while Edward (not pictured) and the coin fell further back. The stats so far: Tom: 9-5 (.643) week, 62-40 (.608) overall Kevin: 10-4 (.714) week, 59-43 (.578) overall, 3 GB Edward: 7-7 (.500) week, 55-47 (.539) overall, 7 GB FDR: 8-6 [...]
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