… Some days, it rains.
But mostly we do it because we feel it’s important, and because we will never concede defeat to those rat bastards at corporate headquarters. – Bobby King, President Indianapolis Newspaper Guild, CWA Local 34070, after Gannett laid off 700 people yesterday
Here’s what it’s like to be a fan of an utterly awful team. You find yourself pondering the mathematical possibilities of your team actually getting back into a pennant race. Winning baseball is all pastoral pondering and poetry — the math doesn’t come until the end, and even then it’s a “magic” number. But losing [...]
After the information was relayed to Obama, he turned to his advisers and said: “We donated a $60 million helicopter to this operation. Could we not afford to buy a tape measure?” – Bob Woodward in the WaPo
Everyone has played ball, though not every team has won a game — but the Pirates did, and the drive for 82-80 has begun. Jose Bautista went a ways toward proving he’s Not Brady Anderson and John Sterling continued to be a blight on humanity. Perhaps most importantly, Joe Morgan will not be on anyone’s [...]
And spring means baseball, flowers, birds, rebirth, all that shit. But we’d be remiss if we didn’t note the passing of Nate Dogg, homeboy to Warren G, and hook singer extraordinaire. He’s dead at 41. We can’t think of a better tribute than the now defunct Wikipedia entry deconstructing the lyrics to Regulate. Gotta be handy [...]