Posted To Straight Shootin
The product of baseball, at least at the major league level, has been on the decline for years. The season is too long, the games are too long, the market is out of control…and the cloud of the infamous “Steroid Era” continues to cast a dark shadow over a game […]
Category Archives: Sport
Predict-A-Ball
March 25 08
Pick Yer Poison
March 19 08
So the Madness is upon us, and I must say: you are not ready. Neither am I. I swear it was just Thanksgiving. Now the Tourney is here and it’s time again to suppress the bitching and [expletive deleted]-aching that goes on when someone’s team doesn’t make the tournament
Enter VaTech.
They didn’t deserve to get in. […]
The Madness is upon us
March 15 08
I don’t have a favorite for March Madness. It gets harder for me to follow college basketball every season. Call it bitter nostalgia, but I thought it was great when college ball was all about playing ball… just some kids, a coach and a lot of zone defense. But just like everything else these days, […]
The Power of the Blogger
Bloggers are becoming powerful.
You can tell by the number of Democratic presidential candidates that appeared at the Daily Kos convention. Kos bloggers are, generally speaking, people who believe Stalin was a little bit soft on wealth redistribution. But there were Clinton, Obama, Edwards, and the rest rolling over and begging. Riddle me this: if politicians […]