I can’t believe the Dodgers actually won a series. When Ned Colletti was bumbling around trading after his offseason moves stunk up the place, I didn’t think his win now attitude would pay off.
But the Dodgers just knocked off the team with the league’s best record. Love it. First series win since the good old ’88.
Bring on the Phillies. Or the Brewers.
This is fun! I like Wrigley Field!
Poor Zambrano. Induced two double play balls that got bobbled in the second inning, to fall down 5-0. Cubs never recovered.
I missed most of the game! Went to pick up The Sims 2 Pets DS for my nephew* when it was 2-0 Cubs. Every time I checked the score while I was out the Dodgers had scored, and every time I had mixed feelings because I was missing all the action. Didn’t get home until it was 6-2.
So at least I saw the last dinger. Go Dodgers!
The entire election has changed tones since recent events in the financial world have gotten the public’s attention. At least, in my view it has. Until the last week, I have believed that regardless of the Congressional outlook this year, the Presidential race would be close, with a slight advantage to us, the same as the last two Presidential elections.
Not anymore, though. I think we have given up that advantage, and it has shown in the steady bleed McCain has lost in the polls. We’re behind, and events must go our way for us to win. Some of those events we are capable of making happen, and others must be events we react to well, but we can’t just hope the clock runs out.
Of course, not everyone had the same outlook I did, Others thought that history itself was running against us this year, that even before the nominees were chosen we had no chance to win. Naturally, to people with that outlook, recent events have led to an even greater degree of pessimism.
I feel stifled and frustrated by such pessmism I see on the right though. This, now, is my response, not to any one person, but to a general sense that bothers me.
Yes, we’re losing, but we haven’t lost. Yes, this election is important, as important as any Presidential election is since the expansion of the central government, and the politicization of the Supreme Court. No, we are not better off just “taking our medicine,” letting Barack Obama take the blame for soon to be coming events, and hoping we get “another 1980” or “another 1994” after two or four years of Obama.
Do I want to win this year? Yes. Yes. Yes. A thousand times yes do I want to win this year.
The Democrats never think this way, and they never pay in the long run for it. They never take their medicine, they never lose to win, they never rebuild. They just cry a little, then get back to winning.
They never give us a day’s rest. Let’s not give up or even let up for a second, so that we don’t give them a day’s rest.
As long as the votes have not yet been all cast, I will not stop doing everything I am in a position to do, to ensure the election of John McCain as President of the United States, and the elections of other Republicans running for office this year.
I leave you with the words of John McCain which fit now more than when he spoke them: “Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight! Nothing is inevitable here. We’re Americans, and we never give up. We never quit. We never hide from history. We make history.”
“The Dodgers have the best offense of any NL playoff team.”
Seeing those words written down just goes against everything I’ve been raised to believe. Even in good times we win with pitching.
I have to think a lot of this result is coming from Ramirez and Ethier getting hot lately, and of course my gut tells me they won’t keep it up another month. It would also seem to be counting pre-injury Furcal, and who knows how long it’ll take him to get back to that form again?
So I’m left to think this headline was just a big tease. sigh
I’m tempted to get one, because it’s a fine looking machine. It’s a bit expensive thanks to the short run (batch of 3000, being sold for $329 each), but it does a lot, is about the size of a DS, has a keyboard, and of course is entirely open to expandability.
On top of this being a fine platform for games, I’m also wondering if this would be a fine music player should I leave iPod land.
Just look at it:
I’m just impressed with this whole project. For some time I doubted it would ever come out because it just sounded so ambitious. But it’s out now, and I think that’s exciting. I just might buy one yet.
I may live in California, but I live in a sane part of California. We vote Republican, we have a good mix of suburban and rural lifestyles, and we don’t have crazy rallies for illegals or activist homosexuals. We also don’t generally see those bumper stickers that leftists are known for putting on their cars. In the last few years I’ve seen more signs for Ron Paul for President than any Democrat (few in both cases).
So imagine my surprise when I saw a car parked this morning with a bumpersticker that reads “BU__SH__”. That caught my attention, and led me to read the sticker beside it, which read, paraphrasing as I don’t remember precisely, “When will the answer be less government?”
Curiouser and curioser. At that point I completely stopped walking, and took a few steps back to read what else was on the car. Since when do BDS sufferers want small government? Since they’re the kind who have the third sticker I saw: Oppose the NAU! It looked like something out of the John Birch Society’s press. At this point, ‘Ronulan’ was the first word that came to mind, because nothing says ‘nut’ like organized resistance to imaginary conspiracies.
Can you imagine how far ahead in the polling Barack Obama would be if Ron Paul were our nominee? Because here we are dealing with what we’re dealing with, and Ron Paul would be talking about the NAU and what this guy’s fourth and final bumper said: “Abolish the Federal Reserve.” Because nothing upholds the Constitutional duty to print money than destroying the system upon which that money is based!
Well, it beats Save the Whales. The guy really should get himself the tin foil roof option for his next car, though.
Though the G1 is looking pretty darn open compared to the iPhone, it does have some issues that might drive away potential customers. For instance, it is SIM-locked to its carrier and can’t be used as a tethered modem with a laptop, both common criticisms of the iPhone as well. The phone doesn’t sync with a computer, instead relying solely on Google’s mobile web-based applications, and has no Exchange support for enterprise customers…. And, the hardware doesn’t include a standard headphone jack, instead requiring an adapter for HTC’s proprietary connector.
Oh, but Google isn’t ‘evil’ and Apple is. Google even says they aren’t, so it must be true. You can even look it up on Google.
So Steinbrenner (Hank) wants to get rid of divisions, and just have a single set of NL and AL standings, with the top four teams going to the formerly-known-as-Division Series.
Now half the Internet seems ready to call this sour grapes, but as he points out, the Yankees still wouldn’t get in under his idea at the time he proposed it (though the Yankees may yet pass the White Sox).
Personally, I have no strong baseball objection to his plan. Getting even scheduling would be a chore, but I’m guessing it could be done, and the result should be the four best teams getting in every year. However to do it you’d have to get rid of two innovations which surely have helped the economic boom in the MLB: interleague play and the unbalanced divisional schedules.
I think you have to respect Hank’s proposal when you realize that to get his plan, he’d probably lose out on a ton of hype for his team, as the Yankees would get to play the Red Sox a whole lot less, since they’d have to play the Central and Western teams more. You have to balance the schedules within each league to have a fair league-wide set of standings.
But I do disagree with the idea, and it’s for just that reason. To go to a balanced single-league schedule, you hurt the rivalries, the playoff races, and the business. A playoff race with the racing teams never playing each other would be terrible, but with the unbalanced schedule it’s guaranteed you’ll at least get in a few games as they fight for the division title.
I could do without Interleague, but apparently Dodgers/Angels, Cubs/White Sox, Mets/Yankees, and similar matchups make good enough money that it’s just silly even to consider dropping it.
So I don’t like the Steinbrenner proposal, but I don’t think it’s as self-centered as it’s often portrayed.
I picked up Mega Man 9 yesterday. It’s very early, of course, but so far I’m impressed. It’s not Mega Man hard, but it’s hard. It’s also certainly not Mega Man 4 hard so far, because the levels seem well designed.
Though with the whole screw-and-store system, I’m expecting that either a) the boss levels get really hard or b) the game just gets easier as you snowball up power.
Of course that might make sense, since you start without mega buster charge power or the ability to slide. So we’ll see I guess.