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7/11: Striking Out At Pseudo-Hunger Protesters

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• A while back I talked about Shittsburgh’s newest mayor Bob O’Connor. Even though the guy’s a Democrat, I like him (for now). After all, when it comes to urban areas, you take what you can get, and O’Connor seems like a genuinely good guy. Well, he was just diagnosed with cancer, but is expected to pull through. Get well, Bob, because God knows the city needs you, especially since Shittsburgh’s Shity Council just “signed on” to the Kyoto Treaty. Like I’ve said before, thank Christ I don’t live in this city or the county encompassing this shithole.

 

• Linebacker Roderick Green of the Baltimore Ravens just got stabbed at a bowling alley. I’m not going to goof on this guy because from what I heard on the radio, he did everything right in this situation by trying to avoid this confrontation. However, I have to wonder if a certain Ravens linebacker is starting to get worried about his spot being taken and is out to shank the competition?

 

• An apparent terrorist attack stuck India today and so far 130+ have been reported dead. I have to wonder if there’s any coincidence that this attack took place on 7/11, which is national convenience store workers day? While I’m at it, what’s up with terrorists and 11s? You have 9/11. You have 7/11. You have Spain’s bombing, which took place on 3/11. You had last year’s bombing in England, which although didn’t take place on the 11th day of the month, has a close enough sounding date (7/7). Is planning massive acts of terror on an “-even” day one of the few things in this world that actually pleases Allah?

 

• Since I talked about minimum wage yesterday, I found this funny. It’s only a matter of time before some red diaper doper baby judge not only rules that inmates be paid not a minimum wage but rather that hippie “living wage.” Of course, they’d also still get free health care, meals, housing and anal sex.

 

• Phil Garner said in a recent interview that he understands firsthand how important having home-field advantage is in the World Series. Uh, Phil, your Astros got swept by the White Sox last year – would you rather have lost the fourth game in Chicago rather than Houston?

 

• Over the years Major League Baseball has done some things I liked (doubling the amount of postseason entrants) and some things I didn’t care for (inter-league play during the regular season). However, the dumbest thing has to be this “winning league gets home field advantage,” after all, because THIS (exhibition) GAME COUNTS. If we’re going to include this meaningless contest into how the league handles it’s postseason, then how about giving AL/NLCS home-field advantage to the team with the better spring training league? After all, we want our baseball players to be playing like they mean it in the Cactus League.

 

• So Hollywood is engaging on some stupid “rolling hunger strike.” Typical stupid limousine liberal crap. However, I was curious to see if Mikey Moore was part of this protest. I headed over to his Web site (OK, OK, here’s the "real" one), and he had a link showing everyone who has signed up to be an Ethiopian for a day. Now while Mikey is pimping this Left-wing form of protest du jour he isn’t actually on the non-eating list. I'll leave the rest up to you.

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Phil Garner said in a recent interview that he understands firsthand how important having home-field advantage is in the World Series. Uh, Phil, your Astros got swept by the White Sox last year – would you rather have lost the fourth game in Chicago rather than Houston?

Ha. I love this quote from Phil.

 

Everyone here keeps mentioning the fact that they Astros lost those 4 games by a total of only 6 runs, in an attempt to argue that the Series was actually really close and could have gone either way...maybe even turned out differently if the Astros had had home field.

 

I then point out that maybe the Astros should try getting a runner home from third with one out in the ninth inning of a tie game (ala Game 3) instead and then maybe things would have been different.

 

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Watching last year's World Series and hearing how close the games were brought back memories of the '92 Stanley Cup Finals when the Pens swept the Blackhawks. Chicago may have lost those games by a total of only five goals, but more importanly they lost that series by a total of four games. However, I guess I'd rather have four closely contested games than a seven-game series where most, if not all, the games are blowouts.

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Just for fun, let's see how Phil Garner has benefitted from home field advantage.

 

1973/1974: Cups of coffee with the Oakland A's. Two World Series wins, though Garner appeared in neither. For what it's worth, the A's won both series in 1973 in the last game, and both were at home. Neither series in 1974 went the distance.

 

1975: Division title with Oakland, swept by Red Sox in three.

 

1979: "We are Family" Pirates sweep the Reds and beat the Baltimore Orioles in seven games. The Pirates won game seven on the road.

 

1981: Garner's new team the Astros drop a five game division series to the Dodgers. The fifth and deciding game occured in Los Angeles.

 

1986: The Astros lose the NLCS in six games to the Mets. The Astros had home field advantage.

 

2004: With Garner now managing, the Astros defeat the Braves in five games, winning the last on the road. The Astros then lose to the Cards in seven, on the road.

 

2005: The Astros go to the World Series. None of their series go the distance.

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Al/Bored, I'm curious. Has an All-Star game ever been rained out?

Not entirely. The second All-Star game of 1961 was called after nine innings due to rain with the score tied 1-1.

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