Billy Paultz Reconsidered

Yesssss. Oh yeah. Yes-in-deedy.
You can’t stop Geoff Jenkins, you can only hope to contain him. Did somebody just say Pedro Feliz-Navidad? I’d like to think so.
I’m going to write a lot about the Phils for Sunday’s paper, so no analysis right now. Just hope nobody gets hurt tonight, and hope they don’t tear up the […]

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Caught Fox World Series duo Joe Buck and Tim McCarver on “Pardon the Interruption,” tonight. Kornheiser/Wilbon asked them if they thought the way Tuesday night played out was a disadvantage to the Phillies.
They scoffed, McCarver asserting some nonsense about how, if anything, it disadvantaged the Rays, since scoring that run in the sixth involved B.J. Upton […]

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  I was ready to pick the Buckeyes 4-5 days ago. Then I read and heard some things that seemed designed to sell the Ohio State case but had the opposite effect on me.

I don’t think what each team did last week matters as much as what happened the previous seven. In fact, what happened last […]

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You know who I think is a really central figure? Charlie Manuel.
Yes, managers are overrated, and Xs and Os are the most overrated part of managing. But that’s in general, over the long haul, and a best-of-seven series ain’t the long haul.
Will Charlie use Cole Hamels three times, meaning probably in game four on three […]

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My favorite kind of punditry is the kind that relentlessly, mercilessly, logically dissects bull ****. Here’s a prime example, from the New Yorker’s wonderful Hendrik Hertzberg, on the ACORN crappola McCain/Palin and the Fox News simps have had such a field day with: 
During this election cycle, the Times reported today, ACORN has deployed thirteen thousand mostly paid […]

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First of all, when the weather’s like this (temps in the 70s, clear blue skies), Madison has got be one of the best places to live in America. Of course, if the weather was like this 10 months a year, 800,000 people would live here instead of 200,000 plus, and all bets would be off. […]

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First, the restaurant, the remarkable St. Elmo’s in Indianapolis. Exactly what you’d think a big-city, downtown steakhouse would be, including hundreds of signed celeb photos on the walls, if that sort of thing appeals to you, and more importantly large slabs of perfectly prepared meat. Very, very strong stuff. Even in the current economy/culture, sometimes […]

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