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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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I think it’s pretty sad that if you took the Padres, who are leading the NL West, and put them into the NL East, they’d be a game and a half out of last place.
Ain’t that the truth. Went to the game last weekend and they really look pathetic. 🙁
But if the season ended now, they’d be in the playoffs. That’s more than the Yankees can say!
Well, I grew up in the Chicago area and am used to my team not quite making it. God, if the Cubs could just win a Series before I die. SO now, living in SD I am a Padres fan but my heart will always belong to the Cubs.
what their record would be if they had to play a NL East Schedule?
They are 7-0 combined on the season against the Braves, Marlins, and Nationals (the top 3 NL East teams). They are 0-6 against the Phillies and Mets (the NL East basement teams).
Now there’s a statistical abnormality for you.
Still, they play the Rockies 19 times, right? As a Yankee fan, I’d love to play the Rockies 19 times.
I’d love to play the Devil Rays 19 times 🙂
the Yanks are about .500 against them, but as a fan, the games in Tropicana are unwatchable.
I’ve actually been to Tropicana Field. :O
The games aren’t any more watchable in person. In fact, I remember on one play, someone hit a popup that got lost up in the rafters (or whatever you call them in a dome). One of the diehards yelled, at the top of his lungs, If we didn’t have the WORST F*CKING STADIUM in the country, this type of sh*t wouldn’t happen!!!
I felt sorry for him until I realized he gets to live in Florida year round.
put the “Rookies” in any div., in either league, and it’s a race to the bottom…second worst record in all of MLB.
I do not understand how Hurdle (mgr) and Doodlin Dowdie (GM) keep their jobs. “The children’s crusade”…Bah!
The organization is rotten to the core, from ownership on down.
Is Marihuana Law Enforcement Political?
spelling of marijuana an homage to Susan?
it’s the proper legal spelling in the definition of the drug down there in the U.S. Do a search for the word “marihuana” in the Controlled Substances Act and you will find it. Thanks for asking.
No, silly boy.
Btw, that is a heck of a diary! And he quotes one of the better political writers in this neck of the woods.
.. well, some would disagree since Joel Connelly (Seattle PI) liked Kerry the whole way, and said unflattering things during the primaries about other candidates.
… but he’s a good writer. Great on environmental issues too.
This is pretty hard-hitting stuff. Someone should diary it.
Winter Patriot did a short diary on it earlier, but it didn’t get a whole lot of attention.
thanks. I’ll go read it.
After a few paragraphs I get overwhelmed with grief, sorrow, anger and impotence and I can’t read the whole thing. I have a husband who STILL has nightmares from 35 years ago! I can’t bear another generation having this kind of damage. Going down and answering the phones at the local Democartic Party office just doesn’t seem good enough. Turning myself into Buddhist Monk-like ashes in front of the WH might be equivalent. But, I’m not ready to go There — to that extent of protest.
Ok maybe I watch too much TV… But is anyone else a little annoyed with Burger King companies and retailers to conjure up really painful words? As their commercial screams of their chicken french fries: “Tenderized and Amplifried” (WTF is amplifried)?
Why does every commercial have to have either a headbanger edge or a bad hiphop cliche, as seen by McDonalds encouraging food porn (http://andrewteman.org/blog/index.php?p=39).
I keep hearing how conservatives are making us stupid by bringing bunk science to our schools… Ok… but what about these damn advertisers bringing fake words and empty carbs… and parents stuffing junior whoppers down their throats?
We are so screwed…
I saw this commercial for the first time today and couldn’t figure out who they were trying to reach. It reminded me of some of the Calvin Klein type of commercials that make no sense at all. It’s fuckin chicken for crying out loud. How hard is it to sell chicken?
You’re right Ronald, we are screwed.