Posted on Baseball, College Football, Michigan Wolverines, Ohio State Buckeyes

tennis, football, and baseball in just one post!

as we are reminded daily…you can’t always get what you want. that’s part of being a sports fan. it’s a good thing that real life interferes with sports, because being depressed for too long can’t be healthy for us.

andre agassi is one of the greatest tennis players ever. roger federer may be the best i’ve ever seen. i really wanted agassi to win, as the highly partisan crowd in new york did, and he had a good chance in that third set. he had a great run in the u.s. open…and for three sets, it was a competitive match. i’m sorry that the match ended the way it did for andre, but i hope he keeps playing. he is fun to watch.

as for my beloved ohio state buckeyes, their loss to texas doesn’t surprise me. after watching justin zwick and troy smith struggle at QB, i have decided that i don’t like either of them. try someone else. here’s what we need to do. work on the runnning game until it actually becomes a threat to the opposition. throw more long passes to holmes and ginn. continue to unleash carpenter and a.j. hawk on the opposing QBs. the weekend wasn’t a total loss, as the michigan wolverines went down in flames to notre dame.

what can i say about the new york mets? apply the sharp, pointy fork. they’re done. sure, it was somewhat impossible to climb over four teams, including three division opponents, to get the wild-card slot. i can still call the last few games a pitiful choke job, because that’s what it was. i suppose ending the season with a winning record is too much to ask. we shall see.

coming up in this here blog — my theory on why fans of ohio sports teams are so pessimistic about those teams, the radical cult-like nature of fantasy sports, and the abuse of information by televised sporting events.

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Posted on Uncategorized

9/11

today is the day to remember the victims and families of the 9/11 terrorist attack. these terrorists don’t deserve tea and sympathy. they deserve death. we can’t bring back those we lost, but we can administer justice to those who are foolish enough to attack us. i really don’t have the words to express how i feel about this, so i’m simply going to link to some great posts by fellow bloggers on this subject.

that’s all i have for today. may God continue to watch over all of us and give us peace in this time of chaos.

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Posted on Random Musings

oppressed minority groups

“george bush hates midgets.” –chris rock, always the sensitive, caring type…

first of all, i would like to thank chris rock for adding another oppressed minority group to our constantly expanding list of those groups. who knows how many midgets are affected by this unfeeling government? and if they had a lobbyist, what special rights would he lobby for?

here are some other groups that should apply for victim status:

  • the cavemen in the geico commercial — who will speak for unshaven, hairy men with bad table manners? oh yeah…beer commercials.
  • smokers — yeah, sure, it’s a disgusting and fatal habit. but this is america…and no one should be prevented from having legal, disgusting, and fatal habits. that is, as long as i don’t have to breathe that air.
  • taxpayers — we give too much of our money to a government that wastes it. if a business spent money the way the government does, the free market would punish it severely.
  • drug users — they just don’t get enough credit or respect in this culture. it takes a lot of effort to be that stupid. we should reward that stupidity by legalizing drugs and creating more drug users. that’s a brilliant idea. more people on crystal meth and marijuana…that’s the key to improving productivity and success in this country.

i’m sure there are other groups i’ve forgotten. feel free to add some. what we need to remember is that our success or failure depends on us, not on washington bureaucrats or government agencies. when we grasp this, we can start taking responsibility for our own lives.

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Posted on '08 Election, Democrats, Liberals

john kerry- potential hillary challenger in ’08?

if anyone thinks that john kerry is still electable, this past election should have proved otherwise. president bush was in a very vulnerable position, and yet kerry failed to capture the country on democratic core issues like jobs, healthcare, and the economy. my uneducated view of this is that kerry’s campaign staff totally butchered his campaign. it was a brutal thing to watch. i could have run kerry’s campaign better than his people did.

the riff about vietnam was a very distracting one. getting war cred is one thing. democrats have always had the burden of proof when discussing strength and conviction in the area of foreign policy. so it’s understandable that kerry would want to use his vietnam service as proof that he had related work experience. where his campaign fell off of the tracks was when john kerry allowed vietnam to define it. vietnam is some kind of ideological struggle for people that doesn’t translate into votes for its war veterans.

the main problem kerry had is that he was never going to win enough of the “average joe” vote. he couldn’t relate to us very well at all. at the end of the day, he reeked of champagne and caviar rather than hot dogs, hamburgers and beer. he tried so hard to be a regular guy and he failed miserably because we saw through the crafted image.

throughout the whole campaign, he couldn’t even inspire his own party, which had been hijacked by hard-leftists like howard dean, michael moore, and moveon.org. the democrats were reluctant to throw their support behind kerry. i doubt there has been anything kerry has done since the election that would convince them that he’s the guy in ’08. if your own party doesn’t support you, that’s a big challenge to overcome when running for president.

john kerry shouldn’t run again. it takes away from valuable vacation time. it forces him to try to be someone he’s not. more importantly for the democrats, they have a better shot at the white house with hillary.

coming up in organized chaos, more on hillary and the expanding number of oppressed minority groups in this country.

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Posted on Hurricane Katrina

words that mean things

“I do not intend to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death.”
–anonymous

out of a great tragedy like hurricane katrina can come an incredible expression of the human spirit. we have seen such displays in the past. we are seeing them right now with the amazing generosity and extreme altruism of our fellow citizens. it’s impressive. i am truly humbled to share a country with these great americans. finally the MSM has been given some positive news to report and they have done a decent job with that report. people being saved, animals being saved, federal aid being approved to the affected areas…these are positive steps toward a recovery.

now is the time for a critical evaluation to take place, not only of our government, but of ourselves. this tragedy is producing heroes who have stepped out of their comfort zones and taken risks. these risks have rewards you can’t buy. some of us will never relate to that deep understanding of what their life could mean, and we are all the poorer for it. don’t ever settle for an ordinary existence. believe that you have a reason why you’re here on this planet and chase that dream as hard as you can.

the following quotes are for TC in case he ever reads this blog.

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress, can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” –M. Gandhi

“First they ignore you…then they laugh at you…then they fight you…then YOU WIN.” –M.K. Gandhi

coming up in organized chaos — a serious discussion of the prospects of kerry and hillary in ’08.

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Posted on Random Musings

ANDRE!

i would like to congratulate one of my favorite tennis players ever, andre agassi, on making the US Open semifinals. he and james blake played an outstanding match, and i still can’t figure out how andre keeps winning these matches. no matter how it turns out from here, this has been a great run for agassi. should he choose to retire after this tournament, it would be a great way to leave the game. i love his game. always have. here’s hoping that he has two more successful games.

read all about the great match here .

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Posted on Iraq

further evidence the UN is incompetent

further proof john kerry was wrong to suggest putting increased trust in the UN is contained in the following links. some are rather lengthy articles, but i think they are important to understand why the UN needs to be reformed.

Annan ready for oil-for-food flak — i’m sure he is.
The Oil-for-Food Scam: What Did Kofi Annan Know, and When Did He Know It? –his hands are far from clean. very long. very damning stuff in this report.
Exposé, At Last?— article from the author of the previous report, claudia rosett, posted at NRO. a condensed review of the important stuff.
UN veteran fired over oil scandal — kofi next?
A Miasma of Corruption:The United Nations at 50 — a very comprehensive analysis of needed reform from the cato institute
Russian UN diplomat charged with money laundering — nothing surprising here. eventually all of the UN will have their hands in a few cookie jars. as the second article shows, russia and france were enablers in oil-for-food…so they have a few other skeletons in the closet too.
UN asks Ukraine to leave Lebanon –financial misconduct by some of their peacekeepers

that should be enough support for my argument.

let’s keep our eyes on the ball here. we, as america, a powerful and influential voice at the UN, should push the UN for needed reforms. what i would like to see is more consistency in the application of standards for members of the human rights committee (i.e. no leaders that brutalize their people should be eligible for it), emphasis on common-sense alternatives to kyoto, a more defined role for peacekeepers and a harder line taken on rogue dictators.

i would also like kofi annan to spare us his pithy lectures about how america should run itself. tell ya what, kofi. once the UN can handle its own business and effectively threaten rogue elements in its membership, then maybe you will gain a shred of credibility with us. the failures of the UN have forced this unilateral response by the US to threats. why? because sanctions don’t work and neither do toothless resolutions.

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Posted on Baseball

ramblings about sports part II

the pro baseball season is winding down and it’s going to be crazy down the stretch. I would like to see the Yankees miss the playoffs. I have a few other thoughts here.

  • now would be a good time for the mets to act like they are making a serious attempt to make the playoffs.
  • question for red sox fans: which would you rather have, a healthy schilling or last year’s world series championship? apparently you can’t have both. I would also worry about that bullpen.
  • root against the Yankees. it’s always the right thing to do –forcing their fans to endure suffering and embrace humility. losing games could work to achieve this. it’s more difficult to hate steinbrenner when he donates a million bucks to Katrina relief.
  • more proof that great defense is superior to great offense in baseball – baseball tonight on espn and web gems. home runs we’ve seen before. yawn. diving catches and sweet double plays never get old or boring.

by the way, if you don’t follow baseball, football, or college basketball, you should be kicked out of the jingo-istic American cabal. loving sports is just as much a part of the American fabric as capitalism and should be respected in the same way. women are of course excluded from this requirement.

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Posted on College Football, Michigan Wolverines, Ohio State Buckeyes

ramblings about sports part I

it is time now to discuss the wonderful world of sports, starting with college football.

  • usc –they will beat everybody else. to the otherwise perfect matt leinart: the facial hair has got to go.
  • the university of michigan – humiliate and destroy them. may their opponents have great success.

during the football season, my allegiance belongs to the ohio state buckeyes. one can only marvel at the success of jim tressel in only a few years. we should have dumped john cooper and his apologist e. gordon gee a long time ago.

I’m unsure about the QB situation there. I think Zwick looked good in the opener and deserves another start. it’s going to be a tough game against texas on saturday, but a good chance to see how good ohio state could be this year. a win would move them past texas, but I am not comfortable predicting a victory in this game.

I would like to take this opportunity to rant against the geniuses at the networks keeping us from seeing interesting games without having to pay extra for the privilege. not all pure capitalists are good people.

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