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Who cares? If it just came down to the "best team" by record, why do we even have a postseason? Just crown the Angels the champions right now and bring on the fall TV lineup. He's wrong. He's comparing apples and oranges. Sure, the Dodgers don't have as many wins as the Yankees, but they play in the National League. You can argue all you want about whether the NL is better or worse than the AL, but the crucial point is that it's different. The Yankees understand the current system, and have taken advantage of it, better than anyone -- until this year, they had made the postseason in every

Or, more likely, the legislators who voted for it didn't want to be seen as "gay-friendly," and knew that it would hurt them less politically to vote for it.

Hard to believe, I know, but Hank Steinbrenner sounds like even more of an asshole than his father... Hank Steinbrenner rips divisional playoff system in Sporting News BY MARK FEINSAND DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER Updated Tuesday, September 23rd 2008, 4:09 PM Many people have been impressed with the Dodgers' recent turnaround, one which will likely land Joe Torre's club in the postseason next week. Just don't count Hank Steinbrenner among them. Steinbrenner, the Yankees' co-chairman, ripped Major League Baseball's divisional system in a column in this week's Sporting News, saying that th

...which is hilarious, because football players slap each other's asses a lot and tend to find themselves piled up on top of each other.

Detroit Free Press story First Kwame Kilpatrick, now Matt Millen. Things are finally looking up for Detroit.

Not acceptable by most people's standards, but if I'm not mistaken, it is the minimum legal speed on the interstate.

I don't think my monitor is very good for this kind of thing. Or my eyes. I can't decide.

I should have linked to the site where I got that: Kiss My Big Blue Butt, which is always a good read.

Dear American: I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude. I am Minister of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you. I am working with Mr. Phil Gramm, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my replacement as Minister of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s. T

But Reagan is dead. Artificial insemination.

A short post about this appeared on BoingBoing yesterday.

I don't. People suck.

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Boo fucking hoo.

Not that this means a thing, but PBS is running an online poll on whether Palin is qualified to be veep. Predictably, the pro-Palin forces are doing their best to stuff the ballot box. Vote, if you care.

I did.

Happy birthday, you magnificent something-or-other.

The request was for 21st century protest songs.

Are you sure they weren't slowing down for a cyclist?

Excellent. It seems so rare that one of these stories has a happy ending.

Led Zeppelin without John Bonham is not Led Zeppelin (but I'd still go see them). Led Zeppelin without Robert Plant is pathetic and sad (and I won't waste my money).

When I was at the Exploratorium in San Francisco this summer, they had a "superstition obstacle course," part of which was to put a hat on a bed. I had never heard of that superstition before.

...which is why I don't participate in threads like this very often. (Not aimed at you specifically, twobobs)

Joe Conason sums up my feelings about all this quite succinctly. This is likely to stir up some of the free-market Kool-Aid drinkers here, but how many times do they have to be proven wrong before they retreat to the sidelines and let the someone else handle things? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The corporate financiers are wrong Would they please shut up about the wonders of an unfettered free market? It's taxpayers who are paying the price for their greed -- again. By Joe Conason Sep. 19, 2008 | Now that we're all about to take on hundreds of billions or perhaps a trillion

I don't think anyone said you can't do both. I just prefer not to get bogged down with stats. I'll glance at a player's basic stats when they flash them onscreen (BA, HR, RBI), but I really don't care what his batting average is with two outs and a runner on third, or what his OPS is against left-handers after the sixth inning in games in which his team trails. If you're into that stuff, fine ... but like religion, sometimes it's best to keep it to yourself.