Jayman

Super Moderator

Nobody should be getting the "Barry" treatment, not even Barry himself. Nothing annoys me more than seeing someone get purposely walked. It's BS. Pitch to everyone, everyone has a weakness at the plate. Find it and pitch that way to Bonds, Pujols, or whoever.

Ortiz is clutch, plain and simple. I don't know if he's more "dangerous", but both men are not easy to pitch to. Manny Ramirez is one of the top 5 hitters in baseball, period.

Peter Gammons should shut his old ass up.

And now, here it is...your moment of Carlin (10/13/2008)


Anything but the Present

America has no now. We're reluctant to acknowledge the present. It's too embarrassing.

Instead, we reach into the past. Our culture is composed of sequels, reruns, remakes, revivals, reissues, rereleases, re-creations, reenactments, adaptations, anniversaries, memorabilia, oldies radio, and nostalgia record collections. World War II has been refought on television so many times, the Germans and Japanese are now drawing residuals.

Of course, being essentially out of shit, we sometiems feel the need to dress up this past preoccupation, as with pathetic references to reruns as "encore presentations".