Rants of a Fuzzy Curmudgeon

The Fox commentators agreed before the game that it would not be a pitching duel…yet it was, after the Giants bounced Hernandez, after which not another run was scored.
Would Bonds be walked intentionally? What for? He never came up in Game Seven with anyone on base in front of him. His one walk came from a pitcher who was overly careful about giving him the ball right down the pike (worked him to 3-1 and then walked him). Bonds never got a pitch-out in this game.
I found it to be an exciting game. There’s nothing quite like the ninth inning of Game Seven with two men on and the tying run at the plate, a monster hit almost all the way to the wall, and a beautiful catch to end the season.
But could they shut up the damn commentators, for Chrissake? Geez. And those stupid green-screen ads behind the plate are really stupid, and frankly distracting from what’s going on at the plate.
Next year: Cubs in the Series! (OK, fine, hope springs eternal.)

Angels in 7. Barry Bonds gets another year to whine. Boo hoo.
I can’t believe he was even under consideration for MVP. I can’t see how a member of the team that LOSES the Series can be considered “most valuable”, unless you qualify it as “most valuable to the losing team”. And if he contributed to the winning team’s win, he certainly wouldn’t be “most valuable” to his own team 🙂

What a boring day.

Hell. Standard Time never left where we live. What’s wrong with the rest of you?

it’s time for Russia and France to FUCK OFF.
Baghdad delenda est. Faster, damn it.

Michael Bellesiles has resigned from Emory.
Link via the Professor. According to a bit of research here, Glenn doesn’t seem to be finding any mention whatsoever of this in the national media. Probably wouldn’t hurt if a lot of blogs made mention of it.

I seem to recall hearing that NRO’s The Corner was a Blogger-powered blog. It looks like they’ve migrated to Movable Type to me (templates are very similar but the links and file names look very MT to me).
If so, good for The Corner.

(sorry Al Franken…well, not sorry, you’re a big fat idiot too), and Rachel Lucas has opened up a big can of rant-flavored whoopass on Comrade Moore.

From time to time I highlight the stupidity of the people who work at the Indianapolis Star. Television writer Marc Allan (who used to be the rock concert critic, and wasn’t very good at that, either) has an article in the Star today talking about Sean Hannity’s appearance here tomorrow. The headline?
“Right-wing pundit Hannity is eager to meet his public.”
I wonder if he would have called Alan Colmes “Left-wing pundit Colmes” if Alan was going to be here instead? (That question was rhetorical for Republicans.)
No, no left-wing bias at the venerable Star at all. Move along, there’s nothing to see here.
(FYI I understand that Allan probably didn’t write the headline. But it points up that someone at the Star is contributing to the leftward lean the Star has been taking ever since the Pulliams sold out to Gannett.)

…Fox has switched from being “All Sniper All The Time” to “All Wellstone All The Time.”
Good God, people. A sense of proportion please.