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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Wednesday, October 29, 2008S.I.: Posnanski: In appreciation of Bud SeligPoppin’ Protty II!...Capgras syndrome musta stormed through Kansas City! (Joe? Joe? Is that you?)
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Posted: October 29, 2008 at 02:58 PM | 18 comment(s)
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Bud should be blaming his barber rather than the weatherman.
More Ayers crap.
my head splode
Uh oh. I was afraid this would happen. Posnanski. Praising Bud. BTF.
Bud is ALL about politics. Only the kind of politics behind closed doors. Cajoling. Wheedling. Pleading. Bullying. Whatever it takes to get his way.
Bud is akin to the LBJ of baseball. LBJ had no presence in public. But in a small room or one on one none better at getting his way.
That's Bud......
Really? You're not going to take Joe Posnanski seriously ever again, one of the most thoughtful and effective sportswriters currently active, because he thinks Selig blaming the weatherman was a genuine thing for him to do?
Edit: Also, JoePo has a take on this subject on his blog with a slightly different emphasis.
I break down Bud's Game 5 decisions like this:
1. Play the game and hope for the best.
2. Keep playing as long as possible.
3. Stop the game while it's tied.
4. Postpone it and finish later.
IMO, 1 is defensible, though I wouldn't have done it myself. 2 is irresponsible. 3...well, see 1. 4 was absolutely the right call. I blame Bud for the season stretching this late, and for the game starting that late at night. But his decisions on Monday don't make me want to burn him in effigy, which makes Monday different from most days.
And how! I'd love to kick back and drain a brewski with the guy some time. I'm not saying it was fun, repeatedly violating labor law by colluding against the people that enable my own industry. But a fella's got to make a living. Anyhoo, I felt a lot better after my next-door neighbor Ed pulled the Expos out of Montreal and tried to whack the Twins. That was unfortunate, but at the end of the day he's just good folks. And I love my kid brother Jerry to death, but the guy actually swears he was leading the fight against steroids a decade before he said he heard about them for the first time. God love 'im, though, his heart's in the right place. Now, would you like to see my photos of all the swell neighborhood barbecues we had in October 1994, after the schedule opened up?
I'm going to guess it was less Selig blaming the weatherman and more when Posnanski claimed:
This is the sort of remark that causes us to pick up the morning paper and read about thousands of deaths during the night by aneurysm.
And this:
A planet of Hitlers!!
[thus endeth the thread]
We are all Hitlers in our own small way. Except Jesus, that holier than thou punk.
When are they firing uo the Large Hadron Collider again?
Considering 99% of journalists/bloggers/internet commenters only say negative things, I'll gladly take his misplaced optimism.
So, does this mean that I shouldn't have singled scareduck out in the Herzog thread for being a nattering nabob of negativism?
Dexter
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