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Morning Joe Mika strikes back!

Posted: February 9, 2009 by datechguy in baseball, opinion/news
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Mika seems to think that the republicans are in trouble and seems to glow.

6:01 a.m. Joe corrects Mr. Summers record, it would be nice if they mentioned the daily calls between George S at ABC and the white house guys.

6:03 a.m. I think the prime the pump with wars is an unfair statement, I wouldn’t actually be surprised if President Bush actually gave that spending to buy votes on the war. If so it was a good investment.

6:12 a.m. I won isn’t an argument but I disagree, nobody is making the point that they could pass this without republicans, let us vote against it if you think the public will object.

6:16 a.m. Can Mika explain to me why a bill with at most three republicans in both houses for it is “bi-partisan” but 10 nations with troops in Iraq is the US being unilateral?

6:20 a.m. I actually think the Rodriguez business is a tad unfair, I’ll discuss this in a different post. Doesn’t make the headline wrong. I’m really surprised that Barnicle didn’t jump all over it.

6:22 a.m. I don’t know what these guys make but if MIka buys uses then she has even more brains then i give her credit for.

6:35 a.m. Maybe they ought to think of it like a child in high school don’t give them the $100 dollars at once, dole it out.

6:41 a.m. Broken Clock Alert! Even Andrea Mitchell agrees that waiting a few days or a week isn’t a bad idea.

6:47 a.m. The SNL clip reminds us that these guys will never get over President Bush.

6:51 a.m. Level of transparency my a–, people have been putting the stuff on the net, Todd is full of it. Those differences are due to the times.

6:53 a.m. I had a stomach ache this morning, much more Andrea Mitchell isn’t helping.

7:09 a.m. Everyone is going to have an asterisk since there is an asterisk in the fan’s mind.

7:11 a.m. As far as the cynical stuff, remember the sign Lowell stuff after the world series? I agree with the Ken Griffey stuff too.

Doing my unemployment claim brb

7:42 a.m. Joe gives the: We are all … fill in the blank line.

7:44 a.m. Meachem: “The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a government program.”

7:46 a.m. I would not pay for Time or Newsweek or the New York Times. I can find out much more from one week with Glenn Reynolds then with all of those magazines put together. These guys in my opinion actually know that there product isn’t popular with at least half of the country. They can’t sell their product when they are giving when we know it is 90% spin.

7:51 a.m. This idea that it is all relative is a bunch of bull, there is a difference between cheating and moral issues.

7:54 a.m. Pete Rose should NOT be in the hall. Every day he passed a sign that gave the penalties for betting on baseball and every day he ignored it.

7:56 a.m. Anyone who starts a book “A people’s history of”…naturally brings suspicion to me, I can see it is earned.

7:58 a.m. Why am I not surprised to constantly seeing ads for W on MSNBC?

8:05 a.m. Great exchange: Joe: “I want to go back to the Bush years for the moment…” Schumer: “I don’t.”

8:07 a.m. So much for the rehabilitation of John McCain.

8:09 a.m. If the payroll tax is so regressive why not cut that instead of giving income tax refunds to people who don’t pay it? Why doesn’t anyone ask this?

8:15 a.m. Do nothing or pump in money, I vote A.

8:24 a.m. Maloney D-NY”: If there is not bi-partisan support we will just pass it.” Good do so lets see if you can win back any of those 11 dems who voted no first.

8:29 a.m. Money party wants disclosure. She says no earmarks, pork by any other name would still be tasty. Mmmm tasty.

8:29 a.m. Maloney: “We need you back in congress Joe”

8:31 a.m. It’s how you direct it , tax cuts for the rich.. blah blah blah.

8:37 a.m. Private money is waiting to buy assets. What they want is a floor to then bid and what is the split on the take for the taxpayer and the investor.

8:39 a.m. 93% of people ARE paying the mortgages. You would never know what would you?

8:42 a.m. This is the A-Rod show. “This will make it ok” says Mika?

8:49 a.m. The Jonas brothers and Stevie Wonder = the day the music died.

8:50 a.m. Paul McCartney is always worth watching. I’d pay to see him but not much.

8:52 a.m. Are these the only people in America who actually watched this show?

8:57 a.m. I missed Susan Collins saying she wouldn’t vote for the bill if she doesn’t like it. I suspect she will find a reason to do so, but mark my words the media lionizing her has given her power and if she is smart she will use it.

755 > 762 Happy Birthday Hank Aaron

Posted: February 5, 2009 by datechguy in baseball
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Baseball Musings notes that today is Hank Aaron’s Birthday.

Here is an interview from last year:

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Aaron wasn’t a flashy player he just showed up every day and did his job better than almost everyone else in the game. He had a solid bat , 3 gold gloves and some speed on the bases (240 stolen bases). He is the all time leader in RBI’s and Total Bases and Extra Base Hits. He is in the top 5 all time in Games, at bats, Plate Appearances, Runs, Hits, Home Runs, Times on base, Sac Flies, Intentional Walks and a few less popular categories such as Grounded into Double Plays and Outs.

There is absolutely no way I would want Bonds on my team over Aaron. I don’t care what the numbers say. The only time I would choose Bonds over Aaron is if the bases were loaded and I needed one run for a world series.

Aaron is one of the all time class acts of the game. We were very lucky to have him.

Morning Joe kinda late

Posted: February 4, 2009 by datechguy in baseball, opinion/news
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Had to drop off the wife to work and her car to the garage so late to Morning Joe. Ironically on Imus today Doris Kearns Goodwin was echoing Andrea Mitchell in the its no big deal business. She has no excuse she grew up in a working class house.

8:01 a.m. Calling William Henry Harrison’s start as worse than the president is unfair. He lasted a month before dying and didn’t make the same mistakes that this president had.

8:06 a.m. Tell me since ball clubs stadiums are often paid for with public funds are we going to get a pay limit on players. I guess Manny might have been wrong turning down that 20 million

8:09 a.m. Would Ronald Reagan say to Tip that “I won”? Noonan After 6 p.m. with some wine in him.

8:12 a.m. Isn’t the money that Wells Fargo was going to spend on their employees money that provides stimulus to the economy?

8:15 a.m. There is a time for profits? What is the point of being in business if you are not trying to make profits? A business that is not trying to be profitable isn’t a business, it is a hobby or a charity.

8:23 a.m It’s amazing how once the poll numbers on the package tanked and the thought that the emperor might not have clothes how people like Huffington suddenly will come up against it.

8:29 a.m. You know the small local banks in town here are doing fine.

8:31 a.m. Back to back commercials,

Then this:

The standard MSNBC viewer’s heads are going to blow up on this one.

8:36 a.m. Mark Haynes: Get people on who know what they are talking about…”Ariana doesn’t know what she is saying”

8:39 a.m. Edited the 8:31 entry to replace the descriptions of the ads with the ads themselves. Since our friends on the left reflexively believe both of these sources as gospel they are likely to go Kryten.

8:41 a.m. Only in America are the poor fat. Who said that last week?

8:42 a.m. Mentioning that the Army has fat camps for recruits.

8:43 a.m. The ethics of the octuplets. They are all crying foul. I wonder if they would be crying if she aborted them. At game night the cry was jail the mother and take the kids away. I thought that liberals decided that a woman’s right to control reproduction is absolute?

8:46 a.m. Avoid dying? You can put it off but you can’t avoid it.

8:56 a.m. This is the age of Blago, and Mika is still rather fetching in those black boots. (Does anyone say fetching anymore?)

Was it only 5 years ago…

Posted: January 28, 2009 by datechguy in baseball
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…that blogs were worrying about Curt Schilling’s comments on strike zones and writing how Tim Wakefield was worried that he wouldn’t be able to show his face in Boston?

We’ll flash back every now and again to that glorious year full of surprises.