As San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy and Carney Lansford keep insisting that they are trying to teach the their team plate discipline, one thought comes to mind. If Mike Singletary coached the Giants and told them not to swing at the first pitch, they wouldn’t do it more than once.
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Amazing thought, with the 49ers at 2-0, the best professional football team in California at the end of September this year will not be the USC Trojans.
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So this year Washington, last year Oregon State, then in 2006 Stanford. Sounds like the Trojans game plan is “Underachieve Some Conference” games.
As much as I would like to see a BCS playoff, I must say that I hate the thought of giving Pete Carroll’s USC Trojans a second chance every year at the national title, after their annual mail-it-in loss to some mediocre or worse Pac 10 team.
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To push his healthcare plan, President Obama appeared last weekend on all five Sunday morning talkshows. Talk about overexposure – who does he think he is, Peyton Manning?
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The Houston Astros, 70-79 and long eliminated from playoff contention, fired their manager with 13 games left in the season. Talk about locking the barn door after the horse has not only bolted, but also run 20 miles down the road into the next county.
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Cuban defector Aroldis Chapman, a lefthander with a 102 mph fastball, has established residency in Andorra while he files for free agency. Apparently he really plans to live in the tiny country, while he is not playing for the Yankees or Red Sox.
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