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Not with a bang but a whimper.

September 9, 2011

Who knew T.S. Eliot was a Giants fan?

My friend Matt wondered if the SF Giants have faced Clayton Kershaw every series this year. Not sure, but they sure have made at least one pitcher each series LOOK like Clayton Kershaw.

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Recently released Giants shortstop Miguel Tejada says he hopes to keep playing baseball in 2012. San Francisco fans hope so too, preferably for another NL West team.

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Jim Tressel has been suspended for his first six games with the Indianapolis Colts as a game-day replay consultant. Well, considering the news about Manning, looks like he won’t miss too many potential touchdown reviews.

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Proof again that it’s better sometimes to be lucky than good. Think of all those NY Giants fans who in fits of bravado bet at the end of last season that Eli Manning would have more passing yards in 2012 than Peyton.

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Another day, another reasonably embarrassing performance by a Pac 12 team. Last night it was Arizona losing 37 to 14 to Oklahoma State. No wonder Texas and Oklahoma want to join. They want games with intra-conference cream puffs.

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Attention baseball fans. Root for the Angels-Rangers pennant race to go down to the last weekend. Because otherwise ALL we’re going to hear about in upcoming weeks is who the Yankees and Red Sox match up best against in the playoffs.

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Great bumper sticker: “How can you be pro-life and anti-universal healthcare?”

Justin Verlander is having one of the best pitching years of the decade. 22-5 with a 2.44 era. Imagine if he were pitching for the SF Giants this year – he might have as many as 12 or 13 wins.

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Interesting stat tonight on KNBR 680 radio: If the SF Giants finish this year with a winning record, (they are currently 75-68), they are on pace for the fourth worst total of runs scored EVER for a team that finishes over .500. Including the dead ball era.

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Can’t imagine how lefty pitchers get the reputation for being flakes — Giant reliever Jeremy Affeldt is done for the year after cutting his right hand while using a knife to separate frozen hamburger patties. (You do think for $4.5 million a year the guy could afford fresh meat….)

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Opening night.

September 9, 2011

The NFL opened their season Thursday night. Although the Saints-Packers was hardly the first professional game of the year. The Canadian Football League has been going since July, and Ohio State and Miami kicked off last week.

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Some derided President Obama for his choice to finish his jobs speech in time for the NFL opener. But Barack didn’t think he could get re-elected with just the women’s vote.

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The NFL is now directing all teams to post out-of-town statistics on their scoreboards for Fantasy Football players. Guess they want fans in Carolina to be able to go to the stadium and hope to see SOME good news.

San Diego is completely without power tonight. So for Padres fans, it’s business as usual.

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Ohio State explained today why three football players were suspended for the opening game against Akron: They each took $200 at a Cleveland charity event. Responded the Miami Hurricanes -“$200? Wow. Buckeye boosters are pikers.”

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So if the Pac 12 turns into the Pac 16, how long before the West Coast members consider breaking away to form their own Pac 8?

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A Mississippi man was arrested for shoplifting while trying to leave a grocery store with items stuffed into his shorts including two live lobsters. Wonder if he was caught because he was singing soprano?

(My friend Bill Dwan adds – could be worse, he could have had crabs.)

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Ben and Jerry’s have come out with a new flavor – “Schweddy Balls,” named after the famous SNL skit with Alec Baldwin.

Insert “More than a mouthful” joke here: (And of course, other punchlines always encouraged.)

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Michele Bachman stated she felt she felt “deeply disappointed” by the president’s jobs speech and said Congress should avoid passing his plan. Fair enough, but does anyone doubt that she wrote her response before Obama wrote his speech?

(Meanwhile, no response yet from Sarah Palin. Maybe she couldn’t read the writing on her palms.)

As the NFL season gets underway, there’s a new favorite in the AFC South. The Houston Texans. By a neck.

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Okay, we all know how valuable Peyton Manning has been. But what if he turns out to have been so valuable that the Colts end up the worst team in the NFL this year…. Do they go for Andrew Luck?

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I probably differ with many Democrats in that I liked California Governor Jerry Brown’s veto of a proposed helmet law for children skiing or snowboarding. His reasoning, that while it’s a good idea, “Not every human problem deserves a law.”

Just wish that some conservatives applauding the decision would apply the same standards to issues of perceived “morality.” (Gay marriage for starters, but the list goes on.)

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