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October 12, 2012

SF Giants fans who were stressed Thursday but thinking, “Okay, calm down, we can’t really blow a 6-0 lead,” are retroactively even more stressed.

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Interesting  retroactive trivia from listening again to the bottom of the ninth in the SF Cincinnati game: Giants announcer Jon Miller said repeatedly that the tying run was on base. He NEVER said that the winning run was at the plate. But of course, it was.

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Anyone else but me getting tired of the St. Louis Cardinals? Maybe it’s that with two straight wild card finishes and then turning it on in the post season that they remind me of the Heat or the Lakers.

 

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As a baseball fan, I think shutting down Strasburg was one of the stupidest things the Nationals could do. But if they had won the NLDS, as a SF Giants fan I would have learned to live with it.

 

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One of several men nabbed in an online prostitution scam in Texas is a 59-year-old senior V.P. with Halliburton. Bummer. For non-millionaires, this might be the closest anyone at Halliburton has gotten to an economic stimulus.

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When asked about her possible plans to run for President, Sarah Palin responded “Que sera sera.” From a 1950’s Hitchcock movie. Interesting choice of words for the woman who never knew too much.

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For the Cardinals-Nationals game Friday night,  as of Friday morning,   3823 tickets were available on Stubhub . But for the Orioles-Yankees – 11,960 available.   What, New York fans don’t show up unless it’s the World Series?

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And in the end, a LOT of empty seats at Yankee Stadium for a ALDS game five. To be fair, it’s not as if they have a significant population base nearby.

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The Space Shuttle Endeavour headed out last night on a 12-mile trip from LAX Airport to the California Science Center, travelling at 2 miles an hour. Did they choose that speed to match the average during L.A. rush hour?

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Black and orange and a little bit blue.

October 12, 2012

For anyone who’s been thinking nostalgically  about Will Clarks’s 1987 “I’ve been waiting for this since I was an f**king amateur.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/11/tim-lincecum_n_1959995.html

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And anyone who had a very unproductive few hours at work following the Giants-Reds game already knows this.  But for the uninitiated – torture is back.

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SF Giants today became the first team in Major League Baseball history to win a best of five playoff series after losing the first two at home.  So ESPN focuses Sportcenter on … Thursday Night Football,  Dale Earnhardt, Jr,  and of course,  the Yankees.

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Tonight’s Orioles-Yankees game finished up in 13th inning in New York, over four hours since the first pitch. Normally the only games that last this long in New York are 9 inning Red Sox-Yankees games.

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All this hype about the importance of winning tonight’s running mate debate. Yeah, it made such a difference to Vice President Lloyd Bentsen.

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An initial CNN focus group report said that 32% thought Biden won, 32% thought Ryan won, and 35% thought it was a draw. But 80% after watching Joe said – “I’ll have what he’s having.”

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Paul Ryan danced around an abortion question so carefully,  he may be invited to compete on the next DWTS.

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Damn, if Joe Biden ever gets tired of this political stuff he has an endorsement contract waiting with 5-Hour Energy.

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Maybe before the next debate President Obama should practice against Joe Biden instead of John Kerry.  No one will ever accuse Biden of being too polite.

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James Young, the #5 basketball recruit in the country, says he’s going to Kentucky, adding “I’m not just looking for the NBA. I’m looking for an education and a national championship and that’s about it.” Well, two out of three ain’t bad.

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Ah perspective. Texas Rangers CEO Nolan Ryan, discussing the end of the season, said the timing of Josh Hamilton’s decision to quit smokeless tobacco this summer “couldn’t have been worse.” Uh, is there ever a bad time to quit chewing tobacco?

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How did this guy ever get the reputation for being out of touch? Mitt Romney today: “We don’t have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don’t have insurance.”

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From Marc Ragovin:   “I’m not saying Mitt Romney is loaded, but he just bought one of his granddaughters a Barbie’ S Dream House with its own car elevator.”

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Somewhere Lloyd Bentsen is thinking: “I knew Jim Lehrer, Jim Lehrer was a friend of mine, Martha Raddatz, you’re no Jim Lehrer. – Thank God.”

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