More BS

So much shittiness, so little time

ESPN.com article on September in baseball.

WILL THIS METS-PHILLIES SAGA HAVE A DIFFERENT ENDING?

I don't know, probably.

Jayson Stark breaks it down for me

Here's the record of these teams in games decided after the sixth inning (meaning the score was tied after six, or the lead changed): Phillies 31-15, Mets 11-22. Nobody we've talked to thinks that stat is an aberration.
"One part of it, obviously, is the difference in bullpens," one scout said. "But the other part of it is heart. I love the Phillies' grit.

I can see how bullpens would make a difference, schedule and injuries to key players may make a bigger one. Obviously grit and heart the biggest.

I Call BS

Wilkin's Player Profiles

There is no way Cunningham weighs 'only' 16st. The man is a cube.

News Corp let me down again!

I've been worrying about the distinct lack of quality of Times leaders for a while. However the second paragraph in today's piece entitled

Australia: Dingoland

is particularly special

The trouble with wilderness, as they see it, is that when you get there, there is no there there.

I stopped reading after that. It's like they just don't care anymore.

Speaking of not caring anymore, the hand of Sky Sports has touched Steve Kirby, after Patel and Bopara last year, and Napier in the first half of this year. Steve Kirby has been touted for England after two good performances on TV.

During yesterday's game Nick Knight was thrilled about him and detailed to us how Steve Kirby is a quick learner and has obviously matured, but still has a few things to learn (hot to bowl a yorker, mix up his lengths etc.)

You would be forgiven for thinking Kirby was a 21 year old firebrand. But he is 31 in a month! He has played 98 first class games! What about that makes you think he has learnt anything? Why should he play for England? What has possessed Nick Knight?

Nick Knight also masturbated over Eoin Morgan and his "array of shots" (I'm pretty sure he can only play a really shitty pre-meditated sweep and nothing else). However I will let that pass as he is at least young.

N.B. I love Steve Kirby and his awesome ball-tampering ways, this is meant as a knock to Verity more than anything else.

Joy to the world...

Bopara is dropped. Hopefully that's the last we see of that talentless little piss stain.

That is all.

Sophie's Choice '08: America Decides

This update from the world of American politics; identikit Fox News woman (I can't tell them apart other than Edith Ann Tarbox) talking about polling for the election:

In the latest poll released after Sen. Joseph Biden was chosen as the VP nominee for the Democrats, Sen Barack Obama and Sen John McCain are literally neck-and-neck

I'm unsure if this is some sort of mating ritual or perhaps a prelude to some sort of fight to the death over the presidency. Either way, I'm not sure it matters as neither would manage a four year term without dying in office- they might as well finish each other off now (or at least in time for Gov. Huckabee to get the Republican nomination next week).

Getting it Right?

The DUP, yet again, are so close.


From their website:





Obviously their commitment to accuracy only goes so far. Apostrophes are a tool of papal authority, or something, and are absent from the party's website.

And the winner is...no one

No one indeed. For the 29,811th day in a row, we are all losers.

The BBC are at it again. At least this time their amateurism fits in- it's the Olympics.

Two marvellous instances of what can only be described as retartdism this morning. First, the men's 100m freestyle final (that's two lengths of front crawl swimming to you and me). This link will take you to the iPlayer recording of the race.

This is the commentary 1.57 in:

Aiden (whoever he might be): He got it, well, [sarcastically] comfortably; by enough.
Commentator 2: By 11 one-hundredths, Aiden.
A: That's enough
C2: Miles
A: That's nearly a tenth

Speaks for itself. I will add nothing.

The other moron moment on the BBC this morning was that Scottish bint (I think she's called Hazel Irvine but I'm not totally sure) saying that someone was:

Literally hounded

I think she was wrong. They are however in Beijing so there's no way to be certain.