Considering the fact that OxyLimbaugh's fondest desire has always been to be a football commentator:
In the wake of his controversial statements regarding Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, Rush Limbaugh has resigned from his position on ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown pregame show.
ESPN has accepted the resignation.
This has to hurt :
Keith Olbermann is returning to sports broadcasting for the first time in six years as the co-host of the pre-game show for NBC's Sunday night NFL telecasts, NBC announced today.Olbermann, who will continue to host his nightly news show “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” on MSNBC TV, will round out the “Football Night in America” team of host Bob Costas, co-host Cris Collinsworth, and analysts Jerome Bettis and Tiki Barber.
Some times the better man does win.
(h/t cbl)
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Again Yaaa
Heh.
As long as he refrains from Howard Cosell imitations, I can deal. When is KO going to sleep?
Go Keith! Show that oxy-chomping bastard how it’s done…
That’s friggin’ PERFECT! I love KO and detest Limpballs! Karma rules!
There’s a special place in Hell waiting for Limbaugh. It can’t come too soon.
I guess old Rush will just have to settle on those little V*agra jaunts to the Carribean with his Hollywood boyfriends.
Edited by Mod *
You can bet the fundies will be throwing everything negative Keith has ever said about anyone up against the wall to see what will stick. There will be a massive effort to make sure Keith cannot comment on football if Rush cannot. They will not let this travesty of a mockery of a sham to stand.
I hope he sits alone at home and cries about this. . .
Rush almost looks ready to cry in that photo.
I’m not a football fan, but have become a KO fan, so good for him.
May Limpballs be tee’d off….
Go Keith..
I guess old Rush will just have to settle for theose V*agra jaunts to the Carribean with his Hollywood boyfriends
Edited by Mod *
JANE!!!!! KEITH!!!!! {{{{{HUGS ACROSS THE BOARD}}}}}
I’m surprised, the NFL is a pretty conservative outfit.
Congratulations to Keith Olbermann!!! As for Rush, too bad, so sad.
OT: But, a diary at Kos regarding email retrieval found a link at the bottom of a page of the doc dump that reveals that the document which was written in 2003, was retrieved recently using Enterprisevault. So, I checked out what Enterprisevault is via Robtex.com. This is what I found. I don’t know if it is of any value in the hunt for the 5,000,000 missing emails or not:
http://www.enterprisevault.org/
KO’d by KO. Teeheehee.
Iowa Democrat @
7
IIRC, Keith started his career on ESPN. He’s a frequent guest with Dan Patrick on Dan’s radio show. Keith has legit sports credentials.
Something is weird here…
Iowa Democrat @
7
They may try, but most sports fans already KNOW that Keith has a strong snark streak AND that he is a credible sportscaster, unlike Rust Limpballs
Just a thought…
Live each day to its fullest
Love and be Loved
Give thanks to whomever
PEACE!
Oh, good grief, now I’ll have to start watching Sunday football again.
Justice comes in many flavors…
I remember when KO was “elevated” to do the news and no one thought a sportscaster had the whatever that it takes . . .
I think the list of right-wing radio blowhards who haven’t made racist comments would be a lot shorter than the list of those who haven’t.
I just keep hoping that with each chip, chip away, each time an Imus is sacked, a Limbaugh is caught with someone else’s erection drugs, a Michael Savage (?) is heard siding with the jihadis coz at least they hate them some fagit,…. the rest of the media will wake up to the poison on the airwaves masquerading as broadcasting.
Guess the tune to which this is sung (hint: Eddie Albert is involved):
Ruuuuush Limbaugh is a bitter man,
Heeeeeeeee’s lost a gig to Olbermann!
Keith’s words will be spread far and wide
Pleasing the sports fans over the countryside!
Dah dah dah dah dah — KO!
Dah dah dah dah dah — No snow!
Dah dah dah dah dah — The facts!
Dah dah dah dah dah — No hacks!
Rush, you’re a tool! Good-bye, silly fool!
Keith Olbermann is here!
Great for Keith. They’ve often asked him to participate in coverage like the Olympics, and he’s said he is often torn with the notion of taking a break from Countdown to cover sports. This way, he can do both of his passions. Great!
Even better to know that he’ll likely succeed over the NFL’s failed attempts at humor via Rush and Dennis Miller. Hehehe!
OT regarding the Pullitzers: I wanted to post a link to a recent editorial cartoon by Mike Thompson of the Detroit Free Press. Thompson was nominated for the Pullitzer in this category. Here’s one terrific example of his work that I’m sure you’ll all enjoy: Tap, tap, tap!
I just love the care he takes in illustrating details on the faces of people like Bush & Cheney.
Two other recent cartoons worth viewing:
Extension
Don’t Worry, Be Happy!
and sooo the worm is finally turning – go keith do you my man! congrats
Gnome de Plume @ 16
You funny GdP – wonderful to smile on an otherwise grim day. ;~)
Rush probably made that comment in the first place because the quarterback wouldn’t sleep with him.
With all the gay closeted conservatives, isn’t anyone suspicious that Limp-balls has been married three times, but doesn’t have a kid. (Actually – THANK GOD! That would be a good case for an abortion for the sake of humanity.)
I hope Tiki Barber is a Democrat, he’s pretty cool.
Sweet!!!!
I get to look at Sweet TIki Barber AND Olbermann.
Followed by 3 hours of men in tight, transluscent pants. Folks, I’ve got to warn you. I’m going to be absolutely intolerable during football season this year. And unless I write my sequel (Anatomy of Delete), I’ll even have time to watch this year!!!
OT — C’mon, HungryJoe. Huple’s cat?
emptywheel @ 29
EW – My thoughts exactly!!!! Sexy guys rock!
And unlike the oxyconman in his brief stint, Keith has the integrity to keep ideology and self-promotion out of it. Keith has more sports knowledge in his little toe, than Flushed Limpflaw has in his whole bloated corpse.
“isn’t anyone suspicious that Limp-balls has been married three times, but doesn’t have a kid.”
We all know synthetic morphine made him deaf, maybe it has “other” effects…
raven @
15
With Keith and Tiki on the same show, maybe they figure all the girlie T&A isn’t improving ratings, maybe they shoudl try appealing to the female viewer.
Phoenix Woman @ 25
Good one! Unfortunately, that song will be stuck in my head for the rest of the day. *g*
why do you think they call him “Rush”
Phoenix Woman @
25
Green Acres! (Where’s Eva?)
emptywheel @ 36
Yea, Keith is awfully good at departmentalizing so i guess there won’t be “sprecial commnets”.
oh, and after he was fired and refused to appear on Sportscenter – he had this to say to all the dildoheads
grandpa cbl called that chickenshit
Newspaperbrat – did you get my thank you in a late night thread, I think it was? I haven’t put the sticker on yet, because I haven’t washed my bumper!
OK, I know I’m totally out of it but what was Limbaugh’s controvercial comments?
kdh22 @ 33
And for that matter, Jerome Bettis is kind of cute, too, if you like your guys big (which I used to–definitely went through the lunkhead stage before settling on my ultimate player husband…) In fact, compared to Tiki and Jerome, I’d say KO will only have the third sexiest smile on the show.
Can we skip baseball season and move right to football?
cathy @ 43
Said the only reason Donovan McNabb was a celebrated QB was because he was black. Or words to that effect. Which a whole lot of people in Philadelphia, PA and Syracuse, NY would dispute.
As long as we’re doing high fives . . .
In case you all didn’t see it in the last thread, Charlie Savage, champion of truth and justice just won a Pulitzer for his piece on signing statement. I heard he is finishing a book. Sent him a congrats e-mail and mentioned our book salon. I think we could give him a hearty welcome at the Lake. Eh?
Ya think Rush ever “met” Jeff Gannon?
emptywheel @ 35
It won’t work due to a rather complex algorithm employed by marketing specialists. The equation is too complex to detail here, but the gist is that woman don’t buy enough pick ‘em up trucks or bad beer. Very heady stuff!
cathy @ 43
emptywheel @ 42
The Bus is my man and the Steelers my team (since the glory years of the ’70s). Ohhh, I like ‘em big all right. Fast forward to August please…
cathy @ 43 – – he said ‘librul media was rooting for him b/c he was black’
mega dildoes rush
Rock on, Phoenix Dudess! You got the meter and everything!
The guy who’s going to suffering from Splodin’ Head Syndrome is Bill O’Reilly. He won’t be able to watch the game.
Don’t get to plug Donovan McNabb on FDL too often…
Can we skip baseball season and move right to football?
Oh please please please please!
RevDeb @ 44
Rev-
I didn’t read the last thread yet. I’m supposed to be working, but I’m addicted to FDL so I gets me my fixes when I can between 7 and 4.
KO would be very wise to leave politics out of his football show. Frankly, I’d be shocked if NBC let him wade into that. I don’t see how trapsing into political discussion in a NFL show would help their ratings whatsoever.
I heard about “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” from your site and I want to say thanks its a great show…
Poor, poor Rush
Karma’s a beetch
Best wishes Mr. Olbermann with that new spot on “Football Night in America” on MSNBC TV.
kdh22 @
49
Now c’mon! There are still a FEW of us who like the pastoral effects of beisbol instead of the war effects of football . Please allow us our summer passions of going to the park before folks start going back to the stadiums. (Easy one for those who get the reference.)
landofthefree @ 54
KO is a seasoned and professional sportscaster.
It is kind of strange. I’ve had Reuters on my RSS feed for a long long time. Usually they post multiple times on the same story and kind of beat it to death. The VT shooting story has hardly shown up today. Just noticing. That’s all.
emptywheel @ 31
We are doomed.
Ladies, ladies, ladies, Cricket is a real man’s sport … they do it for 5 days non- stop …
Gnome de Plume @ 41
I did see your thoughtful thank you and meant to acknowledge – been a bit out of my mind with the chaos of tax prep and installing a new exhibition at the same time.
emptywheel @ 45
But the NHL playoffs just started! This is the best time of the year!
landofthefree @ 55
Not to worry. KO has an ability to keep the playpen separate from the real world. Unlike Limpballs.
Dakine01 – GWB is a baseball man.
Training camp opens end of July!
Pat_AlexVA @ 58
So true, Keith can actually carry a game and not have to dig up a bunch of devicive crap.
EW – Anatomy of Delete. I just spewed my coffee. You are hilarious. I hope you are serious!!!
Pat_AlexVA @ 65
And his being a baseball man is the ONLY thing he ever had correct. Kinda like Imus and Delbert McClinton.
dakine01 @ 57
Thank you for that. I concur.
Petrocelli @
62
That’s quite impressive….
hmmm…
how do the fans hold out in the stands?…
Pat_AlexVA @ 59
Exactly, and therefore I expect he will keep the political talk out of the sports show. You can add sports to the political show, but the reverse can really alienate a portion of your audience. We’ve been trained over the past six years to view politics in a “us versus them” mentality. I would think that Keith is wise enough to not make comments that could potentially piss off a significant percentage of viewers. He can keep up with the sportscasters without delving into politics. I don’t think we should predict that this sports show will have any liberal vibe whatsoever.
RevDeb @ 70
Beisbol been berry berry good to me, too!
My, my @ 70
They take breaks for tea, of course.
RevDeb @ 69
My ultimate fantasy, even more than being voted Mr Basketball and hitting the game winning shot at the State Tournament was hitting the WS winning home run in the bottom of the ninth of the seventh game to lead the Cincinnati Reds to the Championship. I learned at a VERY early age that most fantasies don’t come true. :})
johnSwifty @ 72
I loves our boys of summer too – especially the SF Giants – this may well be Barry Bonds last season, sigh!
as i’m a baseball fanatic i suppose i’ll check out keith doing his football thing since i’m a big KO fan ;o) but this is such a sad day i really cant take delight in keith’s good fortune as yet
emptywheel @ 36
IIRC, Tiki has shown Republican tendencies in the past. Just FYI.
Has anyone seen that diary wrt Iacocca, who definitely has had enough?
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..13215/0272
Petrocelli @ 62
Too many breaks for lunch and tea. I’ll settle for three solid hours.
landofthefree @ 63
i was hoping i wasn’t the only puck-head in attendance! Go Sharks!
johnSwifty @ 72
I did have Chico Escuela/Garrett Morris partially in mind but not completely. Think another comedian.
emptywheel @ 44
NO!
hapkidokid @ 81
I played hockey my whole life, but I will never differ from the opinion that when the ice is off the pond, it is time to play ball!
Marcy, if your next book is “Anatomy of Delete,” the following one has to be “Anatomy of Defeat!” Due out in spring of ‘09?
Latest FaBlog: Timmeh Has a Dream
Don’t hurt me, but I think it’s a mistake for KO to do the sports broadcasts.
Of course, he’ll be good at it, unlike Miller;
but it’ll be a dilution of what we like about him, what we want from him, what we seek from him.
/waving to hapkidokid.
I’m hoping my team (Red Wings) meets yours in the next round or two. Nashville is a tough team, though!
dakine01 @ 82
It pains me to admit stumpeddness.
Things I’ve seen:
Drysdale sets the record for consecutive scoreless innings.
Gibson fails to beat that record against the Dodgers because of an unearned run in what would otherwise have been a shutout.
Mays scoring from first on a single, to the shock of Maury Wills whose throw to the plate is too late; it wins the game.
Roseboro gets bopped on the head by Marichal after a brushback pitch.
Dickie Dietz fakes getting hit and is called back by the ump.
Willy Mays looses a fly ball in center because of a Seagull.
People wearing ski parkas in August at Candlestick.
evabaruk @
80
If you can, browse one of the cricket matches being played in the Caribbean … you will be amazed at what the fans are doing in the stands. Prince Harry was french kissing his girl and no one around them thought that was worth watching.
johnSwifty @ 89
George Carlin routine from the ’70s. I guess you’re just a young pup. Rather than an ol’ hound like myself.
Petrocelli @ 62
Yea the lunch and tea breaks; brutal!
Baseballl would be a OK if we didn’t have to put up with baseball people like george will and bob costas.
I was watching hockey last night and during one of the fights a soccer match broke out.
Thank you, I’ll be here all week.
scarecrow @ 90
cool!
scarecrow @ 89
Tanks for these wondrous memories scarecrow – ya got this npbrat all weepy and nostalgic and missing my Pop.
I love ALL sports…both american and international. Just gotta thing for those hit ‘em hard types. Could be the 4 bros I grew up with.
scarecrow @ 90
I watched the sixth game from the confines of a little Italian club in Everett. I was probably the only Reds fan within 150 miles of Boston that night. And I can still name the Reds WS line-up from ‘61 and cry when I hear “MIlt Pappas for Frank Robinson.”
Elliott @ 86
That crossed my mind as well…but he could also attract sports fans to a reliable news source..
“the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels tonight”…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQWxgnFc1fk
amen.
BOOOWWWHHHAAAAHAHAHAHAAHAA!
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/….._0416.html
jayt @ 99
And may God Bless all.
dakine01 @ 92
I’m 42 and getting dumber every day; just ask my 14 year old.
But, it brings to mind a question of sport. My wife is trying to convince me that I have an anachronistic fantasy about playing hot-box for hours or shooting hoops until it was too dark to see, as soon as the snow was off the field or courts.
My kids, on the other hand, would prefer to stay inside and play a computer game regardless of the weather. I’ve outlawed xbox and ps2 and gamecube, but the computers are really just as bad. Don’t kids want to be outside anymore?
Va Tech presser. The shooter had no ID so they don’t know who he is. They are NOT sure both shootings were related?
Eureka Springs @ 98
Ah, yes, better to look for the positive since I can’t be changing it.
landofthefree @
64
Proof positive that I’m just a transplant here in MI.
Heh – I guess Pat Robertson’s little Regents University is trying to cover their tracks a lil’ bit: Regents University scrubs links to Bush Admin – per ThinkProgress
kdh22 @
21
An excellent thought, though
Petrocelli @ 91
actually i like cricket, but i have a short attention span
scarecrow @ 89
We’ve got to get our tickets soon for a pilgrimage to Wrigley when we go to YKos. By August we can probably leave the parkas behind.
They thought the shooter had left the campus, so that is why they didn’t bother to tell the other students? Can you say MAJOR LAWSUITS!!!!!!!!!!
hapkidokid @
81
Tcha! Silly americans think that a futbol is ovoid!
johnSwifty @ 103 – I’m soon to be double nickel and no kids but all I ever did as a kid was play baseball and basketball even though I wasn’t worth a damn. Remember getting conked in the head more than once by a fly ball I couldn’t see becuz it was too dark out.
landofthefree @ 87
I hope you’re right! Preds are playing some nasty hard hitting hockey right now and the young guns on the Sharks haven’t shown that they know how to respond. Funny about the Wings, the entire side of my daughters mother’s side are die-hard Wings fans. We can’t watch Sharks/Wings games together. LOL
At this time, they are not looking for someone…they are just investigating…WTF
LS @
68
Not my suggestion. Several people, in fact, have suggested it, among others TRex. Who clearly is funnier than I am. But that was already clear.
emptywheel:
You want to skip summer? I like football and I’d skip baseball, but not summer!
scarecrow @ 89
that was me!
i’ve lost the feeling in my feet and ankles because it was so cold – even though i was wearing my winter coat – at the ’stick.
I mean, lets face it. Baseball is a game, a thing of beauty when it’s played right, at least before the pumped up bodies and the bloated salaries and lack of team loyalty. American football, on the other hand, is not a game; it is a proxy for war, a spectacle little different from Christians and lions, bringing out the same emotions and violence; watching it undermines democracy.
jayt @ 98
That was a President I could be proud of!!!!!
Thanks
The apparition of Limpaugh in the crowd;
Lies of a detumescent, racist cow.
scarecrow @ 90
I remember some of those – seeing them on radio. (Raised on Giants, grandma was a Dodger fan: some of the best radio broadcasters.)
scarecrow @ 89
Ahhh, good old Candlestick! It’s funny, but people here in Chicago cannot relate at all when they see people bundled up for a night game in SF. I tell everyone i know that it was warmer to go to a Niners day game in January then a Giants night game in July. You could always tell who the tourist were by the tank-tops and shorts!
scarecrow @ 119
That’s why I threw the reference to the Carlin bit into an earlier comment. Park vs stadium, going home vs. gaining territory and so on.
I was able to watch a GREAT game yesterday where the Reds beat the Cubs 1-0. I always hate it when folks say “Nothings happening, the score’s still 0-0.” I ask then, “How did we get to the 0-0 in the (7th, 8th, 9th) inning?” I do love baseball. Even when it isn’t my favorite team.
evabaruk @ 109
so do they!
P J Evans @ 122
I had Waite Hoyt calling the game for the Reds sponsored by Hudepohl Beer, America’s only 14K brew. Get Moody with Hudy!
scarecrow @ 119
My husband who is a fan of “the beautiful game” (i.e., soccer) suddenly became a 49ers football fan a decade or so ago. Coulda knocked me over with a feather. But I grew up in Texas and like riding a bicycle, you can remember it.
But it has given me cause to ponder what it is about this place that fosters such thirst for violence. And since those days, even soccer has gotten more violent.
I recently read an interesting analysis about societal violence that attributed it to our Scots-Irish roots. Whatever, it is ugly nonetheless.
scarecrow @ 118
That’s what I keep telling Mr. Rev. but he just doesn’t get it.
I second that emotion.
P J Evans @ 122
I can enjoy a good baseball game on the radio.
Speaking of sports on the radio, I remember listening to Sonny Liston v Cassius Clay, the summer of ‘64.
Good for Keith. Bye, bye Oxybaugh.
CT News. In addition to the head-scratcher of an appointment: us attorney O’Connor to be Abu’s Chief of Staff, Maura has a heckuva a post on HoJoe’s sleazy alliance with sleazy Bridgeport players. Gosh! If only we had a real US attorney.
scarecrow @ 118
There’s actually been some superb socilogical studies abotu teh importance of football in forming community in football’s earlier years; one study, IIRC, focused on the Cleveland Browns.
Of course, now that season tickets cost the same as a used car, taht’s no longer true. But I’ll take my football any day.
P J Evans @ 121
Ah, baseball on the radio. Mutual of Omaha’s Game of the Day, back when most games were daytime cause they didn’t have lights. And later, with my Zenith portable radio, I could go up on the roof at my home in NM, or out on the balcony of the top floor of my dorm in Colorado, and just barely pull in KFI and Vin Scully. I heard all four of Koufax’ no-hitters on that ancient radio.
Elliott @ 129
I mean the winter of ‘64, I must’ve been singing songs or something
“Look, the left-wing group, CREW, came up with a number of 5 million. We don’t know where they came up with that number,” Deputy Press Secretary Dana Perino said in today’s press briefing.
But she acknowledged that a problem existed.”
In reference to a possible obstruction of justice charge against Rove. If Fitz has cause to show that Rove deleted his emails, he can reopen the investigation.
But if Fitz is in possessopn of the missing/deleted emails already, is Rove still in legal jeopardy (Rove’s defense of “but I thought the special prosecutor already had them” defense, notwithstanding)?
raven @ 103
BUT, they had a person of interest they were looking for from the first shooting. They know, just can’t confirm yet probably
emptywheel @ 130
Marcy! For heaven’s sake. That “community” of Browns fans today votes Republican! Save yourself!
RevDeb @
128
See if you can find the Carlin bit comparing Baseball to football. It is not only a classic, but it goes to the heart of everything we’ve been talking about here.
Keith Olbermann’s JOB, which he does well, is Countdown with Keith Olbermann. His PASSION is football, and sports in general He can compartmentalize and has a photographic memory. His knowledge of sports trivia is extensive. Don’t be surprised if some political junkies like us become sports junkies too.
dakine01 @ 126
Hey folks, have a “gansett”
Curt Gowdy circa 1965
RevDeb @
74
Hysterical BBC photo from cricket match in India:
http://tinyurl.com/y7uswu
dakine01 @ 138
in football you march down the field
mmm
when i think of communities defined by footbal, i see red states
when i think of communities defined by baseball, i think east coast blue
This press conference is painful. Journalists are asking for details and asking accusatory questions of the university’s President. He’d be wise to stop taking questions from people like Katie Couric (I just heard her questioning why they didn’t close down the university right away – she did not, however, start her question with “Some say you should have…”)
The fact is that there will be another time to do a review over how their procedures worked and what can be improved. They don’t even know who the shooter is, if there was more than one shooter, and who has died. It is not time to grill the university police on how they operated. Not now, when the facts of the incident are not known.
Via Think Progress;
Justice Dept. fails to comply with subpoena.
The Justice Department has missed the 2pm deadline to turn over documents on the U.S. Attorney firings subpoenaed by the House Judiciary Committee. Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) said he was “disappointed” and pledged to “review all available legal options to secure compliance with the subpoena.” 4:52 pm
http://thinkprogress.org/
Bay State Librul @ 140
I bet you loved this past week and know the words to the “Impossible Dream” by heart doncha?
I “adopted” the RS as my AL team after the ‘75 WS. Helped me make it through some lean Reds years.
dakine01 @ 136
An easy find here.
Elliott @ 142
In baseball you try to go home.
on second thought, i sit in the midst of bears country
mebbe i should rethink
Bustednuckles @ 145
are we surprised?
They are creaming the Va Tech Admins and Chief of Police on this presser.
RevDeb @ 147
Then you should play it for Mr. Rev in his sleep until he gets the point. :})
Karl Rove WILL always be in legal jeopardy
dakine01 — yep, you get it. There is no hope for Marcy. We are doomed.
John McCain would like everyone to know that he went shopping in Roanoke today and bought some rugs and hookahs. He wants to focus on the postive aspects of the day.
-GSD
Mack @ 141
All but 2 baseball parks are in blue CD’s. I don’t know about football stadia.
EW, you break my heart.
Real men, and the women who love them, play rugby.
I’m sorry, but I will take a rugger in those cute little short shorts with a face you actually see, over a guy so padded and helmetted up he looks more like a sherman tank than an athlete.
80 minutes of continuous play, no wussie time outs (except for injury, and strength left over for rugby songs after.
And in the case of the New Zealand All Blacks, even a hakka before.
It could make a strong woman, weak in the knees. (blushes)
emptywheel @
116
Funny or not – Marcy Wheeler for Pulitzer Prize in internet-based investigative writing – 2008! I know it isn’t a category, but you deserve a prize.
TRex is like a Lucille Ball next to your George Burns…
Just driving by with some OT entertainment:
LOL funny.
1.. Go to http://www.google.com
2. Click on “maps,” above the search bar…
3. Click on “get directions”
4. Type “New York” in the first box (the “from” box)
5. Type “Paris” in the second box (the “to” box)
6. Click on “get directions”
7. Scroll down and follow the directions til step #23
Explaining baseball to a Scotsman:
Batter walks. Scotsman screams, “Run laddie! Run like the wind!”
Yank explains, “No, it’s OK. He has four balls.”
Scotsman yells, “Walk with pride, laddie!”
Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life.
Football begins in the fall, when everything’s dying.
-Carlin
“In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! – I hope I’ll be safe at home!”
My favorite line, and the way Carlin says it is just beautiful.
BTW, in recent years when I’ve heard Carlin, he seems to have grown quite bitter and cynical (haven’t we all, though?). But it’s a far cry from the “Seven Dirty Words…”
For those in the SF Bay area I just got the following e-mail in response to my query about whether the Gonzales hearing would be broadcast:
dakine01 @ 145
Glad you made the switcheroo.
Taking my grandson to the October 30, 2004 parade has been the highlight of my career.
dakine01 @ 150
A hopeless cause, I fear.
A couple of choice points:
snip
snip
OT on this sports thread, but here is the transcript of a live chat with the editor of the VT campus newspaper as of 4 PM Eastern.
Shootings at VT
There were two shooting sprees about two hours apart and at two separate parts of the campus. Apparently one of the biggest things that is going to have to be explained is why the campus was not locked down after the first shootings, and by extension, why the shooter was not apprehended before the second spree.
Mack @ 142
What do you think of when you contemplate communities defined by Lacrosse?
Mack @ 142
when I think of communities defined by soccer…
OT-Sen. Leahy just now on cspan said tomorrow’s judiciary hearing has been rescheduled for Thursday. Tomorrow will be a day of grieving after the shooting this morning, and he said it wouldn’t be right to have the AG’s hearing tomorrow.
lhp — well, I can see something in that. I mean, any game that defines a “try” as success (is that right?) can’t be all bad. It shows a certain modesty, a sportspersonlike quality underneath all the primitive aspects.
johnSwifty @ 166
or the LaCrescent, or LaStar?
TheOtherWA @ 167
Good for him. Proper time lag in respect. Also gets it out of the competing news cycle, not meaning to sound crass about it.
scarecrow @ 153
I pretty much gave up on football 10-15 years ago after watching a HoF pre-season thing. They were introducing all the HoF’ers in attendance and it broke my heart seeing all these men I had cheered for, some barely older than me, who were totally crippled and unable to walk.
That combined with all the brain injuries and head trauma that football players experience, it is making NFL doctors about as credible as the tobacco company doctors or energy company scientists.
LIVE BREAKING NEWS
Sen. Patrick Leahy announces a delay in Gonzales hearings in light of VA Tech shootings.
http://www.cnn.com/
TheOtherWA @ 168
O thank you
Keith’s interview with Buck O’Neill was a
classic…
Buck O’Neill bears no grudges and has no regrets. There’s no room for such things in his heart. His heart is full up with gratitude and his head with good memories and wisdom.
“I can honestly say I love everbody and I hate
no one.” Buck
Induct Buck O’Neill in 2007.
Bay State Librul @ 175
Hear! Hear!
Ah, baseball… heading out of town with beer and pickled eggs to listen to the season opener on the car radio.
61 in 61…cheering on our hometown hero. His baseball memeorabilia are in a Fargo shopping center museum. His Roger Maris Drive welcomes travelers and citizens to our beautiful Lindenwood Park. And Roger Maris Cancer Center shelters when people need help most. This is the true home run record.
20 years ago–the 1987 Twins. World Champs. Kirby, Herbie, Gags, Gladden…those were the days.
10 years ago today–the Red River of the North flooding Grand Forks and Fargo and Ada Minn and farm after farm, community after community in ND and Minnesota. The iconic photo was the newspaper building in flames amid the floodwater. The president and vice president and FEMA were competent, swift to respond, and THERE. Those were the days….
And today? Major violence rocks the country again. Some days it seems to me that this is America’s Darkest Age… and only the promise of sunshine breaking through gives hope for restoration of democracy and United States of America again.
Ed*ard Teller @ 167
As for red staters, don’t forget “NASCAR”!!!!
(from a red stater)
Bay State Librul @ 174
Yep.
RevDeb @ 171
That was a good reason to do it, I think. An even better reason would be the fact that the DOJ just failed to comply with a subpoena for relevant documents.
Good for Leahy—right thing to do.
jinny @ 172
Thousands across the land are scrambling to switch sick days..
[Not trying to diminish the seriousness of the tragedy.]
Bay State Librul @ 163
Haven’t TOTALLY made the switch. I still cheer for the Reds first and foremost. But have “hated” the Yankees since they beat the Reds in ‘61 and remember the Louisvill Colonels as a RS farm team, so adding the RS for AL purposes made sense. Lived in So. NH, Waltham, and CT over the years so plenty of RS influence. Even got Channel 38 on cable when I lived in Rome, NY.
Frank Probst @ 179
Are we surprised?
Not.
Given the tragic shooting, this would be a good day for the white house to dump some really awful news, knowing it will get lost in the news about the horrific shooting. Just something you mite see.
Frank Probst @
180
Poor Gonzo, two more days to worry, worry, worry. Also two more days to let the Richard Viguerie, John Whitehead, Bruce Fein and Bob Barr letter to stew among conservatives.
-GSD
jinny @ 175
NOOOOOO!!!
Got a trial on Thursday – and I’ve been nurturing my “cold” for tomorrow for a couple of weeks now.
ok – it’s the proper move – I wonder how many hours my DVR will hold….
scarecrow @
90
Croix De Candlestick
Cricket’s the real sport — baseball’s too slow, there’s no strategy, no finesse, no drama, the managers call the shots, the grounds are boring, the fielders all wear gloves, and the ball’s just not hard enough. That being said, GO AUSSIES!
God bless America.
God bless the families in Va.
God bless baseball and Firedoglake.
Today we weep for our country.
Tomorrow, we will start anew.
Veritas78 @ 181
Hear Hear!!
johnSwifty @ 167
LaRouche
scarecrow @ 190
words to travel home by
newtonusr @ 187
Nice! I’ve got three on my cap. Would’ve had more if it weren’t for the night job!
It is the right thing to do, and after 6 years of incompetence, a couple days wait for the hearing won’t kill us.
Death toll at VT is now at 33. God help those poor families through this.
hapkidokid @ 193
A real ritual, those extra-inning night games @ the ‘Stick, then to the Buena Vista for Irish Coffee…
GSD @ 154
A little geographically challenged? Virginia Tech ISN’T in Roanoke, though the Star City of the South probably has more media than Blacksburg.
GSD @ 185
Oh my, you almost feel for the guy.
Imagine if he decided to just tell the truth and then take the consequences.
I hope he starts considering this possibility for himself. His salvation, don’t you think? What’s BushCo gonna do? Terminate him — for real?
scarecrow @ 188
as jayt led us at 98:
“The streets of heaven are too crowded with angels tonight”
Abu roast moved to Thursday
jinny @ 175: I don’t see a link on cnn.com about this delay. Can you provide a direct link to the story? I assume they’re still updating it – have they announced when the testimony will be held, or is it TBA?
(I’m watching CNN and didn’t hear them mention a revised the testimony date, either)
Bay State Librul @ 175
Amen!
(And it’s O’Neil – one “l”)
scarecrow @ 189
Aye, lovely words.
My father tells about studying for his doctorate on the University of Texas campus when Charles Whitman was shooting people from the tower next door to the chemistry building. He says it was like a dream and he hasn’t ever thought about it without bringing in a sense of the utter surreal. Whitman was found, later, to have a large brain tumor.
I don’t know what the circumstances surrounding the horrific events as VT will be; but I hope the killer had some equally terribly brain affliction. It is just too awful to contemplate that a human would want to kill so indiscriminately without being broken — very severely broken at that.
landofthefree @ 200
Think Progress has it now.
dakine01 @ 171
the end for me was watching jeff fuller suffer a permanent neck injury.
haven’t gone to a game since. usually don’t even watch the superbowl on tv. just find no enjoyment in it…
johnSwifty @ 166
There is a bumper sticker I see around here it reads : Lacrosse, Long Island’s sport
which is funny since I thought it was native american
too many fuckin guns.
Once my mother (a dittohead of the first order) asked me what my life’s wish would be and I shocked the hell out of her by saying that I wished all weapons would be rendered back to their base metals immediately.
Former GOP congressman and presidential candidate, Pete McCloskey has announced he’s leaving the GOP.
Please keep Rove around until 08. He’s the best recruiter we’ve had in a long time.
-GSD
From what the media is reporting now, it seems they knew a shooter was loose and looking for someone before 8:00 AM. Why wasn’t the campus on total lockdown at that time?
nevermind my 201. I found the info on the Judiciary Committee site. Gonzo is up at 10:00am ET on Thursday.
dakine01 @ 183
Way kewl…. we need your good vibes.
3 game series with the Boombers next weekend…
GoogleNews top story:
http://blog.nj.com/ledgerupdat…..eport.html
just note. prolly epu now…
Arghhh!!!!! Justice is delayed, Abu’s Hearing is delayed til Thursday!!!!!
O/T and attention Plame-aholics:
Matt Cooper’s latest about the leak investigation and the Libby trial:
Article:
http://www.portfolio.com/news-…..ter-and-Me
How the article is framed: http://www.portfolio.com/views…..-leak-case
KO Interview with Buck O’Neil.
Breaking: Gonzales hearing postponed until Thursday.
newtonusr @ 195
oh my god, yes!
i can remember going to bed tipsy, and then waking up a couple of hours later from the caffeine buzz.
you are making really miss CA.
looseheadprop @ 155
Goes without saying. And hell, for a real man (as in, my real man), I’ll take a guy who’s willing to play ulimate in a skirt (though he has not, except wihen playing with his former Japanese team, gone to the same lengths of, um, exposure as some do). On a field with girls no less.
But I’m talking sports you can watch regularly on TV. Rugby (and ultimate) is for live matches.
off topic and will re post since this one is about to get updated
I had an epiphany and must share…I am positive I am right
man, I have abu torture down cold…remember when he testified “no American is under surveillance with this nsa program”?
I told everyone then that what he was saying was that there were other programs…he admitted it with that statement…I had an epiphany back then which turned out to be correct
I had another one right now
abu torture;
since according to this fascist the usa’s work “at the pleasure of the president” THERE IS NO IMPROPER REASON.
that’s right, according to their claims, all reasons are proper
there, done, that’s what he’s doing and that’s how he thinks he can claim he didn’t lie to congress
looseheadprop @ 206
I concur, the Ojibwe nation in my area of the country played a version. But I’m afraid that sport will for ever be associated with the events surrounding the Duke rape case. Which is probably too bad, it seems like a fine sport. But, I suspect it is quite a bit like soccer…much more interesting to play than it is to watch.
scarecrow @ 189
Way late to this thread. And now you’ve made me cry. My problem. Not yours.
emptywheel @ 218
We watch rugby on TV at my house, regularly
looseheadprop @ 206
well, long island was native american once.
Just love that Fitz
“Is your investigation over now? Fitzgerald says that he does not expect to file any further charges. If information comes to light or if new information comes forward that warrants further investigation, we will do that. The case is now inactive. We are going back to our day jobs.”
Back to Cooper/Rove.
“At one point, the aides were asked why Mr. Cooper’s call to Mr. Rove was not entered in Mr. Rove’s office telephone logs. There was no record of the call, the person who has been briefed said, because Mr. Cooper did not call Mr. Rove directly, but was transferred to his office from a White House switchboard. The aides have worked closely with Mr. Rove, screening his calls and coordinating his activities with other White House officials. Mr. Hernandez had been an aide to President Bush since his successful campaign for governor of Texas in 1994, and Ms. Ralston is known as one of Mr. Rove’s most trusted associates.”
It’s raining frogs! Halelujah..It’s raining frogs!
Bitter Man @ 224 is right. *slap self* Okay. So. Keith Olbermann doing commentary, eh?
Shades of ‘Jimmy the Greek’ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.c…..ideo/1988/
Not quite sure what Limbaugh looks like in that picture. A raisan, a rat or a Koala bear!
I vote raisan!
It’s troubling that individuals like Rush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Newtie, Kissinger, Nixon and a host of others don’t go away after awhile. They just keep coming back. And when they finally do pass from the scene there always seem to be plenty to take their place. Damn the GOP.
hey Jane!
hope you’re doin’ well.
What is it with these R’s the pres wanted to baseball commisioner more than president and now Rush wanted to be a foosball commentator?
Maybe they never grew up? Will they always be as the boys from the movie: Build it and they will come (?)
No sports here, unless the Spurs are doing well.
Me likem basketball players. And I have very wild sexual fantasies about Manu Ginobli, which I won’t bore (or excite) anyone with.
Growing up in Texas, even I succumbed to the Holy Pigskin for a good portion of my life. I knew football as well as most guys…and always knew more about it than any of the husbands I’ve had.
Scary.
But I got over worrying about football. My mom is just as fanatical as ever. Sometimes for fun, I send her sympathy cards when the Cowboys lose because she takes it so hard.
Ultimate and Rugby are so much the same ( except contact ) long games, endorphins, and great post game parties. Nobody knows much about either and they have huge player following See Ulitmate Players Assoc. for fun.
Let us not forget, Daryn Kagan – CNN news and sportsgal. The great EL Rushbo apparently killed her career also. Must be difficlt to get rid of the El Rushbo stench.
Well I’m late again, but need to comment anyway. The problem with Rush is he’s not good at anything. If he was, he wouldn’t serve as ringmaster for a bunch of crooked politicians and lame brain losers. Keith on the other hand is the kind of guy who is smart, and good at so many things it is probably a challenge for him to accomodate all of the opportunities coming his way. Besides, he’s actually funny, and knows how to be charming. Added to those attributes are actual deductive reasoning abilites. Poor Rush, he really is only good at shoveling shit.
hungryjoe @
29
We will not take Limpballs as one of us. I repeat, do not even play that he is a fag.
Yes, also O’Reilly’s not going to enjoy watching football as much as he used to…
Good for Keith!! LOL, Rush Limpo will just have to live with being full time hate monger.
Jane, are we talking about OxyLimpball?