The Battle for Baquba

The inestimable Michael Yon:
But as I write these words, the explosions—cannon fire reverberating day and night, rockets exploding on base, the rumbling and crumpling sounds of car bombs—are the very pulse of this war. This war cannot yet be dissected because it still lives– wounded, angry, thrashing on the table, but alive. We can only [...]

Braves Crush Schilling

In a rather pleasant development the Braves pick up their third win of the six I’m claiming they need in interleague play.  Schilling never quite had it tonight allowing six runs on ten hits with exactly ZERO strikeouts.  Brian McCann led the charge with 4 RBI, three of them coming on a homerun, while Chipper [...]

The U.S. Open

I guess I should write a little about the golf tournament seeing as how I watched no less than 13 hours of the Open this weekend.
I’m slowly starting to like Johnny Miller as an analyst. He had me laughing out loud more than a few times with his amazingly stark assesments of players and their [...]

It’s Lonely at the Top….

Or bottom. Whichever.
In a move that might be even less surprising than it is overdue, Republican presidential candidates are hightailing it away from W.
“What’s the penalty now, Karl being mad at you?” Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio asked with a laugh, referring to Bush political adviser Karl Rove. “Who cares? Even his former chief strategist [...]

Braves vs Red Sox

A three game set begins tonight with Atlanta lefty Chuck James facing off against Curt Schilling and the league-best BoSox. I love these games.  I’m also happy to report the game is in Atlanta which means there will be no DH and Big Papi will take the field to hopefully hilarious results.
And now that I [...]

Air-Powered Cars on the Road?

Well, this sounds cool
India’s largest automaker is set to start producing the world’s first commercial air-powered vehicle. The Air Car, developed by ex-Formula One engineer Guy Nègre for Luxembourg-based MDI, uses compressed air, as opposed to the gas-and-oxygen explosions of internal-combustion models, to push its engine’s pistons. Some 6000 zero-emissions Air Cars are scheduled [...]

In Defense of David Chase.

Wow.
Apparently the rumblings I was hearing this morning turned into a full fissure of the San Andreas fault. Sopranos fans are upset. Like, really upset. They feel cheated, lied to, manipulated and played. They’ve been crapped upon and their loyalty to this series was met with a slap in the face [...]

Bravos Gain a Game?

Thanks to an awful stretch where the East-leading Nye Mets lost 7 of 10, the Atlanta Braves now find themselves only 2.5 games back after losing an only slightly more respectable 6 of 10.
The whole East division is now mired in mediocrity and what this means is that the second place Braves now find themselves [...]

Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da

Life goes on brah.
I’ve heard the teeth-gnashing, I’ve witnessed the outrage, I’ve seen the google searches for “Sopranos Finale Stunk” that have led visitors to this site.
I’ve also heard about five thousands theories on what we were “supposed” to take away from the episode last night.
I had but one expectation going into [...]

Not so lazy Saturday…

I wanted to post something just to keep this thing alive as it’s been a busy week and an even busier weekend. Fairs, shopping, birthday parties, golf, house-cleaning…..and a blog post.
The Braves have been amazingly bad over the last week and I thought maybe not blogging about them might reverse this awful slide the [...]