Saturday, August 26, 2006

"It's Always Wild in Philadelphia"

once again our fearless fighting Phils are in a Wildcard race again, and for the most part no one seems to care. I recall last year all excited when it was down the wire over Duke's. No one there aside from Jason cared, or even knew. This year it's a bit better, but I am sure once the Eagles start the real season they will get all the headlines and 610 airtime.

At any rate not only to the Phils still have a leigit shot at a wildcard spot, Ryan Howard is poised to set a single season homerun record for the ballclub. Howard knocked out his 45th.

The blast put Howard in a tie for third place with Mike Schmidt (1979) on Philadelphia's single-season home run list. Jim Thome is next with 47 (2003), then Schmidt again with 48 in 1980.


Cincinnati
67 62.519
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Philadelphia
65 63 .508 1.5

San Diego
65 63 .508 1.5
Arizona
63 65 .492 3.5
San Francisco
63 66 .488 4.0
Milwaukee
62 66 .484 4.0

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

"Flying Phils"

In case you havent seen it yet here is the footage of Rowand and Chase running into each other. Here is it.

Monday, August 21, 2006

"Twas the Night Before Doomsday"

August 22nd is supposedly a much feared day of terrorist attack. Thats a lovely thought. Apperently something "major" is going to happen. I can't help but shake a feeling recently that there is going to be an attack gain on US soil. Maybe the whole foiled plot last week got me thinking of it or that fact that its coming up on 5 years since 9/11. Read here to see why people a lot smarter than me think something big is coming. http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=nation_world&id=4483263. Its been 5 years, for most people 9/11 might as well not have happened, not that we should live in a contant state of fear, but at the same time I think the terrorists will eventually find a weak link.

Sunday, August 20, 2006

"No Liberman Is an Island"

So, Joe Liberman lost the nomination from the democrats, so he is just saying he will run as an independent. The democrats were happy to see him lose because, they were basically throwing him under the boss for his pro-war stance. Although, he has come out and said he supports the war, but we really screwed up when we carried out the plans.

Oddly enough Hillary Clinton who is pro-war didn't get merely as much heat as Liberman (who John Kerry called the new Dick Cheney today) which doesn't make sense to me. Certainly if they want everyone to toe the line, because that makes for stronger machine even if that means throwing independent thought out of the window.

I really do respect what Liberman is doing, and I wish more presidential candidates would do that. I never understood how for months they could be telling us how badly they wanted to lead this country, than after losing the backing of their political party they throw in the towel and crumble like a drakes coffee cake.

A few of my democrat friends felt Kerry was a weaker candidate than people he beat out. Yeah, I know all the money is gone once you lose the backing from your party, but what kind of message does that send? I imagine most these guys hope that they get another crack in another 4 years, but how many people keep running and losing anyway? Hell, the movie studio barely had to spend a dime on Snakes on a plane to promote it. It was all internet buzz.

Can't some smart minded guy (good quality for a leader of the most powerful nation in the world) who doesn't have silver spoon in is mouth or tons of money win an election by means of the new media? Get support from bloggers, and give a different voice? Instead we are stuck with guys like Kerry who were having their strings pulled by all their advisors, pollsters, and money men, he really didn't come into his own till after he lost the election.

Having someone break away from a party would provide them the freedom to not have to walk on eggs shells and toe the line on all the issues. It doesn't have to be a two party system. Considering the millions and millions of people in the country, Id hope we could find more than two people to choice from. Maybe, things will change by '08, but I doubt it. I m sure we will be stuck with the same thing, people treating political parties like sports teams. Cheering their own and booing the opponent. Mindlesslessly pushing their chad all the way through simply based on the letter next to their name. Even in many cases when they admit they don't like the candidate.