shutuptimmcarver.com is worth a visit.

McCarver added that taking an out on a sac bunt attempt that was going foul was like taking the field goal in football. I think there are a ton of football-baseball analogies we have yet to voice.

Joe Buck let us know that the satdium refused to let this game end.

So I didn’t really listen to the commentary all that much. Between the Home Run Derby and the All Star game I really got sick of listening to announcers recount the moving comeback story of Josh Hamilton. Does anybody think we’d hear about this (or that he’d be given a shot to get back in the Majors) if he weren’t white?

I recently finished this book, and the copy is still in my house. I learned fascinating facts like:

- the home run explosion of the 90s was due to pitchers failure to work inside. That’s right, not to cheating, to bad pitching strategy and/or execution
- catchers are gods among men
- catchers who caught Bob Gibson are lords among gods
- catchers who caught both Bob Gibson and Steve Carlton snear at mere lords among gods

I now believe every word and I’m grateful to His Exalted Timness for sharing his supreme wisdom in a text I can cherish day after day.

kicked a field goal. I still haven’t recovered. Tim never will.

What did we learn from this, people? Never go into a McCarver-announced event without a back-up. Major League Lacrosse is an attractive option, though some prefer ATP tennis. But stay away from the daily recaps of the Tour de Drug Addicts Riding Bicycles. P-sheee-it.

Finally, I want to thank all of you for the cards and letters regarding my prostate. I have every confidence that one day medical science will find a way to actually shrink it.

Along with Tim’s head.

my thoughts on Josh Hamilton are echoed exactly & precisely by the late, great Mr. George Carlin -

Is this all we can find in America that passes for personal drama? People overcoming long odds? God, it’s so boring and predictable.

And does this mean we are supposed to admire people simply because of the order of their luck? Because their bad luck came first? What about the reverse? What about people who start well and then fail spectacularly at life? People who were born with every privilege and given every possible gift and talent, who had all the money they needed, were surrounded by good people and then went out and fucked their lives up anyway? Isn’t that equally interesting? In fact, I find it more interesting. More like true tragedy.

I prefer to hear something like that once in a while, rather than this pseudo-inspirational bullshit that the media feel they have to feed us in order to keep our minds off America’s decline. If they’re going to insist that we really need to know about sick babies and cripples who tap dance and quadraplegic softball players, why don’t they simply have a special television program called “Inpirational Stories”? That way I can turn the fuckin’ thing off. I’m tired of people battling the odds. Fuck the odds. And fuck the people who battle them.

Sluggo here again. Can’t think of a single thing to add to this.