Let me tell you, as an A’s fan, it might not be worth it.  Sure you get to see a day baseball game and sure you can drink cold beer on a nice warm California day and sure, Mrs. Shyster might end up leaving you and you’ll be stuck in California.. wait, what was I trying to talk you out of doing?

Why’d that guy have to put down deadheads?  What did they ever do?  Now, I’m no deadhead—saw them maybe 10 or 12 times.  But my lovely S.O. saw them over a hundred, so I feel like he’s putting down my woman!

Also, he mentions Doris Kearns Goodwin.  Am I the only one who thinks her and Jon Stewart are flirting when she’s on his show, then thinks “I bet she was something when she was younger”, then finds himself filled with self-loathing and cries himself to sleep?

Guess it’s just me.

Excellent post on A-Rod doing anti-drug messages, and, naturally, you get attacked by the brain-dead “if you haven’t led the life of Saint Francis, you have no right to object to wrongdoing” crowd. In the absense of any meaningful penalties, A-Rod, like Bonds, Clemens and Manny stand for the proposition that using illegal PEDs is a HUGE cost-benefit winner, even if you get caught, and using any of these guys to preach drug-abstinence is absurd—-even if they themselves now believe it, and who knows? A-Rod might. I don’t much care for Fortune 500 companies using convicted and imprisoned company execs to teach business ethics, but they sure as hell are more convincing than an exec whom everyone knew had run scams and had kept his job and his ill-gotten gains…and bagged Kate Hudson as a bonus.