Comments on: Current events: Baseball and ‘Bama http://firstword.us/2009/10/current-events-baseball-and-bama/ How can you have the last word if you haven't heard the first? Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:39:10 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Louis Sette http://firstword.us/2009/10/current-events-baseball-and-bama/comment-page-1/#comment-13078 Louis Sette Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:39:10 +0000 http://firstword.us/?p=1016#comment-13078 I am very reluctant to get caught up in this blog stuff, but I try to help when needed. There is no such thing as a "straight-forward fly". There is a straight away fly, a routine fly, a high fly and even a fly to dead center, all suggesting, to one degree or another, that the ball was easily playable or at least catchable.(In baseball, there is such a thing as catchable.)There is no such thing either as "penant game". In fact, there hasn't been a penant in some 35 years. There is now a league championship, in fact, two of them, one for each league, with the World Series remaining. Glad to be of help. You guys keep up the otherwise good work. Louis Sette I am very reluctant to get caught up in this blog stuff, but I try to help when needed. There is no such thing as a “straight-forward fly”. There is a straight away fly, a routine fly, a high fly and even a fly to dead center, all suggesting, to one degree or another, that the ball was easily playable or at least catchable.(In baseball, there is such a thing as catchable.)There is no such thing either as “penant game”. In fact, there hasn’t been a penant in some 35 years. There is now a league championship, in fact, two of them, one for each league, with the World Series remaining.
Glad to be of help. You guys keep up the otherwise good work.

Louis Sette

]]> By: T http://firstword.us/2009/10/current-events-baseball-and-bama/comment-page-1/#comment-10211 T Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:38:26 +0000 http://firstword.us/?p=1016#comment-10211 I guess there is a third option for the Nobel Committee, and a most hopeful one. Perhaps they gave him the award in hopes that the irony of starting another war with such a prize in hand might cause him to resist the pressure from his "handlers" to start a war with Iran? I guess there is a third option for the Nobel Committee, and a most hopeful one. Perhaps they gave him the award in hopes that the irony of starting another war with such a prize in hand might cause him to resist the pressure from his “handlers” to start a war with Iran?

]]> By: TJH http://firstword.us/2009/10/current-events-baseball-and-bama/comment-page-1/#comment-9258 TJH Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:20:28 +0000 http://firstword.us/?p=1016#comment-9258 When Holliday came up to bat the first time in game 3, at home, in which the Cards lost the game and the season, all due to his narcissistic absent-mindedness in game 2, guess what the fans in St Louis did: a. chanted, "give us a million back" b. booed c. chanted, "one more time and you're out" d. gave him a standing-O If you know how self-indulgent and feminized the American public has become, the choice will be obvious. This is the same public that in its high-brow form starts clapping at the opera the minute the curtain twitches to go down. They don't want to enjoy the music to the very last note. Above all, they want the performers to feel good about themselves. They want the performers to feel good about themselves because that makes them feel good about themselves. Everyone should feel good, no matter what. This is what we have become as a people. When Holliday came up to bat the first time in game 3, at home, in which the Cards lost the game and the season, all due to his narcissistic absent-mindedness in game 2, guess what the fans in St Louis did:

a. chanted, “give us a million back”
b. booed
c. chanted, “one more time and you’re out”
d. gave him a standing-O

If you know how self-indulgent and feminized the American public has become, the choice will be obvious. This is the same public that in its high-brow form starts clapping at the opera the minute the curtain twitches to go down. They don’t want to enjoy the music to the very last note. Above all, they want the performers to feel good about themselves. They want the performers to feel good about themselves because that makes them feel good about themselves. Everyone should feel good, no matter what.

This is what we have become as a people.

]]> By: s. e. hoffmeister http://firstword.us/2009/10/current-events-baseball-and-bama/comment-page-1/#comment-9222 s. e. hoffmeister Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:18:54 +0000 http://firstword.us/?p=1016#comment-9222 hi Tim, The Libs need Obama to succeed even when he does not. They will make him succeed, he is the poster child of affirmative action in motion. All things are in the positive for his efforts, even when he fails, it will be well he tried, but its so hard for him to overcome years of...in this short amount of time. Just his very existence shows how well he is doing, even when he does nothing. More than likely, if given the chance , by the time he is done they will want to remove Mt Rushmore multi- president faces to put just his there, maybe leave Rosevelt..its all about surface what looks to be promising not on true substance what actually gets done.. s.e. hoffmeister hi Tim,

The Libs need Obama to succeed even when he does not. They will make him succeed, he is the poster child of affirmative action in motion. All things are in the positive for his efforts, even when he fails, it will be well he tried, but its so hard for him to overcome years of…in this short amount of time. Just his very existence shows how well he is doing, even when he does nothing. More than likely, if given the chance , by the time he is done they will want to remove Mt Rushmore multi- president faces to put just his there, maybe leave Rosevelt..its all about surface what looks to be promising not on true substance what actually gets done..

s.e. hoffmeister

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