Selig and Bonds

I understand why Bud's now on the side of public opinion and critical consensus and against Barry. But Bud's about the money and there's no doubt that Bonds and the other ALLEGED juicers helped generate cold, hard cash for the business after the 94 strike. Commish, you can't have your cake and eat it too. Since you looked the other way when the records were being set and the sports media fawned over these guys, you need to continue to do so or admit that your business FRAUDED its consumers for the better part of a decade. There's got to be a lawyer somewhere that can file and win a class-action lawsuit for steriod/HGH-based fraud against baseball consumers in our country.

Bonds - Flaxseed oil, yeah right. That comes in a tablet and my eye doctor recommended it to me since I wear contact lenses. Game of Shadows doesn't leave much doubt in my mind whether he's clean or not. What bothers me the most is the position that "Baseball didn't have a policy against it, so it was OK". The crap was f#%^#@$#@ ILLEGAL. Baseball shouldn't have to have a separate policy against ILLEGAL substances! And that is why Congress was OK to get involved. Since baseball's disregard for the law was putting its employees at risk to break the law to maintain employment.

All Star Reflections

MLB's exhibit at the Moscone Center in SF was something I would have loved when I was growing up. This is the first year that I lived in a MLB city hosting an All-Star Game since they started doing that. So I can see where the host city and fans get excited over an exhibition game. (Positive)

Home Run Derby - Shorten it. ESPN listed for 2 hours, but it ran 2:40 w/ one (I think)Overtime Session in the middle round. I don't know why they have 10 outs. Baseball doesn't have 10 of anything... check that, the AL plays 10 men w/ the DH. Make it 9 outs to correspond w/ innings, and shorten it from 3 rounds to 2.

All Star Game - the thing didn't start until almost 9 PM ET! How many little leaguers watched it on DVR instead of live? Either start the pagentry at 7:30 ET or streamline it to have a first pitch by 8:25. And if FOX needs to run that many commercials, it's time for 20 second spots. If we can have 7 second abs, we certainly can have 20 second ads!

LaRussa not hitting his BEST hitter at ALL, saving him for extra innings? He must have listened to Joe Buck do a few football games last fall, suggesting that the Chargers shouldn't hand the ball to LaDamian Tomlinson until the game gets into OVERTIME! (Just to clarify, Buck only does that w/ QB's, somehow thinking that they are like starting pitchers. The similiarities end with throwing the ball. There is no equivalent to Mariano Rivera or Trevor Hoffman in the annals of backup QB's. Those guys become STARTING QB'S).

An Idea for the Border

LAND MINE IT!

Put signs in Spanish facing Mexico, French facing Quebec, English to the rest of Canada and back towards the U.S. Award teh contract to the Democratic/Liberal equivalent of Haliburton, on 2nd thought, we wouldn't be able to trust that operation. Pay the Minutemen to do it. Include sensors to provide notification when the field needs to be replenished.

It will slow the flow of illegals, drugs, and terrorists into our country and show that we are serious about our borders and soveriengty. I don't care about the Geneva Conventions, if the people crossing the border did, they wouldn't be crossing it in the first place.

We also won't spend money on a costly fence, costly people to patrol it that won't get the support that they need.

Is this war on terror really a BUMPER STICKER?

Earth to John Edwards - you might want to open your eyes and fly commercially to Scotland. At least until you get the jetway installed at your compound in NC.

Now if the guys in charge had smarts, they would send the war criminals from the Jeep with some burn cream down to Guantanamo Bay to put an end to the left's catch and release idea.