Curt Schilling interested in Kennedy's Senate seat.

I'm sure Curt just wants some attention, and won't actually run. But if he did, it would have the disadvantage of pissing off mostly Democratic Sox fans, and at the same time not actually winning.

Who in the world thinks that America wants to watch Tom DeLay dance?

The Mets are playing the Giants, and have chosen to dress as the Christy Mathewson/John McGraw-era New York Giants. I can appreciate their desire for camoflauge, but I'd recommend they dress as the Lawrence Taylor-era Giants. That might explain why they don't look like a baseball team.

From a football perspecitve, I think it's a dubious decision for the Eagles to sign Vick. I've never thought that highly of him as a player, so annointing him as the future of the franchise seems like a shaky decision to me. Plus, McNabb is notoriously sensitive, and unlikely to welcome somebody intended to replace him ( Read more... )

You know, celebrities die every year, and I don't think we are in the midst of any sort of unusually large famous person die-off. But this year seems to have been long on deaths of those long offstage, who are permanently anchored in the memory to a certain point in time - Walter Cronkite, Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, etc ( Read more... )

The Mets aren't very watchable, so I'm looking a bit more for things to watch. Netflix helps, but I am mostly watching the cable shows ( Read more... )

St. Louis really does love its baseball. You'd normally think the All-Star crowd would be diverse, but with 90% of them wearing red, it's hard to really believe that. The Cardinals don't quite have the history the Yankees do, but they can trump just about anyone else. Great to see their legends (Lou Brock, Red Schoendiest, Ozzie Smith, Bruce Sutter ( Read more... )

I'm enjoying the "Ted Kennedy - In His Own Words" show on HBO. Obviously, given Ted's coorperation as narrator, it's not exactly impartial, but he's such a significant figure that his side of the story is worth hearing. Plus, although the larger story of the Kennedys in the sixties is one I'm quite familiar with, I don't know all that much about ( Read more... )

I have to stay up to wait for something to finish running for work. So I may as well discuss how I spent my weekend, which was at the (ack!) 20th reunion of the Lafayette class of '89 ( Read more... )

Access was pretty easy. I was originallly going to take the train from Tarrytown, in case the weather or the game was bad, but it turned out that parking there was a bitch, so I took the train from White Plains instead. That went well, even though this was the first day of Metro North service, so nobody actually knew how things worked ( Read more... )