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Griffey hit his 600th home run off of a Mark Hendrickson curve ball, and he cranked it way outta there! Holy cow the Kid has done it!! Way to go Griffey! We're all still pullin for ya! Here comes Junior! Griff is the best there is the best there was and the best there ever will be. Not some lame ass juicer like Barry Bonds. Thanks for being a perfect role model Griff! Way to go!
Matt
Be Excellent, cuz the Kid just hit 600!
Griffey hit a two run homer in the bottom of the 1st today! #599 is outta the park, only one more until 600! Go get 'em Griff!
Matt
Be Excellent, the best there IS
Griffey hit #595 today, just 5 more until big 600.
"We're talking about a 13-time All-Star, a nine-time Gold Glove winner and a seven-time Silver Slugger. He's been a Most Valuable Player (with Seattle in '97), an All-Star Game MVP, led the league in home runs four times and driven in 100 or more runs eight times. A career .290 hitter, Griffey has hit .300 or better eight times.
This is a guy who has already amassed Hall of Fame-caliber numbers, and there hasn't been a hint of impropriety along the way.
This is one of the greatest players the game has seen and a guy who stays out of trouble and yet he somehow gets less recognition today than others who have accomplished less on the diamond.
While it's true he's been hurt a lot since he turned 30, he was usually injured as a result of playing the game hard. Other times involved accidents that could have happened to anybody, like slipping in the shower. At worst, Griffey is guilty of having tough luck.
Ask a few of his former managers, guys like Lou Piniella and Jerry Narron, and you get nothing but praise for Griffey and the way he plays the game. The consensus is Griffey is a gamer, a guy who plays the game the right way.
"He's always had incredible talent," Piniella said. "And he makes it look so easy, but he doesn't take [his skill] for granted."
It is a skill that has taken him to a plateau only five others -- Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Willie Mays and Sammy Sosa -- have reached. Unlike the two most recent members of the 600 homer club, Griffey joins without the cloud of controversy.
You might have seen Griffey's name on the disabled list several times, but not on a court docket. You haven't seen Griffey's name associated with corked bats, grand jury testimony or unfortunate off-the-field incidents.
Others exercise the kind of poor judgment that provides tabloid fodder. Not Griffey."
Thanks to Jim Molony for a great article, Griffey really is the best there IS.
And Griff, if you ever want to come back to Seattle, JUST DO IT. I think the best would be for you to hit #600 in the House YOU Built, Safeco Field. You made magic last June, and I'm grateful I was there to see. Come Back Junior!! Until then, keep smackin em out!!
Matt Griffey Junior
Be Excellent, The Best There WILL BE
...So anyway I ordered some Green Party gear off of CafePress for the hell of it. The last time I picked up any Green Party swag was at my first Fort Bend County Green Party Meeting---it was also the last meeting whereafter the party voted to disband. I voted against, but was out-voted. Anyway, what had driven me to the meeting to begin with was the utter despair I was feeling sitting through the unbearable jingoism of the DNC.
I just couldn't take it anymore...in some ways not unlike a parallel foreshadowing of my moment to decide to seek the path of recovery from alcoholism. 
Anyway, my new gear arrived and I'm pretty pleased with most of it. Both shirts are XL, but the white shirt I got seems smaller than the lime-green shirt I got, even though it also is XL and I wear XL. Anyway, the Lime-Green shirt in question was allegedly designed by someone who is anti-Green, belonging to OpinionNation.net; the shirt even has this URL under the logo. The logo itself is basically the word "Green Party" written out, but instead of a proper "G", it is actually a Hammer-and-Sickle symbol. The "creator" taunts on Cafe Press "Don't let these 'watermelons' fool you---Green on the outside, but Red inside".
It's a good thing that Houston lacks Zoning...that truly is good---the bad thing is, all its suburbs DO have it, and how. I hate this city's crappy, weak hearted attempt at "Mass Transit". It's pathetic for a city in the top 10 largest in the USA. I saw a billboard showing an SUV and the caption had it, seemingly without irony "Houston's Mass Transit System"; This was without doubt, shocking TRUTH IN ADVERTISING that was breathtakingly refreshing for its bold callousness. If it's still up I gotta run over and snap a photo of it someday and put it up on Flickr...it's so exquisitely distasteful and stupid.
The best Green critique of political economy I have read in recent years has got to be:
Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train: Errant Economists, Shameful Spenders, and a Plan to Stop them All (Paperback)
by Brian Czech
The analysis is spot-on brilliant, and worth the price of the book all by itself. The second half of Czech's book, however, is woefully disappointing and inadequate, as it addresses his tentative proposed solutions to the mess he so carefully lays out in part 1.
Czech, as I understand him, basically advocates that to reign in wealthy, conspicuously consuming elites who are raping and destroying the planet, is that 1) we must SHUN them in all social settings even up to including 2) REFUSING TO BREED WITH THEM.
Holy Crap. The Bilderberg Group must surely be shaking in their finely pressed Armani suits. They won't last another week if we put this devastating plan into action!
*Giggle, snort* The problems with Czech's theses are 1) these FUCKERS HAVE NO SHAME and 2) they don't inbreed with working class scum or middle class riff-raff like Czech or me anyway.
Now a book that actually makes an excellent companion piece to this one, and actually gives a realistic prescription for what has to be done to fix things, is:
Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century (Paperback)
by Stan Goff
Stan Goff is a retired Army Special Forces Master Sergeant and a was a regular contributor to Mike Ruppert's now defunct newsletter From the Wilderness and an ongoing contributor to Counterpunch. Although Goff is tackling a lot of different subjects all at once, there are some points of convergence with Czech's book, and the basic lesson for Marxists is that Socialism had better become Eco-aware or it will die. Goff also provides a careful analysis of Empire; How it works, etc. And he also is pretty straight up about what he believes it will take to put things right for ordinary people. You'll have to read it yourself to find out, but I'll tell you it doesn't involve love beads, peace marches, flower-power or writing your congressman.
Ecological collapse goes hand in hand with societal collapse, population overshoot and crash, and a die off if not a complete die out. The stakes really are that high this time, much higher than at the dawn of the 20th Century, when Socialists were able to be much more hopeful about the future prospects of humanity.
[or simply, "the Scum". ]
United chief Gill hails Glazers' ownership
| David Gill feels Malcolm Glazer's decision to scale down his ambitious business plan is proof Manchester United's new owner has listened to pre-takeover concerns. As Red Devils chief executive prior to the American's £790million buy-out last summer, Gill authorised the release of at least three statements warning Glazer his plans for the club were too aggressive. The warnings did not put Glazer off and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers owner subsequently surprised many observers by opting to keep Gill in post and allowing him to control day-to-day operations at Old Trafford. However, it now transpires Gill's cautionary words have had a major effect, with Glazer revising the business plan most financial experts agreed was impossible to attain, a view which led to fears amongst supporters about the club's owner's ability to pay off the massive debt required to complete the takeover. 'We did have concerns and we now have in place the business plan which was in place when they took over,' Gill told BBC Radio Five Live. 'They (the Glazer family) have demonstrated a willingness to listen to us. We had concerns and we articulated them publicly, as we had to do. 'We are going to do a new, long-term business plan. The debt is serviceable and with the stadium expansion and the sponsorship deals, we believe we are in good shape.' Privately, sources close to the Glazer camp insist the business plan was always a `moveable feast', while a refinancing of the £275million borrowed from hedge funds to complete the deal is `conceivable'. Having not been allowed by Gill to conduct a full examination of United's accounts prior to the takeover, there were bound to be some assumptions made, while the unexpected loss of the Vodafone shirt deal forced a hasty rethink of their plans to overhaul the club's sponsorship plans. 'Assumptions have to be changed and modified all the time,' added the source. 'What has happened at Wembley is a prime example of that - and that situation has a knock-on effect at Manchester United.' The two most recent delays to the Wembley construction project means that Old Trafford will now host five England games it would not normally have expected to; the pre-World Cup friendlies against Hungary and Jamaica, two autumn Euro 2008 qualifiers against Andorra and Macedonia, plus a friendly in the middle of August. While the details of Glazer's running of the club continue to be debated, they have pointed out that on the issue which matters most to United fans, funding Sir Alex Ferguson's squad, they have delivered. The purchases of Edwin van der Sar, Park Ji-sung, Nemanja Vidic and Patrice Evra have all been sanctioned and while the search goes on for a key midfielder to replace departed skipper Roy Keane, the Glazer camp insist the cash for a reinforcement is there, as it has been since the start of the current campaign. 'The Glazers' business plan clearly allows for investment in the product - the team,' said Gill. 'They share the vision we have as a club and want to be the best football club in the world; on and off the field. 'Manchester United has a very rosy future.' |
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