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Man you are so right, and not to get all political, the last line here is pretty amazingly unselfaware (and feel free to give me a better word for what I'm trying to say):
"You were able to endure losing streaks of eight, and eight again, and seven, because of the team's character and leadership," he said. Bush added that he had dinner with La Russa in August, during a tough stretch for the team, and afterwards remarked to an aide that the Cardinals were going to win the championship – because their manager believed they would.
10 I'm not apolitical...I just don't wear my politics like a badge of honor. I talk about politics...But It's usually making fun of people who are stridently this or that.
I also have to teach, which means I have a responsibility to hide my politics and present things objectively...A notion most of my colleagues fail to understand.
I had a good friend (I moved, she didn't, lost touch) who taught high school (11th graders mostly) and she was very careful about hiding that she smoked. Two different times we were out and she shoved a lit cigarette into my hand as some kind wandered up.
10 - I have to disagree a bit. I never liked bringing my politics into the classroom, but I was always pretty explicit with my students that I was biased and that if they felt that I was being biased to call me on it. I guess I feel that being apolitical is mostly a facade and a weak one at that.
On the other hand Ward Churchill worked down the hall from me and there isn't a catapult big enough for that guy.
All art is political. All sports too. Cardinals let the President buy their silence. They prepare for Spring training; he prepares to send overstressed troops to slaughter.
Baseball earns our love because it is mostly on the level. Bush and Tony deserve one another. Does ya think that Tony didn't know the bash brothers were juicing or that Mark was when he was with the Cards?
I long for John Carlos. How about some integrity.
And BTW, did ya see Keith Oberman's response to Bush's speech?
19 Seems like the complete opposite of my poli sci 101 class in college. I consider myself fairly liberal, but the guy who taught it made me look like a conservative in comparison.
We learned about the wonderful social safety nets in some of the more liberal European nations. We also learned that Cuba has wonderful socialized medicine.
Of course, Poli Sci 101 is an American Government class and we didn't learn much about the American system of government.
Almost forgot. He turned his interest in the Rangers into the Presidency. Surprised he didn't sell the team to Halliburton. Sold Sammy Sosa. He had baseball cards with his picture on them. Nixon was a big baseball fan too. Don't know whether that means anything, but I don't think that we should be doing business as usual while this war persists. If the players didn't play, maybe the war could be stopped.
1"Bush added that he had dinner with La Russa in August, during a tough stretch for the team, and afterwards remarked to an aide that the Cardinals were going to win the championship – because their manager believed they would."
The last Bob to run shunned accommodation hunting by renting an R.V. And he brought his wife and kids with him. But he was a little bit nuts, so, maybe best not emulate him. Really, who has time to keep that kind of diary?
"You were able to endure losing streaks of eight, and eight again, and seven, because of the team's character and leadership," he said. Bush added that he had dinner with La Russa in August, during a tough stretch for the team, and afterwards remarked to an aide that the Cardinals were going to win the championship – because their manager believed they would.
Bush league pretty much sums up this presidency.
Even if it's David Eckstein.
President's approval ratings: 34%*
*USA Today/Gallup
Then what do you talk about on your blog...?
I also have to teach, which means I have a responsibility to hide my politics and present things objectively...A notion most of my colleagues fail to understand.
Kidding!
Funny, cause if she moved up just two grades she could bum cigarettes off of her students like most of my professors did.
But they didn't bum them from me because I don't smoke cigarettes.
On the other hand Ward Churchill worked down the hall from me and there isn't a catapult big enough for that guy.
Bowden for president?
I have yet to meet the student who knows my politics...And they try to guess...All the time.
Baseball earns our love because it is mostly on the level. Bush and Tony deserve one another. Does ya think that Tony didn't know the bash brothers were juicing or that Mark was when he was with the Cards?
I long for John Carlos. How about some integrity.
And BTW, did ya see Keith Oberman's response to Bush's speech?
Bob doesn't care much for Keith Olbermann, despite the "mann" they share...
We learned about the wonderful social safety nets in some of the more liberal European nations. We also learned that Cuba has wonderful socialized medicine.
Of course, Poli Sci 101 is an American Government class and we didn't learn much about the American system of government.
As long as my students can back their assertions up with logic and facts, I'm perfectly happy to have little Buckleys and little Chomskys everywhere.
Bush 43 is probably the biggest baseball fan to serve as president since Bush 41.
I always had the impression that Clinton was a basketball guy.
Hard to tell what Reagan or Carter liked although Reagan did work as a Cubs play-by-play guy.
I believe Eisenhower kept score at baseball games.
First female, first African-American, first SABRE member.
(On behalf of your students): Where would you like him to fit...?
Which Clinton...?
I bet LaRussa said it was a "slam dunk."
Following them will be another first, the Gonzo Triplets.
Wow.
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