Sunday, October 27, 2002

Heartbreak! Being more of a "Dusty Bandwagon," fan  -- in other words, I've been pulling for the Giants since 1996, as opposed to routing for them since I was a kid growing up ... I have a hard time relating to all of the heartbreak of Salomon Torres, etc., but last night was tough. It looked all sewn up. Ortiz was brilliant for 6.1. I don't think that you can fault Dusty or even the bullpen, who has been mostly brilliant, especially the trio of Rodriguez, Worrell and Nen (last night excluded), over the past 3-4 months ... but wow! The Angels are resilient. I curse them, their Rally Monkey and their Strip Mall fans, but the team and Mike Scosia are very impressive. Gammons compares last night and this Series to some of the classic game 6s of the past: 1975, 1985, 1986, etc.: http://espn.go.com/gammons/s/2002/1026/1451722.html 1:08:20 PM    comment []

Traficant is running for the House? How Bizarre, How Bizarre! How curious is this? According to Today's Paper's: http://slate.msn.com/?id=2073207 (look at the last para.), James Traficant is running for his seat again, despite that he is serving an 8-year prison term, on rackateering and bribery charges. (SLATE picked it up from the Washington Post's Sunday Style Section: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16678-2002Oct25.html), only inside the Beltway is this "Style," huh? The best part is that this story is a profile on Traficant's campaing manager, James Bunosky,  "a substitute teacher who's never met Traficant aside from a 30-second phone call from prison, says the media focused too much on the negative when it comes to his candidate." Um, well, yeah. He did abuse a public office for personal financial gain -- besides having crimes against hairdressers and barbers everywhere -- does anyone remember how bad this guy's hair piece was? Somehow Traficant is polling between 10-15% of the vote right now -- is he running against Gray Davis and Bill Simon? Makes you wonder.  The best quote from the whole deal comes from a local journalist: "He never polls well because no one wants to admit that they are going to vote for him." What a crazy tale ... makes Game 6 look more "normal." 12:53:11 PM    comment []