"The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 didn't cover physical searches until Congress amended it in 1995. Thus, whatever happened with respect to the search of Ames' home in 1991, it couldn't have violated a FISA physical-search warrant requirement because no such requirement existed at the time."

If Ames' home were searched in 1991, that was before Clinton took the oath in January 1993. So how can this be blamed on Clinton in the first place?

You might not finish first is all. In that company, there is no shame whereever you wind up in the voting at the "Bloggies."

"And God himself, if we want to use male language, was a pretty offensive character. The flood! He didn't like how humans were behaving, so he destroyed everything except for two of each animals and humans with a flood."

I hope Kissling is treating this as a fable and not fact. It's difficult to believe that any halfway sensible person would still believe in such twaddle.

Last night I saw Craig Mortensen weighing in on Vick's chances of returning to the NFL. His counterpart should have asked one question: Would you want Michael Vick on your team when he gets out of prison?

"What? If Green swats the ball out of bounds, the game's over and the Cardinals win. It wasn't poor technique. It was a brain cramp."

In this morning's Arizona Republic, Green is quoted twice that all he had to do was knock it out for a touchback. So he either knew what to do and didn't do it or someone told him afterward about his screwup. The reporters did not press the matter, apparently.

And thank you for bringing up the inanity of the ESPN crew.

I couldn't believe they were yammering about Green's bad technique when all he had to do was slap the ball, kick it, anything but recover it. No on remembers Don Beebe and Leon Lett? (Look it up, kiddies.)

So typical of the Cardinals. They lost a game last year at the goal line, 8 seconds down, when a lineman moved. Ten seconds are run off the clock when you're inside a minute and commit an offensive foul. Game over.

How you can have two former NFL players, one of whom became a coach, not mention that is beyond me.

The Pirates had a choice back in the early '90s when they were still winning: let Andy Van Slyke go and pony up big bucks for the guy whose contract was up the next year, Barry Bonds. They opted to sign a popular white guy than a prickly black guy who even then was showing he could be among the greatest ever. They have never recovered from that decision.

Still, they have drawn in the low 20,000s in their new ballpark since averaging over 30,000 in its first year. That's as much as when they were winning in the '90s and way more than the average 17,722 in 1979 when they last one the Series. 2009 will be a nice confluence of events, with a record 17-season losing streak during the 30th anniversary of their last Series championship.

Oh, and BaldHeadedHo, what in the world are you talking about, Richie Zisk a star? Sheesh.

Raging Monkee said: "I noticed that Barrett did not rush to tag Holliday after he picked up the ball and just accepted the call. I wonder if it would have been different had he showed some hustle."

Barrett showed enough hustle to me. From what I saw, Barrett first tried to find the ball. When he spotted it, off came his mask and he quickly started to move to make the tag to the prone Holliday, who had never tagged the plate. He made the tag half-heartedly only when McLellan made his very late safe sign. Speaking of half-heartedly, have you ever seen a game-ending call like that? I think that after 4 hours and 40 minutes, McLellan just wanted it over with. A terrible ending to a terrific game.

John Randolph, I agree with you. Whole parts of the country can't see this game if they don't have cable. I was working with friends in northwestern Pa. a few years back and couldn't see the World Series because it was on Fox, which didn't have a station in that area.

As for Piniella, remember what Earl Weaver used to say: The more you go the bullpen, the more likely you're going to get the guy who doesn't have it that day. That was especially true for Earl in the ninth inning of Game 7 of the '79 Series the Orioles lost to the Pirates. Sometimes your own rule comes back to bite you.

To me, that's hotter than the Tigers of '84 when they went 35-5 to start the year. That's because these Rockies have gone 6-0 in the playoffs to boot. And to think they almost didn't make the playoffs. I'm a D-Backs fan, and all of us should content ourselves with an otherwise terrific year. Not that many expected this team to go this far, and when you have young talent like Chris Young and Justin Upton, well, the future looks bright.

I remember when Jesse Barfield caught a fly to right with Rickey Henderson on first. Rickey took a few steps off the bag, wiggled his hips as though he was about to take off, and Barfield pointing his right hand at him like a gun to indicate, "Bang, you're dead!" Then he threw a strike to second. Fun gamesmanship.

Just read John Helyar's "Lords of the Realm: The 'real' history of baseball."

Fascinating account of how Miller challenged the reserve clause and guided the players to the mega-millions they make today. It should be read by every player, especially those who stiff the pensions of those who paved the way.