It's nice to know that MLB has the time to squeeze in these extra games in the American League.

So why was it absolutely essential that the Astros play their "home" games against the Cubs in Milwaukee last week? Bud Selig said there was absolutely no way to play those games later, so the Astros had to leave their waterlogged homes in the middle of the night to fly to Milwaukee in order to play the Cubs in a "home" game 90 miles north of Chicago in a stadium filled with Cubs fans.

Heckuva job, Bud.

My kids only know Paul Newman as the guy on the knockoff Oreos package and the voice of Doc, and I haven't told them that he's dead.

Don't be so quick to knock Paul's "knockoff" Oreos. Paul makes them in a wheat-free version, too, and for those of us who have a wheat allergy, those "knockoff" Oreos are pretty damned tasty. And since Nabisco isn't going out of their way to make a version of their cookie that I can eat, those "knockoffs" of Paul's are a godsend.

I enjoyed Paul Newman's work in film and I'll miss it, but I'm far more grateful that he's gone out of his way to make stuff I can eat without becoming ill. That's something I can appreciate every single day.

...but as near as I can tell, he's working for the Republicans.

What do the Democrats see in this Bush lapdog?

I've been waiting for the McCain campaign to finally just embrace the bottom of the barrel and run an ad that simply asks, "Do you really want a ni**er to be your president?"

The way things are going, we'll probably see it before the end of the week...

We've just had a 162-game regular season to determine, as definitively as possible given the boundaries of time and North American weather patterns, the best baseball teams in the land.

And that's why, for the first 100 years or so, Major League Baseball had no playoffs at all. The season is ten times the length of the NFL's season, and by the time it's over, there's little doubt as to which teams are the best.

I'd be fine getting rid of the playoffs altogether and going back to the pre-1969 system, but if we must keep a playoff system, let's eliminate games by eliminating the two wild card teams.

162 games is plenty of time to win a division. If you can't manage to do that, you've got no business playing baseball in October.

Wow. Heiress, trophy wife, bank account. Now attack dog. How DOES she do it all?

Drugs. I thought everyone knew that. But not "street drugs" like Obama used; she uses government-approved pharmacy drugs, like Rush Limbaugh.

What kind of fool..

would believe someone would order caviar of that stripe and then get some ghetto champagne that runs $44/bottle? Please. Unless that was another swipe at the lady.. "Black folks don't know likra!"

And Osetra caviar? It's OK, but I'll take Beluga over Osetra every time. So will most anyone else who is appropriately elitist.

...such stunts wouldn't be necessary, as Rove would already be behind bars. Sadly, she'll be painted as a kook by the mainstream media, and the whole thing will go away.

How sad for our country.

...tasted like chicken.

...Trig's birth certificate, and we'll ask no more questions, OK?

By all accounts, he's a good guy. He sits on the bench and does what he's told to do without complaining. In his years in Houston, he was mostly used as a defensive replacement, and he managed to get in front of the ball more often than not.

King, I think your hostility towards Bruntlett runs deeper than you're letting on. Is it because he's a Stanford grad?

...came when a left-handed hitter came up (forgot who) and McCarver offered that he "hits right-handed pitching well."

Uh...shouldn't that be true of all left-handed hitters? Isn't that famous baseball "playing the percentages" thing based on that? Aren't all hitters supposed to do better against pitchers who throw the opposite way that they bat?

Isn't that why all switch hitters bat lefty against right handed pitching?

Hello???

Bud should suggest that they finish the game in Milwaukee!

Why not? He thought Milwaukee was a good enough place for the Astros to play their "home" games against the Cubs, so why not the Phillies and Rays?

Better yet - Why not have the Phillies finish their home game against the Rays in Miami?

Yeah, that's the ticket...

...down the road if one of those two children should grow up to be gay?

...it's good to see that good, old-fashioned "hanging important people in effigy" hasn't gone away.

It's a classic way for the average guy (or mob) to effectively make a point known and let off steam.

Blogging just doesn't have the same effect.

Of course, I've been wondering for the past seven years why we haven't been seeing George W. Bush hanged in effigy daily...

But you know what's really killing the World Series? The late starts. The games don't begin until 8:37 p.m. EDT and they don't end till long after millions of imaginary 8-year-olds have been marched off to bed, each and every one of them muttering, "I will never become a fan of baseball...

Right, King. Bring back the day games. It was sooooo much better when I was a kid in the 1960's. They played the World Series in the daytime, when God intended it to be played!

Of course, God alone watched the games, since everyone else was either at work or at school.

So does this mean he's NOT a Muslim? I'm confused.

Oh, no, he's also a Muslim. And a socialist, a communist, a terrorist, the most liberal member of the Senate, a baby killer, and the greatest threat to the United States ever.

He's all of that. At once.

It keeps him very busy.

...before the Republicans start accusing Obama of having killed her himself.