Notre Dame won a game. Does that qualify them for the BCS?

In Louisville's last 2 losses Brian Brohm is 84-123 for 1,022 yards and 8 touchdowns.

USC-Stanford. It's always a pleasure watching the fans and media look at these things with preplexed faces. It's easy---Stanford has a bunch of good, big, fast players that practice every day. Any other explanation is bogus. Also there's not nearly the difference between "2 star" and "5 star" recruits as everyone thinks. Same as Oklahoma-Colorado and a hundred other scores so far this year.

Went a combined 54-290 for a .186 batting average, a .269 on base percentage, and a .290 slugging.

Detroit collapsed at the end of the regular season last year playing every day.

Jim Bouton said that even way back then players called ugly women---"a Joe Torre with tits."

You got it. The hitters back in the good ole days were facing pitchers with their arms falling off half the time.

Rudy and Ted Nugent.

They didn't mess with the Cleveland players?

6 million Iranians in the next 60 minutes and the ADL would be silent.

Has always been a jerk but at least lucid. He's approaching the age now where the gray matter can often start doing very strange things. He's already reducing his public presence, possibly heading toward some form of Howard Hughes. I doubt he'll ever give up his position of power and influence. It could be very entertaining the next decade.

The curse of the Bambino on the Boston Red Sox.

It may be time to start considering the curse of Bin Laden on George and New York. September 11 2001. 54 days later Mariano Rivera blows a 9th inning lead in game 7 against Arizona. We have the unexpected drubbing against the Marlins in the Series. The blown 3 games to none lead against the Red Sox. The current back to back to back outs in the opening round. The locust swarm on their pitcher to give up the tying run in a 2-1 extra inning loss. The swarm of two out Cleveland hits to produce runs. A-Rod's playoff problems as a Yankee. The Clemens signing not doing the trick. Now it appears that a mass exodus could take place.

To open, I'm not an Ohio State fan and I don't like Ohio. Ohio swung it to Bush-Cheney in 2004 which puts that state 1-A on my shit list. But the facts are the facts.

I've seen a couple installments of this ESPN's top 25 players in college football history. I don't know the format. If it's just the top 25 presented one by one, or if it's ranked going from 25 up to one. If it's the latter there is a problem. Archie Griffin of Ohio State is number 21?

Only player to win two Heismans. He won them back to back. His team won 4 conference titles and he started in 4 straight Rose Bowls--only player to ever do that. 3 time All-American and has the NCAA record of 31 straight games rushing for 100 plus.

There's twenty ahead of that? I'm trying to think of one that's even in the ballpark.

Post-game Cardinal and Red call in shows fairly regularly. The bunting speeches are one of the most common and consistent themes.

The psychology, per usual, involves the irritating "good ole day" mentality. It's not really strategy. It's the modern day fan lamenting about the lack of team play and selfish players. What's the most obvious "team play"? The bunt. So they call for the bunt.

It's about one notch above, or maybe below, Pavlov's dog.

At this point, when it comes to war, I'm for consulting anyone but Dick Cheney.

Of Tony Gwynn, and Pete Rose, and Ichiro, and Rod Carew, and Wade Boggs among others is that they are the best hitters or even among the best hitters. Those five have career slugging percentages of .459, .409, .437, .429, and .443. That rules these type of players out of the best hitters category. There are plenty of other guys in the same vicinity or equal in batting average, but vastly superior in the power categories. Thus making them a better or at least a more complete and valuable hitter.

I guess it could be a matter of semantics with "best", that the mickey mousers like Gwynn and Rose have the best hitting technique or approach. Or are capable of explaining hitting better because of a boatload of singles.

Forget about it. Gwynn was .338 and .459 batting and slugging career. Pujols is .332 and .620. That's a mismatch.

That just doesn't seem to nail Lowry, particularly after viewing his photograph. I submit "pussy."

Was us freaking out over somebody inserting their presence and influence in our hemisphere.

Now we are freaking out over Iran getting nasty and defensive about us inserting our presence and influence in their region.

Are simply the lowest paid rung of the scapegoat ladder. If a player needs a hitting instructor at the major league level, that's probably a good sign he should never have been called up.

Perino take over for Petraeus? I missed it.

Batting average, on base, slugging, OPS,---career.......

Home--.367, .465, .663, 1.128

Road--.295, .394, .502, .896.

To get a few close up cameras full time on this Webb character. You'll recall Kenny Rogers smoking down the stretch last year, then they got in the World Series and there's some kind of crap all over his hands. Mike Scott of Houston turned out to be a fraud in his run too.

If Webb gets bombed it may be that he felt he can't go with the regular format under the spotlight. If he's dominating we have to watch like a hawk.

Helton's a pretty good hitter. Nothing special though.

Seriously discussing someone's prospective Hall Of Fame credentials (and God knows how the oafs in the audience are digesting that), I take it they consider him to be special.