Neyer on Pujols

Rob needed some more caffeine this morning.  This is the most ludicrous thing I've ever read from the usually sane and sober sabermetrician.

 

Mike (St. Louis): Travis Hafner is the best hitter in baseball every season???? I think Albert Pujols might disagree with you.

 Rob Neyer: If Pujols played in a real league he'd be lucky to bat .260 with 20 home runs.

It's Not Enough to Win?

LeBron was being interviewed on SportsCenter this morning.  He told the interviewer that it wouldn't be sufficient for the US National team to win games on this tour and subsequent tournament.  Rather, they need to "blow them out".

 

Am I the only person who has a problem with this?  You won't hear Tiger saying this leading up to Medinah this week.  Nobody will talk about blowing out their preseason or Week 1 opponents in the NFL.  Tom Lehman and Woosie aren't talking this way.  But Bron Bron says we have to blow them out.  Who freaking cares?  Don't we need to win some international games of significance before we start worrying about running up the score? 

 

Of course, ESPN not only lets them get away with this line of reasoning, they highlight it in the Sunday SportsCenter package.  Their heads are SO far up Stern's ass that they can taste what the Commish had for lunch today.

Segway v2.0

Oh joy, Bushwhacker's favorite tool is coming out with a new and improved, easier to steer version.  This will surely satisfy their customer base of six satisfied users. 

 

And, they're gonna use these on GOLF COURSES?  I've seen easy-to-drive golf CARTS plunge into ponds and streams.  Imagine where some hack with a six-pack in him can take these things? 

 

I've said it before and I'll say it again...the Segway is a very cool tool with essentially zero practical usability.

Response

Seriously, all the investors should say, "what is the best return on my money?"  including the Ford's.  It is just business.  Don't let your personal feelings get in the way of making a good business decision.  Just decide what is the best use of the assets and move on.  The auto business has changed very quickly (on the surface).  It has been changing for years, but China has blown up.  Manufacturing goods is going to go to the cheapest and best place - which will eventually be Africa btw.  China will eventually get too expensive and they will look elsewhere...

 

Look, the world did not implode after 100,000 UAW workers lost their jobs.  The silly question, "well, who is going to buy the cars if there are no manufacturing jobs here?" is flat out the dumbest question this decade.  It is like asking, "who is going to buy broccoli if it is not grown here by the farm hands and farmers here in the US."  STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

The world is flat.  Jobs are not what they used to be.  People have to be smarter.  Manufacturing is just one segment of the economy.  Take Switzerland.  Not much manufacturing there, but they have some of the highest standard of living in the world.  Go figure...

 

Let the best producer of goods or services produce it.  It will be cheaper for everyone which means...........more money to be spent on other parts of the economy.  More savings.  More diversity.  More entertainment.  More charity. 

 

Adam Smith rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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Not Listening? WTF?

They are not listening to me...I am shocked!

 

I am thinking of sending a memo to that cranky old guy from CBS online or Time or something like that, who always rights about the auto industry and thinks he has forgotten more than any of us will every know.  That guy will write just about anything...I love that guy....

 

Jaguar should have been sold by now or shut down altogether.  I think it is losing money because it has no core market anymore.  The majority of the luxury or luxury move up market are going with the German stuff or Japanese stuff.  Jaguar has some diehards, but it should either move up and I mean way up to like Ferrari level or move down or kill the brand/company. 

 

BTW, I am liking that Wie girl more and more every time I see her....I love moo-shoo pork...that's spicy....

 

Is Annika a lesbo?  I am not sure and I could probably Google it no problem, but it is not as fun as asking that Kaiser Morning-way guy...

 

Kevin Bushbaker

Omega Vista, LLC

2250 E. Tropicana, Suite 19-468

Las Vegas, NV 89119

kevin@omegavista.com

(702) 921-8888 office

(702) 921-8816 fax

(702) 400-9986 cell

 

 

Gordon's Brief WSOP Tenure

Simply fascinating stuff...a string of very brief podcasts by Phil Gordon on this year's World Series of Poker.  Scroll down to Day 1a and go forward chronologically from there.  It's just great great stuff.  Gordon is first somewhat in awe of the scene, and admittedly nervous the day before he begins play.  Then on his first day, there are four fascinating tidbits - driving to the event, his status at the first and second break, and the end of his tournament. 

 

It has to be excruciating to be a world class pro and run into an army of buffoons in an event like this, and get beaten by luck.  Though I have to say if I were Gordon, I'd have played that set of aces much more aggressively than he did.

Dickens

A dickens of a time, indeed, Rummy.

 

Sure wish I were a politician.  Just by stating something, you can make it so, or deny it ever happened. 

9/11 NORAD Transcripts

Chilling stuff - national defense transcripts of what really happened within our own air defense system on September 11, 2001.  Bureaucracy is a damn crippling thing. 

A-Rod

The idiot Yankee fans are doing this to themselves.  Regardless of the price, which is in many ways a transparent cost to the fanbase that constantly fills up Yankee Stadium, the team has one of the five best players in all of baseball.  And he's having a bit of an off year - still a pretty damn good year, though.  And he keeps getting booed.  And he keeps getting outed in the papers for suntanning in Central Park.  And he keeps speaking up about it all instead of avoiding the media.  And he keeps carrying himself properly instead of acting out in the way that it just must be *so* tempting to do right now. 

 

And the Yankee fans just keep piling on, too blindly stupid and arrogant to realize that they're either going to ruin this guy or get him run out of town, getting the franchise literally pennies on the dollar in return. 

 

Sometimes, having 26 World Championships (tm) and being the most storied franchise in the history of sports (tm) isn't a good thing. 

 

By the way, there's a great line by Lupica in here about what ol' Shrub will be most remembered for. 

This President will be remembered as much for his war against stem-cell research as he is for his war in Iraq.