Open Thread Sunday

Cardinals clinched a spot in the playoffs after beating the Rockies in Denver last night. Hooray!! I love to see a Cardinal/Yankee World Series. Go Cards.

Don't forget Superman Returns

The Yanks are working it on their end — 1 more win to clinch the division and best record in the AL. Personally, I'd like to see the Dodgers, but I wouldn't mind the Bombers beating the Cards!

In addition to it being Open Thread Sunday … it's #Jesus Sunday at Tweeter … at least for some of us! @OutreachNuMedia on Twitter.

Started watching old movies as I am so sick of the Hollywood preachy leftists. Also the movies they are making now SUCK. Last few days I have watched Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, On The Beach and Lawrence Of Arabia. They just don't make them like that now. And the acting is far superior to the numnuts in Hollywood now.

Here’s what goes on at Chicago Public School dismissals. Maybe the community organizer can come back and bring the army with him. http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/video_...
Chicago Cop’s perspective here, http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2009/09/beating...

Since I have been blessed with a big red icon, I have the privilege of being spotted easier and read more frequently than a message posted by a “non-red” member. Therefore I would like to use my unfair advantage to express a political view that I feel is important.

Please Support the US Military. They risk their lives every day for Our Freedom!

Tom. Way to go. I grew up thinking of baseball as something more than a "sport" it was the American pasttime. I will always think of Bob Gibson V. Denny McClain in the World Series when I think of the Cardinals.

The players went on strike in 1994 and the World Series was cancelled. Cancelling the World Series? I quit watching baseball after that. I could care less now. The steroid cheating freaks who stole all the home run records only reinforced my disinterest.

At IMDB website
On today's movie stars: "America is now obsessed by stars in an unhealthy way. They don't actually deserve this kind of attention. They`re only actors – not scientists who are triumphing over cancer or doing some other wonderful thing."

For the record is your ddaichiro name meant to imply you are an D-Day hero?

But I want to forget Superman Returns

Wow…looks like William Safire just passed away.

No. My initials are DD and I just love my country.

It's weird that they got this voting system that identifies dissenters as though they have the plague and it does seem to attract one's eye when scrolling through a list of posts.

They'll never be able to fix the mess they've made of the all-time record book, but going forward, the game seems to have turned the corner on the steroid issue — stolen bases are up and home runs are down this year.

Alist-

I grew up with Walter Alston's Dodgers: Koufax and Drysdale. Picture Don Drysdale pitching in the All-Star game and quitting and calling it a "draw" because his arm got tired…

While we're on the subject we could also talk about the 'designated hitter'. Or about Sosa using a corked bat, lying that he didn't know he had it, and getting away with a seven game suspension. They owe Pete Rose an apology.

I loved the game once upon a time, but they've ruined it. Too much money and too little personal integrity.

This day in 1938 – bandleader Glenn Miller does his first recording session in NYC for RCA's Bluebird record label.

Same day, same place – bandleader Artie Shaw records his eerie theme song, NIGHTMARE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W59FzOwYIs

This day – 9/27/1942 – bandleader Glenn Miller plays his last civilian band gig at the Central Theater in Passaic, NJ, a portion of which was broadcast by the Coca Cola company live that evening. No film footage and, surprisingly, no photographs have surfaced. Next stop for Miller – service in WW2 in the AAF.

Sadly, that film would probably never be made by today's Hollywood.

LOTS of guys have used corked bats — only one got caught betting on baseball and lying about.

Nobody owes Pete Rose anything.

Dale Rathke, 'ACORN bigwig' and brother of Wade, the founder of ACORN, embezzled $948,607 from the company to spend on such things as Gucci, Neiman Marcus, limos in New York, a $2000 stay at the Waldorf-Astoria and a $700 'gourmet dinner at La Cote Basque'. This happened in 2000 – and all of the money was paid back. Which is interesting since Rathke only makes $46,000 a year. (BTW, Dale was also head of the 'financial arm' of ACORN.)

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/hey_big_spende...

"Capitalism: A Love Story" is a truly lazy piece of filmmaking. From the title you would expect a thesis of some sort or other. All that he does is deal with a bunch of injustices and claim that the entire capitalist system is responsible for truly. Truly inane. You don't have to be an ardent capitalist to knock over this house of cards. Because the businesses he cites have behaved horribly doesn't in any way shape or form negate capitalism itself.

Moore is a weak-kneeded populist. Capra in a basseball cap, without a quarter of Capra's talent. Over and over again he returns to the fact that when he was a kid his and everybody else's family in Flint worked for GM and life was perfect. The things changed. GM started to produce lousey cars expecting that people would buy new ones every couple of years as they always had. Instead they bought better made cars from Japan, that lasted longer. But that's just one story.

How and why we've come to this economic crisis is complex and multifacted story that I doubt any film could adequately summarize. Moore doesn't even come close to dealing with it.

A gifted actor and yes, underrated. She is an icon. "On the Waterfront" is one of my top favorite movies.

Not to mention a 162 game season…and then playoffs?

Please sign our petition to Eliminate Corruption in Washington

http://mycityblog.net/dont-tread-on-me/

It's called voting.

From the petition: "…any party suspected of corrupt activities be immediately suspended". Now that would never backfire, would it?

They are now reporting, you may already know, because he is a French citizen
that throws a wench er..sorry a wrench into the process. Something to do with french
law agreements with the USofA.

And the Angels are still the only team with a winning record against the Yankees.

Thank you, I heard the writer or director had someone in mind when it was written.
Apparently it was not unheard of to have very young starlets visit and be taken advantage
of by those in power.

I think there were plenty of people who worshiped actors and actresses in an unhealthy manor way back when as well

Re-education camps. Wow. I wonder when we will start seeing people lynched with the words LIB scrawled on their chest.

Alist-

I grew up with Walter Alston's Dodgers: Koufax and Drysdale. Picture Don Drysdale pitching in the All-Star game and quitting and calling it a "draw" because his arm got tired…

While we're on the subject we could also talk about the 'designated hitter'. Or about Sosa using a corked bat, lying that he didn't know he had it, and getting away with a seven game suspension. THAT should have been an immediate ban for life, with no appeal. They owe Pete Rose an apology.

I loved the game once upon a time, but they've ruined it. Too much money and too little personal integrity.

The movie director/producer horses head incident in Godfather
predilection for very young girls, a not so concealed reference to Polanski
I heard rumored somewhere, or is the practice so prevalent it could have been anyone
or no one is that perverse? That may be somewhat naively phrased.

P.S. Eva Maria Saint very underrated actress.

The '81 Royals went to the playoffs with a 50-53 record. The season was shortened due to a player strike.

But my use of the .500 threshhold was intended as hyperbole. If you knew anything about effective writing you'd understand that.

OK, that was a little snarky. But really… "If I knew anything about baseball history"?

"LOTS of guys have used corked bats…"

Well, there's an effective argument. Makes me want to run out and buy a season ticket. Lots of guys use steroids, too. It must be OK.

As to Pete Rose, let the punishment fit the crime. Nobody even alleged that he ever threw a game. He bet on OTHER TEAMS, because he had a gambling problem. Do I think that was OK? No. Do I think it deserved a ban for life and exclusion from the Hall of Fame? No.

I never said "everybody does it.." I pointed out that players have been caught doctoring bats (and balls), and that the disciplinary precedent is that they receive multi-game suspensions — NOT the "immediate ban for life, with no appeal" that you suggested for Sosa.

No, Rose didn't beat against team, but he knowingly violated the no-betting-on-baseball rule, punishable by a lifetime ban. Suppose a manager got in over his head with bookies and ran up a tab that he couldn't possibly pay. The bookies could threaten to report him to MLB (resulting in a lifetime ban) or have their "associates" make — and carry out — threats of a more direct nature. It's only a short step from that stituation to "you can get right with us if you lie down against the Mets on Sunday."

That's why betting on baseball is prohibited.

You are correct about the precedent for using a corked bat. I guess what ticked me off about Sosa was the obvious lie. Tiger Woods can tell a weight difference of the equivalence of a single cotton ball between his drivers, just by swinging one. But a major league ballplayer of Sosa's caliber can't tell a four-ounce weight difference in his own custom made bat? Right, Sammy. Pull the other one.

As to Pete Rose, although what you describe is a very real danger, in his case it amounts to "prior restraint". I do not believe the decision was just.

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