Manuel Labor and The Joy Of Phillies – In Boston?
Just returned from a business trip to Boston, where everyone I work with knows that I’m from Phillie’s country. I’m happy to report that most everyone in the Red Sox nation is hoping and praying that the Phillies send the Yankees back to obscurity. Now, I know. It’s supposed to be an American league town but Yankee hatred is something else in New England. It’s far more intense than Eagle’s fan distaste for the Giants, or the Cowboys. It must be in the drinking water or the DNA.
S0, anyway, New Englanders are into the Phillies, at least for the next week and a half. And that’s okay with me. What’s also okay is outright fan appreciation for the talents of Charlie Manuel.
Memories are short.
A few years ago the self-sainted scribes, also known as rabble-rousing print journalists were portraying Manuel Labor as a failure. He showed them, didn’t he? Even a well known radio talker was belittling the Phil’s manager for his use of the English language. Since when did good grammar win a World Series?
And that’s why the people of this town are so tough and so great. They want the best, will settle for nothing else, but they love hard work and determination. And that’s why the people love Manuel and his team and the hard, gritty, talented stars like Werth and Rollins and Howard and most of all, the catcher, Ruiz. Now there’s a guy with eagle eye and the determination of a fighter. Isn’t that what’s it all about here?
Show me! And if you can’t show me, work your behind off to try and show me!
As far as the Yankees: they have the big house and the corporate thing, but they could go choking, if you know what I mean. Maybe. Maybe not.
Ok. Enough. Next time, I promise, I’ll write about Iran, Iraq, City Hall, Chris Christie and Jon Corzine and Chris Daggett.
Just got carried away. Because? Because the Joy of Phillies is overwhelming.
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Larry has a love fest with the Phillies when they are in the World Series. Now this is shocking.
Waiting for the 6:15. Going in early today. I’m wearing my Payne Stewart outfit today. Catching lots of stares. I know a 67 year old man with haiplugs looks stupid in knickers and argyle. F them if they can’t take a joke. Have a golf foursome at 10. Got to get a few things done before then. 5 hours of golf. 2 hours at the 19th hole. And then an hour for a late lunch. A long day by my standards. I’ll be coming straight back to Union Station. The things I do for my country. I am a great American. Really.
Word in the mill is that Reid and Pelosi have enough votes for a healthcare bill. They have worked out deals with enough congressmen that they can get this turkey through. It is no lomger about passing good reforms or prudent legislature. Now it’s all about compromise and pushing this turkey through. You gotta love this country.
Well all the sausages have passed through my body. I’m in a cleansing mode now. Limiting myself to yogart and berries. Well at least until this afternoon. No more epic dumps eating like this.
You will notice I have refrained from taking a shot at Larry’s latest blog entry. Call it the spirit of the World Series. Jill and I will be front row for game 3. Larry I hope this is not another one of your obits. I so so want the Phils to win.
Biden/Biden in 2012! Back to back like the Phils.
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By the by were you watching the Eagles-Redskins game last night. What a sleeper. I think all of America went to sleep at halftime. Nothing happened in the entire 2nd half so they did not miss anything. I think the 2 teams may have gone to sleep at halftime as well. 4-2 baby.
Biden/Biden in 2012! We’ll put you to sleep in the 1st half.
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I will take a shot at the latest topic.
Larry, you can’t eveb take a definative
stand on who will win; “maybe, maybe not”
Wow, that takes the cake, you must be a
real die hard phillies fan, or that I’m
right, and you secretly root for Yanks!
In any event, let’s have a great sereis
and let’s drop the hatred talk that Boston
has for NY. Don’t encourage that nonesense
between Philies and Yankess, both are. Cities
full of great people who should love each
other and realize this is supposed to be fun.
God, I love this blog!
The fact that it is so refreshingly
inane, that we come here to learn
and say nothing and always leave fulfilled.
Thank you Larry Kane!
Go Yankees!!!!!!!!
Less filling. Tastes great.
LA, I have to respectfully question your judgement. Why the Yankees?
Yankees are greatest franchise in history
of baseball, epitomy of American can do
spirit. They are winners, America turned
to them after 9-11, we were all Yankees after
the attack. They invented multicultuarlism
and represent why we are stonger as a nation
when it is embraced on the field and in the
workplace. It doesn’t get any better than the
Yankees, they are about way more than the
game of baseball.
Larry, you’re from “Phillie’s Country”? Really? Where is that exactly. Me? I’m from Phillies’ Country.
And what the hell is “Eagle’s fan distaste”? Do you mean Eagles fan distaste?
You are the king of dramatic irony, however. You write:
Well, first of all, you should have written the Phils’ manager.
Although good grammar may not win titles, it’s clearly a requirement for people who write. Maybe you should get out of blogging and stick to newsreading. Or try managing the Phillies.
Larry would not be a good manager. He’s too indecisive and wants to please everyone.
Larry does not really have time for this blog. He’s too busy his book.
“maybe,maybe not.” sums it up rather well.
oeL, Larry has his 8 year old grandson, Larry III, doing the blog for him now. I wonder if III can read a teleprompter better than he can write?
The Yankees will choke
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Maybe, Maybe not.
Sounds like Obama trying to make a decsion.
Although Barrack has the ability to endorse
a sports team that he favors. However, Larry
cannot say whether the Phillies will prevail,
Maybe they will, maybe they won’t. No wonder
Philadlephia has an inferiority complex, its
Favorite Son, Larry Kane, cannot whole heartedly
declare that the Phillies will win the World
Series. Pretty sad state of affairs in Philadelpia
The ghost of Harry Kalas will not haunt the Phillies in this year’s World Series. The ghost of Brad Lidge Past may, however. Baseball and Ballantine.
The ghost of Kalas is real, respect it
Philadelphia!
The Acela Series, coined by me, the great
Lord Abott, begins in just over 24hours!
The Yankees will win, but I will be gracious
Philadelphia is a good city filled with
decent, albeit under educated and inarticluate
hard working people.
Maybe after the Yankees are up 3 games to none
Larry Kane will be able to say, “well, I did
Say maybe not, its just not the Phils year”
If I were Phils manager I’d have a priest do
an exorcism of Kalas ghost on field, better
safe than sorry!
Subject: Young Hamlet’s Agony by Charles Krauthammer 10/9/09
WASHINGTON — The genius of democracy is the rotation of power, which forces the opposition to be serious — particularly about things like war, about which until Jan. 20 of this year Democrats were decidedly unserious.
When the Iraq War (which a majority of Senate Democrats voted for) ran into trouble and casualties began to mount, Democrats followed the shifting winds of public opinion and turned decidedly anti-war. But needing political cover because of their post-Vietnam reputation for weakness on national defense, they adopted Afghanistan as their pet war.
“I was part of the 2004 Kerry campaign, which elevated the idea of Afghanistan as ‘the right war’ to conventional Democratic wisdom,” wrote Democratic consultant Bob Shrum shortly after President Obama was elected. “This was accurate as criticism of the Bush administration, but it was also reflexive and perhaps by now even misleading as policy.”
Which is a clever way to say that championing victory in Afghanistan was a contrived and disingenuous policy in which Democrats never seriously believed, a convenient two-by-four with which to bash George Bush over Iraq — while still appearing warlike enough to fend off the soft-on-defense stereotype.
Brilliantly crafted and perfectly cynical, the “Iraq War bad, Afghan War good” posture worked. Democrats first won Congress, then the White House. But now, unfortunately, they must govern. No more games. No more pretense.
So what does their commander in chief do now with the war he once declared had to be won but had been almost criminally under-resourced by Bush?
Perhaps provide the resources to win it?
You would think so. And that’s exactly what Obama’s handpicked commander requested on Aug. 30 — a surge of 30,000 to 40,000 troops to stabilize a downward spiral and save Afghanistan the way a similar surge saved Iraq.
That was more than five weeks ago. Still no response. Obama agonizes publicly as the world watches. Why? Because, explains national security adviser James Jones, you don’t commit troops before you decide on a strategy.
No strategy? On March 27, flanked by his secretaries of defense and state, the president said this: “Today I’m announcing a comprehensive new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.” He then outlined a civilian-military counterinsurgency campaign to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan.
And to emphasize his seriousness, the president made clear that he had not arrived casually at this decision. The new strategy, he declared, “marks the conclusion of a careful policy review.”
Conclusion, mind you. Not the beginning. Not a process. The conclusion of an extensive review, the president assured the nation, that included consultation with military commanders and diplomats, with the governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan, with our NATO allies and members of Congress.
The general in charge was then relieved and replaced with Obama’s own choice, Stanley McChrystal. And it’s McChrystal who submitted the request for the 40,000 troops, a request upon which the commander in chief promptly gagged.
The White House began leaking an alternate strategy, apparently proposed (invented?) by Vice President Biden, for achieving immaculate victory with arm’s-length use of cruise missiles, predator drones and special ops.
The irony is that no one knows more about this kind of warfare than Gen. McChrystal. He was in charge of exactly this kind of “counterterrorism” in Iraq for nearly five years, killing thousands of bad guys in hugely successful under-the-radar operations.
When the world’s expert on this type of counterterrorism warfare recommends precisely the opposite strategy — “counterinsurgency,” meaning a heavy-footprint, population-protecting troop surge — you have the most convincing of cases against counterterrorism by the man who most knows its potential and its limits. And McChrystal was emphatic in his recommendation: To go any other way than counterinsurgency would lose the war.
Yet his commander in chief, young Hamlet, frets, demurs, agonizes. His domestic advisers, led by Rahm Emanuel, tell him if he goes for victory, he’ll become LBJ, the domestic visionary destroyed by a foreign war. His vice president holds out the chimera of painless counterterrorism success.
Against Emanuel and Biden stand David Petraeus, the world’s foremost expert on counterinsurgency (he saved Iraq with it), and Stanley McChrystal, the world’s foremost expert on counterterrorism. Whose recommendation on how to fight would you rely on?
Less than two months ago — Aug. 17 in front of an audience of veterans — the president declared Afghanistan to be “a war of necessity.” Does anything he says remain operative beyond the fading of the audience applause?
You know it gets harder and harder to return to this site. I guess you could call it manuel labor.
Mike Nutter bet Mike Blooberg community service
dressed in the winning teams Jersey. That’s
a nice idea, but Nutter is going to regret
having to wear a Jeter Jersey while painting
a NY school bathroom. Bloomberg would have to
paint a mural at a Philadelphia school. Phildelphia
doesn’t even know how to make an even bet.
Nutter will not have to wear heels while he
paints, but he will have to buy everyone who
volunteers lunch.
Waiting for the 7:01. Missed the 6:20 by 5 minutes. Hoping to get in early today. Have to leave early tonght. Got to get home, have dinner, watch Modern Family and then the game. Modern Family is my new favorite show. That E O’Neill is a pistol. And his daughter and new Colombian wife are smoking hot. What’s not to like?
I’ll tell you what’s not to like – New York and more specifically New Yorkers. They are so arrogant and abrasive. They have such an attitude of entitlement. They love jumping on the bandwagon and being seen. Like Rudy, Bloomy and Shifty Patterson. They’ll all be front row tonight. Like the A List of TV, Broadway and Movie stars that will be attending their first game of the year. Hoping the camera will pan over to them so that the announcers will fawn all over them. And McCarver and Buck. Please. They suck beyond belief. Are they from NY? They certainly have all the characteristics.
Be excited Philadelphia. Don’t feel inferior to the Big Apple and all it’s trappings. Stand tall. Weather the storm. We will prevail. We are the better city and team despite what Buck, McCarver and Lord Abott would have you believe. Rise above the sea of negativity. We shall overcome. Hallelujah!
Biden/Biden in 2012! Front row!
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VP Joe, you are correct about Modern Family,
perhaps the funniest most well written and
acted show on television this fall.
You are not correct about NY arrogance, don’t
confuse self confidence with arrogance. The
Phillies deserve to be in Yankees stadium tonight
but they will not prevail and will be unnerved
by the fervor and love of New Yorkers for thei
Yankees, there is no other force of nature on
earth as powerful. Philadelphia has a stadium
haunted by a ghost, and fans that lack self
confidence and personal accomplishment.
I had a dream last night that this Phillies team will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “Repeat.”
I had a dream last night that one day on the green fields of Kensington the sons of former Phils and the sons of former Yankees will be able to sit down together at a table at Tony Luke’s and eat Broccali Rabe together.
I had a dream last night that one day even the state of Pennsylvania, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of corruption, will be transformed into an oasis of championships and justice.
I had a dream last night that my four full grown children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their uniform but by the results of their clutch hitting.
I had a dream last night. Oh I had a dream. Phillies in 6 games.
Biden/Biden in 2012! We have lots of dreams.
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I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
The green fields of Kensington ? Well,maybe,maybe not.The new ,improved “to be or not to be.’
Work with me Yankee Air Pirate.
Perhaps MacBeth is more appropriate as Barack tries to wash the blood of the soldiers dying daily in Afghanistan off his hands.
Biden/Biden in 2012! Keeping it real.
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You boys have been very busy this morning. What is the weather forecast for tonight? I missed my Cecily Tynan fix last night.
macbeth ? maybe,maybe not.maybe “the merchant of venice”,they sometimes kill the messenger.
It would be nice to have a close six
or sevem game series, but it also is
possible for the Yankees to sweep, it
would not be the first time. Gosh that
would be tough on Philadelphia, but Larry
warned you guys- maybe not….talk about
Jinxing a team Larry, you’ve gone and
Jinxed the Phillies!!!
I bet Larry has slipped into his favorite
pair of Manolo Blahnik heels and Jeter
Jersey by now.
Good luck Philadelphia it’s your first
chance in 59 years to beat the Yankees
in a world series. Last time in 1950
Philies didn’t even win one game, so
anthing better than choking and beig swept
is a big improvement for Philadelphia.
Waiting for the 7:01. These late night games are killing me. Was Cliff Lee spectacular or what? And my buddy Chase came up big. If AJ Burnett chokes like the dog he is Philllies fans maybe bringing the brooms to Citizens Park on Saturday. 1 down and 3 to go. Jill and I will be sitting front row behind the batters’ circle on Saturday. Front row.
Speaking of Jill have you seen those new commercials talking about voluteering? Michelle and Jill are talking to you about voluteering. Jill looks a bit old in the commercial for a 58 year old. Maybe time to trade her in for a newer model UD coed. I guess that’s why I kept my Blue Hen season tickets.
Well at least we don’t have to worry about a 1950 like Phils sweep as the master of doom and gloom Lord Abott predicted. I’m relieved. I was ready to flip the game over to CSI NY last night to see if the Yankees were DOA. Had a pulse. Burnett and Pettitte are very vulnerable to the Phils’ hitting attack. If Pedro and Hamels can hold the Yanks to less than 5 runs we maybe up 3-0. Maybe. Wouldn’t that make for a dramatic rematch of Lee-Sabathia on Sunday night?
Biden/Biden in 2012! Feeling a sweep.
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I found this secret document at the CIA yesterday. In the spirit of transparency this is their screening list for detainees in Afghanistan.
“YOU MAY BE TALIBAN IF …”
1. You refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to beer.
2. You own a $3,000 machine gun and $5,000 rocket launcher, but you can’t afford shoes.
3. You have more wives than teeth.
4. You wipe your butt with your bare hand, but consider bacon “unclean.”
5. You think vests come in two styles: bullet-proof and suicide.
6. You can’t think of anyone you haven’t declared Jihad against…
7. You consider television dangerous, but routinely carry explosives in your clothing.
8. You were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses other than setting off roadside bombs.
9. You have nothing against women and think every man should own at least one..
10. You’ve always had a crush on your neighbor’s goat.
Be on the lookout for Taliban sleeper cells in your neighborhood. Goats in the backyard are a big giveaway. Contact your local authorities immediately.
Biden/Biden in 2012! Stomping out the Taliban one goat at a time. Baaaad.
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Congratulations Philadelphia!
A very impressive performance last
night, as Larry says: Maybe, maybe not
You wonder why I’m trying to takeover the U.S. Auto Industry?
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I loathe baseball because of all the race mixing.
I’m singing in the rain, just singing in the rain…….. Phils looked good last night….. maybe too good. George Steinbrenner was at the game last night and you know George. When he sees a winner he must have them no matter the cost. He’s definatly going to go after Lee and Utley and Howard and Rollins and Ibanez. What’s another couple of 100 million dollars to a man on his death bed and a compunction to field a winner. It’s all so mercenary.
Speaking of mercenary I say let’s hire the Taliban to fight the AlQaeda. You kill two birds with one stone. We pay the Taliban to fight Al Qaeda for some mere billion dollars or so and get the Taliban addicted to capitalism. They will run those AlQaeda out of the country quicker than you can say Osama Bin Laden. The only problem with that senario is that the Taliban will probably end up Yankee fans….. I can see it now, blue headed turbans with a big NY on the front. They will come to the games and start chanting “The Phils must die. Let’s go Yanks!” or “Praise be Allah and Arod!”. They may just yell, “Hey Jeter I’ll give you 77 virgins if you get a home run!”
Ed, nice return to the Larry’s World. Basking in the radiance of last night’s victory?
Baseball is terrible because it represents collectivism. To each according to his needs from each according to his abilities. There is no I in team. Communism.
Ed, its nice to see you happy for a
change, enjoy! Yankees better win
tonight, if not its going to be seven
games for sure. Last time Phils won
back to back was 1929, 1930. For the
Sake of the economy, let’s hope they
don’t repeat! Yankees are a bull market
team, they will prevail.
Just bull. Phils will win.
Lord Abott beleives that Kate Hudson is
the secret weapon, and she will motivate
A-rod if it ever gets close. I will grant
that Phillies are a great team. Joe Torre
said they look as good as his best Yankee
Team, and Joe knows more than me.
Tonight they will flash a picture of George
Steinbrenner on screen and Yanks will win this
one for the Gipper. If they don’t win tonight
it will be up to the ghost of Harry Kalas, which
is real and will wreck havoc in Philadelphia
Saturday night. You guys think I’m full of it.
but its all over the news and papers in NY.
Peurto Ricans especially believe in that stuff,
I warned you guys about the ghost a long time
ago, take heed!
Arod sucks by anyone’s standards. His teammates picked him up yet again tonight.
Waiting for the 7:01. Colder out here than I thought it would be after yesterday. I love this time of year. Warm days and cool nights. Fall color. Halloween. Trick or treat. Costumes. Reminds me of when I was 6 years old. Times were tough so my Mom sent me out to Trick or Treat in my older sister’s dress for Halloween. Did I get shit from my friends. Now that is the most popular outfit at the Parrott on Halloween. Aside from Super Heroes and Pirates. Go figure. Oh how I long to be at the Parrott on Saturday nights. I’m counting the days until next Memorial Day.
Well speaking of outfits I have a potential outfit dilemma for the Phillies game tomorrow. I had my aid buy Phillies Warmup Jackets in anticipation of colder weather. Now they are talking 71 degrees at game time. What do I wear? I’d look like a mo in an authentic Phillies jersey. Too old you know. Bright red t-shirt? Not very Vice Presidential. I guess I’ll be wearing my trademark dark suit with white shirt and the cool light blue tie. The samething I wore everyday in Eastern Europe. Hope the drycleaner got out the pierogie stains and smell of smoke. Those crazy Czechs still smoke like a chimney.
All you Phillie fans planning to bring a broom to Citizens Park there is no longer a need. Sweep is off. Unless it is part of your witch’s outfit no brooms.
I look forward to seeing what the creative people of the City of Brotherly Love will be wearing to a World Series game on Halloween. I know the cameras will be scouring the stands for Barack Obamas. Presumably playing tribute to the great President. Remember this is Fox doing the game. They want Barack to fail. I secretly want him to fail to implement his socialistic agenda and change the landscape of America forever. These guys just don’t like him. They view him as pompous and condescending. o figure. The guy that has a gag order on both Michelle and I pompous and condescending. This guy can’t disappear fast enough.
Biden/Biden in 2012! We the people of the US of America.
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By the by hats of to the Yankees and AJ Burnett last night. They slowed down the bats of the big 3 and made Ryan Howard look bad 4 times. You do have to wonder why they didn’t go after that first pitch grooved fastball from Burnett.
Thinking of putting an authentic Phillies jersey over my shirt and tie. What do you think? I know most adults look foolish in authentic jerseys but I am the first VP from Scranton. I don’t want to look like a mo.
Biden/Biden in 2012! Never confused as a mo except maybe at the Parrott.
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Lord Abbott -The Phils won back to back in ’29 & ’30 ? You must mean the Athletics’,long gone now.
Never let facts get in the way of a good point or story. Burnett will get toasted next Tuesday.
Shameful to see someone from Japan hit a home run. That guy just wants to bomb Pearl Harbor.
Stop it Lush, you can hate the Yankees,
but don’t hate the values the team represent,
They did more to break color barriers than
and government action, and God knows way more
than the bigoted Philadelphia fans. We’d
still have a Negro league if Frank Rizzo
was baeball commisioner. Bend over on Sunday,
Your daddies are coming from new york to whip
the ugliness and racism out of your city.
Giants and Yankees will be your daddies!
The Lord has spoken. It must be gospel.
Too early for Maggies or Home Depot. Major outfit dilemma has me up early worried about what to wear tonight. Do I go business suit or Phillies’ gear? I don’t want to look like a hometown yahoo mo with the authentic jersey. I don’t want to look out of touch with suit. Ideas?
Home Depot doing a demo on replacing floor molding. They make it look so easy. I may have a carpenter stop by and do an estimate on replacing our 4″ molding with the 6″ molding. Bigger is better. At least that’s what Jill says.
Lord Abott has some sort of usual and usually strong tie to the Yankees. He must be some sort of NYC transplant now living in the City of Brotherly Love. God bless him if he grew up in the Bronx or Queens. Bet he would not return there today. It is a vast wasteland much like the deserts in the Southwest and the Indian reservations. The people there have been abandon as well. Look a Camden. Once a vibrant business center now relegated to the dregs of society, rats and rodents. Sad.
Well I need someone with fashion sense to help me with my outfit dilemma. Please offer advice on which way to go. I consulted with Barney Frank yesterday but the old hag suggested I go in a Phils logo wifebeater t-shirt. I think that’s more of a fashion statement than I’m prepared to make.
Look for Jill and I front row tonight. We’ll be sitting close to Fast Eddie and Mayor Nutterbutter behind the Phillies dugout. Look for a bunch of other wantabes sitting close by. The spotlight brings out the best and worst in us.
Go Phillies! Let’s hope we see the 2008 Cole Hamels and not the 2009 version.
Biden/Biden in 2012! You are what you wear.
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Barack really needs to be more careful about what he says.
Biden/Biden in 2012! We don’t need no stinking teleprompter.
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The mood tonight at the ball park will make it seem like the last two games were played during Harry Kalas’s funeral.
Those pricey tickets have in essence created discrimanation. Sure the team is all full of color but there wasn’t much diversity in the stands…………..Screw the Yankees
Chris Christie and I went out for a couple of dozen burgers. Mmmmmmm. He’s dreamy. I want to go to a baseball game with him so I can eat his hot dog.
The soft bigotry of lowered expectations Ed.
There were plenty of people of color in the
stands at the Yankees game. Ed is trying to say
minorities can’t afford tickets. That’s nonesense
not only can they afford tickets in NY, they
can afford $10 hot dogs and $12 beer. I was there
and it was a great feeling to see Philadelphia
crumble to the Yankee Daddy. Tonight the Ghost
is going to haunt Citizens park…its real
respect the ghost!
I’m beginning to think that Lord Abott is really Lord Steinbrenner. Both are senile and cheeky.
Larry, did you schmooze some World Series tickets? Lord knows you wouldn’t buy them.
Trick or treat Larry! I went out for Halloween tonight dressed as a sock puppet from your blog. One of the hot neighbor ladies invited me in for a special treat that was more of a trick but I didn’t have to pay any money.
Cole Hamel was clearly spooked by the Ghost
of Harry Kalas in game three, and he choked.
Daddy Yankee played well, they are getting
their grove on and will start to taste their
27th World Series after another win tonight.
Its fitting that today is all souls day, let’s
pray for the soul of HK and hope he has not
cursed the Phillies for another 59 years.
What is with the goulish wearing of the HK
intials? It’s as if putting his corpse on
home plate and jinxing the new stadium wasn’t
enough.
He was a beloved announcer, but enough already!
The Phillies are a great team, which will make the Yankee win
all the sweeter, oh how sweet it is to be
a Yankee fan!
Did you see me last night? Don’t ever call me or Jill a fair weather fan. We were saved by the inclement weather. Our outfit issue that is. Wet weather gear. You’ll never know what I was wearing under my black windshirt. I’ll never tell. I will tell you Jill was wearing a thong. Game 4 tonight. I may sit in a luxury box. Better security. Better climate control. Hopefully better outcome.
Alex Rodriguez was about to remain the biggest choker in WS history were it not for that fluke HR off the camera in RF. He is such an incredible phoney in every sense of the word. He makes me want to throw up in my mouth. I can’t stand watching this guy. I don’t like the rest of the Yankees but respect them. Not AFraud.
Very entertaining demo on molding replacement yesterday. You should have been there. You’d be ripping off your old molding this morning.
I’m not sure what time it is. My clocks say 7:45AM but I know we turned back the clocks last night. Is it really 6:45 or 8:45. I’m very confused. My VCR time has been flashing since the spring.
Biden/Biden in 2012! Confused but not confounded.
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Does anyone here really believe Larry was on a “business trip” in Boston? Doing what? Researching for his great American novel? Interviewing for the Fox Newscaster/Teleprompter job (oh what irony that would be)? Looking at new companies to host his website? More than likely Larry got dragged to New Hampshire by Mrs Larry to see the leaves change. I wonder if he had any Johnnycakes while he was there? Did he look up old friend Vito Spatafore? I wonder if he discovered his gayness there?
The real question is when will Larry change his blog topic. What will it be? Will it be light and fruity like this week? Will it be hard hitting? Will it be frivolous like free air or SEPTA cleanliness? We are all holding our collective breath until tonight. That assumes Larry has not flown back to Manchester, NH to reconnect with Vito. If he has all bets are off.
I better start spending more time in NH. I got smoked in the 2008 primaries. After the Iowas debacle NH finished me off. I better get to like the toothless wonders in NH. My future depends on it!
Biden/Biden in 2012! It all starts in NH.
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By the by I can’t believe Barack is sending me to Watertown, NY to campaign for some schmuck named Bill Owens. How important could this seat be? I have to take Air Force 2 from Dover Air Force Base to the Ft Drum Air Base. What’s up with that? Brings bad bad memories of my draft dodger days in the Delaware National Guard training at Ft Drum.
At least I don’t have to campaign for that crook Corzine. What an albatross he is for the party.
My time is clearly more valuable than this. I would think that Barack’s was as well. Keep your distance from Governor John. He’ll drag down your sagging ratings even further Barack.
Biden/Biden in 2012! No boondoggles for the Biden boys.
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The Eagles are about to lose the Giants, man Philadelphia is going to get less respect than Baltimore if they don’t get their act together soon. Baltimore even has a higher per capita murder rate than Phildelphia. But wait, Philadelphia does beat NY in murders, with SIX times the per capita murder rate as NY. The City of Brotherly Murder needs to do much more than win professional sports games if its ever to be respected on a national level- what a mess!
It would be great if Yanks go back to
NY with 3 games to 1, but respect to
Phillies, this might go six games. The
Yanks actually tag home plate to score,
but Phils need some freebies to hang in
there I guess. Between not tagging home
and throwing at A-rod it doesn’t seem fair,
but Yanks will still prevail over cheaters
in a haunted ball park.
Who’s your Daddy Philadelphia?
In all seriousness, it was a great game,
and Phillies are tough, but not tough
enough. Get an exorcism at your stadium
and maybe things will improve next season.
I’m sitting on AF2 flying out of Dover AFB. On a short flight to Watertown for my appearance with Bill Owens. I’ll be speaking at the North Side Improvement League (the irony oozes out of that statement). I’ll be in and out. I’ll kiss some babies and shake some hands. I hope I get a breakfast out of this deal. All they are serving on my flight is yogart and fruit. What kind of breakfast is that? I have to read my brief on this guy on the plane. He’s JAG – just another guy Barack wants in Congress. We Democrats set very low standards and often fail to meet them.
I think there are 2 things that need to happen in my absence. First send someone to Larry’s house to see if he’s okay. Get him shaved, showered and out of that Jeter jersey. Put away the cheetos. Tell him we need a blog change. Second send some psychiatric help to Lord Abott’s liar. He is in serious need of help. Please remove all Spike Lee, Alex Rodriguez and Katie Couric stalking memorabilia and voodoo dolls. Also remove all sharp objects should the Phillies come from behind and win.
Another tough loss last night. I fell asleep around 10PM on the LazBoy. Jill woke me up with a shrill cheer around 11 when Pedro Feliz hit the HR in the 8th. Did you know Jill proclaims herself the Phillies’ #1 fan? True.
I’ll have a report from the campaign trail tomorrow. You may think this is about some obscure candidate from Upstate NY but it’s really me kicking off my 2012 election.
Biden/Biden in 2012! I’ll be collecting Unemployment by then.
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The media hype Ryan Howard like Donovan McNabb. Andy Pettite and A-ROD are where it’s at. They know how to use drugs like champs. I know.
Since I haven’t been able to stay up late enough to see the finish of the World Series games being played, I find it pretty hard to get into the competition. I start out fine but rain delays and late starts kill all of the magic. I even started out watching the news hype of the event but now I can’t bring myself to look at the news. Cest la vie…… or as they say in soccer that’s how the ball bounces…. I guess Steinbrener will pass away in peace knowing that he purchased another world championship. What an accomplisment! Now his sons get to follow in daddy’s footsteps. Years from now when baseball is mentioned…. in passing, the Steinbreners and Bud Selig will be brought up as two men who killed the game once known as our national pasttime.
The series aint over until it’s over. I may be a former Yankee but my heart belongs to Philly. Nobody roots for the Yankees anymore because everybody roots for the Yankees. The Phils aren’t in a slump they just aren’t hitting. Is it me or do these games get late very early? My last hope is that the Phils don’t have a fat lady sing the national anthem tonight.
VP Joe, I remember the Sopranos well and find myself residing in an antique/ artsy area myself. No jonnycakes but I do see the similarities between myself and the fat guy on the Sopranos. (no I’m not fat or gay and I haven’t had a pancake in years). It’s a little different when you count the bed bugs and all the Indians that I have met along the way. Soooooo may Indians in the motel business. I need a few more MRIs so I guess I’m making this place home. I was hoping to move south but this health insurance is hard to pass up.
I went out on Halloween as a sock puppet from this blog and all I got was a rock.
Looks like Yankees in six games, the Phils
are very impressive, which will make the
Yankee win all the more righteous.
There’s a book called Money Ball, Ed, which
proves you can win without a big payroll.
The payroll doesn’t guarantee you win a
World Series by any stretch, so that’s just
crap. Don’t excuse the Phillies inability
to repeat by saying its the money, the Yankees
are a better team and have earned it.
After the Yankees win Lord Abott is going to
change his screen name to a something more
apropo the greatest team in baseball. If they
lose, I will chane it to “NY Loser” out of
respect to the Phillies, since no team has
ever overcome Yankees from a 3 to 1 deficit.
I’m as mad as a hornet! First the NY Times dissed me. They claimed that Fred Thompson outdrew me 400 to 250 yesterday. In fairness I banged out the North Side Improvement League building. SRO. Voicterous supporters. They loved me. Second of all Fred Thompson said that the job of the VP was to attend state funerals. He said I was a day early. Haha. Stick to drama Fred. Finally the White House wrote my speach. They put words in my mouth. They had me say that Rush Limbaugh personally picked Hoffman for this job. How ridiculous is that? But I was the good soldier. I delivered their message. I can read the teleprompter. No gaffes this time. Barack was pleased. He wished his Corzine endorsement went so well.
Today will be an interesting day. If the GOP wins the Governor in NJ and WV as well as some congressional seats it will be the beginning of the end of the Obama regime. It will continue to unravel. Even the over the top supportive press will begin to question. Yes the unthinkable. It will be the beginning of a new era – the Biden Era!
Biden/Biden in 2012! I’m carpetbombing Watertown, NY on the first day of my Presidency.
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Ed thank you for picking up on my Soprano references. That must have been in your Pre-Homeless Era. When you refer to Indians are you speaking about ‘dot’ or ‘feather’?
Lord Steinbrenner one can only hope that the Yankees now lose 3 straight the way they did against Larry’s new favorite team the RedSox in 2004. New York Loser is a apropo screen name for someone that would root for a team from the Big Apple over the locals. AJ Burnett finally pitched like his reputation last night. Let’s see if Pettitte does the same in Game 6. Then it comes down to CC vs CL in Game 7. I like the Phillies’ chances if that happens.
You know Jill and I will be there front row if we can get tickets. Just never going back to Watertown. If you own property there sell it before 2012!
Biden/Biden in 2012! If Phils win and Cliff Lee wins Game 7 he becomes my new VP running mate.
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I doubt I will be changing my name VP, but
point well taken versus the Red Sox, but
that was not a World Series, so if Phillies
come back I will desrve my new name. I’m
more excited about the name I will choose if
they win- stay tuned.
Election day today, but not a peep out of
Larry, I don’t think he follows them anymore.
If Corzine is defeated by a big marnin against
the fat man it will be huge because Christie
is nobody. The new book “The Termidity to
Govern” is going to start to get some traction
against the dithering president. Next year
at this time the economy needs to be booming
or Barrack will get a comeupance at mid term
elections, his presidency has exactly 12 months
from today.
How about the Levi Johnson dishing on Palin?
We could have had some bonafide white trash
a hearbeat away if Palin was ever elected.
Everytime I get frustrated with Obama I think
about alternative and exhale, thank God we
don’t have that sideshow with McCain as
President shooting from the hip everyday.
A little more dithering on Iraq might have
saved the country a lot of treasure. No more
cowboys, we need an effemaine metrosexual
leader next time!
We had serious white trash in the White House – William Jefferson Clinton. Does not come any more white trash than that. Even Sarah Palin would have been a step up from Trailerpark Willie. Levi Johnson is a little toad that is capitalizing on his own stupidity. He’ll be on reality shows by next summer.
Biden/Biden in 2012! Poor but proud. Stupid but educated.
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Gone from tough guy Cowboy to effeminate Metrosexual. Look where it’s gotten us. Another day older and deeper in debt. When I’m President they’ll be claiming that I’m the best for reason for serious concussion reform in football.
Biden/Biden in 2012! Batter and bruised but still ticking and taking a licking.
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VP Joe, are you sure you would not be an effeminate cowboy metrosexual President with a propensity for misspeaking? You do like to hear yourself speak.