I always loved Ernie Harwell's broadcasts of Detroit Tiger baseball games. I remember summer evenings on the porch, with Ernie's voice from the radio filling the night air, competing with the crickets and the traffic up the street. One of Ernie's signature lines was to say a batter who took a called strike; "stood there like the house by the side of the road" and watched that ball go by. I have a feeling that we are all standing in dumb amazement right now watching our country crumble before our eyes. I've said it before, but the analogy remains apt: we are akin to Enron employees and stockholders: helpless pawns forced to witness the destruction of their dreams for the future. The country stands on the precipice of a total financial meltdown, and our chimpanzee in chief spends his days watching t -ball games on the south lawn. Jesus! At least Caligula was busy getting busy if you catch my drift. This fucking moron just stands there and grins while his buddies finish looting the economy, destroying the middle class, and robbing our children of a future. The planet is tipping past no return on global warming, the dollar is tanked, nine GI' s dead the other day in one attack, inflation is out of control, people are losing their homes; and Dick Cheney is about to launch a sneak attack on Iran.
Yea I'd say its a great day for ball game.
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