As we baseball fans reside, happily, in the realm of the playoffs -- really, you gotta love this time of year -- it's probably a pretty good time to reflect on the wild card. I, like many, believe the wild card has been a huge success, one that has made stretch regular season runs that infinitely more exciting. (I think MLB should add playoff teams ... but that's for a different time.)Still, in the interests of fairness, it's important to note the existence of dissenters to the "Wild Card is R0x0r" point of view, even if said dissenters are almost unanimously curmudgeonly old men obsessed with the game as it once was. And their names may or may not be George W. Bush:
"I MADE my arguments and went down in flames. History will prove me right." George Bush on Iraq? No, that was George Bush, the then owner of the Texas Rangers, a major league baseball team, after voting against baseball's new wild-card system in 1993. The owners' vote came down 27-1 against Mr Bush. History, meanwhile, has proven him quite wrong-most players, owners and fans (including myself) consider the wild-card system, in effect since 1995, a tremendous success.Now that's the kind of leadership and foresight we need in the White House. If only someone would give this guy a chance to run for our nation's highest office! Like the failure of the wild card, his success as president is all but guaranteed.Sorry, No Photos
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10-05-2007 @ 6:48PM
GreatR said...
Take this crap to the political page.
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10-06-2007 @ 12:21AM
Dummy said...
Why don't you stick to sports, and sports only, and not get into politics. I am still (and forever will be, awaiting your response to the offer of handing Bin Laden over to Clinton, to which he denied because he "didn't have the legal authority" to do so. So shut the eff up about politics.
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10-08-2007 @ 8:18PM
STFU HIPPY said...
No one wants to here you spout your hatred of America in here.
I Hope you lose your job over this.
TRAITOR.
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10-09-2007 @ 12:03AM
jim said...
keep it off the sports page idiot
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10-09-2007 @ 9:21AM
J said...
Hahaha! Hilarious, nice find.
These other posters are just angry they voted for the idiot. FAIL
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10-09-2007 @ 11:16AM
chris in illinois said...
1-4, glad to see that my fellow Americans support open discussion of the topics of the day.
Move to Saudi Arabia, fascists!!
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10-09-2007 @ 2:22PM
YNOT? said...
On the heels of a great Wild Card race his opinion has merit. You may not agree with his tounge in cheek swipe at Bush but it is hardly a scathing political commentary that deserves the insults you some have thrown his way. Plus the 9-11 Committee debunked the often repeated claim that Sudan ever offered to hand over bin Laden to the U.S. or Saudi Arabia.
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10-09-2007 @ 11:11PM
Kevin72 said...
I find the article completely believable though disturbing. I also find the comments negating the author disturbing. It reminds me of the saying that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Rather than admit that Iraq is an absolute disaster, it is "unpatriotic" to say so, and one should relinquish their right to note that George W Bush is the only owner to vote against the wildly successful wild card. The aptly named "TRAITOR" is showing his hatred for American freedom of speech by telling the writer to lose his job over his freedom of speech. Pathetic!!! Those who scream patriotism the loudest are the worst America-haters bankrupting our country in Iraq in the process, much like the loudest homophobes are the ones caught in the bathroom stall, and texting pages, and soliciting a male prostitute.
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10-09-2007 @ 11:13PM
Kevin72 said...
Patriotism is still the refuge of the above scoundrals. Rather than admit that Iraq is an absolute disaster, it is "unpatriotic" to say so, and one should reliquish their right to note that George W Bush is the only owner to vote against the wildly successful wild card. The aptly named "TRAITOR" is showing his hatred for American freedom of speech by telling the writer to lose his job over his freedom of speech. Pathetic!!! Those who scream patriotism the loudest are the worst America-haters bankrupting our country in Iraq in the process, much like the loudest homophobes are the ones caught in the bathroom stall, and texting pages, and soliciting a male prostitute.
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10-20-2007 @ 6:00PM
eset said...
Bushie is a loser in any venue.
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