Today's Installment Of

Why you simply cannot vote for John McCain.



I am starting to feel more and more that John McCain's campaign is some bizzaro world version of "This is Spinal Tap"

It is so ridiculous, it is hard to believe they are serious sometimes.

Did you Know John McCain called his wife a Cunt?

"Willie Didn't Deserve This"

You bet your ass he did, John.

I don't have sellers remorse on this one, the dude had to go.

Gangstas on the field remember.

Gangstas get on the field, Ladies get on the bus

Well, it finally happend. Willie Randolph has been fired as the manager of the New York Mets.

I am thrilled about this news. I will be the first to admit that I am slightly disgusted by the way in which the situation was handeld. Only slightly.

Willie had this coming. This team has underperformed for him for the last year and a half. This team has played down to it's competition, and with a general lack of interest for as long as I can remember.

The fun, entertaining, competitive Mets of 2006 are a distant memory.


It was simply Willie's time to go. This team stopped listening. He lost the leaders in the club house not named "Wright".

GM Omar Minaya is next to find his head on the chopping block.

It was his choices that have led to this team of old, broken down, disinterested former steroid users (Read: Carlos Delgado).

With Willie out of the way, which was a decision that Omar clearly did not want to make judging by the visible tears in his eyes during the press conference, the spotlight of this teams collective failures will be directly on him.

Omar was fully willing to bask in his own genuis as he assembled a "Rainbow Coalition" of players that would usher in a new era of Mets baseball.

The problem is, the dream was never fulfilled.

Carlos Beltran watched strike three, in game 7 of the '06 NLCS. The Mets were supposed to win that game, in a cosmic sense, it was their time.

The door has closed on this team.

The door has closed on Omar Minaya.

Watching the Presser yesterday, I thought he looked like a your average Coked out 20-something on Saturday night. He was sweaty and jittery. Repeating himself, and stammering and rushing through his talking points.

He looked like a man who knew his time was ending.

And then the "Gangsta" took the podium.

Jerry Manuel is the new Mets Manager, I am excited.

He was calm and cool. He spoke about the past and the future of this team. He talked about what he will do differently (dont get to comfortable batting cleanup Carlos Beltran).

He asked a reporter to leave the Press Conference when he was talking on his phone while Jerry was trying to talk.

He said about his teams play: "Gangstas get on the field, Ladies get on the bus"

I don't even really know what it means, but I love it.

Then the game began, another Mets loss.

The most important part of the game however, came with no outs in the top of the first inning.

Jose Reyes led off with a single up the middle. Upon returning to first base, he grabbed at the back of his leg. Jose having lost significant time early in his career to hamstring injuries, did not want to come out of the game.

The Gangsta had other ideas. He took Reyes by the arm and directed him towards the dugout.

Reyes, in an oh-so-mature fashion, threw his helmet, untucked his jersey, and stormed into the club house.

The Gangsta waited for the inning to end, and followed his oh-so-mature star shortstop into the club house where he stayed for the remainder of the inning.

Reyes returned to the bench and apologized to his teamates, score one for the Gangsta.

About a year ago Willie benched Reyes for not running out a ground ball that Reyes thought was going to go foul. Reyes proceeded to fall into the worst slump of his career. Possibly angered by the double standard that was "Willie Ball", where the manager continued to make excuses for, and allows older players to play with a complete lack of hustle.

It would appear, judging by Manuel's handling of Reyes' tantrum last night, that the Willie Randolph era is dead, and not a moment too soon.

If Omar would like to keep his job I would suggest that he make a few roster moves fairly quickly.

This team is still capable of winning this year, with the core that it currently employs.

A trade, or out right release of Carlos Delgado (and his "just for men" colored goatee, it's grey dude, let it go) should come first.

Followed either by a trade for Xavier Nady, or a promotion of Mike Carp, or Val Pascucci from AAA.

Moises Alou needs to go. The constant carousel from the DL to the major league roster has lost its fun.

This team cannot compete with Marlon Anderson and Endy Chavez getting the majority of ABs in Left Field.

Omar would save his ass and this season if he were able to pull off a mega trade for Matt Holliday. However, Randy Winn, Raul Ibanez, Ichiro Suzuki, Cliff Floyd, Alex Rios, Jose Guillen, Milton Bradley, Adam Dunn, Jr. Griffey, or anyone else with a heart beat will suffice.

I like the make up of the rotation with Johan, Maine, Pedro, Pelfrey, and effing Perez.

The bullpen is better than it gets credit for with (in order of guys I trust with no less than a 2 run lead) Wagner, Dirty Sanchez, Felicano, Smith, Show, and Aaron "pouty face" Heilman.

This team can still win, just as soon as Delgado is given the Randolph treatment.

Gangstas get on the field.

"John McCain called his wife a C**T"

Classic

Power to the K.O

I have stepped back from politics a little bit the last week or so. Last week was an emotional week for me and I am assuming a lot of people. I still have have the image of Barack fist pounding Michelle (or a "Terrorist fist jab" according to Fox News, whatever that is supposed to mean....I have some thoughts on the concept of "terrorism" and how we define our enemies, but that is for later) Tuesday night. I will keep that image with me forever.

Keith Olbermann has ramped up the chorus against John McSame's pathetic policies, and embarrassing adherence to the "Bush Doctrine"

I continue to be baffled by the blind eye that is turned towards McCain by a majority of those in the so-called Main Stream Media.

I understand that John McCain is a Vietnam Vet.

I understand that McCain was tortured.

What is never discussed however is that McCain broke under that torture and admitted to known falsehoods such as murdering innocent North Vietnamese citizens, and yet continues to support the use of torture by This country, knowing first hand that torture elicits false confessions.



Typically, Keith gets so angry during these Special Comments that he visibly shakes with rage.

The calm, quiet anger that he demonstrates during this video is moving. Please take the time to watch it, all of it. The tears are visible in his eyes in the closing remarks.

Kathleen Sebelius for VP

Over the next week or so I will be posting some video of Governor Sebelius putting the smack down on the Douche in Cheif.

Added

Not to mention, she is a borderline hottie who could easily be played by Terry's favorite older hottie, Hellen Mirren!

Cutting Ties

I have been sitting on this topic for a while because I wasn't quite sure how to address it.

I have to say good bye to a friend.

I have to call it quits with Oliver Perez.

Once my favorite headcase.

Once my favorite Met.

Now, we are nothing.

It hurts to write these words.

There was a time when I looked forward to nothing more than watching Ollie P. pitch.

There was that game, April 11th 2007 against the Phillies where you walked 7 Oliver, and I made excuses.

May 23rd of this year, you walked 8 at Colorado. Oliver you are a major league pitcher and you walked 8 batters.

to add a little perspective, Johan Santana has walked 21 batters all season. Oliver, you walked more than a third that many in one outing.

April 30th of this year, 7 runs, 1 2/3 innings pitched against Pittsburgh.

And then there was the June 2nd massacre in San Francisco. The same San Francisco that I, the baseball savant, cannot name 8 players on their roster.

The game where Oliver Perez did not get out of the first inning.


I used to think you were quirky and entertaining. I used to think it was awesome how you leap over the foul lines.

I always suspected that you were a bit dim witted. That your left arm and snaggle tooth, not your superior brain power, had gotten you to this point in life.

Now I realize, you are simply an idiot.

And I am done with you.

Luckily for you, you are not the only one. I have basically stopped watching the Mets completely. I simply have better things to be doing with my time right now.

Good bye Oliver, and good luck with that next contract.

In Case You Were Not Paying Attention

Here is the last 18 months in 8 minutes

Change We Can Believe In

I am dedicating myself to two causes this week.

1.) And most importantly, spreading the word about how amazing of a candidate Barack Obama is.

2.) Doing everything in my blogger-riffic power to keep John McCain out of the White House.

I will try to update with as much information about McCain and his terrible policy record as I humanly can.

I copied this post from Seth Grahame Smith's blog on the Huffington Post.
I will be elaboration on these points, and many others over the next 6 months.

I am ashamed that at one point in the last year, I uttered the words "If it's not Obama, I will vote for McCain".

I really don't like Hillary Clinton as a candidate, but not liking her, and threatening to vote for McCain are not even in the same timezone.

By now, McCain's "green speech" has been widely praised as one of the funniest half-hours of television since Arrested Development was canceled. The speech aimed to turn Obama's "Change We Can Believe In" slogan into a surprise Mac Attack by inserting the words "That's Not" at the beginning of it. As if this wasn't exciting enough, McCain proceeded to deliver the speech with all the energy and eloquence of Frankenstein on barbiturates -- pausing awkwardly after each declaration to offer a snicker and yellowed smile, as if to ask the adoring crowd of several hundred, "wasn't that capital?" It was at once painful and delightful to behold. Painful, because we have to sit through five more months of his awkward cadence. Delightful, because it's already obvious just how badly McCain's efforts to brand himself as the "change" candidate are going to fail. That is, unless THESE are the kind of changes he's talking about:

1. Excruciating Hypocrisy - McCain delivered the green speech near New Orleans, and in it, he took the Bush administration to task for their failure to respond to Katrina. Do you know where John McCain was when Katrina made landfall? He was standing on a tarmac in Arizona, receiving a birthday cake from his friend George W. Bush. That's not change we can believe in.

2. Lack of Self-Control - Having a temper is one thing. But there's a difference between blowing your stack behind closed doors and McCain's tendency to say the wrong thing in front of the wrong people. Whether it's the childish "bomb Iran" Beach Boys cover, the "100 years is fine with me" gaffe, calling his wife a "c--t" in front of reporters, threatening other legislators with violence, or that infamous Chelsea Clinton joke he made at a GOP fundraiser -- McCain has a rare talent for putting his foot in his mouth near an open mic. That's definitely not change we can believe in.

3. Lack of Support for Our Troops - McCain knows firsthand the sacrifices made by our troops and their families, yet he won't he support the G.I. Bill -- which was co-sponsored by his Republican ally, John Warner, and which would dramatically expand educational benefits for our soldiers. And why doesn't he support it? Because the benefits are so good, the military is worried that too many soldiers will leave active duty to get their degrees. So there you have it -- John McCain's policy on supporting our men and women in uniform: "They deserve the very best, just as long as it's not TOO good -- and assuming we don't have to raise taxes to pay for it." That sure as hell ain't change we can believe in.

4. Coziness with Lobbyists - We all know that McCain likes to tout himself as a "maverick." But the truth is, McCain was forced to reinvent himself as a "maverick" because he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. He was one of five Senators investigated for corruption in the Keating scandal of 1989, in which it was alleged that (in return for money and other favors) McCain sought to have the government ease off its investigation of savings and loan chairman Charles Keating. You'd think he would've learned from this political near-death experience, but as we saw in his snuggly friendship with lobbyist Vicki Iseman, and the recent purging of lobbyists from his campaign (there are still over 100 of them running it), he's learned nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, you're damn right that's not change we can believe in.

5. An Antiquated World View - It's not the age of McCain's body that troubles me -- it's the age of his ideas. Like George W. Bush, he operates from a belief that America is infallible, that might makes right, and that anyone who doesn't agree with us is not only wrong - but our enemy. Here at home, he believes in the same trickle down economic policies that have been failing the middle class and escalating our national debt since the early 1980's. That IS change we can believe in, but only if it's Opposites Day.

6. Cowardice - No one can ever take away the heroic truth that John McCain sat in a cell for five torturous years on behalf his country. He was a brave young man. But somewhere between Hanoi and Washington, that brave young man became an old pandering coward. For eight years, we've watched McCain suckle the teat of his political idol, George W. Bush. Especially sickening, given the fact that Bush is the same man who tried to destroy McCain's family in the 2000 primaries. The same man who went after his daughter. And yet, because it was politically convenient to do so, John McCain threw his arms around Bush and never let go. Threw his arms around a man he didn't even vote for. A man he secretly hated with a passion he scarcely knew he was capable of. To some, that merely makes John McCain a ruthless opportunist or a terrible father. In my eyes, it makes him a coward. How can a man who won't even stand up for his family stand up for our country? How can a man who was too afraid to stand his ground against a joke like Bush stand his ground against brutal dictators? My fellow Americans...

That's not change we can believe in.