Baseball !!!

In my quest to make everyone as excited about baseball as I am. I thought I'd give status reports on the teams readers of this blog cheer for (plus it gives me a chance to brag about how awesome the Red Sox are)

A's - Great farm system but doesn't really have any potential stars. They have two really good pitchers that people will see in the majors in 2010 but I worry about the future of their offense. Some names to remember are Trevor Cahill, Chris Carter

Giants - Another good farm system but for the opposite reason as the A's. The Giants have several potential stars but lack the depth the A's have. Some names to remember are Angel Villalona, Buster Posey (who looks younger than I do in my ID picture)
Tim Alderson, and Madison Bumgarner

Angels- The Angels are going to be hard pressed to keep up with the A's and especially the Rangers in a few years. The Rays surprised a lot of casual baseball fans because a lot of their prospects are finally coming into their own as major leaguers. The Rangers will be that team soon. I'm guessing they make the playoffs in 2011 and are really strong for the next 5 years. What this means for the Angels is that their reign will end and unless their prepared to spend like the yankees, will have to accept some 3rd place finishes to retool the farm system. They don't have many upper echelon type players in their system. Some names to remember: Jordan Walden, Hank Conger

Yankees- The Yanks used to buy the best players at every position. Realizing that this only got them over the hill players at inflated prices, they turned to the draft to try to catch some elite talent on the upswing. For a team with all their financial strength and their unwillingness to accept anything less than elite talent at each position, they have an interesting strategy in the draft of being conservative and not taking high risk, high reward players. I'm really curious about where the yanks end up in the next couple years because they could be stuck behind the Rays and Red Sox for a couple years or could quickly jump right back in the mix for a title as soon as 2009.

Red Sox- The Red Sox are really good at using their financial advantage. The Sox's draft strategy is to shoot for the moon, and if the player doesn't work, its only a small loss. The A's pride themselves on making sure every dollar invested provides some return, this is not a concern for the Red Sox as many of their high risk players flame out. However, the Sox have a number of future stars waiting to join the team in the next few years and will smoothly transition to a youthful team while keeping up with the yanks and Rays who have established major league talent already. Names to keep in mind: Lars Anderson, Josh Reddick, Michael Almanzar


Watch the playoffs and talk with me about baseball!!

Sarah Palin is a cold-hearted bitch

Http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/21/palin.rape.exams/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

I've sent this to a couple people and have not received shocked responses, which has in turn, shocked me.

Palin, mayor of a town in a state where rape occurs at two and half times the national average was so concerned about keeping a budget (something most of the current republicans don't give a fuck about), that she was willing to ask a girl who had just been raped for $1000 or else the police wouldn't do their job and try to find the rapist. I really want to meet the police chief that would have the nerve to ask a terrified girl for $1000. In addition to humiliating the victim and discouraging future victims from coming forward, it shows an utter lack of her ability to prioritize. Ask any person who pays taxes, I know I would personally be fine with budget deficits if they were used to solve rapes as opposed to bridges to nowhere and bribing people in the middle east's criminal underworld (the real reason why the surge is working). I definitely do not trust her to be anywhere near an important decision regarding the country.

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So, when my readership expands beyond the 5 of you. I'm going to need to show that my brilliance stretches back this far. Bear with me if you've heard some of these before.

And people don't get to pick their own alias, Brer!!

Gay marriage

So I started writing my post on religion last night and we had a mouse incident and I got about a page in and realized I wanted to write a lot more so I'm saving religion and starting off with a topic that I still care a lot about. Gay Marriage.

America is a great country because the constitution gives citizens the right to do whatever they please as long as it doesn't interfere with someone else's freedom. In practice, this is far from what actually happens, there are many instances where people are not given a freedom they deserve.

Two people who want to marry, whatever their sex, can be married and not interfere with anyone else's rights. And by the Constitution, they should be able to do so.

The arguments against gay marriage do not stand up.

1. Homosexuality will diminish the sanctity of marriage.
Answer: Most of the time, people answer this by citing divorce rates among straight couples but that is really just icing on the cake. The real answer is that it doesn't matter, the right to decide who marries is not the job of the government or even the majority of citizens. The freedom to to anything which does not interfere with another's rights is how the law was mean to be interpreted.

2. Homosexuality is an abomination against god( it says so in the Bible)
This will be a similar argument. Just because many people are uncomfortable because of their religious beliefs, they can't deny them the right to marry in the eyes of the law.

But there are two sides to being free to recognize homosexuality. Individuals and institutions have the right to not recognize gay marriages. Non-governmental institutions have the right to condemn gay marriages until their blue in the face.

The idea of freedom is a pretty cool thing to think about. Two people can disagree about the exact same thing and both be right.

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