Bud? BUD! BUD!!!!! - Major

Bud? BUD! BUD!!!!! - Major League baseball is in dire, maybe terminal trouble. The extortion racket they run against their host cities is running out of steam, maybe, slowly. The players union is out of control. The owners are too stupid and shortsighted to fix the league's systemic problems by instituting revenue-sharing to make a more competitive league...

...enh. "Whatever", says the league. The owners snooze on, the league president (sorry for the redundancy) saws on his fiddle.

But let there be one really silly overblown trainwreck at the league's annual all-star showcase, and suddenly Bud "The Bullet" Selig leaps into action like a fireman running to a four-alarm at a grade school.

By the way - I love Baseball too. But was I the only one cringing at the invective I was hearing yesterday on sports-and-talkradio? Fellas! It's just a game! And a show game at that!

No-Demigog Zone - The populist, big-tent conservative in me loves Bill O'Reilly.

The guy who loves it when people get their facts straight, and can do it without harangueing like a playground bully, doesn't.

Cathy Young on the two sides of Bill "Spinless" O'Reilly.