1 Man. William F Buckley dies, and no shout out? Not even a whisper?
What kind of conservatives are you?

2 I did see your comment on another post below, Jim, and I did make a simple post in his honor below this one.  But, I was out of town yesterday and didn't have access or time to address Buckley's passing.  Also, I don't feel qualified to do the man justice.  He was a great conservative and his contributions to political discourse can't adequately be expressed by me.  I'll let others handle the laurels.  Buckley will be missed.

3 Whoops! I am an idjit, Woody.

4 No, Jim, you're just a Dodgers fan who votes for Democrats.

5 Only the part about the Dodgers is true. I've switched my party allegiance to the All Night party.

6 Wow, 3 runs in the bottom of the ninth to beat the Braves, 5-4.

We're off and rolling, Woody.

7

I'm glad that baseball season is starting.  I commented the other night how this was a terrible time with football over and baseball not started.  I only get involved with basketball during March madness.  I dropped my hockey tickets two years ago, but I did renew my Braves tickets.  On the Braves web site, they have a countdown clock until opening day--now just 31 days.

I see that this is the last spring training for the Dodgers at Dodger Town in Florida, as they will move next year to Arizona.  The Braves will also move their AAA affiliate to a suburb in 2009, so sending players up or down is just a commute.

Ronald Reagan was a baseball fan.

 

8 Too bad there aren't any tapes of him from when he announced games he was reading off the wire. I believe he did the crack of the bat himself.

9

I seem to remember a story where the wire went down when Reagan was doing one of his "live on-site broadcasts."  It's sketchy, but I think that he made up some innings until the wire was restored. 

I heard about others doing the same thing, and one guy had the score higher than it really was, so he resorted to saying that they took away some runs.  Another time, a broadcaster had the wrong team coming to bat when the wire came back, so he said that it was a first in baseball for a team to bat twice in a row.

Jim, did you listen to Reagan's message above?  He could just about do the same one today.

10 I'm using a computer at work that has no sound.

11

Jim, well, look at his picture and tell me what you think.  A picture is worth a thousand words.

It turns out that the Braves lost the Spring training game to the Dodgers because the Braves aren't trying.  http://rowlandsoffice.typepad.com/weblog/2008/02/bad-signs.html