A full Olbermann with a double gainer

Scoop shouts back:

Wow, you called me “articulate”! You should be relieved to hear…I’m not even HALF black. Just kidding.

Elliot Spitzer was referred to as articulate in a recent New York Times editorial:

Joseph Bruno, the Senate leader, whined to reporters last week that the governor was a “bully.” Maybe so. But a bully is just what New York needs right now — a governor strong, smart and articulate enough to break up the Albany cartel.

My first reaction: ELLIOT SPITZER IS BLACK????

Clear evidence that I have been listening to too much Dan Patrick.

(Perhaps Michael Irvin would say that Spitzer has an African American ancestor or two.)

I think someone compared Bush to Lincoln as recently as this past week. Not aptly, of course. But did it anyway.

I saw an interview with President Bush a week or so ago; it was either on the PBS NewsHour or the NBC Nightly News. When he was asked “Who is your favorite president?” I cringed and expected him to say Lincoln, but he said George H.W. Bush. Which I didn’t find especially profound, but at least he gave props to his Pops.

I work so hard to keep my mind open on politics, even when it’s a strain.

Amen to that! I had to force myself to listen to Tony Snow on Meet the Press this past Sunday. It’s pretty hard to be open-minded when you harbor a strong suspicion that someone is being less than honest. But if you want to stay informed you have to soak in as much as you can and let your brain do the sieving.

Yes, I well remember Reagan implying there were plenty of want ads in the paper so why couldn’t anyone get a job? All I could think at the time was “clueless…”

I remember a friend remarking on that incident “What an idiot!” Of course, it was the Reagan administration that wanted to get ketchup classified as a vegetable in the school lunch program. And Reagan chose James Watt to be Secretary of the Interior. That’s like putting a wolf in charge of the Department of Sheep and Lambs.

Keep watching that skating. Recording jumps and watching them in slow motion helps when trying to tell them apart. Just a hint. And try to do it between Olympics too, eh?

I watched the Capitals-Penguins game this past weekend. Does that count?

Hadn’t realized that the axel, lutz, and salchow were named after people. I like that; it evokes a sport’s history. One of my favorite “named” moves in any sport is the Flying Tsukahara in gymnastics. It sounds cool and looks cool, too:

Baseball has a great vocabulary (can o’ corn, Baltimore chop, fungo), but it would be cool if an action was named for the player who performed it best, e.g., an over the should catch in deep center would be a “Willie Mays.” An especially petulant player could be said to be doing a “Barry Bonds.”

Good political commentary could be an “Olbermann.” Very good political commentary could be a “full Olbermann.” Excellent political commentary could be a full Olbermann with a double gainer.

He shoots! He scores!

I am not sure than anyone has the full correct lyrics to “There’s No Surf in Cleveland” down yet. I think someone misinterpreted part of it as being about riding the rapids. Huh?!? The only “Rapid” you can ride in Cleveland is the Rapid Transit. But I don’t think there are any references to that. The drive-in, maybe. I think they still had those back in 1978.

A New York Times article reports that surfing has been yuppie-fied. But I don’t think this applies to the hardy souls who surf Lake Erie.

And I don’t think anyone blames Belichick at all for the move of the Browns. They just hated his coaching. And got really ticked when, of course, he went off elsewhere and became a Super Bowl winner. You can understand that, right? It’s tough for a Browns fan. Long drought since 1964, there’s been. And that was before there even was a Super Bowl.

Mistake by the Lake reports that ESPN Classics puts Bill Belichick at #5 in its “Top 5 Reasons You Can’t Blame Art Modell for Moving the Cleveland Brown.” But that blog assigns him only 0.000001% of the blame. Even if Cleveland still hates the Hooded Maestro I think you still have to give him a few points for providing Romeo Crennel the opportunity to develop his coaching skills to the point where he could be hired as head coach for the Browns.

Googling for Belichick’s record against the Ravens. No luck so far; I wish Elias would grant online access to their trove of data to little people like me. I suspect he’s crushed them; that would give some measure of satisfaction to Clevelanders. I did find this: Belichick vs. the quarterbacks. Frightening stuff. It would have been interesting to see what the Patriots would have done to the Bears and Rex Grossman.