I’m hoping for Barack Obama or John Edwards to win on the Democratic side and for Mike Huckabee to win on the Republican side. I realize that if Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney don’t take Iowa and New Hampshire it will drag the primary season out even longer, and it’s already been very long. But I hate the idea of candidates putting away the nomination so early. I want to see them slug it out.
I like Michael Bloomberg, but don’t know if he could win as a third party candidate. Still, a lot of Americans are fed up with the major parties (I am) and perhaps the country is ripe for a third party to really make a go of it.
Hawaii wrote in The New Dan Patrick Show: May Your Passion Bucket Runneth Over:
I thought it was a great interview too (I even bothered to recap it which I seldom do, though that was partly for former fellow Big Show recapper Gilbert’s sake).
While I do feel sorry for the guy over the betting pool, I would think someone who is a head coach would know better than to EVER bet on any sport at all. So I can see why the NCAA took issue with it - after all, these coaches are part of a small system of top athletic programs. But Neuheisel ended up getting $4.7 million, so his defense must have been decent.
The stuff that Reilly wrote about is just a perfect example of rules run amok. Sometimes you have to wonder if common sense just doesn’t factor into some people’s lives at all.
BTW, I like your really cool snowflake special effect (despite that the first day I saw it I thought something was wrong with my monitor :P).
The snowflakes are a special effect provided by the nice developers at WordPress. It was scheduled to end on the 2nd, but here it is the 3rd and the flakes are still falling. When spring training starts perhaps they will provide a shower of little baseballs to float down on the screen.
I thought that I had mis-heard DP on Wednesday’s show when he said that Johan Santana doesn’t want to play in the National League. The Mets are desperate for a front-line starter and everything I’ve read has indicated that Santana would like to pitch in New York and prefers the Mets to the Yankees and the Red Sox. (Presumably to get out of the AL and its silly contrivance called the DH.) I just listened to the download of the clip and — yup — he said it at 18.22 into the first hour: “Well, Santana doesn’t want to go to the National League!”
Au contraire!
I’ll chalk it up to too much celebrating over the New Year’s holiday, but DP is dead wrong. I checked MetsBlog (the best source for Mets news), the New York Times, Newsday, the New York Post, the Daily News, Sports Illustrated, and ESPN just to see if I had missed any breaking news. None of them report that Santana doesn’t want to go to the NL.
Get your facts right, DP. Boy, if KO was still on the show he’d have straightened Dan out.
Also mentioned on the Wednesday show: DP and his sidekicks College and a Beer mentioned a possible road trip to see Led Zeppelin at Bonnaroo. Maybe Dan can fit it around the road trip with Lou to major league baseball parks across America.
