Sandy Koufax
SK: IP 205.2 W 09 L 10 H 182 HR 26 ER 91 K 182 BB 108
CK: IP 195.1 W 10 L 10 H 172 HR 16 ER 85 K 188 BB 104
SK: ERA=3.99, WHIP=1.41, K/9 innings=8.0
CK: ERA=3.92, WHIP=1.41, K/9 innings=8.7
(Notes: Kershaw’s low HRs allowed this year may be due to the low HR totals of the Dodgers’ opposition..
Many of Koufax’s appearances were in relief.)
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psst....Sarah....we all knew....
Despite her disastrous performance in the 2008 election, Sarah Palin is still the sexiest brand in Republican politics, with a lucrative book contract for her story. But what Alaska’s charismatic governor wants the public to know about herself doesn’t always jibe with reality. As John McCain’s top campaign officials talk more candidly than ever before about the meltdown of his vice-presidential pick, the author tracks the signs—political and personal—that Palin was big trouble, and checks the forecast for her future.
Perhaps in response/confirmation, Palin posed for a kind of “Tame Playboy for Old White Guys” puff piece in Runners World entitled “I’m a Runner: Sarah Palin”which included an interview and cheesy photo shoot, confirming Letterman’s joke the about the “slutty airline hostess” look. But the text is also interesting, as it illustrates Palin’s well-known disregard for the truth:
I fell coming down a hill and was so stinkin’ embarrassed that a golf cart full of Secret Service guys had to pull up beside me. My hands just got torn up and I was dripping blood. In the debate you could see a big fat ugly Band-Aid on my right hand. I have a nice war wound now as a reminder of that fall in the palm of my right hand. For much of the campaign, shaking hands was a little bit painful.Heck no! I made those guys swear to secrecy. And I probably should have gotten a couple stitches. But I was insisting with these guys, “Absolutely not, let’s just wash it out.” I appreciated how much care they took to help me out. So anyway, I have a little scar on my hand, and I’ve seen a couple of pictures from the debate or of me waving to someone on the campaign trail with that Band-Aid and I think, nobody else knows about it.
So the Secret Service guys kept silent?
They did! And I have this great respect for them that they’ve kept silent all these months later.
except, actually, everybody knew:
Sen. Joe Biden will face an injured Sarah Palin in tonight’s debate after the Alaska governor took a spill jogging around running mate John McCain’s Sedona, Ariz., home.
Palin reportedly hurt her hand while taking a break from debate prep Monday.
The Alaska governor arrived in St. Louis today wearing a bandage on the injured hand and is expected to sport it during the vice presidential debate.
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Palin’s camp says the injury should not affect her performance.
maybe it did:
PALIN: Well, our founding fathers were very wise there in allowing through the Constitution much flexibility there in the Office of the Vice President. And we will do what is best for the American people in tapping into that position and ushering in an agenda that is supportive and cooperative with the president’s agenda in that position. Yeah, so I do agree with him that we have a lot of flexibility in there, and we’ll do what we have to do to administer very appropriately the plans that are needed for this nation.
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Politicizing the Justice Department wasn’t enough. Crippling regulatory agencies like the FDA wasn’t enough. Now we learn that, in a holdover from the Karl Rove era, the Republican Party has declared our election laws null and void by roadblocking any investigations or enforcement by the Federal Election Commission.
From TPM:
the three Republicans on the commission — led by Tom DeLay’s former ethics lawyer — have voted as a block against enforcement, preventing the commission from carrying out its basic regulatory function. As the normally mild-mannered Washington Post editorial board wrote recently: “The three Republican appointees are turning the commission into The Little Agency That Wouldn’t: wouldn’t launch investigations, wouldn’t bring cases, wouldn’t even accept settlements that the staff had already negotiated.”
Craig Holman of Public Citizen told TPMmuckraker the commission is currently “defunct.”
FEC watchers say the commission’s three Republicans — Donald McGahn, Matthew Petersen, and Caroline Hunter, each nominated by President Bush — are acting out of philosophical opposition to the very idea of regulating campaign money. “It’s the Republican caucus that actually believes there shouldn’t be campaign-finance regulation,” said Holman. “It is ideologic….”
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…did not happen today. Yet.
But it will happen sooner or later. And everyone knows it will. And it will be in living color on video.
sharp end of broken bat stuck in ground
“Lord, that was very scary,” said Nationals manager Manny Acta. “We have seen bats split in two in the last couple of years, but I’ve never seen a bat travel that far and that fast toward that guy. What came to my mind was, ‘What if it was toward the mound, which is only 60 feet, six inches [away]?’ It was scary, but I think they are doing some studies on that. Hopefully something good will come out of it.”
These bat fragments are flying everywhere: in the stands, on the field, behind the plate, and of course near the batter. What will it take to outlaw these lethal weapons?
UPDATE:
Susan Rhodes
August 4: According to MLB, inspection of the wood used in the manufacturing of maple and ash bats has cut down on the number of bats shattering, which has reduced the potential for injury to fans, players, coaches, and umpires.…
Dan Halem, MLB senior vice president and general counsel, said the incidence of bats breaking into multiple pieces in 2009 is down 30% from 2008 when shards sailing onto the field or toward the stands was commonplace. There were at least two examples last season of injuries: Pittsburgh Pirates hitting coach Don Long sustaining a slash to his left cheek, and spectator Susan Rhodes suffering a broken jaw when the barrel of a bat hit her in the face.
LOS ANGELES — Don Long, the Pirates’ freshly scarred hitting coach, was counting his blessings as well as his stitches yesterday.
“I’m feeling very lucky right now,” he said. “When I think about what could have happened there, yeah, I’m lucky.”
Nate McLouth’s bat broke when he doubled in the eighth inning Tuesday night, and Long, watching the ball head toward the right-field corner, never saw the bat. It whirled toward the Pirates’ dugout, and the splintered end went full-force into Long’s left cheek.
Less than 2 inches below the eye.
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