Some loose ends and links

• Next Thursday, Curt Schilling appears on "Celebrity Jeopardy!" I'm psyched to see him flexing his brain muscles. He goes up against Jane Kaczmarek from "Malcolm in the Middle" and Doug Savant from "Desperate Housewives." I was SSOOO hoping he was going to play against Carson Kressley from "Queer Eye"!
• I can't wait for this election to be over. I am ssoo sick of the constant bombardment of ads from both sides. Of course, it's a very interesting race here in Tennessee. The former mayor of the Scenic City, Bob Corker, is going up against Harold Ford. Having lived through Corker's tenure as mayor, I can't imagine a worse candidate. He was totally out for his own interests while he was mayor - even manipulated things to so that a section of wetlands could be reclassified for the Walmart he wanted to build. And his claimed inability to get the Republican National Committee to stop running their racist ads - if he couldn't influence them is such a small matter, what is going to happen when he' s in Washington? He won't be anything but a rubber stamp for the Republicans - and we already have one of those in the person of Lamar Alexander. We need someone who's got a world view - a broad knowledge of both Tennessee and Washington - and that's Harold.

And I'd frankly rather look at Harold for the next four years than that goofy Corker.

• Alex Gonzalez was totally ripped off on the Gold Glove. How could they hand it to Jeter - it was totally biased and based on his reputation rather than his actual performance this year. Boo. (The Dugout has a great take on this!)
  
• I have been looking for this video for months! Thanks to piney61 over on LJ for pointing it out! It is an absolutely awesome recap of the 2004 season. I had it on disc, but then the disc mysteriously died! So I was so happy to get this link.
• Funny editorial in today's New York Times (free registration required.) Some highlights:

TRADE We need an A-Rod exit strategy. Getting him was always a mistake. We were told the Yankees would greet him as a liberator. After three years, it’s a fiasco — yes, a fiasco. Against the Tigers in the playoffs, he went 1-for-14, struck out with the bases loaded and made a critical fielding error. Each day, the news reports worsened...

TRADE We’re sending our kids to fight an endless war in Boston, when it’s Detroit that attacked us. After we swept the Red Sox in August, you hung out your Mission Accomplished banner, but nothing has been accomplished.

KEEP The Yankees never said it was over. The news media said it was over. And I acknowledge the challenges. We must adapt. We must heed the experts. Joe Torre and his coaches have said they believe A-Rod should come back. We must listen to them.

TRADE Those are the same “experts” that batted A-Rod eighth!

KEEP You would stoop so low as to attack Joe Torre? Have you no shame? Have you no shame!

Funny stuff!

• There are certain shows that are "must-see" tv for me. Ones I actually watch in "real time." They are: Heroes, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Prison Break, Ugly Betty, Gilmore Girls, and Jericho. I also rarely miss, but watch on tape The Nine, Desperate Housewives, Studio 60 (although its days look numbered), House, Bones, Without a Trace, Battlestar Galactica, How I Met Your Mother. OMG, looking at that list, is my life pathetic or what?? But ya gotta fill all the empty hours without the Red Sox!