Liberal Talk Radio

And now you know:
No photos in the club enable most of the athletes to relax a little more. And autograph-seekers and fanboys are less inclined to bother them at a strip club.
(Thanks, Deadspin)

[We pause momentarily from our election coverage to remind America that, yes, there's life outside of the campaigns.]
For years now, I’ve been having a running argument about the value of stretching before exercise.
I grew up with a highly regimented (and very traditional) exercise routine that invariably followed the pattern of stretching followed by either weight-lifting [...]

There were like literally two million men on the street and you pick this guy to interview? Astonishing:
Fans here had waited 25 years for a championship parade down Broad Street. The Phillies gave them one Friday, and so many fans showed up that they nearly shut down the city.
. . .
The parade drew fans from [...]

I was outside in the parking lot watching this on the screens the Phillies set up for fans who didn’t have tickets to the rally inside the stadium:

1) As you can tell by the YouTube, this basically summed up the mood of the day.
2) This was one of the ten to fifteen best things I’ve [...]

Philadelphia Phillies left fielder Pat Burrell may seem like an odd player to root for — underperforming, overpaid, universally maligned by Phillies fans — but for a while I’ve felt bad for the guy. He and shortstop Jimmy Rollins have spent their entire careers with the woeful-no-longer Phillies, and Philly fans are nothing if [...]

Gotta love Mitch Albom.  His folksy, leftist populism has always been a big hit with sports fans in Detroit.  Mitch is crafty enough to be overtly non-partisan, but if you read his columns long enough, you get the impression that he’s a closet D.
Reading Mitch’s piece yesterday on the firing of Matt Millen, I’m buoyed [...]

This afternoon, Goldy wondered about the half-assed last-minute effort by local billionaires to save the Sonics:
Not that the folks behind this proposal ever believed they’d get a bill out of the current session. These are savvy folk. Rich folk, who’ve spent plenty of money on Olympia lobbyists in the past. They know how the [...]

I was watching ESPN’s SportsCenter at the gym this morning, and, between the Clemens steroid thing and the Arlen Specter NFL Patriots thing, it looked more like CSPAN than ESPN.
Confidential to our elected officials: you’re probably introducing a fair number of people to the workings of Congress here. If you want them [...]

If you need any more evidence that economic impact studies around sports arenas are full of crap, read this hilarious Seattle Times article. The Sonics were for economic development before they were aganst it.
(via Postman)

100% Beckham-free.
(this post is just here to bait the Professor…)