Day: September 26, 2003

I can see clearly now

/ Kevin B. O'Reilly

The rain is not gone. Check out the forecast for this weekend. It’s clear that God does not want the Cubs to win the division.

UPDATE: Today’s game postponed. They’ll play two tomorrow. Or they’ll try to, anyway. This is bad for the Cubs, I think. It is simply much harder to win two games in one day than win two games back to back.

It’s much more difficult to manage the bullpen. The players get tired, physically and psychologically. And these games are likely to be played — if they are played — in between rain delays, making things even worse. I won’t even get into how this wrecks the Cubs’ possible playoff rotation.

The mark of a true journalist

/ Kevin B. O'Reilly

I’m reading Jim Bovard’s new book, “Terrorism and Tyranny,” and I just love the author bio on the dust jacket, which reads in part:

He is one of Washington’s most controversial journalists. His work has been publicly denounced by the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Postmaster General, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, as well as the chiefs of the Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Awesome. You think that’s on his business card?