And while we rejoice in Hawk’s absence tonight (see previous post), let us do honor to this site dedicated to his being gone, so that we no longer have to hear “He gone!” after every damn strikeout by a Sox pitcher. Please, God, let him be gone — retired to some shady glen, or to a manager’s job in the National League.
Hallelujah! No Hawk Harrelson tonight, former Sox pitcher Jack McDowell doing color for Steve Stone‘s play-by-play, and it’s sheer joy.
To be able to listen as well as watch. Mercy!
Later: Still not on air, Sept. 10. What’s going on?
This fellow nails racist liberals.
See the pix here? Quinn-Giannoulias in one, Kirk in the other? Same size, right?
Q-G:
K:
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!? What the . . . ??? They’re both of G, with Q thrown in! No Kirk to be found! Home-delivery hard copy Sports Final at least had a (dinky) 2.5-by-1.5 of K. top right, over a 6-by-3.5 of Quinn & G, over a 3-by-2 of G-supporter Tammy Duckworth at the wheel of an airplane — to go with this by Lynn Sweet, which will do for a Giannoulias press release any day.
is the head. The story is not even about what happened, but what the G-supporters are planning to happen, an advance man’s heads-up, compliments of the Chicago Sun-Times, self-described as an independent newspaper, really progressive-liberal, usually mainly in its editorials but not exclusively so, as we see from today’s sports final.
Blithe Spirit 