{"id":6003,"date":"2011-08-10T05:21:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T09:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=6003"},"modified":"2011-08-10T07:41:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T11:41:46","slug":"wisconsin-still-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2011\/08\/10\/wisconsin-still-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Still Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s funny watching last night’s KO, as John Nicols (who is not John Nichols, but I still highly recommend The New Mexico Trilogy) is telling us that the huge turnout could mean more than a three-seat pickup for the Wisconsin Democrats, and might mean a “wave.” Well, turns out not so much of a wave as a ripple. They didn’t even get the three. I’m pretty sure this vindicates Michele Bachmann in some way. And of course the Koch brothers and everybody’s favorite Koch sucker, Governor Scott “Dopey” Walker. Oh well, it’s not like I expect all that much these days.<\/p>\n

President Obama is calling for the “ouster” of Syria’s President Assad. Obama is starting to remind me of the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Not because of the “black” part, of course, but because no matter how many appendages are lopped off, the BK keeps insisting that he’s not fatally crippled and is still relevant. Obama keeps pretending that somebody gives a crap what he has to say.<\/p>\n

We have the potential for the Minor League Baseball “Perfect Storm” brewing here in Central New York. You may recall (but probably not) that Syracuse is the AAA farm team of the Washington Nationals, and that last year’s pitching phenom Stephen Strasburg did a stint here on his way up to The Bigs (where he subsequently blew out his ulnar collateral ligament). <\/p>\n

Also recovering from injury is a fella by the name of Alex Rodriguez (yes, yes – Yankees. No need to say you hate the Yankees. Everybody does), who had surgery for a torn meniscus. He’ll be working out the kinks with the Yankees farm team in Scranton (and perhaps working at Dunder Miflin on the side). <\/p>\n

As it happens, Syracuse has a 4-day home stand against Scranton coming up from 8\/12 – 8\/15, which more or less corresponds to both guys’ rehab schedule (in A-Rod’s case, his injury rehab, not any cocaine and\/or gambling rehab), so we may see Rodriguez vs. Strasburg right here.<\/p>\n

Wouldn’t that be exciting?<\/p>\n

No? Well, it doesn’t do all that much for me, either. But, hey, we have time to kill before football season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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