Re-hire Chemerinsky? Also, go Red Sox!
With regard to Erwin-gate*, NRO's Victor David Hanson says UC Irvine Law School should re-hire Chemerinsky. (Hat tip: InstaPundit.)
Personally, I think they should re-hire him, and then re-fire him, just for kicks. It'll be like George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin for the ivory-tower set. Fun times all around!
Speaking of which, it's now mid-September, which means it's time for this purported baseball fan, i.e. me, to start actually paying attention to my Red Sox. (I know, I know: bandwagon, etc. But dammit, 162 games is too long. My A.D.D. can't handle it. Hence my tendency to "tune in" sometime in September.) Conveniently enough, there's a Red Sox-Yankees series this weekend to get me back into the swing of things. As Mgoblog says, "Your Hate Makes You Strong." (That reminds me: Michigan sucks!!)
The series is at Fenway, and really, Boston mostly just needs to avoid suffering another sweep. The Yankees have been on quite a roll lately, but the Sox are still 5 1/2 games up in the AL East, their biggest lead this late in the season since 1986, so even, say, losing two of three to the Bronx Bastards would leave Boston with a reasonably comfortable 4.5-game cushion with 12 games to go (13 for the Yankees) when the series -- the last Boston vs. New Yawk showdown of the regular season -- is over. On the flip side, winning two of three would mean a 6.5-game lead, and a Red Sox sweep would give the good guys a virtually insurmountable lead of 8 1/2 games -- and would put the Yankees back in danger of not getting the wild card. So that'd be nice.
Anyway, GO SAWX! We broke the Curse in 2004, and in the process we humiliated the Yankees in historic back-from-3-0 fashion, but we still haven't beaten them in the division race -- that is to say, been better than them over the course of the entire regular season -- since, like, forever. So let's wrap that up this weekend, shall we?
P.S. Boston's magic number is 11. Each win this weekend reduces it by 2.
* A.k.a. L'Affaire Chemerinsky. (Hat tip: Glenn, again.)
A local sports radio station had a poll about what should be done to punish the Patriots for their Belichick-inspired cheating. One of the options was, dock the Red Sox 5 games in the AL East standings so they are neck-and-neck with the Yankees. Heh.
Posted by: Andrew | Sep 14, 2007 5:24:00 PM
That reminds me: Michigan sucks!!
Indeed. Have I posted alternative Michigan fight songs here? I'm not sure. Oh, what the hell, I'll take any excuse to post these. They where posted to rec.sport.football.college many years ago by one Mark Mitchell, who worked for GaTech, and the post I took these from was dated 15 Aug 1996 (prior to the institution of overtime). Perhaps you can get Smokey IX to howl along with Hurl! Hurl! To sing again!?
Fail! Fail! We Missed-Again!
Fail! To the second-rate finishers!
Fail! The return diminishers!
Fail! Fail! To Michigan!
We always flunk the test!
Fail! But remember our cheer:
Fail! But just WAIT 'TIL NEXT YEAR!
Fail! Fail! We Missed-Again!
Forever second best!
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Help! Help! For Michigan!
Help! For the big game losers!
Help! For the choke excusers!
Help! Help! For Michigan,
Aid is needed here!
Help! For the behind-laggers!
Help! The MNC gaggers!
Help! Help! For Michigan,
But WAIT UNTIL NEXT YEAR!
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Hurl! Hurl! To Sing Again!
Hurl! To this wretched fight song!
Hurl! While the hounds bark along!
Hurl! Hurl! This fight song sucks!
Vomit and spew!
Hurl! At this putrid show tune!
Hurl! May the song please end soon!
Hurl! Hurl! Our fight song sucks!
We barf in Maize and Blue!
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Tie! Tie! With Sissy-men!
Tie! With the non-deciders!
Tie! With the draw abiders!
Tie! Tie! With Sissy-men!
Chokers and goats!
Tie! With the even-Stephens!
Tie! With the no-win heathens!
Tie! Tie! With Sissy-men!
Grasping at their throats!
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie | Sep 14, 2007 6:15:56 PM
Yankees 8, Red Sox 7.
Ooh, hate it when those five-run, eighth-inning, give-the-closer-some-work leads just go poof.
And who got the game-winning hit? One guess. Anybody?
Yeah, the Crimson Hose will probably take the division, and the Yanks'll get the Angels, who KILL them in the playoffs.
But man, was tonight sweet.
Posted by: texasyank | Sep 15, 2007 12:01:15 AM
Oh, wait, right, Oky came in to start the eighth.
That sweet, sweet, eighth.
Posted by: texasyank | Sep 15, 2007 1:13:20 AM
Hehe.
Posted by: Joe Mama | Sep 15, 2007 12:59:18 PM