I’m Shipping Up to Boston

I’ll be in my college hometown for the weekend with family and friends; be back Monday.

Another Reason to Love the President

He has excellent taste in burgers.
Michelle Obama said in the interview that she sometimes sneaks out to Five Guys without anyone noticing. Me too, Michelle, me too.

Why I Love Soccer

There’s a long-standing tradition of hooligans stabbing people in the ass, in Rome. Did I mention how excited I am for Philly’s new soccer team?

Interspecies Sexuality of the Day

Yes, it’s Garfunkel and Oates, with the best Pat Robertson-inspired song ever written:

Call it the B-side of “Rubber Duckie.”

Quote of the Day

Hilzoy, on silly reaction to the Sotomayor pick:

Paul at PowerLine headlines his post “Che Guevara In Robes”. I’ve been trying to think of something Sotomayor and Che have in common besides being Hispanic, but I’m coming up dry. But that’s nothing compared to Mike Huckabee thinking her first name is Maria. Any moment now, I suppose someone will ask how we know she’s in this country legally.

Computers Full of Cash, And More

I look at the latest electronics retail crime news on Dealerscope.

She Kidnapped Herself!

Yes, of course. My bullshit detector started pinging as soon as I heard the “victim” was blaming the whole thing on the proverbial “unidentified black males,” although I suppose it was fishy to suggest that both the mother and daughter had been stuffed into the trunk of a car at 2 in the afternoon at a busy intersection without anyone noticing.

Keeping Mauer

Joe Mauer is off to a superhuman start with the Twins, even hitting for power for the first time in his career. Of course, now Minnesota fans are fearing that Mauer, who can be a free agent after next year, will soon fly the coop, especially with the Yankees and Red Sox having franchise catchers who are nearing retirement.
I think the Twins need to make it their primary objective as a franchise to make sure Joe Mauer stays with the team for his entire career. He’s a hometown guy, the best Twin since Puckett, and the best player in baseball at his position. With the new ballpark on the way, they’ll need him, in a way they didn’t need, say, Torii Hunter or even Johan Santana.
At any rate, I’m with Calcaterra:

But one thing I do know is that I am sick and tired of the fans and media that follow the Red Sox and Yankees putting virtual dibs on every single decent player who even sniffs free agency. We get it: your team has money. We know: you probably will get just about any star player you want when they become available. And to be honest, I don’t even have a gigantic problem with your teams actually signing these guys. The system we have is the system we have and all the Yankees and the Red Sox are doing is exploiting it.

The same thing, of course, happened for years with Garnett. Even sadder, we’re only a year-or-two away from Phillies fans adopting this, too. Bad times.

“Up”

I review the latest Pixar masterpiece on Philly.com.

As Wrong About This As He Was About Jeans

George Will: Sotomayor didn’t save baseball
Will, of course, is a longtime ownership/Selig shill, even serving on the infamous “Blue Ribbon Panel” in the early ’90s. I wouldn’t pay too much attention to what he has to say on this.