"Leon Trotsky . . . one of my favorites"One of his favorite whats? It's a bit outré, but I'm a Kerensky fan.
-- Tim McCarver.
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14 Oct 2006 09:13 pm
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It always amazes me to remember that Alexander Kerensky once came to address my high school civics class back in the mid-60's. It was in Palo Alto. I guess he was at the Hoover Institute at Stanford. I barely knew who he was, but even then it seemed as though he was from a history book.
Fox should never be allowed to broadcast baseball, and Tim McCarver is one of the major reasons why. What an ass.
"Don't you think their lives should be gay and bright and bubbly like champagne?"
Jimmy Stewart, "An Affair to Remember"
(I'm watching it now.)
Kerensky fan? Loser. Course Trotsky was also a loser, just took longer.
"Jimmy Stewart, "An Affair to Remember""
Or Cary Grant. Take your pick. Reality: gayer and gayer.
Loser.
Anarcho-syndicalists shouldn't be tossing that label so freely around.
Yeah, I'll grant you that McCarver can come off as a pompous ass but unlike most sportscasters he's got a right to the attitude. You remember the 2001 World Series when he called Luis Gonzales' game winning -- Series winning -- hit? He's constantly doing stuff like that. Fact is, he's perceptive and knowledgeable.
Having said this, I don't know what the hell Timmy was talking about tonight with that weird Trotsky reference.
My first year college roommate once said of Hemingway: he waited too long.
My other first year college roommate (come to think of it there were four of them total) got drunk once and lit the bedroom of the politics nerd (who was to be sure kind of a jerk) on fire. He was punished severely. They gave him his own room in a nice building. (He was prep school rubbish from Milton. The genius kid who got into that monk school but whose parents were broke got kicked out for punching the dean of housing in the nose a year or two later.)
Trotsky? Great lefty.
Finished his career in the Mexican League.
I think he got that moniker for stealing bases.
Maybe he meant Hal Trosky? .342-42-162 in 1936 and still couldn't make the AL All-Star team because the league's other first basemen included Lou Gehrig, Jimmy Foxx, and Hank Greenberg.
Kerensky was more than a loser, he was an incompetent gasbag. Trotsy was a public menace but an interesting public menace. His autobio is still a great read. So, with huge qualifications, his history of the Rus Rev.
OH, and speaking of losers: I own a Tsarist bond, still hoping for my day in the son, but my friend Roy says his father bought /Kerensky/ bonds.
Fox sucks the joy out of watching baseball on TV. They give us stupid, useless gimmicks like the DiamondCam. They give us between-pitch shots of every conceivable distraction in the stands, such as players' moms, home-made signs, and anyone wearing a funny hat. Worst of all, their announcers sound like a bunch of pompous U.S. Senators trying to call a baseball game as if every sentence is an opportunity to be quoted in the history books.
"Worst of all, their announcers sound like a bunch of pompous U.S. Senators"
Steve Lyons, fired by Fox today for a "racially insenitvie" remark about Lou Pinella during the ALCS Game 3 broadcast, was just trying to sound like Sen. Allen, I guess . . .
George Will actually had a mildly amusing baseball joke in his column today:
"What do the Cubs and Cardinals have in common? Neither team has won a World Series in its new ballpark."
What was the context?
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--Steve Lyons, ex-Fox baseball broadcaster
Posted by zAmboni | October 14, 2006 9:24 PM