This picture tells you everything you need to know about how you see the world. It’s a Rorschach blotting, really. Is this a positive picture of the President not engaging in the wave – a gimmick widely viewed as dumb. Or is this just further evidence that our president is an emotionless automaton unable to connect to most “common folk?”
If you’re a member of a team visiting the Cleveland Indians then, first off, I’m so sorry and you’ll be out of Cleveland soon. Second off, what are you doing reading this blog? Don’t you have eight or nine runs to go ring up on that awful club? And thirdly, you probably noticed some sweet Lego portraits lining the walls along Progressive Field’s visitor’s clubhouse.

I know what you’re thinking. Couldn’t they give these metal bats dangerous-sounding names? Who’s going to be afraid of a li’l ol’ typhoon? Besides the Bengladeshi in 1970 or the Chinese in 1939, I mean?
What makes people think these things do any damage?

Houston’s 2009 Defensive Rookie of the Year Brian Cushing was suspended late last week for violating the league’s performance-enhancing drug policy and will miss the upcoming season’s first four games.
Fellow Texas-based athlete, Lance Berkman, took this opportunity to point out the chasm between how baseball players are treated as compared to football players.

Arizona passed an immigration-enforcement law last week making it justifiable for police to stop and demand documentation from anyone they suspect of being an alien “if reasonable suspicion exists” that they are in the state illegally. Already, Bill 1070 is considered in many parts of the U.S. a bigoted enactment, of which many throughout the nation have taken to protesting. The rationality behind some of the protests, however, remains suspect.