As a Pittsburgher I could get used to the home team regularly winning major contests. However, as a reality check us hockey and football fans will periodically be forced to visit the closet where we keep the Pirates. Also: Cleveland.
Pens v. Hurricanes Open Thread
Deep thought
First a gelding, now a filly…what does that say about the state of American masculinity?
(More seriously, who will be the first commentator to compare Rachel Alexandra to Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama or something like that? You know it’s going to happen.)
Preakness Open Thread
I kind of forgot, so now we have two open threads in a row. I wonder if that means I am suffering from premature thread?
Pens/Caps Game 7
God knows Pittsburgh has some of the best skaters in the NHL, yet so far this game feels like a contest between Marc-Andre Fleury and Alexander Ovetchkin.
Go Pens!
***Update***
I’m used to events proving me wrong, but jeebus. 2 Pittsburgh goals in thirty seconds.
Pens v. Caps Open Thread
Hard Hitting Journalism
In an otherwise great Frank Rich column, this:
Yes, journalists have made tons of mistakes and always will. But without their enterprise, to take a few representative recent examples, we would not have known about the wretched conditions for our veterans at Walter Reed, the government’s warrantless wiretapping, the scams at Enron or steroids in baseball.
I’m sure the SF papers have done a great job covering the BALCO case, but I have not read a word of it. Really, if newspapers really think they have uncovered anything earthshattering by reporting that baseball players are using steroids, the medium is deader than I thought. Steroid use was an open secret for decades in baseball, and openly ignored by players, fans, officials, owners, MLB, and sports reporters the entire time.
Up next, baseball players used amphetamines. I smell a Pulitzer!