The Chris Moeller Archives

The four hour virus

The World Champion Cardinals are playing at Wrigley Field this afternoon and I'll be damned if I didn't come down sick and have to leave work early. Also it's 71 degrees and sunny, with a light breeze blowing. Do you think anyone suspected?

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Emmy-winning sportscaster and St. Louisan Bob Costas spoke in Des Moines last night. This is the Des Moines Register's recap. If you aren't up on your Costas minutiae, he does, to this day, carry a 1958 Mickey Mantle baseball card in his wallet, as he proved last night. But what wasn't revealed in the Register story is that he also carries this Oscar Gamble card from 1975.

That Yogi Berra line Costas used is indeed a great one: Berra being asked about three streakers running across the field during an exhibition game the night before. Were they men or women? "I couldn't tell. They had bags on their heads."

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Bernie Miklasz chronicles the full history of managers Lou Piniella and Tony LaRussa in today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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More "Sopranos": Slate's Timothy Noah and Jeffrey Goldberg are keeping an on-line correspondence throughout the HBO series' final season. Might want to put this link in with your favorites for the next couple months.

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NBC news anchor Brian Williams explains his bosses' decision to broadcast the video images mailed to them by Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho. I'm not convinced. The assailant's fevered ramblings provide no insight into the man or his actions. He was an individual who was severely deranged, and his actions had already delivered that verdict.

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I don't want to get too radical on this topic, but Cho was allowed to purchase a gun despite being deemed mentally-ill and "an imminent danger" to himself and others by a Virginia magistrate as recently as a year and a half ago. That is absolutely insane.

posted by CM @ 2:16 PM