The Yankees announced yesterday that they were suspending their campaign for the American League pennant due to the dire state of the economy. "This is not the time for partisan attempts to win baseball games," said Hank Steinbrenner. "I have called Commissioner Selig and suggested that the World Series be postponed or cancelled altogether until we have come up with a solution that unequivocally fixes everything."
When it was pointed out to Mr. Steinbrenner that the Yankees had already been eliminated from pennant consideration, he replied, "Yeah, so?"
Asked for a comment, team captain Derek Jeter said, "Huh?"
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Megan,
You are literally the only prominent blogger writing intelligently and informatively about the credit crisis. Then you bust out with this? Why do you feel the need to periodically turn into a parody out of Stuff White People Like?
If I didn't like so much of what you write, I wouldn't slam on you so much when it disapoints.
That was hilarious, Megan; thank you. (Do only white people like baseball? I missed that memo.)
Everybody needs a little silliness in their day. Or a lot of silliness. That's always good too.
John-
Humor stems from the unexpected. If we reserved humor only for the Onion, rather than the "stuffy" assets and mortgages blog, it wouldn't be as funny.
Works if politics is entertainment.
The Fed is also holding a reverse auction of the pitchers in the Mets bullpen.
That's one explanation for the Yankees "dismal" season......or the curse of the BoSox jersey is already taking root.......
Wait, is Hank Steinbrenner a sitting US Senator whose full-time job is to debate and vote on legislation? Because if he is, then it would make perfect sense for him to curtail his extracurricular activities for a few days to find time to debate and vote on a large and expensive piece of emergency legislation.
Megan,
That would be kind of funny if McCain was so far behind at this point that he had little hope of victory.
As it is, it was probably a smart move which gained him more votes than it lost him.
If this was a jet aircraft dog-fight, what McCain has been able to do (pretty much all the time) is stay inside BHO's decision loop.
You are literally the only prominent blogger writing intelligently and informatively about the credit crisis. Then you bust out with this? Why do you feel the need to periodically turn into a parody out of Stuff White People Like?
John: It's worse than you think. She also posts about cookware and recipes from time to time. You're in for a rough ride, I fear.
And don't forget the veganism!
I'm a Red Sox fan, and I approve of this message.
If all the Chicken Littles are right, and there is just too much risk in just letting things play out without government intervention; if doing nothing carries the very real risk of ushering in one of the worst economic downturns this country has ever seen, perhaps even surpassing the Great Depression; if those are the dire circumstances we truly face, then shouldn't all of our elected representatives in our federal government be dropping everything else and working exclusively on a solution?
Of course, if all that talk about how something has to be done quickly is just bullshit, then I guess it follows that anyone who behaves like it's real is just posturing.
I am dismayed by such lighthearted approach. This is the time of crisis. The Yankees were absolutely right to suspend their games, despite being eliminated from the World Series. They can for example, play some Texas Hold'em to raise some money for the struggling investment banks. Better yet, they can play chess, because chess players generally have very smart look on their faces. Finally, they can play hockey - it will send an unequivocal message of their tough patriostism, energy independence through promotion of winter sports, and putting this country first. (Or at least above Canada.)
Ma'am, I kiss the laquer on the nails of your pitching arm.
I think this is a pretty lame attempt at humor and the analogy is really off.......after all, the Yankees JOB is to win baseball games, McCains JOB is to be a member of the senate and get deals like this done.
A better analogy to show how ridiculous Obamas position is would be for Jeter to miss the last 9 weeks of the season because he was campaigning for a better job as president of the players association, and then mocking his opponent, Alex Rodriguez, for suspending his campaign for league president because his team needs him right now....
Imagine if Jeter's agent, David Axelrod, denounced A Rod's return to the team as a cheap political stunt, and then added...
" the yanks can call me if they need me "
that sounds pretty ridiculous , eh ?
well , thats cause it is.
Senator Obama is paid a nice sum to do a job he was hired by the taxpayers to do, the fact that he clearly has no interest in doing it leaves most fair minded people wondering why he deserves a better job than the one he's no showing for right now ?
I have been watching the bailout battle on every station, and the dems are blaming mccain for doing to much/too little, and the gop is praising/bashing mccain, and no one seems to care what obama thinks or is doing.
The campaign time out is actually making me think twice about voting McCain. Why? McCain has assembled a team that can outthink and outmaneuver the Obama machine (McCain is clearly inside O's OODA loop). McCain will take chances in order to win. The One is a painfully slow dullard by comparison, and with a deep aversion to actually doing anything, whining excepted. I think normally I'd prefer the slow dullard coupled with a feckless Congress. But. We might actually need someone who can assemble a great team and facilitate effective action in the financially exciting days ahead.
Whom to choose, whom to choose?
One more point, the new mantra from the left seems to be that the gop and mccain need to stop going against the president and need to follow his lead !!
incredible !! didn't they just spend a year plus telling me that McCain = Bush ??? Now they are screaming because they are not going along with this idiot bailout ? Hilarious, but the irony is completely lost on the Talking Head Brigade
anyone really wanting to help the economy should call their congressmen and tell them that any deal that doesn't cut the capital gains and corporate interest rates should be voted down. a bailout without any pro growth aspect is doomed to failure. If you think government can't make this worse, then you just haven't been paying attention for the last, oh, 80 years.
Speaking of 'taking one for the team' - I think that's a strategery that is very often misunderestimated, when a player hits a sacrifice fly. . .
This might've been better if you'd written about the Jets or Giants, since the Yankees were eliminated from the playoffs earlier this week and were essentially out of it about a month ago.
Are you suspending your blogging in support of the bailout, Megan?