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Friday, Dec 05, 2003

major leaguer

bill simmons is consistently the funniest person writing about sports. it must be as a result of all that boston fan angst.

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hot stove beleagured

"The Rangers remain open to trading MVP Alex Rodriguez to the Sox, and the Dallas Morning News reported yesterday that Texas would accept Ramirez on the condition Boston "ante up a significant portion" of the $95 million balance of Ramirez's contract over the next five years."

"According to several reports, the Mets will sign Japanese shortstop Kaz Matsui."




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class consciousness

"While students tend to experiment with various identities during their college years, Vanderkamp's peers said the accelerated pace of his process of self-discovery is alarming. Since the beginning of the fall term, Vanderkamp has aligned himself with no fewer than nine social groups, and has adopted a new wardrobe and a distinct set of speech patterns to accompany each identity."

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Thursday, Dec 04, 2003

missing ewe

"Some of the newly discovered fossil mammals represent the last holdouts of species thought to have gone extinct millions of years earlier while others mark the first evidence for the few truly classic African species that survived the Eurasian invasion and evolved into today's famed beasts, such as the elephants."

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blag

blogging.la

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