Dick Monfort slips up and inadvertently offers fans some great advice. I’ve been hammering the Colorado Rockies for a decade now, and for good reason. Years and years of clueless ownership and […]
Evangelical litmus tests and the World Series: why we all need to be rooting against the Colorado Rockies
The World Series starts tomorrow night and people around here have gone Rockies crazy. I’m getting asked a lot if I’m excited, and the answer is yes – Go Red Sox! They […]
Independence Day, a baseball game, and fireworks in the age of Donald Trump
Donald, Independence Day, a baseball game, and fireworks proved to be a recipe for cognitive dissonance.
Gays and professional sports: Sir Charles stands up for what's right. Again.
A few days ago, Phoenix Suns president Rick Welts revealed that he is gay. And the whole sporting world exploded yawned. Okay, that’s not precisely true. There has been a bit of […]
Hard times for the pure of heart: is it possible to live ethically in modern society?
I think we’d all love to live every phase of our lives in happy accord with high moral and ethical principles. We’d love it if we were never confronted by logical contradictions […]
Time for America’s Freddie Mercury moment: there are more than 100 gay pro athletes in the US, and the sooner they get out of the equipment closet the better
In a recent discussion on one of my political lists Sara Robinson (easily one of the brightest folks in the blogosphere) made an important point about what often causes people to migrate […]
The Colorado Crusading Rockies: why is the club's religious mandate such a huge secret in its own hometown?
Here in a few weeks my company is taking all the employees to a Colorado Rockies game. All of us except me, that is – I’ll be begging off for reasons that […]
Quotabull
With the bailout of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the Reagan revolution has at last realized the robber barons’ dream: privatize the profits and socialize the debt. Nicely done, fellas. — a […]
The Scrogue's Guide to Denver and the DNC: worthwhile miscellany
And now, a few more things that didn’t quite fit into other articles, or that arrived late, or that we forgot, or whatever. The fact that these are all being lumped under […]
AAA-Rod is bigger than the game
It’s always confusing to sports fans, and not a little disappointing, when they encounter great talents with second-rate character. Bobby Knight is a legendary coach but a serial bully who has, on […]
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