Professional baseball, caught in off season winter doldrums, made a valiant attempt to push the Carolina Cheerleaders off the front page.
Philadelphia reliever Ugeth Urbina was charged with attempted murder. The well traveled pitcher had to deal with his mother's kidnapping last year as well as face questioning last month that he assaulted several men on his ranch.
I still prefer the cheerleader story. Can you believe the Panthers actually kicked them off the team?
I am not sure how, but deep in my heart I know this incident can be used to stem the right wing assault on the right of Americans to choose their life time partners andl overs regardless of gender and sexual orientation. Maybe if they caught a couple of lineman things would look up?
"Can't anybody around here play this game?" Casey Stengel
Regretably, I don't think even a gay NASCAR driver would do the trick.
We've got token homosexual anchor Shepard Smith at Fox News, and that hasn't worked. FOX FRICKIN' NEWS!
We have a gay Republican not worthy of Tom Delay's job.
We have Anderson Cooper, the voice of Hurricane Katrina!
We have Elton John, for chrissake.
A gay NFL quarterback might help, but Kordell Stewart and Mike Tomczak and Don Majkowski are all washed up now.
A gay pro baseball player could put a dent in the right, but Mike Piazza ain't talkin'.
No, the Repugnants aren't going to change their mind on this one, even if Jeff Gordon marshalled a drag queen parade.
Posted by: Scott | November 08, 2005 at 04:02 PM