Comments on: Odds and sods: Murray the moron; BP agrees with me http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/05/13/odds-and-sods-murray-the-moron-bp-agrees-with-me/ Media, Baseball, Boston, the Red Sox, Music, Literature, and Mnookins Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:51:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: mtalinm http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/05/13/odds-and-sods-murray-the-moron-bp-agrees-with-me/#comment-41766 mtalinm Wed, 16 May 2007 03:10:33 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/05/13/odds-and-sods-murray-the-moron-bp-agrees-with-me/#comment-41766 nothing better to talk about than fellow journalists? now <i>that's</i> navel-gazing... nothing better to talk about than fellow journalists? now that’s navel-gazing…

]]> By: benschon http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/05/13/odds-and-sods-murray-the-moron-bp-agrees-with-me/#comment-41674 benschon Mon, 14 May 2007 22:24:34 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/05/13/odds-and-sods-murray-the-moron-bp-agrees-with-me/#comment-41674 Notice the weirdly complex syntax Tom Glavine uses in this long quote from the same article. Does he really talk like that? Asked how he would view Bonds’s record, Glavine said: “This cloud of suspicion probably has taken away from the magnitude of appreciation. I have issues with it just like everybody else. But there’s part of me that still has a hesitancy to disregard it when we don’t know definitively that something has taken place. We all have suspicions, and those suspicions are based on pretty good evidence." Notice the weirdly complex syntax Tom Glavine uses in this long quote from the same article. Does he really talk like that?

Asked how he would view Bonds’s record, Glavine said: “This cloud of suspicion probably has taken away from the magnitude of appreciation. I have issues with it just like everybody else. But there’s part of me that still has a hesitancy to disregard it when we don’t know definitively that something has taken place. We all have suspicions, and those suspicions are based on pretty good evidence.”

]]> By: wired1 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/05/13/odds-and-sods-murray-the-moron-bp-agrees-with-me/#comment-41445 wired1 Mon, 14 May 2007 00:45:20 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/05/13/odds-and-sods-murray-the-moron-bp-agrees-with-me/#comment-41445 Thanks Murray, baseball is worried about steroids. Glad I bought the Times today. Thanks Murray, baseball is worried about steroids. Glad I bought the Times today.

]]> By: kinshane http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/05/13/odds-and-sods-murray-the-moron-bp-agrees-with-me/#comment-41396 kinshane Sun, 13 May 2007 18:56:42 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/05/13/odds-and-sods-murray-the-moron-bp-agrees-with-me/#comment-41396 In the military, we do indeed chaperone people around when they can't, um, produce during a random urinalysis. If it takes an overly long amount of time for the urine to flow, they are escorted to the testing center and a catheter is used. Of course, we are responsible for making sure people who have access to weaponry are not tweaking or whatever, so it would seem to be more important for us to make sure the test is good. Professional athletes, while not having access to automatic rifles, do make an arseload of money, so it should be as important for them. It's all about the union, baby. In the military, we do indeed chaperone people around when they can’t, um, produce during a random urinalysis. If it takes an overly long amount of time for the urine to flow, they are escorted to the testing center and a catheter is used. Of course, we are responsible for making sure people who have access to weaponry are not tweaking or whatever, so it would seem to be more important for us to make sure the test is good. Professional athletes, while not having access to automatic rifles, do make an arseload of money, so it should be as important for them.

It’s all about the union, baby.

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