Monday Coffee on Route 66

The Big Unit has retired. Randy Johnson, the 6'11" lefty, hangs it up and just has to stick around long enough for his call to the Hall of Fame. A terrifying pitcher for hitters but still no Sandy Koufax.

Andrew Dawson in the Hall of Fame? I liked to watch him play but I never felt he was that great.

The entire World Series is out on DVD so you can finally watch complete games without all ads, the news updates running on the bottom of the screen and cut-aways to other sports news. Baseball the way it's supposed to be. I wonder who will win.

Washington loves to read about themselves and the new book Game Change by Mark Halperin and cohort has diverted everyone's attention. Yes, Cindy McCain had a long-time boyfriend and did get into arguments with McCain in public ,saying at one point, "You ruined my life". Maybe the Big Unit retired because he belatedly realized Cindy owns part of the Diamondbacks. Elizabeth Edwards is a monster behind the saintly veneer. Bill Clinton was dating while Hillary was running. Hillary actually asked Robert Rubin to quietly form a transition committee for her eventual victory. Harry Reid urging Obama to run made racially tinged remarks that have been the focus of the Republicans demanding he resign. They say it's the moral equivalent of Trent Lott saying he supported Strom Thurmond as the Dixiecrat candidate for president when he said that no amount of bayonets will make the South respect equal rights for blacks. I guess that's the same. Sarah Palin said her running was the will of God and that McCain aides started scrambling to figure out what to do with her once John won because she was mentally unstable. Hillary wanted Mark Penn to pump the Obama used cocaine line all over the media. Obama is portrayed as just preferring the company of his wife and children--although he and Michelle argue. So that means Obama was the family values candidate. And so discussion of this will occupy this town the whole week.

Meanwhile John McCain and his preferred vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman decided to hold a press conference in Israel to basically contradict American policy and in fact vowing to stop it. Country Last--the new McCain motto. Faced with a possible primary challenger in J.D. Hayworth, McCain is now running as Arizona's last defense--the country having rejected him twice. He claims Obama is pursuing a radical Left agenda to bankrupt the country and he--and he alone has the character to stop this. Because character matters. Well, where were you John when Junior racked up a $12 trillion deficit? AWOL.