The Cleveland Indians were a bit more grateful

Houston Astros players and Houston Astros fans are still upset over the commissioner's decision to have Milwaukee host two games rather than try to squeeze them in at the end of the season. They think playing those two games in the more Cubs-friendly Miller Park killed their playoff chances.

Selig is offering Astros fans more of an explanation than he ever gave in Milwaukee by buying a full page ad in the Houston Chronicle. The ad has been suitably mounted in gun ranges across Texas.

The Houston Chronicle, wishing to stoke the anger just a bit more, asked their on-line readers for feedback on Selig's ad. Then they ran an update:

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Hey Houston. Stop whining. At least your last All-Star game actually finished. Keep up the complaining and Bud Selig will put his daughter in charge of your team.

Baseball has been very, very good to me

At the beginning of the year, I made the following prediction:
12. The Milwaukee Brewers will finish 88-74. (88+74=162, okay I didn’t screw that up this year.)

Of course, I also predicted:
13. Bud Selig will not finish 2008 as Baseball Commissioner.

That was right before Selig signed a new contract extension with the owners.

Last year global warming forced the Cleveland Indians to move their opening games to Milwaukee. This year I bet the Chicago Cubs would like to do the same thing.

See that thing moving on top of our stadium? It's called a roof. And once it's paid for, some idiot running for County Executive will try to keep the tax going to fund trains to Racine. Yes, that will be ironic.