My heroes this week are Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos, but since Gary already wrote about them, I'll also mention the Colorado Rockies and the San Diego Padres, for playing 22 innings last night in an epic pitchers' duel:

Colorado and San Diego did just that Thursday night and into Friday morning, slogging through a 22-inning game that was the longest in the majors in nearly 15 years.

The Rockies finally won 2-1, with Troy Tulowitzki’s two-out RBI double bringing in Willy Taveras with an unearned run in nearly empty Petco Park. A game that lasted 6 hours, 16 minutes was decided by an unearned run.

Hack this week is Jimmy Carter, as his one man mission for peace (at what cost?) brought him to laying a wreath at Yasser Arafat's grave. Even Obama, who wants to 'meet with our enemies' (which isn't as bad an idea as it sounds, really) was criticizing him for it.

(Dis)honorable mention goes to President Bush, for a lapse of logic worthy of note.

Bush rejected Iran's argument that its nuclear activities are intended only for a civilian energy program.

"If that's the case, why did they have a secret program?" he said at a Rose Garden news conference with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Now, I'm certainly not a fan of the Iranian regime, but maybe, just maybe, they were hiding their program because the United States is Hell-bent on shutting it down, and the Iranians are worried about an Iraqi invasion redux, which was over an alleged WMD program.

Labels: Blame it on Bush, Hero/Hack, Iran, Israel, Sports

Posted by Ryan S. on Friday, April 18, 2008 at 10:37 AM | Permalink |