Early Morning Royals Links: Halladay-Lee Bonanza, Royal Payroll, Kenny Williams Gets His Man, Belgian Strife

You never know what GMDM was thinking… and a list of pitchers of two 2010 possible ready guys… that would have been Duffy and Montgomery from us… I’m counting my blessings..

get a few prospects for taking on some of a bad contract.

I’m kind of surprised Dayton wasn’t the one making this deal.

the Orioles just aren’t as good a fit trade wise…

we’ll see

it seems to have a social aspect to it that I just don’t understand the point of, which is especially telling since he’s not a historian

I happen to think that the anti-federalists who opposed the Constitution had a number of good points and that the way the whole matter was achieved was very questionable, but I’m not going to setup a summer camp about it. I’m not going to try to preserve the anti-federalist’s values in the present day. Not so much on moral grounds, just because it seems pointless.

that the academy has a bunch of sissie, left-wing, Commie-loving, America-haters who try to indoctrinate our precious children into thinking the United States isn’t God’s special nation. I don’t think it’s incorrect to call into question an institute founded to study and possibly promote a point of view that is often latched onto because of racism.

It’s interesting that Livingston (who, as Will noted, isn’t a historian) finds Lincoln so odd and un-American when he’s really just continuing the idea that a centrally-planned economy and state are a good thing. This is basic stuff that people like Alexander Hamilton, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay had been arguing for years. This is a major strand of American thinking, no less pure than Jefferson’s ideas, and one that actually made sense (unlike an agrarian slave-based economy) during an increasingly industrial and technologically-driven 19th century.

If you were stuck in the Yale English department in the 1950s (or even today, where New Criticism still has a big foothold), you might also have turned out a little like Frederic Jameson. Butler and Calhoun also went to Yale, so maybe there’s something to it.

He even called you “our own”… how nice.

You can see his release and fluidity. Chapman pen video.

Link please?

I would hate to see them leave, honestly. To be honest, I would hate to see anyone from the Big 12 North leave (even K-State, b/c I would miss bitch-slapping my little brother on a regular basis, although not too sure that anyone is dying to capture the Topeka/Manhattan/Wamego TV markets). Two reasons: several of us have been together for what, almost a century or more, and, any North team that leaves would probably be replaced by Arkansas, which tilts the balance of power even more in Texahoma’s favor.

One problem I see with Mizzou and the thing that has always really bothered me about them is this over-inflated and unfounded sense of self-importance. Football? They are no better than KU. Basketball? Puhleeze. Academics? I heard that they rank 9th in the Big 12 in academics according to US News and World Report. My point is not to bag on Mizzou, but rather the idea that the grass is always greener on the other side.

Know thyself…

where they add any school that isn’t Rutgers, or ND… Perhaps Syracuse but they are a trainwreck in football.

doubt anything will ever come of it

but if they can’t get ND to give in, the Big 10 should invite Miami (OH). I’m dead serious. Yeah, the football team’s been on the skids since that top-10 season, but they’ve got tradition, they’ve got academics, and they’re already totally in bed with the Big 10 in at least one sport (hockey).

It’s kind of like a Christmas tradition. None will top the 2007 year where they were blatantly punished for making it to their conference championship game and then losing. Two teams that they had beaten head-to-head were picked ahead of them to go to BCS bowls. Illinois, who got absolutely destroyed by USC, and Kansas, who won the Orange Bowl against a Virginia Tech team playing like a pathetic shell of the team they had been all season up to that point. And their best offensive weapon was suspended for the first half. And Mizzou utterly dominated a loaded Arkansas team from the opening kickoff at the Cotton Bowl. And had been #1 in the country before the championship game. And we all know that Lew Perkins broke conference rules by guaranteeing ticket sales to secure that Orange Bowl spot.

But I digress.

The problem is, Mizzou fans have a reputation for not traveling well to bowl games. It’s like the chicken or the egg question: Do the fans not travel because they’re mad the team got screwed, or does the team get screwed because the fans don’t travel? Either way, it’s completely insane that TWO 6-6 teams were picked ahead of us for better bowls, and something should change. I don’t think going to the Big Ten is the answer though.

The championship game.

All of the big conferences keep a private school in their conference.

Something about how it keeps them from having to reveal all of their financial numbers.

Aside from football, we are one of the best athletic schools in the conference, and our academic rankings are better than most of the rest of the Big 12. We are nationally ranked almost every year in baseball, tennis, track, and women’s basketball. Our men’s basketball program is improving as well. We have a top 20 recruiting class this year, another one next year (including the #3 prospect), and we are already receiving votes in both major polls. We suck at football, but could easily be an average D1 team next year.

The only way we don’t match up favorably with the rest of the Big 12 is in enrollment. We are about half as big as the next smallest school, and nowhere near as big as the other Texas schools.