Dave Pinto was at RFK Stadium on Saturday night, and he has video. And here's hoping they throw the book at this idiot.
Personal note of interest: I was watching the Nats and the Cubs at the American Tap Room on Sunday afternoon, and when Nick Johnson hit a two-run homer off of Greg Maddux I whopped and jumped out of my seat. I was a little surprised.
Tony Kannan will sit on the pole at Indy, with Danica Patrick only one row back. For more on Indy qualifying, check out Fast Machines.
West Brom survives. Southampton, Crystal Palace and Norwich lose the EPL game of musical chairs. And let's call a spade a spade: the opposition to Malcolm Glazer's takeover of Manchester United is based on anti-Americanism with a dose of anti-Semitism thrown in to boot. For more on the financial aspects of the deal, see John Palmer.
John also pointed me to this interesting analysis of Tiger Woods' performance over the past four years that concludes that he has been driving for distance and sacrificing accuracy.
Here's the author of the study, Paul Kedrosky:
[D]espite the supposed improvement in his game, Tiger's driving accuracy has fallen off much more than his driving distance has increased. At the same time, the gap between Woods and the mass of his professional competitors is much smaller than it was five years ago -- the animation shows this nicely, with a great splotch of competitors all closing in on Woods over the period.
The next question that came to me was this: a couple of years back, Woods complained long and loud that the competition was using illegal drivers in order to close the gap with him. Does this mean he was right? Or maybe the rest of the field started lifting weights?
Some other thoughts: I'd love to see the flash diagram that Paul put together be able to further parse the data. I'd really like to see Woods compared to individual golfers that we could identify -- in particular some of the biggies like Phil Mickelson, Ernie Els and Vijay Singh.
UPDATE: In the comments below, Beau Dure takes me to task for not sourcing the anti-semitism charge above. The issue was first raised on the last telecast of Fox Football Friday by co-host Steven Cohen.
Re: Glazer. Let’s not. Frankly, Eric, I’m a little surprised at you. If a guy with no known interest in soccer showed up to buy Celtic with a bizarrely leveraged deal, shoving the occasional board member out of the way in the process, would you rush to embrace him, regardless of nationality?
There’s a trace of anti-Americanism here, but only as part of the larger issue. We’re talking about the quintessential English experience here. For the most part, the English have gradually accepted foreign intrusion — most of the players on the top clubs are from overseas now. But for Manchester United, the club that grew back from the ashes of the Munich plane crash, to be the subject of a hostile takeover is an indignity. And the English will trade NOTHING — not material comforts, nothing — for their dignity.
The fact that an American is doing this just adds one layer to the bizarre circumstances, so yes, there’s a hint of “Yankee go home” at play here. But even if Glazer were Norwegian and was previously known as a cross-country skiing mogul, Man U fans would be up in arms. And even after reading about this for months, I didn’t know Glazer was Jewish until you hinted at it here. Unless you have a source, why play the religion card?