Sox Drop Series

The Sox lost a series to a central division foe for the first time this season when Detroit defeated them 8-6 on Wednesday afternoon. With the Sox down 4-3, Freddy Garcia was sent out to pitch the ninth inning with his pitch count around 105. He led off the inning allowing a solo home run and a single before exiting. Politte and Cotts came on in relief and were not able to stop the bleeding. Detroit was able to put 4 insurance runs on the board in the 9th inning to seal the Sox fate.

Tomorrow the BoSox come to town and will be sending Ex-Scrub Matt Clement (10-3 4.21) to the mound to face Mark Buehrle (11-3 2.58).

Off the subject of Sox baseball....
President Bush recently nominated John Roberts, a white conservative lawyer who has served his only 2 years as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, to the Supreme Court. It should come as no surprise to anyone who pays attention to the politics of this administration, but I can't help but go to off on a rant. Robert's will be taking the seat of the retiring Sandra Day O'Connor, who is regarded as the voice of reason on the Court and whose vote is often the swing vote on the politically split court. Robert's appointment, coupled with Bush likely be making another appointment to the Court in the near future with the looming retirement of the ailing William Rehnquist, will swing the Court in highly in favor of the Bush-type right-wingers. Hopefully Roberts follows the precedent of the past few Republican appointee's, O'Connor among them, and strays more torward the center than the right. I fear that will not happen. I'm not saying I'd feel better with a liberal majority, I'm saying I'd feel more comfortable with a balance. (Not that we aren't screwed either way) Appointments made to the Supreme Court are lifetime appointments, and any made by Bush will be effecting the country for decades to come. This is a perfect example of why I did not vote for Bush in the first Presidential election I was eligible to vote in. In fact, I didn't vote for Kerry either, I voted for an independent. Some might say I wasted my vote. I say at least I didn't contribute to the problem.

Thomas Jefferson, one of the founding father's of this country and a lawyer himself, among many other things, said that we should never allow this country to be run by lawyers. Today, the Congress and Senate are filled with them. They pass laws that are only of aid to their political contributors or their own business interests and ignore the average citizen's who are stuck up a creek without a paddle because of them. The recent Supreme Court ruling regarding eminent domain is a great example. Sandra Day O'Connor (the voice of reason) filed a dissent regarding the ruling, saying that in her opinion it seemed like another instance of the beginning of the government over-exercising their power and manipulating the law.