Slyde, when you send your info to Erardi, are you ever tempted to just say that for the most part, the fans of the Cincinnati Reds are retarded?

I’m guessing he/she is 15 and that’s the birthday. :)

Happy belated birthday, baseballfan!

While I like that Tim Kaine (along with folks like Mark Warner) represent a shift towards the middle for Virginia, he hasn’t really done all that much in his time as governor. Part of that might be due to his inability to work with a Republican legislature, I don’t know that that really bodes well for his viability as a veep.

Kaine seems to be some kind of wonder child in the Democratic ranks, and I’ve never really been able to see why. They asked him to speak after the 2007 State of the Union address, I believe. I think the biggest thing he has going for him is that he’s a Democrat, and he won in a southern state. That’s misleading though. He didn’t win decisively, and any Virginian will go on at length about the differences between Northern Virginia and the rest of the commonwealth.

Northern Virginia essentially refers to the greater Washington, DC metro areas, principally Arlington County inside the Beltway, and Fairfax County, and possibly Loudoun County. These are suburbs and exurbs of Washington, DC, and they vote Democrat in big numbers. The rest of the state is much more conservative (illustrative example that I didn’t realize until I moved here: Lynchburg and Blacksburg are right next to each other. That’s Lynchburg and Blacksburg). So Arlington County, which is the smallest county in Virginia, but also the most populous, has a ridiculous amount of sway over the politics of the rest of the commonwealth. If Democrats can win that area decisively, they have a pretty good shot to carry the state as a whole, or at least make a race of it.

This area is also home to quite a few members of the military, though. That, coupled with the naval base in Newport News, is going to help John McCain a lot more than another candidate. Tim Kaine might help to counteract that a little, but he doesn’t have any kind of military record that might help, not like a Jim Webb. Kaine would have been the veep choice to excite me the most, but I’m a little underwhelmed by him too.

And I personally don’t mind, but we’ve got to think of the crolfers of the world. Think of the crolfers, Madville.

Ask Liz Phair.

I don’t think.

And nice attempt at changing the lingo, but everyone already Lycos’d it.

Dunn is worth about 2.8 wins over a replacement level player so far this season – he was worth about 3.6 wins last season. Griffey is worth about 0.5 wins over a replacement level compared to 2.6 WAR last season. Those numbers would be slightly lower when compared to average (Griffey would likely be negative), since replacement level is below average.