Baseball Musings muses on whether Boston fans hate Terry Francona. I don't, and no one I know does. Frankly, he's not Grady Little which makes him OK in my book.

First in a series of albums I bought on the strength of one song. In this case, the song was "Think I Wanna Die," which is two minutes and forty-five seconds of awesome. The rest of the album doesn't disappoint, if you like pop goodness (and who doesn't?).

"Kaetsu was concerned it would have a negative effect on nonprofit groups and school organizations that regularly use plastic bags."

"The Governor of the Red Sea in Egypt has recently decreed that the Red Sea will be the first plastic bag free Governorate with effect from 1st January 2009."

This 10,200 word profile on Arianna Huffington is pretty fluffy and I skimmed almost the entire thing.

Look, things happen. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, and assume that there was nothing they could have done to prevent the outage. What I find inexcusable is that it took them 10-15 minutes to even put a message on TBS explaining that they were experiencing technical difficulties. We're all scrambling around trying to figure out why we're seeing a sitcom instead of the first inning of ALCS game 6.

I have to believe the best commentary on the situation came from Tom Caron on NESN on the post-game show: "For those of you who missed the end of the Steve Harvey show... the family all learned a valuable lesson."

Anyway, TBS's coverage sucks, but it turns out: it's better than nothing.

One strong voice that's been notably absent over the last several years is Terry Tate, office linebacker. So it is a pleasure to see him get back into the swing of things with such a compelling message during the election season.

"In one year, Candace Parker was a junior at the University of Tennessee and won a national championship, graduated from college, won a gold medal on the basketball team at Beijing, was the number one draft pick in the WNBA, won Rookie of the Year, and now is being named the league MVP."

Obviously the shark deserved it.

Apparently, giant catfish, or goonches, in India are eating teenagers. Mediafishermanwriter personality Jeremy Wade claims the presence of his quotations innews stories about the maneating catfish prove the stories, which is some sort of catfish fulfilling prophesy.

Via The Fear Beneath, which features a sensible comment on their post about the crazy catfish. From the comments of this link, "I’ve heard of catfish biting people, so if they were feeding dead people to them the best thing to do is not swim in that river". I mean, right? This is an entire blog about sharks and sharks attacks, people, AN ENTIRE BLOG! If there's not a law against shark blogs, there should be. Also on The Fear Beneath, thoughts on what would happen if Great Whites began replicating what some sharks in captivity have shown recently: virgin birth.