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Hornswaggle is an alternate spelling of hornswoggle, an archaic word that means to bamboozle or hoodwink. I take my pronunciation from the late Harvey Korman in "Blazing Saddles" -- "I want rustlers, cutthroats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, conmen, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswagglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass kickers, shit kickers and Methodists!" |
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Monday, October 18, 2010Eight kinds of wrongThe nonstop Cliff Lee hype + Vegas making Texas slight favs vs Pettitte in NY has me convinced: Game 3 will be a Yankee romp. Lock it down. Lee wound up taking a 2-0 lead into the ninth inning, at which point the Rangers broke it open, batting around in the last inning and sending Yankees fans to the exits. Final score: Rangers 8 - Yankees 0. Not sure what prompted Simmons to think Cliff Lee was overhyped. He came into the game with a 6-0 lifetime postseason record and an ERA of 1.44. Now it's 7-0 and an even-lower ERA. Simmons ends by apologizing to Yankees fans, apparently for jinxing their team. He should have apologized to regular readers like myself who are left to wonder how someone who follows baseball as closely as he does could be so clueless. UPDATE: He's still at it today with the pro-Yankees stuff. Looks like this is just an elaborate reverse jinx on Yankees. My irony detector was out of whack. .: posted by hornswaggler 9:12 PM| |
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