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And You Thought Flip-Flopping Was A Bad Thing

October 31st, 2008 by Oskar Kennedy

Daily News Columnist Dan Cirucci, in his 10/22 piece titled “Just Call It BaseBORE“:

Baseball is an insufferably boring pastime. Except for the pitcher, catcher and hitter, all the players simply stand around waiting for something to happen. Huge amounts of time drift by aimlessly.

Blogger Dan Cirucci, on 10/29, stopped regurgitating whole articles from conservative pundits long enough to say this:

The last time this happened was 1980 and this time is every bit as exuberant if not more so – every bit as joyous and uproarious. It’s exultant; overwhelming.

Actually, you can get in on the confusion if you just read the print column, which starts as follows:

For the first time in 15 years the Phillies are in the World Series. It’s great. It’s well-deserved. It’s thrilling.

What? Is it somehow thrilling that the Phillies get to play for the championship of an insufferably boring game? How can a game be insufferably boring and thrilling at the same time? Have we been warped into some dimension where those terms aren’t antonyms?

Once suspects that Mr. Cirucci is trying to simultaneously play the cranky iconoclast and the everyman populist. He’s writing the cheering Phillies fans a love note, while standing in the corner grousing about the game with the folks who aren’t impressed by the hype. He’s pandering to the fans, while acting like the only guy in a baseball-mad city who’s crazy enough to say bad things about the game.

No wonder Cirucci supports John McCain.

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