Beaneball

If you watch sports on TV as much as I do, you've seen the Miller Lite ad starring the Trans-Siberian Orchestra already. To my delight, I discovered that the tremendous song is featured in a full-length video in which it is synchronized to the Christmas lights of a house.

Posted by Jason Wojciechowski in Music at 19:47 | |

See here. Also, yet another player for whom the drugs didn't work: 223/269/409 as a 23-year-old in A-ball. (I guess that isolated power is pretty good.)

Posted by Jason Wojciechowski in Baseball at 19:34 | |

Keyshawn Johnson just beat me to it, but is there any reason why, if Mike Vick comes back, he shouldn't come back as a running back, wide receiver, cornerback, or even linebacker? (He'd obviously have to bulk up in prison to do the latter.) Defense might be wasting his ridiculous moves, and to a certain extent the same could be said about wide receiver. But running back? Particularly as a running back who could throw the ball at any moment? Why not?

Posted by Jason Wojciechowski in Football at 19:09 | |

On the SCOTUSblog this morning came the news that the Supreme Court isn't 100% evil after all (as John McEnroe might say). Instead, they've decided that judges are permitted to give below-Guidelines sentences to those sentenced for crack-related crimes, and are permitted to take into account the large disparity between crack sentences and powder cocaine sentences when deciding the sentence. The Fourth Circuit had held that "a sentence 'outside the guidelines range is per se unreasonable when it is based on a disagreement with the sentencing disparity for crack and powder cocaine offenses.'" At the same time that I'm glad, substantively, about this decision, I can't help but agree with Justice Thomas that this whole sentencing thing, post-Booker, is turning into a quagmire to rival some of the Brennan-Court criminal procedure issues a generation ago.

Posted by Jason Wojciechowski in Law at 14:16 | |