Those of you who know me well know that I can barely stand baseball.  And that’s because down the road in Beautiful Downtown BumfuckingEgypt™ (hereinafter known as Arlington), we have a half-assed excuse-for-a-franchise known as the Texass stRangers – a motley crew of also-rans, has-beens, never-weres and never-gonna-bes, interspersed with the occasional superstar.
Anyway, the Dullest Moaning Snooze  maintains a blog about this Mickey-Mouse outfit, and I’ve become a regular participant thereupon.  The topic turned today towards owner Tom “Country Bumpkin” Hicks’ other  folly, FC Liverpool  – that’s right, a soccer club.  One for which he paid a handsome $250 extra-extra-extra-large, while pissing and moaning about how the bidding war for star free-agent pitcher Barry Zito was just too damned high.
So now, while the Damn Yankees™  were thoroughly embarrasing Our Anti-Heroes™ 10-1 tonight (on a two-hitter thrown mostly by a rookie pitcher, no less), here came someone named “Brad” running to Country Bumpkin’s rescue:
I simply don’t see the correlation between Hicks’ two investments. I continue to hear whiners complain about Hicks purchasing Liverpool. Considering its worth is more than my beloved Rangers, I have to say he has made a great deal. Somehow Cuban can run his HDTV business and the Mavs and get no criticism from Mavs fans. The truth is, soccer haters just want to voice an unintelligent opinion. I love the Rangers and I love soccer, nothing wrong with me or Tom Hicks having both interests.
Now, it’s not feasible to fisk on this blog (and besides, it likely wouldn’t get posted anyway), so I let the dumbass have it with both barrels in one shot: