What goes around comes around.........

Imagine seven years ago...........

Right after George Bush's win without winning and his appointed election by the Supreme Court.

Imagine six years ago.................
Right after the horror that was September 11th.

Did anyone think that by 2007 that George Bush could arguably be ranked as the worst president of all time?
Or at the bare minimum,a top 5 lock?
And that his opponent,the man that was jobbed out of the election would be a Nobel Peace Prize winner and thought of as a man almost above politics?

Sometimes the old saying "what goes around comes around" actually is true and for George Bush it truly has done so.
When you "win" things that you don't deserve,your own incompetence gets you in the end.
Like in sports when the hot team wins game after game that they shouldn't,inevitably the tank runs dry and the pendulum swings to the natural balance of things.

In this case,Bush got the job and the tainted victory,but in the end what did he really win?
Reviled around the world,disliked by his countrymen and doomed to be studied and remembered by historians as a president controlled by oil interests and his domineering Vice President.

Meantime the vanquished Al Gore will be remembered as an excellent Vice President,the winner of the popular vote in the scandal filled 2000 election and instead of crawling into a bunker,working on publicizing an important (and possibly the most important) issue to the attention of the general public.
Then adding an Oscar for his work on an Inconvenient Truth and then the Nobel Peace Prize.....

As we look back,who really got the better deal?

And George Bush and his cronies can shake their head in dismay because what goes around really did come around........

Bullpen Notes

Looks like the Washington Nationals and/or MASN either received lots of support or realized they made a mistake,but the network has offered Bob Carpenter an extension on his contract after initially telling him that he would be not offered a new deal.
Reportedly,Carpenter is considering the offer.
Let's hope he takes it as this whole thing was a dumb move by MASN to begin with to break ties with the skilled Carpenter.

More news on the Arena Football league coming to Cleveland.
The team is taking a fan vote to decide to keep the name of the Las Vegas team (Gladiators) or select a new one.
Bernie Kosar will be serving as the franchise President and CEO.
A link to the team page is here.

A note on Arena Football.
I have tried on a few occasions to try to "get into" the AFL and nothing seems to work.
I thought maybe a Columbus team with lots of Buckeyes might work,but it really didnt and I am sure I might give the Cleveland team a try,but I am dubious of this as well.
Just not sure that it will ever be something that I become a fan of.

Finally-prior to last night's Devils win over Pittsburgh,winger Nicklas Bergfors was demoted to Lowell.
Likely a good thing as other than the opener vs Tampa,Bergfors was scratched every game since.
Why keep the guy up,if you are just scratching him?
Playing at Lowell is much better for his development.....