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Jeff Suppan of the St. Louis Cardinals will be making pitches of two different sorts Wednesday night - providing the rain lets up. Suppan is scheduled to start Game 4 of the World Series for the Cardinals and will also appear on a televison commercial urging Missouri voters to vote 'no' on Amendment 2, which would put into the state constitution protections for all forms of stem cell research that are legal under federal law.
The issue takes on added significance going into the Nov. 7 mid-term elections because Democratic Senate candidate Claire McCaskill supports embryonic stem cell research, while the loopy right opposes it by trotting out nightmare scenarios of low-income women being enticed into potentially-dangerous operations to harvest eggs - because, as everybody knows, the political right has always put concern for low-income people high on its priority list.
Uh-huh.
This is, of course, one of those things that seems pretty clear-cut in most forward-looking societies. But this isn't a forward-looking society - it's George W. Bush's U.S. So there will be Suppan, telling voters: "Amendment 2 claims it bands human cloning, but in the 2,000 words you don't read, it makes cloning a constitutional right. Don't be deceived."
Bible-thumping NFL quarterback Kurt Warner, formerly of the Rams, will also be part of the commercial. Scary stuff. Just in time for Hallowe'en.
(*)speaking of Hallowe'en, what did Marcus Thames ever do to become a ghost? After hitting 26 home runs during the regular season, Thames' right-handed bat has been largely forgotten this post-season. Tigers manager Jim Leyland said after Tuesday's 5-0 loss in Game 3 that he would go to bed mulling over lineup changes - Placido Polanco, Curtis Granderson and Pudge Rodriguez are 0-for-34 - but that's going to be a difficult task since there's still two more games to be played in the NL ballpark, which means the designated hitter is not in effect. It would be difficult to take Granderson's defence out of the equation and Polanco remains the brains of the Tigers attack. One possibility is dropping Granderson lower in the order (Polanco led off 12 times this season.) Vance Wilson is the Tigers backup catcher, but sitting down Rodriguez (6-for-12 lifetime against Game 4 starter Jeff Suppan) for Wilson would be a courageous move even by Leyland's standards.
(*)Bill Madden of the Daily News has a funny story about pitchers cheating involving an in-game telephone conversation between then-New York Yankees manager Lou Piniella and George Steinbrenner (http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/story/465014p-391288c.html)
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The issue takes on added significance going into the Nov. 7 mid-term elections because Democratic Senate candidate Claire McCaskill supports embryonic stem cell research, while the loopy right opposes it by trotting out nightmare scenarios of low-income women being enticed into potentially-dangerous operations to harvest eggs - because, as everybody knows, the political right has always put concern for low-income people high on its priority list.
Uh-huh.
This is, of course, one of those things that seems pretty clear-cut in most forward-looking societies. But this isn't a forward-looking society - it's George W. Bush's U.S. So there will be Suppan, telling voters: "Amendment 2 claims it bands human cloning, but in the 2,000 words you don't read, it makes cloning a constitutional right. Don't be deceived."
Bible-thumping NFL quarterback Kurt Warner, formerly of the Rams, will also be part of the commercial. Scary stuff. Just in time for Hallowe'en.
(*)speaking of Hallowe'en, what did Marcus Thames ever do to become a ghost? After hitting 26 home runs during the regular season, Thames' right-handed bat has been largely forgotten this post-season. Tigers manager Jim Leyland said after Tuesday's 5-0 loss in Game 3 that he would go to bed mulling over lineup changes - Placido Polanco, Curtis Granderson and Pudge Rodriguez are 0-for-34 - but that's going to be a difficult task since there's still two more games to be played in the NL ballpark, which means the designated hitter is not in effect. It would be difficult to take Granderson's defence out of the equation and Polanco remains the brains of the Tigers attack. One possibility is dropping Granderson lower in the order (Polanco led off 12 times this season.) Vance Wilson is the Tigers backup catcher, but sitting down Rodriguez (6-for-12 lifetime against Game 4 starter Jeff Suppan) for Wilson would be a courageous move even by Leyland's standards.
(*)Bill Madden of the Daily News has a funny story about pitchers cheating involving an in-game telephone conversation between then-New York Yankees manager Lou Piniella and George Steinbrenner (http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/story/465014p-391288c.html)
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