HOW COULD YOU NOT LOVE THIS YEAR’S PENNANT RACE?

Have you noticed what is going on in the wild card?

(at least) 15 teams can have visions of the playoffs

In the AL, the Yanks (boo!), A’s, and the Indians are tied for the Wild Card lead, with the Twins only 3 and a half back.

In the NL, the Phillies have a game and a half lead on the Astros, the Marlins and the Mets, with the Nats just another game out. 

I noticed this item a couple of days ago.  Saddam Hussein fired his whole legal staff.  I can just imagine his conversation with them:

“You guys suck.  I want Johnny Cochran”

“Mr. Hussein, Johnny Cochran is dead”

“Really?  Hmm…did I kill him?”

Johnny Cochran would of course be the only one that could get Saddam off. 

Only “The Wookie Defense” could save him. 

Don’t know what I’m talking about? 

“The Wookie Defense” is what Cochran infamously used in the OJ trial. 

It would’ve gone something like this:

Cochran rises and approaches the jury

 Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, the Special Prosecutor would certainly want you to believe that Saddam Hussein butchered and murdered tens of thousands of people. And they make a good case. Hell, I almost felt pity myself. But ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one, final, thing I want you to consider. [walks to a display stand and pulls down a screen] Ladies and gentleman, this is Chew-bacca. [true] Chewbacca is a Wookie from the planet Kashyyyk, but Chewbacca LIVES on the planet Endor. Now think about that. That does NOT MAKE SENSE.

Why would a Wookie, an eight-foot tall Wookie, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does NOT MAKE SENSE! [the jury listens] But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. [The Special Prosecutor buries his head in his hand, shaking his haed at the disaster his case is being turned into] Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does NOT MAKE SENSE! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a former dictator of a major nation, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, [apporaches and softens] does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does NOT MAKE SENSE! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests. [walks back to his table]

And finally…I read this one regarding Hussein:

Saddam's family scrapped the international team of attorneys claiming to represent him and will pick a new set of heavyweight lawyers to defend him against war crimes charges, his family's lawyer, Abdel Haq Alani, said this month.

Ok so, where DO you find really fat lawyers?