Hizzonah

I was stuck in some merciless traffic on the BQEzzo this afternoon, and so I turned on Mike and the Dog just in time to hear Mike welcome Giuliani to the show to talk about the ARod crisis. (Dog is out of town).

Now normally, I must say, the idea of listening to Fransesca and Giuliani suck each other's dicks on the radio for a quarter of an hour would make me sick, particularly when the process also involved the Mayor giving ARod a long-distance reacharound.

Today, however, the whole thing hit me a little differently. Giuliani impressed me. Say what you will about Rudy, but the guy is no fucking fraud as a Yankees fan. Mike gave him a little love on the Mayor for President front at first, but after that it was strictly baseball. Rudy more than held his own. He took the politic position on ARod's struggles of course - go easy on the guy, booing doesn't help, we're all on the same team, etc. But then, he starts whipping out shit like, "hey look, Matsui and Sheffield are out of the lineup - that's a couple hundred RBI's missing behind ARod," and then "hey remember Jeter a couple years ago, opened the season in a funk? guy was hitting like .160 in June..." and then, "people always say he didn't hit in that Red Sox series... look at games 4 through 7... NOBODY hit in that series but Matsui."

And I'm like - damn. If he decides not to run for President, he should take Michael Kay's job. I mean, maybe someone was feeding him that shit, or maybe he hit the books before the interview, but I doubt it. Giuliani can go fuck himself for all I care about his politics, but I have to give the devil his due. He's proven himself more worthy of that Yankees cap he wears than just about any politician in my lifetime.