Ah, sweet justice! Bill Buckner is apparently in *Iraq*!!

[KamaAina]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050802/ap_on_re_us/guardsman_blog_3

PHOENIX - An Arizona National Guardsman serving in Iraq has been demoted for posting classified information on his Internet Web log, an Army official said Monday.

Leonard Clark, 40, was demoted from specialist to private first class and fined $1,640, said Col. Bill Buckner, a spokesman for the Multi-National Corps-Iraq.

Good call making him a spokesman, too: can't very well have him out on the front lines handling hand grenades, can we? :evilgrin:

Edit: If it isn't him :-) , don't you think he'd call himself "William" Buckner or something?

[flakey_foont]

1. it would just go through his legs

[miss_kitty]

2. Required reading for you

Jim Bowie's Letter & Bill Buckner's Legs, Stephen Jay Gould

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_4_109/ai_62324474

:P

[KamaAina]

5. But see, Gould couldn't have titled that "Jim Bowie's Letter and

Calvin Schiraldi's Ragarm", now could he? :-)

That may have actually solved one of the enduring mysteries of last year's short but sweet Series: no, not what became of the Cards' lineup, but why the Busch scoreboard flashed "Thanks Cards for a great 2004 season" during the climactic Game 4. I had forgotten (blocked out?) the "Congratulations Red Sox" at Shea; perhaps the Cards wsre attempting a last-ditch hex on the Sox?

[wysi]

3. after the Sox won it all last fall...

... I was finally able to find it in my heart to forgive poor old Bill Buckner.

[alarcojon]

4. They're not the same

Here's Lt. Col. Bill Buckner (on the left) in 2004 - Probably a Colonel by now:



and here's old ball through the legs Bill Buckner in his playing days: