Even in the middle of the Major League Baseball season, Ian Beaumont looks forward to the return of American Football, but in this episode of Viewpoint, Ian talks about an American Football league - with a very sexy difference.
For more on the Lingerie Football League, have a look at their official website here.
A transgendered mayor in an Oregon town is embroiled in controversy, but as Ian Beaumont reports, it's really all a storm in a C-cup!
The match: Tampa Bay Rays at Chicago White Sox.
The pitcher for the Sox: Mark Buehrle.
The Perfect Game: 27 Batters, 27 Outs, 0 Hits, 0 Walks, 0 Errors.
Sit back, relax and enjoy a moment of pure perfection. All 27 outs, including extended highlights of the 25th out, the first in the 9th inning, which unquestionably saved the perfect game.
The coverage is from Comcast Sportsnet Chicago. Your commentators are Ken Harrelson, Steve Stone & Bill Melton.
The final box score looked like this…
| FINAL | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Extra | Runs | Hits | Errors |
| Chicago White Sox | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tampa Bay Rays | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | X | 5 | 6 | 0 |
Buehrle struck out 6 batters during his perfect game. There have only been 18 perfect games in the history of Major League Baseball. The previous one was pitched by Randy Johnson for the Arizona Diamondbacks back in 2004. Congratulations to Mark Buehrle. You’re in a very exclusive club now.
I didn’t know the state was officially called “Rhode Island and Providence Plantations”!
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I do like Katie’s notebook pieces. These short 1 minute pieces have slowly become the template for my Viewpoint pieces in terms of length and commentary style, with some of my own touches added. I could never talk for just a minute about anything, but it does help to have a prompter that has a 2500 character limit on it. Helps me keep my writing concise.
Finally, at the 6th attempt, the space shuttle Endeavour has blasted off from the Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral in Florida.
The shuttle is taking Canadian astronaut Julie Payette to meet up with fellow Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk, who is at the International Space Station.
NASA TV continues to have full coverage of the mission.
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A Cornish MP has proposed the creation of a new Cornish Assembly in a bill to be put before the UK Parliament, but as Ian Beaumont reveals in this edition of Viewpoint, the idea of a Cornish assembly usually gets a cold reception.
In the wake of a teenager dying after falling off a cliff in Newquay, harsh words are being used all over the story, and Ian Beaumont tries to cut through the emotion and get to the facts.
The video you see below is Republican Congressman Peter King on New York, and he’s talking about the way the media has treated the Michael Jackson story. Now, I can agree with almost every word he says, but there just a few I can’t agree with. Look at the video and can you guess which ones I can’t agree with?
So, any guesses?
The words are “low-life”, “pervert”, “child molester”, “paedophile”.
Michael Jackson was NEVER convicted of child molestation or paedophilia. Now, if Peter King had used words such as “celebrity”, “singer” or “superstar”, then I could have agreed with him 100%. Being the TruthSeeker isn’t something I am for show, it is something that pervades every ounce of my being. Factual accuracy has to be at 100%, 100% of the time. It may well be that Peter King believes Jackson was guilty, like many others believe OJ Simpson was guilty of murder, but like OJ, he wasn’t convicted, so he should have tempered his opinions with words like “I think”, “I believe”, “in my opinion”, you get the picture. But no, Peter King used those words as though they were fact, recorded history, truth, undeniable. So, Peter King gets +50% on the TruthSeekerMeter, which rates a “partially true”
And the bee keeper has come in and done his job, and we’re now back into the ball game.
I’m watching this unfold on ESPN America, with coverage being provided by Fox Sports Houston.
A swarm of bees has descended on a chair just by the left field line, during the top of the 9th Inning. Houston Astros were leading the San Diego Padres by 6 to 1 with 2 outs down in the top of the 9th, when the left fielder comes in and alerts the umpires to the situation. A swarm of bees has taken up temporary residence under a jacket that had been worn by one of the ball girls.
I’m told that swarms have stopped other sporting events, but I have to say, this is the first time I have seen this happen. It’s fascinating coverage right now, and they’re saying that they expect play to resume in the next 15 to 30 minutes.
