Ironically...

Ironically, Leona Helmsley's dog is now worth more than Michael Vick.

Ironically, Senator Larry Craig's public statements and the police transcript do not match up. It is notable, however, that perhaps Senator Craig's voting record is not completely hypocritical. He is opposed to gay marriage but has never made a speech or voted on random gay sexual encounters in public rest rooms.

Ironically, Miss South Carolina is more famous than whoever it is who won that beauty pageant.

And not in the realm of ironic, but in the realm of ranting. The New York Mets were 6 games ahead of the Philadelphia Phillies. They had a four game series. If the Mets swept them, and it is very difficult to sweep a four game series from a good team, they would pretty much have assured that they would clinch the division. If the Mets split with them, all remained the same with a month left....no big deal. If the Mets lost 3 out of 4 they would only have lost 2 games. Bad, but not awful. If they got swept, they'd be in trouble as they would have given, as a wrapped gift, a path for the Phillies to clinch the division.

And the Mets got swept. Now they go to Atlanta and they have only one a third of their games against the Braves. Smoltz will pitch against Glavine, so the Braves will win on Sunday. On Saturday the Mets have Mike Pelfrey pitching and he is 0-7. And they have a bullpen leakier than the Titanic.

All this and the Yankees swept the Red Sox.

Ugh.