Despite the massive BP oil spill that’s terrorizing our nation’s gulf coast and killing off all of our nation’s pretty little birds and fishies, Cubs manager Lou Piniella has no plans of canceling his attempts at mining our nation’s freshly barren sea. My advice? Bring a huge net.
Piniella, and his coaches and the training staff have a fishing excursion planned for Thursday’s day off-day in Houston. “We’re going out on the Gulf of Mexico, about 30, 40 miles,” Piniella said. –Chicago Tribune
Many of our nation’s smartest masterminds have attempted to figure out a solution for the deadly leak, including director James Cameron, which really doesn’t make sense to me. Just because he directed a movie about a big sinking boat that killed thousands of people doesn’t automatically make him an expert on disasters. Now if he were the captain of the Titanic? Well that’s a different story.
Anyway, Piniella has one of the best tempers in modern history. All else has failed, why not let him try and yell the leak into submission? Seems to be better than BP’s plan.


Great, Cameron can film the damn thing. Unless he’s going to shove his smug ass into the leak, I don’t see how his dubious ‘expertise’ can help a damn thing.
Lou is also not scared of losing to the Pirates as he has so expertly done all season long.
The Texas waters are not polluted and the spill is hundreds of miles away. Considering how the Gulf flows (not sea or ocean as our kind leaders refer to it), Texas is considered up stream from the spill. When a hurricane hits the Gulf, everything and everyone is fucked, so let us enjoy some fishing while we still have it.
Cameron also did some deep-sea documentaries after Titanic, and designed some sophisticated unmanned underwater cameras.