But he did it with a baseball bat, so it’s totally a sports story now. What I love about this video is that dude just gets himself warmed up and then just stops. He has great power for a lefty; I’d say that he’s been juicing, but he’s not showing any other symptoms of steroid use.

Westley Strellis has been hit himself – with 29 counts of criminal damage to property in nthe second degree.

Witnesses tell police he grabbed a metal baseball bat from the sporting goods section yesterday, walked a couple of aisles over to the electronics area – and started whaling on the displays.

Police say the TV sets are valued at over $22,000. –NBC2 Ft. Myers.

Georgia is sort of no-man’s-land in terms of Walmart. People on the east coast generally loathe Walmart, and people in the midwest generally like them. But stop in think, this guy would have had to visit two different stores to do this anyplace else. It’s time we starting appreciating these retail superpowers a bit more, or at least until somebody starts shooting up the discount clothing section with a Remington shotgun after being turned down for cough medicine at the pharmacy. Thanks, Ape. Vid via AP.

Venezuelan soccer fans are using the Copa America to express political opposition to President Hugo Chavez:

The chants – which included "This government is going to fall!" – began shortly into the second half of Thursday's match between the U.S. and Argentina in the western city of Maracaibo, a stronghold of opposition to Chavez. Chavez opponents are hoping the arrival of thousands of tourists for the South American championship will draw attention to their protests against the president's refusal to renew the license of a popular opposition-aligned television channel.

TV can create some strong opinions.  I recall the violent tirades of my father after the White Sox signed with SportsVision (a regional cable outlet) in the early '80s — his 25% Dutch ancestry prevented him from paying for cable television. To soothe him, my mother would ply him with whiskey, and my siblings and I would re-enact the events of the game based on the radio descriptions.  It took us a few seasons to ascertain what amount of liquor coupled with the hapless play of the Pale Hose would appease him, so we slightly altered the results of the some contests as we saw fit.  Consequently, my father went to the Great Beyond believing the Sox were undefeated in 1987.

Bravo to the anti-Chavez protesters, but remember that the squeaky wheel gets the grease.  And by "grease", I mean a "hail of state-sponsored gunfire". -KD