I've been reading Austin Bay for a while now. Owning every edition of Jim Dunnigan's How to Make War (yes, I was in middle school when I bought the first edition) I have always kept an eye on Mr. Dunnigan's writings. He cowrote the wonderful A Quick and Dirty Guide to War with Austin Bay. As this was written in 1991, I've been aware of Mr. Bay for a while.
His reporting from Iraq and subsequent analysis has been magnificent. Since his return to the States, his analysis and commentary on matters miliitary, geopolitics and global strategy have been a wonderful daily resource.
Much to my confusion yesterday, I saw a brief cryptic post on Instapundit: AUSTIN BAY IS BEHIND BIGGIO: I heard him getting grief for that on Hugh Hewitt.
Intrigued as I only know one Biggio (Mad Oilman lives in the energy capital of the world) and baffled as to why Hugh Hewitt would question this position, I clicked through to this:
Have to disagree with Hugh (and I'll give him his due. Not hearing the show but knowing what a Clevland homer he is in all sports, he must have been protesting in favor of Alomar. That's reasonable).
Have to agree with Mr. Bay. Biggio deserves to be in. (Amd yes, I'm an Astros homer.) The comments on his post are excellent concerning Biggio's chances. The way he's hitting this year (albeit, it's early) he is going to have a monster season.
I can't see a more fitting representative for the Astro's first Hall of Famer. Well, Jimmy Winn, the Toy Cannon, he would be appropriate too.
