Like Bull Durham, dispute with Robbins, Sarandon is a classic.

Byline: Dan Le Batard

MIAMI _ You know we've reached an absurd place in our country's history when Nuke LaLoosh, one of the funniest characters in the history of sports movies, evidently is threatening our national security. Nuke on Thursday became the goofiest figure to stick his beak amid Iraq's bullets and bombs, somehow supplanting Geraldo.

The wonderful actor who played Nuke in Bull Durham, Tim Robbins, has been loudly anti-war. So has his longtime girlfriend, Susan Sarandon, who played baseball vixen Annie in the movie. This is not good in today's volatile climate, as even the Dixie Chicks have learned, because if you are anti-war, you must also be anti-American and by extension anti-baseball _ and you probably don't believe in "long, slow, deep, wet kisses that last three days," either. You probably…