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According to that page, there wasn't a card on my actual birthday ... although, the day after they had a show right here in Boston. The only match listed, though, is /hopes the future "Boogie-Woogie Man" came and visited me in the hospital

Is this the same documentary that was on HBO a few years ago? If so, it was pretty entertaining. If not, then I've got nothing.

I'm thinking that the Hurley/Jin interaction scenes are building towards something else later in the show ... or, if absolutely nothing else, are a good way to flesh out their characters. Plus, each episode can't be wham~bang~actionactionaction ... you need to build up before things can really go down.

This thread fucking cracks me up. "Avril dosen't write her own songs! She's teh suck" (Barron produces a list of songs that she either wrote alone or co-wrote.) "Avril can't play shit-all on an instrument! She's not a musician." (Barron rattles off 3 different instruments that she can play, including offering eyes-on proof that she can.) "But she sucks at them! She's not good enough to count as a musician" While I'm not nearly the fan of Avril that others (Barron) are, I certainly don't mind her ... and I can actually take a certain pleasure in the fact that she's going to be wicked rich while all the message-board-haters are just getting more and more jealous about it. And, to go back to the original subject, who considers Lavigne or Stefani 'alternative' in the first place?!?

... but without the 'playa' way of wording it. What teams do you just inherently root against, and why?

And "revving up the waterski tow-line" doesn't have the same ring, does it?

Ali G is not funny to me. In the slightest. I went to a bachelor party, and while we were waiting for the rest of the attendees to show up at the best man's house he popped in the dvd for that TV show ... I couldn't imagine a less humorous DVD to use to pass the time.

Was it really Summerall, or just old sound bytes from the early Madden video games? I swear, the guy sounded so robotic it was almost laughable. And I disagree that Fox hates the Vikings ... I will agree that they might like the Packers more (as in, "like Favre more") but other than the juvenile antics of Moss it seems that the Fox guys give a lot of love to the Vikings, especially Culpepper & *Moss. *unless he's acting like an asshat.

Football fans here are pretty passionate, and definitely get into the Pats. But, even though it sickens me, this area will always be "Red Sox Nation" and no matter how dominant any other team becomes, the Sox will always be first, by a longshot, in the Boston/New England area.

starvenger, you're normally pretty on-point as a poster ... so why risk ruining it with a 'jumped the shark' reference?!? 2001 called, they want their buzzword back.

I don't want my football announcers to be funny. I want them to announce the football game. And the three jerkoffs that do the ESPN Sunday night games spend way too much time trying to be funny and way too little time announcing the football game.

My favorite part of the Dr Z link is him giving the worst ranking to the horrid, putrid ESPN crew. It's great to see someone who I respect as a football writer/analyst agree with me.

Dr Z (of Sports Illustrated) gave rankings for all the announce pairings ... not a bad read: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writ...cers/index.html /probably could have gotten it's own thread, but it just made such sense to include it in this one

Canadian announcers always refer to it as Hockeytown, USA, which can be justified in my opinion. But I agree with you, Montreal is the real Hockeytown, and this is coming from a Red Wings fan. Toronto has a better claim of being 'Hockeytown" than Montreal, regardless of how many more Cups the Habs have won.

I'd rather watch Carmella fight Kristin Hine at WrestleMania than HHH/Orton OR HHH/Batista. Or, maybe she was trying to look professional & civilized rather than look like a wanna-be 'diva' and thus had her hair and make-up done differently.

No. See, that's one of the problems with the WWE ... New Jack would be there (presumably) at the invitation of the company. But an employee of said company would try to beat the crap out of him for showing up? Talk about the inmates running the asylum.

Yes, but that was actually good insight. He just meant as long as you are putting points on the board, sometimes a field goal is just as good as the touchdown. All the time? No, then you just can't make the drives count as much as they should. Well, wouldn't it still make more sense to say a field goal is ALMOST as good as a touchdown, rather than as good? I understand that it's good to put points on the board, but unless you're losing by 2 with seconds to play or the game is in overtime, it's always better to put 7 on the board than 3.

The same reason that heels used to beat up jobbers back when squash matches were the norm ... it gives fans too ignorant to know who to cheer or boo a hint over how much they should hate a guy. And, re: the Sunny thing, I didn't interpret it that she got stripped buck-naked, but instead maybe got her skirt or shirt pulled off, but still was primarily covered. So, some partial nudity wouldn't have been unheard of and would have given the fans a cheap thrill (w00t) And, hell, Elizabeth took off her skirt in the 1980's, and that was way before the attitude era ... and Missy Hyatt & Sunshine had a mud-wrestling match in like 1986/1987. It wasn't unheard of pre-Attitude.

If the nobody you refer to is Candido, then I can only guess that a post-match beatdown would give the fans a reason to boo Doink more passionately. If the nobody you refer to is Sunny, regardless of how famous she is, T 'n A always gets a cheap pop.

The Pats - as a team - get respect. Their players - for the most part - do not. If this is me being a 'homer', so be it. But it's really the way that I feel. I'm eating my words ... Boomer Esiason all but washed Brady's balls on Sportscenter last night. So, at least some of the Pats get the ~love~ that 2 time SB champs deserve. As long as you still root for that team after the glory years have passed, you're a true fan. If you conveniently change allegiances when the team starts to fall apart, then you're not. "It takes neither courage nor intelligence to cheer for a team only when that team wins. The true test of a fan's mettle is the same as it is for a player: Were you there when you were needed?" - Ian Wilson

Ridiculously fawning praise for everyone on the field, bordering on verbal fellatio in many cases, particularly for Mike "Barry Sanders" Vick. Their non-stop fellatio doesn't bother me as much as their inability to actually add anything while calling a game. They're supposed to give INSIGHT into what's going on, not just remind a viewer to watch. For example, say they're showing a replay of a big sack. Instead of showing who missed their block or pin-pointing why the DE got through so quickly, McGuire will just say "Look at this play". Dickhead, I'm already watching the game, and thus will be watching the play regardless if you tell me to or not. Madden, for all his stupid comments, at least still breaks down plays. Of course, having said that, wasn't it Madden that said that a field goal was every bit as good as a touchdown sometimes?

It cracks me up that you all know these commercials by heart ... there's nothing in the world that makes me grab my remote faster than a commercial like this one. I sat through it once, realized that I had no interest in the show, and have made a point to flip around each time the commercial starts.

I really wasn't loving this episode ... it seemed like it was more a 'build' episode than anything, like they were just laying the groundwork for things in the future more than actually giving us things now ... it that makes sense. My random thoughts: ... I'm stoked that Shannon's not dead. She's definitely nice on the eyes, and is a good antagonist character. ... I'm not stoked that they had a whole hallucination sequence at the end like that; it was just too out of left field compared to what LOST normally brings to the table. ... regardless of the fact that they're not blood-siblings, hooking up with your sister is revolting, even if she's as hot as Shannon. ... my first thought when Sayid said that Locke had given him a fucked up compass: that he knew that Locke wasn't this picture-perfect outdoorsman that he claims to be. ... funniest moment of the episode: Hurley pulling out the, "your wife is hot" to see if Jin speaks English or not. (yes, even funnier than "pee on it") nl5's rating: B+

Wait ... I don't have a step-sister, who am I supposed to date?

They should have some wacky-combination of wrestlers, that either out-and-out hate each other or just aren't getting along, win the belts. Like Orton & HHH, or Edge & HBK. /misses Russo //doesn't really