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My boycott lasted all of zero games ... I went to the B's-Devils game last night. I thought that my boys looked pretty good, although I don't like the idea of dropping Knuble to the 2nd line just to put Samsonov back on the first. Joe-Muzz-Knuble was a better line than Joe-Muzz-Sammy, in my opinion, and I think that Samsonov fits in better with Ralston-Axelson on the second line. The sweaters is going to take some getting used to. Hopefully it means that I'll never have to be at the Fleet while the B's are wearing those fucking AWFUL 3rd jerseys, because otherwise there's nothing good about the change. As much as it pains me to say it, both TO and Ottawa will finish above Boston this year ... but Ottawa is the only one with a legit chance of winning the Cup. Both the Leafs and the Bruins have too many holes to be considered contenders.

The moment you are at the plate and touch the ball in a game, it is not "we". It is "they". -=Mike If it's touching the plate, shouldn't people like Byrnes not be allowed to say "we" then? Because if he had, this whole riot debate wouldn't of ever happened. UNLESS YOU'RE PLAYING, IT IS NOT "WE". -=Mike ...Not exactly rocket science here I was just busting balls with the Byrnes comment. I can discern between who's a player and who's a fan. It was just too easy of a comment to resist. I actually agree with the whole "we" thing when it comes to sports. A few months ago I had a pretty heated debate with someone on this board (ghettoman, maybe? definitely a Yankees fan) because they were talking about "their World Championships" which I thought was a farce. Hell, I even agree that the rioting was a dumbass idea. I don't even like it when people riot for World Championships, let alone winning a 1st round of a playoffs. Still, though, it's hard not to think that you're busting such balls about the 'riot' or about the usage of "we" because you're pissed that your team lost.

Thanks for the nomination, Jango ... I really couldn't have done it without Mike. It's like volleyball, he gave me a perfect bump for me to spike down. There is no "I" in team.

The moment you are at the plate and touch the ball in a game, it is not "we". It is "they". -=Mike If it's touching the plate, shouldn't people like Byrnes not be allowed to say "we" then? Because if he had, this whole riot debate wouldn't of ever happened.

Driving home from the bar one night, absolutely hammered. One of my buddies asked me to drive on the island (the grassy area between the East-bound traffic and the West-bound traffic) So at the next break in the island I drove on, without slowing down at all. Getting on wasn't a problem, but the big ass crevice that I had to drive through to get off was. Big whole + sharp curb + 45 mph = popped tire and destroyed rim. Obviously can't drive on it, but obviously can't be found with the car either. So, parked the car and started walking home. (Ended up getting a ride from the cute neighbor, but that's a different story) End result was having to go to the junkyard in town to find a rim that would fit onto my jeep.

I PM'ed Rant about joining and got no response. If you start a league, count me in. Unless you do a Live Draft ... I can't spend that much time at work doing a fantasy hockey draft.

Actually, the Sox have won something ... it's a little thing called a playoff series. The A's should look into winning one of them, it's a lot more fun winning them than losing them.

Sadly, PETA has entered the "Chicken Little" phase of my mind, where they've said that the sky is falling so many times that I don't want to listen when it's actually falling. Yes, I hate animal abuse with a passion, but I hate PETA so much that it's hard for me to really get riled up. If they did more things like this, and less comparisons between the Holocaust and animals dying, I'd back them more. And if they did more investigations and less throwing red pain on fur coats, I'd respect them more.

He should be spending part of that $50 million on a baserunning coach ... hey, Tejada & Byrnes, you know that little 5-sided thing that you stand next to while batting? You have to touch that for the run to count. Just a reminder.

I think that most fans - regardless of where they are - would over-react if they're team came back from being one game away from elimination to winning the series. Especially if one game went to extra innings, the second wasn't decided until the 8th inning, and the final one ended with a bases loaded strikeout in a one run game. The rioters that cracked me up were those idiot college kids that got arrested for rioting after GAME THREE! Why the fuck would you riot just for not getting eliminated? And, lastly, count me as someone that doesn't give a shit how the rest of the country/world feels about Boston or Red Sox fans. I'll still sleep at night knowing that people look down on my city for some idiot imported college kids going apeshit in a drunken stupor. And as long as it's not my car that's getting flipped, I don't even really care about the the local ones that went out and rioted.

As someone who had a very scary STD scare, after a run-in with a coke whore, let me say that the blow-job wasn't enough. Coke whores should be willing to put out.

Porn, of the beastiality kind. The domain name use to belong to an Italian humor site (at least I think that's what it was; can't read the language, ya know). The image I had in my sig was of Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum standing with their arms around each other's shoulders, flanked by the name incandenza. The graphic can still be found on a Google image search of the name. Thanks, Inc ... what kind of world do we live in that beastiality has to be considered "not safe for work". And, yes, that was sarcasm.

"As I said earlier, you insepd twat, just because you CAN beat somebody doesn't mean you SHOULD." ... Much like the A's COULD have beat the Sox, but DIDN't? And I think that people overreacted b/c the team came back from down 2-0. If they'd won the series in 3 or 4 games, it would have been less of a celebration. Of course, if they beat the Yankees in the ALCS, the riot will happen regardless of how many games it takes.

Since I'm at work, and thus cannot sneak a peak at the link, can someone give a hint to what's on it?

I didn't listen to the game - was watching it at the bar, so you couldn't hear much - but from what I've heard, there were quite a few audible "fucking"s and "bullshit"s coming from the A's dugout. Regardless of how classless it was for Lowe to celebrate that way, I'd rather have my kid see a borderline obscene gesture than listen to a string of expletives. Methinks that Tejada is pissy that the A's blew another elimination game (is that 9 in a row) and displaced his frustration onto Lowe's actions. Whatever.

I haven't seen Tootoo play yet, but everything that I've heard or read says how amazing he is. I'm looking forward to watching him play.

The part that cracked me up was the father saying "what do I do when my daughter asks about words such as Rape?" hmmmmmm, if you want to shelter your daughter from this, how about NOT using your family on the SportsCenter special about it. If I wanted to shield my daughter from something, I'd probably not appear on TV talking about it.

1-4 would seem a lot worse if there weren't so many other people picking as poorly as me. At least I'm doing well picking them when it counts, when Mr. Bookmaker has to hand over the $$$ at the beginning of the week.

Don't underrate the entertainment value of a Florida Panthers game ... even now that they lost Worrell, they'll still be good for a fight or two a game. You can only watch so much clean hockey before feeling the urge for a good old fashioned donnybrook. If you watched a Nashville vs. Florida game last year, you could count on Cale Hulse vs. Peter Worrell fighting major. I had the package last year, and you end up watching more random games than you'd imagine. And a question for the Leafs fans on the board ... how excited should I be about Travis Green coming to Boston. I know that he had a 70 point season a few years ago, but I don't think that he did much in TO. Was it a lack of playing time, or is he nothing more than a third or 4th line center?

2 day tag team tourney, just like the old "Jim Crockett Senior Memorial Cup" Teams include: Road Warriors, Hart Foundation, Midnite X-press, Von Erichs (Kerry & Kevin), Freebirds (Hayes & Roberts), MVC, Arn & Tully, Rockers, Fantastics, Steiners, Brody & Hansen, Sheepherders, Edge & Christian, Bulldogs, Benoit & Malenko, Los Guerreros, Sting & Luger, Demolition, Koloff & Kruschev, Hardy Boys, Dudley Boys, Hollywood Blondes, Hall & Hennig, and Rude & Fernandez. Main Event of night 1 is Funk vs. Foley in a TX death match. Main Event of night 2 is Flair vs. Hogan.

Ripper's right, El S. misread what I said. Let me try to re-word it: Jordan had beef with Thomas, and said that if Thomas was going to be a Dream Team-er, then Jordan wouldn't be. So, in an effort to appease Jordan, the league didn't offer Thomas a roster spot. It had nothing to do with what Thomas said about Bird, which got minimal public outcry.

Isiah didn't make the team b/c of Jordan, NOT b/c of any comments he made about Bird. IIR, Jordan basically said that he'd not be interested in going if Thomas went. And I don't recall Thomas being "run into the ground". Hell, even Reggie White's racist ramblings got less coverage than Rush Limbaugh's comments.

Stolen from the Sports Guy on ESPN.com ... "While arguing that Donovan McNabb was overrated -- a point also made in this column just last week -- Rush Limbaugh claimed that the media was pushing for a black QB to succeed, so they pumped up McNabb and made him seem better than he really was. This wasn't much different than Isiah Thomas claiming that Larry Bird would be "just another good player" if he were black, was it? Didn't think so. But everyone let Isiah off the hook, while Limbaugh has been barbecued for a solid week. Go figure. I'm not saying he didn't deserve it ... it's just interesting, that's all."

Past my prime, and my prime wasn't really all that good anyways. I'm like a checking line winger who's dropped down to the 4th line, with the occasional healthy scratch thrown in.

My update, with the new choices ... a) Peep show janitor. It's not like you've got to use a toothbrush or something, just a big ol' mop. Have you ever tried to get the stank of skunk off of yourself? Good luck. b) Kill the thousand over there ... better them than me, in my eyes. c) Shamrock. I'd rather experience the short term pain of the asskicking than the long term pain (and death) of leprosy. And my own addition: For the males, would you rather have a penis so small that it wasn't operable (other than for jerking off) or a penis so large that no woman would allow you to come near her with it?