Dr. Tom

DVD Shrink and CloneDVD work really well. ... Um, so I've heard...

No, they're really not much fun, but here are a few points to chew on: 1. It doesn't matter who won the popular vote, since that's never been how we've elected Presidents in this country. But if saying over and over "OMG BUT GORE WON TEH POPULAR VOTE!!!!!1!!" helps you sleep at night, then clutch that stuffed animal to your chest and squeeze it for all it's worth, slugger. 2. The Florida Supreme Court was trying to change their own election laws in the middle of the election. The US Supreme Court stepped in and told them they couldn't do that. It's fine if a state wants to change some of the minutiae in its elections laws, but (1) that's the job of the legislature, not the courts, and (2) you can't do it in the middle of a goddamn election. 3. Several newspapers, none of them known for being conservative, have done independent recounts of the entire state of Florida. In each of those recounts, President Bush won, and by a wider margin than the official one. The newspapers were USA Today, the NY Times, and the Miami Herald. 4. None of this would have mattered if Gore weren't a walking charisma vortex and could have won his own state. Really, how much of a wooden tool do you have to be not to win YOUR OWN STATE? Even Walter Modale won his own state in 1984, but Gore couldn't do it in 2000. That's why your boy lost, not because of any imaginary shenanigans in Florida.

Heh. I approve 100%.

I agree there. He's going to a hitter's park, while A-Rod is moving to a park where RH power hitters tend to see their numbers fall off a little. Their rotation is too good for them to miss the playoffs. It's either going to be them or the Yankees, and I think it'll be a close race. Boston has the better pitching, so why not? Maybe. They've lost quite a bit this offseason, but no one's really been able to step up and wrest the regular-season title from them for about 11 years now. This is quite likely true. Their rotation is first-rate, and their offense is good in a hitters' park. I have my doubts about this one. I'd say the D-Backs and Giants are better in the division, which leaves SD in third place, presuming the Dodgers don't do much before the season begins. It's possible, but a lot of their guys had career years last year. Repeating that level of production will be difficult. False. Even if none of the starters do, Rivera will.

Yup, it was pending, so I went ahead and made it visible. It's up now.

Hmm, I'll check and see if it's waiting to be approved/posted.

Closing it sounds like a good idea at this point. I've banned people for racist comments in CE before. But silly jokes about the French do not qualify as racism, no matter how many teeth are gnashed and no matter how many tears are shed.

So are Americans, in some parts of the country.

Just to clarify: I'm the one who banned the CheroneWasMurdered name here, and the IP definitely matched Mario's. Closed again.

Good thing his name wasn't Howard Dick, then.

This is the behavior you need to change. This isn't a competition, and no one is "winning" or "losing." This is an internet messageboard. Recognize that a stranger calling you a name on the internet is precisely that: a stranger calling you a name on the internet. What possible reason is there to attach any validity to what they say? Why get so wrapped up in the fact that someone you've never met disagrees with your opinion about a worked "sport?" It's all about having some perspective. If you can gain some, we'll be fine. If not, then perhaps a vacation from this particular internet messageboard would help you gain it.

Ok. Read this post very carefully, Damaramu. Read it more than once if you have to, because I don't enjoy repeating myself, either in spoken word or in print. A lot of your problems are self-created. The way you act and react is the reason you get the reactions you do. I've checked a lot of the threads in WWE to confirm this, and there are other ones to support it as well. You need to wise up, grow up, and post like a rational, mature human being who's in control of his faculties and emotions. The staff is tired of, as they put it, cleaning up your messes. I know you're not going to agree with my assessment. You just stated you're not doing anything wrong, you're not part of the problem, and you're not going to change. Understand this: I don't care. I don't care if you can't examine yourself critically, and I don't care how long you've been posting, nor where. If you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the problem. Right now, you're part of the problem. I know you can be part of the solution. All you have to do is do it.

The new DVD News person will be revealed next week!

Plenty of people here play fantasy baseball. We had at least 2 leagues running last year.

I'll probably get my league started tonight when I get home. Al, I'd be interested in your AL-only league, since my money league is AL-only.

I'll be the mostly-benevolent-but-slightly-deranged island dictator.

This is just devolving into personal attacks which are themselves bordering on out of hand. Closed.

And the point of this was... ? Read the pinned topic: keep the fluff out. Of course, even calling this "fluff" is being generous. Closed, and I don't want to see another one like it.

Dames moved and won't have internet access for a while. I think El Dandy posted a review of the show somewhere on here.

... says the man who pimps his website in a sig.

Brian, either resize that picture in your sig or it will be deleted. There's no reason anyone should have to side-scroll because of a sig picture.

Fuck off. There were plenty of ways for him to make a joke without bringing "nigger" into it. People do it all the time on this board, so it can't be that bloody difficult. I made the decision and I'm sticking to it. Besides, it was only a two-day suspension. It's not like I banned the fellow. I guessed his use was meant in jest, but tasteless humor is still tasteless. That opinionjournal.com article was a good one, though.

That's nice.

Nice enough to get a two-day suspension, and that leniency is only because I thought it wasn't a serious post. Here's a hint, kids: some words shouldn't be said on these forums.

I was going to start a baseball league on Yahoo! We had 14 teams last year, and other than a few non-participants, everything went pretty well. It'd be 5x5, using OBP instead of BA, but the usual roto categories otherwise.