Dr. Tom

Definitely. Javy is an upgrade over scrubs like Brook Fordyce and Geronimo Gil, but people expecting a .300+ average and 40 homers are likely to be disappointed. Hell, I'd love to see him do it, but I just don't see it happening. If he hits .275 with 30 homers, though, that'll be a nice addition to the team.

Snopes has nothing on it yet, but if it gets popular enough, I'd expect them to have it soon.

Heh. Jay, I'm a big fan of working little British-isms into what I say and write. Your version of the language is just richer and more amusing than ours, and that's why I do it. No American could write like P.G. Wodehouse, since our English just doesn't support that kind of humor. It's also dashed funny to have people look at me like "WTF???" when I say things like "dashed funny," too.

YES! Finally, a catcher in Baltimore! Now all they need is Ponson and Vlad and they are set. And two more starting pitchers, and a reliable bullpen, and... Honestly, I would have preferred Pudge, but he apparently pissed off the Orioles' brass when he claimed he'd been offered a guaranteed 4th year, which wasn't the case. After that, the O's put more money on the table for Lopez and got him signed. I hope Ron Shandler's theory about older catchers and their power spikes remains true for the next 3 years.

Surprise, surprise, surprise... This is why I referred to it as "rubbish" earlier.

You must truly be an idiot. How plainly must I write this out. Should I spell it for you, perhaps? I got your point. You seem intent on promoting the idea that Jackson has "Peter Pan syndrome," though, and isn't molesting anyone, and my point is that such a theory is rubbish. Now let me spell something out for you, slugger: take that tone with me again and you won't be adding to the 33 posts you've made so far.

Oh really? Well, it certainly doesn't show through in your posts. Because I didn't pick up on your rubbish about "Peter Pan syndrome" earlier? I've taken enough classes in psychology and done enough independent reading on it to have a dim view of the field and the people who practice it. I believe that "mental diseases" are not excuses for committing aberrant (and abhorrent) behavior, and that anyone who does a crime should do the time, regardless of which fiat-established syndrome they're supposedly suffering from. You're basing what passes for your point on a supposed mental disorder. Brilliant.

Yes. Go take a psychology class, he has no fault in having a Peter Pan Syndrome. I've taken a psychology class. More than one, in fact. "Peter Pan syndrome" doesn't mean you have a problem molesting little boys. You're apparently advocating that nothing happen to Jackson because of his supposed mental problems. If that's true, you're advocating a clear double standard. Go take an ethics class.

Word. Us pop culture peeps don't get a lot of love around these parts, but we BRING THE CONTENT~! just like the wrestling chaps do. I only wish our pop culture writers could write more often, because then we'd have awesome movie, DVD, and video game coverage on a regular basis, and could tell other sites to eat the corn out of our shit.

Philistine. Those tacos were the bomb. I was pissed when BK took them off their menu. No one I know was eating at Taco Bell, since anyone who wanted a fast food taco would go to BK. They were awesome.

I've been in both a few times, and they're definitely nice. I went to an Orioles game last year where we had the entire Jim Palmer Party Suite to ourselves. It was awesome... free CRAB CAKES~! (which were delicious), free beer, luxury box seats for the game... the whole thing was tremendous. ANd the best part of it was that I didn't have to pay one cent for anything.

Yes.

Because it doesn't matter. "OMG HE SNORTED A FEW LINES IN COLLEGE~!!!11!!!1!!1!" Really, who cares? I didn't care that Clinton smoked pot when he was younger, either. Heck, it was expected that people would experiment with drugs back in the 60s and 70s. I'm sure any president, or any politician, who spent those decades in high school or college experimented with drugs and probably diddled more than his share of coeds and sorority girls. And in the end... who really cares, except people who need something cheap and easy to criticize?

Then those are the ones who can get on their knees before we shoot them in the head.

Bah, no one owes me any money. ::adds $5 to Downhome's debt:: ::feels better::

I know I'm probably late, but I just woke up (trying to sleep off the flu) and I have no idea what's going on in any football game. Atlanta at Tampa Bay Kansas City at Minnesota New England at N.Y. Jets Baltimore at Cleveland Cincinnati at St. Louis Detroit at Carolina Miami at Buffalo New Orleans at Jacksonville N.Y. Giants at Dallas Tennessee at Houston Washington at Chicago San Diego at Pittsburgh Arizona at Seattle San Francisco at Philadelphia Denver at Indianapolis Green Bay at Oakland Ravens: 30 points

We're going to have to agree to disagree. I thought the scene would be wonderful for an Extended Edition DVD release, and probably would have worked somewhere else in the movie. It just didn't feel right as the opening scene. It's nice to make the comparison -- we already knew the generals, not the specifics -- but it just felt like a slow opener to a movie that really needed to start in medias res. And the link to the review, for those foolish enough not to have discovered it yet: ROTK Review

w00t~! Eight Ravens go, and all of them are deserving. It just makes it that more frustrating to think that the team went out and laid such an enormous fucking egg against the goddamn Raiders...

Pity, then, that in the world outside his mind (i.e. the real one), he's a 45-year-old man sleeping with children not his own, which is creepy at the very least, and very criminal if anything at all else happened.

Inconsistent? Urbina has been above the league average in Save % every season. He had a few bad innings with Boston last year, which inflated his ERA, but he was pretty lights-out with Florida. For his career, he has an 85% save rate, 206 saves, and well over a strikeout per inning. Urbina is often shortchanged when discussing closers, but teams in need of one could certainly do far worse. And since he does get shortchanged, he comes cheaper than some of the bigger names might.

No responsible person would sell something like this to a 12-year-old. Presumably, if pharmacists are the ones who dispense this, they wouldn't be giving it out to people who have just hit puberty and want to celbrate by giving their new pubes a workout. Perhaps in the cases of people under a certain age (I imagine it would be the age of consent, which varies by state), it should have to be prescribed by a doctor?

Circle DVD Review, by yours truly. THat's the most recent work of his I've seen. Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough for Live at the Ambassador's or Sexie -- not that the latter much sounds like it's worth looking for, sadly enough.

There you go. Yes, there is a sadistic part of me that would love to see a mass-murdering fuckhead like Saddam get stretched on a rack. However, it would be incredibly wrong of the USA to use such blatantly evil tactics. Those are things that the enemy does, and this entire fight is about good vs. evil as much as it is us vs. them.

Perhaps the Times should really be the one stuck with the "Faux News" tag...

I'm all for making it non-prescription. If they want a pharmacist to dispense it, that's fine, since s/he could answer questions, give advice, etc.