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If you drive a stick long enough you do not even think about what you are doing. Plus its fun when you are on the expressway, you can shift around pretending you are a race car driver.

George Grande was actually the first ever Sportscenter host, and is the current play by play guy for the Reds on television

No chance of a trade now. No one would take him, not even if the reds took on 3/4 of his salary. Plus after this year he is a 10/5 guy and he likes his teammates, and wants to stay in Cincy. We are stuck in limbo. I went to the same high school as Griffey, played on the same baseball team, and was coached by many of the same coaches. I have idolized Griffey for as long as I can remember, this just absolutly kills me.

Griffey done for the year with a completely torn right hamstring. The reds medical staff must be complete morons. After taking an MRI how could you not notice a completely torn hamstring. They said it was only a minor strain.

I agree no GM's, let the wrestlers or promotion make the matches. Bring back the hardcore title, I think it is a nice change of pace. Quit limiting guys movesets, WWE style can be good, but I want a mix of different styles. Give wrestlers more freedom on the mic, play to their strengths. If they can pull off being a cool heel allow them to be cool. If the babyfaces cannot keep up on the mic that is their fault. Stop having babyfaces being watered down versions of their better heel characters. (See Cena, John) If someone is cheered because they are badass make them a badass. Give everyone a reason for being on the card, yes even those midcard guys. Bring in a former legend as a commentator. (I nominate piper or foley) Make Mean Gene the interviewer on one of the shows and have him interview guys in the middle of the ring like in WCW, this is little but I feel it is a nice touch. Allow wrestlers more input on how they want their character to be portrayed.

King my point was guys like Batista get pops from the wrestling fans left, but he does nothing to draw in new fans. That is why ratings are down, not because of Batista specifically, but because the new characters have no depth. Batista is just basically a big guy with no discernable personality. Let me put it this way. I am not going to tell my friends, who used to be wrestling fans during the Russo era, to watch raw to see this great new guy named Batista. How he his booked is wrong, he has no drawing power right now.

Sent you a pm.

Adam Dunn hit the longest home run of my lifetime today. He destroyed a ball sending it out of the reds stadium and into the Ohio River. That sounds impressive, whats more impressive is he did it to straight away center field, over the giant black batters eye. To clear the batters eye you must hit it 510 feet and high, to clear the walking area with restaurants behind the batters eye you must hit the ball 560 feet so the initial estimates of 535 were wrong. They did a study on the news were they had a college professor estimate the shot at 593 feet.

The problem is much deeper than most of you think, and is a problem I have been talking about for months, going into a couple of years., The characters that are over with the wrestling audience and get pops, even draw ratings every once in a while are not the type of characters that the general audience will like. I would never tell my friends lets watch this inspirational retard on Monday, it would be embarassing. I would not want to say, "Look at evolution, they are so bad that they are cool." because they are not, they are just generic wrestlers. Everyone wrestles the same boring style, there are not high spots or garbage wrestling, people like the something for everyone atmosphere. No one is cool anymore. WWE seems to favor giving people dorky gimmicks that elicit pops out of the weird fan base. (see Eugene, Hurricane, Rosey, Coach, La Res, Tajiri, Molly and her wig, Victorias dancing, Jericho even though he plays the dork well etc...) If they are not dorks then they are bumbling fools or bland hosses. (see Tomko, Cade, Batista, Heidenreich as boring hosses, while Bischoff, Lawler, Christian have all played this role of bumbling fools. Why would the general public watch a show full of dorks, idiots and hosses? No one is cool anymore, except perhaps the semi dull orton. People do not give a shit about womens wrestling, unless it is T&A, they do not want stupid contests like the diva search, as that would actually appeal more to women then men. Even when WWE has T&A now they feel the need to make it "funny" where the guy gets it in the end, and the women wear less skimpy clothes then they wrestle in, also the women need to act like they want to do the T&A thing, by acting like they are forced into it, it comes off lame. WWE needs to cut off the uber patriotic, voting, politically correct thing they have going on. It makes their company come off as dorky. There is a reason there average viewer is now 37.

You would look stupid in jeans and a mask as well, the mask does not really go with anything, lord knows I have tried.

By baseball's standards Edgar deserves to be in, by my standards no way. I think they have made the hall way too easy to get into. I only want the best players of that generation in, I would never have classified Edgar as one of the top players in the league during his era. I would have put Griffey, Thomas, Belle (not saying he should be in), Clemens, Sosa, Bonds etc.... as the elite during this era. In my opinion, the elite and only the elite should be in the hall, no sob stories or bleeding hearts will change my mind.

Why Carmella gets any response is beyond me. She completely looks like she hates wrestling, her ice cream segment was the worst of the bunch, and that is saying something. She just stands there, wearing the least revealing bikini, and yet the fans eat it up, people are complete morons.

Why do you all care so much if Sable is fired? She is barely on television, and its not like if she is fired they will give her time to Paul London, they will give it to another chick. Sometimes you guys bitch about the dumbest things.

Damn it, Lidle knew the recipe for the pimp juice, now the whole league will probably know. It will be a sad day when I see Mike Sweeney drinking pimp juice during the 7th inning. *According to reports the Yankees have somehow gotten the recipe, that stupid fucker Lidle probably sold it to them.

Watch out for Corey Patterson, a shot of the dugout revealed he found some of the reds left over pimp juice, his next at bat should result in a home run. It appeared alou had his hands in something, although I do not think it was pimp juice.

I have it, nothing great on the card. If you are looking for great cards there is much better fare out there. Bret/Terry is okay, but you must remember Bret was on the downside of his career, and Terry should have retired 7 years earlier. Mick/Sabu is a spotfest, dreamer and douglas had an average match.

Today I went outside to start my car and low and behold it would not start, it would not even flicker. After numerous attempts I got out, only to decide one more chance might do it. Well, one more chance did not do it, but it came close, so I tried again, and it started. What should I do, buy a new battery or ride the mother until I get stuck in some crappy neighborhood where I will be promply robbed then beaten?

This guy is totally wrong on one thing. If you gave the casual fans what they wanted you would have no womens wrestling except bra and panties matches and T&A type of stuff.

So, are the cardinals going to pick up his 17 million salary next year?

Does Puerto Rico even have a decent sized arena?

The only way I would order this is if there was some locker room footage of sunny from 96, by locker room footage I mean her being naked.

You guys should have a debate, all you need is a moderator who would pick out topics concerning the upcoming presidential election, you would then have a set time limit and word limit to explain your opinion. Only thing is, referencing Monkey Island or using the word twat would be frowned upon. You could call it Debate 04: A good lie is built on a foundation of trust, Smartmarks challenge your notion of the truth. Okay, that was gay, but still, have at it.

What about Anarchy Rulz, Hardcore Heaven, Guilty As Charged or even November 2 Remember, who cares if it is October, it would still be better than Taboo.

I do not think that Pres. Bush staying in the class was a bad thing, and I do not think Kerry should use the fact that he stayed in the classroom as a political strategy. But, Mike I do disagree with your point of Kerry not doing anything. He was only a senator, he did not have the power to shut down the airports or ready the military. There is not much he really could have done.

The back room of my grandparents house, where both of my great grandparents died is supposed to be haunted. No one will sleep in that room except me, they say they have seen things, and the room is noticeably cooler than the rest of the house all the time. While I have noticed the temp difference I have never seen anything. My mom and sister say it is because I am not open to things, I do not know what that means but it sounds like bullshit. I have not been in that room in a long time, but I seriously doubt it is haunted. Also, one time back in high school I took a date to the movies. She lived about a mile away from the movies so we just walked, I was too young to drive at the time. We went to see the Blair Witch Project. After I walked her home I went on my way back to my house. To get to my house I needed to cut through about a mile of woods where an old folks home used to be, the movie did not get out until midnight so it was dark out. It was a pretty decent walk, about a half mile up hill to get to where the run down building was and then another half a mile down hill where I would reach a street and cut across to get into my subdivision. Of course with any run down building everyone said it was haunted with no proof to back up their argument. Surprise, surprise I reached home fine. However, once I told my sister about what I did last evening I got the nickname Clay, as in Clay Shrout the kid from Cincy who killed his parents and sisters and then went to his high school looking for more in 1994. It has now become a running joke in my family that I cannot sense things like ghosts. I am still not sure what sensing ghosts means, perhaps that means they are right, or perhaps they are just full of shit.