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Call me Anglesault on this one, but somebody's gonna have to explain this whole "skits on albums" thing to me. I'm not even gonna raise a stink about it, because I like this thread concept, and I don't want to derail it like I derail all the other music threads. So just clear this up for me and we'll be back on our way. I mean, everyone says they're dumb and don't add anything to it. So what's the point of skits?

So is "Wreckless [sic] Intent" like "Forceable [sic] Entry"? What's intimidating about wreckless intent? That just means you were actually acting in the interest of safety. I'd hope that guy swerving around in the other lane without his headlights on has wreckless intent, because I only wear a seatbelt if I'm the driver, and even if I am and therefore are, I'd still rather not be in a wreck. I thought we had evolved beyond "spelling words wrong has attitude"

bump Rain Dogs Singapore-Clap Hands-Cemetery Polka Pleased To Meet Me I.O.U.-Alex Chilton-I Don't Know Another Green World Sky Saw-On Fire Island-St. Elmo's Fire Those are all 1, 2, and 3, in addition to being sequential. Neat! Berlin Lady Day-Men Of Good Fortune-Caroline Says I Funeral Neighborhood 1-Neighborhood 2-Une Année Sans Lumiere-Neighborhood 3 is a 1-2-3-4! punch, but Neighborhood 4 never gets off the ground so no 5. And besides once you're calling half an album really awesome you're treading beyond the premise anyway.

Calling Zack Malibu's girl gimmick a cunt was also a bannable offense. My Eyebrow Is On Fire should still be reinstated. Oh, and Anglesault didn't do anything.

Yeah, fans suck. Mark is the new smark.

"It's Hard Out There For A Big Shitty Oaf Who Has Been A Contractual Albatross For Ten Years By Spending The Majority Of The Aforementioned Timespan On The Sidelines With Injuries"

It's because they went to radial-arched nameplates. If they kept vertical-arch they'd be 6-0

That was like my most fragmented disjointed post ever. A real word salad, if you ask me.

The Brewers and Tigers are leading their leagues. The smallball/speed/fundamentals Cubs STILL only amass runs with longballs. The Marlins won a game. The Yankees and White Sox aren't hot yet (but Guillen and Steinbrenner's tempers are!). The Braves are a mess. Bonds hasn't homered yet. Here's the next weekly thread.

SMALLBALL?!?!?

Ball four! Ball eight. Ball twelve, and Rick Vaughn is making his debut with the Cardinals here.

OHH, I was thinking Benton as in Benton Township, up by Zion and Winthrop Harbor. My mistake. A rare geography slip-up. EDIT: Yeah, you're down by Cairo and Mount Vernon. That's way south.

What's a Cardinal fan doing on the North Shore? Get outta here.

So much for the lead. Good thing Marshall hit David Eckstein in the head!

YEAH-UH! Jacque Jones was way overdue.

I knew I was right to grab dinner during the 1st inning; Sean Marshall already gave up two runs.

The White Sox have taken lessons from Red Sox fans in burying erstwhile stars: now Hot-Tempered Latino Ozzie Guillen says that the entire, yes, the entire farm system was depleted just to obtain Carl Everett, that he should be grateful that Front Office Mastermind Kenny Williams let Carl play for the White Sox, and oh by the way, we're glad you're gone and didn't want you back anyway. So THERE. NYAH.

No, if he was going for Rock & Roll Part II he'd have said "da daaaaaaaa da da HEY! da-da da-da da daaaaaaaa da da HEY!"

Braves need pitching baaaaaaaaaaadly. What the hell is going on down there?

Question for Fridge, or Cartman, or one of the other 250 New Englanders here: did NESN do any sort of World Champions graphics throughout every broadcast? Caught a little bit of a White Sox game yesterday and they've got World Series trophies all over the place for the player graphics and scores. I don't know if this is temporary, or all season, or what. Maybe they're afraid people will have forgotten? Or that nobody saw them win in the first place?

Yes! "I CAN SEE YOU. YOU'RE RIGHT THERE, WAVING YOUR HAND IN YOUR FACE."

Come on, the mental image of some Italian guy out on Long Island trying to wrap his head around John Cena is pretty funny.

It's funny, because you guys all went to such great lengths to get rid of Anglesault, but in his place there are like three or four mini-Saults

Think we'll get a Steinbrenner Statement ® by the 10 pm Sportscenter on Monday?

I went to take a walk during the middle of the game and I missed that problematic sixth, but the gist of it seemed to be lots of errors that led to two unearned runs. Zambrano and the bullpen were pretty good, and the big bats came through when we needed them, it was just sloppy fielding, I guess. Shocking, especially from Lee. Carpenter was tough, though; I think those runs all came against Hancock or Wainwright. Oh by the way, apparently passed up in the Wrigley Wrenovation that nobody shuts up about was the visitors' clubhouse. The Cardinals only got five minutes of hot water, and Jim Edmonds likened our precious park to a "Single-A experience." Nobody likes Jim Edmonds.