The Czech Republic

"I think Lord Humongous should just get a life!" "Funny you say that, I wish he would get death!" "Haha!"

Very interesting find. What's odd is now with overexpansion and slowed-down hockey, it STILL comes down to blaming the Eastern Europeans in some way.

Yeah stop turning baseball into football. To see the differences in presentation, just go to ESPN Classic and compare NFL Films to This Week In Baseball. (The actual one with Mel Allen not the Fox shit) "On the field, battle lines are drawn. Twenty-two gladiators will endure what no man can ever dream of enduring. Each man with a specific role. A role no other man he serves with can ever fill. The objective is simple." blah blah blah "Those Houston Astros were lookin' mighty fine in St. Louis this week! Sure doesn't look like old Whitey Herzog was too happy about that error in right field!"

You just questioned that anyone would watch it and then supplied information about it.

Satriani does a cool version of that

I agree, they probably won't be dead last. Remember, even last year they showed signs of life until after the ASG when they went on a downward spiral of monumental proportions.

Okay fine. Let's tell Budweiser, Fox Sports, Ticketmaster, and everyone else that baseball season should be reduced to 78 games. This will eliminate 42 home games with an average of 1,764,000 tickets per ballpark. This should eliminate 84 games total, and about 250 hours of programming from each local sports affiliate (that with the lack of college sports, NBA, and other stuff, depends on baseball games to fill its schedule), with around 80 of those 250 hours being advertisements from local and national sponsors that are gone. Pitchers, who could, in theory, start 32 games a year, can now only garner 15 starts a year. (I hope Tom Glavine doesn't mind.) And why not carry this over to October? The ALCS that was a ratings monster? Gone. Make way for the American League Championship Game, where everything rides on one pitcher and nine innings. Forget about the drama of the Boston Red Sox coming back from three down to win it in seven. They'll just have to get it in extras, but it'll still be pretty big! Same format for the World Series, which will now be "The Super Bowl Of Baseball." By shortening this schedule, we will effectively halve the potential for families to spend a nice warm summer day outdoors at their park of choice, enjoying baseball; and for players to play the game they love, and to amass their statistics over the same course as their predecessors whom they hope to surpass. But hey, it's gonna be great, because each game is more important.

Dogbert Just sayin'

Oh relax. That was funny

I can't believe I've had the same crush on the same girl for two years running.

another good GOB/Narrator exchange: GOB: I didn't get much sleep though. I had sex last night. Narrator: But he really didn't. GOB: Yes I did.

Dude....that really sounded more like you want to date the guy than you are a fan of him. You really gotta find that fine line between fan and potential Robert Deniro as THE FAN. Take me out tonight. Where there's music, and there's people, and they're young and alive.

But it seems, at least to me, that typing things out the wrong way is actually harder than doing it correctly

GOB: But who remembers that? Narrator: I do. Also this is like the first time I've seen Lucille and Tobias directly interact, I think.

He writes for a newspaper.

I won't. I thought this thread was going to be Mik mentioning that Delgado was sitting courtside and thus making the game an Instant Classic as Jesus was in the Chapel. (Getting oil rubbed on his back by Miguel Cabrera.)

Does everybody I argue with adopt the mallet-head smiley or what?

Oh give me a break!

Can I be a hipster too?

I know what you mean. I say "There's no business like Shu business"

If he has to stay, change his name to Hot Buttered Clitoris like I did on the OAO board

Then I suggest that you don't follow baseball.

JUST STOP POSTING

It's take the "reins," Scooter.

How many days of your life are a matter of life and death in which every single decision you make is crucial and can have a meaningful and long-lasting impact for the rest of your year? Not that many, unless you operate a nuclear reactor or something. By and large, people have bad days, and it's really not supposed to be that big of a deal. If a left fielder is dogging it one day, that's fine. You can't give 100% for 162 days from April to October or you'll never make it. It's about stamina and endurance over the course of a whole season, not short bursts of energy over 17 weeks. It's the sprint vs. the mile. Both are impressive but entirely different beasts. Take that into consideration. Baseball's just not meant to be like football. You have a bad day, you go out and have a good day to balance it out.