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This is all a moot point because Meng would beat both their sorry asses.

Bearer is listed twice, is that intentional? EDIT: No. Strangest of all is Steve Austin and to a lesser extent, Brock Lesnar, listed among Ernest Miller, Sakoda, and Brian Christopher.

Yeah no kidding. Dusty swerved us. Maybe there was some subliminal Dusty Rhodes-Dusty Baker connection. At any rate, I guess just two hours a week is too much for me now.

No, it was retarded. But, quite honestly, I'd have no problems with him grabbing the guy he was aiming at and just beating the living hell out of him. -=Mike Fans have a right to heckle when they buy the ticket. I have no sympathy for millionaires who can't tune out the catcalls of drunks. Players should just ignore them. Sure, the fans can get personal, too personal sometimes, but there's no way to justify a player getting physical with a fan in any way, be it fisticuffs or chair-tossing. I think the only time it is justified is if a spectator breaks the plane and goes on the field, court, ice, what have you. Like that guy in Philadelphia who was harassing Tie Domi and actually went into the penalty box...if you overstep the boundary, I think the player should do whatever it takes to subdue the fan.

Well first I posted a big rambling NHL lockout post but just a while ago I woke up after a really weird dream about the Cubs. The Cubs were playing a doubleheader at Wrigley Field against the Houston Astros, who instead of having about 75 uniforms with red and gold variations, were wearing black, orange, and yellow, like a cross between the Pirates and Orioles. The Astros had announced yesterday that they had just hired a new manager, but up until the first game of the twinbill, Phil Garner was still managing. So before the game started, the Astros held an on-field press conference to announce their new manager whom they were proud to announce had just jumped to Houston...who was, in fact, none other than Dusty Baker. All the fans started booing and the Cubs players were going ballistic. Dusty just looked really ashamed of himself, and had his head down the whole time as the Astros championed Baker as knowing which team was gonna win it all, and making the right decision, and beckoned him to step over to the podium and put on the new jersey and start managing the team. And Chip and Steve were saying "No Dusty! Don't do it!" and "He already did it, he turned his back on the team." Finally, to the disdain of the crowd, Dusty emerges from the Cubs dugout and accepts his black/orange/yellow Astros uniform that he had planned to wear all along. Then after this happened, I was so disgusted that I changed the channel to Raw, where Mighty Molly had a match or something. I just think it's weird that I would have a dream in which Dusty Baker has been sabotaging the Cubs all along, just waiting to make a heel turn and go to the division rival. Right now, I wouldn't be surprised if this happened.

Time to chime in on as many issues as I can here. Add NY Rangers in the "greedy bastards" list. They have the top two contracts (Jagr and Bure), they just don't win. With New Jersey being 8th in the league in 2003 with around a $51 million payroll, I think it's safe to say that all the praise of Lou Lamoriello building winning teams on low budgets is horseshit. That being said, I don't think the luxury tax would work, because as we see in baseball, it doesn't stop the Yankees one bit. Salary cap, also a failure waiting to happen, big time. The parity would not be beneficial to the league at all, because it would destroy the credibility of the established teams. I mean, I hate the Red Wings as much as the next guy, but I think I'd actually hate them even LESS if because of salary restrictions, they couldn't field their traditional all-star teams, but instead just had to send out a bunch of crappy fourth-line caliber grinders from eastern Europe that nobody knows nor cares about. Detroit, Denver, Dallas, St. Louis, and Toronto may spend like crazy, but guess what? Their fans go to games! They support their team! Let's not destroy that rare commodity. As for the players that everyone knows, I don't even think it's that many. I'd say your guy on the street only knows Gretzky (who hasn't played in five years), Lemieux (who hasn't played a real season in five years), and Brett Hull (who hasn't stopped bitching for five years). Maybe you can make a case for Chris Chelios and Jaromir Jagr, I don't know. But it can't be more than that. They should market a lot of these new players you mentioned, except Dany Heatley, because he, y'know, kills people. In fact, marketing as a whole just sucks. You remember those commercials for the NBA Finals with all the players professing their love for that hideous trophy that looks like some out-of-proportion martini? Why the HELL did they not do that for the Stanley Cup? Did they do it years ago, and I missed it somewhere along the line? I think you need something as surreal as let's say, Jaromir Jagr singing Dusty Springfield's "I Only Want To Be With You" to the Stanley Cup, or Eric Lindros having phone sex with the Cup in which the camera cuts between Eric on the phone telling Lord Stanley's Cup all the things he's gonna do to her(him? it?), and then cutting to the Cup next to a phone. These things are really weird, but would get noticed, especially because European players trying to talk can be funny. Hockey players have some of the most interesting and eccentric personalities of all athletes. Let's find ways to use them. You can't say it's the "fastest game in sport," because, well, we all know the story here.

I'd say it's devastating, myself. Millar just homered to make it 6-4, miraculously giving Wakefield a potential win. Unfortunately, this fine Red Sox game will be periodically interrupted so we can see Barry Bonds get walked by the piss-poor Milwaukee staff.

Well in theory that could all be involved, but when you have an Olympic gold medalist wrestler in the fight, it would never get a chance to be a factor because Angle would end the fight in a split-second. Don't kid yourself.

Demonstrate some of these. I'm aware that the Bible never actually mentions things like confessions and a few other Catholic beliefs, but I'm curious as to what the other "demonstratably false" aspects are. Well for pagan customs, the Catholics assimilated the springtime feast/celebration of fertility and called it Easter.

This isn't exactly that, but close: they confirmed that they're not bringing Magglio Ordonez back. Hmph. Without Magglio and Thomas, the White Sox are....well, they're what you see right now, basically.

I'm amused by "boom-shaka-laka" for Benoit's headbutt, and hopefully that never gets old. But if it does, I suggest we all post "JUMANJI!" at the point of impact.

You also have....? Hey, I'm not saying they should be robots out there. Cubs aren't--look at Zambrano. Red Sox are far from robotic, as well. I just have a lot of problems with the Marlins, from the gaudy World Series patches, which the Yankees, Diamondbacks, Angels, or Braves have never felt obligated to do; to mocking Alou's anger about the Bartman incident (because Cubs fans are supposed to be sticking it to Alou on their own thank you very much); all the way down to the glorification of Jack McKeon's tobacco usage. They may not be approaching the New York Yankees' payroll, but they're certainly aspiring to be just as reprehensible of an organization as our buddies in the Bronx.

You gotta admire glennsoe's commitment to providing us with news, bannings be damned. okay fine, not really

Well, at least five...I stopped paying attention 5.1 innings, 106 pitches, I was close Five runs, all earned, but I think someone advanced on a Martinez error

You're exactly right. I blame him for the destruction of Mark Prior.

Already have a thread for this.

Well, through two, we've got four walks for Prior, allowing the Pirates to score 4 in the 2nd after we scored 4 in the 1st. And they weren't even homers like ours...just bad, bad pitching.

And judging from their unprecedented flaunting of their World Series win, their mocking of Moises Alou's tantrum in foul territory, and their continued lambasting of Steve Bartman, they have the maturity of a Little League team, too.

the WWE Folder disappears from your pulldown list of folders, and doesn't show up on the main page.

Be a Cubs fan, because they're far and away the most inebriated baseball fans on the planet (the basket above the ivy isn't just for catching garbage, but drunks, too), and with the inconsistent play this year, they've gotta be.

Mark Prior pitches in just about an hour and a half from now. Bold prediction: ungodly quantity of walks given up in the 4 2/3 innings he pitches when he hits 100 for the day, with maybe about four runs, one unearned.

How can Smackdown's current set accomodate the Gangrelevator? That's my biggest concern.

If we're going by fanbase and arena quality being what keeps teams from moving...well the New York Islanders better thank Bossy, Potvin, and all the guys that won four Stanley Cups in a row, because with the crappy 90s Isles, crappy Long Island fans, and the crappiest of all, the Nassau Coliseum, the only thing that prevented the Islanders from becoming history WAS their history. I think it's the same case with the Penguins, the NHL isn't going to let Mario Lemieux's team bite the dust. Like I said, undoubtedly, the Whalers and UConn would've eventually joined forces to replace the Mall. Here's an interesting account of the Whalers move and their layover in Greensboro, I think you should give it a read: How's it goin', Pete?

Why is it I've seen "Homer The Food Critic" line once every two weeks, but I never see the monorail? Damn shame. The Simpsons needs to wrap it up, because each new season means lower chances of seeing the classics in syndication.