King Kamala

I gotta go with Cold Pizza. The hosts have no personality, I don't know who exactly they're appealing too. The show has too much sports talk for the Today Show crowd and isn't fast paced enough to draw the Sports Center crowd. The show as a whole is very flat and generic.

What games are you folks planning to attend this summer? I just got tickets for the first part of a double header at "America's Most Beloved Ballpark" Fenway Park (According to the Fenway Park brochure). The game is between the Sox and the ubershitty Baltimore Orioles. Hopefully I get the good game of the double header. I didn't spend $27 plus service charges to see an infield consisting of Diamond Dave McCarty, Ceaser Crespo, Pokey Reese and Kevin Youkilis. I'm also heading down on September 15th to see the Red Sox play the Devil Rays again at Fenway. Man, I didn't think there might be playoff implications to this game when I bought the tickets in March. I also plan to head north to the Spaceship Dome (Or Olympic Stadium or Stade de Olympique as the Frenchies call it) to see a series between the Expos and Houston Astros in August. Roger Clemens damn well better start during this series. Certainly I don't want to see a series between the god awful Montreal Expos and the mediocre Houston Astros. So anybody planning to see any major league ball this summer? A question for alkeiper, do you think this year's Expos could go down as one of the 10 worst MLB teams? They're on pace to lose 108 games. Frank Robinson talked about how Carl Everett and Nick Johnson's returns would spark the offense, but it really hasn't. No one's hitting .300 or anything near it except for Nick Johnson who's only had limited playing time.

I was on a chat room on ESPN.com with some ESPN.com writer (I forget his name) who helped compile the list. Literally they forgot the 2003 Detroit Tigers. He said they'd probably be the number one pick if it weren't for that.

1999 Great American Bash is a cure for insomnia. Not one memorable match, period. I can't even remember the main event, something like Randy Savage Vs Kevin Nash. I think this is the PPV where Sting gets "mauled" by dogs.

20th Century Masters Video Collection: Tears For Fear. Five videos for $5.88 is a little much, especially since it has no special features. But who am I to pass up Sowing The Seeds of Love?

Nazareth- Extended Versions Bought it cause it was $6. Didn't know it was a damn live album. A poor sounding live album too. Wal-Mart is messing with an angry Ugandan son of a bitch.

Hootie And The Blowfish-Cracked Rear View 20 Million albums sold and about 10 people admit to buying it. *sigh* Come on I Only Want To Be With You is a classic!

I got one that's pretty bad. KISS-Alive III. Now outside of maybe some of the hardcore KISS fans on the board, I don't think anyone likes this one. But come on, I'm no man to resist a rock version of I Was Made For Loving You. I think the only reason I like this one is because it's the first KISS Alive I heard. And off topic but are people really demanding an Alive IV. I also use to frequently listen to the Sabrina the Teenage Witch Soundtrack four or five years back, particularly Sugar Ray's cover of Abracadabra. There I said it and I feel better for doing so.

Which city do you guys think is the worst out of all, in terms of fans and team performance. I got to go with Atlanta, sure the Braves had good attendance for a while but everybody's hopping off the bandwagon (Except Bob Barron). The Hawks haven't drawn big crowds since the heyday of Spud Webb and Dominique Wilkens. And the Hawks are probably not winning any more then 20 games next year. The Thrashers have potential but it's anyone guess if Kolvachuk and Heatley will live it out in Atlanta. So, what do you think is the worst Major League sports city

Hey next week for ESPN: The Headlines they're doing the worst single season team of the past 25 years. I find it incredibly weird in the commercials they mention the 53-109 1996 Detroit Tigers but not the 43-119 2003 Detroit Tigers. Last year's Tigers really had no positives except for "they might be decent two or three years down the line". I'd have to put the 03 Tigers as the worst, followed by the 1993 Dallas Mavericks (11-71) and the 1990 New England Patriots (1-15).

A lot of people really don't like the Audioslave album. And true, it isn't as good as Soundgarden or Rage Against The Machine. But there are 4 or 5 good songs on there and nothing's too horrible. I used to have the Lit album with My Own Worst Enemy on it(On cassette for some reason) and honestly, it was pretty good. I'd check it out again, if I didn't lose it.

LA isn't that bad of a sports town. The Dodgers get great attendance considering they haven't made the playoffs since 1996, The Lakers have always been popular even during the post Magic, Pre-Shaq era. The LA Kings are a lot more popular then a hockey team in LA should be. USC and UCLA football are huge and when it's decent UCLA basketball is. And I'm not even factoring in the Anaheim Angels. Overall, I'd say LA is a good sports town but not a great one. To explain the Clippers, would anyone buy a ticket to see a team who's been consistently bad for almost 25 years (I know the board's Clipper fan is going to raise his hand here)?

What about Tampa/St.Petersberg/Orlando? That could be a candidate. The D Rays have had two sellout games in their six years history (The inaugaral game and this year's season opener), albeit they haven't had much to work with. Nobody gave two shits about the Lightning until last year's playoff run. The Magic have won jack and shit and by the looks of things might lose one of the NBAs best players. And the Bucs were terrible until about six or seven years ago. Their teams aren't terrible for the most part, but the fans are bandwagon hoppers to put it nicely.

Pittsburgh could be a great sports city if the GMs built decent teams as the Steelers and Pirates did in the 70s and Penguins in the 90's (Also the Steelers have had a decent run the last seven or eight years, last year not included.) The Braves were 7th and 8th in the NL in attendance the last two years, rather poor considering they were eventual NL East champions the last two years. Cleveland is pretty horrible too, about two dozen people went to Cavs games up until LeBron's debut. The Browns aren't looking too good for the future. Everyone's talking about how great the Indians will be but, when will they finally "arrive"

What happenes to the Lakers next year? My very early prediction (This will change), Kobe leaves (Either The Clippers or Memphis), Malone retires, and Payton re-signs (Where else will he go). The Lakers make the playoffs for the next two or three years, but don't get past the 2nd round. Or at least that's what I'd like to happen.

I forgot about that. I thought it was called KISS Symphony. Didn't they record a live record a few years back, that was going to be called Alive IV but never released? And another question, seeing how your the biggest KISS fan on the board. Can you name any redeemable qualities about the Peter Criss solo album? Totally unrelated but two other albums I enjoyed that most on this board wouldn't like, are the Backstreet Boys and N' Sync's first albums. I still love the production on these two, Max Martin is the MAN! I heard Andrew WK wants to work with Max Martin for his next album. Max Martin+Andrew WK=Best album ever.

I only got free tickets once. And I really didn't want to go. It was like a folk, blues and bluegrass festival. However, GE Smith was there thus making it well worth $0

You something weird? My dad says that the Red Sox would have won the World Series last year if Jimy Williams was managing. My dad's an incredibly weird Red Sox fan- I mean he hates Nomar. NOMAH!

Simpsons Season 3 $14.99 at FYE (The Flaming Moe's episode is criminally underrated. It's probably one of the 10 best Simpson episodes IMO)

E! is the worst at picking comedians for their specials. Absolute shitsville. Every stand up they get up there, I've never seen except maybe getting rejected early on in Last Comic Standing. The best(Which is an oxymoron) of those E! countdowns might have two mildly amusing people.

My God Emma is such an annoying bitch. Most of the females on the show are and none of them are any more then somewhat hot. DAMMIT! There's gotta be more hot Canuck chicks up there! I saw the Breakfast Club episode and man was it bad.

If they pick the right players, I could see the Bobcats winning 25-30 games next year. What's the record amount of wins for a first year NBA team?

Another album that's disliked that I just remembered (Coincidentally also KISS related) are the KISS solo albums. Gene Simmons is quite ecclectic and features several great songs. Ace Frehley's is a pretty good hard rock record, Paul Stanley's album is fairly innoffesnive. The only one that's bad is Peter Criss', which features a boatload of Beth ripoffs and is a soft rock album. I mean he is deemed the soft, sensitive member of KISS (after all he's a cat) but come on Peter put a few rockers on there!

Yep I think so, unless they made an appearence or something. What about Jean Pierre Laffiette? He got one big match on a PPV and never showed up at another unless it was a Royal Rumble or something.

My town(Portland, Maine) doesn't have any major league sports, but we're so into the Boston teams. So I'll rank them, 1. Red Sox 2. Patriots 3. High School Football (On a good night 7-8,000 people attend a game between crosstown rivals. Despite Maine never having even a college football star.) 4. Sea Dogs (Local Double A affliate of the Red Sox. Wouldn't be this high if they weren't associated with the Red Sox) 5. Tie, Bruins and Celtics. Probably both could go higher or lower depending on the quality of that year's team. 6. High School basketball. Could be higher then Bruins and Celtics, if one of them aren't doing so well. 7. Pirates (Local AHL affliate of the Washington Capitals) 8. Yankees (Fairly big Yankees contingent in Portland) 9. MLS (About 12,000 people attended a preseason MLS game here two years ago. That's like 3x bigger then the yearly Capitals preseason games that come here.) 10. High School baseball