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I still get a chuckle out of this

Because Rick Reilly is sportswriting's premier douchebag and he wouldn't deserve Sosa's piss if he were on fire. While that is true, I thought the real reason was that Sammy couldn't do such a thing without the approval of the player's union

Has it really been 6 years allready?

1997, the last year pre-BCS. Split the national title with Nebraska (AP for Michigan, Coaches for NU) under debatable circumstances

and what? You'd think that an ad campaign as prolific as this one would've itself been satirized by this point, given how thin they've had to stretch the premises by this point

Has anyone written a parody about the ads themselves? That I'd like to see "Here's to you, Mr. Guys Who Write the Real Men of Genius Ads" "(Drivin' the joke into the groooo-ooooound!)"

That whole ad campaign ceased being amusing after about the fifth variation ("It's not funny anymooooooore!")

Think of it as "The Pit fucked the world" and it isn't quite as embarrasing

I miss badass long-haired Giambi

We'll hang it up and take a chainsaw to it

Actually, upon further thought I suppose that isn't always the case either, like using "We Are the Champions" for Viagra, while showing various old men running out of their houses in joy, also made me cringe And what about misused songs, like "Fortunate Son" for Wrangler Jeans and Queen's "I Want to Break Free" (a song about domestic abuse) for Coke... those are pretty bad too

Depends on the usage... when the commercial uses the original song I generally don't care, but when the artist re-records a song specifically for a product, examples being Devo's "Whip It" becoming "You must Swiffer" and EMF changing "Unbelievable" to "Crumbelievable" for some cheese product, I cringe and almost want to feel embarrassed for them

"It's like a left turn in my mouth!"

Other than Jason Kendall, I can't name any long-term Pirates player from the post-Bonds era

They can buy a new one on eBay

To paraphrase Jim Rome, if you're the #8 team in the nation and you're putting up 58 on a mid-major, you should be winning by a lot more than 16

I can't remember how many times I kept telling people "If WP makes a thread, just ignore it and let it drop into the second page and out of our collective consciousness" but there'd always be (at least) one idiot who'd say "no durhey thisll bee fun ya" and perpetuating the monster until the mods finally put an overdue bullet into his account

Fucking awesome I dunno what I'll do after his inevitable firing... the (unintentional) comedy he's provided over the last five years has been priceless

I have several, though Vanhalen probably started 75% of those

Fail (edit: re-pbone, second what Ripper just said) Funny thing is I didn't even know Amazon had forums in the first place... I would just go to look at various CDs and their reviews

Since Ripper wasn't kind enough to provide any links, I googled "MikeSC" and found this thread as the very first link, which I presume is what Rip was referring to

(insert dmv joke) EDIT: Loquacious? I'm going to guess that Leena, who is unable to spell humorous yet randomly comes up with overly elaborate wording, is a fairly ardent Scrabble player. Leena shares thesauri with Marney

Leo drinks and goes home

Man, three straight pennants, what a shitty division

If you're not into metal, you are not my friend