Precious Roy

I think I felt embarrased for those guys having to take part in such an insulting, racially motivated angle. Such a waste of good talent....

Don Zimmer? I support this idea.

I'll do one more, ten year anniversary, 1995: 1. Kevin Garnett (#5) 2. Rasheed Wallace (#4) 3. Michael Finley (#21) 4. Jerry Stackhouse (#3) 5. Damon Stoudamire (#7) 6. Kurt Thomas (#10) 7. Joe Smith (#1) 8. Brent Barry (#15) 9. Theo Ratliff (#18) 10. Bob Sura (#17) Holy shit, I wanted to move a guy or two from the second round up but it was COMPLETE ASS. I think Eric Snow, Fred Hoiberg and Andrew DeClerq are the only ones still in the L. Overall though, not a bad draft, all the guys on the list went top 21, and Finley was by far the biggest steal.

1990 (a class that's on the verge of total retirement in the next two or three years): 1. Gary Payton (#2) 2. Derrick Coleman (#1) 3. Toni Kukoc (#29) 4. Elden Campbell (#27) 5. Antonio Davis (#45) 6. Tyrone Hill (#11) 7. Kendall Gill (#5) 8. Cedric Ceballos (#48) 9. Jayson Williams (#21) 10. Dennis Scott (#4) A pretty weak draft when you look at all the busts in the lottery and first round, but it produced a small core of productive big men and role players. Chris Jackson (Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf) could have got a spot over Dennis Scott.

They really need a David Stern Lego....

I've never had a chicken select, but they get my vote because McNuggets are fucking DISGUSTING. Any foodstuff that involves a 1 in 5 chance of biting into a greasy chunk of rubber gristle isn't worth paying money for. In fact, I don't even think I'd let them pay me to eat one. I prefer not to gamble on asembly line food, I save my money, spend it on cigarettes, and gamble on the off chance that I may die from cancer. It's better than choking on a chicken tumor.

As far as malt liquor goes, I used to drink a LOT of 40's of it, so I'm pretty educated. You need to consider a few things with Malt Liquor; how well the first 40 goes down, because it's always the harshest (the eating 30 minutes before is good advice, but I'd push it to 60 minutes personally), how successive 40s hold up on a binge, how it tastes once it gets warm and you're down to the swill (Malt Liquor 40s MUST be near ice cold when you crack it open or you're gonna be fucked by the end), etc. etc. Using that criteria, Mickey's is IMO the best, with Country Club coming in second. the one knock on Mickey's is that it comes in a green bottle, which makes it more succeptable to skunkyness, but the odds are low unless you're really unlucky. I flip flop on Colt and OE. Generally I prefer OE on taste and the fact that it's a little heavier and thus easier to pound without the gas fucking with your stomach, though I strongly urge against drinking more than two OEs in a night, because it WILL give you a wicked hangover, while Colt is a little nicer to your body once you top the 80oz mark. St Ides and...ummmm......what the fuck is it called...steel reserve, those are the bottom of the barrel as far as I'm concerned. Steel Reserve should be reserved for only the alkiest of alkaholiks. I gave up Malt Liquor a long time ago though, and I'd advise against anyone picking up the habit. Drink Pabst, Schlitz, Gennesee, High Life....or if all else fails Icehouse or Natural Light/Ice. Cheap Ice beer is a much better way to go than 40s of malt. In terms of ACTUAL beer and not swill, if you can afford it treat yourself to microbrews or shit like Samuel Smith, Guinness, Sierra Nevada, etc, that's the way to go.

According to indirect implications from Shaq and direct implications from Phil, Kobe was jealous over the fact that no matter what he did it would never be seen as "his team", and greedy for the MJ status which he felt was being denied in the public mindset do to the fact that he played with Shaq. He hated being viewed as the Robin to Shaq's Batman, even though I'm sure he knew deep down it didn't actually work that way, and even though anyone with a reasonable outlook didn't look at it like that. Fuck, even your boy Ervin espouses this view of Kobe's downfall, though he's too diplomatic to actually come out and say it in plain English, choosing euphamisms and indirect scoldings instead. LOLOLOLOLOL Hold on, one more time: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAAH I r3p3@t: =

Lofton never even got a chance to be the Womack of that team. Womack was playing every single day until recently, Lofton was lucky to get 2 or 3 starts a week. 1) It's a lot of fun if you're into franchise mode/simulation/career building type stuff. Very in depth, and a lot of stuff to tool around with. The actual manager mode in-game sims are good, though I wish they were a little more hands on. You can download a historical database and play from any point in baseball history. So if you want to begin with say, the 1918 Red Sox, and avoid the curse all the way to 2005, you could do that, or any other scenario from baseball history you can imagine. For example, I did a Yankees sim begining in 1987, the first year I can remember really being a baseball fan, traded for Ken Griffey Jr. and Barry Bonds in their rookie years, and proceeded to watch both of them set insane, 800+ career HR records and waltz into the hall of fame. 2) It's not free, but it's not too expensive either. I'm not sure what it costs now, but I purchased it when they had a sale going and I think it was $20 or something like that. I've definitely got my money's worth with all the hours I've spent messing around with it.

I'm not calling Sheff a flop by any stretch, he's been great, but he's 7 years older than Vlad

1992. Jazz beat Brown's Clippers 3-2

More or less. Steinbrenner lives in Tampa during the off-season, he has a team of "consultants" and scouts there who's opinion he measures against that of Cashman and former GM/current consultant Gene Michaels. They're basically two warring factions trying to get Steinbrenner's ear, and Steinbrenner almost always sides with the opinions of the Tampa group, likely because they're better at feeding his ego. Cashman is the GM in title only, because he really has little control over the team. If the NY sports press is to be believed they were the ones who sold Steinbrenner on going after Sheff rather than Vlad Guerrero (George liked the fact that Sheff was a Tampa native and related to Doc Gooden), advocated the signing of Wright, and nixed going after Beltran. It's also the Tampa group that favors drafting low ceiling college prospects over high schoolers, because they know George likes it when his minor league teams win their leagues rather than take risks developing really young players. The whole thing is a mess that has greatly contributed to the post-2001 downfall of this organization

Greg Ostertag v. Ben Wallace is a dream matchup

The FIRST thing we need to do is cut Steinbrenner's Tampa yes men out of the loop and give full confidence to Cashman and Michaels. I still can't believe we didn't go after Beltran when EVERYONE knew we needed a CF, and it was the Tampa "braintrust" that were behind that. I like the idea of Matsui waiving his no trade clause, getting moved for prospects, and then resigning with NY in the off-season. Entirely unrealistic, but it's time to get creative...

Oh, Overbay is good as gone once they're ready to bring up Fielder full-time, but I read something where their GM said he would hold him til the offseason, because he feels the market for hitters is much stronger then.

3 banditos?

They just need to do what I did in OOTP6: Trade Pavano and Wright for Pedro, Giambi for Vlad Guerrero, Womack and cash for Lyle Overbay, and combinations of pitching prospects, OF prospects and cash for Carl Crawford, BJ Ryan and Brett Myers respectively. It's billed as the most realistic baseball simulation on the market, so I have no doubt Cashman can pull off most of those moves. Seriously though, one player doesn't turn things around. I won't give up on this team unless we're eliminated by math, but on the other hand I haven't seen a whole lot to make me believe we can win a championship this season. Defense is full of holes and mental mistakes, pitching is inconsistent or just down right awful at times, and the offense puts up runs in bunches or not at all. The fact that we're #2 in runs and 12th in runs allowed doesn't really surprise me, we win games 8-3 and lose them 5-2. I'd rather see us put a great team on the field in 2007, 2008, 2009 then mortgage our future right now for a team that hasn't given us any real reason to believe in them. I won't advocate giving up much of anything for short-term help unless it's a guy who's reasonably young and can help us for a couple years, though I'll gladly show Sean Henn the door at this point.

Fuck, I totally know what they're going to do with this "new" SD title. JBL will win, Batista will show up as a draft pick, and they'll have a "unification match" at the PPV. Ghey.

Dupree needs to get that poodle fur off his face...

Hmm..Jordan/Guido and Benoit/Akio could be decent...

what's the match list for tonight?

Aw man, we're totally getting a "Carlito's Cabana" with Hogan