Kismet

Admin Mike pissed off the cool kids, so they built a new tree fort with a new secret password. Not everyone here was worthy of the decoder ring though, so the kids that don't sit at the right lunch table weren't invited. Or something like that.

I'll miss reading your stat heavy analysis of everything. That was good stuff, and you usually had an answer for the few questions I bothered to ask.

That's good stuff. As a Red Wings fan, I don't get much of that anymore. They get into so few fights, then lose them anyways. Oh yeah, fights are bad. Ban it and stuff.

Fuddruckers. It's a stopping point on the way down to the Detroit area for hockey games or concerts. Good stuff. Little dive in my town generically called Pizza King. Great pizza rolls, and surprisingly really good burgers. Quizno's is pretty good for subs. Mancino's is tolerable for subs once in a while.

I play Day of Defeat: Source through Steam daily, haven't had any issues with it. Haven't really tried CS.

All right then, thanks again everyone.

I'm still working my way through finally having a decent computer for games. My previous computers have all had basic on board sound. Using google I haven't gotten a clear answer on this. How much (roughly) would putting a dedicated sound card into my pc over the current on board configuration(Realtek 97') improve frame rates? I'm not in dire need, but thinking about getting one if it helps.

I'm really not lacking in anything. Most of it is good enough. AMD Dual-core 6000, GTS 8800(640bit),2GB Dual Channel DDR2 800 RAM. Mostly it was looking around, and there were some mentions of it slightly improving/steadying frame rates in a game or two I play. I figured I might grab one when I get a new monitor.

Good enough, thanks.

"Breed" off of the Nevermind album.

A shame. I live one town over from Saginaw. It's the freakin bottom of the barrel. The stereotype of what Detroit is supposed to be, that's Saginaw only smaller. I'm only a little suprised by this.

Sensei had the same idea I did. I still play it occasionally.

hGhiambi cranked the shit out of that one.

Lack of defense of a DH should be taken into consideration, but should only be a part of the package. Last year, it was close enough between Rodriguez and Ortiz that the defense made a difference. If this year there isn't anyone equal to Ortiz offensively, then the defense probably won't make up the difference. Locally, the Tigers swept the Indians over the weekend and have split 2 games with the Twins. Really a bummer about Liriano's arm trouble, with seeing him against Detroit a few times now I really hope this is a minor thing and not some long term problem. Got Bonderman vs Santana as a matchup tonight. Hope for a good show.

Pot, kettle, etc.

I had looked this up before, and remembered reading the threads on it. So via the Wrestling Classics search engine and Dave Meltzer: "The plan was always Hogan-Sid, dating back a year. Business was very different then. House shows were advertised big. You didn't do 2-3 matches in every market on a house show and then the PPV. I knew Hogan-Sid as the main event maybe 10 months out. When they did the TV announcement of Hogan-Flair, it was just an angle as Flair already knew he was facing Savage by then. What people don't realize is that Hogan-Flair started off doing good business, but it had petered out by December, months before Mania. Vince was going to build to Hogan legdropping Flair at the house shows early 1992, but after a terrible house in Florida, Vince felt it had run its course. He changed all the shows to Hogan & Piper vs. Flair & Sid, and it was Hogan-Sid drawing the money. The only Hogan-Flair Mania hint was in September of 91, when they started their house show run, and Flair wanted to do 30:00 matches and Hogan wanted 15:00, he told Flair they needed to save the 30:00 match for Mania. But when crowds for the program dropped, and second time in our market they only did 5400 at the Cow Palace, and our market had it first, there was no Mania in their future. In hindsight people think it would have been a big deal, but it had already run its course months before Mania and WWE promoted the program ass backwards and Flair wasn't considered special by WWF fans. I'm a friend of Flair and have never had any interest in paying to see Sid, but that is how it was then." Meltzer 5-31-06 Different discussion, same topic: "Vince had promised Sid the main event at Mania to get him out of a very lucrative WCW contract. Why WCW released him in the middle of a wrestling war just showed that they and Vince were playing under different rules as it never would have happened had the roles been reversed. Flair was under the impression, as was Hogan, that they would main event at Mania. The first Hogan-Flair match ever was in Dayton, OH as an unadvertised TV taping dark match a few days before Oakland, which was their second meeting, but billed as their first meeting. But the advertising of Flair vs. Hogan on TV for Mania was a work, as I'd been told Flair vs. Savage and Hogan vs. Sid about two weeks before the advertising came out. It was a Vince call because he thought Hogan vs. Sid would do more business. While the original Hogan-Flair matches such as Oakland drew very well, the gates fell pretty quickly for a number of reasons, the biggest being that they didn't promote it as a battle of champions and Flair as "something special" and the outsider facing Hogan was killed at Survivor Series. Flair as "just another" WWF wrestler facing Hogan was not a big drawing program by the time the decision was made for Mania". Meltzer 01-04-2003 on Wrestling Classics again.

Nothing is really wrong with Legace. He kinda psyched himself out in some peoples' view (saying before the playoffs even started that if he didn't do well he would be gone). They have Jimmy Howard waiting to go and Osgood signed. I wouldn't be against Legace coming back.

No Belfour or Hasek. Please. Sink or swim with Howard if they are to that point. Course, maybe I'm just tired of rent-a-goalie with Detroit.

With Yzerman done, i'm all for some of the old guard in Detroit moving on. Problem with this is Shanahan is one of the few Wings that would still hit someone when he could and was about the only thing even close to an enforcer type. But every year he gets slower, and for five million a year no thanks. Also, I haven't seen or heard an update on Fischer in a while. Wonder if he'll even be able to come back.

It's also a part of a series of three. One where they are equal, one where the black side is dominant and then the one that everyone sees. I think it's just kind of a stupid advertisement in general, but not with some racist overtone to it. It is funny though how I can't really seem to find much of any reference to the other two parts of the series, and have only seen them once when they were being discussed on Tucker Carlson's show. joystiq.com has pictures of all three.

Yzerman retiring is yet another chunk of my youth gone. I started watching when I could around 85-87 or so, but between the cable coverage back then and my family not being too into hockey I could only watch the Wings occasionally. As a kid he was the skill player that got me into hockey. Caughts parts of his 155 point season, the knee injury when he plowed into the goal post, the game 7 losses. One memory that sticks in my head, though it's not Yzerman specific, is the finals against the Devils. I was walking down the street from the park to the arcade/bowling alley/bar meeting place for our group of friends at the time. It being summer, most the houses had the windows and doors open. Almost every house down the street was tuned into the Wings game that was on. They(with him leading) had caught our town up with them on the trip to the finals. Of course the rest of is history. That finals loss, the Av/Wings brawl and rivalry, 3 Cups and a legacy that will last forever in Michigan.

Tigers play pretty badly and are beaten 9-2. Errors galore, not too pretty. It was bound to happen, let's see how it goes tomorrow.

Miner is very wild so far. Astros could bust out to a big lead.....nevermind, bases loaded double play to end the inning. 1-0 Astros.

Tigers sweep the Cardinals. I missed the last two games of it, so I didn't see much except the highlights. More late inning comebacks from the looks of it. Good deal, though I still suspect they are in for an extended losing streak eventually. Next up, the Houston Clemens come to town.

I missed most of the Detroit/Cubs series this weekend, and only caught the game today after the second inning. Was Prior just not ready to come off the DL? Well, for Detroit that makes four wins in a row and 8 out of 9. Rogers got his 200th win today. I also see Shelton is starting to come back around. He went into a bit of a slump after his great start. Seems the Tigers are winning most of the series they play,but losing the three series in a row to some of the top teams a little while back(NY,Bos,Chi). And yes, Rod Allen is terrible. A few years ago they had Josh Lewin and Kirk Gibson for the FSN TV. They were great, and reasonably unbiased calling the games. Since this was also the time of some of the worst teams put on the field, Gibson was great in that he didn't pull any punches or try to put a spin on how bad the team was.