Cheech Tremendous

I just hope that he looks worse than JaMarcus Russell. I thought the Raiders were insane when they picked him first two years ago, and nothing that I've seen since has changed my mind.

Various entities are now saying that Oregon State hero Derek Anderson is out, classy gay icon Brady Quinn is in.

McDyess has already indicated that he's not going to play for Denver. I think this is one of those "buyout/fake free agent/return to trading team" deals that make the NBA's salary cap system so embarrassing.

I went and saw this over the weekend. It's a fun movie with a quite a few laughs, but I'd still put it a notch below Kevin Smith's other movies, and way behind Apatow's stuff. Smith tried to go for the comedy with a heart movie, but the characters weren't quite deep enough to connect on that level. The porno scenes were really funny though. Loved Jay as Lester the Molester. It was only about five minutes after the movie ended before I started asking Mrs. Tremendous for a "Dutch Rudder."

The thing about John McCain is he's Republican Party 4 life.

There were some rumors over the weekend that Dumars was really high on Zach Randolph and that he'd consider making a move for him before the All-Star break. Wasn't a whole lot of meat to the story, but the Iverson trade could be the first piece in a Detroit shakeup. As for this trade itself, it doesn't make them any worse, and given that Detroit doesn't have much of a shot of winning the conference, it's a trade you can afford to make. Maybe there is enough energy left in Iverson to push them over the top. But most likely they just freed up $21 million when his contract expires this offseason.

Czech would rather go out and mod with 10 posters and just get spammed all the way until he had to do something else than mod with 11 when he knew that right now that poster is not a part of the mod team.

That is done by John Dewan and ACTA Sports. The numbers are available on the Bill James website for a small fee. Otherwise, you'll have to wait until they put out the next Fielding Bible book next Spring.

Fielding Bible awards are out. http://baseballanalysts.com/archives/2008/...new_testame.php Full voting results can be found here: http://www.billjamesonline.net/fieldingbib...e-votetally.asp

According to Keith Law, the Marlins were probably going to non-tender Mike Jacobs. The Royals could have actually had him for nothing. Looks like Dayton Moore got Mike Singletary'd on this one.

You also told Smues to leave the staff folder for the last fifteen minutes of the meeting, right?

I don't watch or follow TNA. Is Sting a heel?

Re: the board's impending death Some people can't read sarcasm on the internet.

I'm willing to give this a go again if people are interested. I'll need new facts from everyone.

Thanks to everyone for all the wonderful responses. This was really interesting. Gold stars all around for boarding hard.

As far as I know AWA had world title status all the way to the bitter end. I think Al is wrong about the status of WWF title. I don't have the magazines in front of me, but I am almost positive that the WWF lost world title status from the late 70s until Hogan's run.

A few newsbits: -The Red Sox exercised their option on Tim Wakefield for next year. That $4 million perpetual option has to be the most team-friendly contract in sports. -Not surprisingly, Teixeira, Sheets and Manny all filed for free agency. There were 65 players in all who filed on first day. -Edgar Renteria and Ken Griffey had their options declined. Renteria might resign for a lower amount, but Griffey's looking for work.

Half way through the voting period and Agent, Milky, Czech and Bob have a firm hold on four of the spots. Margins are close enough that those guys could end up being knocked out, though. There are about a half dozen others who are in contention. Keep those votes coming.

Two of the spots are basically locked up. There are several posters in the running for the final nominations. Remember, the nomination period ends on Monday.

I remember that. The WWF supposedly lost world title status because they were only holding cards in the northeast during the Backlund run (is this even true?). They also held out world title status from ECW until late 1999. Ironically, this was just months before the company ceased to exist.

Hate to break it to you VX, but just about every credible beat reporter says that the Rockies are going to trade Holliday, and probably Atkins, this offseason.

That's one fine pizza ass, amirite?

Everyone seems to love Bynum, but shouldn't he do something before he earns that big contract extension. His resume consists of 1/4 of a good season so far. It's not like the team would ever be in danger of losing him anyways.

Yeah, it might be time to rein in our fellow poster a go go.

Mike Jacobs had a line of .247/.299/.514 this year. The 32 HR are nice, but I would think that there are better options out there for 1B. The Royals already have Ryan Shealy on the roster, who could probably put up comparable numbers if given the job full time. Don't understand this trade from their perspective.