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So the Mets new network decided they'd just stop showing the game after the 2nd inning. Brilliant!

Except me, who said it would happen. And Damon Yankees or whatever his name is thought I was crazy. There's only so much suspension of belief people can have with a glorified junior as the World Champion, especially when taking a belt from Kurt Angle by pinning Randy Orton. If you really want me to, I'll go back and dig up the thread so people can read it again.

If they anticipated him getting a huge pop by beating Orton for Angle's title they're even more out of touch than I imagined.

So both LSU teams scored 45 on their respective ways out of the NCAA. Way to represent the Bayou bitches.

Yannick remains quite famous in Europe. Please don't diss my beloved tennis players. I know, but his douchebag of a son was announced as being from NYC. We don't want to claim that long haired girly man as one of our own

I'm pulling for UCLA because I'm sick of that fuckin' Noah kid. The last thing I need to see is his bushy hair sticking out of a Nat'l Champion hat and him talking about how no one believed in Florida but Florida. Go back to being your quasifamous father's son for a while asshole.

Looks like Chewbacca to me.

No wrestler has less credibility in relation to his push than Orton. No wrestler would be a less credible World Champion than Mysterio. So naturally Angle won't leave that match with the title.

I don't buy it. Anderson had one single year where he hit 50 home runs. It seems incredible to me that someone would take steroids, hit an enormous number of home runs, and then stop. Why wouldn't he have kept taking them? I think it's more likely that Anderson's season was one of those once in a decade flukes. Davey Johnson once hit 43 home runs and never hit more than 18 in a season. Heck, Roger Maris' 61 was a full twenty-two home runs more than he hit in any other season. Steroids are quite suspicious when it comes to late career performance spikes. But I don't think they are an easy explanation for single season fluke performances. Everyone suspects steroid use because Brady Anderson got huge (relatively speaking) that year he hit 50 and he was in his early to mid 30's by then. It could easily be a statistical anomaly, but it still looks suspicious.

I'm going to have to ask you to stop leering at my girl, Starvenger ... she's mine, all mine! ;-) And, yeah I can't quite figure out how she gets hotter with the socks. I like her without 'em, but like her so much more with them. And I agree with naiwf's theory, but I don't really see how (in Casaya's minds) it'd make sense to keep him around. He's going to have that Idol to use, regardless if it's right away or a month from now. Why not make him use it ASAP, rather than letting him keep it as a future asset? Yeah, it'd suck for whomever gets pinched from Casaya (likely Shane) but it'll come back to haunt them regardless of when it's used. Here's the quick and easy answer. There are 9 people on the island now, with the split being 6/3. Assuming Terry doesn't win the IC and has to burn up the idol it'll be a 5/3 split with Shane most likely getting booted. At that point, all that the 3 would need to do is flip one person who is unhappy (Cirie or Bruce come to mind) to even the sides up at 4, and if they got both of them now it's anyone's game as Danielle, Aras and Courtney would be on the short end (3/5) after controlling the game from day 1 basically. However, if you make Terry sit on the idol and get rid of Sally and Austin, it's a clear cut 6 against 1 scenario. Then you make Terry waste the idol at the next opportunity, you get rid of Shane and now it's 5 on 1 but Terry has no inherent advantage as the idol is gone and he has no way of convincing anyone to flip with promises of numerical superiority. The alliance of Danielle, Aras and Courtney then has no worse than 50% of the vote and can dictate play for the remainder of the game even without Shane.

Danielle's your girl, Starvenger ... I didn't want to step on your toes by leering at her. But now that you mentioned her, whoever convinced her to buy that bikini (let alone bring it to the show) deserves a medal of honor or a national holiday or SOMETHING. Danielle is likely safe for a long while, though. Another 2 or all three remaining La Mina members, Shane & Courtney are all more likely targets than Danielle. I didn't see the show last night, but I think Terry figures if he lets everyone know he has the immunity idol they won't bother trying to vote him out since he'd save himself and then someone from the alliance of 6 would surely end up getting eliminated instead. Basically he's trying to bluff them into letting him linger for a bit without having to burn up his ace in the hole. Shane's paranoid enough to realize the very scenario you listed could play out against him. At this point Terry's on the short side, so if he can survive the 2 eliminations of his allies without wasting the idol, he's better off than if he had to use it already. Better to make the final 7 with the idol than have to use it at the F9 vote out. At least, I would hope that's his thought process.

When was Stacy famous again?

Even if she sucks, she at least sounds country which gives her a big advantage. Country fans obviously have bad taste in music compared to those of us who don't "get it", and Kellie's pretty so she's safe unless she completely butchers her song or forgets the words. Even then, I think she'd be safe just because she wins more votes with her post song stuff on stage than during her performances. The girl is a genius because she knows how to play people for sympathy and actual singing talent is secondary to likability on AI.

The voting will catch up with her, eventually. The problem with Kathi, is that she doesn't have the fanbase needed at this part in the competition. It doesn't matter if more intelligent people like us think she's best... because most of us aren't voting, or the votes are spread out amongst the talented singers. Whereas Pickler has her large group of dumbass fans, mostly younger, who have nothing better to do than call for an hour. Kathi doesn't have that... she's more of the secondary star. "Oh, Kathi is good, too... but she's not my favorite, and she doesn't need my vote anyway." I think once we get to around the last 4 or 5... the votes won't be spread out amongst the talented singers, and we'll finally be rid of people like Pickler and Ace. Sadly, Kellie and Bucky will dominate given next week's theme and it's pretty obvious that rednecks have telephones now since both are still there. That means it's probable, if not likely that someone with real talent like Elliott, Mandisa or Katharine will be eliminated. I can only hope Paris or Ace do the job, but I don't see it happening with either of those two yet, and I think that Chris and Taylor have the most fans so even if they screw up they should be alright.

I think she dresses herself at the results show, and the "stylists" handle the performances.

You STILL want Rey to win this title that much eh? The guy's credibility is worse than Orton's now, so even if you get what you want, you want actually get what you want. Rey's a lost cause.

LOL. I think Katharine's was included in that because she looked REALLY nervous. Lisa wasn't doing much of anything, so she's no loss in my mind. Ace needs to go next week.

I want to fuck Shakira SO HARD. There's not a sexier woman out there.

I wonder if Rey is getting the same "assurances" that Edge did.

Well, they addressed that in the season long preview where the other black dude thinks they should whack the stepdaughter because she witnessed a murder and could ID them all. Considering that's what had to be done with Izzy, he doesn't see why the rules should be different. I'm sure there will be a lot of tension in that regard.

Actually it's 60 points

Well, I think that was going to be something that was resolved in the 2nd season. Of course, they never got that far.

Lisa, Kellie and Ace SHOULD be the bottom 3. Lisa, Bucky and Mandisa will be.

I give Elliott credit for completely changing that song, and singing better than anyone else tonight. My dark horse finally showed up again tonight.

That was butchered too. I'm not feeling tonight at all.