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Undertaker was about to go over clean. Wow. And Cena with a bite...strange.

I like Orton teaming up with Edge. Edge can talk enough for the both of them, maybe Orton will learn something. Orton by himself is too boring but Orton with Edge is ok.

Welcome to the first ever blue jeans match. Edit: That was a nasty bump Murdoch took, landed flat on his side.

Samoan Spike is a terrible finisher to just bust out like that, you can't even tell he hit a finisher, it just looks like a running punch or clothesline.

YouTube lost money, they survived on venture capital. And yes, the business model was to get bought. Welcome to 1998 where "eyeballs" and "mindshare" are what matter most.

Drawn Together has come far? I love Cross and Benjamin but the first episode was not very good, half the plot was spent on the dude in the house with the pig and the Freakmart guy. I need more Cross and Benjamin. The SP episode was great, the best part for me was just the tone of voice Cartman used all the time.

Go Padres! I didn't know Jesse Barfield had a son in the majors. Wonder if he has his father's arm.

The manager in baseball doesn't really matter all that much in the end. Baseball doesn't have a lot of complicated plays like in football, nor does it have a large chemistry element. Success in baseball is almost solely dependent on the players you have. Torre is a fine in-game manager. Seriously what would Bobby Cox have done differently? Pitched a game himself? When you lose 8-1 how do you pin that on the manager? He told his offense to suck and his pitching to bite?

Torre can only work with what he has. The Yankees teams that won were simply better teams with MUCH better pitching. In the regular season when you face a bunch of jobber pitchers a hearty offense will win you a lot of games. When you face better pitchers suddenly your offense doesn't look so great. I would be interested to see what a team like the Yankees does against elite pitchers vs. average ones. Like take the top 15 or so starters in the league by WHIP and see how the Yanks OPS compares against those guys to the rest of the league. A patient team can really victimize bad pitching. Pitchers that pitch in the zone or have pitches that look like they will be in the zone are a lot harder to get into bad counts than guys who miss the zone a lot. The bottom line is that the Yankees pitching sucks, and it has for years. They don't have an ace, they have 2 #2 pitchers and then a bunch of 4s and 5s.

Yanks need to fire Cashman. $200 million payroll and look at that rotation.

The Yankees can't be overhauled effectively unless Cashman is gone. The guy sucks. Terrible. The Yankees have tried to overhaul a couple times already, always with the same result: a lot of money spent on guys who are in their waning years or injury prone. Edit: Bonderman had the most losses in baseball a year or two ago IIRC. But he is one of those guys that everyone was waiting for to turn the corner.

Man give it up you dolts. The Yanks offense is not terrible. They have looked bad the past few games, but they have a good offense overall. The worst Yankees player is Cashman. Good pitching > good hitting. It is a lot easier to be a patient lineup when the opposing pitcher doesn't have any control or any great pitches. Against good pitching patience is a lot harder.

Bitch fight.

Yanks showing some trademark patience at the plate here.

Moose is ok but not a dominator and inconsistent. He is still capable of having a great game but too often has an average or lousy one. The Yanks are a mess. Their rotation is just awful. Wang, a guy who they didn't think anything of and wanted to trade, is their best pitcher. Johnson has been a complete bust, as have Wright and Pavano. The farm system hasn't produced much in the way of pitching.

Also, Kenny Rogers has been one of the best AL pitchers for the past two years. Him doing well is not a surprise.

Yeah, I don't get people at all. The Tigers had the best ERA in the AL, yet people said their pitching wasn't strong enough. The common wisdom is that pitching wins, yet everyone slept on the Tigers. In addition, the Yankees have one or at most two good startes. (Wang and Mussina) The rest of their rotation is crap. Total crap. This Tiger team is very similar to the Sox last year - you know those guys that won the WS. Good pitching that is pretty consistent throughout the rotation and enough hitting. Edit: Every year people say that the Yankees lineup is incredible, and every year they lose. For some reason the Yankees GM, as well as people in this thread, seem to think that neglecting pitching while stockpiling more bats works.

I don't see how it makes sense to dump a guy that does nothing but win. Yeah, it is boring but a win is a win, these guys are supposed to be competing to be the best right? It takes away a lot when you aren't the best, just the most exciting. I agree with keeping guys around who aren't so good but are exciting, and letting boring losers go quickly. But if a guy keeps winning letting him go just because he has a boring style is silly.

The first 1.5 seasons or so would good. I would say it jumped the shark when it was revealed that Famke was a man. It had been a bit ludicrous before that but that really sealed the deal. The first season really wasn't that crazy at all. It also seemed a lot rawer and edgier. Like I said, nothing can surprise now because any zany shit can happen at any time.

Ha ha...for some reason I was thinking of Carlos Pena instead. Wily Mo was not bad, except that in situations where you need him he always strikes out.

Remember when they used to show a lot of surgery on Nip/Tuck? Now they basically never show it. And they used to focus a lot more on the patients each week, again they barely even show them now. This show has gotten so over-the-top it is boring. Nothing can surprise anymore because the entire thing is just so overdone. I'm basically giving up on it.

Or it could be that Pena has never been any good, with any team, ever. The problem with the Red Sox this year was the moves they made and the moves they didn't make. If you look at the run Epstein has had after getting Schilling he has been pretty bad. Since then they got (and then got rid of)Rent-A-Wreck, got Coco, got Clement, got Beckett, gave up Hanley Ramirez and Anabel Sanchez, got Willy Mo, gave up Bronson Arroyo....they aren't doing any better than random coin flipping. And while they talk about building for the future, they got rid of two great prospects and Arroyo for not much in return. Epstein came in with a bang but since then hasn't done anything.

LaBrie does kind of suck. Geoff Tate can hit high notes but he doesn't sound anything like LaBrie. LaBrie just has the wrong mix of vocal quality, enunciation, crappy lyrics, etc. Seriously DT has some of the most awful lyrics ever, especially Metropolis Part 2 which is just painful to listen to. Even more so in that the music is good if you can get back the horrible made-for-tv-movie "plot."

The only top 10 list Tek deserves to be on is top 10 dissapointing seasons. Not only is the guy not a top 10 player, he's not a top 100 player.

Forward progress? Never heard of it. NFL officiating is and always has been a joke. It's amazing that they haven't fixed it yet. Nice run by Jones. I didn't know he was the brother of the Cowboy's Julius Jones until they mentioned it pre-game.