Mik

No, I'm not confused. Lost in Translation fucking sucked in my eyes. It's not a good film, too artsy. But the fact that it got tons of Oscar buzz generated publicity and made it a BIG FILM. Believe it or not, around January or February, MANY MANY people attempt to see all the films nominated for Best Picture and by that point it was already out on DVD.

Lost in Translation IS a big film. Give it up, dude. I bet you're thinking it's not because of the Box Office numbers. It was a smaller film that didn't play on that many screens. It generated mega Oscar buzz and was heavily featured in the months before the Oscars. A lot of people did see Lost in Translation. I bet if you could find the rental/DVD sales numbers you'd finally give it up.

Well, everybody knows how much I love Miguel Cabrera, but it's going to pretty hard for everyone else to ignore him if he keeps this up. 5 HRs in the last 5 games. He's 2nd in the NL in hitting, creeping up the leaderboards in both HR and RBI and he's only 22! A lot of people say that he isn't nearly as good of a hitter as Albert Pujols - but I'm not so sure.

Curry might be going about this the wrong way, but he is right. Lost in Translation was nominated for Best Picture, garnered a ton of praise, was featured everywhere and starred Scarlett. In Good Company had a commercial on every 15 seconds on any given channel. She even appeared as herself on the hit TV show Entourage. He's right, you're wrong.

You're getting Beckett and Burnett confused.

Delgado just hit one into McCovey Cove, and then Miguel followed up with another HR to straightaway CF. Seems like every other game they are hitting them back to back. Of course, it's not, they have only done it 4 times, but I think 3 of them have been in the past two weeks. Now let's just hope that Beckett goes 6 innings and stays injury free.

Sporting News is reporting that Nevin will most likely veto the trade. Ha.

Orioles trade Sidney Ponson to the Padres for Phil Nevin. The Padres then traded two minor leaguers to the Reds for Joe Randa. The Burnett/Orioles trade is DEAD.

Those are overall rankings, Bauer. Like 1 is the best in Derrek Lee and so forth, making Damon, in fact, the worst.

It's on at 6:30, not 8:00

Wonder what this is all about? Trouble a-brewin' in Washington.

Baseball Prospectus publishes its VORP rankings (Value Over Replacement Player) here: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/statisti...index.php?cid=1 VORP measures the number of runs contributed beyond what a replacement-level player at the same position would contribute if given the same percentage of team plate appearances. VORP scores do not consider the quality of a player's defense -- so this list is based on offense only. Here are the starting lineups, with the player's overal VORP MLB ranking in parentheses: AL: C Jason Varitek-BOS (35) 1B Mark Teixeira-TEX (31) 2B Brian Roberts-BAL (3) SS Miguel Tejada-BAL (4) 3B Alex Rodriguez-NYY (5) OF Gary Sheffield-NYY (9) OF Hideki Matsui-NYY (18) OF Johnny Damon-BOS (23) DH David Ortiz-BOS (7) NL C Paul Lo Duca-FLA (86) 1B Derrek Lee-CHC (1) 2B Chase Utley-PHI (20) SS Felipe Lopez-CIN (22) 3B Morgan Ensberg-HOU (11) OF Miguel Cabrera-FLA (6) OF Bobby Abreu-PHI (10) OF Jason Bay-PIT (13) DH Albert Pujols-STL (2) The AL starting lineup is pretty close to the actual lineup. The NL lineup is pretty different. My favorite part, of course, is Miguel Cabrera being ranked the most productive outfielder in all of baseball. Thanks Baseball Prospectus.

I've been saying the same thing to all of my friends. Not only 1000 pages long, but with very little dead space.

The 20 incher... They have a deal now where you get a free iPod mini or equivalent value with a purchase. I'm gonna use it towards the 20 gb color iPod at the student price and end up getting it for around $90. Picking it up tomorrow. Can't friggin' wait.

No, you can connect it with a regular USB port but it will just go a bit slower. With firewire or USB 2.0, you can upload songs nearly instantly, but with a regular USB it takes a small bit of time.

Delgado and Cabrera just hit absolute bombs on back to back pitches. Then poor Mike Lowell hits a rocket up the middle that Craig Counsell makes a diving stab at and turns a double play. Lowell must be on the verge of suicide right about now...especially with the thought of playing in Pittsburgh.

You can't make this shit up. Next time he's on PTI he'll definitely bring it up. I'm a hero, now where's TO's money?? EDIT: D'oh. Should say drowning.

Better believe it. 4th place.

My Tivo was being a bitch yesterday and didn't record even though it is set to record all the episodes. Therefore I missed the first 6-7 minutes and apparently the A-Ha music video. Is it on the web like the breakfast machine was last week? And can someone who is good with this type of thing help me out?

I'm all for getting Jack and his grandfather club out of the dugout. He is something like 76 and his bench coach is 75. That's just insane. Girardi is 40 something and would be a great fit for manager, I think. I really think the team is way better than they have been performing and if they don't make major changes soon, this season is lost. 2006 and beyond keeps looking better and better but they can also contend now. And I kinda like the Baltimore deal, although it will kind of be weird to see Mike Lowell on another team - even though I know deep down it has to happen.

Double post - sorry.

Well, now the Baltimore Sun is reporting that the reported trade between the Marlins and Orioles will be completed today. Man, trade rumors are ok, but everybody needs to stop reporting them as fact. Oh, and expect Jack Mckeon to be fired. The south Florida papers are already mentioning possible candidates: according to the Sentinel the leading candidate is Joe Girardi. I'd be thrilled if that happened, honestly.

Looks like suspicions were correct. Stephen A. Smith has gotten his own show. It's called Quite Frankly and it will be on 6:30 ET. Just saw a commercial during Sportscenter.

Holy fuck is all I have to say. As for teke's list... 1 isn't happening. 5 will be done by Neville, in my opinion and I think Harry can knock out the rest of them in a tidy 850 page book. As for spoilers posted above...

The neverending story stuff was great. "You're too heavy, buddy."