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They have strawberry Fruitopia at McDonalds now as well as blue Powerade. Some fast food places (including BK) have Vault.

They've got a Southern Style chicken biscuit for breakfast as well. Nothing else on it. I was fine with it but then again, there's hardly anything from Mickey D's I don't like.

Isn't it true that vegans have a distinct, pugnent smell to them?

And now we have "former Phillie great Marlon Byrd" and "former Yankee great Shawn Chacon."

Good catch, I guess I mistook them barely missing the 120 loss record with him barely missing a 20 loss season. It was Bonderman that had 19 losses that year. Nate Cornejo had 17.

It's sort of cool that Cal played in all those games, but I still think the consecutive games streak is the most ridiculous and unimpressive of all the hallowed records in sports. Cowherd echoed those same sentiments on his show today. He made an analogy to kids who have perfect attendance in school. If said student did it while never being sick, great. If he did it while being sick, it's completely overatted. Why go to school when you're sick and just make everyone else sick? He also talked about employees who work for 30 years and never miss a day of work and get awards for it. Ok great, but how many of those people were actually the best at what they did?

I don't think we should be killing Tejada for this stuff. He'll be on the DL anyways so it's a moot point. Besides, isn't it ultimately up to the manager to decide whether he plays or not?

Since no one asked... 1. Should Sosa be in the Hall of Fame? 2. Will he be elected (and is it 1st ballot or not)?

Well since the Tigers are good again, I don't care about the rep. rule anymore.

No love for the Tigers huh? At least throw Polanco or Maggs a bone.

Yeah those commercials were already showing on ESPN earlier in the year. What I wanna know is....what's the deal with these baseball commentators referring to certain players as "former Met great Kaz Matsui" or "former Dodger great Paul Lo Duca?" Is this supposed to be some type of inside joke?

Looking back at Arrington's stats, it looks like his 3 Pro Bowl years were his only good years. Add to that the issues he had at the end of his Redskins' days and these recent injury issues and you might be inclined to say that his career has been somewhat disappointing to this point (by #2 pick overall standards anyways). He'll be 29 tomorrow so we'll see how the rest of his career turns out. This accident doesn't help matters.

A daughter named Sam Alexis Woods. No Samantha?

That's obviously true but I thought the All-Star game was about rewarding players having the best seasons to this point. Pujols struggled out the gate and Prince is putting up great numbers.

I'm gettin kinda nervous waiting to see what happens with that limo.

I suspect most of you guys will have beef with this list. NFL's top 50

I just found out that Frankie from the Real World San Diego died last week at 25 from cystic fibrosis. I'm not in the pool and I don't know if she'd count anyways but I thought I'd pass that note along.

I'm starting to get a little worried about the Yankees (especially considering my team is the Tigers and my second team is Boston). I'm a young guy so practically all I know is the Yankees winning the A.L. East and it never fails to piss me off. The last couple years, the Yankees have seemingly been out of it early only to come back and make the playoffs. Even if they don't win the division this year, they'll still be in the Wild Card race. At first I thought Detroit wouldn't have a problem winning the Central once it got later into the season, but their bullpen is a mess right now and it's cost them several games. Rodney is pitching like dogshit, Zumaya is out until God knows when, and Grilli is an absolute joke. Not to mention Todd Jones, who was appropriately dubbed by Ernie Harwell "the human roller-coaster." Cleveland could easily take the Central. For once I just wanna see the Yankees miss the playoffs for once but they're on their patented run right now. I'll believe it when I see it.

Fair enough, it just seemed like people were all up in arms about expanding the MLB playoffs without looking at the fact that the other leagues have far more playoffs teams while playing far less games, plus the fact that all the leagues have roughly the same amount of teams. Just some consistency would be nice.

So it's perfectly acceptable for a team like the Orlando Magic or the Kansas City Chiefs to toil around for most of the regular season to only end up as playoff fodder, but adding a 5th and 6th team to the playoffs in each league in baseball is the end of the world? If anything, those extra teams would have proved far more than the ones mentioned above. Teams have missed the playoffs before with winning percentages equivalent to the #1 seed in the NBA's Eastern Conference. Maybe it's just me, but that doesn't seem right. As far as interleague goes, is it such a bad thing to see every possible matchup every year? Is it really gonna kill the game of baseball? Think of all the classic championship series/games in the other pro sports. In many of those cases, those teams met at least once during the regular season. In the end, it didn't diminish anything so I don't see why it would in baseball. I'm reasonably sure that the Celtics/Lakers regular season matchups in the 80's didn't deter from the gretaness that occurred in the Finals. If you balance the schedules, you won't have guys like Chipper Jones complaining about teams having unfair advantages. I guess I'm just one of those people who'll never understand why baseball has to put itself above everything, America's pastime or not.

Some guy on a Pistons forum I post on came up with this trade. Just putting it on here for shits and giggles. Four-way trade

MLB 1. Expand playoffs to 6 teams in each league and have the format mirror the NFL's. There can't be too many things that make a team feel worse than winning 95-100 out of 162 games and still missing the playoffs, especially when you consider that teams at or below .500 make the playoffs in the NBA, NHL, and NFL almost every year. 2. Everyone plays everyone at least once. There's 162 fucking games, there's reason this can't happen when the NBA does this playing half as many games. If some of these series have to be two-game sets, so be it. 3. Like everyone else said, can the home-field B.S. in the All-Star game. Team with the best record gets home-field in every round. NBA 1. Playoff teams are seeded by record regardless of whether they win the division or not. 2. One day of rest between playoff games except when it's between Game 2 and 3 in every round and Game 5 and 6 in the Finals, in those cases, two days rest. 3. Adopt the NFL draft formula. I don't think there's any way to stop tanking unless you instill strict penalties against tanking (which will open a pandora's box since there's no way to 100% know when a team is tanking) so you might as well put the draft in that format. NFL 1. Change the pass interference penalty to 15 yards instead of a spot foul (except for the last 2 minutes of each half, in that scenario, the spot foul rule still applies). It's so cheap when a team chucks the ball 60 yards and gets bailed out on a questionable call. If a team's secondary sucks that bad, those 15-yard penalties will eventually add up.

I can't stand the Spurs. The only team that I dislike more happens to be the Cavs. However, I do have much respect for them, especially this year (Suns controversy notwithstanding). While flashier teams like the Mavs and Suns got all the hype in dominating the regular season, the Spurs just went about their business and got the job done. I do still hate Bowen and Ginobli though.

Anyone have any good knowledge of Rodney Stuckey? Pistons' fans are in love with this guy for whatever reason and there have been indicators that the Pistons might pick him at #15. I've seen a couple things on him; I'm just wary about a guy coming from a smaller school.