Mike wanna be

The planet does go through heating & cooling cycles, and it is based on carbon emissions. We don't match what cows or volcanoes put out, but that's no excuse to sit around & do nothing while we wait for the planet to freeze over "naturally".

The smart thing to do would be to feign treating it like a real draft, and trade MVP to RAW for a draft pick. I mean, MVP is MVP but the mystery draft pick could be anybody! It could even be MVP, you know how much they like him.

Jillian used to be a fatty. Well, a fatty by WWE Diva standards anyway.

Well so much for that. Russia outran them the whole game.

Man, they're in for a lot of deleted main events if anybody else needs to be edited out of the history books.

I tried icing the Texas mascot kicker. It "worked" in that it gave the camera angle and the shake and the slow-motion, but the result didn't show it as he bombed a 50-yard field goal through the posts with about 25 yards to spare.

Man, did Croatia choke in penalties or what. I'm really looking forward to Germany/Turkey.

Tom never went through the window for me. That's kind of awesome how we can maintain a discussion on how to do just one mission and there are situations I've never considered, let alone encountered, available in the game.

Indeed, I got the composure fix as well when I air-mailed an INT to the Buckeyes. It wasn't nearly as intrusive as I thought it would be, to their credit.

Good Lord, Turkey is the team of the tournament. Croatia/Turkey going to penalties, with a goal per side in the last 4 minutes of extra time

Your contract expired while you were idle, I guess. I don't know, I don't have any power over it, I just know we've had a lot of people go inactive and a lot of those same people had contracts expiring early in Season 3. And we really need those people back, holy christ we got pasted. 11 carries for 0 yards, 7 tackles for a loss on 51 snaps.

There's no lag between the playcalling screen and the game, which is very nice but I'm not sure if that's because it's playing off the hard drive or if it's an official feature for the game. It's really hard to see the light yellow route lines when the sun's shining on the field. That's an issue.

http://securom.sublimesims.net/index.php?o...1&Itemid=81 There's a couple more articles available on the site, if anybody's interested.

I'm going to have to side with al on that one. I mean that ball didn't have the slightest bit of dip on it to indicate it was going to drop at all, let alone require a block... Just for the rest of us, the article in question (I think, it's the only one I found): http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3450245 Look at that first screencap. The catcher's already not looking at the ball and it just becomes more pronounced with each frame.

All things considered, what's the point? Manuel becomes the guy who has no shot of being the manager there next year barring a miraculous team turnaround that ends somewhere respectable like the postseason...which is the exact same situation Willie would have been in if Minaya had the brass to give him some job security by not being a chickenshit about the situation. The Mets need a catcher, a young outfielder and some semblance of a bullpen. Feliciano to Sanchez to Wagner might work, but why the fuck do they carry such a deep bullpen? They have like, two guys that aren't the backup catcher on the bench and eight bullpen pitchers they're afraid to bring into games because all they seem to do is blow games for them.

To be fair to Holly, he had a neck injury. To be honest about Holly, it's his own fault he had a neck injury and he's a world-class douche. I picked the lower-right Hardy shirt. It's the least obnoxiously colored of the four.

Baby Naitch v. Little Steamer? Sounds like a mid-80s midget match.

What's so horrible about Milwaukee? Seems like their last few draft picks wouldn't work out for them/didn't want to be drafted there. Are they really that bad?

Oh, it was 100% Omar on this one. He basically said "I fired him because people thought I was going to fire him", and threw in "...and no matter whether we won or lost the main story was how that game affected Willie's job security, and that's not fair to him or the team" just as an excuse. He fired him because the media was all over the team wondering about Willie's job security. The media's reason to wonder about Willie's job security was that Minaya deliberately danced the bullshit "I'm not committing to anybody at this time" dance. There'd be some carryover if he came out and said "Willie's our man for the rest of this season", there's no denying that, but to basically say "I couldn't decide whether or not our manager should lose his job, and I got tired of listening to the media talk about it so I basically flipped a coin and made a guess as to which decision would save my job." is downright embarrassing.

Second-highest win percentage of any Met manager, on a two-game win streak, in the middle of a road trip, and they can him.

Come on, legal system stalling that gets the two Tecmo Bowl remakes released before the company explodes.

We have one human cornerback, and 2 total corners.

Annie's inactivity means she's not on the team, so we're short a receiver and a corner. Both came back to bite us.

He proves himself as the top guy, but he takes way too long to do it. The only people who see him "prove himself" are already watching TNA and buying PPVs. Somebody that flips through the channels and sees a heavyweight champion be made to look foolish in the middle of the ring in a promo will possibly pause to see what he'll do. He will not remain on the channel for very long when he sees that the champion's choice is "Do nothing", and therefore he misses Joe's cool, calm "I'll beat you in the ring, here's your chance" retort that's later in the show, and he misses Joe one-upping the guy in the ring in the main event/at the PPV. Each segment should have a beginning, middle and end, and too often the top program has the end of a particular segment much later in the show, when they'd be better off ending it with a fifteen-second pull-apart slugfest in the ring that gives closure to everyone watching that segment rather than leaving them wondering what the fuck's going on.

Speaking of Turkey, that was one hell of a second half. I feel bad for any sucker watching Switzerland/Portugal. Turkey falls behind 2-0, they cut it to 2-1 at 75'. Cech, widely regarded as being one of the top planetary goaltenders, goes for a lunging catch on a cross and the wet ball slips through his hands, right onto the shin of the Turkish captain for the game-tying goal at 87'. At 89' the Czech defense gets caught trying to catch said Turk captain offsides and he buries the game-winner with some wacky spin & bounce off the crossbar. All this in an elimination game, winner moves on. What a loss for the Czechs, though; four minutes away from advancing and one slip-up ends up being the momentum swinger that ends their quest.