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Al, I saw the Giants/M's in Spring Training the other day and Pablo Sandoval looked like a complete stud. He hit a homerun, bunted for a single, beat out an infield hit, and probably would have stole second if not for a foul ball. What do you know of him?

every election people vote for guys who they know nothing about. It's not uncommon. You don't think everyone that voted for McCain did so because they were well-informed.

I didn't really feel much until I saw john lewis talking on NBC. That was kind of emotional

For guys at higher weight classes, that amount of weight lost represents a smaller percentage of total body weight. Most of them have a larger frame from which they can feasibly sweat off weight from.

I've done my sausage making before, as well as smoking. It's not too hard. The best book I can think is Chacuterie. http://www.amazon.com/Charcuterie-Craft-Sa...g/dp/0393058298

Knockdowns are like the closest you can get to finishing a fight without actually winning, and the round wasn't that far out of reach that.

A good burger always beats a good hot dog. Though Hebrew Nationals are pretty damn good hot dog.

What can you do with chicken that you can't do with fish? Fish Parmigiana? Fish Marsala? Fish Francese? General Tso's Fish? You can sit around and watch the game with a big platter of buffalo wings. When was the last time you saw someone eating buffalo fins? The list goes on. I like fish as much as the next guy, but chicken is much more versatile, so that would have to be my pick. Although of all seafood, I don't think crab is given nearly enough credit. Good crabmeat is, in my opinion, even better than lobster or steak. Chicken is bland and to reach any sort of level needs to be paired with a sauce or filling. But when you look at a piece of fish, before you say I can serve it with so and so sauce, you can marinate it, you can serve it sliced thin and raw (you could do both of the first two for a ceviche), you can cook it to wide variation of temperatures, you can cold smoke it or hot smoke it, you can barbeque it, etc. Some of those cooking styles come into play with chicken, but some don't, and that's before you get into specific seasoning. I can take a piece of sole, stuff it with king crab and shrimp and camembert. You think cordon bleu is good, that'll knock your socks off. Tilapia with a parmigiano crust doesn't need to be drenched in marinara. You can use soul or flounder for francese, which is a classic preparation. Chicken has a limited scope in that regard, as your going to need somethinng to mask it to get it the extra mile, whereas not just the variety in fish, but the fact that it loans itself to many different ways of cooking itself, make it a more valuable agreement. I'm not going to throw thirty herbs on my fried fish because I want to taste the salmon or cod. Whereas you taste chicken, which doesn't have much depth of flavor on its own, and you know what you're getting in terms of the meat no matter what the preparation. The sauce will be different, but the meat itself will not change too much. But you take some pieces of raw salmon. Cure one like gravlax. Cold smoke one like smoked salmon. Fry one on it's own. Bake another. Deep fry another. I'm not talking about seasoning it outside of salt and pepper, but in terms of testures and tastes, your going to get more out, and that's just salmon. Throw in the otoro of the tuna. Cured anchovies, which make wonderful bases for other sauces and dressings. Dried shrimp, if we head that direction, are the basis of many great Filipino dishes. Southeast asian cuisine cannot exist without fish sauce. Fried calamari. Shellfish boils. Grilled unagi. Chowder.

What can you do with chicken that you can't do with fish?

Speaking of Gina, how the fuck do you not make a weight class that was put together specifically for you, twice in a row?

You can't pull a guillotine from side control on anyone but a 150 lb white belt who is a bitch and panics at the first sign of trouble. Fixed it for you. Thanks. I knew there was an easier way to say it.

You can't pull a guillotine from side control without an amazing amount of strength, just because you give up all the leverage to the other guy, and by having your head turned in that direction, it makes it much harder to finish on top of that.

Technique?

It's kind of interesting that Locke chose the knife as a child, but Richard had to really push Locke into killing his father by proxy. Considering both Ben and Locke saw Richard as children, were they both meant to be cultivated, and Ben ultimately chosen because Locke took the knife?

Maybe Sawyer and Claire both get killed on their way back, or something of the sorts.

Very true. Speaking as someone who got caught in late November/early December in both OKC and the Pacific NW, Oklahoma is WAY worse in terms of weather than Seattle is. The temperature usually averages between 30-40 degrees in the winter and 70-85 in the summer. Right now every day is pretty much in the 50's, with occasional warm days in the 60's. Bullshit he is. The Trailblazers are the only professional sports team in the state, and they have an insane amount of support and history here. The Rose Garden sells out much more frequently than KeyArena ever did, and it's not just because we have a better team. Talk among the sports circle around here is that is what Allen really wants to do. They word is they get private financing for the new arena, and build it about three blocks off the Westlake I-5 entrance in the middle of yuppie-ville.

It doesn't rain much here in Seattle either. That's just perception. We may have a few more rainy days, but far less accumulation. And summers rock. Paul Allen's just going to move the Blazers up here eventually, once he's done rebuilding Westlake into its own little community. Brandon Roy is coming home.

I will say this about the Herring fight: the post interview was absolutely incredible. The fight itself was very, very hard to watch.

It's on his DVD's.

Bedard trade will be announced tomorrow.

I don't care whether I had him or not, I couldn't be happier.

I scored 70 points.

I love how it comes full circle, with the arm-bar at the close of a round.

Hills are good in moderation, once or twice a week. Most people will get back or knee problems from such. Resistance training, plyometrics, and circuits all work well for runners, and have good success rates for athletes looking to speed up in other sports; though mostly, you're just going to have to run more with varied terrains.

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