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Armen Gilliam- "the Hammer", former Phoenix Sun, dies at 47 of a heart attack while playing a pick-up game.

Alternative Title:
No Longer Running Rebel

The trailer for Moneyball has been released and, holy fuck am I already mad at myself for seeing this movie someday.

The WWTDD guy, despite being not exactly right about it, made me LOL with this:

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So this guy broke all the rules and created a new system that let a small market like Oakland compete and beat teams like New York and Boston in a sport with no salary cap.

Except that he didn't create it, the system is called sabermetrics and has been around since the 1980's, and he didn't implement it in Oakland, the guy who was GM before him did (the Jonah Hill character doesn't exist), and during his 13 years as GM the A's have never won the American League much less a World Series. In fact they haven't even been above .500 in 5 years, while teams like Tampa, who are in an even smaller market and have New York and Boston in the same fucking division, were in the World Series 3 years ago.

So this movie tells the story of how the worlds most boring sport added math to create a system that doesn't work. Holy shit, can I go stand in line now?

Harmon Killebrew - entering hospice as treatment for cancer has been unsuccessful.

Looking like the last few days now.

Peeking ahead:
Fork - 8 points
PenFoe - 6 points
Apex - 2 points

Ron Springs, former Cowboys RB, and father of CB Shawn Springs dies at 54.

And...put me on the board for a 6-spot.

Kinda disappointed, Wheez.

Other potential thread title:
Dead Charlemagne

2 weeks until pitchers and catchers, meaning that Yahoo is going to open up fantasy baseball soon.

So, fuck it...

Keepers (assuming 2010 rules in place-where we have a 2-round bump from draft and waivers start with round 13):
Round 1. Tulo - pending where my draft pick is in the round (meaning that if I have the 1-3 pick in the first round, I'm not keeping Tulo).
Round 7. Max Scherzer
Round 10. Shin-Soo Choo
Round 11: Jose Bautista
Round 12: Delmon Young
Round 13: Carlos Santana
Round 14: Huston Street

Ric Hess, owner of Sheffield's.

Apparently they serve all kinds of food that's quite good, but I gave this guy a shitton of money when I used to live at 3222 N. Sheffield (or something like that, I was pretty stoned at the time) and drink shitty beer (ironic since he's often credited as one of the craft-beer "pioneers" in the area).

Well, I think it's ironic...CT?

Either way, I'm sure some of the urban dwellers with call this place a douchey frat-boy hangout, but I have fond memories (of the bar, not of the title of this thread).

Not sure how many people get the Science Channel (not SyFy-this is a different channel), but this sounds hilarious.

Not sure if Tonk or another one of our ring-kissing friends has seen this on the 3 channels they get on the telly, but would love to know if it's funny.

Figured it was time to get this started so that it can get abandoned in 3 weeks for the "Bulls are insignificant" thread.

But mostly because we need to know who JD's favorite team is this year and I was wondering if there was NBA fantasy this year that didn't involve ESPN.com (why aren't we on Yahoo again??).

Also, because fuck Miami.

George Blanda, holder of 97F of all NFL records, dead at 83.

Maybe Fork, Flannj or Stew could provide us with a better thread title.

/breaks silence

Leonard Skinner, the inspiration for the band name, dies at 77.

Alternative thread title: "He's as free as a bird now"

/resumes silence.

Genuine change of heart?
Sophisticated prank?
Attention hungry idiot?

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Early reports  indicate that the film features frontal male nudity, a scene in which a man defecates on another while he sleeps, and other shocking moments and images.

Trailer now available.

Older link: details of the documentary.

Bobby Thomson dead at 86.

Sad.

Sad for the Cowhers and the Steelers family and also sad because I totally had inside info on this (one of my friends teaches at the high school in Raleigh where the kids went) and was told that she was going to make it to 2011, when I was going to get mad points for picking it.

Link.

Early candidates

Sandberg
Trammel
Brenly
OMG Y DIDNYT THEY JUST HIRE GIARDI??!?!

Baskin Robbins to drop 5 flavors from their famous roster of 31, including the iconic French Vanilla.

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Caramel Praline Cheesecake, Campfire S'mores, Apple Pie a La Mode and Superfudge Truffle are leaving the list. French Vanilla, a staple since 1945, is out, too.

Since being a Cubs fan is most often a joyless, unrewarding, punch-you-in-the-balls experience, I figured there should be a thread to remind us that it could be worse.

Example 1: The 2010 D-Backs

1. The 2010 D-Backs have now gone 31 straight innings without scoring a single run. Not only scoreless, they haven't even gotten a runner to third base in this stretch.

2. The D-Backs have given up 88 home runs this season, the next highest is the Orioles with 63.

3. The D-Backs not only have the worst team ERA in baseball (5.79) but the bullpen has an ERA of around 7.70 (I don't know a site where they have this stat, but it's by far the worst in the league).

4. Aaron Heilman is by a vast margin their best bullpen pitcher.

So yeah, they paid a shit-ton of money in 2001 and won a World Series, and maybe they cut Bobby Howry a week or two ago (from the aforementioned pathetic bullpen) and then the Cubs picked him up but all things considered...it could be worse.

Que everyone with:
5. They have to live in Arizona.

So a preemptive fuck you all for that.

So, in an attempt to find something new that wasn't just hot for the sake of hot, but actually had some good flavor, stumbled across Iguana Gold.

Pretty awesome.

Any other stuff out there that isn't just hot, but actually has some good flavor?

I'm a big fan of Sriracha (hot cock) also, but was looking for something a little less overpowering.

One of the best...Dennis Hopper, RIP.