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Quote from: Kwyjibo on February 25, 2008, 08:32:10 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lcmNaXmjvs

Telegraphed worse than a Rich Hill fastball.

Quote from: ChuckDickens on February 25, 2008, 08:35:48 PM

Quote from: Simmer on February 25, 2008, 08:31:55 PM
Just got moved to Iowa.  Wisco is firmly in the rear view mirror.

Did I just get the last spot in the league?  This is awesome.  I'm ready to party.

Wait, you're not dead?

Holy shit... SD!

Better believe we saved that spot just for you, you marvelous bastard.

Quote from: Kwyjibo on February 25, 2008, 08:33:48 AM

Barroid, Ankiel & Albie on one team? The demand for HGH and juice would finally outweigh the supply.

Don't forget Juan "Not My Bag, Homes" González.

http://www.fistofblog.com/?p=6772

(Spoiler alert.)

Kind of gay, kind of sweet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUDTlvagjJA

It features binaural audio, so headphones are required.

Quote from: Taylor on February 23, 2008, 08:51:53 AM
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=720531

QuoteTry this: Prince Fielder is a vegetarian.

That 6-foot, 260-pound build is powered by wheatgrass, soy and tofu nowadays. No meat. Not even fish.

The price of meat and fish ought to drop dramatically.

It's Wisconsin.

Someone'll pick up the slack.

Quote from: Three times a JD on February 23, 2008, 11:30:31 AM

Quote from: ~Apex on February 23, 2008, 11:20:34 AM

Quote from: Three times a JD on February 23, 2008, 10:35:48 AM

Quote from: Capt. Over on February 23, 2008, 09:19:52 AM

Quote from: Oleg on February 23, 2008, 08:13:23 AM
Roto league draft is tomorrow morning.  There are 8 teams signed up now.  Will there be any others?  I think it'd be great to another 2-4 teams.

Just signed up...not sure if I'll be able to stay the entire draft, depending on how long it is, but I'll stick around as long as I can.

Nine teams?  That's a sorry league.  So I got in, too.  I won't be able to make it past the first couple of picks for the draft, though.

I signed up for a second but the whole thing felt awkward, unfriendly and smelled like pee. So I deleted my team.

I was tryin' to place that smell...

So, that wasn't fresh waffles, after all.

Better hold the syrup, Dan.

Quote from: Three times a JD on February 15, 2008, 08:47:13 PM

Quote from: BC on February 15, 2008, 08:42:20 PM
So, have we made a decision on how exactly we are going to work out the keeper element of the individual leagues?

We'll probably decide on a number of keepers and then each team will choose that many players to keep for next year.  Then, next year, those players that they decided to keep will be on their teams again and everyone will draft other players to fill out the rest of their rosters. 

So to speak.  I figured that you'd know how a keeper league worked, BC.

Let's see how this plays out.

Quote from: RV on February 14, 2008, 01:36:09 PM
Dude. This cop is a total dick man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hxOr3q7nrk

For avid viewers of The Wire... Is this what life on the tough streets of Baltimore is really like?

The best part is where the video cuts out:

QuoteYou got that camera on? If I find myself on Yâ€"

On what, Officer Rivieri? If you find yourself on what?

Well, don't look now, douchebag:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/bal-te.md.officer12feb12,0,2952754.story

Quote from: ChuckDickens on February 14, 2008, 09:48:51 AM
I've been monitoring Google News for obits from Wisconsin. Nobody named Simmer Down has been reported dead--yet.

Wasn't he driving shit between there and Iowa, though?

Maybe he gave up the ghost in the Hawkeye State (which, to be honest, is a hell of a way to have to go).

Quote from: Dave B on February 14, 2008, 09:39:45 AM
Someone has to dig up Jane Fonda dropping the C-Bomb on this morning's Today show. I saw it on TMZ, but can't get it on my computer system at work, (prison rules, you know).

No sound at work, but this appears to fit the bill:

http://www.tmz.com/tmz_main_video?titleid=1417315744

Quote from: Three times a JD on February 14, 2008, 08:55:59 AM
Bump. 

Anybody found SD yet?

There are some things even I refuse to hunt down.

One of those things: a man with a sword.

Quote from: The Ghost of Desipio Past on February 13, 2008, 03:40:18 PM

Quote from: Tonker on February 13, 2008, 01:49:54 PM

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Quote from: Tonker on February 13, 2008, 12:52:16 PM

Quote from: Mike D on February 12, 2008, 02:24:23 PM
Where I grew up in the NW burbs, our next door neighbor was an evil widow whose punishments of her two boys were legendary (and greatly exaggerated, no doubt).  If a ball landed in her yard, it was a frightening prospect for my friends and me to jump her fence and fetch it since her reputation so preceded her.  Oddly enough, both her and my mom were immigrants--probably the only two on the block.  And even though they were from the same part of the globe, they may as well have been from different universes as my neighbor was born in Scotland and my mom was born in Ireland. Naturally, they had little use for each other.  Of course, we being Irish Catholic and therefore a large family (5 kids) was something that our next door neighbor took note of as, my mom would tell me years later, the only communication that this woman ever really had with my mom would be when she would mutter at my mom about keeping her "papist kids" off of her lawn.  I always thought that "papist" was an odd pejorative but I can see now that it was rather common.

In Scotland, as in Ulster, Catholics are in a minority and are pretty routinely discriminated against.  I may have been exaggerating when I talked about having to give your seat up on the bus, but not by a hell of a lot.  There are many, many jobs for which those with Fenian names need not apply.  There are many, many pubs into which Papists dare not tread, and sectarian violence is still commonplace.  One of Glasgow Rangers' songs finishes : "...we're up to our knees in Fenian blood, surrender or you'll die".

In fact, anti-Catholicism seems to be the only state-sanctioned bloodsport, and that goes for the whole of the UK.  The Freemasons are notoriously, and openly anti-Catholic - indeed, you may not join if you kick with the wrong foot.  The Prime Minister may not be a Catholic - Tony Blair had to wait until he had resigned to convert.  And if you are a member of the Royal Family and convert to Catholicism - or even just marry a Catholic, you have to give up your claim to the throne.

And you know what?  I really don't care.

Although I do feel a bit guilty about that, of course.

I'll probably be going to Scotland soon. I've already mentioned the religion that my parents were given, though neither of them practice. I embrace no religion. So I guess that's probably just as bad as being a Catholic over there? Should I not go to certain pubs? So many questions...

Pretty much anything in any city centre will be fine.  If you're in the suburbs, stay away from anything that has metal bars over the windows and you should be all right, too.  If you find yourself in trouble, a hearty "Fuck Mo Johnston" will elicit approval from pretty much everybody.

Seriously, the best advice I can offer you is simply not to talk about it, or offer any opinion about it if someone talks to you - and watch out, as you're a Yank, many people will assume that you have RA sympathies.  If you show yourself to be completely uninterested in religion, though, you should avoid any grief.

And if anyone asks, Sean Connery is the greatest living actor, Mike Myers deserves to be hung from his  scrotum and the greatest movie ever made is Braveheart (with Highlander coming in a close second ahead of Trainspotting). 

I've got some Wallace blood in me.

So, if I go to Scotland, drop trou and yell "FREEDOM!" before ordering up a pint of Belhaven I should be just fine, right?

Quote from: Kwyjibo on February 13, 2008, 01:03:00 PM

I just have issues with the whole "no meat on Friday" bullshit.

Although, the Pope has a cool hat.

And fabulous shoes...

(Then again, maybe baseball is old enough to predate this.)