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yeah, i can have some bad schedules sometimes now that i've picked up a second job at a video store to help with my car payments. 40 hours of work at the day job, plus 20-ish hours a week at the video store. What i'm finding is it's not so much the total number of hours worked per week, but the schedules you have. Mon-Fri: 8:30 am-5:15 pm Three or so days per week I run straight from work to do a 6 pm-1 am shift at the video store. what's extra nice now is the important job (day job) is requiring a lot more hours per week, and i can't figure how i'm going to fit it in. i'd like to quit the second job, but i can't afford to part with that income source.

the theme song to Who's The Boss. .....brand new life around the bend....

what's so cool is the guy is going to be able to pitch until pretty much forever. heck, is it even bad if your 64 mph knuckleball loses some speed?

yeah, i'd hate to think if you said something that she would twist to be harmful and not helpful that she'd start to shelter the nephew from you instead of being the one source of rationality as you are now.

who would have thought that Marcus Vick would end up as the good brother? yikes. i really don't see Vick getting back to the NFL or even Canada, even if he only serves a year in prison, nevermind what Goodall might do to him. if he misses two years of NFL football, including prison time, which would probably be the low end of things, he's not going to get a starting job after all that time off. And then with that many people who would protest and boycott him being on their city's team, that's a PR nightmare and financial loss that in no way equals the value of having Vick as your backup QB. the only pro football i see Vick playing after all this is maybe some Arena League team somewhere, but maybe not even that.

interesting you say that about 300, strawboss. i wasn't a gigantic fan of it like everyone else is. at the video store i work at, every single person has heaped praise on it like it's the best thing since, well, something really good. i didn't think it was bad, more like so-so, but it wasn't anything original. the million slow-mo action shots were already done so well in the Matrix, and the large-scale battle scenes were far better in LOTR. but speaking of copies, Disturbia i thought was ok. basically a copy of Rear Window for the teenage set. and yes, everyone at the store i've said that to has said "Rear Window? never heard of it." but for what it was, the movie wasn't too bad if you are renting a movie to watch with your teens/pre-teens. also, if anyone hasn't seen Fracture yet, it's a great rental. it's tough to beat anything with Anthony Hopkins in it. very good crime drama. Lonely Hearts was an interesting true story crime/murder movie, too. every so often Travolta will be in a movie that won't totally stink. i was most impressed by Selma Hayek, who turned in a great acting job in a role that actually required her to do more than just look pretty. Ultimate Gift is another in the inspirational/change your life vain, and like the rest it's really heavy handed, and the plot is a slow drive on Cliche Blvd. The Stonecutter is another one of those and is even worse--the story goes absolutely nowhere and is a complete bore, just a total waste of time. Peaceful Warrior is probably the best recent release in that genre, not that it's anything too special.

it's hard to think of Zambrano being able to handle the huge amount of innings he takes on every single year. unless he's a total freak of nature, you'd have to think he's going to break down soon enough. Boston and New York fight it out and someone pays Santana 5/$150 million. i'd be overjoyed if Sheets would resign for $14-$15 per year, but i have my doubts. it's not arm trouble, so his injury history can be ignored easily enough. and since someone actually gave Zito $17 million a year, it's hard to imagine how much a team would bid for a pitcher who's actually good.

this is where i think Yost's value as a manager really is. he's supposed to be a super-positive clubhouse guy who doesn't get down, so maybe that positive energy will pick the young guys up and maybe we can avoid some long stretch of losses.

even besides the age issue, you could argue that he should be playing with the older kids because he's so much better than the younger ones.

i kind of liked the Utley/Hamels idea. --you wouldn't really trade him for some vet like Pujols or ARod because you may as well pay for some big-name guy in FA and not have to trade anybody away from the team. --no sense in swapping one young guy for another.

i don't understand why people make out Powell to be some apologist for the team because he's not up there yelling out "--- stinks!" like some questioners want him to. to me he's always been pretty honest in his evaluations of the team, and i can understand him taking the high road with a lot of answers, not just because it's a long season, but in part to calm the fans who seem to think this is the worst team we've had since 2002.

ah, holy waffle.....sacrilicious.

yes sir, no sir, ok, maybe, hot dog.

really, i don't see that there needs to be too much of anything done. i don't see the reason for blowing up the team with big trades or anything like that. it's not like we're two players away from the playoffs as we are right now, so why do anything big? CoCo is really the only impact FA who's going to leave. LF--Menchkins clearly gone, but if Melvin sees LaPorta as a soon-to-be answer, I don't see a big name as a possibility because of the length of contract he'd demand. I'd like someone who would take a two year contract here. Dye might be someone who would take a short contract because of his poor contract-year play right now, or even a one-year fill-in like a Kenny Lofton. CL--smells like Linebrink at $7M per. awful high, but that's the market. Whether or not it's Turnbow, we'd need a set-up guy, but the only way to resign Linebrink is to promise him the closers job. Bullpen--with the Menchkins savings, I'd like to add two FAs at $4-5M per. BUT if I was going to blow up the team some, I'd do this: Trade Sheets for some top-line SP and CL prospects, who could start out in the bullpen and make that stronger or fill in at starter if needs be. Maybe a few players like Detroit's Rodney, who could step in at closer should Linebrink falter. Use the Sheets and Menchkins money to sign a high-end FA to play anywhere in the OF. Use some money for a veteran Util. guy like a Placido Polanco, since our utility guys always end up with a lot of playing time.

i think that's really cool. probably most anyone else in his position would have quit baseball. he's really earned it.

Owner: Take this object, but beware it carries a terrible curse! Homer: [worried] Ooooh, that's bad. Owner: But it comes with a free Frogurt! Homer: [relieved] That's good. Owner: The Frogurt is also cursed. Homer: [worried] That's bad. Owner: But you get your choice of topping! Homer: [relieved] That's good. Owner: The toppings contains Potassium Benzoate. Homer: [stares] Owner: That's bad.

my grandmother used to listen to every single Brewer game on the radio, and when Molitor wasn't resigned, she never listened to one after that. scary to think how salaries have jumped that Molitor wasn't resigned because $4 million a year was too expensive.

Darwin Awards is a good one that's out now. takes a dramatic twist to the classic stories we already know. what i really liked about the movie was that we typically see these people as complete idiots, but the movie twists it a little to make them into more admirable characters. I don't think Surf School has been mentioned yet. it doesn't try to be anything more than an idiot comedy, but even watching it with low expectations, it failed miserably.

i've found there's no middle ground with me, that i can't watch any helthy amount of TV. it's either always on or always off. i didn't get cable when i moved to NC two years ago, and apartment reception only gets me two fuzzy channels (one being the WB, which is is never worth watching). i'll end up watching 15 minutes of some show i can barely make out, plus it's usually some garbage like Friends, and it's the best motivation to do anything else. i don't miss television one bit. plus as a single person, the last thing i need is to fall in the habit of watching tv all the time and never leaving the apartment. wish i could dump the computer, too, but it's just not an option right now.

i'm not a fan of helmet or seatbelt laws at all. but i consider it a different issue on what minors might be required to wear.

it never bothers me when some random guy dies because of a bad decision he made himself, but stories like this are apalling that someone has zero consideration for his responsibilities as a parent and even for the lives of his own kids that he would subject them to those kind of behaviours.

Thanks again for yet another great P50. It's such an awesome resource. Inman was mentioned earlier, and I'm not too upset about the trade. 7 of the top 10 guys in the P50 are in A ball, so the comp picks we will presumably get in return will be great. I think that JZ and DM will look at more college guys like they did with LaPorta to really beef up the higher levels of our minor league system.

everyone was renting Ghost Rider (i work at a video place), but i thought it was miserable. laughably bad, if you like those, though. 300 i thought was only decent. fine story and such, but overly stylized, like it was a preview that ran an hour and a half. good call on Hot Fuzz, though. excellent blend of humour and action. Seraphim Falls gets overlooked, but it's an excellent western-style movie and keeps your attention throughout. i'm not a fan of Pierce Brosnan, but he was pretty good in it.

i always thought there was a limited number of Cubans you could bring back that were ok as 'personal use.'

aren't there cops always walking around who could watch your daughter?