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I'll be there. It's my 2nd year in a row, so next year it becomes tradition! At least that's what I plan on telling my wife.

Secret power? You mean like a ray gun or something, where they hone in on a guy and put the whammy on him? Then he becomes their slave, and can do dastardly things. Yeah, I think they keep that in the back room at Gilles. Yes, secret power. The power to suspend a player based on a gut feeling or because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time without telling anyone what or why or how. I'm not saying he didn't do it...I just don't know because no one on either side will admit to anything or present any evidence of anything.

Just throwing it out there, but is it possible that he saw a situation where MLB has so much secret power over the lives of every player, so rather than drag out a situation that he was 100% going to lose, regardless of whether he's guilty or not, he just decided to take his lumps so he can get back sooner?

So, he doesn't have herpes?

Lame, looks like I'm out of luck. This was the first time I've been in an "automatic renewal" situation. When I got the notice from him, I read it incorrectly...thinking I had until the end of the initial lease to give him my notice. At the time I was fully into house-buying mode and I guess I didn't read it all the way through correctly. Thanks for the info guys. I'm just letting him keep it in exchange for the lease termination. In the long run, I guess $1,000 to get this guy off my back and my last rental out of my mind is fair enough.

I've got a bit of a screwy situation with (hopefully) the last rental I'll ever live in. My wife and I lived in a townhouse for three years. Our lease had an automatic annual renewal...lease ended May 31, new one started June 1. We are required to give a 45 day notice of intent to vacate. So, we bought a house and set the closing date for June 13. On May 8, I called my landlord to inform him that our last day in the townhouse would be June 30, under the assumption this was my 45+ day notice. But apparently, if we don't inform him otherwise, our automatic lease renewal goes through May 1 (even though the lease doesn't end until May 31). So even though we hadn't even technically started our new lease, he says our automatic renewal has already gone through and we're locked in for another year. At this point I'm fuming, but willing to work with him because I figured he could fill the place quickly. It took a little while, but I managed to pay rent+mortgage for a few months until he found a tenant in early August (I had already paid August rent). The problem is that that these new tenants are both working temporary jobs, so he didn't force them into a year lease...they're just month-to-month. He's worried that they'll leave in December when one of their temporary jobs expires. I would think that the moment a new person signs a lease and moves in, our previous lease would be voided, but that's not how it seems to work with this guy, and I'm not really sure what the law is on that. Anyway, he just sent us a lease termination that includes him keeping our security deposit and August rent (total of about $1,000) in exchange for being let out of the lease and not being responsible if the new tenants bail after a few months. The other side of that, of course, is if they stay through the end of our original lease...he basically just won a $1,000 bet. Do I have any recourse here, or do I just suck it up and consider the $1,000 a fair trade to get rid of him?

That doesn't make it okay for "journalists" who admit to not having the entire story to speculate that his silence implies guilt.

I actually kinda like that lineup, given the options available. Statistically, it's hard to root for Gomez, but then I watch him play and get those "I feel like a kid again" nostalgic baseball feelings.

I actually kinda like that lineup, given the options available. Statistically, it's hard to root for Gomez, but then I watch him play and get those "I feel like a kid again" nostalgic baseball feelings.

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It's not fair when I read this on April 5th with Fool's Day out of my mind. All I could think of was, "Man, he really Yosted the Royals season."

This may be a bit obscure, but my in-laws were recently in Seattle and attended this: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/St-Mark-s-choir-strikes-an-untraditional-chord-1099985.php If this crosses the religion line, I apologize and feel free to delete. It really has less to do with religion and more to do with just being a cool historical thing to take in. It's a late Sunday night service and the entire thing is in Gregorian chant. Apparently a lot of people bring blankets and lay around the church, sorta like the couple in the link. If you've ever heard Gregorian chant, you can imagine how relaxing something like this would be.

At my credit union branch, we have a toy children's car (big enough for a kid or two to sit in) next to the wall by a painted-on ATM. Next to it is a little table with a toy cash register on it. Someone decided to put the cash register on the "hood" of the car. Now kids sit in the car and play with the cash register. I feel like we're not setting a good example.

It pains me to catch up with an old high school friend in online conversation, only to realize that her online conversational skills now begin and end with "LOL OMGZ JK!!!" It would be one thing if she was always kinda stupid, but she was a fairly intelligent person back then (10+ years ago, mind you). With online conversation becoming more of a staple each day, it's discouraging to see an intelligent person so easily decide to make themself sound like an idiot.