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I once played basketball against a guy who looked exactly like Shaq (though about 6 inches shorter), and his name was Arsenio Hall.

Jordan, these are awesome. I'm not a huge fan of the genre, but these kick butt. My criticism of the genre in general is that I feel a lot of the songs sound the same, and I guess it semi goes to this collection as well, but that's my only criticism. I just did one listen through, but they all seemed the same tempo. But they sound top notch, well done, extremely impressed.

This has the makings of a thread someone digs up in late September and we all go, "Ahh, how optimistic we were." That or we're all right and we never see this thread again.

Halfnard, what does you avatar mean?

I know a guy named Rick Gay. When he was confirmed into the church, his confirmation name was "Israel." Rick "Israel" Gay

On second view on the bigger TV, I agree.

He's on my fantasy team, so I'm cool with it.

Don't visiting OFers sometimes complain about slippery grass in Miller Park?

Hawing said in the "Rickroll the Mets" thread that she knows someone named Rick Roll. Does anyone else know any funny named people? I had a summer job two years ago, and one of the higher ups at the company was named Ray Scism. His parents must have really been racist to name him that, or a great sense of humor, or lack of foresight.

I just watched it on Gameday. It was a tough play for sure, a hard liner that bounced right in front of him, but it definitely hit Carlos and got passed him. That's a tough call that could probably go either way.

You're going to rank Suppan based on one season? If you know where to find VORP, you should know better than that. I would like to see you support the assertion that Bush is better than Suppan. http://www.fangraphs.com/graphs/4635_633_P_cseason_full_1_20080404.png http://www.fangraphs.com/graphs/4635_633_P_cseason_full_2_20080404.png

1. Robin Yount 2. Paul Molitor 3. Teddy Higuera 4. Cecil Cooper 5. Ben Sheets t6. Mike Caldwell t6. Jim Slaton t6. Ben Oglivie t6. Sixto Lezcano t6. Ted Simmons t6. Gorman Thomas t6. George Scott t6. Dan Plesac t14. Jim Gantner t14. Geoff Jenkins t14. Jeff Cirillo t14. Rollie Fingers t14. Don Money t14. Moose Haas t14. John Briggs I've got my top five, then grouped them. Any order within those groups is very easily defended.

...because it snows in October.

Did you shower this morning?

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Woah, its time to part ways? I couldn't disagree more. He's been solid, obviously has talent, and had just one year with a too-high ERA. Giving up on a 28 year old pitcher with a career 4.57 ERA I don't agree with.

Obligatory: Way to early to use his performance this season to do anything to your opinion of him. I was one of the most optimistic Bush supporters, especially after 2006 with his gorgeous peripherals. I was hoping for him to settle into a upper 3's range. I tried to look around his pedestrian home run rates. I think he can still turn into that player, but the longer it takes the less likely it becomes. For now, he's a mid-4's #4 in a decent rotation. Keep attacking that zone, Davey, no free passes. In fact, that's his problem - he needs to attack it to keep his walk rate down, but then he gives up the big hits and doesn't quite have the stuff. Tip-toe too much, and his walk rate goes up.

I'm just two from Favre, two from Rodgers, and three from Dan Marino.

You may want to email your ISP and see if they are aware of the problem. That's the bizzaro George talking. What you should do is take advantage of this in any way possible. Like as mentioned, get MLB.tv and watch Brewers games. I'd love it if my IP said I was from Canada.

1. More revenue sharing, but still not equal or a cap. Keep the team's market-size character. Just some type of system to help the bottom 3rd markets retain two or three star youngsters. Maybe a franchise tag system similar to the NFL in which the player gets tagged, their salary is an average of the top 5 at their position, but they get paid from a revenue sharing pool. 2. Bring back the character of the individual leagues. For this reason, I don't necessarily agree that the DH should be abolished - I don't like it, so I'm an NL fan, simple as that. Bring back the AL and NL umpire hats. End interleague play. Make the All-Star game have some novelty to it again. Make me root hard for the NL team in the World Series just because they're from "my" league. 3. Create a small ball environment. Don't force, small parks also have character, but highly recommend new ballparks to have large dimensions to get the average distance much greater and reduce the number of home runs. A home run should be a unique event, not the by far primary way to score runs, and would make for a more exciting speed and contact game. Open up the strike zone a little, make the players swing the bat - it should be hard to take a walk. Going along with the ballparks, but on a more personal preference level: Ballpark designers, no fake character. Houston's ballpark is neat because of its unique field dimensions. However, they were designed for that very purpose, and that detracts from it, IMO. Build in character in a practical sort of way, if that makes any sense. 4. Stop phasing out the lower and middle class. Much easier said than done from the outside looking in, as catering to the upper class is the fiscal way to go. I don't what might help end that trend yet not cut into profits, but this should definitely be explored. Or at least build more cheap seats. Somehow dull down the difference between the speed of rising cost to run a team verse the stagnant middle class yearly income to keep ticket prices down in the long run.

1) Its two games. 2) Any manager with a designated closer isn't quite using the right guys at the right time, IMO. 3) Its Ned Yost, why would you expect him to effectively manage a pen?

I made the decision to cut one of my AAA third basemen last week. I cut Fields and kept Longoria. I think he'll be better, be up sooner and get more playing time over the entire season. I'd keep Votto too, over Fields.

I'm starting a new thing where every 5-7 bites of food, I put the half chewed food in my cheek and take a few gulps of whatever I'm drinking with my meal, then continue chewing. I don't know why I started doing this, why I do it, or how long it will continue for. Also, new sig.

I'll post it: FireJoeMorgan.com

I've gotta guess: 1 - Parra 2 - LaPorta 3 - Escobar Everyone else is getting caught up in Escobar fever, why not the P50 editors? I also think Lucroy could get a boost.