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I did read about a guy who sold guitar hero on WII for like 9 grand on yahoo. I know the Wal-Mart in Portage has GH -- and American in Madison does as well.

Come on. Who tells scary ghost stories at Christmas?! Chas. Dickens

I remember the first time that I heard the song "Love Fool" -- It occurred to me that if I ever became deranged and started chainsawing people that upset me in my basement -- playing "Lovefool" on continuous loop would seem to be the most optimal song selection.

The Smoking Gun reports on many celebrity mishaps. It doesn't just focus on wrestlers. I was not referring to the actual website -- rather the fact that all the dead wrestlers point to a drug abuse problem. I agree baseball and wrestling have a steriod problem. Awesome, I am glad you have come around so that we are on the same page. You are telling me the NBA players are weed free now? Nope -- but there is a system in place that tries to address/discourages drug use, rather than Vince McMahon encouraging it. Plus you never answered my question if you really think there are more wrestlers than NBA players smoking weed. I think there are more wrestlers abusing any drugs than NBA players I understand Congress. I didn't pick up on that vibe. Why not have hearings against other forms of entertainment? I agree wholeheartedly. Here would be my proposed docket. 1.) Why is Kevin Costner still making movies? 2.) Enough with the family reality shows. 3.) Make sure the Eagles never reunite again. 4.) End all "Morning Zoo's". Yes, the government has taken Britney's kids, but have they done any investigations on her supposed illegal substance abuse? Why in the hell would congress investigate Brittney Spears drug use? -- that would be a police issue. Also, I liked how you conviently abondoned your viewpoints on Hilton and Lohan, especially Paris' "pretty stiff penalty for a DUI" Paris Hilton, in jail, pretty stiff. -- I could see it. --- Honestly I thought her penalty was excessive. Lastly, you said in your original post that, "generally speaking, no one cares about professional wrestling." When quickly proven wrong, you conviently switched it to the mainstream media not caring. You didn't prove anything -- you were moaning about how wrestling coverage is negative. Again, the population on a whole does not give a hoot about wrestling. I am not sure what the media or the average person is supposed to care about -- Predetermined matches? probably not. The only way a wrestler is going to get any exposure is when they die young or murder somebody. By the way, thousands of more people care about Hulk Hogan, John Cena, and The Undertaker than they do about Robert Blake and Dana Plato. Way more people know about Robert Blake than John Cena. My main point is I don't like Congress grandstanding and witchhunting baseball and wrestling when the same problems are existing in possibly even a worse fashion in Hollywood, music, and other forms of entertainment. There is far less steroid abuse in Hollywood.

I think your perceptions of wrestling are different from reality kind of like with poker. I will be sure to update my resume again -- I hope I remain employable. Jose Canseco and Ken Caminiti (guys with first hand knowledge) say easily over half of baseball players were on steroids. Baseball has a steroid problem. It needs regulation and resolution, as does wrestling. Back in 94-95 Hulk Hogan testified in court about the rampant use of steroids. No matter how you slice it wrestling's steroid problem is a very significant one. As far as wrestlers being the highest users of illegal narcotics, how do you know this? Just your perception I guess. The Smoking Gun is wrestling's obituary column. I guarantee more NBA players use weed over wrestlers and no one would question that. The NBA has testing and rules in place. If players are caught they are punished. Then you say cocaine is illegal. Thanks for proving my point.... Yet Congress is attacking baseball and professional wrestling only. Why? Your point proved mine. You seem to fail to understand the function of Congress. Congress is a legislative body -- not federal prosecutors. Congress already has laws on the books concerning cocaine, it is up to police agencies and prosecutors to enforce the laws. What congress is trying to do with MLB and Wrestling is regulate the steroid use in those industries. Both MLB and wrestling have done a woeful job testing and restricting the use of steroids, therefore Congress is going to create laws, so police agencies and prosecutors can enforce the regulation of those industries. In short congress wants to make MLB and wrestling responsible for steroid use. Also, why can't I compare pot to steriods, they are both illegal substances? Again, why attack baseball and wrestling but not other forms of entertainment? Smoking the reefer doesn't help job performance in wrestling/baseball. However there may be a temptation for sports owners to look the other way or in fact encourage steroid use. Hollywood has a ton of regulations imposed on it by congress. Spears lost her kids, obviously she doesn't care. She is still doing the same stuff yet I don't see the government intervene The government took her kids-- which seemed like an appropriate action for her offenses -- I am not sure what you think should happen, and again congress just can't go after Brittney Spears -- there are already laws in place that are being enforced. Do you realize that WWE has had the top ten cable programming for the past ten years? Do you realize that WWE programming rating's are higher than the BNBA and MLB in general? Do you realize that WWE has attendance records set in many buildings all around the world? Mainstream media does not care about wrestling -- Wrestling has it's hardcore fans for sure, but so does huffing model glue. The only time wrestling is going to hit the main stream media is when a wrestler dies at the age of 32, or murders his wife/son. The same is true for the entertainment industry -- No one cares about Robert Blake or Dana Plato until they kill someone or die young. Wrestling does not generate "news", until something tragic happens. Movie and concert tickets are at an all time high in revenue generated. Many people still do care. Let's not confuse "wanting to be entertained" with "caring about the industry".

My question is why is the federal government so hell bent on going after steriods especially in sports and professional wrestling? Professional wrestling is ENTERTAINMENT and not a sport. With regard to steroids, and probably all illegal narcotics wrestling probably is the biggest culprit. If the federal government wants to clean up professional wrestling, why doesn't it stay consistent and go after all forms of entertainment? Because the 2 things are independent of each other. Cleaning up other facets of entertainment, does nothing to clean up/regulate wrestling. Professional wrestling is ENTERTAINMENT and not a sport. This seems like a fine hair to split -- Wrestlers have to be sanctioned in states in order to perform. It really has nothing to do with the pre-ordained nature of outcomes, rather the risk that the performers take. We just had the lead singer of Quiet Riot die of a cocaine overdose and hard drug use is abundant in all kinds of music Cocaine use is illegal. I'm sure the feds could walk on Willie Nelson's and Snoop Dogg's tour buses anytime and find pot Sure -- pot though is legal in some states to possess in certain quantities -- you really cannot compare the reefer to steroids. Why are professional wrestlers crucified while the Lohans, Hiltons, and Spears being able to get away with anything and everything? Spears lost her children -- Paris Hilton got a pretty stiff penalty for a DUI -- Lohan has had all sorts of legal troubles. Only the bad is reported in professional wrestling, yet other forms of entertainment have been getting away with anything and everything since the beginning of time. Generally speaking -- no one cares about professional wrestling or even the entertainment industry at large. The only things that are going to make mainstream news is 30 year old dudes dying and/or murdering their wife and son. This happens in the other facets of entertainment as well. No one cares about Robert Blake up until he kills someone. Whenever a young celebrity dies it gets blown way out of proportion -- I am amazed that you think that wrestling is not representative of the entertainment industry as a whole.

4. Last I head, they may be merging, but that last winter. They agreed on a merger -- I think the anti-trust people are going over it at this point.

I think XM/Sirius >>>> radio -- It's not even funny. I have both -- make sure you pay attention to the sports -- XM has baseball only -- Sirius has NFL/NBA/Nascar. I like to listen to the XM/Sirius to find new artists.

The wave of anti-Braun (at third) sentiment has certainly been rising over the last several months. Scouts have been squawking about Braun playing 3b since he was in the minors -- It's not as if Braun playing poorly is a novel idea. Blalock struggled last year, but he was hurt -- If you look at his career he has a fielding pct of about .960. I also agree that defensive stats are problematic, just like ERA is for relief pitchers -- but you don't need finely developed metrics to tell you Elmer dessens sucks. Yep, Blalock did have a rib removed last season. They should call this "Adam Surgery" -- Like Tommy John. That said -- I am lukewarm on Blalock, I think he will get interest from the Phillies and others.

Lets basically just look at Walks, HRs, and K's...huh? Well -- that's not really it -- As other pointed out -- FIP is a stat that tries to predict what is going to happen in the future, counting stats just cannot do that, for example, Jeff Suppan went 12/12 last year in W/L -- what does that tell us about 2008? Nothing. Certainly it could give you some insight as to how he pitched in 2007, but it does nothing for 2008. In order to generate a predictive stat, you have to remove as many variables as you can -- such as: 1.) Fielding -- Don't focus entirely on errors/non-errors -- as there are other things as well. Yostian shifts, super plays by guys like Scott Rolen, park dynamics, like the wall at Fenway, fast infields, etc. 2.) Who a pitcher faces, generally teams with high payrolls, are going to have guys that when they hit the ball, are going to hit it harder (AL East v. NL Central). 3.) The bouncing of the ball. Some days 8 line drives are outs and 8 ten-hopper groundballs are hits. As Ennder points out ERA is a horrible stat to use for RPs -- If a guy like Brian Shouse gives up runs of his own, he probably has already given up someone else's runs. Plus they just don't get the IP that SPs get to even things out a bit.

So the conclusion could be that our defense didn't effect our pitching as much as we had at first thought? No -- Our defense hurts our pitching compared to the Cubs. Zambrano - 4.65 Zambrano seemed to either suck or was brilliant. Basically FIP is a stat where you try to only incorporate stats the pitchers control, which would be HR, BB, HBP, K -- basically the 8 guys behind the pitcher have nothing to do with HR, BB, HBP or K. You then take HR+HBPK multiply each by a factor and then divide it by IP, to give you an ERA type stat in format. Where defense comes into play, is in the IP variable -- If Braun/Fielder make less plays or more errors than Ramirez/Lee a pitcher is going to pitch less innings. Basically a bad defense is going to get less IP out of 100 pitches than a good defense will.

My cat likes to climb in the x-mas tree and fiddle around w/ the ornaments. How can I stop him from climbing in? I bet it would stay away if you put one of those pythons in the tree, either that or I bet Alf is looking for some work.

Braun gets to balls dont know how that can be said. Both Braun and Weeks have pretty weak range factors.

It's supply and demand people. Sure, and that's exactly what the people who were selling bottled water to disaster victims were saying -- at some point, you can't put supply and demand lipstick on your morality pig.

I hardly think the average Joe that is taking advantage of the situation and selling a couple to offset the cost and help pay for Christmas is doing any harm compared to the power sellers on EBAY that do this for a living and have sold hundreds. You present an argument of degree which really doesn't hold a lot of water in a moralistic sort of argument. I think it is wrong to "offset the cost of Xmas" at the expense of another family's Xmas. The money that you make (generally speaking) selling a WII on Ebay comes out of another family's Xmas budget, plus you deprive another local family the opportunity to buy a WII at retail price. If you want to use the "embrace capitalism" argument -- to each his own, -- but the idea of offsetting your Xmas at the expense of another family's budget, seems very void of what Xmas is supposed to represent -- just my opinion of course.

there is a Alvin & Chipmunks movie with Dave Cross

I discovered several years ago that my hangover is much less severe if I drink Korbel brandy instead of some off name brand. Amen -- Bad beer makes me ill as well

Sex is another classic cure because the enorphins are painkillers and you will (hopefully) sweat out some booze. I am pretty sure that some guy told you this. I know am not to proud to not use this strategy.

i could see estrada being non-tendered and this move was just a way for the mets to purge themselves of Mota. I figured the Mets would do this. A couple of really solid moves by Minya

I do understand the differance you are trying to make but if it wasn't for the union, whose line he crossed, he wouldn't be a millionaire today. Is Miller a part of the union though? -- I seem to remember that he couldn't be included in some video games because he was a replacement player.

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I hate 1000 post threads

Krabbenhoft looked like he had a nice game. He did. The D tightened up huge at the end of the game. Hughes with a bad shooting night, same with Butch but from the looks of the box score Butch contributed big time in rebounding grabbing 13. Butch continues to struggle to hang onto the ball.

Probably horrible ideas, Not really -- sort of like Robot Chicken. I think it makes more sense than a traditional 30 minute run.

as the Dana Carvey Show aired about 6 episodes before getting cut. In fairness Dana didn't have the 11pm time slot on WTBS -- he had prime network time. Frank is more like Rich Little -- sort of a Vegas act.