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Stanford has huge rally in top of 7th and have narrowed the score to Rice 11, Stanford 1. HSC, not so impprtant about the PK look a like, I just saw a visual of the Rice team bus - whoa! I want that bus! and yes, the PK look a like runs faster than Paulie.

oh oh 2 outs in a row made by Stanford top of 7th, Stanford comes to bat trailing 11-0

the Rauch sized pitcher gives up a walk - Rice has bases loaded in time for a double which makes it 11-0 Rice that may be an error but it appears scorer called it a hit still 1 out, 2 runners on, still bottom of 6, 11-0 Rice some new pitcher coming in, Rauch look a like leaves

quick sign him...then we will have paulies replacement when he gets the boot............ sorry dear, it turns out it was Paulie getting some swings in

another Rice hit 9-0 Rice - what are they, the Owls - 2 on, 1 0ut, and still the 6th inning I hate the sound of an aluminum bat hitting a ball pitcher #30 for Standford is Rauchian in size

error to put batter on base runners first and third 1 out 8-0 Rice Standford has had 1 hit and 2 walks for their offense tonight thus far (are they the Sox? )

Rice has a batter who does the same at plate routine as PK - its like deja vu and he makes an out - more deja vu

silly Stanford strategy - intentionally walked a batter with a runner on 2nd, no out, and Rice's power guy on deck - change of Standford ptchers now - the Rice coach has to 136 years old, I hope they win for him and he survives the thrill - I have this urge to do play by play since we have no Sox things to do tonight Go Rice!

stand up double, 2 rice runners score, 8-0 Rice, runner at 2nd, 0 outs bottom of 6th

in the 6th, a Rice bases loaded single makes it 6-0, runners at 2nd and 3rd, 0 out, - Go Rice!

Rice is ahead 4-0 in the 6th - gotta pull for Rice, what have they ever won, this is their one shot

don't get me started on what my mother threw away or gave away -

I have to agree, I don't recall any one we drafted that we didn't sign that we didn't make a decent offer to but they had other priorities

yeah and when I die my grandkid is going to inherit about at least 1500 plastic drinking cups as well as hundreds of scorecards (current count) - what he will do with them is beyond me and why I save drinking cups I have no idea it will be his problem though he is looking forward to getting my bobble heads - got the new Sox All Star one today and it is ugly as hell

I saw the name Ritchie and thought of Todd right away - playing sports for a livelihood is such a crap shoot - second guessing must be second nature to them thanks for the info -

I have a very high opinion of anyone who ranks scorecards. I have one from every game I ever gone to except one. They have a lot of memories and I appreciated your dicussion of them.

what? please don't be so cryptic - a lot of us (or at least me) have no idea what you mean although I can maybe guess but what really went down?

I just came back from an hour of aerobics - you could do that -

I'm sorry if we lose JP although what Rex says makes sense. One can never fault Josh on hustle. But Olvio is our future. Sandy is a coach in the making, family tradition. I am glad we are keeping him. I just wish we didn't have to lose JP but sometimes life does not present a happy option.

Ch. Tall Oaks Tomas WS Farfel, my older Samoyed - only one guess on who "Tomas" is and what "WS" stands for - Tommy almost was named Pudge but I decided to go with Thomas at the end - prior to him was my rescue dog that I saved and adopted out, Frank - and recently we had another rescue dog, Maggs - Maggs got adopted by a very rich family by the way - and my younger Samoyed was Tenoch Clayton Farfel but his name got changed to Tenoch Shady Farfel. (and in the M Go Blue category, various rescue dogs through the years have been named Bo and whoever was the Michigan qb at the moment... haven't named one Blue yet,. but I will some day, so I can stand outside and yell, "Let's go, Blue!"

I know people liike Texsox - I grew up in a family of people like that - does your friend have a master degree in divinity or theology? A lot of youth ministers do not and I am not veryu comfortable with things they tell kids in churches. It is exactly right that kids are taught the difference between fantasy and reality. Imagination is a wonderful thing and it can take one in a lot of places. That is why some are afraid of it, because they can't control it. We never did Santa Claus in my house - my kids were well of all the Santa stuff in the culture and we taught them the story of St. Nicholaus and also told them not to tell their friends there was no Santa... - but we didn't prohibit the kids from doing the Santa thing at school, that is just a part of culture. It was just that my kids knew that all of the gifts came from someone, and they should thank that person, and avoided the confusion of having them wonder if Santa Claus is a lie, then maybe Jesus is too. But then you have those who think Santa is a tool of Satan because if you just change one letter... 1549, I cannot make out what you mean in your comment. If there were money to be made in denouncing Wizard of Oz or Alice in Wonderland, it would be done. In my lifetime it was Elvis who was the spawn of Satan... then the Beatles... then Kiss... then Alice Cooper... then Rocky Horror Picture Show... then AC/DC (you know that stands for After Christ, the Devil Comes)... then Marilyn Manson... then Eminem... people playing records backwards to look for satanic messages - it is all so much of a fundraising con. You can only make bucks in a crusade by scaring people with some new horror and being against something. Back to Tex, I don't even buy the origins of Halloween having negative connotations but then I don't seen devils lurking behind every bush as the world view of some is. Ask your friend what October 31st is in Church history - I'll bet $10 he can't tell you - half my family is that way, they know what they are against but they don't know why, they just know they are against it. I like what you say Tex. It is so important that kids know the difference between fantasy and reality and that only comes by spending time with them in real conversation. Once you teach a kid about blue screens and matte backdrips and special effects, the magic of Hollywood is just as fun but it no longer is considered reality. The fun of make beleive stories albeit Harry Potter or Wizard of Oz or any fairy tale is just that, in the fun of make beieve and fantasy. Back to 1549, there was a time in this nation when the Vice President of the United States was running around denouncing "White Rabbit" because the Jefferson Airplane song, based on Alice in Wonderland, was obviously a drug song and procliaming his political party was against that evil seducing our children. (That was Spiro Agnew.) No difference between Lynn Cheney and Joe Lieberman taking everything Eminem says at face value and then crusading against him as the latest act of the devil - and how their political party will crush this evil menace. Yeah, and Lewis Carroll may have had an unhealthy obsession with little Alice (to say the least). That doesn't make the telling of stories evil or Alice in Wonderland the devil's tool. But there is money to be made by the newest "christian" author writing the newest book exposing the devil's work in Harry Potter, and then of course, come the paid speaking engagements, and the publicity and media time, and one can make a nice piece of change. J. K. Rowling has written some wonderfully fun tales. They are not even all that original - they have their roots in every fantasy story that I can think of. But she tells them well, and makes them fun, and kids like to read stuff like that, and it is written well enough to not be literature by any means but fun for adults to read too in a very light summer reading at the beach sort of way.

Harry Potter is a story that has magical elements like any number of stories. There are any number of people who love to attack things because it is a great way to raise money: pronounce something the devil's tool and you can sell a lot of books, get media time, and get results from fund raising letters to fight this new horror. And it is all bulls***, in my opinion. Harry Potter is a story and nothing more, nothing less. Just like Cinderella. Whenever money can be made by bombastic crusades against this latest new work of the satanic one - whether it be rock in roll in its day or whatever the topic de jour - there will be some idiots right there bashing and trashing and pocketing money all at the same time.

ever since reading the thread title "what happend to..." I have been sitting at my desk humming tunes from Rocky Horror Picture Show. Which is not all bad! Whatever happened to Fay Wray? That delicate satin draped frame As it clung to her thigh, how I started to cry 'Cause I wanted to be dressed just the same Give yourself over to absolute pleasure Swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh Erotic nightmares beyond any measure And sensual daydreams to treasure forever Can't you just see it. Whoa ho ho! Don't dream it, be it Don't dream it, be it Don't dream it, be it Don't dream it, be it Don't dream it, be it Don't dream it, be it Don't dream it, be it Don't dream it, be it Don't dream it, be it Don't dream it, be it Don't dream it, be it Ach! We've got to get out of this trap Before this decadence saps our wills I've got to be strong and try to hang on Or else my mind, may well snap And my life will be lived For the thrills