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My first thought was alcohol as well once I read "PANAMA CITY, FL - rest of story". I knew it was going to be spring break and debauchery involved.

The moment was surreal I'll say that. Tons of fireworks going off in my neighborhood.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 2, 2010 -> 10:44 AM) Rosenthal is one of the best in the game. Anyone that calls him an idiot is a dumbass. Same with Gammons, Heyman, Olney, Nightengale, and Kurkijan. And yes, there are a lot of people on fan sites that are dumbasses and rip on good sports reporters because they don't say what they want to say or because the rumor that came out didn't turn out to be true. It's ridiculous. Greatly agreed. It happens in the NBA with everyone hating Ric Bucher for that Kobe report years back. He was simply stating what Kobe's camp told him. If you want to be mad at anyone, be mad at Kobe. A media person can't say, "Kobe and his agent told me this in a dead serious face...but we all know he's lying." If you do that, you think players are going to give you access? Heck no. They're going to go with someone who's willing to give and take.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 1, 2010 -> 03:17 PM) Eh I guess Ill go against the majority and say I see no problem. I think KW is trying to say that opening day sets the tone for the season, and why not set a good tone? Sure blackout games are better on must win playoff type atmospheres, but you gotta win games to get in that position. Games in April count just as much as games in September. I guess it comes down to supporting the team, if your GM asks you to do something, do you answer the call? You should for the exact purpose stated. Again, set the tone of the season, start off strong.

QUOTE (JoeBatterz @ Mar 31, 2010 -> 02:47 PM) Why not just get Miller or somebody to sponsor Black shirts for all fans? They'd never go for it.

I actually like Swagger. Honestly though, I think they would've been better off building up Dolph Ziggler. He has more character and seems to have that "it" factor. Also, will John Morrison ever get out of the doghouse he seems to be in?

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Mar 30, 2010 -> 11:23 PM) Bosh can't hit a jumper? I'd rather have a big man who can play at least passable defense. I stated he plays the high post. Of course he can hit the jumper. That's his offense. Face up game, jumper in your eye. Amare, while he doesn't have the same range(Bosh can stroke it from 3), he also plays with a lot more intensity and has no problems playing in the post. He does a damn good job of doing that too. My problem is, everyone's been wanting a low post presence for years. Bosh isn't that. Amare is. Both are good players, but I'd take Amare over him. Zoom summed it up perfectly in what I was trying to say. Tis true, Bosh can set up his own offense, but we have Derrick to create for him. Isn't that why we wanted Ben gone? So Rose can operate? Also, I think both of them are on par defensively(suckage), but give Bosh the nod in rebounding. I prefer the low post option to the shooting of Bosh.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Mar 31, 2010 -> 11:38 AM) Blackout games should be reserved for MUST WIN games. I hope they don't wear it out. I was there at the play in game in 08. Blackout games have POWER. I've witnessed it first hand. I was there screaming at the top of my lungs "THIS AIN'T THE DOME B**HES!!!" And like Peter Parker's Uncle Ben says... "With great power comes great responsibility". We must not misuse the power of the Blackout... Technically, aren't all games must win games? I think KW is trying to set the tone for the season. Come out with intensity from the opening gate and jump out to a huge lead. It's the same as in 2005 when we came out blazing. I understand it and if I were going to Opening Day, I'd fully support it. QUOTE (kev211 @ Mar 31, 2010 -> 11:41 AM) Still if your going to the game don't not wear black because you don't believe in it, wear black because a half assed blackout is worse then a full opening day black out. This! Please, just do it for the sake of not embarassing the organazation. The place would look horrible with a half blackout.

He may be calling for a blackout, but I ain't answering the phone. In all honesty, I think it would equally as good in the day as it won't look like there's no fans. With that said, I fully expect half the stadium to be out of dress code.

Honestly, only mistake they made was keeping Nix. He's not defensive specialist. He's special defensively.

QUOTE (BobDylan @ Mar 30, 2010 -> 07:43 AM) When I have extra training points, I always dump them in vision. Vision > contact. Vision allows your hitter to pick up the movement of pitches, where as when you have a player with a low vision attribute, he'll, for instance, recognize a slider sweeping across the middle to the outside of the plate as a fastball and catch it off the end of the bat - this is completely regardless of what you actually see and know is coming. With high vision, he'll recognize that it's moving out, and he'll put the barrell on it. High vision also means you're going to foul off a lot more of those tough, borderline strikes instead of completely whiffing or hitting a weak out. Get the vision high enough, and you'll end up with base hits on pitchers pitches instead of foul balls. High vision also means you can make more mistakes with where you put your hitting zone. If you have it inside, you can still hit an outside pitch, etc. I have no solutions for those bulls*** 75 MPH changeups though. I just try to foul them off. If anyone wants to play some games online, a little friendly compettition, add me: Marv_the_Butcher. Be warned though, I play to climb the ladders, so I pitch like an asshole. I've almost always ignored vision and always put everything into contact. No wonder every pitch looks good. I'm going to up my vision with my additional points.

I didn't want to make a new thread, but did you guys hear about Verizon now getting a new version of the iPhone in the summer with massive production in the fall? Supposedly it's a smaller screen(rumor). Finally, the iPhone is on a good carrier. Hooray for VZW.

Thanks guys. I'm going to try it now.

You sold out! You sold out! You sold out! You sold out! You sold out! You sold out!

Pitching comes too easy to me, even on the hardest difficulty levels. That's why I'm doing batting. I started all over again as I didn't know, simming a season is career suicide since you won't meet any of your goals and you'll end up a utility player or cut. Since the Sox don't need a 3B, I ended up signing with the Reds as a 3B/2B-SS. Very fun and lots of putouts, but challenging defensively. I started out hitting .119, but have upped my average in three games to .174. For hitting, anyone know the tips and what to increase first that will allow me to improve fast? It's funny because they also had me play some catcher too. I think it's BS that they don't give you points for calling the pitches and getting strikeouts. First two hitters ended up with backward K's, the last one ended up K'ing on a ball in the dirt.

Amare would be perfect for the squad in my opinion. Again, not a huge fan of Bosh as he plays in the high post anyway and we need someone thicker like Amare who rather throw it down on someone's head, but is able to hit the jumper on the pick and pop.

JaMarcus don't care if he gets cut. I guarantee he'll be broke and bankrupt within the next 5 years. He's not only stupid when it comes to his NFL career, but he's also stupid in terms of how he spends his money. Making stupid personalized diamond incrusted chains like every week, buying a private jet, and hiring modeling photographers for pictures of him in front of his jet with his fur coats.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 25, 2010 -> 08:16 PM) Watch how many times Regal shrugs off hits like it was nothing. In the middle of Goldbergs streak people were acting like he had blocks of concrete in his gloves, and his shoulder block off the ropes was usually the lead in to his spear and jackhammer. Regal was really taking it to Goldberg in a way that he wasnt expecting. I guess that's what I liked about it. Every move seemed like Power from him, even though it was the wrestler's selling it. Besides Hitman, he's probably my favorite video game wrestler.

Supposedly it was the night owner. He saw the tape, said he couldn't really extract much from it other that they were both present(girl and Roth) because it was in black and white, and then he was going to give it to the authorities, but it was DVR'd over. Now, normally, that does happen. Security tapes are kept for a week and if nothing happens and nothing is reported, they are recorded over on the 8th day. So the maddening question is, Why would the club owner allow the system to record over that portion(you can stop it manually if you need to keep evidence), and also, why couldn't he give it to the police within those 7 days? It's not like the girl reported it 2 weeks afterwards. IIRC, it was reported minutes after it happened. The club owner got bought big time and Big Ben is off the hook. SMH.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Mar 25, 2010 -> 02:51 PM) Are you kidding? He had two moves, and both depended almost entirely on the opponent selling them to even make them look good. I believe it was William Regal who no-sold a whole match against Goldberg to make him look like the talentless asshole he was. Nope. That spin kick for no good reason. Punches, spears and jackhammers. Other than when Bret Hart, CJ, Malenko, and Benoit did it, I wasn't really a fan of technical wrestling.

QUOTE (knightni @ Mar 25, 2010 -> 05:14 PM) I think that his chosen approach is bordering on relationship suicide. It's never the woman's fault (even if it is). Yeah it is. With that said, how many times a week do they hang out or talk?

I'd also love to see Goldberg. My favorite wrestler moves wise from WCW only because he was so intense and huge and used nothing but high impact moves. Still mad that he injured the Hitman though.

I say just enjoy the ride. If she acts Shady, then I would dump her and move on. Not even feel hurt about it because it will eventually manifest itself into something bigger. You won't trust her again and/or she won't give you a reason to trust her. From my experiences with girls who like to keep their ex's as friends, they've all been very flirtatious with all of them and they not only have commitment issues, but they're also very lonely at the same time. They'll cite depression, say they don't know what they want, and will get pissed if you break up with them and don't want to be their friend, trying to turn it around on you. Don't let that happen!

Jenks about 10MPH off his fastball since coming up. Yeah, I have a problem with that.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Mar 22, 2010 -> 03:07 PM) Cowley with plenty of new stuff from Ozzie (these are all individual tweets and they keep on coming): Translation is that Ozzie probably took the belt to him.