BrandoFan

White-washing and oversimplification has never been THIS fun!!!

I still remember NASDAQ hitting 5000 in March 2000......ROTFLMAO!!!

I guess it's the "if I don't think about it, it won't happen" type thing. Or maybe just plain ol' ignorance of facts- I mean, with all the shopping and button-punching and boozing (not in any particular order), who has tme for news?

I bet most people on this board would fly across the country in a jiffy if they could get a few extra grand a year.......And we are talking about someone else's millions!

Of course it doesn't matter how you arrange the letters. Why would anyone think it would! Afterall, something as complex as "hta ni a tac" proves this theory beyond resonable doubt. How infinitely cool. Try pulling that s*** with Joyce or even Shakes (not sonnets, you wankers!), you'll get seizures.

Why it whatever there is a HUGE international news, it gets few if any hits on this board? People are ready to yell and moan for days on end about a few people dying in a high-rise fire or Kobe helping himself to a nice white piece of ass or some man falling down world's largest kitchen sink.....but when the news as potentally devastating as the above hit, no response? I guess when Islamic state is established on the bones of failed democracy in Iraq after a particularly bloody revolution, and they announce they have Iran's nuclear weapons and intend to use them on Israel or LA aggressors, there will be a collective yawn as well.

He is just an innocent servant of A-dawg.

I endorsemate Wesley Clark, y'all.

Being a member in a Forty Million Club sounds cooler. 39 Mill sounds like you've been lowballed and you don't even know it, fool. Extra 3 million allows you to support 3 or 4 more illegitim, er, bastard kids. Extra million means you stack a few more different colored Hummers in the garage. Extra 3 Million means you will go into gambling debts and will be murdered in your apartment (botched burglary according to police) when you're 60 instead of 55. Etc, etc etc.

Close minded = objectively noting that Wright HUGELY contributed to the disaster of a season in 2003, even though we were told, by Danny himself no less, that he is "near 100 %" healthy? If so, I guess I am a f***ing idiot. I guess I DO wish ill on the Sox, my "DW can be a valuable reliever, I hope he recovers" sentiment notwithstanding.

1. Since his velocity dropped into low-90s, the only thing Judy has going for her is a 6'6 frame that helps his good sinker. That's IT-- his off-speed arsenal is a joke and control deeply mediocre. 2. 99.9 % pitchers in ML and ml are NOT good. I guess sometime in their life, they were 24 years old. 3. In the last 2 years Garland has been pitching in one of the sorrier-hitting divisions in baseball history.....while Ponson had a whole LOT if NY, Boston and Toronto, teams rankes 1-2-3 in runs scored. Something to think about, buddey.

Severity of Wright's tear PLUS his BAD mechanics....Yeah, he'll be as good as new in 2004.

The only thing Judy can be an effective #3 in is a two-man crossword puzzle-off.

1. Danny Wright is NOT capable of throwing in mid-90's with a sharp breaking curveball when he has to throw 100+ pitches. At least not anymore. 2. Danny Wright is too mentally unstable, his release point and arm slot is too inconsistent which means he has NO ability to be a finesse pitcher. NONE. His change-up is not good enough to compensate for his loss of velocity and movement on both curve and heater and his constant 2-0/3-1 count predicaments. 3. Danny is more confortable in relief, with a very good ERA already, before he had a chance to adapt. Even if he is not a closer, he can be a valuable inning-eating long man. Unless he magically recovers from arm injury, his days of starting are over. He was horrendeous in 2003, helping the with Twins with his over-7.00 ERA as a starter.

Especially considering that there is NOTHING even remotely great about Colon's career or 2003 season. Ponson + Perez + Sullivan over Colon EASY. Now if it was Pedro, it's another story.

....all the while remembering the you can't cross a certain line (when you fill up on 300K rookies because they have the best dollar/prodcution ratio) because if you do you will never COMPETE-- and in Sox case another year of no playoffs will be disasterous.

I think that's one of the most important quality of a good GM to not only understand whose intristic value/talent is greater (and it's much harder than it sounds) but also be able to do the BEST thing for the ball club, often using younger, cheaper players in place of really expensive, but more productive vets because the dropoff in production would pale in comparison to the cost/potential factor.

It depends what radar you used. When both Danny Wright and Garland were performing under Cooper in August-September of 2002, they were BOTH 92-94 with a good breaking ball, something that enabled them to completely dumbfound such offensive teams as Toronto and go on a run which made Sox fans expect BIG things from them in 2003... It was such a contrast to see Danny Wright lose velocity and break on his curve (that's why he all but discarded it) and 2-3 mph and some movement off his fastballs. Result? 6.50 ERA. So, yeah, I think you're mistaken as to WHEN the velocity drop happened even if it doesn't really matter: 2001- 93-97, averaging 94. 2002 91-95, ave 93 2003 89-92, ave 91

I think it's important to differentiate between a "better pitcher" and a "better option": Colon is a better pitcher than Ponson, with higher upside. But given other factors, I'd rather have Ponson. You will save up to 6 million, so in essence it's a younger Ponson coming off a better campaign PLUS Odalis Perez PLUS Sullivan-type reliever......VERSUS Bartolo. 3 against 1. I take the 3.

You're kidding, right? I never saw Danny as a AA'er (people say that like Garland and Barcelo and Valentine, he threw by far his hardest when in AA before being askd to tone it down a notch for command's sake), but when he first came with the Sox in Seattle in 2001, he was 94-97 on WGN radar, which is what I expected given teams' penchance for overhyping minor league velocity.....At the end of 2002, Danny was 92-94 This season? 89-92 and his cruve had much less BREAK/velocity as well. He simply doesn't have the command and release point consitency to survive on anything less than 93-94 fastball and a fast biter. Fact. The preseason injury affected his range of motion, his velocity declined. Now, I believe that a 94 mph fastball and a sharp breaking curve will return, but only if he saves his energy as a RELIEVER. Starting career is OVER.

Millwood is better than Colon? Are you serious? So much for you being a frugal straight shooter who knows what's up.... Millwood has a higher career ERA than Colon despite pitching in better pitcher's parks and offense-light NL all his life. And whomever said Ponson is better than Colon is crazy as well. Now, Ponson is YOUNGER than Colon, had a better 2003 and will make just a little over HALF of what Bartolo is gonna get...So he is a better option, but Bartolo is a better pitcher.

Though the "lips on your momma" promo bit was stupid and uninspired, so it may turn some potential viewers off this movie, thinking that this is just another derivative Hollywood comedy...And it is rather derivative since it lacks original plot devices, but since it's EXECUTED so well, and BBT has some weird talent that the results were pretty damn good and I had a lot of fun. It helped that Cohen prothers and Ghost World's direcor helmed it. Oh and DON'T TAKE YOUR KIDS WITH YOU. If I have to see another 9yo in n R-rated movie...

Sure, though it's a bit too f**gy around my neighborhood to walk them in the morning alone.

My sentiments exactly. And CW is exactly right about infant stages of psychosis- I would bet most dictators hurt animals as kids and later turned their insatiable blood lust on humans. And yes, yee worthless cat-killing cocksuckers, me fantasizing about strangulation of my ex-girlfiend was just that- a folly of imagination and male aggression. I didn't act on it.

I never wished my Mom dead per se (in fact I am afraid that one day she will) other than imagining her die in a traffic accident, etc in the heat of a morbid curiosity momemt. But I can understand eM because my Mom has HUGE TEMPER and issues and a peculiar child-rearing philosphy. When I was a kid and I disobeyed or made a mistake, her wrath was scary even though she rarely resorted to violence. She held me to a higer standard for some reason, so it happened a lot. The older I got, the more she used her wit and education to dent my self-esteem as a substitute for spanking. Even now, she often ridicules my lack of education, ill-advised profession choice, apperance, anything she can to make her point...Her specialty is uncannily using my friends and ex-girlfriends (thankfully she only knows two of them, lol) examples. She invents buttons to press, I swear lololol. But I do know that she loves me instensely (which she manifests instead in things that really matter like her giving up lucrative jobs when I was little, financial support, constant presence in my life, fiersely standing up for me to strangers and teachers, fights with my father, etc, etc) and it's just her unconventional way of "tying to tell me something", challenge me or instill wisdom from her own mistakes at the same time. She just can't help herself and find less radical means, and I understand her now better than when I was an adolescent or kid and used to get quite upset, often reduced to tears (I inhereted her temper and also high emotionality and as a kid it was almost impossible to control). I also promised myself a few years back that I would never be one of those people who pay for therapy decades later, all those pussyboys blaming everything on their mothers...... Afterall, all she did was call me variety of names, tell me I was a nature's mistake, hit semi-hard me a occasionally.... BUT she never molested me, never kicked me out on the street when i was in my early teens and was pretty f***ing difficult, never not paid for stuff I needed, never betrayed me in a real way--- all her mistakes and personality flaws now seem pretty minor in the grand scheme of things. I turned out alright and am now able to recognize some of the wisdom in her tough love. And even when there was no wisdon, I learned let it go after I cool down. I am also a LOT more resilent and tough emotionally and mentally because of the abuse I've taken, and I say this without any corn or exaggeration. Besides, I've known her when she was good-- and ther was alot of good times, probably much more than bad ones in retrospect. So I am not always being fare to her. So from that standpoint, Eminem's anger pathology seems overly dramatic and childish. If as a 30+ yo adult he still can't understand and forgive, he is not a real man, but a self-involved baby. Let's hope he doesn't subject his wife and baby to what he went through--- and in most cases people DO repeat their parents mistakes, consciously and not.