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I'm anxious to see it as well but I have to scrounge up a babysitter. Any takers? (I'll leave pizza money)

SINCE Homer at the bat is up there ill ad Flamin Moe's Flaming Moe's and Dancin' Hoomer are definitely two other favorites of mine. "I don't know the scientific term for it but... fire made it good... "Lively up yourself, Dancin' Homer!"

Wow. Bummer, that is a great episode. Now if only the WTC images in that Gawd-afwul King Kong remake would keep that off the air for all time too...

You could take a page from the George Costanza Dating Manual... Suggest a Three-way. That should be enough to scare off most women. Then again if she says ok, you probably are being too hasty breaking up with her. Again, not my advice. Blame George. Failing this, what the hell - try honesty.

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"Homer at the Bat," natch. "Well, Mr. Burns had done it The power plant had won it With Roger Clemens clucking all the while Mike Scoscia's tragic illness made us smile While Wade Boggs lay unconscious on the barroom tile We're talking softball From Maine to San Diego We're talking softball Mattingly and Canseco Ken Griffey's grotesquely swollen jaw Steve Sax and his run-in with the law We're talking Ho-mer, Ozzie, and the Straw"

Guillen has already talked to a trainer for this team. think he knows he's getting the Job. The guy he talked too was the who's trained Irod for the last 5 or 6 years and helped Irod to mantain shape and even worked on his running. Remember when he stole all those bases? You're not suggesting Herm's days are numbered, are you?

I was thinking something more like “We Promise This Ozzie Won’t Sing the 7th Inning Stretch!”

Now, I'm willing to give Ozzie a spin, but a 3-year deal for someone with no managerial experience seems like too much. If he's a bust (not that I think he will be), next year we'll be paying him to sit at home while we go find yet another replacement...

Do you think that Reinsdorf making the call and not Kenny might carry implications as to Kenny's security?

I bet Frank has intentionally recused himself on the issue so as not to heat things up with the media. Everyone knows Ozzie’s hardest job is going to get the respect of Frank and some of the other veterans. I’m quietly optimistic that time will have tempered a possibly strained pas relationship between Frank and Ozzie, and they’ll be able to handle it. Wait a minute, are you trying to say that Frank was smart about NOT speaking to the media? I don't know about that one... There's a first time for everything.

I bet Frank has intentionally recused himself on the issue so as not to heat things up with the media. Everyone knows Ozzie’s hardest job is going to get the respect of Frank and some of the other veterans. I’m quietly optimistic that time will have tempered a possibly strained pas relationship between Frank and Ozzie, and they’ll be able to handle it.

You forgot one important question....... Could KW have changed his mind after interviewing Ozzie for 4 hours?? Or could Cito have cooled to the idea, once he saw a general lack of comittment (financially speaking) to contending next year? I recall one of Cito's early conditions for being lured back from retirement is that the Sox must be serious about contending. After not being able to gget anything done with Colon, and having so many pieces still uip in the air, maybe Gaston has decided to stay retired?

Now that I have young kids of my own, I get to go out trick-or-treating with them so it's like reliving childhood a little. Every time the kids get something good - full-sized candy bars or something like that - I say, "That's one of Daddy's favorites, you had better hide that one." I think they have been given fair warning, and tonight I plan on lightening their candy loads after they go to bed The creepy Halloween event for us this year: We got to a house that had H'ween decorations up, but the porch light was off and the house was dark. Undeterred, the kids rang the bell, and after abot a minute an old guy came out. he pointed across the street and told the kids to go try over there, because he brought his candy over there. As we were leaving the guy pulls me aside and quietly tells me he's a neigbor and that the old lady who lived there JUST DIED like 10 minutes earlier. He sent a distraught sister (also an old lady) over to his house with their candy to sit with his wife while he called the paramedics. Sure enough, about a half-hour late when we were passing the house again, a couple of guys were wheeling in a gurney...

My thoughts and condolances also go out to the families of those killed. I do not mean to sound callous, but Fox or whoever is running the "Jessica Lynch Story" tv movie next week, and anyone who whaches it and thumps their chest over how quickly we 'won the war' and took care of our troops in harm's way must have turned off the news 6 months ago.

Sounds great -- what can you come up for $51 million because Thursday William's said that's closer to the payroll we're looking at??

I could watch that Game 6 8th inning over and over again. It is a thing if beauty.

Go buy a f***ing bag of candy!

When you're right, you're right. Way to thank the fans for coming out and supporting the team last year.

I didn't hear that. I was just assuming what all the papers wrote a few weeks ago. If he keeps payroll at 51 mill it would be a joke because attendance was up and all that stuff and if he was willing to expand payroll a bit the Sox wouldn't have had to given up some of the prospects we did, such as Royce Ring. Heck, if they were gonna give away prospects to save money then they should of at least made kick ass offers to Veal and Moviel as our way of replacing the guys we dealt cause those two were top notch talents. Yeah that number is a joke -- on us. This is excerpted from the story on Frank returning from the mlb site: It's now fitting in Thomas' $6 million to an ever-increasing payroll, with an overall team budget that won't be much higher than the $51 million for 2003. "That's not expected to go up," said Williams, talking Thursday afternoon about the team's overall salary structure. :fyou :fyou

With the assumption that payroll will be $55-60 million, you are discounting KWs statement from two days ago that payroll will not expand significantly from 2003s $51 mil. Do you think he's blowing smoke, trying to get more guys to resign for less money by cryinng poor? We all assumed that all or at least most of the $12 million not going to Bartolo was still going to be used to fill some holes, but apparently it's back in Reinsdorf's pocket.

Didn't he back Mary Ford? (just kidding). Yeah, Les and Charlie Christian were the first wave electric guitar gods, with (I think) Charlie having been more iinovative and Les being the one that broke through.

I'll solve al the Brit Pop arguments for you right now (yeah, right). xtc has been the most influential and innovative brit band since the late 70s, and they continue to reinvent their musical forms in apositive direction. It's hard to believe the same rough-edged (though obviously gifted) band on Go2 and White Music gould have been where the were on Black Sea just a few years later, let alone ever putting down anything like Skylarking. Oranges and Lemons and Nonsuch maybe sound a little to similar, but when you're at the top of your game there is little impetus to change. With the Virgin Records legal battles and the departure of virtuoso multi-instrumentalist Dave Gregory during the 3 year hiatus, I figured the band was done. Apple Venus 1 ws a little lacking in contrasts for me, and I missed Dave's light touch on orchestral arrangements. But AV2-Wasp Star... Wow. Andy and Collin, lean and mean and still writing the only British pop with a cerebral element to it. And those Dukes of Stratosphere were pretty rocking too...

I forgot to comment in this. Yeah, it was noted in The Love You Take, and also in Ray Coleman's (prick!) Lennon biography, that John was the one most turned on by Procul Harum's Whiter Shade of Pale. I think too much has been made of it as "an influence," particularly when people say it influenced Sgt. Pepper. The album came out in late May 1967, and Pepper was out mid-June, so there wasn't much chance of influence there. It was at a Pepper wrap/pre-release party that John went on about "some dope song" he heard and couldn't get out of his head - that song being Whiter Shade... There was alater influence, including the somnambulistic organ passages on Mystery Tour and, even more so, the organ part in an alternate version of Imagine that didn't make the album. Again, though, the influence only gets cited because John though pretty much everything at the time was crap (not Yoko's 'art' apparently), but he singled out this one song as being pretty good.

That's damn funny One overlooked fact is who influenced who. How many rockers point to blues as influential yet I didn't see any blues artists listed. I read somewhere (The Love You Take possibly) that John and Paul were influenced by Poco Harem. Should they be mentioned by default as an influence on THE INFLUENCE? And when we talk about the Beatles as being influencial, I really believe we mean John and Paul. I believe it was more the songwriting and downplay Ringo and George. I think they still would have been just as good with the better looking Ed Best on drums. Personally I don't think most of these bands and artists credited would have been anything without their parents f***ing them up. As far as the blues influence, I cut to the chase with Fats Waller. Duke, and Gershwin, ala CWs comment about which people trancended genres and really shook things up. Gershwin, via Porgy and Bess, brought the blues to the world. Fats Waller took the reins from Leadbally and brought his blues, and the more jagged New Orleans blues of King Oliver and such into the Swing world. Ellington is Ellington. Leadbelly and Robert Johnson probably should be in there, but really they influence a handful of people that, in turn, influenced everyone else. That's the way I see it, anyway. Re, the Beatles... Stop dissing George. Your point about the composer aspect above the performer aspect of the group is understood however. And I must have been spacing out when I submitted my list... BOB DYLAN, anybody?