Gregory Pratt

Your...dinner...looks...moldy...

Southwest has some amazingly friendly pilots and stewardesses. Funny people often. I love it.

All three. Come be the cook for my wedding in several years.

May your wrestling be qualityful and your liberalism pink on this splendid anniversary of your sacred birth.

Come make me a sandwich and I'll vote for you. Hell, I'll endorse you.

Thank you Whitewashed and hammerhead. I'm working out for baseball, too. Jobe exercises, mainly, though I'm going to start a modest weightlifting program to strengthen my lower body and somewhat my core. You might get the chance to face me. I'm going to be one of our starters, though, so you might not get to pitch against me (and I might get a DH). If you do, or if I face you -- I'm going to put a baseball between your shoulder blades and point to the sky. And you're going to like it. But if you face me and hit me, the second time we face, I'll take you deep. Centerfield deep. Pansy. By the way, Slav, I'd like to see you sometime relatively soon and work with you on some pitching stuff.

Gload is great.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/spor...30_felix26.html I wish that kid would get more attention. He's amazing.

Lopsided though the deal was when someone suggested Santana + prospect for Freddy in our favor, Freddy + Crede for Santana and Figgins seems lopsided in their favor, especially given how desperate they are for a powerful third baseman. If we've got no better offers, I take Crede + Garcia for Figgins and Santana, but you've got to work hard to milk it for more. Scot Shields? Then flip him somewhere? Wonder, too, if we could pry away a better, additional pitching prospect for Crede + Garland so that we get Santana, Figgins and stud pitching prospect. Though I imagine that the Angels believe Freddy to be a better starter, as I think he (clearly) is.

As some of you might remember, I'd ripped my knee apart in a post-practice accident (Soccer) and ripped everything up. Now that I'm almost at 100%, and have full diagnosis', I thought I'd share what was wrong and what's up. I cracked my femur bone, as well as the kneecap. Not fully, but slightly. (They're waiting to see if my cartilage falls off near the crack and then I'll require surgery.) I tore my menial meniscus. And I sprained every ligament in my knee. Not tore, but sprained them all combined. Not too bad, and the only one giving me substantial trouble is the cracked bone. It goes, Crrrrrrrrk all the time and if I move too fast, it aches like a bad ache. Fun with words. I'm almost fine, though, and I can run as hard as I used to and do all the things I enjoy. I find myself baseball sliding around on tile and merely enjoying my regained abilities. so thanks to everyone who'd been concerned and shared kind words.

QUOTE(juddling @ Nov 27, 2006 -> 12:41 PM) When we were dating, my wife said that to me one year and guess what?? She didn't get anything that year. Harsh??? maybe but that was 20 years ago and i have never gotten that answer again.

QUOTE(chitownsportsfan @ Nov 27, 2006 -> 01:00 PM) The Hard Ball Times lauds Young for his increasing contact rate, flawless CF defense, and steady power and patience at the plate. They argue as a premium CF, he might be baseball's most valuable prospect. http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/...at-chris-young/ Those projections for 2007 hurt to look at...250/330/500 with 21SB Brian Anderson will hit at least .260 with some doubles. We got the better end of the bargain. (I do wish we had Young, but I don't necessarily think it was a BAD deal for us, either. Depends on what happens this offseason, but Javier deserved far more wins down the stretch than he got. That Boston game he threw was when I knew the season was over.)

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Nov 27, 2006 -> 12:06 AM) I had an 'incident' at the movies the other night and ended up seeing 'Deja Vu" for free. I left about an hour into it. I've never cared less for what was gonna happen next in a film. Oh? What type of incident?

Did you ever witness police corruption? Why did you leave law enforcement? If you had witnessed law enforcement corruption -- say, in a close friend -- would you have reported them? Say, police corruption ala pocketing money or, worse, Police Torture of the 1980s corruption -- would you have reported that? Or are you a believer in the good-old-boys, gotta-stick-with-your-friends line of thought?

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Nov 26, 2006 -> 08:25 PM) Um no, he was allowed to "free-swing" which means take whatever pitch he likes and swing away. He couldn't do that. He wasn't experimenting with anything. That was his explanation. Said he was tinkering with his swing but shouldn't have been.

QUOTE(bmags @ Nov 25, 2006 -> 01:16 PM) couple questions: has anyone seen the fountain yet? and has the last king of scotland come out already? and will i ever get back to civilization to catch up on movies? My girlfriend saw the Fountain and Happy Feet. Thought the first one was fantastic and then laughed at the second for being environmentalist propaganda. I loved Borat. I hate Brokeback Mountain.

I thought the Patriots O-Line did a helluva job fighting off our blitzes. But, still, this is a game the Bears should've won if not for critical and abysmal errors by Grossman.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Nov 26, 2006 -> 04:31 PM) Just 1 thing on Iguchi, the Sox tried to move him down the order in ST last season and he struggled. If they tried to move him into the leadoff spot, and he struggled majorly again, what do you do then? Iguchi was experimenting with his swing in spring training. I'm not sure if it was because of the change in the lineup, but I think he said he was just trying out some things, they didn't work, and so he went back to swinging like he always did right as the season started. I don't know that he'd start to falter if put into the leadoff spot just because it be a change in the order.

My first thought at the end was: "I'll bet the mediocre Mr. Grossman throws an interception on the first play." I'll bet half the city of Chicago called it.

My English teacher tells me that people come in to complain about homosexuality in books all the time. Like, Of Mice and Men, Sula and everything by Shakespeare. In the first two cases, of course, you'd have to be ridiculous/never have read the books to think they're about homosexuality or that there are even homosexuals in the book, but there you go. (She also says people b**** about cursewords and things of that sort, too, but not as much as homosexual themes. Says she always asks them, "Have you read the book?" before anything else.)

My girlfriend and I both dislike jewelry. Thank God for inexpensive girls.

Maybe you should just ask her. Surprise isn't always necessary.

It's seven AM on a Sunday. Far too early to be arguing about Podsednik. (( I've said that I think Iguchi can handle leadoff, but ideally, we'd find a new number two hitter and a new leadoff hitter and Iguchi could swing away lower in the order.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Nov 25, 2006 -> 11:04 PM) Yeah,just forget the advice from this republican who has been happily married for 16+ years. I have no idea whatit takes to keep a woman happy. Oh psh. We all know you don't give presents anymore when you get married. That's the allure of the damn ceremony!

Just a word of advice: you don't want to take advice on romance from Republicans. Or from Greens. /Green But I'm not Green. I'm Greg. So buy your girlfriend socks.