Gregory Pratt

QUOTE(The Critic @ Jul 10, 2006 -> 01:10 AM) Yep, and not being around for penalty kicks in his last World Cup final also = balls. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Some sarcasm doesn't need green. And, that guy can't be serious: "I'm not cultured, I don't know what a terrorist is." Yeah, f*** you.

Hey, Legend of Pujols, you stole my idea. I was going to make a post called, "So, How Was Your Day" the exact day you made this. I'll forgive you for robbing me, though. --- Were you re-reading it, LCR? Personally, I love that book. I've read it quite a few times. ------- My day today was a good deal of fun. I go to the Chicago HS for Agricultural Sciences, and right now I'm taking a mandatory summer course called the "SAE," Supervised Agricultural Experience. It's sort of like work. We've got a farm. My job is to supervise the Freshmen, for the most part. I took care of the animals -- the cows, horse, pigs, goat and chickens -- and then I went into the hayroom. A friend of mine was relaxing in the barn, and I knocked over a pile of hay on him. Then, I got to the top of a pile on the other side of the room, and dove across, performing a "Coast to Coast" Rob Van Dam-type kick into the hay into him against the wall. Then, I told all of the Freshmen in the hayroom that their new job was to clean up the mess I made, and they did it. Afterward, I went looking for our Prairie Dog, because she got out of her cage. I put gloves on, found her, and caught her. She tried to bite me, and if she'd caught flesh I'd have been in serious pain, but I was gloved. I came home, made a post at the Office of the Independent Blogger, browsed here a bit, then fell asleep for about five hours, and reawoke at about six, six thirty, I think. Maybe five, five thirty. I don't know -- all I know is that I was out. I've been a bit emotionally drained lately, and needed the rest this afternoon, since I haven't been getting enough sleep lately.

QUOTE(beautox @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 07:28 PM) like i said its wasn't just one start its been 5, and i said he hasnt been BAD just maso menos, i expect more from MB, sorry you forgot to take off your homer glasses when looking at his stats for this season thus far. I'm not wearing homer glasses. You have your opinion that Buehrle's been mediocre; I don't share it. That'll do.

And I'm not sure what's so funny about that.

QUOTE(beautox @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 06:51 PM) , the NL is weak they have the best offense in the NL and second only the white/red sox, they could definatly make it in the post season. slugging your way through the playoffs doesn't work very well very often. They won't make the playoffs.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 06:50 PM) It's amazing what one horrific start can do to your season numbers. Take away the Cubs fiasco, he's been pretty good. Yeah, that's why I called bulls***.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 06:00 PM) I love the Director of Lessons Learned. Like in most places in Corporate America, the people who work on the bottom of the ladder in the White House got no raise this year. The people on the higher end though... What else is new?

QUOTE(beautox @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 06:33 PM) Yes lets, because thats what honest fans of their team do, they look at the facts with out rose colored glasses, and can honestly express an opinion about a player and not be a homer. Mark Buehrle has been mediocre this year, thus far and that we have a potential replacement or a AAAA in Heath Philipps down at AAA(time will tell), Mark is about to get real expensive real soon. Freddy Garcia is older, and has lost some mph on his fast ball, hes not a control pitcher and always has been labeled as a "big game pitcher" which is great when the game is on the line, but far to often he plays to the level of talent hes facing. Jon Garland is a enigma, hes pitched over 1000 innings in the bigs, and is a .500 pitcher, at times when he pitches inside he can be dominate and other times he can be a mental midget and not pitch over mistakes. I call bulls*** on the bold.

Don't hope for anything on WWECW. I wanted this so bad a few years ago. Now I wish it had never been reborn. Can someone explain to me how the f*** a Rick Flair v. Big Show match came about? This is horses***.

QUOTE(iamshack @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 05:56 PM) Just a few observations: Well, for one thing, he is a solid leadoff hitter. I really don't know what it is, but we all know that when Scottie is hitting, the White Sox are scoring. No one player seems to impact our offense more so than him when he is hitting. The White Sox lead the league in runs scored in the first inning (79). The Mets are second (75), and after that it isn't particularly close. I don't find it a coincidence that also happens to be the inning that Scottie leads off every game in which he plays. Whether it is his offense, his baserunning, any distracting effect he may have on the basepaths, I am not sure. But, from my observations, he is a solid leadoff man. Statistically, in the first inning, he has a .378 OBP, which is very solid. Additionally, for as much flack as he takes for his mid-7's OPS, with runners in scoring position, he has an .897 OPS. Not so bad afterall for a left fielder. Ichiro, on the other hand, has a .658 OPS with RISP. One more thing- I understand that RBI's are now thought of by some as independent of individual performance and thus an antiquated statistic, but I think Scottie is due a little credit for his 33 RBI thus far- he is on pace for about 60, which is a heck of a lot better than the 25 he had last season. By no means is Scottie the best left fielder in the world. But he isn't the piece of s*** some make him out to be. And remember people, not everyone on the field can be a $5 or 6 million dollar player. I'm glad I'm not completely alone.

QUOTE(beautox @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 05:51 PM) My Prediction for the 2006 WS, Chicago White Sox VS. Cincinnati Reds. Rematch of the 1919WS, no alleged fixing this time. I doubt they make the playoffs with the pitching they've got, but they won't get past good pitching teams in the playoffs.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060711/ap_on_...tate_department http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/11/four-m...id-wh-staffers/ There isn't a sole reason for anyone to be able to penetrate our computer systems. This is purely incompetent. And why is a man (the Director) being paid over a hundred thousand dollars to do nothing in this White House?

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 04:58 PM) Personally, I don't like Bonds. I think he's an ass. I don't understand this witch hunt to try and send him to prison however. What is that going to accomplish? I think the government should be using its resources keeping people who are dangers to society off the streets. Witch hunt to send him to prison? I hate that term because it's used so god damned much in inappropriate scenarios. Barry Bonds isn't innocent of anything. He's a steroid abusing woman beater with the nastiest attitude in baseball of all the players whose bad attitudes are well known. It isn't a witchhunt to try and prove that he's guilty of perjury, obstructing justice, income tax invasion and whatever the f*** else that pervert has done. It's a serious crime to lie to a grand jury. Perjury is a crime that fundamentally assaults our justice system. "Witchhunt" my ass. I think that only one group can credibly be called out for "witchhunt[ing]" him, and that's the guys at the SF Chronicle, the newspaper that devoted so many resources and time to find out what he was using, and when. And, personally, I wish more newspapers would do that to more people, in sports and ESPECIALLY out. But I call bulls*** on the witchhunt. I don't think what they did was a witchhunt, but I guess you could call it that. Edit: Actually, I think that's BS, too. I take that back. I don't think you can credibly say that a newspaper doing its job was witchhunting.

Mmm hmm. I love Mick.

Thome wasn't elected by the fans to bat in the Derby. Manny was voted in by the fans. There's quite a difference there. I do think it's fair enough for him to want more rest, but I'm with Rock: all he had to do was put on a jersey.

The SunTimes should be embarrassed with themselves for making such basic errors.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 02:15 PM) Who do you think will pitch the other 5 innings? I kind of hope Buehrle doesn't pitch for two reasons. I'd like him to get all the rest he can, and I don't want him to give up runs. I don't want Buehrle pitching, either, unless necessary. Who will pitch the other five? I don't know. Send Liriano out there, though. Ah, that'd make sense.

QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 02:20 PM) Actually, it was in the comments section under the Doug Waechtler article. So yeah, there are two different references to Thome's member. They also talked about how puny Richie Sexson is, despite the fact that he is 6'8 or whatever. Good God.

QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 02:16 PM) f*** you, Greg.

QUOTE(knightni @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 02:05 PM) Please. Ozzie never keeps his promises every time. You never know what he'll do. Perhaps. If it were me, I'd put in Ryan, Papelbon, Jenks and then Rivera. I think he'll go with that, or a slight variance.

I have 100 posts per page. I can't access the first page. But I'll say this: I like Pods. That is all.

QUOTE(knightni @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 01:58 PM) I bet that he's a defensive replacement in the 9th for when Jenks pitches. Ozzie said, I believe, that he'll give the ninth to Rivera.

QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Jul 9, 2006 -> 11:54 PM) That site took me to some comments section where people were talking about Jim Thome's penis. The internet is f***ed up, man. Was it that one page about Jorge Posada having a small package, and all of a sudden some dude says, "Maybe he should borrow Thome's monster" or something like that? Holy hell, I hope there aren't two references to Thome's penis at that site....

I hope so.

Yeah, I don't expect him to.