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But they do try sometimes. The point is every other major sport, except boxing, tosses players out for fighting. To me hockey is a freak show for allowing it. This week: Disney On Ice NHL Boxing on Ice The sport is too cool to resort to sideshow theatrics.

That was one that intrigues me. The problem as I see it is they are trying to make hockey a made for TV sport and of the big 4 it is the worst on tv. I would argue that Football is better on tv than in person, basketball is marginally better on tv, baseball is a draw, and hockey has to be seen in person. First off good hockey has no natural breaks in the action for tv timeouts. No NBA style scoring No deep strategy like baseball No huddles like football With the helmets and hard to pronounce names not enough "stars" Not enough kids play due to cost of equipment and ice time. Do whatever they like. I'm not certain making rules changes that result in more 8-5 games is necessarily going to help unless 13 goals pools become popular. I love the game. I wish it was more popular. May I also add it doesn't help that the most pathetic, worthless, bumpling, mother f***ers in all of sports are the owner and GM of the Hawks. Reinsdork would be better.

I could do without the fighting. It is my least favorite part of the game. It fighting is so cool, why doesn't the NFL allow it?

I have to check my Edinburg Roadrunners schedule for next season and say hello to Mr Bevington. Maybe he'll autograph one of my Sox jerseys. FWIW, it is a nice league. It was formerly the Texas-Lousianna League until it expanded. I'm a little surprised he fell this far. After all he did have a winning record in the majors.

LOL but my wife does I sent you a PM. Like the ghost of Christmas Future this amazing MD took me on a little tour of my life if I didn't make some changes and fast. I was lucky the two biggest worries were not as bad as we thought. In the course of that, they discovered a few other issues that were knocking on the door. I was shown a nice demo of how to inject your belly with insulin and a very graphic display of a full blown cardiac arrest. At 6'1" I looked at some charts and thought I should be 190 to 200. After they took some measurements of what my old cross country coach called a runners wrist, they told me 165-170 is a better weight. I was thinking breaking 200 was going to be imossible, now I'm suppose to be shooting for 170 without :puke A little laser and a biopsy was the best news.

Thank you everybody. I am back in my Dallas hotel room and finally have an internet access. I've been running between a trade show and getting some tests run. Most of the results have come back with mixed results and I have some diet and exercise to do. I am borderline everything from being about 30 pounds over weight 220 6'1" The most serious stuff, that had my MD the most worried, turned out to be fixed with a little office procedure. Hopefully I will be walking a bit better. Garth said it best: I'm much too young to feel this damn old Lord, I'm much too young to feel this damn old

Fisher shows how close genius and insanity are linked. As a player it is nearly impossible to compare ratings from different eras. The USCF has seen an artificial creep in rating over the years. Kasparov is awesome and a match between him and Fisher in their primes would have been very entertaining. Regardless of outcome he is easily in the top 3 of all time. It is unfortunate he is wacked in the head. As a person I have zero respect for him. Back in the mid 1990s the US Open was played in I believe Morton Grove or Des Plaines. I have the program back home. I remember after my game ended early and in defeat an older gentleman was kibitizing and rolled back my game about 30 moves and was offering some advice. We got to talking and he mentioned he was part of Fisher team in Iceland for the World Championship win over Spasky. He said they thought Bobby was crazy thinking the Russians were bouncing radio waves off him and using other spy techniques to aid their guy. Later, a couple Russian players (Lev Albert?) immigrated and mentioned the KGB had officers there looking for ways to help their player. Chess has been ruined IMHO by speed chess. I still prefer traditional play of 40 moves in 90 minutes. Now they are playing game 5 minute with electronic time keeping that will add seconds based on move speed. I guess I'm too old. Brando, chess peaked in this country during the Fisher era and has dropped again. When I was last in Chicagi there was only about 2 or 3 decent clubs that met nightly and there were many weekends without any tournament action. I use to enjoy postal but that has gone away for the most part against the internet.

I have seen him a couple times since the 70's and enjoyed each show. Tonight's the Night, Georgie Boy, Reason to Believe, we played Forever Young at my son's Christening, and a bunch of others are very meaningful to me. He also did a nice remake of Van Morrison's Have I Told You Lately. Van Morrison's version got me through a particularly rough stretch of my life. Steff, have a great time. Rod has reinvented himself several times, from his Do you think I'm Sexy days to love song crooner.

My tap water starts out from the Rio Grande, the most polluted major waterway in North America. We RO filter our drinking water, from our city water. I've also dumped all my aluminum backpacking cookware in favor of somethign coated. The sanitation standards in the countries that grow our food in many cases are not up to US standards. We now see port a potties in all the farm fields. Not so in South America. After realizing and seeing that I now wask all my produce a little bit extra. If you don't have your health you don't have anything.

Adios for a couple days while I get a couple things taken care. In the great words of Mickey Mantle "If I knew I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself" If all goes per schedule, I should be back Sunday afternoon. Mathew 9:12

In the interest of full full disclosure I am also Brandofan, ban that one as well

I was at the between season coaches meeting for a parochial middle school league. THe girls b-ball coaches were complaining about the poor officiating. I looked at them and told them for $11.50 per game, that was as good as they would get and if they really wanted it fair, have the girls call their own fouls.

They have a waiting list for the procedure. Seems people travel from all over the southwest to visit them. They are very nice and recommend the massage prior to the colon cleansing. I am thinking it would be a good idea.

Man, I'm thinking Hawaii 5-0. I just want to be the guy on the beach who smiles as they "Book 'em Dan-O" Plus I think I would look better in black and white

After reading this I decided to look into a gift certificate for a previous co-worker Looking for a fun and theraputic vacation at the beach? Here is their web site

PA, I have to ask, why did you look on the The Canadian National Institute for the Blind site for this guy's picture?

No I didn't take offense. I was pointing out that name calling is silly, but is usually fun and not serious. I know you couldn't be calling me that name, you have never met me. You are reacting to an on-line persona we all create. Some maliciously try and conceal their identity, others have fun with it. I was so surprised to learn that PA is actually a female hooker from Blue Island and not some dope from PA, living in College Station. By-the-way according to one of my classmates the reason Janet Jackson was the #1 searched for term on google last week was people are trying to understand a sociatal norm we all can agree on. HOw can we protest unless we have actually seen the nipple ring Fortunatly everyone pretty much said they wanted to see her nipple ring BTW were did you hide Ivan Rybkin?

No. I picked out the stone and she went to help design the ring. I figured if she was going to be wearing it for a long time to come, she might as well help pick it out. We had been dating a few years and both knew it wasn't if, but when, we would get married. Several times since then I have wanted to upgrade the diamond and every time she has shot me down. It is small by her friend's standards (.9 carat) but she wouldn't trade it for anything.

Gee I hope we can make you feel better. If you care to buy a premium membership, email me your credit card information . . . I only used them if I was sick, or there was a playoff game, of I had something really important to do.

From a thread a couple weeks ago And you said you are struggling to learn English.

PA, ROTFLMAO

Parking lot at Hawthorn Mall in Vernon Hills. We went to pick up the ring which had been made to her specifications. It was on April 1st. I thought she would realize it was all an eloborate April Fools joke

Too bad, I like to get mine more often then that . . .

What I just realized is you are about the only one here who uses his/her real name, if Stephanie is really your name. So in a sense we all are calling people names when we use PA, 2k2,3,4,5,6,7,8, Fanof14, etc. I actually kind of like the name calling. Brando had a very nice string aimed at my on line persona.