DonkeyKongerko

Marte, master of the 0-2 walk. I still can't believe he got a save last week.

This guy's been in Puerto Rico too long, he thinks Cintron still plays for the DBacks.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Mar 12, 2006 -> 07:29 PM) He's implying your lucky Tenn is the 2 seed in that bracket. Sure you may have been seeded low, but Tenn is the worse 2 seed and would probably be the worse 3 seed. That means your bracket is a lot easier thanks to that. I'm glad someone understands what I'm trying to say... It sounds like some people here would rather be a 2 seed in a bracket with 4 top ten teams than in this one. Cuz we all know, it's all about the seed.

Tennessee is the 2 seed in the bracket. I don't think any team here can complain about being "screwed over." I think some people need to take off the orange-tinted glasses once in a while.

This is pretty huge for Caribbean bragging rights. When was the last time Bernie Williams got that loud a chant at Yankee Stadium?

Well ARod gets his clutch hit for the year. Welcome to the postgame controversy.

QUOTE(Brian @ Mar 12, 2006 -> 06:14 PM) Bags loaded, 1 out, bottom of 9, Griffey up, tie game. Thank God it isn't ARod. Be careful what you wish for Brian. Did anyone not see that high fastball coming to Griffey there?

QUOTE(Palehosefan @ Mar 12, 2006 -> 05:50 PM) UNC gets to play MSU in Ohio in the 2nd round as a 3 seed, how fun. But there are more Illinois fans on this board, and you know what they say about the squeaky wheel.

Japan just got f***ed over on an overturned sacrifice fly. Doug Eddings has been sighted in the tunnel.

Yeah, the seedings might suck but what's the difference if we lose to UConn in the Sweet 16 or in the Elite 8?

Why do we continue to bat ARod cleanup? So we can give away more outs before Lee crushes another one?

It looks like Cintron had his share of walkoff hits last season and is the heir apparent to OMIT.

The silly part is that of all sports, baseball is probably the one where the better team is least likely to win. Each pool should have at least had a home and home where each team could play six games and get a larger sample size. It might make for some "exciting" baseball down the stretch but could you imagine a single-elimination MLB playoff round? I guess there's the wildcard play-in game but I've always hated that too.

Canada's only chance would have been if this game was played at Coor's Field for Jeff Francis.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Mar 8, 2006 -> 06:46 AM) Most HD files run in the area of 170 MB for a 22 min clip to 328 MB for a 45 min. clip. If you have a widescreen monitor you'll be seeing a pure high-def picture. It can also be burned onto a DVD and viewed on a standard TV with amazing quality. Sorry, but that 328MB 45 min. clip is not HDTV. It may say "HDTV" because it was ripped from an HD source, but it is most likely some flavor of MPEG-4. A pure HD video of that length would probably be close to 6GB in size. I will vouch for VLC however. It handles almost every codec out of the box although I have some problems with the newer Quicktime stuff.

QUOTE(Brian @ Feb 28, 2006 -> 09:55 PM) No problem. I know what you mean. I appreciated the look of the movie but never got into the characters and plot. Movies are like sports and music in the way that everyone has different likes and opinions. That is what makes em great. People can either hate Terrence Malick movies or understand them. People expecting "Saving Private Ryan from Japan" left the theaters very disappointed. I also thought Sean Penn had probably the best performance of anyone in that movie, and he wasn't even a main character.

I usually don't watch pairs figure skating, but we have yet another "controversy" where a Chinese team was given more than the maximum two-minutes after a bad crash. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_spor...rts/4712394.stm

Ted Ligety managed to skip that whole talking the talk step straight to a gold medal. A nice way to end the day.

QUOTE(southsideirish @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 12:34 AM) There are a bunch on the southside. Where have you been the last 10 years? The suburbs I guess, where we are not lucky enough to have such things as Muslim Fried Chicken. I think there's still a Brown's Chicken or two around that I know of and maybe a Popeye's.

I thought maybe there was some connection between Church's Chicken and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Instead, it turns out Church's Chicken (and Caribou Coffee) is owned by Arcapita, formerly known as the First Islamic Investment Bank. I didn't even know there were still Church's Chickens around, I haven't seen one in at least 10 years. Sorry to hear about the kid though. I just wish there was some better way of making drivers stop than flashing red lights and a little stop arm.

QUOTE(Jimbo's Drinker @ Feb 13, 2006 -> 08:10 PM) It is?? i am being naive, how is it so hard I have no experience, but it seems really hard to me trying to control the trajectory of a giant stone sliding down some ice without being able to touch it.

There's a Dutch speedskater on that looks like Crede. Mullet included.

I recommend you use your new-found support to take donations for a Macbook.

I came to thinking the other day about cursive writing and what the whole point of learning it was. I probably spent a good semester or two in grade school learning how to read and write it. What good has it done me since? I think my 3rd grade teacher even required all written assignments to be turned in in cursive. Since then, the only thing I have ever written in cursive is checks. Actually, I probably write checks in sort of a combination of cursive and italics because otherwise they are just too hard to read. What I wouldn't give to have that year of school back learning cursive to spend on improving my penmanship in plain old letters. For those of you with kids, do they even teach cursive any more? With computers everywhere these days, I don't see a need for it. I was always told it was "the way adults write", but I can't think of anyone that uses it regularly besides teachers.

Where are the footnotes for the asterisks??? Someone complete me please.