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I am admittedly STILL basking in last year's World Series title, but this team should have been so much better. I never felt "it" this year, like I did last year. I just had that feeling last year...I think b/c they weren't dominant, but were solid...and lucky. And that luck rolled into confidence, which made them think they could win every game. I thought they could win every game.

I don't know how many titles the Yankees have won in your lifetime, but last year was my first, and it was just...amazing. The feeling really hasn't gone away yet.

This year, they were expected to be great. Adding Thome and keeping their starting pitching from 2005 should have made them great. Unfortunately, from year to year, bullpens are never consistent. I don't know what happened to their starting pitching.

The one real reason the Sox won't make the playoffs is Mark Buehrle. And I hate to say that b/c I love that guy. He's funny and doesn't take himself very seriously, and he has been a consistently good* (not great) pitcher his entire career. If he pitched this year like he has for the past 5 years, we'd be in the playoffs.

*even with his 12-13 record this year, he still has a career W/L of 97-66.

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This is horsehit.

Go Oakland a/k/a Team Frank Thomas.

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Correct.

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I'd love to have a Checker Cab. Those are cool rides, and you can put 500K on them.

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Your taste is in your mouth. She's hot, but not the hottest. You're being hyperbolic and absurd, as usual.

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No, but I don't like any of them either. What's that make me? A moral relativist?

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The first baseball game I ever attended was a Tigers game also. Tigers-Blue Jays in Tiger Stadium. With my dad and my uncle who lived in Livonia. I was a Phillies fan at the time. Now? No allegiance. I even have a hard time with baseball during the playoffs. Unless I'm watching it live. I guess I'm a Dodgers fan when I'm at the games here because I want them to win so they'll play I Love LA at the end of the game. Plus I typically go with a die-hard Dodgers fan who has season tickets.

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Did you like Butte State? Even after you figured out it wasn't what you were expecting?

eta: Shit, that was supposed to be Ball State. No wonder Stanfurd wouldn't let me in.

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Really? No apple pie?

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Got a spare $3K?

I'd love to recreate the Studebaker from the Muppet Movie for the Art Car parade some year. (According to Wiki, they're 1951 Commanders)

http://www.z06vette.com/gallery/data...er-resized.jpg

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The man has said he doesn't like blow jobs, are you really surprised by anything else he has to say?

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You're quite an afficiando of the geriatric motoring world.

If I find myself shopping for a Town Car, I will do the honorable thing and point my mechanized wheelchair into oncoming traffic on the nearest freeway.

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good thinking. if you're going to steal my posts might as well steal the avatar.

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Apple pie is not that great. The smell of it is great, but the taste - meh. I only like apple crisp or apple crumble, not apple pie. My favorite pies are blueberry, pumpkin or Cherry Pie.

For dinner last night I had the best kobe beef I think I have ever tasted in my life. I think it actually helped me sleep really well and feel very happy today. Magical.

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okay, you have to realize you're trolling here, right?

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Well, actually, its #4 on my list, behind:

1. One of those late 60s Benz convertibles (the little very plain ones, with a few dents;

2. A Lincoln Towncar convertible like the one Kennedy was shot in - really long, with suicide doors;

3. Intl Harvester Scout convertible (late 70s model)

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Good point. I can understand cherry pie*, but not apple.

*the pie, not the song. The song is fantastic.

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Take it to the More Pie board.

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close. you're my bitch.

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I make a great pumpkin pie. With real pumpkins, not that pre-made pumpkin crap.

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I don't care for any pies, donuts, pastries or cakes, generally. I like ice cream, frozen yogurt, sorbet and some candy.

I enjoy blow jobs quite a bit. However, I like fucking more, and will always take a solid fuck over a blow job.

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keep this on the QT, but her money is from the Peppridge (of the Farms) family. she couldn't eat all the cake she has.

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Warning: do not troll eBay's automotive section. You'll end up having a discussion with your self that $1400 isn't that bad and the car was pre fuel injection, how hard could it be to fix?

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That sounds wonderful. I am thinking of doing that this year instead of using the canned pumpkin.

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"are no" or "is no"? i think its the later.

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Did anyone catch that I made the Cherry Pie joke before Coltrane, just in a more subtle way? I would just like it noted.

(now I am not being subtle at all, but that is not the point).

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When I stopped at the grocery store this morning for some raspberries (hi RP!), I noticed that the first round of pumpkins has come in.

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if it helps ESPN picks the Bulls as the no. 2 team in the East.

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It's actually pretty fun with music, lots of wine and four other people to help out. It's a group project. I've actually never made one solo.

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It was clear that you referenced the song by capitalizing the pie, but I don't see how that's a joke.

And who said I was joking? I celebrate Warrant's entire collection.

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Who is going to score for them? Noccioni?

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I realized it only through inference because I was quite sure that you would not engage in random capitalization, both on principle and to avoid the wrath of fringey.

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Is this some kind of euphemism?

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I thought you guys would win the division easily early in the season. I thought Detroit was a fluke and would come back down to earth. They did, but Chicago wasn't there when it happened. I think once Contreras' streak was stopped, the magic was over.

Thome is great, but the guy strikes out way too much. And last year your starting pitching and bullpen all came together perfectly. Hard to do that two years in a row. But that just means next year will be a big year for you.

As for the Yankees, '96 was absolutely amazing. None of these other championships has even come close. I still remember it better than any of the others.

Being a Yankees fan is great because our owner is committed to doing whatever it takes. But that also means that losing hurts way more than winning feels good. The Yankees damn well better make the playoffs. That is the absolute bare bones minimum. And I'm reasonable. So many people here think the season is a complete failure if we don't win The Series. I've sat at games where Jeter has been booed. Hell, they even booed Mariano a few times. Unbelievable. This is a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately town.

I'll tell you this, though: If ARod doesn't have a huge October, he's going to wish we traded him. I haven't seen someone this hated since Charles Smith.

TM

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Is this some kind of sick joke? Do you really want to see Frank Thomas do anything but fall flat on his huge face? That guy is a bigger dick than ARod.

TM

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A-Rod's career and reputation are very similar to Tom Cruise's.

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Where is PLF? It is humorous because I included a reference to a Warrant song in a list of actual pies. Like it's the same but not really. <sigh> this is hard work.

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You had me worried, thanks for the clarification. Ladies, update your dossiers (and wear clean panties).

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Cooked apples are for suckers.

Where'd you get it? (Unless you're talking about Mr. Bryant, because then I don't really need the details.)

TM

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Wow. you're like the anti-fringey!

Oh. I guess you're not the anti-fringey.