A Black Hole of Happiness - Page 173

ThurgreedMarshall · 07-12-2007, 12:12 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
When he's hitting like he is this season, he can be happy anywhere. But sooner or later he'll have a rough patch again, and it seems to me -- from a distance -- that he likes being in NYC less than the next guy. If you say he needs the attention, maybe I'm wrong.

He sure didn't like it the first few years. But he thinks he has New York figured out now. He looks comfortable, even when he's slumping this year and now understands that he can't pretend to have no weaknesses with the media. He has learned to make fun of himself and there is no doubt he relishes the attention and the extra endorsement money. When the negative attention is not baseball related, I think he enjoys that too.

If he has one really good postseason, he won't have to worry about rough patches.

Plus, if you're ARod, how do you want to break the hr record, retire and go into the Hall of Fame? As a Los Angeles Angel of Anaheim? I don't think so. You want the new Yankee Stadium to be called "The House that ARod built." (Nevermind that it won't be called that.) And you want your name to be linked to Ruth, DiMaggio, Mantle, etc.

If he leaves for an extra $2 million dollars a year, he's a moron. If he leaves because he would be happier in Anaheim or wherever, I can respect that.

TM

Shape Shifter · 07-12-2007, 12:16 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
You people are fucking insane.

Though, I will admit that the first line of the article is misleading in that there's no way you could get all of that and still be inside the Loop in Houston.

http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/metrocard/m....htm#unlimited

patentparanyc · 07-12-2007, 12:27 PM

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/metrocard/m....htm#unlimited

MY PASS IS $353.00 a month.

Shape Shifter · 07-12-2007, 12:31 PM

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Originally posted by patentparanyc
MY PASS IS $353.00 a month.

You live in the boonies.

patentparanyc · 07-12-2007, 12:39 PM

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
You live in the boonies.

This is true.

Back in the day I used to take Amtrak in. Crazy I know. on a monthly pass a whole core group of us did...it was approx 500 something a month.

I checked recently. it has gone up to 700 something a month. that is too much $$$.

Abovethelaw.

They pay you when you get married at Davis Polk? wtf?

http://www.abovethelaw.com/2007/07/d...n_b_1.php#more

they also had an article the other day about the IPhone and Skadden gives you a 3K tech allowance but makes you purchase your own BBerry out of it and pay your fees even I think and they don't recommend you buying an IPhone because the BBerry network is not secure on it yet for work email. and just generally it is rumored to be a shitty actual phone component, some plusses and minuses.

NotFromHere · 07-12-2007, 12:54 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Don't you think A-Rod would be happier somewhere other than NYC? (Anaheim?)

Word around here is that once Barry breaks Aaron's record, A-Rod's coming to San Francisco.

NotFromHere · 07-12-2007, 12:57 PM

K-Fed has a new girlfriend. Who's the bigger idiot now?

Liz Hernandez of Power 106.

Shape Shifter · 07-12-2007, 12:58 PM

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Originally posted by NotFromHere
Word around here is that once Barry breaks Aaron's record, A-Rod's coming to San Francisco.

No way. There are enough Gay-Rod jokes as it is without him moving to SF.

pony_trekker · 07-12-2007, 01:00 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
No, the people in that article are fucking insane. She bought an apartment for over a million dollars so that she could have a place to crash when she brings her kids in for their modeling appointments. I'm going to go out on a limb and say, most people don't live like that here.

I would say that about 2% of the people I know who live in the city have a car. No one I know paid that for a parking spot (most pay monthly parking at exorbitant rates, had one included in the price of their apartment or park on the street).

Unless you have a summer house, a car in New York is a pointless expense.

TM

Hello, it's the New York Fucking Times. Every article is about how wonderful it is to be UMC, how great it is to treat the nanny like shit, how sending the kid to Dalton rocks, etc.

pony_trekker · 07-12-2007, 01:04 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
He sure didn't like it the first few years. But he thinks he has New York figured out now. He looks comfortable, even when he's slumping this year and now understands that he can't pretend to have no weaknesses with the media. He has learned to make fun of himself and there is no doubt he relishes the attention and the extra endorsement money. When the negative attention is not baseball related, I think he enjoys that too.

If he has one really good postseason, he won't have to worry about rough patches.

Plus, if you're ARod, how do you want to break the hr record, retire and go into the Hall of Fame? As a Los Angeles Angel of Anaheim? I don't think so. You want the new Yankee Stadium to be called "The House that ARod built." (Nevermind that it won't be called that.) And you want your name to be linked to Ruth, DiMaggio, Mantle, etc.

If he leaves for an extra $2 million dollars a year, he's a moron. If he leaves because he would be happier in Anaheim or wherever, I can respect that.

TM

I have since become truly amazed by Arod. Probably at the time I realized he is going to have 500 home runs within a month. Thirty homers by the All Star break as a righty in Yankee stadium?

Unheard of.

The only thing I can see him doing is moving somewhere with a shorter right field porch.

Then the question is whether he breaks a thousand home runs, not 800.

patentparanyc · 07-12-2007, 01:06 PM

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Originally posted by pony_trekker
I have since become truly amazed by Arod. Probably at the time I realized he is going to have 500 home runs within a month. Thirty homers by the All Star break as a righty in Yankee stadium?

Unheard of.

The only thing I can see him doing is moving somewhere with a shorter right field porch.

Then the question is whether he breaks a thousand home runs, not 800.

SO is anyone excited about these new stadiums coming soon? I kind of am. Yankee Stadium has its charms and all but it is sort of big, gritty and dirty.

NotFromHere · 07-12-2007, 01:08 PM

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
No way. There are enough Gay-Rod jokes as it is without him moving to SF.

There are never enough Gay-Rod jokes.

And, I missed this. But knowing ESPN, I'm sure I'll have the opportunity to see LeBron in gigantic Hammer pants about 20 more times before the weekend.

Replaced_Texan · 07-12-2007, 01:16 PM

From a stupid ass stupid ass:

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Dear Prudie,
My daughter is 5 years old and has, like most girls her age, a hamper's worth of stuffed animals. While she has her favorites, she constantly wants more and usually connives to get someone (read: her grandparents) into procuring a new one every couple of weeks. The new one immediately becomes her favorite and she must sleep with it every night and haul it around half the day. My question is: Does this behavior indicate she'll be overly promiscuous as an adult, or at least unable to commit to a single partner?

—Perhaps Overly Worried Father

Dear Perhaps,
Of course that's what it indicates. You'd better start thinking now about what you're going to do when she's a young woman and throws over that big, chubby guy with the annoying laugh, Barney, for the sexually ambiguous Tinky-Winky, whom she then dumps for that moron, Elmo, who every time they come over asks you to get down on the floor and tickle him.

—Prudie

Tyrone Slothrop · 07-12-2007, 01:32 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
From a stupid ass stupid ass:

In my house, the problem is the accumulation of stuffed animals, which over time has meant that Wee Slothrop barely fits into his bed with the animals, and that he spends considerable time carrying them all upstairs and downstairs. But he doesn't switch favorites -- Monkey has always been #1 in his heart, though it has been joined by Little Monkey and Red Monkey (who is really a plastic toothbrush holder, but don't tell him that).

ltl/fb · 07-12-2007, 01:34 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
In my house, the problem is the accumulation of stuffed animals, which over time has meant that Wee Slothrop barely fits into his bed with the animals, and that he spends considerable time carrying them all upstairs and downstairs. But he doesn't switch favorites -- Monkey has always been #1 in his heart, though it has been joined by Little Monkey and Red Monkey (who is really a plastic toothbrush holder, but don't tell him that).

I used to arrange my stuffed animals on my bed, every morning, in a hierarchical order, kind of like a throne room -- Mama Koala was the queen, Baby Koala (who attached to her back with velcro) was the prince, and the others were the courtiers.