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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Fag

Your insults are biting and hurtful to my fragile psyche.

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick

1. Beautiful women (ages approx. 23-28) outnumbered hot men about 50-1. Such is New York, I guess.

I'm moving to NYC.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I agree and disagree. I don't see it as trying to pick a fight. I see it as trying to get away with a foul. But, yeah, they were choking and no one seemed to care on the Yankees. Fucking fight for the win or suffer watching someone else wear the championship ring.

Right. He's amazing. He got killed in his first appearance and pitched okay in his second. I agree our guys laid down, but stop sucking Schilling's dick and give the guys on your team who deserve the credit their due.

TM

A-Rod is incredibly talented. He's also a pussy. Trot Nixon may not have his skills, but he'd run through a wall to catch a fly ball, and baseball players respect that. I don't know why Nixon et al. are stirring the pot, but what they're saying obviously resonates with a lot of NYers.

Schilling shouldn't have been walking around, so naturally we give him credit for the two games he won after Game 1 of the ALCS. (Two, not one -- recall that the Sox played in the World Series.)

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Originally posted by Anne Elk
My favorite quote:

Why? Was he worried about VPL with his loose fitting shorts?

Such is the state of Timberwolves basketball that I had to check to make sure this was not Sam Cassell

[andViolins]

Unless there is a surgery out there to unsink some eyeballs to make someone look less like a psycho, there is no way that my man Scott is going to be your next American Idol.

http://www.idolonfox.com/contestants/scott_savol/

aV

The man can sing, but DAMN! Here's my liver, pass the fava beans and a nice chianti.

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
Because I am officially old. I just got an email from some guy (no, not online dating, sorry), saying he was 420 friendly. Until like a week ago, I would have thought that meant he could crew for me. when was this term invented? Just like I refuse to speak jive, I am not speaking numbers. I will not ask for the 411.

Was that English?

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[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Because I am officially old. I just got an email from some guy (no, not online dating, sorry), saying he was 420 friendly. Until like a week ago, I would have thought that meant he could crew for me. when was this term invented? Just like I refuse to speak jive, I am not speaking numbers. I will not ask for the 411.

I was in college from 1991-1994. The term was around then.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by andViolins
Unless there is a surgery out there to unsink some eyeballs to make someone look less like a psycho, there is no way that my man Scott is going to be your next American Idol.

http://www.idolonfox.com/contestants/scott_savol/

aV

The man can sing, but DAMN! Here's my liver, pass the fava beans and a nice chianti.

Speaking of Idol, the SXSW bands list is up and Billy Idol and Vanilla Ice look to be staging comebacks.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
In good faith, I honestly don't buy this. I and millions of other Canadians have never had any trouble seeing the puck on tv.

The TV people did, at least at one time. Remember the experiments with the "puck view enhancement" technology, where they'd (weirdly) cause the puck to glow on-screen?

But the main problem still comes in for live view. You can't build an arena that holds a football-sized crowd, because it seats too many too far from the little puck.

This is still the current view of the arena-tech people, FWIW (concerning why hockey won't be a huge-crowd sport.) It's not the familiarity thing - heck, we know icing by the time we're five, but even in MN we don't get huge viewership.

[andViolins]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Speaking of Idol, the SXSW bands list is up and Billy Idol and Vanilla Ice look to be staging comebacks.

Word to your mother!

aV

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by bilmore
Too small and fast of an object of interest. They can't make the arenas bigger, because you need to be able to see the puck, so the live audience isn't ever going to be huge. TV views are also limited by that factor. It's just not well suited for huge mass views like football or baseball, where it's fairly obvious where the ball is - a puck is streaking around so fast and so unpredictably that it gets lost.

I won't ask if you've watched hockey on HD, because...well, you know. But it is amazing. You can have wider views and still see exactly what's going on with the puck. I hate hockey, and even I find it hard to change the channel.

TM

[tmdiva]

Originally posted by andViolins
Unless there is a surgery out there to unsink some eyeballs to make someone look less like a psycho, there is no way that my man Scott is going to be your next American Idol.

http://www.idolonfox.com/contestants/scott_savol/

aV

The man can sing, but DAMN! Here's my liver, pass the fava beans and a nice chianti.

Like I said, he's got to connect more with the audience. Convey the emotions of the song, blah blah blah. Think back to Justin Guarini. Not a great singer, but a great performer because he could connect with the audience. Latoya London from last season? Great singer, but one of the things that killed her was her reserve (still think she got voted off way earlier than she merited).

Anyway, no one that I liked from the final 44 was eliminated, but there were a couple in the previous batch that I would have liked to see go on. I was rooting for the fat stay at home mom (go figure) and Ross the Stumptown jazz cat (would have been nice to have a retro singer who could actually sing, unlike redhead boy last season who was inexplicably popular with some FBers and whose name I cannot now for the life of me remember).

Right now I'm more excited about the boys (I like about half of them) than the girls, but that may be because the girls who ended up making the finals had less coverage during the earlier rounds--I don't recall ever seeing about half of them, and the half that they have shown before I don't all like (somebody please do something about Makalah Gordon's eyeliner!).

I'm excited for next week--now we get to see whole performances from all the contestants, which makes for way better head-to-head comparison.

tm

PS Survivor spoiler for TexLex: Jolanda was the first person voted off, and rightly so.

[Dualit]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Because I am officially old. I just got an email from some guy (no, not online dating, sorry), saying he was 420 friendly. Until like a week ago, I would have thought that meant he could crew for me. when was this term invented? Just like I refuse to speak jive, I am not speaking numbers. I will not ask for the 411.

Accoding to snopes.com, the term was coined in 1971. I don't know when it entered the general lexicon.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
I give lots of guys credit; it was a helluva team. I have always liked Nixon, and Lowe was incredible - Nixon didn't surprise me, Lowe did. But despite having a lousy outing in Game 1, Schilling delivered at the key time and all season.

No. Schilling pitched like shit in the first game and pretty good in the other. Granted he gave his guys a lift pitching injured (although, how much his injury actually affected him I tend to question because he was throwing low to mid-nineties) and was clearly a leader, but Lowe won three games, I believe and Arroyo and Ortiz (with Lowe) were the guys who won you that Series.

Varitek, Damon and Schilling would have been huge goats (although Schilling had his excuse* ready to go if you guys got swept) had Gordon's arm not succumbed to overuse at the wrong time.

TM

*And whether you are Schilling or Kevin Brown or whoever, if you're not ready to perform, you shouldn't take the ball. Schilling knew or should have known he didn't have it that first game, just like Brown knew he didn't have it in Game 7. Courage and confidence does not make up for stupidity when your team needs you.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by bilmore
You can't build an arena that holds a football-sized crowd,

that's not the problem

You don't need a football sized crowd- here they play in a basketball sized arena. I've never had "good seats" at Joe Louis but I can follow what's going on from the "way up" seats. basketball size ticket sales are fine- they play lots of games (or were supposed to).

I guess it might be the problem of people who never played not being able to appreciate the game. And tons of kids are playing now- but in very select cities. A big chunk of my kids classmates are in hockey families, and there are several levels of travel leagues- I know families who take their kids to tournaments around the country every other weekend most all year round.

But then, at the college game I was at a few weeks ago- sitting near us is a travel team up from Cleveland for a tournament. And the dad sitting next to me is telling me how he lives in Columbus (several hours from Cleveland) and drives his kid to practices a few times a week because the only travel team is this one up in Cleveland. So point is, the sport isn't taking over the country