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That picture is f'in funny.

So they still have a shot at the wild card!

Yup, their wild card E # is 7. So we're probably looking at Sunday for elimination there.

With their loss last night to Cleveland, the KC Royals were eliminated in the AL Central.

Wow, that's early.

Next up: Tampa Bay (E: 12), or Washington (E: 13).

Big Papi is only one man, and look what he does for that team.

Merit badges all around. Well done!

The Kansas City Royals' elimination number is now 1.

It's a horrible vicious circle. Ballplayers see owners raking in dough, so they demand and get exorbitant salaries. Owners need to entice high-priced free agents, so they raise concession and ticket prices. Players see owners making still more money, and so on.

Unfortunately we've come way too far down this path to turn back. At best we might get a salary cap eventually that causes prices to plateau, but the days of $2 beer at the stadium are probably long gone. I don't know who to blame -- Don Fehr, Curt Flood, George Steinbrenner, Bowie Kuhn, who knows.

Yesterday while listening to the Nats game on the radio, they ran a spot for one of their frequent family deal promotions. Four tickets (cheap seats), four hot dogs, four pepsis, forty-nine dollars. A decent deal if you add up all those items at regular prices, but $49 is a chunk of change to a working-class family.

Isn't there some law that says two teams from the same city shall not win their respective division titles in the same year?

the way to do this is to burn the itunes tracks to an audio cd, then rip the cd using another program

You can actually rip them from the burned CD using iTunes (rather than another program) -- just be sure to set the import type to "MP3" rather than "AAC" in the Preferences. You should be aware that there's a noticeable loss of quality as you're applying a lossy compression format (mp3) on top of another lossy compression format (aac).

Sir S., I've burned lots of live discs from tracks d/l'd off BitTorrent and Audio Archive using iTunes, and haven't had problems with gaps between songs. I wonder if the tracks you're using have some built-in blank noise at the front or back that are causing your gaps. Or maybe it's the AAC format itself.

Proximity to a new team will never be strong enough to cancel out a history with an old one.

Depends on the depth of history, but OK. For me, I need to be able to get to the live games regularly to forge that connection, which I guess is why I didn't assimilate into the Orioles collective in the 5 years that I lived in Virginia before the Nats came around.

In terms of just watching a game, it's a damn good park. There are a lot of good seats that don't cost all that much (the lower part of the upper deck - 400's section - is really great). It's easy to get to by Metro and by car...plus I can fondly remember the dozens of Redskins games my Dad and I saw there.

 

In terms of ammenities...there really aren't any. But I'm perfectly content with beer, hot dogs, and a good seat.

I plan to watch every game out West, sleep be damned. This is where the season turns around...

I agree. It's old and kind of dingy, but it's really accessible, there aren't really any bad seats, and you get to watch the big Marine helicopters ferrying gov't VIPs flying overhead to and from Andrews or wherever they go.

Ction, have you been since the "grand re-opening"? I'm hearing about lots of new concessions -- brisket, microbrews, stuff like that -- I went once right after the All Star break. I went once right after the A.S. break but just stuck with my standard MGD and hotdog.

New Nationals fan, or longtime Expos fan? (just wanted to get a gauge on your level of suffering)

New since last year. I've moved around some. White Sox fan through the 90's.

It could be worse (said the Nationals fan).

Billy Traber is now the ace of our staff.

I picked Carolina to go all the way at the beginning of last season. I'll take 'em again this year.

Here I go again on my own

Goin' down the only road I've ever known

The Yankees are heading to a 3-game series with the Mariners. The Red Sox are playing the Angels. Is there any reason to think that New York's lead over Boston won't be at least 8-1/2 by Friday?

Pure bluster.

Here we are, in a room full of strangers

Standing in the dark, where your eyes couldn't see me

Well I had to follow you

Though you did not want me to

America merely gave the world George Bush, Cheerios and the ThighMaster

Don't forget "Jeter's overrated"

Actually, I've gone from being a Jeter Hater (a Jater?) to grudging admiration.

This thread is part of the movie's marketing strategy. To use teh internets, you know. Isn't it.

There is no joy in Beantown.

Yuck the Fankees.

That's a good point -- not to overgeneralize, but for the wiggers, it's more of an affectation than a way of life.

They opened with three straight base hits, one run in, 2 on, nobody out, and then Johnson retired the next three.

Soon as this damn conference call is over I'm headed for the nearest bar.

It's not just black youth that are falling for the lure of gangsterism culture.