Lammycat

Because he chuckled and smiled a few times? Perhaps he was amused.

Three more Dead dates added: Chi, CA, WA: http://www.dead.net/dead09?cmpid=dead09_new3shows

This is a nice point. A lot of her parts seem just a tad off the mark. It works for me, too.

An o.d. and then rehab?

Not going on his past. I think the mentality here is to have him get some work in Spring Training in order fill gaps throughout the season if he's needed to (in the starter's role) throughout the season. Unless he is pitching at a level that warrants a reg. season top 5 starter spot, I don't see him in the rotation. I didn't mean to make a seeming corrolation between Wakefield and Masterson. Two separate issues there.

Discussion around Varitek/Wakefield surfaced a few weeks back. francona now saying that Josh Bard is "pencilled in" as Wake's catcher: http://bostonherald.com/sports/baseball/re...foresee_issues/ However, will Wakefield even make it to the rotation? Masterson said to be among the starters (in Spring Training)....

Lost Crowes is a great compilation, if for "Peace Anyway" alone.

Joaquin was obviously on greenies.

Hey brother, I'm just looking for answers.

So his lunacy is a running gag?

How would his agent know he'd show up incoherent when he booked him?

Isn't Casey Affleck his brother-in-law and doing a dcumentary on him? I believe he is actually putting an album out and leaving the acting behind. Maybe it is a ruse, but it looked like legitimate drug-fueld paranoia and muttering to me.

What points towards the fakery, though?

I don't buy that it was a put-on. I think he's whacked out on the goof balls.

Madonna does it on a level playing field, though.

Here's to a whimsical birthday with many chimerical wonderings. ed. We're gonna need more badgers...

Bon Jovi? Journey? I had no idea these people were still around let alone popular. Have either groups put out albums in the past 20 years? I'm out of touch, I guess.

The Selig comments were over-the-top and yeah, stupid (for the most part).

True, but there is a trade-off with that, too. A lot of the negative issues that surround public schools (discipline, transient students, below-average reading levels, etc.) don't occur in private and most charter schools. Generally, charter schools need to abide by a good chunk of district and federal guidelines (state standardized testing being key) in order to receive state and federal funding. I know plenty of people who advocate schools be profit-based but I'm not sold on that for many reasons. However, plenty of schools that run this way make headway in closing achievement gaps, stand

Missed this earlier....Griffey, Jr. back to SEA on a 1 yr. deal?: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20...8&fext=.jsp

Without comment on other divisions right now, LAD take a hard hit if Manny isn't in the equation and I think SF will actually be pretty good this year, better than AZ and top of the NL West. COL will be bottom of the rung, still.

I'm all for talking about other things. If you have something to discuss bring it into the fold. Otherwise, not sure what the harm is. Just skip over the crap you don't like.

I still have not seen anything but that Selig blurb stating that the Fay Vincent memo and MLB policy on banned substances was anything other than what it has been. I'm not saying that the Selig comments are invalid, but they counter everything that the public has known about policy. I also don't see it being mentioned/discussed anywhere else. Any other links/insight on this? And because steroids were not banned during a certain time does not diminish from the impact/negative affect they have had on the sport. I never stated that punishment alone is the litmus test.

I don't know, as I'm not sure I even understand what you are saying by stating that spitballs were worse save for a 4 year period. I maintain that spitballs were never worse than steroids.

This is funny.