Spawn's dad

cool

I can't believe you guys think that PK's are luck. They involve mental strength and skill.

hmmm. having played ball for 17 years as a kid/young adult. coaching and continuing to play throughout my adulthood I think you can attribute whatever skills you'd like to PKs the simple fact is that its an silly way to end a match.

so that you can make enough money to get you through the next semester at school?

oh. i took the question to be more biological in origin.

i hadn't realized you hadn't heard it. oy. PM on the way

perhaps bold in including YHF in the same sentence as master of puppets

Louie is afraid of Grim

isn't von freeman about 100?

I just really don't recall drinking 15-20 cups of beer, or whatever it was.

If someone likes this they like to listen to people dying. nice work LouieB

this is a great album. I think you're way off the mark.

shrug. i find it hard to take anything seriously that ends on a penalty kick. watching all that and having it end that way left we with the feeling of wanting my afternoon back.

the elevator is broke?

you got some last night?

what's the public transportation situation?

it's pretty awesome that the media is finally grasping the idea that pitchers probably take more shit than hitters.

You acknowledge that they are the most hated and then take issue when someone else considers them hated?

 

Ozzie says stupid things about violence sometimes. It's true. He's also friends with Ugie Urbina.

it was a joke dude. if the yankees are the most hated, that are clearest also amongst the most beloved.

I think it's quite possible for them to be the most loved and the most hated at the same time. No one else has more fans, but no one else has as many people who hate them. It's not a contradiction at all.

there you go. I just need to read down sometimes

funny, but what I've seen they draw more or as much as anyone, and they unmerchandise everyone by far. if it were my business and that's what you consider hated I'd take it.

white sox on the fast track to becoming the most hated team in baseball. as a yankee fan I appreciate the effort.

"I tell you one thing, if Padilla hit me twice, right now I'd be in the hospital or I'd be dead. But I will fight. I will fight," Guillen said.

 

 

"Everybody's got a different way to go about their business," Guillen said. "But hit me and we'll fight. I might get my butt kicked but we'll fight. I grew up fighting. I played the game the way it should be played. I manage the way you have to manage in this game."

brilliant stuff.

Arizona left fielder Luis Gonzalez reacted angrily Thursday after the Diamondbacks' top executive told a newspaper there have been "whispers" about whether the five-time All-Star used performance-enhancing drugs.

 

"Just to have your name thrown in it -- I've had phone calls from 7:30 this morning till right now' date='" Gonzalez said. "I don't want to be in this situation. I don't think any of my teammates do.[/quote']

 

too bad. get on the players association to agree to real drug tests. then you can lift the public impression that baseball is only interested in the impression that they want to get rid of drugs. if you're not doing drugs it's easy to agree to a policy that will actually help weed out cheaters. they should suspend everyone of these guys that whine about this stuff right now.

I'll read 'em twice. and if someone bumps last year's from the archives I'll read those too.

Unfortunately, the obnoxious guy was fairly close. He went from "Turn up the volume" during Muzzle of Bees, to "Take your hat off!" and "I'll see you in Charlottesville." Jeff was glaring at him all the way through Shot in the Arm -- it was actually unnerving -- too intense.

I hope it's just wilco fans who make tweedy seem like jackass and not that he actually becomes that ridiculously preoccupied with one person

he got peanut butter on his chocolate

no one ever accussed Keruac of actually understanding Buddhism. In fact, Kerouac was deeply wounded that Gary Snyder didn't recognize him as 'attaining' any understanding. He had a fascination, but no real practice and no level of self control to even properly approach a dedicated practice.

that's a tough question

a good general primer is Kornfield's a path with heart.

if you're interested in reading the actual word's of the Buddha , my teacher Bhikkhu Bodhi's anthology is excellent. It's called In the words of the Buddha .

better yet, poke around at www.accesstoinsight.org or http://www.abhayagiri.org/index.php/main/books. Both have about a million free books which are more than enough for one to get enlightened, or at least figure out what kinds of books they like to read