ZenLunatic

I like my cow alive and walking. Just go up to him and take a bite.

I actually voted Filet - Medium rare.

The cooking style depends on the cut, but mostly like mine lean and rare. Ribeyes can cook a bit longer cause its so juicy with all that marbling fat.

Zen - you weren't being sarcastic with the Sheff thing?

Nah, I dont really know what kind of person Sheffield is. Just saw an interview where he totally ripped on steriods use and proclaimed with force that he would and have never used steriods. I'm not a fan of his or anything. Just thought why would someone go that far to one side if he was using steriods. Maybe he is and that was his stupid way of trying to protect himself. I'm not protecting or sticking up for him at all. I just remember the interview.

Have you been following the Balco/Bonds story at all?

no, did bonds use topical steriods? cause i assumed he likes it in the ass.

Sheffield says that steroids are only something that get injected into your butt. He used the cream and the clear, but doesn't consider them to be steroids because he didn't get a shot in the ass.

There is a topical steriods? Wow. Dont see that working as well.

Nothing beats a shot in the ass for muscle building.

If Clemens was a name, I really suspect Andy Petite also.

He pointed at a guy during the investigation and said "I NEVER USED STEROIDS!!!!"

I dont know if you saw the Sheffield interview, but he went on and on about his feelings about the subject. Would be a shocker for me, really.

Not just statements to protect him from punishment, Sheffield had strong opinions.

He also uses Viagra.

I dont get it, what does Palmero have to do with Sheffield?

No, just like we shouldn't do it to Bonds'.

 

I've long since suspected Clemens was on roids. That's not surprising at all.

 

Here's a list I've seen floating around, for what it's worth:

 

"Brady Anderson, Manny Alexander, Rick Ankiel, Jeff Bagwell, Barry Bonds, Aaron Boone, Rafaeil Bettancourt, Bret Boone, Milton Bradley, David Bell, Dante Bichette, Albert Belle, Paul Byrd, Wil Cordero, Ken Caminiti, Mike Cameron, Ramon Castro, Jose and Ozzie Canseco, Roger Clemens, Paxton Crawford, Wilson Delgado, Lenny Dykstra, Johnny Damon, Carl Everett, Kyle Farnsoworth, Ryan Franklin, Rich Garces, Jason Grimsley, Troy Glaus, Juan Gonzalez, Eric Gagne, Nomar Garciaparra, Jason Giambi, Jeremy Giambi, Jose Guillen, Jay Gibbons, Juan Gonzalez, Clay Hensley, Jerry Hairston, Felix Heredia, Jr., Darren Holmes, Wally Joyner, Darryl Kile, Matt Lawton, Raul Mondesi, Mark McGwire, Guillermo Mota, Robert Machado, Damian Moss, Abraham Nunez, Trot Nixon, Jose Offerman, Andy Pettitte, Mark Pior, Neifi Perez, Rafael Palmiero, Albert Pujols, Brian Roberts,Juan Rincon, John Rocker, Pudge Rodriguez, Sammy Sosa, Scott Schoenweiis, David Segui, Alex Sanchez, Gary Sheffield, Miguel Tejada, Julian Tavarez, Fernando Tatis, Maurice Vaughn, Jason Varitek, Ismael Valdez, Matt Williams and Kerry Wood."

 

No real suprises on that list, but say it ain't so, Jay Gibbons.

Yeah I was kidding about the *. I hate the *. I have complained extensively about it here somewhere.

Some of those names have already admitted to use that I know of. -Rick Ankiel, Jose Canseco, Jason Giambi, Ken Caminiti

I would be suprised if Gary Sheffield pops up cause I saw an interview with him where he totally down talks steriod use and proclaimed very clearly how he never did it and how he thinks it is so bad.

Luckily Clemens is pretty much done with his career. Was he gonna come back again this year?

So should we start to put * on all Clemens records now?

Right, I meant that the players would be in a rush to sign.

Yes for the ones that did the steroids. The clean ones have nothing to worry about.

Mad scramble? Really? Wouldn't teams want to avoid any of those players like the plague? What if you sign, or worse yet, trade for (ie: Tejada) a big name and then have them suspended for half a season or more?

thats what I'm thinking.

I thought this was going to be the "I live in [insert city other than Chicago] and although I am trying very hard to do so, I simply cannot rationalize a plane ticket, a 5 day pass to the Wilco Residency, and 5 days off from work" thread.

 

I hate it here.

Just come down for a weekend then.

I also love that song.

Fukudome was a two-time Central League batting champion, led the league in on-base percentage three times and four times won a Gold Glove for defensive excellence in the outfield. In a 9 year career, batt avg of .305. Sounds pretty good overall.

Nothing on the WW site says anything about the shows not allowing taping. In some ways these would not be "mass marketable" like KT was as they won't have all the "hits" per se like a typical show that has the usual suspects (handshake, shot, jesus etc etc). Collectors and obsessives (raises hand) may be the biggest market for full copies these shows.

 

Have any tapers reported ticket success yet? Warner?

Since these concerts will play everything, all those hits would be there for the taking to make whatever. KT wasnt one concert either, they just took what they wanted from all nights. This would be perfect to record professionally.

I wish for a live dvd from this but who knows.

I thought we were talking lineup, and not pitching staff.

both. Overall team.

Our lineup looks great now, but I think we had an awesome looking lineups for awhile now. I remember when we got Nomar, i thought it was more than we needed. Then getting Soriano was another bigtime boost. Things just never work out. Cant forget Soto in counting big bats for Cubs. I like Theriot too.

I do like Pinella, so we'll see how he runs the guys.

i too am more excited to see jeff solo than wilco, only because i've never seen the solo show live.

 

i have to admit though, i'm kind of debating whether or not i should actually bring my girlfriend along. i think she's going to get jealous seeing me so excited to be seeing jeff.

I was kinda thinking the same thing, but realized she will be too occupied with her own excitement to notice mine.

Just me again, shoving our benefit show thread back up to page one.

Hi!

 

xo

srmt

Yes! Gotta say I am more excited about this than the forthcoming Wilco Shows. Just that I have seen Wilco many times, last at Millienum Park which was awesome, but has been rare and alot longer to see Jeff solo. There is something special about him up there by himself with an acoustic guitar, love the banter also. Gotta remind Jeff to have some good stories.

Why not have a pinned thread -

 

Wilco Ticket Information

Websites, Passwords, etc.

Why not make Analogman a moderator? Seems to be perfect for the job.

If you havent seen this guy, he is incredible on the guitar. He plays 2 at the same time.

Lemme know what you think.

Stanley Jordan plays "Stairway to Heaven"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjXN3OLgoqs

Anybody else thinking that Saturday night is going to be the worst crowd of the five nights?

By far.

All I want is my saturday tickets. The less they offer as presale 5-day passes , the better my chances of my tickets. I am kinda worried about being shut out of my sat tickets.

If they land Roberts (heck, even without Roberts), I can't recall a Cubs' team in recent memory having as good a lineup top to bottom as next year's Cubs' team.

There was a few.

Wood, Prior, Maddux, Zambrano, Clement sounded really good at the time.

Also remember when Nomar came on board I thought we were gonna rock.

Yeah, I just checked eBay fearing what I may find. Surprisingly, there's nothing yet. The one pass (instead 5 tickets) certainly complicate things for them.

Yeah that was a good idea, but its way to notice scaplers. They will mostly start after 5 day passes are completely sold out.

They may have been. But I also get the feeling that there's a higher demand for Wilco shows in the band's hometown than what people give them credit for. Also, people are flying in from other parts of the country for these shows.

Maybe. also they could have released only a small portion like a 100. I guess we will see if we start seeing 5 day passes being sold by scalpers in the time to come.

5 Day passes are not sold out!!!

For today it seems so.