Twisted Acres

75/100... my high-school grade average!

aww gosh, what a voice... absolutely one of my all-time favorites.

Happy happy birthday from Patti and I, Alison!

my father's gun

Game 1 to the Rays, only the third expansion team to win their first-ever post-season game (blue jays, rangers did it too)

I was there tonight. It was awesome.

NICE!!! Congrats on the win, Kate! Were you wearing all-black?

Hey Bridget, I hope your birthday is absolutely relaxing and enjoyable... xo!

If I start saving $100/day right now, I just might have enough to manage one ticket when they go on sale!

WOW. Godspeed, sir... don't drive too fast up there.

Natalie was more one-of-a-kind than most one-of-a-kind people, and the void at VC left by her is one that will likely never be filled... Happy Birthday, Nat, with lots of love. We miss you so much.

Hope you have an absolutely fantastic birthday, Kevin!

Solution on the way!

That'll help...

YA GOTTA BELIEVE!!!

 

(man thats getting hard)

It's getting downright painful.

I'm shocked and saddened, Mart.

yeah, me too, Jen... I should have given it a bit more time and effort. But my boss said I can keep my job anyway.

It's in his genes.

The thing that really bugs me (full disclosure: Mets Fan) is that everyone hated Steinbrenner in the mid80s and early 90s. Yankee fans too. For what he did to his managers and GMs, for what he did to Winfield, for signing free agent busts and trading away younger talent. For sticking his nose in everything. Everyone insisted that he ruined baseball in NY.

 

Now that he's old and senile, he has somehow morphed into this sympathetic father figure that "saved" baseball in NY. People want him in the Hall of Fame. And he gets carted out on a golf cart at the All Star Game as some sort of hero?

 

Spare me. He didn't save jack sh!t. Stick Michael and Buck Showalter and other baseball people built that team and Steinbrenner paid for it. His luck turned because of smart baseball people. All he did was write the checks and keep his mouth shut. When he stopped meddling, this team started winning.

Forgive my relative lack of knowledge in this department, but without searching for the facts, wasn't Steinbrenner suspended (for that whole Howie Spira thing) and Stick Michael and/or Buck Showalter running the team when they made the draft picks (Jeter, Posada, Rivera, Pettite, B. Williams) that led to the 4 World Championships that Steinbrenner gets all this glory for?

8 for me; don't tell my boss, he might fire me.

Learned about this last night between sets and was deeply saddened. We did a tribute to him in the second set, playing "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby," "Ain't Too Proud to Beg," "Just My Imagination," "I Heard it Through the Grapevine," and "Papa Was a Rolling Stone." It doesn't seem possible to think that Norman Fucking Whitfield is underrated, but he just might be. Rest in peace and immense props and gratitude to you, sir.

maybe he could get both.

Excellent chance! It is a glorious document... transformed the world!

Couldn't Jefferson have used Times Roman or Fruitiger...? So much more readable.

If the Mets' bullpen blows it again in 2008, you can bet that they'll give more money to K-Rod than Barclays gave for Lehman Bros... I imagine they'll completely overhaul the pen (i certainly hope so)

McNabb looks like the McNabb of old this evening

16 games over .500 with two weeks left in the regular season, good chance you're going to the playoffs... so you fire your manager.

Granted, they're in a swoon, but I'm puzzled. Guess they expect the shock the players back to life somehow.