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Mmmmmm, sugar tits.

"Dentists, who needs em?"

"Yeah, not to mention the blacks and the jews"

Just so we're clear, I will only sign off on trading Milledge for Zito only if there's a contract extension involved.

And that's not gonna happen. With Boras running the show, Zito's definitely going to test the market.

Congrats on the sobriety and transition. It really is a gift that wilco's music can be enjoyed in so many ways, by so many people, under so many different conditions. There really is something to it...

 

Thanks, dude .

Of course, some say I'm even crazier now by doing things like picking up a complete stranger for a Wilco roadtrip to Florence, Mass....if you're out there Lisa, I had a blast ....and definitely hold a Built to Spill ticket for me.

Where's all the baseball talk??? Is everyone that worried about the Yankees overtaking everyone (well, except the Tigers). I kid, I kid.

What the Twins have done the last month is just incredible. They also have their big 3 going this weekend against the Tigers. That should be an interesting series.

32, wifeless and kidless. Work in social services (and start grad school in the fall) after years of trying to convince myself that I belonged in the "corporate" world.

Fell in love with UT first time I heard "I Got Drunk" in college. Pretty much summed up my life at the time and for, oh about the entire 90s. Wilco didn't do much for me in the early days (not much did if it didn't involve drinking, smoking, snorting, or Stephen Malkmus). Had all the albums but rarely listened to them. First listen to IATTBYH on headphones after buying YHF changed everything. Now I'm a definite Tweedy freak. Seen them 10 times in the last 2 years, and the torrenting/trading is now control. No wonder I can't keep a girlfriend.

I usually don't talk about personal stuff, but I'm feeling especially grateful and chatty today. Been completely clean and sober for 3 1/2 years, and Jeff's music and personal background have been a big inspiration for me. I may not have "gotten" early Wilco at the time because I wasn't in the emotional place to get it. A big reason AGIB never gets old to me is that so many of those songs represent a recovery of one sort or another. Every show I attended in the 90s was a blur, but I've been clear and lucid for all these Wilco and Jeff solo shows and each one has been a moving, spiritual experience for me.

Sorry to anyone who's still reading this. I'm usually not this corny, I swear.

Since hell wasn't in the market for a pitcher, they just sent Perez to the next best place they could find.

I'd like to see him do it in Sept/Oct before I go tossin his salad.

"I don't know, man, I lose my touch, man."

Yeah, anybody who denies that Eli Cash is Owen's best character creation ever is on some hella powerful crack that I don't want. No, sir.

Call me a crackhead, cuz I'll take Dignan.

It's kinda crazy that both of their best performances (imo) were in the first thing they'd ever done (& the one movie that most people never saw). I still watch Bottle Rocket at least once a month. It makes me happy on so many levels.

just kiddin.

I sure as hell don't want Soriano to go to the White Sox.

Chemistry in baseball is over rated.

Pretty much.

But I see Wayne has finally figured out how to time travel.

no, i really want to know what it is.

It's real brain surgery. Basically,

Jeff: "How Can I?"

crowd: screams

Very true and a sage point...I'm just wondering that with a team like NY you have a lot of guys that all think they are king shit of turd mountain, what with all the "Yankee Mystique", the giganto salaries, all that NY media attention, they ALL think they are the best, I'm wondering if they don't snub the guy some. Hell Mussina went after him in the papers yesterday for making a throwing error....I'm wondering if slappy is getting a bit worn down.

Yeah, like there's no egos and salaries in the Red Sox dugout.

But, I actually see your point cuz I do see the Red Sox being a much closer knit group. It is widely known that he doesn't have alot of friends on the team. Although chemistry in baseball can be overrated, he definitely seems to be letting it all get to him (hence the Steve Sax Syndrome that he's now developed). He'll snap out of it (I hope), I just wish he'd stop paying attention to all the hoopla surrounding him (i.e., newspapers, WFAN).

Inge is worthless in a trade. If you could trade him and a prospect for A-Rod, and the Yanks would pick up some of A-Rod's salary, then of course you make the trade. Obviously you'd have to be careful not to give up too much of your future, but if you're in position to make a World Series run, and especially for a team like the Tigers who are not in that position very often, then you have to make the trade.

 

Especially considering that A-Rod's history of poor postseason performance is mostly made up and antecdotal. He certainly had a bad ALDS last year, but overall he's actually been very good in the post season.

 

In 5 career ALDS: .297 avg, .375 obp, .469 slg, in 17 games.

In 3 ALCS: .315 avg., .413 obp, .611 slg in 14 games.

 

Those ALCS numbers re especially stellar--in fact, they're MVP quality most years.

Here is where stats don't tell the whole story. His numbers in the 04 ALCS don't look too bad. Of course, all the damage he did was in Game 3, when the Yanks won 19-8 and he went 3 for 5, with 5 r, 3 rbi's, 2 doubles, and a homer.

Game 4 1 for 5

Game 5 0 for 4

Game 6 1 for 4

Game 7 0 for 4

That's what Yankee fans remember, not to mention the Angels series. I realize that no one else hit either, but like was already said, he's the $25 million man.

Believe me, Randy's gotten booed too. Just every 5 days instead of every day . At least he's finally starting to shows some good signs of late.

Yankee fans know how great A-Rod is, and the majority are very astute regarding both their knowledge and history of the game. But you put over 50,000 people in the Stadium EVERY NIGHT OF THE YEAR, and you're going to get fans who boo anything and everything.

He's still the best player on the team. Not having his best season, but from one season to the next, there aren't too many other guys in baseball who I'd take over A-Rod. I hate the guy, but he's clearly one of the best players in the game.

 

I've never understood why so much blame for the Yankees failure to win a championship in the last few years has been placed on A-Rod. As if he was the only one playing these last few seasons. He won the friggin' MVP award last year, and he clearly deserved it. And yet lots of fans talk about him as if he sucks.

 

The reason the Yanks haven't won in a few years is their pitching. The Yankees fans backlash against him is beyond stupid.

Last year, pitching did not lose them the Angels series. One clutch by anyone (not just ARod), and they win the series. Throw out Randy's awful Game 3 and their pitching was good enough to win that series.

His booing does get out of hand, but that's what you get when you come to NY and you're the highest paid player in the game (Beltran got booed on opening day). He's a big boy, he can take it.

All the new ones sounded great on Sunday, but What Light's lyrics put in number 1 for me.

I got to see it for free, so would I have paid to see it? Sure. I am a Kevin Smith fan-boy. It was much better than Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back. It's wasn't a Clerks or Chasing Amy, but it was funny as hell.

 

Clerks is one of my all-time favorite movies. When I heard about C.II, I thought "fuck, this is gonna suck!" After seeing it, it wasn't that bad, meaning it was alright. So, I give it my seal of approval. It's a Kevin Smith movie, so there's tons of cursing in it. There's so many great parts, but I can't tell you until you see it. Don't want to spoil it.

 

Kevin confronting Joel. Funny stuff.

"Joel, did you write The Passion of the Christ nails it?"

Just picked it up, and had another fine day listening driving around the beach. Awesome summer record!!!

i feel like in reverence to northern monmouth county in this great state of new jersey, i need to correct Page Six and clarify that long island was not the setting of Clerks I but instead it was down the road from my house in leonardo, nj

Right off good ol 36. Used to live in the Highlands. Good times, good times .

So he's not the greatest closer of all-time because guys 20 and 30 years ago pitched more innings? I love when the baseball talk picks up, but it was really a rhetorical question. But somehow I knew bobbob would find a way to oppose.

Also, you called the cutter his only out pitch. Actually, it's his ONLY pitch. He changes speeds and location, but every pitch is a cutter. Just sayin'.

Get used to Red Sox/Yankees, because it's never gonna die down. I wondered if the dynamic would be different once the Sox finally got their title, but the energy in the parks and with the fans hasn't changed a bit. Baseball just means everything in these cities, and there's more fans of both all over the country than any other teams.

now i'll let it die