MrRain422

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They might be well off. Honestly I have no idea. Even if they're doing fine, it doesn't mean they aren't entitled to try to save up for retirement, future generations, etc. Regardless, the question is, do you like the music? If yes, then what's the problem? If no, then why do you care what they do with it?

They owe their fans good music. That's it really. Personally I don't think they delivered as effectively as usual with this newest album, but I don't think it was for lack of trying. They certainly don't owe the fans an explanation for business decisions.

Yeah, I like it a lot. The second disc is really trippy.

Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Good Time Boys" mentions John Doe and fIREHOSE.

Hank III's "Country Heroes" references George Jones, David Alan Coe, Merle Haggard, Hank I, and Johnny Cash. He also references Coe and Jones in "Thrown Out of the Bar".

But if you're only referring to a few people that you know, and not everyone who drives a VW, then what are you getting at in regards to this television commercial?

Pitchfork has posted the second commercial in the series, featuring "You Are My Face". http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news...-vw-commercials

"History Lesson Pt. II" by the Minutemen references Bob Dylan, Eric Bloom, Richard Hell, Joe Strummer and John Doe.

Always-shitty-when-it-counts Alex Rodriguez just hit a homer to break a tie in the top of the ninth inning.

I've really come to love watching the Pistons over the last few years. I like their defensive style (or at least the defense they were playing a few years ago), and the way that so many guys on the team could take over if someone else was having an off day. It was true team basketball, and often so fundamentally perfect that it was just beautiful to watch at times. Keeping in mind that I was 7 and 8 when the Thomas/Dumars Pistons won their championships, so I don't know those teams quite as well, I think that the 2004 Pistons were better than those teams. The 2005 Pistons might have been

I think i saw Shawn Fogel open for Richard Hodgkins once.

I admit to that arrogance last year, personally. This year I was much more realistic, although definately feeling pretty damn confident after the first two games of this last series vs. Cleveland. I apologize on behalf of any Pistons fans around there who didn't get the message last year (and really, last year seemed like much more of a foregone conclusion than this year -- any Pistons fan who still took that attitude this year is probably due for some ridicule). I do agree that the Pistons are pretty unstoppable when they're on their game, although I think age is starting to catch up to t

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Daniel Gibson was just silly tonight.

Pretty sure he stopped doing that after that one incident. Link? Pretty sure he hates you.

I am sad.

They can not win the World Series without anyone on that team. But they have a much better chance of winning with A-Rod than without him. It's inarguable unless you think that being one of the best 2 or 3 players in the game is bad for your team. Please take a look at the Reggie Jackson post-season stats that Earl posted. The fact of the matter is, any player who is in the playoffs every single season is going to have some bad series along the way.

I didn't see Gary Sheffield's confrontation with the ump the other night, so I can't really form an opinion on whether his ejection was justified or not, but I really wish he'd stop talking about an MLB conspiracy regarding his suspension. It just makes him sound crazy.

I'm doing a really bad job of getting my point across. And it's not even my point!

How is it not irrational? The idea that they haven't won a World Series since they acquired A-Rod and therefore it is A-Rod's fault that they haven't won in that time (and by extension, in the case of some fans, that getting rid of A-Rod is the key to winning in the future) is the very definition of irrational.

Right, it has nothing to do with the product it's selling. That was the whole point. It's just a song that happens to be on the radio while the action in the commercial is going down. Whereas if "She's a Jar" is playing over images of a jar, the song seems to be about the product itself rather than what it's actually about. I think the Volkswagon equivalent to using "She's a Jar" for mayonnaise would be "Cars Can't Escape".

His point was that they didn't cheapen the meaning of the song by applying a lyric to something that has only a tangental relationship to it. I think the distinction he was making was that using "She's a Jar" to refer to a jar of mayonaisse changes the meaning of a specific lyric, whereas showing someone listening to "The Thanks I Get" on the radio doesn't.