MrRain422

He's probably just laughing, since Sir Paul just told his favorite joke.

Here's something awesome that he once said that is sadly apropos now: "I am, incidentally, Honorary President of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that totally functionless capacity. We had a memorial service for Isaac a few years back, and I spoke and said at one point, 'Isaac is up in heaven now.' It was the funniest thing I could have said to an audience of humanists. I rolled them in the aisles. It was several minutes before order could be restored. And if I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is

CRAIG MONROE!!! *pumps fist*

First album and concert were both the Monkees. Second album was MC Hammer. Second concert was...not really sure.

I assume he just really enjoys his job. Something tough for us cube monkeys to understand, but for the few who are lucky enough to spend their lives doing something they really enjoy, well, it's probably not so easy to step away from.

Really stoked about Patti Smith. Aw shit.

Nowadays though, if the government decided to oppress you, how much is that gun going to help you?

Yes, that was the whole point.

I wonder if Urbina is available...

This is a key point. Whether or not the Second Amendment guarantees the right to own guns is completely dependent on what type of reading you give the Constitution. Interestingly, a lot of the people who frequently cite original intent when interpreting the Constitution absolutely ignore it when it comes to this particular issue. When the Second Amendment was written, the prevailing belief at the time was that maintaining a standing army in times of peace was inherently corrupt. The thinking was that if we are not at war, then a standing military can only exist to control the people. The

I don't think "ho" is a racist term. It was the "nappy-headed" part that is racist. "Ho" just added a little splash of misogony to compliment it.

My socks are wet.

My bad.

He's pretty good for a 900 year old man. I'm not knocking his skills, I'm just saying, he's not the best fantasy option...

Garza will have to be called up fairly soon if he's going to get a run at ROY this year. Looks like a good staff though. Just curious, but why are you Patterson and Contreras with those other guys? Just a matter of it being the first week of the season and playing everyone? I do that sometimes.

The fact that you are relying on Jose Contreras and John Patterson doesn't bode well. Please tell me that those are not your 1 and 2 starters. My roto team is dominating thus far. My head-to-head team isn't boding quite as well. I think I still don't have head-to-head strategy down just yet, especially since my league has all sorts of weird categories that make it very difficult to balance everything.

First game this year where Sizemore hasn't hit a homer (the game isn't over, but he probably won't get another at bat), but he did give me 3 stolen bases tonight, so I feel pretty good about that.

1 more go to for home court throughout the Eastern playoffs. Awesome.

But I'm not talking about having the closer pitch 2 innings all the time. I'm just talking about being smarter about when he is being used. I'm saying, using him in the 8th when the game is tied is a better use of him than the 9th with a lead. Or even the 9th inning of a tie game -- that's a better use of your best bullpen pitcher than when the team is up by 2 or 3 runs. Just because he comes in during the 8th doesn't mean he has to pitch all the way through the 9th. Who cares if the save (which is probably the stupidest stat kept in baseball) goes to someone else? An intelligent use of

Yeah, Morgan spends a lot of time during his broadcasts just making things up. I especially like it when he argues with the radar gone -- there was one incident last year where he identified the pitch as a slider, just before they flashed a graphic of the radar gun, which read like 96 or something like that. To everyone at home, it was clear that it was a fastball, not a slider, but Morgan just insisted that the radar gun had to be wrong, because no one can throw a 96 mph slider. It was pretty awesome.

Hey there! This is true. It's also a waste of your best guy to bring him into a game you can't possibly win. But what about a game where you're down 9-8? Obviously the bats are working that day. I guess I really take issue more with the bullpen ace rarely being used in a tie game though, and so often with a 2 or 3 run lead in the 9th. It seems as though thus far this season, there are more closers being used in tie games though. Just a handful of games of course, so maybe managers will revert back to the old model for the rest of the year, but I've definately seen it more in the las

And it's not just closers coming in with a 3 run lead in the ninth that demonstrates how poorly they're used. It's harder to find the numbers, but if you look at situations where a team is tied in the 9th, or down by one in the 8th, teams often bring in someone else in order to save their closer for a possible save situation later on, even though that would really be a better use of your best available pitcher. You won't see that by looking at the numbers for the closers -- you'll see it by looking at the numbers for the other guys in the 'pen.

Finally caved and gave it a few listens. It wasn't the album I was hoping they would make, but it's not the one I feared they would make either. There are a couple songs I like, but I don't see any of them turning into songs I will love. And there were also quite a few that just didn't grab me at all. At this point, I would classify it as a disappointment, although not a major one.

It would explain why BillO didn't have Geraldo's mic cut off, like he normally would if someone was disagreeing with him so strongly.