MrRain422

Yeah, but they still put on an excellent show. I'm not sure if you were talking about MoB or X but I've seen 'em both (and am seeing X again in just a couple weeks )

Some will go towards loans, the rest in the bank. How exciting.

The Soledad Brothers are from Ohio actually. Though they pretty much came up through the Detroit scene. I'm going to see the Dirtbombs and Lee Marvin Computer Arm tonight. Should be just like old times except in Chicago instead of at the Magic Stick.

Five favorites rom my native Michigan: The White Stripes The Stooges Patti Smith (if she counts -- if not, substitute the Go) Blanche Thunderbirds Are Now! And my adopted home state of Illinois: Shellac Wilco Hum Miss Alex White & the Red Orchestra Smoking Popes Neko Case is definately my #1 based in Chicago, but I don't know if she counts since she's not from here.

Couldn't get any pictures to come out well, but I had a great view of it. Awesome.

The correct answer is Calvin Coolidge. Most think that his nickname, "Silent Cal," was due to his quiet nature, but it is in fact a reference to his silent but deadly farts that followed every chili cookoff.

There's been chatter about that forever, but there's no way it will happen. Gore is really not running for president. He's already offered himself as an arbitor between Clinton and Obama to come to some sort of agreement before the convention if it isn't wrapped up before then because he doesn't want it coming down to superdelegates.

Michelle Obama's comment was clearly about our politics, not the nation as a whole. It's pretty obvious to anyone who heard/saw the quote in context. And I really can't say she's wrong.

Some Cubans have a lot of national pride.

If I could choose one band all time to have been in, it would be Mission of Burma. Or maybe X. But probably Mission of Burma.

I also agree with this.

I usually think she's pretty hot but that picture just isn't doing it.

And there's the first real casualty of the Mitchell Report. Nook Logan goes from barely hanging on with a bad team to non-tendered and likely finished.

That was a really good time. Sorry I had to bolt and do family things right afterwards. Also sorry that there were only 4 other people at the game. Thanks. I've enjoyed many opportunities to hang out with Reni and Jorge, as well as with Renic. Through Renic I've met LouieB a couple times. And I think I met a bunch more of you at some point but I don't remember who was who.

Isn't cortizone a steroid?

Fans are mad about that? It's all good fun. The Pistons have had something similar for quite a while, the Spare Tires:

Isn't that why Anderson was finally released from jail last November? I assumed at the time at least that he had agreed to testify against him.

The thing that really annoys me about the hearings is that they aren't focused on the problem at all. King Kaufman wrote an article about it yesterday that perfectly captured it. They're too concerned with individual people and not enough with the big picture. Is Roger Clemans lying or is Brian McNamee? Who cares? However you parse either of their words, it doesn't mean that steroids were any more or any less rampant in baseball. They want to know the details of one individual player's use, but don't seem to be getting at the broader facts about just how rampant use was, what sort of sys

The league has expanded since Ruth's day, but the pool of talent for potential players has increased a whole lot more. I don't think the talent pool is diluted at all. In Ruth's day, baseball players came from white American guys, with maybe a couple Canadians or Hispanic players in the league, but barely. And now the talent pool comes from the entire world. The league has doubled in size but the population of potential baseball players has expanded to the entire world.

Actually Canseco did say that more than half of MLB players were juicing at one point. I don't think he has speculated on the percentage juicing today. For what it's worth, Ken Caminiti estimated that 85% of Major Leaguers were on 'roids. That's probably an overestimation, but it shows that in the very least it had to have been pretty common.

How in the hell did he get a no trade clause?

I don't remember that part. The report only uses two real sources -- Kirk Radomski and Brian McNamee, with some corroboration from a couple former players.. Unless those are the only two guys who were distributing steroids in baseball, then anyone who got them anywhere else is off the hook.

The Daily Show did an excellent bit last night about the CIA interrogation tapes that were destroyed, and then several clips of Arlen Spector talking about how dishonest it was to destroy the tapes and how the public trust was abused by them leaving no evidence of what they were up to, etc. before they revealed that Spector was talking about the Spygate tapes destroyed by the NFL. Also, MLB gets anti-trust exemptions that can technically be taken away if they're shown to be complicit in something like this. It's still a stupid thing for Congress to be addressing right now.

Not if the point of trading him was to dump the salary. In that case, they aren't going to make the deal if they're just going to end up paying him anyway.

The Nets will buyout Stackhouse who will resign with the Mavs. Diop and George are in contract years and Dallas wasn't going to re-sign them. It's pretty much Kidd for Harris.