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The talk in New York is all that the Mets are going to pursue a cheaper option than K-Rod, who thinks he warrants Mariano Rivera type money. (He does not.) Mets are also said to have wood for Derek Lowe, who pitches a lot of innings. No one is predicting Oliver Perez being signed by the Mets. And, the Mets have signed Tatis to a one-year deal. OK.

Here is a funny e-mail my friend who is a grade-school teacher in a western state sent me: So, as the election falls upon us, it amuses me to no end that, among my 7-year-old, female students, Barack Obama is second only to Troy from "High School Musical" (the fratrentboy-looking one with the pancake makeup) No, i have not made them that way, they came to me like that. I had never even mentioned it until the day I was putting on a jacket and they saw my button. Transcript follows: Little Girl #1: "What's that?" Little Girl #2: "It's for Barack Obama. I love Barack Obama." Little Girl #3: "

Thanks again, everybody. I had a nice dinner at my friends' house that featured a very, very chocolatey cake. I'm going to do a few shots of Maker's Mark so as to salute the state of my birth.

Chris Robinson did pretty good on that album with Page.

Cornell could pull it off, as could Jack White. Unsure if anyone else could.

Thanks, everybody! So far, so good.

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No wonder her career tanked.

On what? Figuring out a way to get rid of the Al-Aqsa Mosque so the Temple can be rebuilt and Armageddon take place?

Go Kerry Collins. Did not know he still had it in 'em.

I know! I wanted to watch Spider-Man!

Dude. You obviously have never met my mom, who made me watch the Watergate hearings so I would know how evil Nixon was.

I was 8, and deeply concerned.

If we'd have LISTENED to Jimmy Carter, we would already have the post-oil future today, instead of being totally up Fucked River.

A dude I saw in Stop & Shop tonight had on a sweet Mike Schmidt road throwback. Gotta give the Phils their propers - their pitching has been superb.

For reals - have you ever read "The Illuminati Trilogy"?

RE: Giants at Steelers THAT was a fucking football game.

I presume there was a reason the Nordiques and Jets left Canada, and I will further presume that reason was money. Is Canada now in a position to support another one or two teams?

I care a little bit. I am trying to decide whether it is in good taste or not to wear my "Fire Isiah" T-shirt. As a Knicks fan, I am looking forward to maybe being .500 this year!

OK. There is an overarching system which fnord governs the world. It is called the global fnord economy, and as we have seen, it fnord is not doing such a hot job fnord of late. If you think you can do a fnord better job than an alleged bunch of fnord dudes meeting in Bilderberg, then yay for you, but fnord I suspect you are wrong.

Klaus and I wish you a very happy birthday!

Was it more like Nixon or Natural Born Killers or Any Given Sunday?

The thingies that JBL makes to plug your iPod in so you can listen to it sans headphones sound really sweet.

Aid is for foreigners who are too benighted to know that REAL Americans pull themselves up by their bootstraps by selling apples on streetcorners, playing the lottery, standing on highway exit ramps washing peoples' car windows with squeegees and selling blowjobs on streetcorners. HORATIO ALGER, PEOPLE!!!

"200 Motels" is on Turner Classic tonight, very very late.