Duck-Billed Catechist

Gary.

Must be a demographic thing.

Isn't that Gary's alias?

It's because we're a homogenized, uninteresting group.

I like it. I'm not sure what constitutes a legitimate sport. I don't smoke pot. I guess that leaves only one poll choice!

I'll see your HotBot and raise you a WebCrawler. Unless there are major changes coming, it looks like the venture capitalists who invested in this site got a lot of shit!

Remember when the best search engine would change every 6 months - 2 years or so?

Read about it last night. I'm not feeling it.

I have a hard time imagining anyone above the age of 15 (other than his friends and family, etc) giving nifty shits about him. I am amazed that there is a thread. Sorry for being cantakerous.

I actually like their new evening lineup better.

I figured this was a Kidsmoke-dons-riot-gear-and-cleans-out-VC-thread.

Burn?

Is Steve Perry back with the band? Edit: No he is not. Also, it looks like there is no skip button. Journey decides which order you listen to Journey in!

I kinda figured this type of thing might become moderately popular as the price of flash memory goes down. The convenience of mp3s with some physical product.

http://deadspin.com/5029015/mayhem-in-the-midwest-league

http://www.atu2.com/news/article.src?ID=4244

Well, run differential is considered to be a better predictor of future success than w-l record.

Which is it? Or am I misunderstanding a distinction?

Couple things worth watching from yesterday's White Sox/Rangers game: Ramirez' glove flip and the hilarious Hawkgasm on Carlos Quentin's second, go-ahead homerun: http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?mid=200...84&c_id=cws

They really have a new album out in October? That's not some bullshit deadline? Hmm.

On NPR this morning they gave an obit for Jerome Holtzman. They had a quote from him explaining why he invented the save. He said that in 1959 there was a relief pitcher who had gone 18-2 or something like that. Writers were saying it was the best season ever by a reliever. He figured out that said reliever had given up the tying or leading run in most of those games -- thus all of the decisions. He invented the save so that back-end relievers would no longer be rated primarily on W-L record. Point being: the save isn't very meaningful, but it's better than the popular method that existed be

H-h-h-he was one of many!!

Not sure where I stumbled on to this, so apologies if one of you posted it somewhere: http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/atoz/2008..._missed_con.php

He also found Hack Wilson's 191st RBI. I wish I had a recording of Ed Farmer and Steve Stone's eulogy given during the White Sox - Rangers game tonight.