JETman

It wasn't steroids. He sucked the pineal glands out of newborn babies. Does this pass for yuma out in the Pacific NW?

Right on time, Dan. I can almost set my watch by you. A day without your chiming in is like a day without sunshine, I must say.

Killer record!

Really? How many titles have the Mavericks won? To me, he's just a clean-shaven version of Dolan.

We can't help ourselves. It's that darn entitlement mentality. On the upside, if you're a Mets fan, I hear Mark Cuban has reached out to the Wilpons to make it known that he'd be interested in owning a piece of the team. That might shake things up. Can you even imagine Fred Wilpon and Mark Cuban in the same room? No thanks, I've already got an idiot running the Rangers and Knicks! FWIW, to fully understand my views on the Yankees and their fans, you REALLY have to live in New York. Also, let's not nominate Pettitte for sainthood quite yet. He's admitted to having done steroids, AND he's about to testify against his former best friend. Nice!

Not to break up the pity party here, but it still strikes me as rather odd that after the last 15 or so great years that the Yankees have had rather recently, all y'all are freaking out about a few impending dry years. Try being a Mets fan. Seven trips to the playoffs in FIFTY years!

Face it: NOBODY does Beatles better than Beatles.

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More to the point, this is the gamble with live CTI albums, or most of the studio ones for that matter.

Which only goes to prove what's been said here: Ha?

But both Lennon and McCartney have long been considered exceptional singers! As a matter of fact, one of MY top ten moments in music is Lennon screaming "Twist and Shout" with his throat already torn to shreds. Politeness in music is not necessarily a good thing.

Really? Please enlighten me.

He's just yanking chains and trying to stir up some controversy with his fetishist musical tastes. Methinks it makes him feel unique, evolved and cool all rolled up into one.

Hmmmm, that's an interesting comment from someone so enamored with listening to Beatles music so substandardly performed by non-Beatles!

We get that you dislike the Beatles! Move on already.

Mmm. Not so sure about that (11 of top 20 GS are Canadian. Next closest country is Sweden, with 5): Leading goal scorers: 1. Crosby (canada) 2. Stamkos (canada) 3. D. Sedin (sweden) 4. St. Louis (canada) 5. H. Sedin (sweden) 6. Richards (canada) 7. Zetterberg (sweden) 8. Perry (canada) 9. Eriksson (sweden) 10. Kopitar (slovenia) 11. Staal (canada) 12. Ovechkin (russia) 13. Sharp (canada) 14. Heatley (canada) 15. Duchene (canada) 16. Thornton (canada) 17. Kesler (united states) 18. Iginla (canada) 19. Lidstrom (sweden) 20. Byfuglien (united states) NHL players by nationality 2009-2010 (top seven countries): # Canada - 433 # USA - 168 # Czech Republic - 42 # Sweden - 42 # Finland - 29 # Russia - 25 # Slovakia - 14 And, as we know, they hold the Olympic gold. I go with Canada on this one. A leading goal scorer does not necessarily a best player make. The players with the highest skill level are NOT Canadian in my view.

This is why I don't like playoffs. I've always disliked them most of all with baseball. I think the regular season should determine who the two best teams are, and then the championship game should be between the two best teams. With playoffs, the championship is awarded to the team that is hot at the end, on a winning streak, no matter how many teams were better over the course of the previous four months. When the Steelers won the Super Bowl a few years ago, weren't they the last-seeded team? That's kind of funny coming from such a CFL fan. Yes, I've come to terms with the fact that the two Canadian leagues (the CFL and the NHL) let almost everybody into the playoffs. What redeems the CFL situation to me is that the Eastern and Western Divisions are older than the league itself. I believe they (the IRFU and the WIFU) used to have playoffs before they began competing against each other. By the way, speaking of old age, the first year I collected Canadian league bubble gum cards (1959), the Eastern and Western teams didn't play each other until the Grey Cup game. I think that started in 1961. Don't look now, but the NHL is hardly a Canadien league anymore! JETman, I find the NHL to be hard to explain logically. The nation referred to in the phrase "National Hockey League" is Canada. Yet in recent decades the league headquarters has been in New York, and I think since about 1930 the majority of teams have been in the US. Normally, I would attribute everything to the lust for the almighty dollar, but so many of the teams have been losing so much money, that can't explain it all! By the way, here in Raleigh Time Warner has a special for two upcoming Hurricane games at half price. You would think that those two games would be against two teams nobody cares about, right? They're the Toronto Maple Leafs and the New York Rangers! It might be cheaper for Toronto and New York fans to fly to Raleigh and buy their tickets half price than to buy scalped tickets of their favorite teams at home! I meant that most of the best players are no longer Canadien.

This is why I don't like playoffs. I've always disliked them most of all with baseball. I think the regular season should determine who the two best teams are, and then the championship game should be between the two best teams. With playoffs, the championship is awarded to the team that is hot at the end, on a winning streak, no matter how many teams were better over the course of the previous four months. When the Steelers won the Super Bowl a few years ago, weren't they the last-seeded team? That's kind of funny coming from such a CFL fan. Yes, I've come to terms with the fact that the two Canadian leagues (the CFL and the NHL) let almost everybody into the playoffs. What redeems the CFL situation to me is that the Eastern and Western Divisions are older than the league itself. I believe they (the IRFU and the WIFU) used to have playoffs before they began competing against each other. By the way, speaking of old age, the first year I collected Canadian league bubble gum cards (1959), the Eastern and Western teams didn't play each other until the Grey Cup game. I think that started in 1961. Don't look now, but the NHL is hardly a Canadien league anymore!

Why is everybody so angry? As a Jets fan who has seen enough losing and playing patsy for far too long, it's nice to finally see a team that has the cajones to back up its coach's big words. Long live Rex Ryan!!! And fwiw, the Patriots deserve all of the unsportsmanlike behavior that any team can foist upon them and their classless coach.

Hm. Joe Namath's team wouldn't tolerate that arrogant bullshit by #23 after the last Jets touchdown. What a jerk. Go Steelers. Really? ALL professional athletes are arrogant in one form or another. As a lifelong Jets fan, I wasn't holding out much hope for them this year, or any year for that matter. But it looks like they just might surprise not only me, but EVERYBODY. All pro athletes...really? You may want to take a look at how some of the class acts around the sporting world conduct themselves before making a blanket justification like that, my friend. Laying down in the end zone while using the football as a pillow is beyond arrogant. Nothing can justify that kind of in-your-face bullshit. What a jerk he is. Go Steelers. You can say "Go Steelers" all you want, but that isn't gonna make 'em win. Do you mean to tell me that what Shonn Greene did yesterday is the most arraogant thing you've seen a football player do this year?

I hate to be the party pooper here, but as I listen to Hubert Laws' Morning Star, I am reminded of how bad CTI really was. OUCH!

Just for the record, I never said anything implying my age. That said, I was born in '58 and do remember 1967. Fair enough! That said, I was born in '62, but do NOT remember 1967, at least as far as football goes. Now, music, that's a whole different story.

The first true NFL playoffs started in 1967, almost 50 years ago. Exactly how old are you guys??? Old enough to remember 1967...and then some... Here's the deal, when did the NFL not have divisions? I'm not that old to remember when that ever was. So if you got divisions, there goes the thing about "the best team" playing. That would require an oldschool baseball thing, where you either won the league and went to the World Series, or else you went hom. No other options. There was the NFL and the AFL. The Jets won the Super Bowl, the 2 leagues merged and split into 2 separate conferences with a few divisions each. You're not that much older than me, but GA and FFA are talking like they were in their teens in the 60s. To me, no playoffs would only work if each team played every other team once and only once. This of course would mean we'd need a 29 week NFL season. The players' bodies surely wouldn't hold up long enough for that, and neither would our patience. So playoffs, it is. We'll just have to find a way to live with 6th seeds making it to the Super Bowl on occasion, won't we?

The ad is meant to insinuate that before Miles, a black musician had to die in order to sell records.

The first true NFL playoffs started in 1967, almost 50 years ago. Exactly how old are you guys???