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I saw a clip of him on TV from the late 40's a few years back! I think only Betty White has had as long a career on TV. At first, his character on Newhart irritated me a lot, but over time, I grew to realize he was really a comic genius, and loved whatever goofy lines, or ways he would deliver the goofy lines, that made them better than the writer could have dreamed. I few sorry for Suzanne Pleshette, two of her husbands have died.....Rest in Peace.

way off.......0.29 ERA! http://www.rotoauthority.com/2007/04/lincecum_whiffs.html

Man, this is still going on? Must be something in the water in San Fran, they are soooo loyal to Bonds! I could go on about how I used to defend Bonds, how unlike other Steriod users, he didn't suffer all the kneee trouble....then, his knee acted up, and that spring training how he started to defend using enhancers...but, dude...just watch This week in Baseball on espn classic. They had one from 1982, and everyone is skinny! Remember Enos Cabell , Omar Moreno? Skinny ass speed merchants who couldn't hit a home run more than every 50 games? Why not, if muscles don not help one hit homers? They were skilled, no doubt. How come Coco Crisp doesn't hit balls 500 feet like Wily Mo Pena? They both are skilled athletes. And how come....Bonds started to hit home runs at a much higher rate in his mid 30's, just when he got much bigger??? Well, glad to say, case closed! Now, back to real baseball talk, the Giants seem to be overloaded with starters, which makes them about the only team in baseball in that situation. Who you going to trade to the Tampa Bay team? I want to see Tampa ahead of the Yankees, and the Red Sox, and soon!

Man, I feel sorry for Mark Prior! Losing another season. Did Dusty Baker ruin Woods and Prior with too much work too soon? Found this on a braves blog(Posted by a guy named Krath) about pitchers a scant 30+ years ago...amazing! The stuff in italics is from the paper, afterwards, is his opinions...... I got these excerpts from the Cincy paper referring to an earlier time. Please read; ”Boston starter Luis Tiant pitched 14 1/3 innings and took the loss. Nolan Ryan of the Angels lasted 13 innings, struck out 19, walked 10 and — hold onto your helmets — threw 235 pitches The Los Angeles Times’ game account acknowledged “Tiant and Ryan dueled tenaciously,” yet there was no mention of Ryan’s pitch count in the game story or the following-day notes. Ryan knows he threw 235 only because Tom Morgan, the Angel pitching coach, kept track on a hand-held clicker. On Ryan , “It obviously ruined his arm because he had to retire 19 years later,” said Bill James, a renowned chronicler of baseball facts and figures. Ryan took his regularly scheduled start four days later and won, pitched again five days later and won again, started five days after that and tossed a one-hit shutout against Texas. Ryan says, in 1974, he averaged between 160 and 180 pitches per outing.” If you look up some of the biggest innings eaters in the last 30 years you’re going to find power pitchers like Steve Carlton and Roger Clemens as well as Ryan. You’re also going to find the soft tossers like Niekro and Charlie Hough. Some of the guys were throwing 300 or more innings! You don’t do that coming out in the 7th inning of games. One more thing. Many of these guys were strikeout pitchers so they WERE throwing a lot of pitches in those 300 or so innings. Ryan’s arm didn’t fall off. Neither did Carlton’s. I read an account where Johnny Sain was doing a pitch count on Glavine in his early years with the Braves where he threw between 150 and 160 pitches in a game. Chuck Tanner told him to roll the clicker back to 120 so that upper management wouldn’t freak out if they questioned the count. Sure enough Sain was questioned about it and showed the clicker at 120. This story was attributed to Tanner. Are today’s pitchers geared for pitch counts? Absolutely. Do I feel that when a guy has thrown 100 pitches and is still dealing he cares about his pitch count? I don’t think so. Athletes today are bigger, stronger and smarter when it comes to conditioning…. or at least that’s the common conclusion. The pitching rubber is still 60 ft 6 inches away from the plate. The ball weighs the same as it did 30 years ago. So whats up with these new super atheletes not being able to throw more than 100 pitches?

You simply cannot get enough Red Sox talk, can one? http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04...fa_fact_mcgrath

So, any guesses to who has the most 2 out RBI's in the NL season? If you guessed Francoeur, you are smart! And who has 71 since the beginning of last season best in the majors? If you guessed Francoeur again, you are really smart! He can look so very bad at times, but he is walking much more this year, and when the game is on the line, look out!

Perhaps Jim is a twin....or a triplet!

Then, you can tell the kid how you loved it, and how it's a darn shame he can't see it!

Should be an interesting 60 minutes tomorrow night..... Cam'ron: Snitching Hurts "Code Of Ethics" Rapper Also Tells Anderson Cooper It Would Hurt His Business 60 Minutes Main Page (CBS) Rap star Cam'ron says there's no situation — including a serial killer living next door — that would cause him to help police in any way, because to do so would hurt his music sales and violate his "code of ethics." Cam'ron, whose real name is Cameron Giles, talks to CNN's Anderson Cooper for a 60 Minutes report on how the hip-hop culture's message to shun the police has undermined efforts to solve murders across the country. Cooper's report will be broadcast this Sunday, April 22, at 7 p.m. ET/PT. "If I knew the serial killer was living next door to me?" Giles responds to a hypothetical question posed by Cooper. "I wouldn't call and tell anybody on him — but I'd probably move. But I'm not going to call and be like, 'The serial killer's in 4E.' " Giles' "code of ethics" also extends to crimes committed against him. After being shot and wounded by gunmen, Giles refused to cooperate with police. Why? "Because … it would definitely hurt my business, and the way I was raised, I just don't do that," says Giles. Pressed by Cooper, who says had he been the victim, he would want his attacker to be caught, Giles explains further: "But then again, you're not going to be on the stage tonight in the middle of, say, Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, with people with gold and platinum teeth and dreadlocks jumping up and down singing your songs, either. We're in two different lines of business." "So for you, it's really about business?" Cooper asks. "It's about business," Giles says, "but it's still also a code of ethics." Rappers appear to be concerned about damaging what's known as their "street credibility," says Geoffrey Canada, an anti-violence advocate and educator from New York City's Harlem neighborhood. "It's one of those things that sells music and no one really quite understands why," says Canada. Their fans look up to artists if they come from the "meanest streets of the urban ghetto," he tells Cooper. For that reason, Canada says, they do not cooperate with the police. Canada says in the poor New York City neighborhood he grew up in, only the criminals didn't talk to the police, but within today's hip-hop culture, that has changed. "It is now a cultural norm that is being preached in poor communities … It's like you can't be a black person if you have a set of values that say 'I will not watch a crime happen in my community without getting involved to stop it,' " Canada tells Cooper. Young people from some of New York's toughest neighborhoods echo Canada's assessment, calling the message not to help police "the rules" and helping the police "a crime" in their neighborhoods. These "rules" are contributing to a much lower percentage of arrests in homicide cases — a statistic known as the "clearance rate" — in largely poor, minority neighborhoods throughout the country, according to professor David Kennedy of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. "I work in communities where the clearance rate for homicides has gone into the single digits," says Kennedy. The national rate for homicide clearance is about 60 percent. "In these neighborhoods, we are on the verge of — or maybe we have already lost — the rule of law," he tells Cooper. Says Canada: "It's like we're saying to the criminals, 'You can have our community … Do anything you want and we will either deal with it ourselves or we'll simply ignore it.'" http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/19/...in2704565.shtml

Yes, and who knows?--it may even be true. might even be true???? You mean it was just a clip from SNL or something?

are you a girl? Ever heard a father talk to his pre teen daughter this way? Alec is a small dicked asswipe, and hopefully his career is just about over.

You know...the Mets and the Braves are playing this weekend as well....of course, most here don't know much about the senior league....just that it's the AAAA league, and where the WS champs will come from!

imagine being an 11 or 12 year old(Her Dad doesn't seem to know her age) and having pops talk to you like this.... http://www.aolcdn.com/tmz_audio/0419_baldwin.mp3

And if someone like Bruce Willis was caught berating his daughters like this, I'd call him a worthless piece of shit as well, politics doesn't matter here. Part of what Alec said...."Once again I've made an ass out of myself trying to get to a phone at a specific time," Baldwin says in the message. "I'm tired of playing this game with you. You have insulted me for the last time. "You don't have the brains or the decency as a human being -- I don't give a damn that you are 12 or 11 or a child or that your mother is a thoughtless pain in the ass who doesn't care what you do." Yeah, Rotasi, you are right.....she was a thoughtless little pig, that bitch needs to be put in her place! She can start early (even for someone in Hollywood) with the therapists.

Really??? REALLY? Do you have kids? Would you talk to them this way? I don't give a flying fuck what his politics are, regarding this issue. He has long shown a violent side towards women.

So tough when it comes to women and children.... http://www.tmz.com/2007/04/19/alec-baldwin...age-to-daughter

Jaco and I both wish you a happy if belated Birthday!

Oh goody, a death toll throwdown. Around 30,000 people a year die in the U.S. by gunshot. 40,000 a year die in car wrecks, lets ban all cars!

Well, it didn't happen in New York, or Boston, so who cares! Seriously, it was a hell of a pitching job, Tim, well, lets call him Tim K., on Baseball tonight mentioned that not one pitch was thrown above 90 MPH! And to do that against the Ranger's lineup is very impressive! It was a hell of a night all around in baseball, Josh Hamilton hit another home run, King Felix hurt his arm, both Pujols and Bonds homered in the same game, A-Rod hit his 9th...and does anyone know which team is the first to 10 wins?????

I believe most murders in the U.S. are committed with illegal weapons. Criminals always have had guns, and will always have guns. Somehow, I don't think that they will hand in their weapons if there was a complete ban. I don't own a gun, and don't plan to own one...but I do know that if the government tried to take guns away from law abiding citizens in the US, there would be bloodshed. As you see on this thread, Republicans and Democrats own guns.(And some right wingers here don't want anyone to have guns, and lefties are for folks owning guns....what's next, Dogs and cats living together? )

Yes, all the paranoid-schizos out there can now view their anti-hero par excellance as he becomes the media darling. Now that's somebody who has acheived a status worth aspiring towards.... It is tasteless I agree...but, the media doesn't care. In the past, they have shown video of a soon to be beheaded hostage over and over. They don't worry how the family and friends will react to this footage being shown, or how may breed more copycats. Same with suicide bombers videos, they are shown again and again worldwide, since it's "news"

very interesting and very disturbing story about the piece of shit.... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...1800162_pf.html

Sick fucker sent a package to NBC "explaining" why he did what he did.... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18169776

Thanks...I'd forgotten about that. Oh my! Thats what you get for pryin'

Mosaic's Scott Wenzel just told me Ted Kendall did the sound restoration. From personal experience, Kendall uses noise reduction as desired by his customers. Don't blame him. Man, he did one of the JSP Django sets, and I really wished he had reduced some of the the noise!