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Somehow, someway....the braves are only 6 1/2 games out of the Wild Card race! Of course, there are 8 teams ahead of us. As I have said for several years, the Braves really need to finish out of the money for once, to get folks to realize that a team with a bunch of soft tossers, and a bunch of free swingers cannot compete for the W.S. And ownership that acts like we are a small market(Well over 4 million live in and around Atlanta) and can't spend a dime to get a real bullpen. For all this teams faults, if we had a Papelbon type(I know, pitchers like him grow on trees) we would likely be in 1st place. But, again who wants to be the Washington Generals for the A.L come October????

Are these on cd(s)? If so, what they called?

More so than mere guitarists......

Wish these companies would get half as upset about the end credits taken off(or sped up) of Movies and TV credits. (Or showing up during the show)Nothing like watching a simpsons gag during the credits ruined by an add for another show.....( I know, money talks)

"Inflammable means flammable? What a country!"

Yeah, I know hosted by Ollie North. Ignore that,(Shut off the Fox blocker ) and catch brief but interesting interviews with Bob Feller, Monte Irvin, Dom DiMaggio(I don't ever recall seeing him interviewed) Johnny Pesky, and more.

Find it hard to believe it wasn't mentioned here before(Too tired to check now) the the Bear Family is putting out the complete 1955-59 Capitol Nat King Cole, with one of their yummie books.... http://www.bear-family.de/tabel1/product/bcd16342_e.htm

Just spilled all my coffee over the keyboard Sure, it's from "The Big Sleep", and for me there's just one version (I love Charlotte Rampling, of course, but still...): the one with Bogart & Bacall. I think the dialogue is word-by-word in the film, yet it's been a while that I saw it (but I saw it three or four times in the cinema already...) - one of my favourite films... "Key Largo" and "To Have and Have Not" are great, too, btw! (Just in case anyone feels like having more Bacall/Bogart.) Just to add to the confusion of a confusing(yet somehow great) movie....I screwed up in my comment. When I said the second version, I really meant the original version of the original film, but was calling the earlier version restored and released a few years back the first version! I think. Hell, now I am confused(More so than normal) So I will go to sleep. Perhaps...the BIG SLEEP!

July 11th....you'd never guess from the box it was in B&W http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000F48D0...&v=glance&n=130 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EU1QB...0-9667929?n=130

Never knew about this....6-27 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EXZFR...0-9667929?n=130

More shows.... Something I may not want to own, but damn I watched it all the time as a little kid. Came out 6-27 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EXZFS...&v=glance&n=130

Jim fixed this problem on the "classic board" but, the problem is back. I was searching for the other DVD thread(not the one on TV shows you own) and couldn't the easy way...this was the message... The error returned was: One or all of your search keywords were below 4 characters or you searched for words which are not allowed, such as 'html', 'img', etc, please go back and increase the length of these search keywords or choose different keywords. : Jim changed the search function so you could search with 3 Characters...can you do it again Jim???? EDIT. I did find it, but it took awhile.

Moose...ummm, hmmm.....you wouldn't have a link to the video or anything, would you?

Apparently the flirty horse-race exchange was actually written after the film was already completed in order to spice it up (& in order to insert it they removed some necessary plot exposition, making the already arcane plot completely unintelligible). I've seen both versions of the film back-to-back and the later, even less intelligible, version is the more entertaining one, I've got to admit. And maybe I'm just slow, but I still couldn't figure out exactly who killed who, or why, even in the first version. Isn't the second version missing this Bogie and Bacall give and take??

You know, there was a bit of Groucho in that!!!

Playing with the c-cup nowadays if nothing else. Lot more interesting than Soccer.

For some stupid videogame console???? How could they think this ad wouldn't stir up shit??? Sony ad casues white riot By Keith Stuart 08:37am A new billboard advert for Sony's white PSP has caused consternation across the US videogaming community. The ad shows a white model dressed entirely in white threateningly grasping the face of a black model. Next to them are the words, "PlayStation Portable. White is coming". The ad can also be seen on the Dutch official PSP site. Sites such as Kotaku, Joystiq and Digital Battle have questioned whether the ads are racist. So far the debate has split comments sections with some condeming Sony and equal numbers defending the ads as a harmless personfication of the handheld console's two available colours. Clearly, whatever the justifications, the intention is to be provocative. According to Joystiq, the adverts have been created by TBWA an agency that speciliases in 'disruptive' marketing. From the company's website: "Disruption is the art of asking better questions, challenging conventional wisdom and overturning assumptions and prejudices that get in the way of imagining new possibilities and visionary ideas. It's questionable, however, whether the world is ready to explore themes of race and domination in the context of a videogame console ad. Although not as wilfully controversial as Benetton's infamous 'United Colours' campaign, many viewers will be unwilling or unable to decode the imagery until it becomes about two different colours of plastic. Importantly perhaps, the ads are for the European release of the white PSP and are appearing on billboards in Amsterdam rather than in the US where racial tension remains a fraught issue.

Guys, guys. Quit yer whinin'!!! Watch the Braves for a few days, then you will see a team with truely deep pitching/hitting problems(though a bit better than we were in June) I have a feeling it is going to be White Sox/Mets in the WS, with the White Sox winning it in 4. I'd love to be surprised. Hell, I might have to root for the "underdog" Yankees if they faced the White Sox!

Yippie!!!! Now, leave the damn porch light on

David, sorry to hear about this. When I was a kid,we lost a cat even though we lived on the second floor of an apartment complex(the dumb super thought he let the cat out thinking our cat was an outdoor cat) we looked everywhere and no luck. Well, a week past, and coming thru the garage one night, I heard a faint meow. Looked around and found him in the furnace room! Don't know if he somehow was down there for a week without anyone knowing he was in there,(doesn't seem likely) or if he found his way back into the complex. So, you might look for heat sources, even though I am sure you are hot as well. Put some cat food outside as well. Other cats might get it, but it's a thought. Sheldon's idea of a reward sounds pretty good. We had a poodle run after a squirrel in our steep back yard, and my Mom's back and feet wouldn't let her go very far looking for her. When I got home, she thought the dog was gone for sure. I went straight thru the densest part of the neighborhood, and finally found her....walking away from our house. Good luck!

This story is a few days old, and now I see on Drudge that a small piece of foam was found to have come off a external tank after yesterday's aborted launch!!!! Officials Clash Over Shuttle Safety Engineer Says He Was Reassigned After Supporting Workers Wanting Launch Delay WASHINGTON, June 27, 2006 Quote "It's a difficult decision, highly technical, highly subtle, very subtle, involves lots of assessment of statistical risks." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NASA administrator Michael Griffin, on why the July 1 shuttle launch is worth the aded risk (CBS/AP) The crew of the space shuttle Discovery is at the Kennedy Space Center Tuesday to begin training for this weekend's launch. But as they prepare, the risks of their flight are coming under the spotlight. Two top space officials are dissenting from NASA's decision to send the shuttle up, and a third, Johnson Space Center's director of engineers, says he was fired for supporting them. The agency's safety director and chief engineer took the unusual step of dissenting from the space agency's decision to go ahead with the launch without correcting the potentially catastrophic problem of foam falling from the external fuel tank. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin decided that a July 1 launch was worth the added risk for a variety of reasons. "It's a difficult decision, highly technical, highly subtle, very subtle, involves lots of assessment of statistical risks," Griffin said in an interview with The Associated Press. "We spent weeks on this decision." But the Houston Chronicle reports that Charles Camarda, 54, a former shuttle astronaut and veteran aerospace engineer, said in an e-mail to colleagues that his removal from involvement in the scheduled launch of Discovery, on which he flew last year, was against his will and resulted from expressing support for the safety director and chief engineer who questioned flight preparations for this weekend's scheduled flight. In the e-mail, printed in the Houston Chronicle, Camarda wrote: "I refused to abandon my position on the (mission management team) and asked that if I would not be allowed to work this mission that I would have to be fired from my position, and I was." "I was most proud at all the (weekly shuttle meetings) and at the (June 17 review) when you stood up and presented your dissenting opinions and your exceptions/constraints for flight," he wrote. James Hartsfield, a space center spokesman, would not comment on Camarda's e-mail to the newspaper, but he told the Houston Chronicle that Camarda had not been fired and that he would remain in Houston, though assigned to the NASA Engineering and Safety Center, a safety organization headquartered at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Space Shuttle Program Manager On Launch Plans Former Shuttle Astronaut Pens Unconventional Memoir -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Undoubtedly there are risks of going into space. Discovery astronaut Mike Fossum described how his family is dealing with the risk: "I have to look my wife in the eye. ... We've had those discussions. It's not one she is really comfortable with. It's not one anybody really is." Fossum's crew mate Stephanie Wilson, about to fly for the first time, joked that 1-in-100 odds are better than 1-in-99, but added: "Seriously, all of us train for our mission, and we recognize there is a risk." Michael Stamatelatos, who as director of safety and assurance requirements at NASA is the agency's risk guru, said NASA's 1-in-100 odds for the loss a vehicle and its crew should be taken with a grain of salt, because NASA used to say the chances were 1 in 7,000 until Challenger proved that to be overly optimistic. "Now we know that's not true," Stamatelatos said. "That was based on insufficient information." He said there are too many uncertainties to say precisely what the odds might be this time. The more NASA studies what goes on, the more the agency finds that the risks were really far higher than originally thought, because so much more could go wrong than engineers figured, said Paul Fischbeck, a Carnegie Mellon University engineering and decision sciences professor. At the same time, problems are being fixed, so the shuttle is getting safer to fly than before, he said. Fischbeck, a former military pilot, said he is disturbed by NASA's decision to go ahead and launch. He said the foam hit that caused a fatal hole in the Columbia's heat-protection layer in 2003 took the agency completely by surprise. Engineers thought they had repaired that problem before Discovery's return to flight last summer, only to find another foam problem. "Both those things should be shaking their engineers to the core," said Fischbeck, who has consulted with NASA on the shuttle heat shield risk. "You're flying with stuff you know is not going to work right." The uncertainty about the foam worried NASA safety chief Bryan O'Connor. He dissented from the launch decision but did not appeal, because NASA has drawn up plans to send the crew to the international space station to await rescue if the shuttle skin should be damaged. O'Connor, a former shuttle commander, helped investigate the Challenger accident and was in his safety chief job less than a year when Columbia disintegrated as it soared toward its landing. Shuttle program chief Wayne Hale argued in favor of flying Discovery now, saying all sorts of changes that already have been made to the foam need to be tested in flight before more complicated modifications are made. The final decision rested with Griffin, who said that because everyone agreed the crew could survive on the space station, the risk was more to the space program than to the astronauts. He weighed what he said was the small added risk in lifting off now against the larger safety risk of rushing launches at the end of the decade. If Discovery's launch were delayed, NASA would be in hurry to complete its goal of finishing space station construction with 16 launches by 2010. Pushing everything off, Griffin said, "would be really dumb." http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/27/...in1755303.shtml

Can you believe Mark Sandman has been gone for almost 7 years??? I have Yes, B-Sides and Otherwise, and The Night, but the cd I play the most by far is Like Swimming. I remember playing it when we would have overnight shelving at Borders, and no one seemed to like it...just couldn't understand folks not loving it..... A sound and lyrics like no one else.

DMX Jailed After Court No-Show June 29, 2006, 5:10 PM ET DMX finally showed up in court today (June 29) in White Plains, N.Y., to face speeding and other traffic charges and was sent to jail by the judge who had issued a warrant for his arrest. The 35-year-old rapper, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was ordered held on $25,000 bail. He was led off to jail in handcuffs and was still behind bars at 2:30 p.m., said court clerk Natasha Lee. Simmons had been due in court yesterday but failed to appear. His lawyer, Stacy Richman, said he was ill, but City Judge Barbara Leak, who had granted him two postponements, issued the arrest warrant. "We have granted him a number of courtesies," she said. "It ends now." DMX was pulled over in White Plains on June 2 for speeding and making unsafe lane changes in a 2001 Chevrolet Suburban, police said. Once he was stopped, officers found he was not wearing a seat belt and did not have a driver's license. Nine days later, he was ticketed for driving a 2006 Suburban on the shoulder of the Hutchinson River Parkway in Harrison. On June 16, police in Scottsdale, Ariz., cited him for carrying a concealed handgun outside a nightclub. They said he pulled the gun from a holster and put it under the front seat of his 1964 Chevrolet convertible. Last month, the rapper was arrested in London after refusing to put on a seat belt and becoming abusive on a flight from New York, authorities said. Last year, DMX served 70 days in jail for violating his parole following a 2004 incident in which he posed as an undercover federal agent and crashed his SUV through a security gate at John F. Kennedy International Airport. A week after he pleaded guilty in that incident, state police accused him of driving over 100 mph on Interstate 684 in North Castle, in Westchester County. http://billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_di...t_id=1002764470

The first to sure look that way. Looks like the glasses on the piano have the same level of fluid in them in each image....Columbo will keep his eye out for other similarities...

Very sorry to hear this. Peter is my all time favorite baseball reporter, he has never lost his passion for the game.... Peter Gammons suffers brain aneurysm, in surgeryESPN.com Longtime ESPN Baseball analyst Peter Gammons suffered an aneurysm in his brain Tuesday morning near his home on Cape Cod, Mass. He was airlifted to a Boston hospital, where he is currently undergoing surgery. AP Gammons was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2005. Gammons, 61, is probably the best-known baseball writer of his generation, first with the Boston Globe, beginning in 1969, then for Sports Illustrated, before joining ESPN in 1990. In 2004, he was honored with J.G. Taylor Spink Award for outstanding baseball writing during the 2005 Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cooperstown, N.Y. He was selected in balloting by the Baseball Writers Association of America. He started his career as a reporter for the Boston Globe in 1969 and wrote a very popular weekly Sunday baseball column for many years. He has also worked for Sports Illustrated covering the National Hockey League, college basketball and Major League Baseball (1976-78, 1986-90). In 1986, upon his return to Sports Illustrated as a senior writer following a second stay at the Globe, he wrote numerous stories covering some of baseball's most important news events, as well as authoring "Inside Baseball," Sports Illustrated's weekly baseball notebook. Gammons primarily serves as a studio analyst for ESPN's Baseball Tonight, but he also does regular spots for SportsCenter, ESPNEWS and ESPN Radio and contributes to ESPN The Magazine. He is a columnist and writes a popular Weblog for ESPN.com. Gammons is also the author of "Beyond the Sixth Game", a look at free agency. Born April 9, 1945, Gammons is a native of Boston, raised in nearby Groton, Mass. He attended the University of North Carolina and is married to his wife, Gloria. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=2502295