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One of the best ads ever, right up with the AFLAC ad with Yogi Berra! Mr. Ermey should win an Emmy...or whatever that award is that is given to the best commercials....

only in America!

and he will want to be on her for the next 20 years...

have to let us know what the quality is...in more ways than one...

very nice photos!

He's right. Giants 23, Cards 16, Yanks 15, Cubs 14, .... http://www.baseball-almanac.com/hof/hofstat.shtml Something tells me that 10 years from now the Yankees will probably be pretty close to the Giants in HoFers. However, the Yanks will still have way more WS titles then the Giants. Don't know where Baseball Almanac got their info. Wikipedia lists 18 Yankee players who entered the HoF as Yankees: Yogi Berra, Earl Combs, Joe DiMaggio, Bill Dickey, Whitey Ford, Lou Gehrig, Lefy Gomez, Joe Gordon, Goose Goosage, Waite Hoyte, Regggie Jackson, Tony Lazzeri, Mickey Mantle, Herb Pennock, Phil Rizzuto, Red Ruffing, Babe Ruth, and Jack Chesbro (as a N.Y. Highlander, the team that evolved into the Yankees). Still not as many as the Giants, but more than Almanac gives credit for. Here is another link that is probably more qualified than most : Baseball HOF And that list shows 22 yankees!!!! 17 Cards, but one is Whitey Herzog 25 Giants, with a few manager/exec types thrown in...

It's funny how certain Grinch like folks feel compelled to voice their opinions on threads like this with people that don't share their views, yet would get majorly pissed off if you went on threads about artists they like and said I never listen to _____, they suck...nuts to them! Weird....

I've done grown quite sick of that song as well as his bandmate's little Christmas ditty. Despite that, Merry Christmas everyone! The Savior is born! John's Christmas song is one of the best written. But "Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time" is one of the worst. Merry Christmas everyone! Very likely there was no historical Jesus! And if there was, he wasn't born on December 25th! So nuts to your Savior! God Loves you Alex!

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Do teams like Kansas City or the Pirates even try to build a good team anymore? How about instead of a Luxury Tax, they have a Suckitude Tax, and for finishing under .500 for three years in a row, a team has to add 20 million to the pay roll. I'm sick and tired of these crappy teams not even trying to improve themselves. Well, I have read recently that after the Greinke trade the Royals now have THE best players in the minors...the Pirates on the other hand...I really think they screwed up trading everyone and their brother a few years back...they had a half decent team, and adding a few players...but every year is starting from scratch....and of course they have been super cheap for years, and are only now starting to develop some good players....

Didn't he come in to take Abe Vigoda's place when the Fish character got spun off into his own series? Doesn't look like it, as that show was a few years later... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072472/fullcredits#cast I remember him on Carson many times, very funny! I thought he should have gotten more juicy roles, and a bit surprised to see how much work he has had the last few decades, as I don't recall seeing him in years!!! R.I.P.

Sounds like a Proustian madeleine moment. I recall reading this in the past- but didn't remember what it was, and the closest I could come to this was the scene in "Ratatouie" when the Chef/Rat served the dish to the food critic- and one bite caused his childhood memories come flooding back with his Mom serving the dish..... Funny, I have had a similar, if less interesting flashback via smells...of all thing some Medicated powder called Ammens, and every time I used it, It immediately took me back to a smell inside my Elementary school! Have no idea what that smell was(it was K thru 6th, so no babies or preschoolers inside) and of course never really gave any thought to the smell inside the school, and hadn't thought of it in 30 years...

Try here then... http://www.mefeedia.com/video/27754016

heh, one of the guys knew the day it went on the air, and the date it switched to Sunday(in 1973 I think)...I always thought it was on Sundays...shows what I know..and don't know It depends if you watch all of it or not...

Very interesting! I don't have anything close to it, but what's funny is I do remember Marilu Henner (One of 6 people known to have this ability) being on the old Later with Bob Costas show...and he had heard she could remember any day in her past , and what day of the week it was, so he said what day of the week was it, and was she doing on the day we landed on the moon....she laughed and asked who put him up to it, since that was the night she lost her virginity! When I saw the story, I figured she was doing some sort of trick, and it was just a gag for her to use on talk shows....apparently not. Anyway, there surely have to be more people than these 6(only 5 appear in the show) weird that research into this ability is so new.... part one of 60 minutes story If you don't have time to watch it, then read the text... http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/16/60minutes/main7156877.shtml?tag=currentVideoInfo;segmentTitle

Dave, I would blame the spawns of Steinbrenner...they just don't have the same passion for baseball and winning their Father did....they are looking at all the moola that is spent every year, rather than saying who cares, we need to win...that being said...the Red Sox basically had a rebuilding year (as close as teams like the Red Sox and Yankees can have) and the Yankees really shouldn't trade away the best hitting prospect in the minors, unless they got someone like Grienke(and that isn't going to happen, since he has been traded to the Brewers ) so bear(bare?) with a difficult "rebuilding" year, and switching places with the Red Sox as the...heh...Underdog in the AL East....

Nah, it's the fact it's mainly a jazz forum, and as I have said many times in the past, 99.9999% of women do not like jazz!

Gee, my 1973 Lincoln is 17 years too old for that site! Looks like a good site for folks with newer cars...

thats great!!!!

Congrats, you philly fans are now as obnoxious and most Yankee and Red Sox fans! Typical Red Sox fan...Carl Crawford?? Meh...gotta have someone in Left. I'm gonna shoot myself in the face the next time Lackey, Beckett, or Daisy Duke throws a hanging nothing pitch! Typical Yankee fan, Zack Greinke, once an headcase, always a headcase. Garza is overrrated...We aren't going to get by with this terrible outfield again in 2011, are we???? Typical Rays fan...who is still on the team??? Can't we keep one arm from the 2010 bullpen??? Man, if I ever went to games, I'd boycott the team!

Matthew Pouliot, another writer no doubt ruined by Bill James. Gee, coming back after retiring , at 36, to Hit 25 HR's and drive in 92 wasn't a big year??? oh, right, his OBP was only .312, he was worthless that season! Best home run season before turning 32, 22(yeah, he was still in the astrodome then) at the age of 38, he hit 24 HR's and when he was 39, he hit 26, all on legs that started out as catcher's legs! But, of course, the ONLY stat that matters these days is OBP, and it dropped as he got older, so another worthless player who just "hung around forever" All of this has nothing to do with the Phillies of course...Hey, last thing in the world I want to see is the phillies get stronger...but to act like short of Ryan Howard and Utley going down for the season, they have more than enough offense with that staff, to win the NL east. Yup, about time for the Phils, Yanks, and Red sox to get a special league just for themselves!

Posted 12-14-2007, 07:32 AM Hey, I know it's 2007 and Cliff Lee's ERA is north of 6 , but I bet in late 2010, he will sign a contract for over 120 mil, and it will be considered a bargain! Mark it on your calenders...well, when you get the 2010 one's.....

interesting, I didn't know people were able to read papers online in 1981!

Just a thought, but without knowing how long it will be before you can find work(always seems to take longer when you move to a new city anyway), 2000+ cds sold on ebay and amazon would make some nice spending money IMO. Cds in boxes wouldn't take up that much room(or you could rent some storage space since it sounds like you may have a problem even with the ones you want to keep) 2000 x say $5 a cd would be 10K. And it seems when someone is selling a ton of jazz cds, you see more and more people find them, and the prices per cd go up! Don't think of having to list 2000 at one time, just 2-3 a day at first , and ebay even lets you punch in upc codes now, so all you have to add is the title and condition of the cd. Don't want to piss off anyone thinking they were going to get some free cds though!

Rays, Bluejays, and Orioles fans, welcome to being spoilers in April! Can't blame the Red Sox at all for getting him, but the other teams might as well trade everyone off their big league teams for prospects, no winning, no sniff of the W.C. for years, and that's sad. I was thinking not only are there no state taxes in Texas, there likely wouldn't be city taxes to worry about either. So did some digging....it gets a bit complicated....and this is just based on 5 years! Texas of course does not have a state income tax. So assuming Lee moves residency from Arkansas, which has a top individaul tax rate of seven percent, to somewhere in Texas, he'd save a significant amount of money over living in New York. How much? Well, it depends on if his residency is in New York City or just in the state. We called up Robert Raiola, an accountant with Van Duyne, Behrens & Co. whose clients include athletes. We told him to assume that Lee signs a five-year contract worth $120 million with the Yankees and then becomes a New York state or New York City resident. Raiola told us that if Lee was signed by the Yankees and moved to New York state, he'd pay New York state approximately $10.76 million over five years. If he lived in New York City -- he'd have to pay a 3.65 percent city tax on top of the top state income tax rate of 8.97 percent, which means he'd pay a combined $15.13 million over five years to New York City and state. So how much less could the Rangers offer Lee and still have Lee make the same amount of money? On the assumption that Lee would live in Texas, he'd pay no state income tax. He would however have to pay the so-called Jock Taxes, an attempt by cities and states to fill their coffers during tough times by imposing non-resident income taxes when players come to town. Raiola said Lee would pay the Jock Tax on approximately 75 percent of the team's 81 road games each year, which would be 60 days out of the 225 days worked by Lee each season. Raiola says those Jock Taxes then work out to $2.25 million over the course of a five-year contract. Lee would pay Jock Taxes as a Yankee, but Raiola assumes that those taxes would offset his liability to New York state or city. So assuming the Yankees offer Lee a five-year, $120 million contract and he establishes residency in New York, Raiola says the Rangers could offer him $111.5 million (if he takes up residency in Texas) and it will be the same deal. If Lee were to live in New York City versus somewhere in Texas, the Rangers could offer a five-year, $107.2 million deal against the Yanks' $120 million and it would work out to the same net dollars for Lee, Raiola said. More