BERIGAN

This is what art is all about, IMHO.

It gives me an neck ache. Please change it...Thanks oodles!!!!

I'd dearly love to make this my avatar. Well Fuck....It's too big, and it's too late to fucking fuck with, dang it.

Eddie Harris? Oops, sorry, I said I was going to stop posting. Sorry, Beri, I have no life..... And I do??? I have posted about 10 times in 5 minutes....someday I will have more posts in a 24 hour period than Mr. Sangrey....I think there are really 4 of him though.

Or you all can join poor ol' Uncle Skid...he's dancing with himself in the live chat area....well, hopefully not....

9:41 out West. Ha! You should still go to bed if you have to edit a post when you type 4 words....

I'm a bit loaded. Your excuse, Beri? I don't know!!! I wish I was rich like you though....not nice to brag about such things you know...

I would suggest that you print this out and paste it along the top of your computer, GoodSpeak. My avatar insults you? Apples and oranges, my friend. I didn't say that your avatar insults me. OK. And I should print out the above and paste it to my computer because....? Because you are too literal....

connoisseur series500, Aggie87, Free For All, this means you!!!

I'm disgusted that I saw that a few years ago, but wasn't able to make it work as an avatar!!! There are way too many people reading this thread at 12:41 AM EST, go to bed!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, a fair number of fans were not crazy about going after Glavine(Since he left, and wasn't here to win 300) but, we know John Schuerholz dragged his feet both times, and had serious financial constraints both times....but, there really wasn't much on the market...and he had an ERA below 4, until those last 3-4 starts. Thing is, Booby Cox will think he is an innings eater(Which he is to a point) and will push him to 7-8 innings in Sept, so that if the Braves make the playoffs, it will once again be an easy 3 and out...which will just be chalked up to bad luck as always.... And Dan, I really, really feel sorry for the evil empire Red Sox having to settle for a 3rd baseman that drove in 120 last year.....

Yeah, to call you a liberalcommunistatheist would be like accusing you of liking jazz...

And if this fucker shot one of my cats(they are indoor cats, but they could always get out) He'd still eating from a tube....

Now TCM is running BLues in the Night, With Jimmy Lunceford's band!!(Not yet, but sometime during this film) Also Will Osborne.

Lester Young, and many others.... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036968/

(please note this post is from April 24, 2007) oh really?????

some of us have more willpower than others... Sabathia is the obvious choice Obviously, the Cy Young battle was between only two men. Perhaps this wasn't fair to John Lackey (19-9, 3.01) and Fausto Carmona (19-8, 3.06), but that's the way it was. The voters had eyes only for C.C. Sabathia (19-7, 3.21) and Josh Beckett (20-7, 3.27). Sabathia won, and the voting was not particularly close. But who should have won? One popular argument for Beckett (especially in Red Sox Nation): "He won 20 games!" Yes, he did. That really is a distinction without a difference, though. It's bad enough to ignore a candidate because his teammates didn't help him much -- Dan Haren, anyone? -- but it's just flat silly to argue that there's a meaningful difference between winning 20 games and winning 19. I mean, that single additional win does count. But it shouldn't count for much. So what else is there? We can look at hits and walks. The easy measure is WHIP -- walks plus hits per innings pitched -- but WHIP isn't much help in this case, because both Sabathia and Beckett gave up 1.14 baserunners per inning, tied for third-best in the league (behind Johan Santana and Erik Bedard). We can look at quality starts, a rough measure of consistency, of how often each pitcher kept his team in the game for at least six innings. Of Sabathia's 34 starts, 25 were of the quality sort; Beckett was 20 for 30. We can look at strikeouts per nine innings. Some will argue that strikeouts are irrelevant, but I will argue that if a pitcher deserves credit for what he does, as opposed to what his defense does behind him, strikeouts are a great tiebreaker. Sabathia struck out 7.8 batters per nine innings. Beckett struck out 8.7 per nine innings. So they're (almost) even in wins, they're (almost) even in ERA, and they're even in baserunners allowed. Sabathia has the edge in quality starts, while Beckett posted more strikeouts. Is there anything we haven't considered? Yes. Three things: environment, competition and durability. Environment: As you probably know, Fenway Park is not a friendly place for power hitters. Over the past three seasons, Fenway has allowed the fewest home runs in the American League. However, it's a great place for hitters, generally; over the past three seasons, it's been the best for scoring. Meanwhile, Jacobs Field has been pitcher-friendly over the past three seasons, but in 2007 it ranked behind only Fenway in its positive impact on scoring. It's not easy to weigh park effects, but it looks like neither Beckett nor Sabathia was helped much by his home field, with Beckett suffering the effects slightly more. Competition: Last season, 19 American League pitchers finished with at least 200 innings. Beckett was 10th, right in the middle, facing a composite .757 OPS over the course of the season. Meanwhile, Sabathia had the easiest time in the group, as he faced a composite .738 OPS (holding the 18th spot was Sabathia's teammate, Fausto Carmona, at .747). Durability: This is obviously Sabathia's ace in the hole. He topped the American League with 241 innings. Beckett was 19th in the league with 201 innings. Add everything up, and what do you get? I suspect that any answer is either a guess or a partisan defense. So instead, let's turn to a couple of methods that are designed to add everything up. In Baseball Prospectus' Value Over Replacement Player, Sabathia beats Beckett, 65-59 (runs). In Bill James' Win Shares, Sabathia beats Beckett, 24-19. In fact, it's worth mentioning that with both methods, Beckett actually ranks fourth in the American League, behind Carmona and Lackey. And while those methods don't consider quality of competition -- that edge belongs to Beckett over Sabathia -- it's worth mentioning that John Lackey faced exactly the same quality of competition that Beckett faced. It seems to me that Sabathia was the obvious choice this time. If we pick and dig and quibble, we might make the case for someone else. But that someone else might just as easily be Lackey instead of Beckett.

Well, I recall Gammons ( I Think) pointing out that Sabathia beat Santana, and Verlander 7 out of 8 times......And I think with everything else being more or less equal, this may have been a reason. I couldn't find the info on yahoo mlb, but didn't Sabathia have very little run support in the games he lost? Also, he no doubt had several games blown by Borowski...

Really nice Obit from LA times!!!! Laraine Day, 87; actress and 'first lady of baseball' was featured in 1940s Dr. Kildare films By Myrna Oliver, Special to The Times November 12, 2007 Laraine Day, the actress best remembered for her portrayal of Lew Ayres' fiancee in a series of 1940s Dr. Kildare movies, has died. She was 87. Day died Saturday at the home of her daughter, Gigi Bell, in Ivins, Utah, according to her publicist, Dale Olson. Day had moved to Utah in March after the death of her husband of 47 years, producer Michel M. Grilikhes. The actress made more than four dozen films from the late 1930s to 1960, working opposite such luminaries as Ayres, Cary Grant, Robert Mitchum, Lana Turner, John Wayne, Spencer Tracy, Joel McCrea and Kirk Douglas. In addition to the Kildare series, she demonstrated solid acting ability in such films as Alfred Hitchcock's noir "Foreign Correspondent" and her personal favorites, 1943's "Mr. Lucky" with Grant and the 1946 psychological drama "The Locket" with Mitchum. Yet she failed to become a Hollywood superstar. Studio executives pigeonholed the dark-haired actress as "attractive ordinary" and seldom paired her with top directors who could have boosted her career. "Let someone else be the world's greatest actress," she said with characteristic geniality in 1953. "I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan." The actress' affinity for baseball came out of her second marriage, to Leo Durocher, the legendary manager of what were then the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants. Day hated baseball as a girl and never attended a game. When she met Durocher, she didn't know who he was or what the Dodgers were. Durocher, she later told fans, converted her to baseball by recounting fascinating anecdotes about players. "Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me," she said in 1950. "It's blood and tears." That year, to help the Giants attract more female fans, Day launched a 15-minute television interview show with players before home games. The show originated from a booth at the Polo Grounds and was carried by New York's WPIX. Variety, in reviewing her first show, complimented "her good looks, infectious personality and better-than-speaking acquaintance with baseball." She became known as "the first lady of baseball" and accompanied Durocher and the Giants to Cuba for spring training. She traveled with the team during the regular season and in 1952 wrote "Day With the Giants," which the New York Herald Tribune called "an amusing, informative book, the first to report on baseball from the viewpoint of the wife." Although they divorced in 1960, the couple remained friends until Durocher's death in 1991. When he was posthumously inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., it was Day who was chosen from his four wives to attend. Born La Raine Johnson on Oct. 13, 1920, into a devout Mormon family in Roosevelt, Utah, she moved to Long Beach with her family as a child. Determined to become an actress since she saw her first movie at age 6, she studied with the drama teacher Elias Day and signed her first contract with RKO. She starred opposite George O'Brien in a series of westerns under her birth name, but would eventually take Day's name in gratitude for his help. Half a dozen other films followed before her career took off with the role of nurse Mary Lamont in the Dr. Kildare series from 1939 to 1941. Long before Richard Chamberlain took the role to television, Ayres and Day entertained movie audiences with "Calling Dr. Kildare," "The Secret of Dr. Kildare," "Dr. Kildare's Strange Case," "Dr. Kildare Goes Home," "Dr. Kildare's Crisis" and "The People vs. Dr. Kildare." When MGM decided their contract leading lady was becoming stereotyped in the role, they had her killed by a truck before Ayres could marry her in "Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day." In the 1950s, aside from her baseball shows, Day had a short-lived television variety show, "The Laraine Day Show," and spent a year as a panelist on the TV show "I've Got a Secret." Although she acted sporadically on the big screen through the late 1950s, her last major film was the 1954 airplane melodrama, "The High and the Mighty" opposite Wayne. Day also was a regular in the early days of television, appearing on "Climax" and "Playhouse 90" and later on such series as "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "Wagon Train," "Let Freedom Ring," "FBI," "Sixth Sense," "Murder, She Wrote," "Fantasy Island," "Love Boat" and "Lou Grant." After two divorces, Day married Grilikhes in 1961. According to her publicist, Day and Grilikhes were instrumental in the development of the Polynesian Cultural Center in Hawaii. They also arranged for the Te Arohanui Maori Company of singers and dancers of New Zealand to tour the United States, which included a performance at the Hollywood Bowl, recorded for international distribution with Day serving as narrator. She is survived by two daughters with Grilikhes, Gigi Bell and Dana Grilikhes Nassi; a son, Christopher, and daughter, Michelle, with Durocher; numerous grandchildren; and a twin brother, Lamar Johnson, of Chico, Calif. Services and burial will be private. A public memorial is being planned. Instead of flowers, the family suggests donations to Share Inc., P.O. Box 1342, Beverly Hills, CA 90213. Times staff writer Jon Thurber contributed to this report. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/c...s-pe-california

From reading the headline only, I thought it was going to be about a Mopar(Chrysler)Before 1970 - 71, Chrysler vehicles used left hand thread lug nuts on the driver side of the vehicle and right hand thread on the passenger side of the vehicle.

:party: Hope you had a great one Rolf!!! Hope all is well in your life!

A great story for Veterans Day, about 83 year old former major leaguer Lou Brissie. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3101709

I find it kinda hard to believe that the companies in China making toys were using lead free paint 5 years ago. Or that date rate drug was not sprayed on other products in the past. But, I haven't heard much about the safety of imported toys older than this year....has anyone else???? Seems like parents should know if the toys kids are playing with are dangerous or not.

Hey, eat all ya want dude, I hear the one's down in Florida taste the best!