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Yet another victim of steroids abuse. I assume you have heard those rumors. He still looked huge to me in the texas uniform, not so much in the Sox one. He has had tons of arm problems,(didn't he have back surgery as well?) and doesn't throw 97, 98 anymore.....needs to just show the fastball and go with the change-up and curve. Peter Gammons was talking about him a few years back when he briefly came back with the Dodgers, and showed a hitter looking funny after throwing that Bugs Bunny Change up of his, and said there were people that thought he put a lot of strain on his arm the way he threw that pitch.....

I pay everything on line, or through my bank account, BUT they have to send me a paper receipt, usually three or four pages about what and why I payed. The bank have to send me a paper account of almost every operations, CC included.... In the US, you can choose not to get any paper receipts when you pay online. Just another reason why the US is better than Italy.......

Dan, et al....I don't know what to say...but...I will say stuff anyway! Until the top of the 11th, that was one of the best playoff games I have seen! I was going to say last night after the Sox just ground out AB after AB(2 strikes on me, perfect...I'll foul off 2 and watch 4 just miss) that there was no way the Rockies would have a chance...just because starters don't seem to be able to go more than 4-5 innings against that type of gameplan being (nearly) perfectly executed. Dan, you might gripe about guys swinging 3-1, but they got the count in their favor, and I am sure it looks like a fastball out of his hand, hell they showed a pitch Carmona threw for a strike out, A 98 MPH SINKER!!! So, for them to knock him out early after a complete game against the Yanks, that was huge. I thought there was no way Cleveland could win that game, the later in the game the score was tied. Not much fun for you all, but fun for a fan of the game to be so completely wrong about the way a game is going to end. My other thought about the Sox....IF they don't win in this round...at some point Sox fans are going to have to look in the mirror and blame themselves as well as the players. There is too much pressure playing there! Yeah, I know, if you can't handle pressure than fuck you...well is Edgar Renteria a choker? Guy had a game winning hit in the WS(Won the world series with that hit in fact) all the sudden, can't field in Fenway, booed out of town. A manager other than Francona would have likely buried Pedroia in AAA after his slow start....why did Julio Lugo have his worst year in the majors? I'm surprised he wasn't killed by an enraged fan earlier this year. Why did JD Drew have such a bad year...well, never mind him And now Gagne! Guy can(Well could) handle pressure. Set an all time record for saves in a row. Lots of guys have good stuff, but can't hack closing. Even though he doesn't have the fastball of a few years ago, he still was good enough to close. I saw him just destroy the Red Sox earlier this year, made Big Poppy look silly, how often does that happen? Now??? He probably has police protection, and won't pitch again no matter what. All from a single and a walk. Wonder if he could have gotten out of the inning giving up less than 7 runs? We will never know, couldn't risk it at home. If he gave up one run, and the Sox didn't come back, Francona would be fired for being such a fool to leave him in! You know what it's like? It's like my getting a date with Jessica Biel( Quite the likely scenario) and telling her, I just bought her the most expensive flower in the world just for her, then taking her to the fanciest restaurant in town, getting down on bended knee, proposing to her, and telling her I get to name the first two kids, but she can name the rest! She runs away! Bitch! If you can't handle the pressure, don't date the C man!!! Red Sox nation still acts like it didn't win the Series finally! Or that it will never get another chance to even get in the playoffs. They are getting to be like the Yankees sad to say. If you don't win the WS, it's a worthless year. Perhaps pressure is why a team like the Yankees aren't getting past the first round either.

Swell name for a sophisticated porn star

Unless you are his daughter.....

Anyone finding it hard to see the playoffs when out and about??? My gym's tv's don't even go up high enough to get this other TBS. And the O'Charley's I was at last night had 3 tvs in the bar on, all on some stupid college football game. At least when games are on Fox there is a chance to see a game when out of the house.....

Dan, so you think the Sox will win, eh??? Shocker!

You know, you must be right! Never heard of a drought before global warming! :

You know, you must be right! Never heard of a drought before global warming! :crazy:

And Rooster Ties has no comment yet????

Yep. And I am beginning to think with what happened in N.O. and now in Atlanta, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is loaded with idiots.....

And piss in the lake?

What's funny, is after a really dry summer, we on the southside of town have had a decent amount of rain, doesn't look like a terrible drought outside my windows. But, uncontrolled growth, mixed with everything from power plants, to yes Mussels seem to be setting us up for a disaster. Article I read last week(That said we could run out of water by Feb,) said we could have a Katrina like crisis here! Lake Lanier has three months of water storage left By STACY SHELTON The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 10/11/07 Lake Sidney Lanier, metro Atlanta's main source of water, has about three months of storage left, according to state and federal officials. That's three months before there's not enough water for more than 3 million metro Atlantans to take showers, flush their toilets and cook. Three months before there's not enough water in parts of the Chattahoochee River for power plants to make the steam necessary to generate electricity. Three months before part of the river runs dry. "We've never experienced this situation before," state Environmental Protection Division Director Carol Couch said of the record-breaking drought and fast-falling lake. In two weeks, Couch plans to give Gov. Sonny Perdue a list of options to further restrict water use by businesses and industries, along with an analysis of potential water savings and estimated job losses. Some exemptions to the state's ban on outdoor watering in north Georgia could end, including those applied to water-dependent businesses such as car washes, pressure washing companies and landscapers. Couch's staff is still working on the details. She said she fully expects an economic hit if substantial rain doesn't fall soon and the emergency actions are taken. "There has to be a balance between determining how much water we can conserve against how much lost jobs and lost economy there is," Couch said. "You don't do that lightly." Landscapers already have suffered. Days after the outdoor ban was ordered Sept. 28, Mary Kay Woodworth of the Urban Agriculture Council trade group said landscapers' phones around the region stopped ringing. "Immediately, employees were laid off. Contracts waiting on signatures — from $3,000 jobs to $150,000 installations — were canceled." Other heavy water users are considering their options. A Pepsico Inc. plant that produces Gatorade, which is the biggest water user in the city of Atlanta, is figuring out ways to cut down further on its use in the next 30 days. Coca-Cola is waiting to see what restrictions might be imposed at its Atlanta syrup plant, but has already cut back as part of a corporate water conservation plan. Some water providers are asking big users like manufacturers to voluntarily cut back and are making emergency plans to install equipment to pump water from unprecedented depths of Lanier and the Chattahoochee. Fate depends on Corps How bad things could get depends on rain, and the forecast is not promising. October is normally the year's driest month, and climatologists say another dry, warm winter is ahead. Metro Atlanta's water fate also depends largely on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the federal agency that owns and operates Buford Dam and the 38,000-acre lake that sits behind it, bordered by Gwinnett, Hall and Forysth Counties. This month, the Corps has released from Lanier more than four times as much water as flows in from the Chattahoochee and other feeder streams. But that's far less than last month, when the Corps released 35 times as much water out of Lanier than flowed in. More than a billion gallons leave the lake every day, more than twice the amount metro Atlanta uses. Much of it flows past the city into West Point Lake, another federal reservoir near LaGrange, then along the Alabama border and eventually to Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. Pat Stevens, an environmental planner for the Atlanta Regional Commission who regularly keeps tabs on how much water is available for Fulton, Gwinnett, Cobb, DeKalb and other metro Atlanta governments, said the Corps' "wastes water unnaturally." "When you move into a drought like we've moved into, you'll drain the system," Stevens said. The Corps' water releases are based on two key requirements: the minimum flow needed to operate Plant Scholtz, Gulf Power's small coal-fired facility just below Lake Seminole, and federal mandates to protect two mussel species in a Florida river. If the Chattahoochee were undammed and running freely, Mother Nature would be providing only half the water the Corps is sending, Corps officials have said. Val Perry Jr., a homeowner and officer of the Lake Lanier Association, told the Corps last week that "If there were no dams at all, some mussels would die and [the species would] not become extinct. ... Does a couple of mussels trump 5 million people? What I hear from the Corps is that the answer to that is yes." Together with Lanier, four other federal lakes on the Chattahoochee combine to send water toward the Apalachicola River in Florida, which is formed by the waters of Georgia's Chattahoochee and Flint rivers. But no one knows whether the mussels — the endangered fat threeridge and threatened purple bankclimber — actually need the 3 billion gallons they get every day. "The real big question is how low can you go to not allow the species to go down the slippery slope of extinction?" said Sandra Tucker, a field supervisor with the wildlife service in Georgia. "Those are things we just really don't know." But even if the mussels could survive with less water, the coal plant could not, said Lynn Erickson, a Gulf Power spokeswoman. The plant, which opened in 1953 and produces enough electricity to power as many as 19,000 homes, had to lower its water withdrawal pipe on the Apalachicola River about 25 years ago. To go lower probably wouldn't be cost effective, Erickson said. "This is a small plant in the whole scheme of things," Erickson said. "But it's a critical piece of the whole system." It ensures reliability for an entire region that includes Tallahassee, southeast Alabama and southwest Georgia. State and regional representatives, including Couch and Georgia's congressional delegation, have been asking the Corps to reconsider its releases for the power plant and the mussels for more than a year. So far, the answer has been no. "We are required to maintain [the minimum flow]," said Corps spokeswoman Lisa Coghlan. "As we march on, we're going to seriously be looking at our emergency operations and how we provide relief." The Corps last month predicted Lanier, in the worst-case scenario, could drop another 19 feet by the end of the year to set a new historic low that would threaten metro Atlanta's drinking supply sometime next year. Mark Crisp, a water expert in Atlanta with the national consulting firm C.H. Guernsey & Co., has said for years that metro Atlanta is asking too much from Lanier. Most of the region's population — and one-third of the state's population — relyon the smallest river basin in the Georgia. In fact, it's the largest metropolitan region in the country depending on a river so small. As Couch put it, "All our eggs are in one basket." Now Crisp's warnings seem even more prescient. The active storm season that rescued the state during the last drought — from 1998 to 2002 — is unlikely. "We're already on the downside of the hurricane season so that hope and a prayer has pretty much gone away," said Crisp, whose clients include customers buying electricity generated at Lanier's Buford Dam. "At this point, as bad as it has gotten, we've got to start thinking about the doomsday, at least saying to each other, 'How are we going to handle it if it comes?'" Stevens, the ARC's environmental planner, said she "doesn't even want to think about" the fallout if Lanier drops to 31 feet below its full level. Perdue spokesman Bert Brantley said the state has fought in the tri-state legal water wars and has restricted outdoor watering, with the worst-case scenario in mind. "The Level 4 declaration is just the latest step in asking Georgians to do their part to conserve as much of our existing resources as possible." If that's not enough, the first sign of trouble for metro Atlantans could be lowered water pressure, as the water systems strain to pull water out of a dwindling river and lake. Corps acknowledged mistake Compounding this year's problem was a huge mistake by the Corps in 2006. That spring, just as the drought was beginning, the Corps released billions of gallons of additional water from Lanier to the Apalachicola River, for the spawning season of the threatened Gulf sturgeon. So few of the prehistoric fish remain that a federal biologist in Florida has estimated fewer than 10 females are able to spawn in any given year. The Corps discovered it had relied on a faulty gauge to measure Lanier's level — overestimating the amount of water left in the lake by nearly 2 feet. That meant the Corps had accidentally released 22 billion gallons of water: enough to supply metro Atlanta's needs for about a month and a half. EPD Director Couch first sent out a warning in June of last year that metro Atlanta's drinking water supply was in jeopardy, thanks to the Corps' releases, which she said were twice the amount needed for the threatened fish. The Corps has since acknowledged it released more water than needed. That same month, the state sued the Corps, seeking to reduce the amount of water headed across the border to Florida. A flurry of hearings last summer failed to resolve the matter. Florida and Alabama also have complaints about the Corps' management of the Chattahoochee River. A 17-year legal battle is wending its way through the federal courts. But, even if the courts decide to reduce the releases, and the region is deluged with rain, that may only delay the inevitable, some say, because metro Atlanta is outgrowing its water sources. 'Our culture has to change' An $8 million water plan for metro Atlanta completed in 2003 is based on the generally accepted assumption that this region can remove an average of 705 million gallons of water a day from Lanier and the upper Chattahoochee. But state officials have long thought that the area won't reach that level of water use until 2030. Metro Atlanta is already more than halfway there, and over the next 25 years another 1.6 million people are expected to share the water. And the original assumption was based on some major "ifs:" if additional reservoirs are built; if aggressive conservation measures are enacted; if additional water is pumped from Lake Allatoona to the Chattahoochee basin; if metro Atlanta is allowed to use more of the water in Lanier instead of sending it downstream to Alabama and Florida. Given the current drought, those underlying assumptions are suspect. Crisp now estimates metro Atlanta could reach its water limit as early as 2018, assuming continued growth in population. "Our culture has to change," said Crisp, who lives on Allatoona, which has dropped to levels not often seen at this time of year. "We have been a water-rich region all of our lives, never having to worry about water. ... The attention that is paid to water goes away as soon as we start having rain again. "We're going to have another drought after this one," he said. "When we can't guess, but we can be assured we'll have another drought that's actually worse than this one. ... With that in mind, our planners have to start looking at this in terms of how many more families, how many more businesses, how many more gallons of water can we allocate out of the Chattahoochee River." Staff writers Matt Kempner and Duane Stanford contributed to this story. http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/sto...age_tab_newstab

Well, this came out of nowhere!!! I wonder if there are health issues? Hopefully, just wanted a break. Bobby Cox is the one that needs to retire, not JS..... Schuerholz stepping aside as GM Assistant Wren promoted to replace team's architect of past 17 years By DAVID O'BRIEN The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 10/11/07 An era is ending for the Braves. John Schuerholz is stepping aside as general manager. The team's venerable general manager will announce at a 3:30 p.m. press conference that he will remain in the organization in another capacity and be replaced by top assistant Frank Wren, according to two people familiar with the situation. Manager Bobby Cox is returning for at least one more season, but his longtime boss is not. Schuerholz, 67, has been a baseball GM for 26 seasons with Kansas City and Atlanta, and had the longest tenure among major league GMs. He presided over the Braves' run of 14 consecutive division titles from 1991 to 2005, an unprecedented run in North American major professional sports. The only disappointment of the era was that the Braves won just a single World Series title (1995) in those 14 postseason trips. He also won a World Series ring with Kansas City in 1985. The Braves missed the playoffs in 2006 and again this year, finishing in third place in the National League East division standings both of those seasons. Cox, 66, has said he intends to return at least for the 2008 season, which would his 27th as a major league manager and 23rd with the Braves. He indicated this month that he might also manage beyond next season. Wren, 49, has been a Braves assistant GM for seven seasons, after serving as Baltimore Orioles GM in 1999 and as Florida Marlins assistant GM for eight seasons through 1998. http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/b...rholz_1012.html

One of the most shocking things I have ever heard about him, was said by him(on TV) He claimed never to have done drugs! Be interested if he changed his story in this book.

Moyer pitched a hell of a game, has any 44 year old pitched better in the playoffs??? That being said, anyone know if there has been a year where all 4 series ended in sweeps???

Well, someone might not have seen him on the other side of a hill, or just the fact he was in the middle of the road going 5 MPH...that can be a hazard as well....

Didn't go the way they expected I am sure!!!!

Dan won't able to do any voice overs for awhile...voice shot!

Man, you don't expect insects in Oct, to possibly be a factor in a game!!!!

Quincy, what a game, eh?????????????? And I was out for much of it, and couldn't find it on "regular" TBS(Didn't know they were going to split TBS, it has been the same channel in two places, and too low to be a HD channel(Don't get them anyway) so, I was pissed having to watch Baseball tonight for highlights(Of course, my receiver showed WS Poker on , and it was just dumb luck that I found them on ESPN2) Finally found the other TBS in the extra innings. I thought the Rockies were done for sure after being down 8-6.... I really wanted the Rockies to get in, they have been on a roll like the Phillies.(14 wins in 15 games) Padres never have had much offense, and to lose Bradley and Cameron, I couldn't see them doing much in the playoffs. I do feel sorry for Hoffman though, really rough way to lose. Slow stuff doesn't usually fare well come October. I think some guys do lose there stuff a bit in Colorado, I think even Rockies players can tell breaking balls don't break as much ther..... But, as you mentioned, other HOF in the future guys like Maddux sucked of late. Peavy didn't get the job done today either. And the umps blew that home run call earlier, Rockies should have won the game much earlier.....Don't think too many teams want to face either the Rockies or the Phillies right now, even AL teams!

Well, just started a new thread , then saw this...so just cutting and pasting here.... While I don't get his desire to have Paul Anka or Chubby Checker in there, but, Chic, Donna Summer, Madonna, for the Rock N' Roll hall??? Man, what a joke the hall has become.... Rolling Stone Magazine Hits a Sour Note Over Hall of Fame Nominees Sunday, September 30, 2007 By Roger Friedman I’ve never participated in a boycott — not of lettuce or grapes or anything else. But enough is enough. After the announcement late Friday of the nominees’ ballot for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, there’s only thing to do: Hit publisher Wenner, who controls the Rock Hall, where it hurts. If you love Rock and Roll, stop buying Rolling Stone until the tremendous insults of the Hall of Fame are corrected. Wenner’s nominating committee consists largely of his current and former employees from Rolling Stone (Nathan Brackett, David Fricke, Jim Henke, Joe Levy, Brian Keizer, Toure, and Anthony DeCurtis). But they have little say over who really is inducted. Last year, in a story reported by this column exclusively, Wenner threw out a vote in which the classic British invasion group Dave Clark Five was voted in and changed it for another round that favored rappers Grandmaster Flash. As one insider from the Hall has maintained, "Once Ahmet Ertegun died, Jann felt like he could run wild." The legendary co founder of Atlantic Records was considered the only person who could control Wenner. He died in 2006. The Dave Clark Five incident has repercussions, however. I’m told that consequently, Wenner was made to meet Clark after I broke that story last March. The group now is guaranteed entry, although it’s a bittersweet win. They are probably not, to paraphrase one of its hits, "Glad All Over." But now this year’s choices are a complete affront to fans of Rock and Roll Hall. And to show how much Wenner controls what’s happening, the exclusive announcement was made on Rolling Stone’s Web site. If you’re still reading or buying Rolling Stone, it’s time to stop. This year’s ballot shows that the Hall has skipped over the seminal '70s for the worthless '80s. The committee has chosen dance music over rock. They’ve all but ignored the pioneers who influenced the genre in favor of non sequiturs. The choices: dance group Chic, hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa, mediocre Springsteen wannabe John Mellencamp (a Wenner crony who’s lost out on many tries), white rappers the Beastie Boys, disco queen Donna Summer and, of course, Madonna. Among "older" names: the aforementioned DC5, instrumentalists the Ventures and Leonard Cohen. Here’s the idea: that these names should enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame before such historically important and influential acts as Iggy Pop and the Stooges, "fifth Beatle" Billy Preston or performer/producer Todd Rundgren. They aren’t the only ones. Major groups the Hall voters deem "not hip": The Moody Blues (simply for "Days of Future Passed"), Chicago (for its first two seminal albums). Hall & Oates, Yes, Genesis, J Geils Band, Alice Cooper and KISS also are names often mentioned by critics. Also left wanting: stars such as Carly Simon and Linda Ronstadt, who were mainstays of Rolling Stone in the '70s, have been iced out. Carole King was inducted only as a writer with ex-husband Gerry Goffin. Her achievement as the creator of Tapestry, for years the best-selling album of all time, has been ignored. Neil Sedaka ("Calendar Girl," "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do") is not in the Hall of Fame. Neither is Neil Diamond ("I’m a Believer," "Sweet Caroline"). That’s right. They only wrote half the hits that modern groups cover or sample. Go figure. The late Laura Nyro, who also wrote a dozen or so hits, is absent, as is Leon Russell, whose songs "This Masquerade" and "A Song for You" are among the most covered by pop acts. He also was a member of Spector’s legendary band, as were other nonmembers Glen Campbell and Sonny Bono. Then there are the R&B performers who remain in the cold, such as Tina Turner, Dionne Warwick, Motown legends Mary Wells, the Marvelettes and the Spinners, not to mention Ben E. King ("Stand by Me" and dozens of hits on Atlantic), Stax Records legends Carla and Rufus Thomas, Phil Spector star Darlene Love, Joe Tex, Al Green and, of course, Chubby Checker, whom the Hall denies over and over again despite his invention of rock’s greatest dance hit, "The Twist." Neither John Fogerty, Lou Reed, Peter Gabriel, Ringo Starr, Tom Waits, Steve Winwood, Diana Ross, Steve Miller nor Sonny Burgess — the man behind Elvis Presley —is in the Hall of Fame. OK, just so we’re straight on why Rolling Stone must be boycotted. It wants the Beastie Boys before Randy Newman, The Hollies, Tom Jones or Mitch Ryder’s "Devil in the Blue Dress." Controversial Cat Stevens also stays in the cold despite his dozen or so hits and his influence on singer-songwriters of his era. And I haven’t even raised the idea of Poco, Aaron Neville, the Turtles, Gram Parsons and hitmakers Three Dog Night, whose members made hits for dozens of new songwriters including Harry Nilsson, John Hiatt, Jimmy Cliff, Hoyt Axton, Paul Williams and Randy Newman. The lists go on and on. You can see more names at www.futurerockhall.com. The Hall has caused its own problems over the years. It no longer includes three categories that the Hall introduced, then eliminated: non performers, side men and early influences. The nominating committee, with a couple of exceptions who are obviously ignored, is simply too young and uneducated in popular music history to select entries in those groupings. It’s a pathetic, ridiculous situation and it must be stopped. Of the new crop, I don’t have much to say that’s positive. Madonna is a steamroller because of the cult of personality. She’s not a rocker, she has a thin voice and she doesn’t write her own material. But she’s a force of nature. There’s no stopping Madonna when she wants something. Chances are good she won’t bring Steve Bray, Patrick Leonard, William Orbit and all her writers and producers to the stage. They are Madonna. Chic is a fun idea with great songs, but it was really producer-writer Nile Rodgers and his partner Bernard Summers who made it work as a dance group. Rodgers should be in as a hugely successful producer of music by David Bowie, Ross and others. Summers can be thanked. Chic, however, is not rock. The rest are totally off base given the above list. Summer was a disco act. For her to get in before Ronstadt is a joke. Mellencamp at least plays rock. But he’s a minor note in the genre’s history. Afrika Bambaataa and the Beastie Boys: Are they kidding? Even the latter must be laughing. They had one big hit, "You’ve Got to Fight for Your Right to Party." The former, while I’m sure quite lovely, is a record-scratcher with a great name. Each of these belongs in a Rap Hall of Fame. And it’s not that I am against hip-hop or rap artists in the Hall of Fame. But Run-DMC is the obvious choice for an act in that genre that crossed into rock. Apart from its own music, Run-DMC’s partnership with Aerosmith on "Walk This Way" brought hip-hop to a new level and standard. No one would argue with its inclusion. Of the two senior acts aside from the DC5, the Ventures probably are a good idea. The Hall lacks instrumentalists. But Cohen should be in as a writer. His morose style never once crossed into rock, and he knows it. Diamond, Sedaka, and Simon have among them dozens more actual rock hits as writers and performers. Come on. And Cohen’s songs have not nearly had the same impact on rock as those by Jimmy Webb. He’s also been snubbed by Wenner’s crew. By the way: The Hall of Fame Foundation, which Wenner runs with toadie Joel Peresman, has nothing to do with the Rock and Rock Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. "Jann treats the museum like a toy and has no respect for Terry Stewart," an insider says. Stewart runs the museum with no regard for Wenner’s exclusions. Last year the Hall claimed to have given away only $158,968 of its $12 million war chest to needy musicians. It gave $56,236 to the museum to maintain its own archives. The museum must raise its own money. Peresman is thought to get between $300,000 — what the previous director was paid — and $500,000. New board members include wealthy businessmen Craig Hatkoff (co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival) and Dirk Ziff (heir to a media fortune), nice guys who have no connection to the music business or rock and roll at all. They’re Wenner’s friends. Famed rocker Jay Z — ha ha — also has joined. Former inductees to the Hall, by the way, must buy their own tickets to the annual Waldorf Astoria dinner. Tickets cost $3,500. Few, if any, show up anymore for the big jam session at the end of the night. (These selections for 2008 are terrible, but they’re just the beginning, too, of what’s going to be a weird ride, thanks to the new generation. To wit: Kanye West is scheduled to be honored by the Chicago branch of the Recording Academy soon. This means that other artists will have to perform a tribute to him by performing his music. Only: He has no music. West samples existing records. So someone will have to sample a sample to praise him. It’s sad. So: I don’t know anyone who buys or reads Rolling Stone, but someone must since Wenner Media seems to make money. It can’t all be Us Weekly. Until real rock is served by the Hall of Fame, please don’t buy Rolling Stone or click on any of the ads on its Web site. Then maybe Wenner will get the message that no one can take his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame seriously anymore. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298681,00.html

And the Padres and the Rockies will play a one game playoff tomorrow!!!!!!!!! Really hoping the Rockies can get in. Best defensive team in baseball, great offense, very good young pitching. Padres just leave me cold like the Angels do for some reason.....

Hey Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I haven't told this embarrassing tale on this board before, but I was at that game where the Braves came back and beat the Phils 9-8 after being down 8-2 in the 8th. My Dad's best friend was in town, and hadn't seen a ML game in 10 years, and wanted to see one more game in person before he dies(Only 71, but lives in Louisville)So, he bought us tickets, and we go to the game. Braves stink up the joint, Phils offense runs like the well oiled machine it is....my Dad and his friend were getting tired, and bored(It was fairly hot) so, they look at me down 8-2, let's get going, said my Dad's friend. I came so close to saying, well lets just watch the braves here in the 8th...but, noooooooooo, I didn't pay, they're old...lets go. So, I got to hear the best comeback of the year in a car, stuck in rush hour traffic!!!! I thought, shoot we just ruined their chance to get in the playoffs, and they are so good, you can tell offensively speaking, they were clearly a playoff team...but, they didn't give up, even after a horrible loss like that. Hat's off to the fightin' Phils, hope they go deep in the playoffs!!!!! Cubs or Phils Vs Red Sox, that would be great(Watch, it will be the Padres vs. The Angels)