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RT, I think you are on the right track with all your research. I'd stick with a Buick, just because it comes in tops of the US Makes with customers. IF you Dad is patient, why not suggest renting a car or two he is interested in, and driving them for a few days/weeks??? Sure don't want to get stuck with a car he doesn't like.

Man, you got that right. I don't know what I saw him on, perhaps Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous? He didn't work out, smoked. Really shocked to find out he was still around until recently. Wonder how come?? Pussy!er...I mean, he must have had a strong constitution.

JH, I'd rather see your team than the Mets win...some rather nasty mets fans have invaded the Atlanta newspaper blog, and I am learnin' to dislike the Mets. Plus, your offense looks better to me... Oh, and Dan, what has happened to the sonsofsamhorn.com website? Haved tried to check it out for a few days, but no dice....

Dan, If the Sox fall apart, well...I don't know what to say. They looked like a team that was going to make for a boring post season, winning series in 3, 4, and 4 games. Best starting pitching by far, but it does look like you are still short an offensive player or two(Don't you wish the Sox braintrust had listened to folks like me that said run as fast as you can from J.D. Drew? ) I wonder if some team like the Diamondbacks will end up winning it all this year???

I imagine the Phils have a very good chance to win the east! There has only been one team this year the Braves flat out own, and for some reason, it's the Mets! We may be able to help you guys in a few days....

"I don't believe in atheists"

Guess 5 a day is why she ain't dead yet.... 100-year-old celebrates her birthday by smoking 170,000th cigarette Winne Langley celebrated her 100th birthday the best way she knows how - smoking An iron-lunged pensioner has celebrated her 100th birthday by lighting up her 170,000th cigerette from a candle on her birthday cake. Winnie Langley started smoking only days after the First World War broke out in June 1914 when she was just seven-years-old - and has got through five a day ever since. She has no intention of quitting, even after the nationwide ban forced tobacco-lovers outside. Speaking at her 100th birthday party Winnie said: "I have smoked ever since infant school and I have never thought about quitting. Read more... Half of smokers 'have cut back since ban' Swedish woman banned from smoking in her yard because neighbour is allergic "There were not all the the health warnings like there are today when I started. It was the done thing." Winnie, from Croydon, South London, claims tobacco has never made her ill. She has outlived a husband, Robert, and son, Donald, who died two years ago aged 72. The former launderette worker said she started the habit in 1914 - just weeks after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28 - which sparked the First World War. The 100-year-old, who is awaiting her telegram from the Queen today, said smoking helped calm her nerves during the two World Wars. She said: "A lot of people smoked during the war. It helped steady the nerves." Despite the numerous health warnings, Mrs Langley insists she's never suffered because of the habit as she "has never inhaled". http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1770

Well, I guess he was a head case... http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/b...ckman_0825.html

The Braves just released Bob Wickman!!!! Granted, he has been terrible on the road, but he only gave up one run at the Ted all year long!!! Gotta believe something else was behind it , a bad attitude, something....What sunk his ship??? Having him face Adam Dunn last night, the only guy that hit a homer off him last year when he was with Cleveland. Tyler Yates should have gone out for another inning, but the brilliant Booby Cox said, nah' lets have the closer who is doing terrible on the road face a guy he gave up a grand slam to, in the very same bandbox in Cincinnati! This may seem minor to you all, but trust me, just one of about 5 mistakes a night Booby makes. He is living off past glory, the guy is overmatched these days.

Wow! 27 runs up and gets a save! Come in a game up 6-2 in the ninth, and no save...

Hey Al, see that Salty finally broke out tonight, 2 Hr's, 7 RBI's!!! Holy crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just checked the score, 26 to 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What is the all time record for runs by one team???

Johnny + Dan =

Reveille with Beverly. Stars Ann Miller. Saw this a few months back on Turner, just filmed numbers tossed in between the "Story" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036306/fullcredits#cast Bob Crosby Orchestra ... Bob Crosby Band (as Bob Crosby and His Orchestra) Freddie Slack ... Himself (as Freddie Slack and His Orchestra) Freddie Slack's Orchestra ... Freddie Slack Orchestra (as Freddie Slack and His Orchestra) Ella Mae Morse ... Ella Mae Morse, Vocalist with Freddie Slack and His Orchestra Duke Ellington ... Himself (as Duke Ellington and His Orchestra) Duke Ellington Orchestra ... Themselves (as Duke Ellington and His Orchestra) Count Basie ... Himself (as Count Basie and His Orchestra) Count Basie Orchestra ... Count Basie's Orchestra (as Count Basie and His Orchestra) Frank Sinatra ... Frank Sinatra, Vocalist The Mills Brothers ... Mills Brothers Quartet

Mark, as someone who has had 3 older cats die in the past 4 years, I understand perfectly. My condolences.

Can we all just agree that the Yankees are much better than either the Red Sox or Mariners???

Admit it, you guys miss fighting each other over politics!!!

Saw the "highlights" on baseball tonight. Just amazing. When it rains, it pours! Of course he deserves blame, but he made a very good pitch to Vlad, and we all know Vlad loves really low pitches as well as, well any pitch towards his direction.

It will be interesting to see if the Nationals play him every day, or just in some sort of platoon. Well, just checked the Nationals outfield, egad! What a pathetic outfield!!! Ryan Langerhans(Who admittedly is not playing much) is still God-awful... .154!!!! I guess Willie Mo will be their centerfielder??? http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/reds...ye_wily_mo.html Oh, and the nationals are 55-66 (And so many predicted 120 losses!) with a several starters hurt much of the year and oufielders Austin Kearns, and Ryan Church driving in 48 RBI's each. Really, besides Ryan Zimmerman and Dimitri Young, who is any good on that team???

I wonder if Selig has any idea what a hypocritical piece-of-crap he looks doing things like this. I'm not a Bonds apologist but this just plays into what his defenders are saying. Bonds: African-American and Selig treats him with utter disdain. Giambi: White and gets a free pass. Selig doesn't have a clue on anything. Ok, do you really think Selig could get away with suspending a player for using steroids, back when it wasn't against baseball's rules??? Nah, no way the player's union would give him hell for that! And has Bond's been suspended? Any of his records overturned?? This has nothing to do with race, IMO. Sheffield is still playing, we all know he did the same shit as Bonds.

A robot will never hit a good splitter!!!

ascertaining umpires to be human is a significant accomplishment. They must be trying to make up for this all in one night, all against the braves white players! Seriously, last night's game had some of the worst umpiring(against both teams) I have ever seen! Chipper Jones was called out on a pitch 6-7 inches inside. Helped Bobby Cox break John McGraw's tossed out of game record. Braves woke up and scored their first 4 runs of the game. Then, the often maligned Bob Wickman(terrible on the road, not one run given up at the Ted) had what most people thought were 6 strikes called balls!!!! And he doesn't exactly have the stuff to get away with those kind of calls, so the 4-3 lead was lost. Yet another John Smoltz win taken away from him. If he doesn't get in the HOF, the blowpen the last two years will be the reason. Anyway, Wickman gave up only one run, and we came back in the bottom of the 9th. So not all was lost....wonder how many baseball umps like to gamble?

Rob Neyer on Scooter.... Rizzuto better than stats indicatedposted: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 | Feedback | Print Entry Phil Rizzuto was a Yankee LegendTM, and once someone is a legend, it becomes difficult to separate fact from fiction. There are those who will argue that if Rizzuto wasn't a Yankee LegendTM -- if he had played for some other team or not been on the radio forever -- he wouldn't have been (finally, mercifully) elected to the Hall of Fame in 1994. Well, that's probably true. In his "New Historical Baseball Abstract," Bill James wrote that when Rizzuto was forced into retirement in 1956, "Many articles were written then, summarizing Rizzuto's fine career. None of them, that I have seen, suggested that he might be a Hall of Famer." That's probably a bit misleading; in 1962, Rizzuto's first year of eligibility, he received more Hall of Fame votes than many, many future Hall of Famers (including contemporary shortstops Lou Boudreau and Arky Vaughan). But Rizzuto never really built much on that early support until 1976, when he was listed on 38 percent of the ballots, at which point his candidacy was passed along to the Veterans Committee. And in 1994, that august body finally ended the years of controversy by electing him. This generally is seen as yet another flawed result, and it's clear that the process was terribly flawed. You get a bunch of old men in a room and let them start horse-trading, and the results won't be pretty. You look at Rizzuto's career, and you see a player who wasn't much of a hitter, either qualitatively (.355 career slugging percentage) or quantitatively (1,588 career hits). That's objectively true ... but leaves out the salient arguments for Rizzuto's greatness. Actually, there's really just one argument, from which everything else flows: World War II. As a rookie in 1941, Rizzuto batted .307. In 1942, he batted .287. He was 25 and just about to enter the prime of his career. At which point he, like almost every other great baseball player in America, went into the service. Rizzuto didn't see any combat during the war, but that doesn't mean it didn't wipe out a good chunk of his career. He spent three full seasons in the Navy. And while he did play a lot of baseball and didn't see much combat, he did pick up a nasty case of malaria while serving in the Pacific. Rizzuto returned to the Yankees in 1946, but he simply wasn't the same hitter he'd been before the war. Even leaving that aside, though, it's fair to assume that those three lost seasons cost Rizzuto somewhere between 450 and 500 hits, which would put him comfortably over 2,000 for his career. That's not bad, quantitatively. As for the quality, Rizzuto probably was a better hitter, relative to his league, than Ozzie Smith. Of course, Smith's not in the Hall of Fame for his hitting. But Rizzuto was an outstanding shortstop, too. According to James, Rizzuto "deserved the American League Gold Glove" -- if one had existed -- "in 1941, 1942, 1946 and 1950 ... ." Well, if he was the best defensive shortstop in 1942 and 1946, we can assume he'd have been the best defensive shortstop from 1943 through 1945, right? If he'd been around? So now we're talking about a seven-time Gold Glover with more than 2,000 hits and a (well-earned) MVP Award in 1950. As a player, Rizzuto wasn't as good as Ozzie Smith. He wasn't as good as his supposed equal, Pee Wee Reese. And it's hard to take him seriously as a broadcaster, considering his penchant for rambling on about Italian food while runners were circling the bases. As a Hall of Famer, though? The Scooter's no joke.

Now Lon!! Granted, he was no Smith Ballew, but still.....

Must have been some glitch in the system....I didn't know I looked so much like Pauly Shore!!!!

You look like Smithers after he has had a few!