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I agree that Thomas is just a decent goalie, but in this series, he was awesome.

By the way, Crispi-I'm just clowning around; I see your point. It just kind of grew that way...

I never got into the Reprise stuff. The three artists discussed here that I actually remember hearing in the sixties are Sinatra, Ellington and Basie. For some reason, I categorized Sinatra and Ellington as "old fart music" and hated it. I managed to work through that with Ellington; I need to try to with Sinatra as well. Funny thing, Basie was always cool, even when I wasn't...

I don't think there's a more universally despised commissioner in sports than Gary Bettman. And this is with Bud Selig around. It's quite an acomplishment, really...

Yeah, she's a little princess until Smedley gets her riled up; I haven't managed to capture one of him yet.

Nah, just the wrong sub-forum.

Gummitch:

I agree, Dave; Thomas won this series.

Well...you were only one game off. Thomas is having a great series. It's kind of nice seeing an 'old timer' like Rechhi rack up some points as well.

The first team I followed (although it was for only one year) was the Packers in '67, a pretty good season to discover pro sports. In '68 I moved to Georgia and decided to replace Bart Starr with Tommy Nobis. Plus, that had me set up for the '69 baseball season and the Braves who had a fantastic season ruined by the so-called "miracle mets", a disgusting group of perverts and ne'er-do-wells who couldn't carry Hank Aaron's jock strap. Ahem. Anyway... Football was always on TV, baseball on the radio. I kind of lost interest in baseball when the Braves traded Aaron, and when I went in the Navy in '78,lack of regular TV access kind of ended my football fan days as well. Strangely enough, I rediscovered baseball in the Navy while serving as an ET on a ship homeported in Japan. I don't know what they do on ships now for entertainment, but back then, when you were out at sea you'd have video tapes of somewhat recent programs supplied and regularly replenished. Whenever I was the duty ET at sea, I had to show a few shows and then run a film (wish I'd never done that; to this day I can't ignore the 'change reels' warning...). Included were usually the baseball game of the week, and while I was forbidden to show them ("baseball is boring!"), I watched them myself and caught the bug again. I got out in '82 in time for the next great Braves season. Like jeffcrom, the strike killed my baseball bug. I just didn't care anymore, and still don't. I'll occasionally read a book about baseball, but not often. In all honesty, I couldn't tell you right now who won the Series last year.

I'm sort of half-tempted to read the full, expanded version (from 1991), which is 60,000 words longer. However, I suspect the editors did Heinlein a huge favor. That's usually the case, but in this case, I think the expanded version is much better. I read it when it came out in '91, and thought the additions made the novel flow a lot better, and cleared up some dangling questions.

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. Not as good as it's reputation, of course, but better than I remembered.

Um...I don't know if this is good medical advice or not, but I had the same problem with my anti-anxiety medication. When I made the decision to quit it, I spent three days smoking my brains out (yeah, it's as easy to find as it ever was!) which helped even out the withdrawal symptoms tremendously. The antidepressants I'm on help, the anti-anxiety stuff just made things worse.

That was the first Dick book I read; I must have liked it-I followed it with all the rest. Fortunately, it was about the time Dell was issuing their reprints in the late seventies so they were easy to find for a short period.

Nor do I; it seems to be an appropriate balance, as far as the game goes. It was certainly obvious that the officials had no intention of letting the game get out of control last night. I was starting to think Game Misconduct was a band performing after the game...

Anybody surprised by the Rome suspension? It used to be you could do anything in the finals; now you could have a pool each year picking who's going to get the boot. Not complaining or praising, just noticing...

You know, I've never seen a photo of Nina Hagen before, and that is NOT what I expected.

Shawn, I hope you reconsider. I had to sell off my jazz collection as well, and to be honest, most of the music I listen to today isn't jazz. I know what you mean about feeling like you don't belong here and don't contribute, believe me. But this place really helped me get through some of the bullshit, and I'll bet it would help you as well. You just have to find out that you're not welcome here because you're into jazz, or contribute great posts; you're welcome here because you're Shawn, and part of the gang.

I'm thinking how amazing Abbey Road was, considering it came after the collapse.

Damn, what a slap down! My mistake; I thought it was over at 7-1. What a f*****g slap down!!

Why isn't synchronized ice farting an Olympic event?

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