Brad

From what I have read, these are even in shorter supply than the XBox 360. Last year, I waited on line for that and of course didn't get it. I wasn't able to get it for my son until May or so of this year so this could be worse. Scarcity brings out the greed instinct. I had also read that ebay had put rules on who could sell this and how often. This is one case where you have to applaud them.

Never been a huge fan of this Mosaic so off to ebay it goes.

Is the Elvin Mosaic gone as I don't see it listed on the Mosaic site as gone?

I saw some crazy auction yesterday or the day before for the Elvin Jones Mosaic, around $200, and it's still current, as far as I can tell.

What ad hominem attacks? Lasorda ran Valenzuela right into the ground. It was criminal. I wouldn't want Sheffield on my team (that is if I needed him although we could use a better right fielder).

What was funny is the absolute stupidity of the characterizations of the Jews. I laughed because it was so clearly ridiculous. Im sure you already know, but Borat (Sacha Baron-Cohen) is a jew. Give me a little credit here

I saw this movie yesterday and it's funny in spots but it's mostly sophmoric humor. However, I thought the Midnight Cowboy theme juxtaposed over his stay in was funny. However, what was not funny at all to me, as a jew, was the running of the jew scene, especially the depiction of the jews with those outlandish features and the pelting of the "baby" jew. I found the laughter in the audience as something they were getting a kick out of because jews were ridiculed and beaten. It's really not that long since we had pogroms, making jews scapegoats, not to mention the Holacaust, and these scenes were reminescent of that.

I'm not familiar with the Twins situation but what that moron did to Fernando is/was unforgivable.

I think I first read Nat Turner when I was a teenager (or if my memory fails me as to when it came out, in my early 20s) and later read Sophie's Choice. I haven't read his other books but Sophie's Choice was one of the best books I've ever read.

Getting his stomach stapled.

It's a blasphemy in my book.

Buddy Rich for sure. Those so-called pyrotechnics bore me.

There are two Borders near me.

Perhaps if there was a delivery address....

Had it, sold it. Not one of my favorites.

You won't be disappointed. It Ain't Necessarily So just rocks!

Most of these arguments make no sense. When you buy a cd new, you've paid what the artist expects to get out of the sale of one cd. If you resell it, there's no expectation that he would continue to get royalties out of that particular cd. The situation is somewhat akin to purchasing a consumer product like a car. When you buy a car, you pay the manufacturer or his representative, the dealer, for the car. He's received what he expected to get. He has no further call on additional payments after you've paid the purchase price. If you sell it, the proceeds are yours. The only difference with cds is that you can replicate them and potentially deprive the artist out of a possible sale of a new cd. As long as you're not doing that, the artist or the record company can have no further expectation of income. This is all a theoretical argument anyway because these are observed more in the breach; kids are continuously buying a cd, either in the brick and mortar store or iTunes and then burning and passing it onto their friends.

Yeah, I tried to access the Baseball America website but you presumably need to pay the $62 to get in.

Do you have a ranking of all organizations?

I remember seeing these when I was in France in '04 and regretted not picking them up.

That actually happened to me a couple of years ago. My account was hijacked but Ebay instantly saw what happened and froze my account. However, because of the bureaucracy it took several weeks to get it back. It happened because I responded to a spoof ebay email that appeared genuine. We've all become wiser since then.

Things seem to have degenerated if we have to have a debate about who should or should not start a thread.

This whole discussion seems rather inane. Yes, they're the World Champions and yes, they had the worst record of any champ but what of it? That's just the way it is. I don't hear anybody asking the 2000 Yankees or the 1987 Twins to give back their rings. As far as calling the 73 Mets pathetic, I don't see how any team beating the Reds of that era can be called pathetic. Just like the Cards, they played by the rules and won their division. Should they have given that back? I don't think so. It was only some poor pitching decisions by Yogi that kept them from claiming the WS title. Let the Cardinal fans on this board enjoy their championship and let's move on to the off season. Doesn't seem like a lot to ask

Thanks! Is there any reason we can't have a thread called Baseball (Non-Dan, Non-Yankee/Red Sox melodrama)? I don't think that's a cantankerous suggestion at all. Cool it Silly post.

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