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I'm a Yankee fan(OK, go ahead and flame away, but I've been a fan since '64, and I've suffered through the Horace Clarke era, Stump, etc.), and I think Little deserves the Baseball Bonehead of the Year award, with Dusty Baker a close second. I thought Pedro was coming out after seven, as he rarely pitches beyond the seventh inning anymore and his pitch count was way up there. Little had a rested bullpen and plenty of guys he could use. The bullpen had also performed beautifully, better than the Yank bullpen(With the notable exception of Rivera.) For Chrissakes, he could have gone matchup on each batter for two innings! Rare is the player who is honest about whether they are gassed or not- the overwhelming majority will say that they are fine and can get the next guy. Little managed himself out of the game, and Torre made a few good moves to save the game from being a rout. Once he saw that Clemens didn't have it, he turned to Musiina, who pitched brilliantly in relief. Bringing in Wells backfired, but I could see the logic behind it. Keeping in a guy who was getting rapped around like Pedro was is absurd. In '86, McNamara left Buckner in when he had a better defnsive player in Dave Stapleton on the bench because he wanted Buckner to be part of the on-field celebration- curse, anyone?

Scarface semmed pretty absurd to me, also, but there is one scene that makes me laugh whenver I think of it. When Pacino shoots the assassin who blows up the car with the entire family inside(wife and kids of the target), he looks at the hitman and says"You wouldn't listen to me- now look at you!" Hilarious!!!

I'm a Yankee fan, but if they don't make it to the World Series, I would love to see a Cubs-Bosox series- somebody would have to win it, and either the 'Curse of the Bambino' would be over or the Cubbies would end nearly a century of futility. I was surprised to see the Cubbies win yesterday, because usually when a team has bases loaded and none out and doesn't score they lose. Kerry Wood had to deliver the blow with his bat, as if his excellent pitching wasn't enough!

I go there regularly, probably too regularly, as I work in lower Manhattan. They frequently have great sales, and I've shopped there for over 15 years and never had a problem with a return or anything else. If they run their mailorder like they run their store, you have nothing to worry about- they are a reputable and reasonable merchant(and their prices are wayyyy better than Tower!)

This topic is really going down the tubes(Counterclockwise in the US, clockwise in Australia) It may be time to flush it out of our systems.

This topic is really going down the tubes(Counterclockwise in the US, clockwise in Australia) and ijavascript:emoticon('') smiliet may be time to flush it out of our systems.

Have any of you good folks given a listen to 'Soul Vacinnation'? It's a live set from around 1999 that is very tight and carries tons of groove. The singer(whose name escapes me right now) does a fine job on the vocals, and Rocco kills as usual on the bass.