Tim McG

Oh. They don't allow jokes on this day?

Good thing you did not post this joke march the 8th. Howcome?

Choosing A Wife A man wanted to get married. He was having trouble choosing among three likely candidates. He gives each woman a present of $5,000 and watches to see what they do with the money. The first does a total make over. She goes to a fancy beauty salon gets her hair done, new make up and buys several new outfits and dresses up very nicely for the man. She tells him that she has done this to be more a attractive for him beca use she loves him so much. The man was impressed. The second goes shopping to buy the man gifts. She gets him a new set of golf clubs, some new gizmos for his computer, and some expensive clothes. As she presents these gifts, she tells him that she has spent all the money on him because she loves him so much. Again, the man is impressed. The third invests the money i n the stock market. She earns several times the $5,000. She gives him back his $5,000 and reinvests the remainder in a joint account. She tells him that she wants to save for their future because she loves him so much. Obviously, the man was impressed The man thought for a long time about what each woman had done with the money he'd given her. So, he married the one with the biggest boobs.

BTW, for the record, Barry Bonds no longer plays for the Giants or in the major leagues. Eric Gagne, the former dodger and pretend Cy Young winner, does.

Made me want to hurl. Glad to have you on board, Shane Go Giants!

Todd Lundgren Sweeny Todd Mike Sweeney

Gee. Doesn't look like the feds have much of a case against Bonds after all. Now how about that, eh? I never saw that one coming. Bonds transcripts are a double-edged sword By Jonathan Littman, Yahoo! Sports Mar 1, 3:02 am EST SAN FRANCISCO – Barry Bonds sure had his blood and urine tested a lot for a guy who said he wasn’t on the juice. But maybe his denials were equivocal enough in that grand jury room to make a perjury charge difficult to stick. The unsealing of the 152-page grand jury transcript Friday offered up a double-edged sword. There seemed to be abundant evidence that Bonds indeed used performance-enhancing drugs, yet troublesome problems came into focus in the government’s quest to gain a conviction. The government detailed an extraordinary list of nearly unpronounceable drugs Bonds is alleged to have taken, and it listed numerous tests that appeared to show the slugger tested positive for banned drugs. Yet the transcript does not appear to suggest that the government might have secured Bonds’ urine or blood. The lengthy narrative of that December 4, 2003, afternoon before the grand jury was as confusing as it was illuminating, revealing a less than stellar prosecutorial team, and a surprisingly relaxed and deft Bonds, who stuck close to a script that his trusted lifelong friend and trainer Greg Anderson never would have given him banned drugs. And if Anderson had done so, Bonds was oblivious to it. The testimony might strain credulity, but it also might be difficult to prove that it was a criminal offense. Bonds appeared to acknowledge at one point that he may have unwittingly taken steroids – an admission that could undercut the entire perjury case. After being shown exhibits of substances Anderson allegedly gave him, the prosecutor asked again whether he took any steroids. Bonds: “Not that I know of.” Nedrow: “What do you mean by not that you know of?” Bonds pointed to exhibits of two substances Anderson repeatedly administered to him, a lotion called “The Cream” and a liquid called “The Clear,” and said: “Because I have suspicions over those two items, right there.” Bonds added that after the BALCO case broke, he started thinking to himself, “What is this stuff?” The testimony hinted at something else that has not been revealed previously. The prosecutorial game was played differently for Bonds than for other BALCO targets. The slugger and his attorney, Mike Rains, were ambushed that morning, even before the proceedings began. They arrived shortly after 10 a.m., at the federal building for what Rains believed was an offer to review government evidence outside the grand jury room before Bonds’ 1 p.m. testimony. The same courtesy was given to most other athletes who testified before the BALCO grand jury. But when they arrived, Rains was told there was a change of plans. Ross Nadel, the chief of the criminal division, informed Rains and Bonds that no documents would be available ahead of time. Rains said he and Bonds were furious. Bonds finally was ushered into the grand jury room at 1:23 p.m. How and why that three-hour gap came about may become an issue at trial. It speaks to fairness – or lack thereof – as to whether the government really was more interested in setting a perjury trap for Bonds than in getting him to tell the truth. When the grand jury testimony began, Nadel acted as if there had been no controversy about making Bonds cool his heels for hours, as if they had just had a routine meeting in which he, another prosecutor and IRS agent Jeff Novitzky explained the immunity order that would allow Bonds to testify without risk of prosecution – unless he lied. “Did I explain it during that session?” Nadel asked. “Yes,” said Bonds, who added cryptically, “We’ve had our disagreements.” But as the questioning continued, the experienced Nadel played backup to junior prosecutor Jeff Nedrow, and at trial that may prove a hindrance to the government. Nedrow admitted early on that he wasn’t very good at asking questions. “Yes. You are confusing,” Bonds said after Nedrow seemed to admit his questions were less than clear. The slugger appeared to play to the jurors, and though the transcript doesn’t reveal their reaction, he might have won points. “I’m telling you. Is he confusing to you guys?” Nedrow walked Bonds through an impressive array of alleged evidence. Calendars written by Anderson that purported to show codes of drug regimes taken by Bonds and other athletes. Seized drugs. Notations about alleged payments to Anderson for specific drugs. A series of urine and blood tests that appeared to show conclusively that someone named “BB” or “Barry Bond” or “Barry Bonds” tested positive for anabolic steroids and other drugs. Included among them was a previously unpublicized test Bonds took in January 2001 that found levels of testosterone so high they could not be accurately measured. Nedrow read the test results to Bonds: “The percentage of total testosterone in unbound state, percent free testosterone, cannot be calculated since the free testosterone level is greater than the highest detectable concentration.” But at times it was as if Nedrow was stumbling his way through a confusing chemistry lesson. Nadel periodically jumped in when his junior partner failed to make a point, but the questioning lacked coherence. There was another problem. Bonds’ testimony appeared to undercut the value of the urine and blood tests as evidence in a possible trial. “Did you provide the blood samples directly to Mr. Anderson?” Nedrow asked. “Yeah, I had my own personal doctor come up to draw my blood,” Bonds said. “I only let my own personal doctor touch me. And my own personal doctor came up and drew my blood, and Greg took it to BALCO.” “What about the urine samples?” the prosecutor asked. “Same thing,” Bonds replied. “Come to my house, here, go.” It wasn’t what defense attorneys would consider a failsafe chain of evidence. Steroid test results of major league players seized by the BALCO investigators – results that are in legal limbo – hold the potential of proving the guilt of Bonds and other players. But experts doubt that any urine samples remain from the tests discussed during Bonds’ grand jury testimony, and the apparent absence of proper lab procedures in taking and transporting samples may dampen their value at trial. Yet Bonds had no good answer for the numerous tests conducted for BALCO, such as one in November 2001 in which “Patient Bonds, Barry” with the identical birth date as the slugger was tested for testosterone by LabOne. Nor did he have a good answer for why an affidavit was later filed saying that, “the specimen for Greg Anderson was mislabeled as ‘Barry B.’ ” But if Anderson was trying to cover for Bonds, the government might have difficulty proving it. Nedrow: “Did Mr. Anderson routinely put your samples in his name to avoid having your name linked with the samples? Do you know that?” Bonds: “No, I have no – no. I wouldn’t think he would do something that dumb.” As the proceeding unfolded, there was the sense that the government was overwhelmed by the complexity of the case, the vast variety of drugs involved, the volume of dates and tests. It was as if the prosecutors were trying a four-week case in one afternoon. Bonds may not have done himself any favors in the closing minutes. He seemed to forget his previous qualified statements, his suspicions, his careful, “Not that I know of.” He repeatedly denied ever taking steroids. And then at 4:16 p.m., three hours after he first entered the grand jury room, Bonds concluded with a little story about how BALCO never charged him any money and was kind to his dying father. Nedrow cut him off. “OK. All right. You’re excused, Mr. Bonds. Thank you very much. You’re free to go.” __________________

Seriously...you do all right for my money.

Jon, You are my favorite BBS artist...alltime

Conspiracy Theories, New or Used. The big, bad Liberals have conspired to destroy America's core values and morals. Bush and his bully boyz told me so.

Nope. I just got tired of dealing with Danny's verbal abuse and childish bullshit responses.

You read through this site: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm and then see if you really don't understand the reality of Oswald as the lone assassin. Read through it all. EVERY SINGLE FACT that exists about the assassination makes Oswald the sole man responsible. Are you aware that the latest "conspiracy" theory has it that the Zapruder film was faked? That's what the conspiracy nuts are down to. First it was "the Zapruder film is the proof of the shooter on the grassy knoll" to "the Zapruder film was faked by the government to protect the killers!" And as for that "faked" evidence and your claim of an entry would in the front (which requires that the massive head wound be located in the back of Kennedy's skull, let's take a look at the video: Where's the wound, Allen? How does the back of the President's head look to you? COMPLETELY INTACT. There's no better proof that he head shot came from the rear. And I am very serious in advising you to read through that website. It covers every element - the reality of the supposed "magic bullet" through Jim Garrisson's willfully fraudulent case, the "evidence" for a shooter in the front; the reality of why a shot from the rear results in the movement seen on film (basically the explosion out of the front of his head is like a rocket exhaust, forcing the head away from the defect in the skull) the supposed "murder" of witnesses, the extraordinary lengths Oliver Stone went to falsify history. There's even an extensive discussion of why the idea that Kennedy was a "liberal martyr" is completely ludicrous (you would be very well advised to read about Kennedy's support for Joe McCarthy here and his feelings about Nixon here. I'll say it again: No intelligent person can believe, from all of the available evidence, 40+ years after the fact, that Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't the lone assassin. Forget it Allen. Dan probably got his information from some biased blog or Body Language expert. Consider the source.

He was to conservative shout jocks what the Who was to punk rock. It is always sad when somebody passes, but I can't say as I'll miss him. Sorry.

Sure he did. He pitched in the NL for quite some time before he went to the dreaded Red Sux. The difference to me though is that Maddux didn't have to throw at hitters to keep them off the plate like Pedro did. Maddux had superb control, better than any other pitcher I can think of. But Pedro's period of dominance was in Boston. When he left Montreal, he'd had exactly one extraordinary dominating season to his credit, one season with an ERA+ of 200 (he'd have four more in Boston), one season with a sub-1.00 WHIP (four in a row in Boston). As far as control goes, Maddux does have a career mark of 1.81 Walks per 9 IP. But Pedro's isn't so bad either, at 2.38. Career WHIP favors Pedro (1.030 to 1.141) and career WHIP+ favors Pedro even more (161 to 134). So, Pedro dominated the DH league even more than Maddux dominated the easier league to pitch against. Pedro Martinez is a crybaby, that's why.

I wholeheartedly agree. However, he never faced the "great" Babe Ruth....no, wait! Babe Ruth never faced any of the greatest Black pitchers of his time. [Overrated is a word I would use to describe Ruth....but that's another story.]

I think Gaylord Perry, Juan Marichal and Don Drysdale [even though he was a hated dodger] deserve at least an Honorable Mention here. Maybe even [the hated dodger] Don Sutton.

Yeah, it should be an interesting battle to see which team will battle for second behind the Braves! I tell you what, if Hampton really is healthy and stays that way, you've got starters that are as good or better than the Mets and Phils. If those teams don't batter each other too much, I think there's a good chance that two of the three will make it to the playoffs, unless Torre does a miracle job on the Dodgers (I think Colorado is unlikely to duplicate its run to the pennant). Dan, it's funny....we were so completely lacking in starting pitching last year, Smoltz and Hudson and pray for rain(Doesn't rhyme I know!) now IF Hampton is healthy,(And for all his hard work, I hope he can at least pitch for awhile) there is Glavine, leaving as choices for #5, 22 year old Jair Jurrjens who we got from Detroit for Renteria, a nobody named Jeff Bennett who after a few years of arm trouble (And converting from reliever to starter midseason)really impressed last September...ad to that last year's 3rd starter Chuck James(Who has rotator cuff issues ) and Jo-Jo Reyes who after a terrible beginning to the year, had an ERA around 3 in September...and even if Hampton gets injured again, we have a fair number of options. In fact, I could be singing another tune at the end of the season, but I think we should have saved the money on Glavine. But, one can never have enough starting pitching, can one??? Now, if only Bobby Cox can find his brain again, we will stand a good chance..... Um. I don't think Bobby Cox is the problem.

Koufax was on steroids.

Yeah, it should be an interesting battle to see which team will battle for second behind the Braves! I tell you what, if Hampton really is healthy and stays that way, you've got starters that are as good or better than the Mets and Phils. If those teams don't batter each other too much, I think there's a good chance that two of the three will make it to the playoffs, unless Torre does a miracle job on the Dodgers (I think Colorado is unlikely to duplicate its run to the pennant). Joe Torre will be hard pressed with the bench he has to work with; not an A-Rod in the bunch. Rockies will be tough to beat as will the Padres. My Giants will figure in as a spolier, er....for their fans, not the league. Grrrrr!!!

Nolan Ryan and Satchel Paige get my vote.

The father who contacted Hardin and then Emery was put in touch with the Federal officials who have already received the bloody syringe evidence. They will now have yet one more reason to believe McNamee and consider bringing perjury charges against Clemens. You'll see the photos themselves soon enough - perhaps right around the time they get their indictment. Assuming there are any, Dan. I think it's a bluff to put some pressure on Clemens.

Um. Don't hold your breath waiting, Berigan

Ah-CHOO!!! [sniff] I hate Spring. Grrrr

Uh...Dan? I have a life, believe it or not. Been just a tad busy of late. As to any photographic evidence...let's see it then. Because this guy claims to have a photo means nothing....more Bonds-esque evidence: Nobody actually saw anything but everybody and his uncle claims to have this damning evidence. Where is it? I say this guy needs to: Put up or shut-up.

It would be a...waste....? Send them to me.