Tim McG

It never used to be like that, Dan. Recovering Angel fan here.

Give it a rest already, Dan. Huh? Geez. Don't you have something better to do like brow-beat some poor Liberal or espouse the glory of Ronnie Ray-Gun or the psuedo veracity of the George Bushes? Go kick an innocent Liberal or something.

Death to all Floridian teams. And fuck that goddamed chop....the Indian hating bastards!

Um. Somebody has way too much time on his hands. I won't mention names......

For the past three years, one of the few remaining survivors of the Holocaust comes to the high school where I teach and gives this haunting recollection of what she, as a little girl, had to suffer through during her internment at Auschwitz. The images in her opening video are etched on my brain and have shaken me to the very depths of my Soul. I wept when I saw her speak for the very first time....and my students were stunned by what she had to say. At the end of her presentation she warns us not to hate, but to never forget. I was fortunate enough to met and speak with her and as we hugged....she apologized to me for my tears. I am, in fact, a changed man.

PayPal has been copy-catted by phishers wherein they send false e-mails asking for payment in order to get your personal and financial information. I don't trust them to keep this from happening....use your credit card or pay by money order whenever possible.

The chase is over, time to dump him. You know, I was really upset when the Braves pulled this shit on Aaron, but for some reason I can't get worked up over it with Bonds. He's 43, Jazzmoose. He wants way too much to continue playing for an aging ballclub with little to show for any palatable offensive numbers. The need is with hitting and pitching. Bonds isn't an everyday player, and though I am sad to see the end come....it is time to move on. Honestly? I wish he would just retire and at the top of his profession.

"Reality"? You haven't been remotely conversant in reality since this conversation started. You don't have the slightest clue about any of it, you're entirely alone in your opinions, and you want to get back to "reality"??? Zzzzzz.....

I'll give you a hint:

So long, Barry.....it was a great run.

No, it doesn't prove anything, but it maybe it will make Goodie re-think his "steroids can't help you hit home runs" stance? Nah. What could I be thinking? The only thing he will take out of that article is "Not an indictment of Bonds" and "doesn't prove anything". OK so....one guy makes a study and it's valid? How did that happen? If this doesn't prove what I have been saying for a decade now, Dan....what else do you need? Tobin even stated as much. And HGHs don't make you play better either. Lets move on to reality.

As I had predicted....Barry Bonds will not be back in a Giants uniform in 2008. Giants tell Bonds they are moving in different direction, letting slugger go By JOSH DUBOW, AP Sports Writer September 21, 2007 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Barry Bonds is finished in San Francisco. The Giants told Bonds they will not bring him back next season, ending a 15-year run in which he set the single-season and all-time home run records and became a lightning rod for the steroids debate in baseball. "It's always difficult to say goodbye," Giants owner Peter Magowan said Friday. "It's an emotional time for me. We've been through a lot together these 15 years. A lot of good things have happened. Unfortunately a lot of bad things have happened. But there comes a time when you have to go in a different direction." On his Web site, Bonds said he wasn't done. "There is more baseball in me and I plan on continuing my career. My quest for a World Series ring continues," he said. The 43-year-old Bonds did not join Magowan and general manager Brian Sabean at the news conference. Asked whether he had anything to add, Bonds said, "I already made my statement." Bonds had always said he wanted to finish his career in the comfort of his hometown, where his father, Bobby, played alongside his godfather, Willie Mays. Bonds talked with Giants Hall of Famer Willie McCovey and took batting practice in the cage before Friday night's game against Cincinnati. Bonds hasn't played since Sept. 15 because of a sprained right big toe and was out of the lineup again. Manager Bruce Bochy said he thought Bonds could play this weekend. The Giants' final homestand ends Wednesday night. Magowan said he and Sabean recently decided about Bonds' future. Magowan personally told Bonds in a 90-minute meeting during Thursday night's game against Cincinnati. "I think he knew the decision was coming," Magowan said. "I don't think it was surprising to him. I think, naturally, he was disappointed, maybe somewhat saddened," Magowan said. "But he was really very respectful." Bonds broke Hank Aaron's record with his 756th home run on Aug. 7. Bonds helped revitalize a struggling franchise that nearly moved to Florida before he signed with the Giants as a free agent in December 1992. Bonds has spent the past 15 seasons of his 22-year big league career with the Giants. Re-signed as a free agent in the offseason, he made $19.3 million in a one-year contract, including $3.5 million in bonuses. Shadowed by steroid speculation for the past few years, Bonds has hit 28 homers this season, raising his career total to 762. The seven-time NL MVP is batting .279 with 66 RBIs and a major league-leading 132 walks. "He can still play," Sabean said. "He's still one of the biggest threats of any No. 4 hitter in the National League." Prior to the toe injury, he had been mostly healthy, playing 125 games. The left fielder has 2,935 career hits and has said that reaching 3,000 is a goal of his. "This is a guy who plays every day and is still leading the National League in some league categories, which is amazing," teammate Barry Zito said. "He's really done special things this year being at the age that he is. If Barry has the opportunity to go be a DH somewhere I'm sure that's only going to prolong his career." Despite Bonds' personal achievements, the season has been a disappointing one for the Giants, who are mired deep in last place in the NL West. "We've heard for a long time that the Giants are an old team and want to get younger, so we're not surprised," said Bonds' agent, Jeff Borris. "Barry is their oldest player, but qualitatively, he's their best player." "He's still planning on playing next year, irrespective of whether it's an AL or NL team," he said. Bonds has long denied using performance-enhancing drugs, but fans across the country have greeted him with placards inscribed with asterisks -- baseball-fan shorthand for the belief that his record is hopelessly tainted by allegations of steroid abuse. Even the person who paid $752,467 for Bonds' historic 756th home run has threatened to stamp it with an asterisk. Fashion designer Marc Ecko revealed himself this week as the winning bidder for the ball and has posted a Web site giving visitors a chance to vote on what he should do with the ball: donate it to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.; brand the ball with an asterisk in reference to the steroid allegations against Bonds; or blast the ball into space. After parting ways with Bonds, San Francisco will be free to scrap a win-now philosophy in which Sabean surrounded the slugger with aging veterans every year to maximize Bonds' chances to win his first championship. San Francisco came within five outs of winning the World Series in 2002, but hasn't been back to the postseason since 2003. "It is certainly unprecedented for an organization, especially a general manager, to replace a player like this, which will be nearly impossible," Sabean said. In his statement, Bonds said he believes the Giants made the decision long ago not to bring him back for next season. "Although I am disappointed, I've always said baseball is a business, and I respect their decision," Bonds said. "However, I am saddened and upset that I was not given an earlier opportunity to properly say goodbye to you, my fans, and celebrate with the city throughout the season as I truly believe this was not a last-minute decision by the Giants, but one that was made some time ago." "I would have loved nothing more than to retire as a Giant in the place where I call home and have shared so many momentous moments with all of you," he said. Bonds' presence helped the Giants build their waterfront ballpark that is on pace to draw more than 3 million fans for the eighth straight season since opening. Bonds was the biggest draw but Magowan said he was not concerned about how his absence would affect attendance. "I think we pride ourselves as an organization on knowing what our fans think. On this issue the fans are divided, Magowan said. "We listen to our fans carefully, but they don't make the decisions. They are made by the baseball people." San Francisco is where Bonds became entangled with federal prosecutors and with the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, the lab at the center of the steroids scandal in professional sports. The perjury investigation is focused on whether Bonds lied in 2003, when he told the federal grand jury investigating BALCO that he never knowingly took performance-enhancing drugs. Bonds said his personal trainer told him he was taking flaxseed oil and arthritis balm. His childhood friend and trainer, Greg Anderson, has spent nearly a year in prison for refusing to testify to the grand jury investigating Bonds' alleged perjury. On the field, a championship is about the only thing missing on Bonds' resume. He played in his 13th All-Star game this summer, an event held in his home ballpark. Bonds has reached the postseason seven times, and a World Series title barely eluded him in 2002. The Giants were just five outs from the title in Game 6 against the Anaheim Angels, but they lost that lead and also got beaten in Game 7. Bonds hit .471 in those seven games with four home runs, and the Angels walked him 13 times. A day after last season ended, Magowan said that Bonds would no longer be the centerpiece of the organization and that the team would change its formula for winning. Bonds then checked out the free-agent market, and a couple of teams -- including St. Louis, Oakland and San Diego -- showed early interest. But there seemed to be a pervasive feeling around baseball that Bonds would ultimately rejoin the Giants and he did for one final season that was a disappointment for the team. "The fact that we failed doesn't mean that Barry failed the Giants in some fashion," Magowan said. "He did all that we could have reasonably expected or anticipated he could do when we signed him." AP Baseball Writer Ben Walker in New York contributed to this report.

Don't even say it....musicians use drugs?!?

Tonight: Lemon herb chicken with mushrooms served over rice.

Two tourists were driving through Wisconsin. As they were approaching Oconomowoc, they started arguing about the pronunciation of the town's name. They argued back and forth until they stopped for lunch. As they stood at the counter, one tourist asked the employee. "Before we order, could you please settle an argument for us? Would you please pronounce where we are... very slowly? The girl leaned over the counter and said, "Burrrrrr, gerrrrrr, Kiiiing."

A Red Sox fan liked to amuse himself by scaring every Yankees fan he saw strutting down the street in that obnoxious NY pinstripe shirt. He would swerve his van as if to hit them, then swerve back just missing them. One day while driving along, he saw a priest. He thought he would do a good deed, so he pulled over and asked the priest, "Where are you going, Father?" "I'm going to give Mass at St. Francis church, about two miles down the road," replied the priest. "Climb in, Father. I'll give you a lift!" The priest climbed into the passenger seat, and they continued down the road. Suddenly, the driver saw a Yankees fan walking down the road, and he instinctively swerved as if to hit him. But, as usual, he swerved back onto the road just in time. Even though he was certain that he had missed the guy, he still heard a loud THUD. Not knowing where the noise came from, he glanced in his mirror but still didn't see anything. He then remembered the priest, and he turned to the priest and said, sorry Father, I almost hit that Yankees fan." "That's OK," replied the priest "I got him with the door." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Unless Babe Ruth is involved....it'll never happen.

Charles Schultz Charles DeGaul Prince Charles

A coupla snail jokes: A guy hears a knock at his door and answers it. There's a snail sittin' there looking up at him. Guy grabs the snail and flings it as far as he can. Two years later. Same guy hears a knock on his door. He opens the door and there's the same snail, who says, "What'd you do that for?" ******************************************************************************** Two CalTrans workers are sitting on the side of the road eating their lunches when suddenly, one of them jumps up and stomps on a snail, then sits back down. Perplexed, the other CalTrans worker asks, "What the hell did you do that for?" He replies, "Damn snail's been following us for two days!"

On Saturday afternoon, I was sitting in my lawn chair, drinking beer and watching my wife mow the lawn. The neighbor lady from across the street was so outraged at this that she came over and shouted at me, "You should be hung." I took a drink from my can of Budweiser, wiped the cold foam from my lips, lifted my darkened Rayban Sunglasses and stared directly at this nosey neighbor and then calmly replied, "I am, that's why she cuts the grass."

A man comes home from a long day at work and parks his car in his driveway late one night. He slams the car door and hears a sound coming from behind him as he walks towards the front porch. He looks and sees a full sized coffin following him, making all sorts of noise, bouncing along towards him. The man, frightened by all of this, hurries to the porch and frantically unlocks the door. The coffin is still following him, hopping towards him, making a terrible racket. The man opens the door, hurries inside and locks the door behind him. He breathes a sigh of relief, then walks over to the window to see if the coffin is still outside. Just as he's peering through the glass, he hears a loud smashing sound. The coffin has busted through the front door of his house. The man panics and runs upstairs. The coffin chases him up the staircase, opening and closing its lid, hopping up the steps, racing like crazy after him. The man runs into the bathroom, the coffin just steps behind him. He slams the bathroom door, but the coffin busts right through. The man reaches for the only thing he can find, a bottle of cough syrup, and throws it out of desperation. And the coffin stops.

Everybody's a critic. sheesh

I seriously cannot believe you said that. Why? Did you bother to read the article? It states two things as being established facts among those who study these matters: Steroids help you hit home runs. HGH doesn't. The fact that players have conspired to attain HGH has no bearing on whether or not it will help. It only shows how players are driven to try to anything they can get their hands on when the biggest star in the game is well known to be an abuser of these chemicals. After all, Bonds took such drugs as Clomid, a women's infertility drug thought to help a steroid user recover his natural testosterone production, and Modafinil, a narcolepsy drug used as a powerful stimulant. Does a woman's infertility drug help you hit homers? Probably not. Does a narcolepsy drug help you hit homers? Probably not. Yet the home run "king" used them, and it shouldn't surprise anyone if it turns out that other players used them too. I simply cannot believe you said that, Dan. Mr. Anti-Steriods swings and misses on a strike three count with the bases loaded. I can die now....I've seen everything.

I said "starange" as did you, knucklehead. Hey! That's Mister Knucklehead to you......and smile when you say that.

An Eastern Montana cowboy was tending his herd in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?" The cowboy looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, Why not?" The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his AT&T cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo. The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1586 cows and calves." "That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says the cowboy. He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk o f his car. Then the cowboy says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?" The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?" "You're a consultant for the government." says the cowboy. "Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?" "No guessing required" answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked; and you don't know anything about my business." "Now give me back my dog."