Tim McG

Only a couple million...?

GO Lakers!!! [um...it's the only LA team I root for; first professional team I ever saw "live" as a kid. I go back to Elgin Baylor, Jerry West and Gail Goodrich.]

Happiest of happys, Berigan. Ya crusty old conservative, ya.

My Niners needed a QB. And who did they sign...? Randy Moss. A 35 year-old Patriots cast-off. Perfect.

OK. Lemme see...the Niners need a real QB so they rush out and sign...Randy Moss??? A 35 year-old has been? Really? Gaaaaa!!!

Dear Peyton Manning, Please join the 49ers. We fans are in desperate need of a real QB. Yours truly, A long suffering Niners fan whose owner, Jed "Huh? York, just doesn't get it

I was going to say Cy Young. I think he pitched forever. Fair enough. Golf is a frustrating game at times. Trust me. But I still keep coming back. Love this game! And you know why they call it Golf, don't you? Because all the other four-letter words were taken [insert rim shot here] Me or Jim? Yeah, it can get pretty ugly out there sometimes. I play a lot of "hit-it-and-hope". Jim! I haven't played in years (back) but I'm no loss to the golf world (except ball manufactuers) You and me both, Brad. I should own stock by now.

Fair enough. Golf is a frustrating game at times. Trust me. But I still keep coming back. Love this game! And you know why they call it Golf, don't you? Because all the other four-letter words were taken [insert rim shot here] Me or Jim? Yeah, it can get pretty ugly out there sometimes. I play a lot of "hit-it-and-hope".

Not interested in Golf...? Yer killin' me, Jim!

Good point.

Both of my parents are gone [my Mom died almost 22 years ago; Dad last year] so I can't really add anything to what has already been said, Jeff. But I will say this: My Dad was a stubborn old cuss and refused to go into any sort of facility. Though he was 89 when he passed, it hastened his death. You are doing the right thing.

And that is the saddest cut of all. Makes me really wonder how much we can trust the refereeing, too.

True dat. But not for the sole purpose of injuring another player.

I don't see how the "revelation" that players "shoot to kill" (so to speak) shatters any "illusions" created by staged prayers, flyovers, martial music, suffocating corporate miasma, whatever. Hell, it just reinforces them. America loves shoot-to-kill and America loves to sentimentalize it. Organized savagery is the wave of the future if the present social/economic trends continue. The illusions are the reality. Having said all that, I still love a good football game. But not like that. In many ways this is similar to steroid usage in baseball. It's all part of the spectacle that fans want. I think that is a fair assessment, too. In both cases, the owners turned a blind eye, so-to-speak.

I think that pretty much sums it up. Thanks for posting the article, Dave.

I date back to the Jazz Central Station days and to the Jazz Online days. My join date here is February of 2004, so I'm a geezer too, BeBop.

But Selig does have the influence to manipulate the outcome. Wow, so Bud manipulated the arbitrator into a decision that embarrasses MLB and Bud Selig. by george I think you've solved the case! Naturally, you didn't get my point. The "outcome" I speak of is the dismissal of the charges against Braun thus avoiding yet another and bigger embarrassment of acknowledging the post-Bonds MLB drug policy is a sham. Secondly, the MLB cannot afford to take yet another public hit via steroids. I'd like to see proof of that, Dan.

I'm with you, Brad. Williams should be the first to get booted from the league.

But Selig does have the influence to manipulate the outcome.

I'm with you, Noj. I only have the very occasional soda, beer is out [though I still enjoy wine], I never smoked cigarettes but I do enjoy the weekly cigar [Hey, ya gotta have at least one vice, right?]. Coffee in the morning [black, blacker, blackest] but I have only one travel mug-full. I keep very strict limits on my alcohol consumption partly because I got tired of feeling like crap in the morning and partly because of a mild heart attack a year ago. I also cut back on carbs and eliminated all processed sugars. Water is pretty much all I consume in any great quantity. All things in moderation, I suppose. In short: Old age sucks.

Hope it was a great B-Day, Jon!

Like I said earlier, a chain of custody issue that MLB will do nothing about. Braun's sample had seven times the normal level of testosterone. He's going to get away with this on a technicality / loophole, but he's still guilty and everyone knows it. The guy who took the sample has done this hundreds, if not thousands of times. Don't tell me he doesn't know what he's doing and how you go about ensuring that samples are not tampered with. This is total B.S. (bullshit, not Bud Selig, although the acronyms are interchangeable). Especially since Bud used to own the Brew Crew. That's the fact, too.

Gamble. As I understand it, both teams play in a small market. I'm guessing that both clubs have mortgaged the future ala SF Forty-Niners to pay players now.

There never is with this stuff.