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I know some sellers actually have "brick and mortar" stores. If he does, you could file a complaint with the local BBB. That's one way to get in his shit, the other is to pay him a visit with baseball bat in hand.

I would think it's some type of a crime once you start to dig. MoGrubb is right on, they should at the very least have their teeth knocked out.

rachel likes to keep animated gifs at the ready for just the right time. So this must be a non-animated gif. Or would that be un-animated?

You're right there are, were, and always will be plenty of assholes in sports. And of course Bonds is not the only one using steroids, past or present. That is obvious as hell. He is though, the one about to break Aaron's record, so the spotlight is on him. Where did you get those numbers at? In a poll conducted by MSNBC just a few days ago, the numbers are quite different... MSNBC This ESPN poll matches your numbers more closely, but you left out the fact that 73% of those polled believe Bonds uses Steroids. ESPN I got those numbers from a poll done a couple months a go. These new polls should suggest to you that the media is attempting to do some damage control. I mean, think about it, you have a multi-billion dollar organization which has been bitching about Bonds, with no actual proof, what would you do? Answer: Take another poll which favors your prejudice.. So, should we discount polls about politicians, war, music, and favorite colors? I mean, what you're saying is that the people reporting and taking these polls are twisting the numbers to make the outcome whatever they want. Or polling to the exact select group that will give them the answers they want. Or maybe they're skipping right over the process of even conducting the poll and just publishing numbers the way they see it. I'm convinced. Fuck it, I'm convinced, Barry deserves a break and at this point I don't see why he should even have to hit one more fucking time. JUST GIVE HIM THE TITLE YOU BASTARDS! BARRY!..BARRY!..BARRY!..BARRY!..BARRY!..BARRY!..

You're right there are, were, and always will be plenty of assholes in sports. And of course Bonds is not the only one using steroids, past or present. That is obvious as hell. He is though, the one about to break Aaron's record, so the spotlight is on him. Where did you get those numbers at? In a poll conducted by MSNBC just a few days ago, the numbers are quite different... MSNBC This ESPN poll matches your numbers more closely, but you left out the fact that 73% of those polled believe Bonds uses Steroids. ESPN

Tell me about. We tried to shift to big heads, assholes, and scooter trips up Mt. Everest, but it keeps going back to Barry.

Maybe all the people in this thread used steroids? More than likely. Hard to top Barry though. Bonds is a twofer, big head mentally and big head physically.

I say fuck him and his achievements. Why? Steroids aside, Bonds is still an asshole with a giant head.

A winner? What winner? SF is dead last in the division. Another year Bonds will fail to win a ring.

I'd say yes. Wow.

Barry Bonds Home-Run Scandal Somehow Becomes Feel-Good Sports Story Of Summer July 26, 2007 Sponsored by SAN FRANCISCO—Although Barry Bonds remains the target of criticism over his possible—some say almost certain—use of performance-enhancing substances, the fact that Bonds has not been implicated in dogfighting, nightclub shootings, gambling, or murdering his family has transformed his controversial pursuit of the all-time home-run record into the feel-good sports story of the summer. "Until we have definitive proof one way or the other, the very presence of so many questions about Bonds and steroids will haunt his achievements forever," ESPN's Peter Gammons said Monday. "However, at this moment, I think we'd all have to agree that having a raging juiced-up misanthrope break the greatest record in sports is a ray of sunshine compared to everything else on the sports page." "What kind of person electrocutes dogs, let alone fights them?" Gammons added. "I simply can't comprehend it. Go, Barry!" While Bonds has been routinely greeted with booing and jeering whenever he played outside of San Francisco, the taunting seems to have abated for the moment as sports fans across America lapse into a reflective silence as Bonds approaches the plate. "I know Bonds is probably 100% pharmaceutical Frankenstein," said Brewers fan Charles Michaels, who waved a banner reading "Make Us Relatively Proud, Barry" while not exactly rooting against Bonds at Milwaukee's Miller Park Sunday night. "But I also know for a certainty that gambling problems didn't compel him to affect the outcome of the NBA playoffs. You have to give him that much." "Bonds is not exactly my hero," said Braves fan Bradley Hanson, who flew to San Francisco for Monday night's Braves game in order to pointedly not boo Bonds. "But he's a reminder that in these troubled times for sports, there are still players whose crimes are simple, pure, and only tarnish our beloved sport and everything it stands for without killing anybody." Bonds defiantly refuses to acknowledge, much less answer, any of the dozens of questions regarding his use of illegal substances, often lashing out at clubhouse reporters asking even innocuous baseball-related questions. Yet as of press time, Bonds had not yet been involved in even one single murder. "Say what you want about Bonds, but he's not a murderer, or even an attempted murderer," San Francisco Chronicle reporter and co-author of Game Of Shadows Lance Williams wrote in Sunday's edition. "The only thing I believe Bonds did was inject himself with Winstrol, Deca-Durabolin, insulin, testosterone, synthetic testosterone, testosterone decanoate, human growth hormones, Norbolethone, Trenbolone, Clomid, and possibly commercial racehorse laxatives, all in order to make himself a better athlete. Not to allow himself to gut-shoot a gentleman's club bouncer, but to become a better athlete. A better athlete…it doesn't seem so bad when you think about it like that." "It's a relief of sorts to see someone putting performance first," Frank Deford said in a New York Times Magazine editorial Sunday. "I think we all believe that Barry has taken steroids, and that they made him into a hulking monster who rewrote the record books. But they didn't turn him into a hulking monster who drugged his wife and children into unconsciousness before strangling them to death and hanging himself from a weight bench. And in these troubled times, Bonds' performance is one we can all reluctantly applaud."

Makes sense to me. Hey Goodspeak, stop living in denial.

Beautiful women do tend to ease the transition.

Culture shock?

Great story, Chris.

The daily late-afternoon thunderstorm thing has made it a little tricky to know whether or not to fire up the grill. It got "down" to 88 the other day and it felt like 70. Humidity is my new best friend. Apparently. Any good pizza joints there?

That other park must be maintained by a contractor.

Shit, I didn't realize you made it that far as well. See that chick at 421.6 meters?

I don't even want to tell you what happens when you go past 300 meters. The secret is in the oven. But don't forget the oven mits, you're gonna need them, 'cause it's hot!

That's like saying what does cable TV or satellite TV offer over local. Huge difference and minus all the local hype. No way you can find a station in any city anywhere programming a channel that plays nothing but Elvis or music exclusively from the 70s without any commercials and hear it the same in Cleveland as you do in San Diego. My friend clem has it completely right. This is standard commercial broadcast radio and their lobbyists vs. Karmazin. Then maybe it goes another level to the FCC vs. Stern and some other folks. Exxon and Mobil merged in like 3 hours, but yet two satellite radio companies that want to make one can't catch a break. The feds let dudes like Rupert Murdoch control multiple media outlets in multiple geographic zones, but they don't want people to be able to pay to hear uncensored Richard Pryor while driving on the BQE.

I don't know what it's like in Michigan, but out in Arizona all you need to get immediate response is complain to city council or someone with authority above the department like the city manager's office. NY is a different story, you have to know somebody.

I bet while they watched you pick up trash they were complaining about being underpaid and how they're not going to make it when they retire at 50 with full pension. I have some contracts with a few different parks departments and it's the same shit. For the work we do (which includes cleaning the parks) we are under strict time commitments and standards, but for their end it takes a committee of 12 to figure out how they are going to assign a crew of 20 to patch a 3'X3' section of asphalt.

New version is much sweeter. Although thus far I only made it 264.14 meters. It's cool, just out of nowhere a kid on a skateboard grabs the thing hangs ten and throws it again. I picked up an extra 80 meters! The key is to turn the plasma tv to the Discovery channel, the screen changes to a mock up of "deadliest catch",goes into high def super widescreen mode and one of the the paper plane goes right through the wheel house. I'll give you all a hint to get there. The remote is under the chair by the coffee table.

Next time try Dr. Pepper. The pain is the same, but the high you're looking for is there.