Monday Bird Droppings
by duck on Sep 20, 2010 6:00 AM EDT
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Recaps of yesterday's extra-innings win can be found at Orioles.com, The Sun, NY Daily News, and MASNsports (with post-game Buck).
Orioles Insider: Homer-happy Luke Scott
"I haven’t been counting how many hits (he has off Mariano Rivera). I’ve been counting how many balls have actually been [fully] on the plate, instead of being on the corner or just off. I think I’m up to three in 12 or 13 at-bats, which is pretty impressive," Scott said. "You know what pitch is coming, but 13 at-bats, I can count three balls that have been at least one full ball on the plate in the strike zone."
Bergesen's start moved up to Tuesday | orioles.com: News
"The Orioles will shuffle their rotation for their upcoming series with the Red Sox, moving up Brad Bergesen from Wednesday to Tuesday and leaving Wednesday's starter unannounced."
Orioles: Control problems fluster Chris Tillman - baltimoresun.com
"Orioles right-hander Chris Tillman said his confidence is fine; he knows he can pitch in the major leagues. The frustrating part, he said, is he is not throwing strikes consistently — and that's getting him into serious trouble with professional hitters." That would be a problem.
Andino's late production not lost on O's | orioles.com: News
"The 26-year-old versatile infielder received his second start at third base this season on Sunday, with struggling rookie Josh Bell pushed to the bench. Showalter said that Bell -- who has 50 strikeouts and only two walks in his first 144 at-bats -- will still get playing time, but for now Andino will get an opportunity to show what he can do."
Showalter relates to Girardi's concern | orioles.com: News
"I do know you have to pitch a lot of their guys in and he's had pretty good numbers, comparatively speaking, against Jeter, so I don't think it would be anything intentional," Showalter said of Guthrie, who has 14 hit batters and trails only Yankees starter A.J. Burnett, who has hit 16. "But I understand how Joe would feel that way. I'd probably feel the same way."
Steve Melewski: The O's instructional league roster
"Here is the list of the 15 players that will take part in the O's instructional league workouts at Camden Yards that begin on Monday. The camp will run for two weeks. The coaches and instructors attending include Brian Graham, Mike Bordick, Don Werner, Denny Hocking, Milt May and David Stockstill."
Joe Posnanski " Posts My Annual Gardy Rant "
Why JoePos thinks Ron Gardenhire is the best manager in MLB.
Cubs' Tyler Colvin hospitalized after hit by splintered bat : CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"Cubs rookie Tyler Colvin is at a Miami hospital, being treated for a puncture wound to the left side of his chest, suffered when he was struck by the splintered head of a bat while running the bases in today's game against the Florida Marlins." Colvin will now miss the remainder of the season.
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Hey Buck:
“But I understand how Joe would feel that way. I’d probably feel the same way.”
Just say, Hey Girardi, shut the fuck up.
The stache is back!
by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 7:58 AM EDT reply actions
you're not going to cc: anyone?
"I put a pepper rub on the scallops so you have a little contrast. You have sweetness from the coconut oil and little acidity from the splash of lemon." – Luke Scott
Hey Girardi
What about your boy Burnett? I never hear you say anything about him hitting batters…
"Real Orioles don't pout. Real Orioles don't gloat. Real Orioles just win."
by NewYorkOriole on Sep 20, 2010 11:42 AM EDT up reply actions
Or Chamberlain last year?
Joe, in 2 of your 3 years, your pitcher has led the majors in HBP (assuming Burnett holds his lead).
"Hey Yankees... you can take your apology and your trophy and shove 'em straight up your ass!" --Tanner Boyle
by BirdFanInPhilly on Sep 20, 2010 2:45 PM EDT up reply actions
So not only
do the Yankees and O’s once again have inverse WL records, but the L10 are inverse as well.
Those are some Kojiculous sideburns. Son of Sam Horn commenter, 08/31/10
Phil were you the one talking about Angry Birds?
I just downloaded it last night on Droid, I can’t stop playing.
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
by Stacey on Sep 20, 2010 8:32 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
yeah that was me
it’s so addicting, right? TMI alert: once I played so long while in the bathroom that my legs fell asleep and I had to lean against the wall for a few minutes before I was able to walk back to my desk. Right now I’m going through and just trying to beat all my high scores.
taken out of context, all i got from that statement was:
once I played so long while in the bathroom
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Sep 20, 2010 8:56 AM EDT up reply actions
and now you have this strange feeling inside of you
you’ve never felt this way before, and you kind of like it. This realization unlocks a new feeling: shame.
dont look at me man
you were the one who said you play for a long time in the bathroom
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Sep 20, 2010 9:05 AM EDT up reply actions
lol
what exactly should i google there? methinks i’d probably need safesearch on for this.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Sep 20, 2010 9:13 AM EDT up reply actions
try
“angry birds droid”
also
“how commenting works” or “do I need to read a parent comment to understand replies to it”
too lazy
the first glance was way more funny.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Sep 20, 2010 9:21 AM EDT up reply actions
its monday
and i need coffee
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Sep 20, 2010 9:26 AM EDT up reply actions
It is so addicting
I can’t wait to be finished wtih work so that I can start playing again
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
Insane
I had some friends stay over a couple months ago, and we casually downloaded it looking for a game on a Sunday morning to play. Ended up playing for over 10 hours. We had 2 iPhones and 3 dudes, so we just had to keep swapping in 10-minute increments. It was hilarious. I kinda burned out on it since I shot my whole wad the first day, but I started playing on the plane to Dallas a couple weeks ago and my flight felt like it was a 30-second trip.
by Wieters Wieners on Sep 20, 2010 9:33 AM EDT up reply actions
My dad's addicted to it.
When ever he’s using his iPhone, it’s either e-mail or AB.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 10:18 AM EDT up reply actions
This strikes me as a uniquely American problem.
Those are some Kojiculous sideburns. Son of Sam Horn commenter, 08/31/10
by killertomato on Sep 20, 2010 9:55 AM EDT up reply actions
I don't think you have to be an American to lose track of time while on the can
Smartphones are also prevalent in Europe and Asia. Also could happen with the newspaper, a book, etc. I know I’ve stayed in the stall until the end of a chapter on many occasions.
I have a hard time imagining a Chinese factory
worker sneaking away from work to play games in the toilet until his legs stopped working. But maybe they are on that path. It’s probably our only hope as a world power.
At any rate, I’m not judging. If lurking on CC while you are supposed to be installing Oracle drivers could make your legs fall asleep, my legs would be in a coma right now.
Those are some Kojiculous sideburns. Son of Sam Horn commenter, 08/31/10
by killertomato on Sep 20, 2010 10:13 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I think your typical American factory worker probably isnt doing that either
Its not like there arent plenty of white collar jobs in China.
The collars are likely gray from the polution.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 10:24 AM EDT up reply actions
not bad
8 out 10
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Sep 20, 2010 10:25 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Why thank you.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 10:28 AM EDT up reply actions
Certainly is alot of "collar-talk" on the board today.
“Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiits fasssssssshion week on CC ladies and GENTS!!!!”
by Wieters Wieners on Sep 20, 2010 10:24 AM EDT up reply actions
I *have* been pretty hungry today.
Those are some Kojiculous sideburns. Son of Sam Horn commenter, 08/31/10
by killertomato on Sep 20, 2010 10:27 AM EDT up reply actions
American factory worker?
Is this a thing?
Those are some Kojiculous sideburns. Son of Sam Horn commenter, 08/31/10
by killertomato on Sep 20, 2010 10:25 AM EDT up reply actions
yea....during the industrial revolution
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Sep 20, 2010 10:26 AM EDT up reply actions
rec'd for this
If lurking on CC while you are supposed to be installing Oracle drivers could make your legs fall asleep, my legs would be in a coma right now.
"I put a pepper rub on the scallops so you have a little contrast. You have sweetness from the coconut oil and little acidity from the splash of lemon." – Luke Scott
I have been going through finding all the golden eggs....
….while waiting for the next update.
"I put a pepper rub on the scallops so you have a little contrast. You have sweetness from the coconut oil and little acidity from the splash of lemon." – Luke Scott
there are walk-thru videos at their website if you want a hint...
"I put a pepper rub on the scallops so you have a little contrast. You have sweetness from the coconut oil and little acidity from the splash of lemon." – Luke Scott
yeah, but the second episode walkthroughs stop being 3 stars about halfway through.
missing about 3 in ep1 and 30 or so in ep2, but I’m getting there.
"Ohhh it's baad" - E. Smith
thoughts to ponder this morning:
1) why do i still have to iron “no iron” shirts?
2) if you’re going to let the opposing coach call a timeout RIGHT before a potential game-winning kick, could you at least blow the damn whistle BEFORE the ball is snapped and not mid-kick?
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
1) Are you taking them out of the dryer and hanging them up right after it finishes? That seems to work well enough for me; though they’re never really going to look crisp without ironing, they shouldn’t be wrinkled…
"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." -- Earl Weaver
yea i tried that
not incredibly wrinkled like normal dress shirts, but definitely not in good enough shape to not require ironing
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Sep 20, 2010 9:06 AM EDT up reply actions
They should de-wrinkle some while they hang.
Since they’re still warm, gravity will stretch them out a bit — if they aren’t warm, they won’t de-wrinkle nearly as much.
But yeah, “no iron” shirts are definitely not perfect.
"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." -- Earl Weaver
wrinkle-free is one thing
“no iron” is totally false advertising unless you’re going for the “i dont know how to iron a shirt” look
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Sep 20, 2010 9:15 AM EDT up reply actions
Ha,
I really hope my “no iron” shirts are better than yours, then…
"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." -- Earl Weaver
you know what i mean tho
they aren’t wrinkled, but they definitely aren’t crisp.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Sep 20, 2010 9:32 AM EDT up reply actions
me too
until i got to a job where i have to wear a suit everyday. apparently, people here care whether or not my shirt looks ironed or not. i’m supposed to care as well.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Sep 20, 2010 9:32 AM EDT up reply actions
Those are the types of jobs I seek to avoid in this lifetime.
Had one once for 3 years. Never. Again.
"I think it just got country over here." -Tim Wilson
This is what I love about interning at an IP firm
This is really one of the biggest patent firms in the country, and is probably about as high-powered as a firm in this area can get. Yet, its business casual every day (except obviously when you would need to go to court or to an important meeting). The atmosphere is far more relaxed than it is at most big law firms.
Wait, aren't you an engineer?
Isn’t NOT having to wear a suit one of our perks?
"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." -- Earl Weaver
engineer by degree
definitely not by trade. i dont engineer anything anymore besides new coffee mixtures from the espresso machine.
why we have to wear suits everyday still baffles me though, considering that i never come out of my hole they call an office all day and hardly see anyone of any value. although it does make you look well-dressed for the ladies on the metro.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Sep 20, 2010 9:46 AM EDT up reply actions
I wear a uniform everyday....
Like the old school camo types (BDUs).
Its the best, its a rugged outfit that requires no ironing ever and I can pretty much wear it the entire week without even cleaning it. I would be absolutely miserable picking out outfits everyday and ensuring they are clean, neat and servicable.
by Wieters Wieners on Sep 20, 2010 9:50 AM EDT up reply actions
the fact that i got up and actually ironed a shirt this morning was amazing
its a pretty hard-knock life
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Sep 20, 2010 9:52 AM EDT up reply actions
Ah.
although it does make you look well-dressed for the ladies on the metro.
Well, at least there’s that.
"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." -- Earl Weaver
hasn't worked out for me yet
but it’ll happen. give it time….give it time.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Sep 20, 2010 9:53 AM EDT up reply actions
This reminds me of that cell phone (i think?) commercial
where the guy sees the girl on the other train, quickly uses his fancy smartphone to change his reservation, jumps onto her train, and then they live happily ever after and their kid becomes president or something.
The first time I saw it, I thought it was a decent commercial. The second time i saw it, I realized that girl would be creeped the fuck out and probably call the cops.
Not to mention
That the guy changed his whole ticket plan in less than 1 second on his smartphone.
It didnt even ask his ass where he needed to change his ticket TO….
I hate that effing commercial.
by Wieters Wieners on Sep 20, 2010 9:57 AM EDT up reply actions
i know....something like that would never happen
it’d be nice though. at least i’d be well-dressed for the situation
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Sep 20, 2010 10:07 AM EDT up reply actions
Every guy I hire out of college
I have to have the “ironed shirt” talk with in his first week. I don’t even count it against a guy in the interview anymore because it is seemingly a foreign concept.
Those are some Kojiculous sideburns. Son of Sam Horn commenter, 08/31/10
by killertomato on Sep 20, 2010 9:53 AM EDT up reply actions
Ick.
I can understand needing to point it out after they start, but you’d think they’d at least know to do it for the interview.
"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." -- Earl Weaver
If they manage to show up with a dress shirt
and tie for the interview, that is about the best I can hope for. I have had some insane outfits. IT people can be pretty sartorially clueless. I had one guy show up with a magenta sweater with a matching magenta polo shirt underneath. Collar popped. He looked like a Christmas tree ornament.
I don’t blame them necessarily. I think they just think no one can tell the difference between an ironed and an ironed shirt. I gently break it to them that the difference is obvious and conforming to not just the letter but the spirit of the dress code is what gets you an “exceeds some” on that section of your review. I’ve never had a problem with compliance after that.
Those are some Kojiculous sideburns. Son of Sam Horn commenter, 08/31/10
by killertomato on Sep 20, 2010 10:08 AM EDT up reply actions
Maybe its just the industry I work in,
but I can’t imagine not showing up to a interview in anything other than a dark suit, ironed white dress shirt, and a conservative tie. Too much is at stake to let something as easy as what you wear sink the interview.
same here man
i did wear a dress shirt colored other than white once
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Sep 20, 2010 10:22 AM EDT up reply actions
I've worn beige before.
Other than that it’s black suit with white shirt and black or blue colored tie.
The stache is back!
by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 11:08 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
And by worn beige
I mean the shirt, not the suit. Although I’m picturing how sweet that would look.
The stache is back!
by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 11:09 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
You could stand in front of a cubicle
and nobody would be able to locate you.
Those are some Kojiculous sideburns. Son of Sam Horn commenter, 08/31/10
by killertomato on Sep 20, 2010 11:11 AM EDT up reply actions
I wear light blue shirts with suits pretty regularly
including to interviews.
Rub some $100 bills on it, you sell-out. -duck
“Orioles right-hander Chris Tillman said his confidence is fine; he knows he can pitch in the major leagues. The frustrating part, he said, is he is not throwing strikes consistently
Chris, are you aware those two things don’t make sense next to each other?
My thoughts exactly.
"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." -- Earl Weaver
But for him, they have to
Just because he’s not throwing consistently at the moment doesn’t stop him from believing he can. He may delusional, but he has to believe he can, doesn’t he?
"I think it just got country over here." -Tim Wilson
Its hard to tell from the quote
My concern is that he thinks its something that’ll just work itself out if he just keeps doing what he’s doing. He can be confident in his ability to succeed, but that can’t prevent him from being aware that he may need to take a different approach.
I'm confident I can pitch in the major leagues too.
As long as none of those pitches need to be strikes. Or get to the plate. And I don’t have to field.
I might need some help getting on to the mound. But I am BRIMMING WITH CONFIDENCE.
Those are some Kojiculous sideburns. Son of Sam Horn commenter, 08/31/10
by killertomato on Sep 20, 2010 9:50 AM EDT up reply actions
OT Pop Tart Talk
Strawberry Milkshake = 
Still evaluating the S’mores. Not sure they will pass the cookies n’ creme ones though.
Cinnamon brown sugar>all.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 10:42 AM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
Strawberry Milkshake Pop Tarts?
That doesn’t even sound good and pop tarts are awesome. I agree in Cinnamon Sugar but I also am partial to regular old strawberry frosted.
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
What about
a vanilla Blizzard™ (or your regional equivalent) with crushed up strawberry Pop Tarts™.
Those are some Kojiculous sideburns. Son of Sam Horn commenter, 08/31/10
by killertomato on Sep 20, 2010 10:46 AM EDT up reply actions
that sounds pretty good
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
yeah
it was an impulse buy. And brown sugar is probably only one slot ahead of strawberry milkshake. I do not like them.
BANNED
Actually I hate the smores ones. The marshmallow is icky.
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
listen
just because coorporate america shoves brown sugar poptarts down my throat with their stupid economy pack forcing you to buy them doesn’t mean I have to like them. there is nothing tart or popy about brown sugar cinnamon. people want fruit in the economy pack. FRUIT!! Next you are going to tell me you like cinnamon in your coffee. Ugh.
by Philly O's on Sep 20, 2010 10:58 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Pardon me
I had no idea your pop tart beliefs were so extreme.
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
EXTREMIST
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 11:08 AM EDT up reply actions
it was a rough childhood
I try to block it out. my parents wouldn’t buy me more until I ate the CBS ones in the economy pack. I just get mad at Kelloggs for ruining my childhood pop tart experience. Sorry to come off rash.
The real problem with the Brown Sugar Cinnamon in the economy pack...
…is that they’re frosted. Bleh.
"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." -- Earl Weaver
Frosting is the best part.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 11:15 AM EDT up reply actions
Wrong.
Hate it on the fruit ones, dislike it on BSC.
"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." -- Earl Weaver
You crazy
frosting rocks. Love it on fruit, love it on cinnamon, love it.
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
FYI
I was just over at Rite-Aid and they have the four pack on sale for $1.99. Get your froot on, sir.
Those are some Kojiculous sideburns. Son of Sam Horn commenter, 08/31/10
by killertomato on Sep 20, 2010 11:39 AM EDT up reply actions
that looks delicious.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 12:18 PM EDT up reply actions
What the hell is "creme"?
Those are some Kojiculous sideburns. Son of Sam Horn commenter, 08/31/10
by killertomato on Sep 20, 2010 12:19 PM EDT up reply actions
fancy spelling of cream.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 12:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Not in English.
Or French. Unless you want to throw an accent aigu in there and pronounce it “krem.”
Probably why they discontinued it. Too many complaints over the suspect etymology.
Those are some Kojiculous sideburns. Son of Sam Horn commenter, 08/31/10
by killertomato on Sep 20, 2010 12:33 PM EDT up reply actions
S'mores are the best
and they are way better frozen than heated, btw. Try it. They don’t get hard, just chewy. It’s awesome.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
I love that the tea party poster girl is a witch
And yes, I’m fully aware its a meaningless statement that means little more than that she was a dumb teenage girl at one point, but that doesnt mean I won’t enjoy watching it get blown way out of proportion.
American politics has become
A bigger laughing stock than the Pittsburgh Pirates. Seriously.
The stache is back!
by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 11:11 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Oh snap.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 11:12 AM EDT up reply actions
agreed
I especially look forward to the mainline tea party mouthpieces either ignoring the witchcraft stuff, or trying to play it off like it’s no big deal. Which it is no big deal, but had this come out about a democratic candidate, they’d make it seem like the end of the world.
Not only are they trying to play it off like its no big deal,
They’re trying to make O’Donnell into a victim because people are even bringing it up.
Bill Maher used his voodoo to coerce her into talking about it
Maybe he was behind it all along! She is innocent!
They are pretty awesome at that.
Same thing happened with Palin. How dare you bastards in the media attack her for saying she can see Russia and can’t name a single thing that she reads??? That’s totally off limits! Your candidate being a secret Muslim and possibly not a citizen on the other hand…
Rub some $100 bills on it, you sell-out. -duck
she's already...
started ducking appearances on TV talk programs, pretty soon she’ll only be releasing info via her website. Which is meaningless, because as of Friday it was scrubbed of any issues info and was just a donations recepticle.
"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." - H.L. Mencken
by TerroristFistJab on Sep 20, 2010 11:43 AM EDT up reply actions
And yet a significant portion of people will vote for her anyway.
Vaht a kahn-tree!
It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters
by Eat More Esskay on Sep 20, 2010 11:48 AM EDT up reply actions
Yup...
I’m not quick to dismiss the chances of any of these TP approved candidates, but the cognitive dissonance is breathtaking. A movement independant people so upset with both parties that they’re…nominating candidates exclusively through Republican primaries.
"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." - H.L. Mencken
by TerroristFistJab on Sep 20, 2010 11:54 AM EDT up reply actions
I'm more concerned that most people in Arizona will vote for Jan Brewer,
who said that illegal immigrants are beheading people in the Arizona desert, a claim that’s been shown to be, and I’m putting it lightly, bullshit.
her witchiness....
…. post-dates her teenage girl years by a good bit.
"I put a pepper rub on the scallops so you have a little contrast. You have sweetness from the coconut oil and little acidity from the splash of lemon." – Luke Scott
From what I've read
She did some pretty crazy things between high school and her 1996 emergence on the national stage as a conservative spokesperson. Crazy things.
I love living near Delaware sometimes.
"I think it just got country over here." -Tim Wilson
The gonzo part of my consciousness actually wants her to win
Just to witness the theater of the absurd that would be unleashed onto the Senate. Plus, I would bet that her and Michelle Bachman would have to keep ‘out-crazying’ each other, which would be especially entertaining.
"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man." ~ The Dude
by PBR me ASAP! on Sep 20, 2010 1:00 PM EDT up reply actions
Totally inappropriate, but...
I’m calling it now: she’s had girl/girl experiences. Yes, plural.
She oozes self-loathing. The fact that her sister is out though confuses my gaydar.
"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." - H.L. Mencken
by TerroristFistJab on Sep 20, 2010 4:50 PM EDT up reply actions
That rumor took about, oh, 6 hours to surface over here.
"I think it just got country over here." -Tim Wilson
Here ya go
http://sbynews.blogspot.com/2010/09/tea-party-favorite-stuns-gop-with.html
Read the comments
"I think it just got country over here." -Tim Wilson
Eric Bischoff on line 1
HLA! HLA! HLA!
"Fairy tales start 'once upon a time...'. Fishing stories start 'now this ain't no bullshit...'."
- Cap'n Phil Harris
This stupid b
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 11:33 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
This -stupid bitch- young lady
is talking to my art professor about how she went to her first baseball game this weekend (Saturday) and it was just so cool because there were so many yankees fans there. Now I’ve never hit a woman before but …
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 11:35 AM EDT via mobile reply actions 3 recs
And I'm full of all sorts of fail this morning.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 11:36 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
you have my permission to sock her in the face
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
You also have B2B's permission
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
by daveh873 on Sep 20, 2010 12:50 PM EDT up reply actions 5 recs
That's rec'rageous.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 12:52 PM EDT up reply actions
I don't hit
I’m a lady.
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
I was there on Saturday...
and was pretty bummed at how MFYful it was. And the Jersey Shore cast-offs in front of me high-fiving and leading chants of “hip-hip Jorge” got old quickly.
"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." - H.L. Mencken
by TerroristFistJab on Sep 20, 2010 11:42 AM EDT up reply actions
At least the maximum number of them
got humiliated in public.
Of course, being Yankees fans, they probably left in the eighth.
Those are some Kojiculous sideburns. Son of Sam Horn commenter, 08/31/10
by killertomato on Sep 20, 2010 11:53 AM EDT up reply actions
And those who didn't leave on Sunday were told by my little sister to go home.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 11:54 AM EDT up reply actions
Right. Saturday. Not yesterday.
Sorry.
Those are some Kojiculous sideburns. Son of Sam Horn commenter, 08/31/10
by killertomato on Sep 20, 2010 12:04 PM EDT up reply actions
I knew what you meant, no worries.
"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." - H.L. Mencken
by TerroristFistJab on Sep 20, 2010 12:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah the crowd was brutal Saturday
We were sitting on the third base side so we had to watch all of the Yankee fans fawning over every player that walked back to the dugout.
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
It was awful!
I know it is September and the Yankees are locked in a tight race, but damn. Did you see the fun in the LF corner when a Yankees beach ball was flattened by an Orioles fan? Made my evening.
"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." - H.L. Mencken
by TerroristFistJab on Sep 20, 2010 12:00 PM EDT up reply actions
a tight *meaningless* race
"There's going to be a general lack of toast in the neighbourhood this morning. Many many bewildered breakfast faces."
True...
fighting for the division doesn’t mean as much when you’re assured a playoff spot either way, right?
"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." - H.L. Mencken
by TerroristFistJab on Sep 20, 2010 12:05 PM EDT up reply actions
The only arguement I've heard
is that the Yankees are fighting for home field advantage neck-and-neck with the Twins and the Rays. Which seems acceptable, but ultimately pretty empty.
"There's going to be a general lack of toast in the neighbourhood this morning. Many many bewildered breakfast faces."
I dunno.
It can make a difference… there was that study not too long ago about home-field advantage with full stands actually making a significant difference (though I don’t know how you determine the direction of causality there). But even so, there’s the whole pride thing… baseball players are generally pretty fiercely competitive people, and don’t want to come in second place, even if they still get to go to the playoffs. It may not really matter from our perspective as fans, but I’m pretty sure it does to them.
"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." -- Earl Weaver
I still wouldn't call it "an important pennant race"
"There's going to be a general lack of toast in the neighbourhood this morning. Many many bewildered breakfast faces."
No argument here.
I think it’s closer to being meaningless than important, but calling it one or the other is a bit much (meaningless) or just silly (important).
"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." -- Earl Weaver
Is that what was happening?
We could tell there was some kind shenanigan going on but we were too far away to see for sure. I definitely saw an ahole Yankee fan beating his chest like a cave man.
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
It was quite entertaining...
"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." - H.L. Mencken
by TerroristFistJab on Sep 20, 2010 12:32 PM EDT up reply actions
Update:
I happen to be wearing my Markakis jersey tee and she was up front talking to the professor again and as I walked by I did the whole “grab the sides of my shirt and stretch it out and mouth Baltimore to her as I walk out the door” thing.
The stache is back!
by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 12:11 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
If it's her first game, she's probably just clueless about how much it sucks for O's fans.
"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." -- Earl Weaver
I just realized this
The O’s are 3-0 vs. PHN and MFY when I’ve attended, nothing quite as satisfying as seeing all the people that were there, all sad because their team lost.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 11:53 AM EDT reply actions
Could Flacco have looked any effing worse yesterday?
by Wieters Wieners on Sep 20, 2010 12:06 PM EDT reply actions
If he didn't even have the one drive where all the cylinders were firing... that would have been worse.
It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters
by Eat More Esskay on Sep 20, 2010 12:07 PM EDT up reply actions
I think it was easily the worst game of his career.
I just watched ball after ball sail out of bounds or be lobbed softly into Cincy’s secondary. It was freaking pathetic. I sat motionless at the Greene Turtle for hours after the game ended.
I HATE when the Ravens lose…. ruins my whole week.
by Wieters Wieners on Sep 20, 2010 12:14 PM EDT up reply actions
Every team in the NFL has
What I call a shit game, were nothing seems to work, every team except for the 72 Dolphins in the history of the NFL has a shit game at some point during each season, I feel comfortable saying that was our shit game.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 12:21 PM EDT up reply actions
Thats not the problem whatsoever
The problem is Flacco hasn’t shown me shit in three years other than having a rifle. He’s hailed as our franchise guy, but has CONSISTENTLY sucked when it matters. He got owned by the Bengals both games last year and already this year. Cost us games against Indy and Green Bay (and arguably a couple others) by throwing picks in big moments, and simply continues to pad his stats against the shit team in the league. I’ve hated Flacco for well over a year now, and yesterday solidified my opinion that he is NOT an elite QB by any measure and will be an average guy (which is fine with our running game and D).
Just tired of people continuing to talk about how good Flacco is, or can be… He’s been a total waste in big moments.
by Wieters Wieners on Sep 20, 2010 12:24 PM EDT up reply actions
where were you in the 5th round of my draft
to smack some sense into me? I do have D-Mac as a back-up though at least.
I woulda too... I wouldnt have touched Flacco with a 10-ft pole in fantasy.
A quick fantasy aside, I was able to trade for Brady before the first week of the season. Started him and he put up about 30 for me in week 1. Snagged Vick off the WAIVER WIRE minutes after Kolb got hurt and I saw Vick scrambling around like he was back at Va Tech. Had the BALLS to bench Brady this week despite most projections having Brady earn more pts than Vick this week (and despite MATTHEW CLEVELAND’S (twistedlogic) ADVICE TO START BRADY ‘FOR SURE’ ON FACEBOOK, and start Vick.
Paid off for me HUGE! I won by 10 and Vick outscored Brady by 12. I WOULDA LOST!
2-0 BABY – Let the good times roll
by Wieters Wieners on Sep 20, 2010 12:34 PM EDT up reply actions
Guy I was playing against started Vick, I thought I was doomed.
Then Matt Schaub happened.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 12:35 PM EDT up reply actions
I'd say the Raven's D was working yesterday
Falco gave the Bangels plenty of shortfields and they never got into the endzone
by wishEYEhadCRABS on Sep 20, 2010 2:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Out of curiosity
why do you call him Falco?
"Give us 10 points and the game is over...And they didn't score on us. Make sure you quote that. They didn't score on our defense."
"Ray Lewis has lost a step? I don't think so, Ray Lewis is still the best linebacker in football."-JH
by organizedchaos52 on Sep 20, 2010 2:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Have you never seen the Replacements?
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 2:26 PM EDT up reply actions
Nope.
"Give us 10 points and the game is over...And they didn't score on us. Make sure you quote that. They didn't score on our defense."
"Ray Lewis has lost a step? I don't think so, Ray Lewis is still the best linebacker in football."-JH
by organizedchaos52 on Sep 20, 2010 2:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Then you wouldn't get it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Replacements_(film)
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 2:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Another incredibly fun app for the iPhone
(besides Doodle Jump which is obviously the best) is Moron Test. Def get that if you haven’t played it. Its sooooo frustrating but pretty amusing (at least till you beat it).
Also, I got a game called Cube Runner (or something like that) this weekend. Just type in Cube _ (I don’t have my phone in the building), that is sneaky addictive. I’ve already burned a couple hours on it. High score of 641.
by Wieters Wieners on Sep 20, 2010 12:17 PM EDT reply actions
Last Game
I am going to be heading down to the last game. Assuming it will be a bright sunny day and the O’s win, does anyone know if the terrace seats in front of the press box get hit by the sun for the day games in Oct? I am bringing the young-in to her first O’s game (unfortunately her first baseball game was the phillies on Saturday, so I have to bring her to an O’s game so she can keep her options open) and I don’t want her in the sun the whole time. Anyone else planning on attending?
I'll be in sec. 360.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 12:24 PM EDT up reply actions
So, anybody else here way too excited for Civilization V?
Release date is tomorrow, and I pre-ordered it from Best Buy (in-store pickup), so I could get it on the release date. They sent me an email this morning saying that they have it in stock… but that I can’t pick it up until tomorrow. That’s just mean.
"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." -- Earl Weaver
I've been making a concious effort to ignore its existence
lest it ruin my life. At least until christmas.
Hahaha.
I assume you’ve seen the Civilization Anonymous videos? Great stuff there.
I’m not sure how much I’m gonna watch the O’s for the last couple weeks of the season… :P
"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." -- Earl Weaver
I still play Civ Revolution to this day
Love that game.
"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man." ~ The Dude
by PBR me ASAP! on Sep 20, 2010 12:43 PM EDT up reply actions
I have the DS version.
A friend of mine absolutely loves the series, at least through Civ III (he tends to have compact laptops that can hardly do 3D, hence no Civ IV), and it’s his favorite. I like it a lot, too; it’s great if I want to play some Civ, but have the game only last for 2-3 hours rather than a minimum of 5.
"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." -- Earl Weaver
I have the DS version as well. It's actually the only reason I still use the DS. As I stopped playing Brain Age a while ago.
"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man." ~ The Dude
by PBR me ASAP! on Sep 20, 2010 1:02 PM EDT up reply actions
shit, it's already tomorrow?
fuck, where am I gonna find the cash and time for it.
fuuuuuuuuuck
"There's going to be a general lack of toast in the neighbourhood this morning. Many many bewildered breakfast faces."
Fifa 11 for me.
Only one more week. I’m so psyched.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 1:05 PM EDT up reply actions
I would get that
But I highly doubt my parents are gonna spend 180 bucks on video games in 90 days.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 1:07 PM EDT up reply actions
get a job!
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
Get a job!
I’ll sell you my Fifa 10 after I get it.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 1:11 PM EDT up reply actions
We have an echo.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 1:12 PM EDT up reply actions
Well you know what they say,
if two people tell you to get a job then go get a fucking job. Actually no one says that. Get a job anyways. Summers I was framing houses with a carpentry crew when I was 13.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 1:14 PM EDT up reply actions
No need to bring prehistory into this
"On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'" Earl Weaver
I bought rebought Civ IV for my Mac via Steam last night
Just so I could play some Civ game this week. I can’t wait til V is out on the Mac. On the other hand, I’d probably fail out of life when it does.
"There's more Met than Yankee in all of us"-Roger Angell
What do you do in that game
Well other then create a civilazation.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 12:59 PM EDT up reply actions
I mean like how do you do it, what things d you control?
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 1:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Have you never played any sort of turn-based strategy games?
I feel like telling you might be devestating to your ability to talk to girls or ever see the sun again.
by kba26 on Sep 20, 2010 1:03 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
You've just won a rec race victory. Congratulations!
It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters
by Eat More Esskay on Sep 20, 2010 1:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Read this article.
http://pc.ign.com/articles/112/1121614p1.html
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 1:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Reply fail.
That’s for you BSF.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 1:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Seems really in-depth.
I don’t like those sorts of games.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 1:14 PM EDT up reply actions
It is in depth
but it’s one of those games that is a deep as you want it to be. You can keep it fairly simple if that is your style and just build up cities and armies and go about it that way, or if you are into the depth you can get into the diplomacy and trade aspects.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 1:15 PM EDT up reply actions
He's a Penguins fan...
no. fucking. hope.
"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." - H.L. Mencken
by TerroristFistJab on Sep 20, 2010 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions
so many things
i dunno if it’s changed much in V, but you win by either:
1) destroying all other civilizations
2) winning the space race
3) being declared the winner by the United Nations
4) occupying an overwhelming percentage of the planet surface/population
or
5) having the high score at some aribtrary end date (which is super boring)
"There's going to be a general lack of toast in the neighbourhood this morning. Many many bewildered breakfast faces."
Civ IV also had the cultural victory.
Although every time I play any Civ ever, I always end up going for the space race.
It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters
by Eat More Esskay on Sep 20, 2010 1:12 PM EDT up reply actions
I go for space race or world domination.
It is very fun, yet very hard to take over the world.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 1:12 PM EDT up reply actions
oh yeah
having three cities with huge global influence. Never succeeded in that, but it was always fun to dominate another civ’s city with your culture.
"There's going to be a general lack of toast in the neighbourhood this morning. Many many bewildered breakfast faces."
I'm sorry but could you people be bigger nerds?
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
well, I could weigh more, I guess
"There's going to be a general lack of toast in the neighbourhood this morning. Many many bewildered breakfast faces."
nerd answer
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
Meh, I might have played every civilazation game ever made
but at least I don’t play World of Warcraft.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 1:17 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
*plays World of Warcraft*
:(
It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters
by Eat More Esskay on Sep 20, 2010 1:18 PM EDT up reply actions
The scary part is that we could be.
Just think about that. As nerdy as you think we all are… we could be nerdier.
It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters
by Eat More Esskay on Sep 20, 2010 1:17 PM EDT up reply actions
People call me a nerd at school.
Compared to you guys I’m the cool kid, no offense.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 1:20 PM EDT up reply actions
Compared to anyone, you're still 13
and incapable of actually being cool.
by kba26 on Sep 20, 2010 1:20 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I once killed a man.
With my bare hands. Remember that.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 1:21 PM EDT up reply actions
Was this man real?
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 1:27 PM EDT up reply actions
that didn't work for me :(
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
I used a different picture so she could get the idea.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 1:45 PM EDT up reply actions
The first one is close to what I actually have though.
The second person is a hardcore MFer.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 1:47 PM EDT up reply actions
Purple Heart would put you over the
hump for hardcore MFer. Just missed out. Which do you have?
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 1:51 PM EDT up reply actions
Throw a just kidding in there somewhere.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 1:51 PM EDT up reply actions
1. Joint Service Commendation Medal 0
2. Air Force Commendation Medal 0
3. Joint Meritorious Unit Award 0
4. AF Outstanding Unit Award 2
5. AF Good Conduct Medal 1
6. National Defense Service Medal 0
7. Iraq Campaign Medal 1
8. Global War on Terrorism Service Medal 0
9. Air Force Expeditionary Service Ribbon with Gold Border 0
10. AF Longevity Service 0
11. USAF NCO PME Graduate Ribbon 0
12. AF Training Ribbon
I’m missing one on here for military course I had to take on professional developement blah blah blah (but this is copied from my record).
by Wieters Wieners on Sep 20, 2010 1:55 PM EDT up reply actions
The good ole AF Training Ribbon.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 1:57 PM EDT up reply actions
LOL
Pretty much the one they hand you when you get to boot camp.
by Wieters Wieners on Sep 20, 2010 2:00 PM EDT up reply actions
We got National Defense ribbons
after bootcamp for “standing firewatch during a time of war.” I also got a Navy Unit Commendation ribbon for recruiting assistance after boot camp. The rest weren’t really gimmes. Well Good Conduct Medal maybe.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 2:04 PM EDT up reply actions
I hear ya
I agree, there are probably only about 4-5 I’m actually proud of.
by Wieters Wieners on Sep 20, 2010 2:11 PM EDT up reply actions
and before anyone asks
no I do not have all of those medals. That would be pretty bad ass though.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 1:45 PM EDT up reply actions
bwahahaahahaahaha
you are too much sometimes, kid
"There's going to be a general lack of toast in the neighbourhood this morning. Many many bewildered breakfast faces."
I'm as cool as the other side of the pillow.
I’m a Star Wars-quoting, video game-playing, Baltimore-loving, baseball-blogging, comic book-reading motherfucker, and anybody who doesn’t like it can go lick a sweaty goat sack. :)
Sure, I’d never fit in at a frat party… but why would I want to?
It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters
by Eat More Esskay on Sep 20, 2010 1:28 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
A winner is you!
(Rec’d.)
"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." -- Earl Weaver
I am what I am, and I ain't what I ain't.
It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters
by Eat More Esskay on Sep 20, 2010 1:42 PM EDT up reply actions
Seriously.... haha
What happened to just being a traditional fantasy football loving nerd.
by Wieters Wieners on Sep 20, 2010 1:26 PM EDT up reply actions
There are a lot of nerds then.
I think fantasy football is pretty common nowadays.
"Give us 10 points and the game is over...And they didn't score on us. Make sure you quote that. They didn't score on our defense."
"Ray Lewis has lost a step? I don't think so, Ray Lewis is still the best linebacker in football."-JH
by organizedchaos52 on Sep 20, 2010 1:40 PM EDT up reply actions
Could be worse
We could be talking guitar strings.
Now THAT’S a nerd fight, arguing over whether a wound or unwound 3rd string.
"I think it just got country over here." -Tim Wilson
Hell...
I’ve gotten into loud arguments over the order of my effects on my board and my claims that many 1980s Japanese guitars are better than the fucking balsa-wood (exaggerating, obv) American made guitars of the early 90s.
"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." - H.L. Mencken
by TerroristFistJab on Sep 20, 2010 4:54 PM EDT up reply actions
The early '90s
were not the prime years of American guitar-making.
Although I love my Charvel electric-acoustic. They didn’t make them for long, but it’s a great guitar for the money.
"I think it just got country over here." -Tim Wilson
I was reading...
an article in Guitar World not two months ago about Charvel and the resurgence of their brand. I’m currently playing late-70s Japanese Epiphones and love the shit out of them.
"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." - H.L. Mencken
by TerroristFistJab on Sep 21, 2010 10:34 AM EDT up reply actions
Man, Civ II was awesome...
Kinda lost track of the series after that. I remember being dissapointed by III, and I never tried anything beyond that. The new one look any good?
"Real Orioles don't pout. Real Orioles don't gloat. Real Orioles just win."
by NewYorkOriole on Sep 20, 2010 1:56 PM EDT up reply actions
It looks fantastic, honestly.
Some of the big things:
1. No more science slider — science and gold are now generated separately, which frees you up to do a lot more with your gold, such as regularly buying units and buildings, giving gifts to city-states, and even buying tiles.
2. City-states — one-city civs which don’t try to win the game. You can gain influence with them by giving gifts of gold or units, or helping them with various requests (such as attacking a rival city-state), and they’ll give you various rewards (and potentially vote for you in the UN for a diplomatic victory) if they like you enough. Or, you can just take them over, I guess.
3. Hexes instead of squares, and only one combat + one non-combat unit per tile. Ranged units actually fire at range, instead of just having unique abilities in melee combat. Combat in general is designed to be much, much more tactical, rather than just using “stacks of doom”. Cities also expand organically, one tile at a time, rather than in concentric circles.
4. Social Policies — Substitute for governments; similar to Civ IV’s civics, but you didn’t play that. As you accumulate culture, you get to adopt a new policy at each cultural milestone. There are policies for pretty much every approach to the game, and if you adopt enough of them, you can go for a cultural victory.
No, I am not a Firaxis salesman. I just love Civ, and this honestly looks like the best one yet.
"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." -- Earl Weaver
The Social Policies
Sounds a lot like Alpha Centauri – I really liked that feature.
I don’t know but I’ve been told
Deidre’s got a network node
"Real Orioles don't pout. Real Orioles don't gloat. Real Orioles just win."
by NewYorkOriole on Sep 20, 2010 4:02 PM EDT up reply actions
Did anyone watch Boardwalk Empire last night?
"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man." ~ The Dude
no spoilers now
ive got it ready to go when I get home
"There's going to be a general lack of toast in the neighbourhood this morning. Many many bewildered breakfast faces."
I recorded it
I’ll watch it tonight I think.
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Is anyone gonna watch the event on NBC?
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by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 1:06 PM EDT reply actions
It looked intriguing to me. Not sure though.
I’m already watching Rescue Me on netflix and the GF wants to watch 24 next. I’ve seen it all up through season 7 already but don’t mind watching it again. Not sure if I can dedicate time to another series.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 1:08 PM EDT up reply actions
I liked FlashForward and Heroes, so I'd tend to think that I'll like the event.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 1:10 PM EDT up reply actions
No
I’m afraid it’s going to emulate the worst aspects of Lost – ie giving the audience a million clues and never following through with 99% of them. I think Lost has ruined a lot of tv for me.
I didn't watch Lost
So I guess that helps.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 1:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Me either.
And I don’t ever want to.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 1:17 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
it's only ruined TV...
…where the producers think that the winning formula is to have a big mystery that takes 5 seasons to solve and reveal 2 clues every week.
I am so tired of all the LOST knockoffs. The reason LOST worked is that we were all invested in the characters and the idea of being stranded on an island (which is a fascinating construct) BEFORE the smoke monster and polar bear showed up. It was only afterwards that the mysteries started coming, and by then we were already hooked.
All these new shows where they say in advance, “there’s a MYSTERY and we’ll SLOWLY REVEAL IT TO YOU” are doomed to fail.
"I put a pepper rub on the scallops so you have a little contrast. You have sweetness from the coconut oil and little acidity from the splash of lemon." – Luke Scott
by zknower on Sep 20, 2010 1:32 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I noticed that JJ Abrams is coming out with a new show. I’ve at least checked out his shows in the past, even the bad ones like What About Brian?, but fuck him. I’m boycotting his ass. I think I’ve given up on Fringe as well. I just started watching Battlestar Galactica. Hopefully, this show will restore my faith in a show that brings up interesting mysteries and actually answers them.
I've been playing baseball since I was six years old, so that's 40 years I've been on a baseball field and around a baseball field, and so our opinions are formulated through facts, not fiction, not their little chat room jargon.
I have it on my DVR, but I don't think I'll watch it.
Maybe I’ll change my mind.
I've been playing baseball since I was six years old, so that's 40 years I've been on a baseball field and around a baseball field, and so our opinions are formulated through facts, not fiction, not their little chat room jargon.
I watched the first episode of season 1
and the last episode of season 2. Question: what is the mosquito-stuck-in-amber type stuff outside of the alternate universe harvard university?
I dont think theres any like explanation of what its actually composed of
but its basically glue that keeps tears between the universes from opening up.
so that woman with the stroller is like stuck inside of it?
And this is common knowledge in the alternate universe?
Yea.
They use it as propaganda to make the ppl in the alternate universe hate the ppl in the “original” universe.
"Give us 10 points and the game is over...And they didn't score on us. Make sure you quote that. They didn't score on our defense."
"Ray Lewis has lost a step? I don't think so, Ray Lewis is still the best linebacker in football."-JH
by organizedchaos52 on Sep 20, 2010 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions
I watched the first few episodes because someone told me it would be like the xfiles
But Pacey is no Mulder.
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Anna and I are also gonna watch the x-files from start to finish soon.
I can’t wait, I love that fucking show.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 1:52 PM EDT up reply actions
It's one of my all time favorites
I have all but the last two seasons on DVD, since they kinda blew. I keep thinking I’ll get them anything just to finish the set.
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um, delete that anything
I don’t know how it got there.
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I bought all 9 seasons from a local in Iraq for $20.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 1:55 PM EDT up reply actions
wow
Season one of TXF was the first TV on DVD I ever bought and it was one of the first shows to be released that way on DVD. It cost me $120 and it’s so unwieldy. I was so happy with it when I first got it.
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We got everything on bootleg out there.
These aren’t the actual dvds. They are bootlegs and vhs quality (for the most part), but who cares. I also have all the seasons in dvd quality on my hard drive.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 1:59 PM EDT up reply actions
I loved how in season one
Scully is this dowdy science nerd in her ugly ill fitting suits and by the end of the show she’s a total sexpot.
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Yes.
It is one of the best shows ever in my eyes because it follows the ‘different story every week’ plot style that many shows today use (CSI, NCIS, etc), but has many plotlines that run concurrently with each other throughout the series.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 2:06 PM EDT up reply actions
I loved when it was on and they'd show a preview for next week and it was one of the conspiracy episodes
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I love all of the conspiracy stuff also.
Anything that had to do with aliens made the show. Some of the other stuff could get a little weird, but the alien/conspiracy stuff always made up for it.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 2:19 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm totally in the mood to break out my DVDs now
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My GF has the series set of DVDs
Whenever she gets stressed out, she watches an episode and it totally calms her down.
that's awesome
I actually haven’t watched an episode in forever but it used to be one of my go-to DVD sets. I’ve definitely seen every episode multiple times. They used to rerun on Sci-Fi and TNT and I’d watch them a lot but I don’t think they’re on in reruns at all anymore.
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I haven't seen one in a very long time.
It’s unfortunate.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 2:39 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm totally watching one later today
Now that I’m thinking about it.
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Me too. We have a few more episodes in season 5
of Rescue Me left before I can start something new while I wait for season 6 to come out on dvd. I wish I had dvr’d it since it just ended.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 2:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Any sighting of Cigarette Smoking Man
meant I was wishing my life away seven days at a time.
"I think it just got country over here." -Tim Wilson
Favourite line of the series
Everything dies, Mr. Crycek. Don’t change sides at the end, just die.
- CSM
"Fairy tales start 'once upon a time...'. Fishing stories start 'now this ain't no bullshit...'."
- Cap'n Phil Harris
It's also on netflix instant view
if anyone was interested.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 2:08 PM EDT up reply actions
Some of us thought she was a sexpot from the beginning
But then again, some of us dig the chick science nerd look.
"I think it just got country over here." -Tim Wilson
I remember when I first started watching
this December. And the first 5 episodes or so (of season 1) were pretty much the top 5 ways I’d never want to die.
"Give us 10 points and the game is over...And they didn't score on us. Make sure you quote that. They didn't score on our defense."
"Ray Lewis has lost a step? I don't think so, Ray Lewis is still the best linebacker in football."-JH
by organizedchaos52 on Sep 20, 2010 1:51 PM EDT up reply actions
What were they?
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 1:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Well I'm having trouble remembering them.
Not exactly what I want to remember about the show.
The pilot: everyone on a plane’s skin melts off/liquefies
Apparently the second episode was the one where a woman gets pregnant and gives birth to fully grown 8 year old.
I believe one episode involved a bus full of ppl being stuck in amber like a mosquito.
There was a crazy hybrid snake/bird like thing that laid eggs in one of the FBI agent, he lived though.
I’ll go back and look at the different things they had to solve and find the ones that freaked me out the most.
"Give us 10 points and the game is over...And they didn't score on us. Make sure you quote that. They didn't score on our defense."
"Ray Lewis has lost a step? I don't think so, Ray Lewis is still the best linebacker in football."-JH
by organizedchaos52 on Sep 20, 2010 2:00 PM EDT up reply actions
Whoa.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 2:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Is it bad that I am now suddenly interested in this show?
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 2:08 PM EDT up reply actions
No.
It was an awesome show, partly because of all the crazy ways ppl died. I would just never want to die any of those ways. I’ll take dying in my sleep, thank you.
"Give us 10 points and the game is over...And they didn't score on us. Make sure you quote that. They didn't score on our defense."
"Ray Lewis has lost a step? I don't think so, Ray Lewis is still the best linebacker in football."-JH
by organizedchaos52 on Sep 20, 2010 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions
This is Fringe right?
How many seasons are there? Is it currently still on?
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 2:11 PM EDT up reply actions
Yes.
2 seasons totaling about 42 episode. 3rd season starts Thurs I think.
There are 19 50 minute episodes and 1 100 minute episode from season 1, and 22 45 minute episodes from season 2. I think you may be able to watch everything you’d need to in order to watch thursday night if you started now and did nothing else.
"Give us 10 points and the game is over...And they didn't score on us. Make sure you quote that. They didn't score on our defense."
"Ray Lewis has lost a step? I don't think so, Ray Lewis is still the best linebacker in football."-JH
by organizedchaos52 on Sep 20, 2010 2:15 PM EDT up reply actions
I can handle that. lol
I’ve added it to my list of shows to watch. Yes I have a running list of shows I want to one day watch. I love netflix.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 2:21 PM EDT up reply actions
That's completely understandable, I do as well.
I don’t have Netflix, but my friend, who got me into Fringe, does. It’s a much better way to watch a TV show imo. I’d rather watch 12 episodes in a day or two than wait a week (or 3 months, damn you summer!) to see the next one.
Out of curiosity, what’s on your list?
"Give us 10 points and the game is over...And they didn't score on us. Make sure you quote that. They didn't score on our defense."
"Ray Lewis has lost a step? I don't think so, Ray Lewis is still the best linebacker in football."-JH
by organizedchaos52 on Sep 20, 2010 2:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Right now not much.
The X-Files, Boston Legal, How I met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, 24 (already seen it, but the GF wants to watch it), and now Fringe.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 2:27 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh yea
and the Sopranos.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 2:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Add Prison Break to that list
One of my favorite shows ever.
Just effing awesome. All of it.
by Wieters Wieners on Sep 20, 2010 2:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Will do.
I’m really bad with watching tv shows. I always miss them when they start and what not. I’ve set up The Event to DVR the series so that should help. Also I have trouble finishing them. We love The Wire, but haven’t finished season 3 yet and it’s been like a year watching it.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 2:31 PM EDT up reply actions
TV shows
are generally pretty easy to find online.
"Give us 10 points and the game is over...And they didn't score on us. Make sure you quote that. They didn't score on our defense."
"Ray Lewis has lost a step? I don't think so, Ray Lewis is still the best linebacker in football."-JH
by organizedchaos52 on Sep 20, 2010 2:32 PM EDT up reply actions
I used to follow that route
but Netflix has everything.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 2:33 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah
The show ended a year or two ago. But if you have a chance throw it in the NetFlix queue and check it out.
by Wieters Wieners on Sep 20, 2010 2:32 PM EDT up reply actions
I haven't yet
gotten into anything that is on AMC, but I am really looking forward to that zombie show that is coming out next month. Anybody else?
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 2:35 PM EDT up reply actions
oh yes
"There's going to be a general lack of toast in the neighbourhood this morning. Many many bewildered breakfast faces."
What is it called?
Walking Dead? or am I making that up?
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 2:56 PM EDT up reply actions
yep
"There's going to be a general lack of toast in the neighbourhood this morning. Many many bewildered breakfast faces."
I'm currently two behind on Mad Men
I made a date with my friends to have a double feature last night and one of them bailed at the last minute so we didn’t watch it. I’m kinda mad at him.
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oh, last week's mad men
was out-fucking-standing
"There's going to be a general lack of toast in the neighbourhood this morning. Many many bewildered breakfast faces."
This.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 3:19 PM EDT up reply actions
Not sure.
I love mother fucking zombies though.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 3:02 PM EDT up reply actions
short first season
but it might not get picked back up.
"There's going to be a general lack of toast in the neighbourhood this morning. Many many bewildered breakfast faces."
I loved Prison Break
But by the end it got kinda ridiculous.
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OH come off it!
Have you even caught up on FNL yet? New season starts in just a couple weeks!
by Wieters Wieners on Sep 20, 2010 2:34 PM EDT up reply actions
Yes! I'm all caught up!
I watched the entire thing.
And I liked Prison Break the entire time and watched it to the end. I think maybe it’s just that the first season was so phenomenal that the rest couldn’t match up.
That’s how I felt when I watched 24, too. I loved 24, but when I was watching the first season it was SO good, it was one of the best things I’d ever watched. The rest of the series was good too, but nothing like season one.
I think maybe that’s the danger of shows with such a novel concept.
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Season 1 of 24 was great
but it wasn’t my favorite. Come to think of it I can’t really say which was my favorite.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 2:44 PM EDT up reply actions
It's definitely my favorite
As much as I loved 24, it got formulaic. In season one I didn’t know the formula so every episode I said, “HOLY SHIT!” about fourteen times.
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My biggest problem with 24
was that i watched the first 3 seasons in like 2 weeks. After that i was really sick of it.
I watched the first seven seasons in
2 months. I actually haven’t seen season 8 yet after the first 7 episodes.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 2:53 PM EDT up reply actions
I thought they did a good job
starting around season 4 by adding more elements to the show. What was going on wasn’t so cut and dry as it was in seasons 2 and 3. The middle seasons had my favorite characters though. Tony Almeida is my favorite throughout the series, but I out of the secondary characters I really like what seasons 2-5 offered.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 2:51 PM EDT up reply actions
Tony Almeida was my favorite ever!
Until they assassinated his character in the second to last season. I also loved Michelle. She was one of the few women on that show who wasn’t crazy, evil, or incompetent. Plus she was hot.
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I liked Michelle also.
Kate Warner was my favorite love interest of Jack. Tony was shot, but he lived.
As he prepares to kill Wilson, Tony is shot and wounded by Jack and Renee. As the FBI detains him, Tony curses Jack as a coward and a traitor as he is led away into FBI custody.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 3:01 PM EDT up reply actions
I didn't mean that he was assassinated
His character was. What they turned him into was totally awful. Tony wouldn’t have ended up like that.
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I liked that story arc.
After what happened to his wife, I like the route that he went.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 3:04 PM EDT up reply actions
ugh not me
Obvi, but it just didn’t seem right. One of the things I always dug was the Tony and Jack dynamic. I just didn’t buy it.
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I thought the Jack and Tony friendship
stayed in tact. Jack understood what was going on with Tony and sort of sympathized with him throughout the season. He did him a favor by stopping him at the end.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 3:09 PM EDT up reply actions
I also really like Bill Buchanan.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 3:03 PM EDT up reply actions
oh me too. He was bad ass.
and of course Aaron the secret service agent. I couldn’t believe they didn’t bring him back for even a cameo in the last season. He was the only character other than Jack to make it through the rest of the seasons.
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Dont forget about David Palmer
He helped make the first few seasons. I LOOOVED him as President, and HATE Wayne Palmer as President. He appeared so unpresidential all he time…
by Wieters Wieners on Sep 20, 2010 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Definitely.
Wayne Palmer was one of my least favorite characters.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 3:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Wayne Palmer was the worst president!
Although I wasn’t a big fan of that chick president either. But I think maybe I just didn’t like her acting. All she knew how to do was rip off her glasses and say, “MY GOD!”
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Charles Logan was a shitty president too.
Great plot twist with him though.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 3:10 PM EDT up reply actions
He was shitty and evil
the others were just shitty
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Yea forgot about Aaron.
I like crazy season 8 Renee Walker too. I really need to finish that season.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah she was hot
and fucking batshit crazy. She’s definitely hotter in the last season once she goes nuts.
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CTU boss George Mason was my favorite
He followed Jack on the plane that was to dump the nuke, and insisted to take over, since he was dying anyway.
George Mason: You happy in this job, hmm? Believe it or not, I used to want to be a teacher. A long time ago. You know why I didn’t? DOD offered me more money. That’s how I made my decision. So I made myself miserable. And I made everybody else around me miserable. For an extra five thousand dollars a year. That was my price.
"I think it just got country over here." -Tim Wilson
Ah William Shatner.
And that other dude, guy that plays Alan Shore. I only saw a few episodes, but I mostly enjoyed them. Because of those two.
A bunch of kids I go to school with are huge on How I Met Your Mother and Big Bang, didn’t do much for me. Never got into 24.
"Give us 10 points and the game is over...And they didn't score on us. Make sure you quote that. They didn't score on our defense."
"Ray Lewis has lost a step? I don't think so, Ray Lewis is still the best linebacker in football."-JH
by organizedchaos52 on Sep 20, 2010 2:31 PM EDT up reply actions
24 is my favorite show ever.
Must see tv.
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by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 2:34 PM EDT up reply actions
There was a woman
who was given a drug and then her head exploded. That was a particularly nasty one. It happened in a diner, too, and everyone else’s heads exploded as well I think.
They created a huge common cold cell in some dude’s stomach.
They liquefied people’s brains through a computer video.
The snake-bird thing was a chimera, and it typically killed ppl and laid eggs in their dead carcasses.
And then there was the woman who would meet men, take them to her car and drink their spinal fluid.
"Give us 10 points and the game is over...And they didn't score on us. Make sure you quote that. They didn't score on our defense."
"Ray Lewis has lost a step? I don't think so, Ray Lewis is still the best linebacker in football."-JH
by organizedchaos52 on Sep 20, 2010 2:09 PM EDT up reply actions
yeah, see
it’s one of those shows where a 9/11 type disaster happens every week. In a few seasons, would anyone in the US be left alive? I hate shit like that.
They happen in Boston and NYC mostly.
There also weren’t any big disasters. Nothing bigger than a plane or bus full of ppl mostly. Generally, one to five ppl die before they stop it.
Plus, Walter Bishop makes that show worth it.
"Give us 10 points and the game is over...And they didn't score on us. Make sure you quote that. They didn't score on our defense."
"Ray Lewis has lost a step? I don't think so, Ray Lewis is still the best linebacker in football."-JH
by organizedchaos52 on Sep 20, 2010 2:16 PM EDT up reply actions
But it's nowhere near 9/11 size.
How many ppl can be on a bus? A lot less than 3000.
Beyond that, Fringe division is a secret sect of the FBI, and they generally let out a different, more believable explanation of what happened to the public.
"Give us 10 points and the game is over...And they didn't score on us. Make sure you quote that. They didn't score on our defense."
"Ray Lewis has lost a step? I don't think so, Ray Lewis is still the best linebacker in football."-JH
by organizedchaos52 on Sep 20, 2010 2:20 PM EDT up reply actions
Sounds like the show on Spike (I think)
1000 ways to die.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 2:16 PM EDT up reply actions
That's the main reason I couldn't watch any more Fringe. Too much cringe-worthy stuff.
I also felt like, “Well, I already watch LOST.” I understand they’re handling the mysteries differently or whatever but all the gruesome deaths just creeped me out too much. Like the second episode with the pregnant chick, that was awful. I don’t care if it’s fictional, I can’t inflict stuff like that on myself.
Plus in the pilot where they were basically re-using LOST music since it was the same composer was kind of a turnoff.
It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters
by Eat More Esskay on Sep 20, 2010 1:56 PM EDT up reply actions
The 2nd season of Fringe
is much less procedural than the first. Theres still the ‘mystery of the week’ element to it, but the serial storyline is much stronger. I can’t recall if they become any less grueseome though.
Agreed.
Big difference between the two seasons. It went from oh hey look at this nasty thing that happened to actually building a storyline week-to-week.
"Give us 10 points and the game is over...And they didn't score on us. Make sure you quote that. They didn't score on our defense."
"Ray Lewis has lost a step? I don't think so, Ray Lewis is still the best linebacker in football."-JH
by organizedchaos52 on Sep 20, 2010 2:01 PM EDT up reply actions
That's why I stopped watching it too
Too many people were dying way too often. I’m too sensitive to that sort of thing.
About Battlestar Galactica, stop watching it after four episodes in Season 3.
When they leave New C. This will make sense.
Just stop after that. Trust me on this.
It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters
by Eat More Esskay on Sep 20, 2010 1:43 PM EDT up reply actions
All I know is that I've heard really, really bad things about the finale.
Worse than Lost from what I understand.
I've been playing baseball since I was six years old, so that's 40 years I've been on a baseball field and around a baseball field, and so our opinions are formulated through facts, not fiction, not their little chat room jargon.
It's pretty bad. The last season and a half is bad.
The stuff up until there is really great though. Just stop there and then make up your own ending in your head and it will be better.
It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters
by Eat More Esskay on Sep 20, 2010 1:53 PM EDT up reply actions
I didn't watch the end of Lost, so i cant make a good comparison,
but from what i’ve heard its not nescessarily worse, because it is a fairly definitive conclusion, but it was pretty unfulfilling.
For me, the biggest fuck-you ending to a show ever was the U.S. version of Life on Mars. Though in a way it was sorta awesome, since i feel like they rewrote it once they knew they were being cancelled and decided to just mess with the audience.
What event?
It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters
by Eat More Esskay on Sep 20, 2010 1:11 PM EDT up reply actions
The one where the fine people of our country elect the most attractive man in America to be president.
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
Why is he asking if I'm going to watch some shit two years from now?
It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters
by Eat More Esskay on Sep 20, 2010 1:16 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh was that not a smartass Abbott and Costello type question?
If it wasnt, there is a new show on NBC called ‘The Event’
No, I was being a smartass.
Because he didn’t capitalize. Remember your language’s Germanic roots, BSF. Those guys capitalize anything vaguely noun-like.
It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters
by Eat More Esskay on Sep 20, 2010 1:19 PM EDT up reply actions
I love how one post can lead to a whole bunch of other stuff related to that topic.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 3:09 PM EDT reply actions
Good job on that one sport.
Gave us something to chat about today.
The stache is back!
by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 3:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Thank you.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 3:12 PM EDT up reply actions
He got us going about TV and nerdiness.
And hey, why weren’t you in school today, BSF?
It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters
by Eat More Esskay on Sep 20, 2010 3:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Sinius headache.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 3:38 PM EDT up reply actions
They let you stay home for a sinus headache? Sheesh.
It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters
by Eat More Esskay on Sep 20, 2010 3:44 PM EDT up reply actions
Lemme guess, you also went to school walking up hill 10 miles each way.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions
I was going to school unless I had a 100+ fever or I was puking.
That’s just how my folks rolled.
It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters
by Eat More Esskay on Sep 20, 2010 3:47 PM EDT up reply actions
There would certainly be no hanging around on the internet if I was sick
When I stayed home sick it was no picnic.
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
Not too mention
they didn’t have internet.
/ducks.
The stache is back!
by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 6:33 PM EDT up reply actions
He was probably just playing hooky
don’t forget, he’s cool compared to you.
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
Smoking cigarettes behind the 7-11?
It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters
by Eat More Esskay on Sep 20, 2010 3:47 PM EDT up reply actions
like you never did it
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
I still have a sinus infection
I was out of school for three days. Luckily (I guess?) all my homework is on my school’s website, so I made it up OK. Mostly my sick days entailed watching the first eight seasons of Scrubs. Season 9 SUCKS.
I'm back. YAY SUMMER!
Sinius headache.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 3:38 PM EDT up reply actions
double post
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 3:39 PM EDT up reply actions
So remember when I bid on an orange Felix uniform? What was I thinking?
Here I am crossing my fingers that someone outbids me at the last second.
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
HAHAHA.
If I could afford it I would get it and rock that shit like every other day.
The stache is back!
by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 3:27 PM EDT up reply actions
Koji's uniform is up to like $700!
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
That's the highest one by far
Wieters, B-Rob, and Markakis are all right around $450, Adam and Buck are in the $300s, then the rest of the guys only have one or two bids so are right around $250.
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
You're about to pay $250 for an orange Felix uniform?
I guess it’s going to charity, but still.
It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters
by Eat More Esskay on Sep 20, 2010 3:37 PM EDT up reply actions
I know!
I had a moment of pure insanity when I bid. Now I’m stuck unless someone outbids me. It’s actually $260 because when I got there someone had already placed an initial bid. So I’m holding out hope that this dude shows up at the last minute ebay style and outbids me by a dollar or whatever.
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
Also when I bid I thought it was just his jersey, but it's also his pants.
so now I’m envisioning myself just hanging around the house in my full felix pie uniform.
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
by Stacey on Sep 20, 2010 3:40 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Pretty sure the rest of Camden Chat already envisioned you doing this.
It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters
by Eat More Esskay on Sep 20, 2010 3:42 PM EDT up reply actions
I want a picture of that.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 3:43 PM EDT up reply actions
STFU
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 3:44 PM EDT up reply actions
well if I win, I guess that's what I'll do.
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
I'm LOLing at you walking out in public with a Felix Pie uniform on.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 3:52 PM EDT up reply actions
well my house isn't exactly public
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
You wouldn't wear it to a game?
It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters
by Eat More Esskay on Sep 20, 2010 3:56 PM EDT up reply actions
ahahaha can you imagine?
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
well yeah.
the jersey I might wear to a game. But the pants? Yeah…no.
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
I would give you ten bucks
if you wore the full uniform. It’s freaking awesome.
The stache is back!
by Knubles and Bits on Sep 20, 2010 6:34 PM EDT up reply actions
LOL
I actually work with a guy (my little nickname for him is “arch-nemesis”) and his four daughters are only allowed to wear skirts and dresses. No pants.
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
no, just some backwards asshole
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
or possibly a quaker
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Sep 21, 2010 10:00 AM EDT up reply actions
Well... he ain't Cat-lick.
It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters
by Eat More Esskay on Sep 21, 2010 12:07 PM EDT up reply actions
band of brothers FTW
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Sep 21, 2010 1:11 PM EDT up reply actions
I'll have to get some stirrups from the fix is in
to complete the look
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
Koji's is so high because he's Japanese.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 3:39 PM EDT up reply actions
No, he's probably right
Koji’s still super famous in Japan, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if its someone from over there thats buying it.
Yeah.
Japanese guys have such a huge following so someone in Japan is willing to shell out a lot of money to get something that a Japanese player wore.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 20, 2010 4:02 PM EDT up reply actions
where is this auction?
I've been playing baseball since I was six years old, so that's 40 years I've been on a baseball field and around a baseball field, and so our opinions are formulated through facts, not fiction, not their little chat room jargon.
Here
If you click on “View All Rays Items” you can get to the rest.
Baltimore doesn't owe New Yorkers a goddamn thing, except for a fucking beatdown. -Eat More Esskay
Just listened to this on WHYY (Philly NPR station)
It’s a story about what has happened to some of the dogs rescued from Michael Vick’s ‘Bad Newz Kennelz’.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129989424
"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man." ~ The Dude
Posted this on my Facebook as well, and of course, Eagles fan has to chime in with a...
“Well at least he didn’t rape or murder anybody like Ben or Ray. Why do they get a pass?” bullshit.
"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man." ~ The Dude
by PBR me ASAP! on Sep 20, 2010 4:29 PM EDT up reply actions
He's got a point
But what Vick did was disgusting. Still, if you read the police report of Big Ben, it’s fairly obvious the dude’s a major creeper. I do not want to be alone in a room with him.
I'm back. YAY SUMMER!
you were right the first time
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Sep 21, 2010 10:01 AM EDT up reply actions
That's even scarier
The girl he raped was 19 or 20 though…I’m not quite there, which by the way makes it even scarier.
I'm back. YAY SUMMER!
Actually, he does not have a point.
What I posted was relevant to Mike Vick, not general misconduct or criminal activity by NFL players. Willful ignorance of Vick’s past deeds because he now plays for a certain team that one may follow is not acceptable in my view. Vick did his time, paid his debt to society. But that does not mean anyone should dismiss what he did from their memory, or attempt to minimize what he did through moral relativism.
"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man." ~ The Dude
by PBR me ASAP! on Sep 20, 2010 9:25 PM EDT up reply actions
I agree.
And it annoys me to no end when Eagles fans try to downplay his crimes. What he did was sick and disgusting, and honestly I don’t think he should have been reinstated. When’s the last time you heard a convicted felon earning millions of dollars after getting out of jail?
I'm back. YAY SUMMER!
That's a lot of wisdom for such youngster. Well done.
Rub some $100 bills on it, you sell-out. -duck
sarcasm?
anyone who isn’t annoyed by the folks saying michael vick really isn’t a criminal is a flippin’ moron.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Sep 21, 2010 10:04 AM EDT up reply actions
I think the league...
really had no choice but to reinstate him. The NFLPA would (rightfully) be up the ass of the NFL so quick that the league just knew it wasn’t worth the fight. They thought better of it, waited to see if anyone actually bothered signing him, and have put him on notice that any more trouble = harsher punishment.
That said, as an animal lover I have a hard time understanding how anyone can try to justify dogfighting.
"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." - H.L. Mencken
by TerroristFistJab on Sep 21, 2010 10:42 AM EDT up reply actions
Agreed
I don’t think the league had much of a choice. I’m more disappointed that teams didn’t just stay away from him and that once a team took a chance on him the public reaction wasn’t stronger.
Rub some $100 bills on it, you sell-out. -duck
In the NFL at least
wins > anything else. Mike Vick gave the Eagles a better chance to win (not that it helped them). I’m also pretty sure that 70k drunk Eagles fans didn’t care what he did to dogs when they saw him throwing or running for TDs.
"Give us 10 points and the game is over...And they didn't score on us. Make sure you quote that. They didn't score on our defense."
"Ray Lewis has lost a step? I don't think so, Ray Lewis is still the best linebacker in football."-JH
by organizedchaos52 on Sep 21, 2010 12:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Which isn't just true of...
Philly fans, heathens though they are.
As a Skins fan, you’re damn right I’d be happy to see him beat Dallas or the Giants.
"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." - H.L. Mencken
by TerroristFistJab on Sep 21, 2010 12:38 PM EDT up reply actions
I'd have serious problems with him on the Skins...beating Dallas or not...
Rub some $100 bills on it, you sell-out. -duck
I don't know...
on some base level, of course it would feel “icky”, but hey, I’m rooting for a team that uses a race of people for a mascot.
"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." - H.L. Mencken
by TerroristFistJab on Sep 21, 2010 1:24 PM EDT up reply actions
eh...i got over that
vick’s a felon. i’d prefer not to have one on my team.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Sep 22, 2010 9:03 AM EDT up reply actions
i'm not an animal lover
and i still think what he did was disgusting. that’s the part of me that hates sports. nobody cares what he did as long as he can throw (or run) the football. why the heck are guys like benson, vick, and pacman jones still playing football?
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Sep 21, 2010 1:13 PM EDT up reply actions
i think part of the answer is:
the cincinnati bengals still exist. without them, where would the criminals play?
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Sep 22, 2010 9:04 AM EDT up reply actions
why should they rightfully be up the ass of the NFL?
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Sep 21, 2010 1:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Banning players..
is something so serious that the NFL, even as a private organization, would have a hard time justifying the ban in court upon the innevetable appeal.
Just because Vick served jail time doesn’t make his felony worse than other felonies commited by members of the NFLPA that were not banned upon their entry of a guilty plea.
"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." - H.L. Mencken
by TerroristFistJab on Sep 21, 2010 1:28 PM EDT up reply actions
No way! Private organizations do that all the time.
Most companies fire you immediately upon a felony conviction and then never hire anybody with a previous felony conviction in the first place. That’s one of the reasons recidivism rates are so high, because it’s almost impossible for convicts to get decent jobs.
Rub some $100 bills on it, you sell-out. -duck
True, but the NFL...
has no such policy and has had several other players cop out to other felony charges.
"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." - H.L. Mencken
by TerroristFistJab on Sep 21, 2010 4:23 PM EDT up reply actions
I don't think you really need a policy
the problem is just that they keep doing it, so if they don’t do it for any one player it’s going to be tricky.
Also as I said earlier I have less of a beef with the league – I think teams just should have chose not to deal with him (or with any of these guys who do really objectionable things).
Rub some $100 bills on it, you sell-out. -duck
Right on all fronts...
the League would have walked itself into a shitstorm of controversy for banning Vick but letting Ray Lewis, Leonard Little, Jamal Lewis, Dontae Stallworth, etc. back on board.
Somebody always flinches. Much like the way MLB FO’s always talk about exercising financial restraint, some GM with an itchy trigger-finger comes along and gives the Gary Matthews, Jr.‘s of the world some big contract, thus inflating payrolls for everyone. Teams in the NFL, while actively marketing names/faces, still know that the average fan cares more about the team and it’s W-L.
"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." - H.L. Mencken
by TerroristFistJab on Sep 21, 2010 4:31 PM EDT up reply actions
The lines people they draw are weird too
Teams are always willing to pick up a wife beater or drunk driver or two if they fill a need, but nobody would touch Barry Bonds with a 10 foot pole because of steroids a season after he had a 169 OPS+.
Rub some $100 bills on it, you sell-out. -duck
The calculus is bizarre..
The Orioles didn’t do anything (neither did MLB, of course) to BRob, but of course flushed Jay Gibbons and Raffy.
Bonds is an interesting example, especially since he never formally tested positive. The Feds bungled their case against him, and yet he’s blackballed and ARod is still marching on. Big Papi still is playing. Manny failed a drug test and sat out his games and still is playing.
"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." - H.L. Mencken
by TerroristFistJab on Sep 21, 2010 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions
A-Rod is still marching on because he plays for the Yankees
(that’s my explanation for everything)
Oh c’mon, you KNOW Bonds took steroids.
I'm back. YAY SUMMER!
But the point is
there are lots of guys that everybody knows took steroids and they are still drawing a huge pay check and never have a problem finding a job, meanwhile nobody will hire the guy who led the majors in OBP the year before?
Rub some $100 bills on it, you sell-out. -duck
You probably...
aren’t far off – the Yankees are in many way able to absorb whatever media energy surrounds that story and just ignore it.
I’m pretty certain Bonds, along with hundreds of other major stars in MLB and the NFL used steroids and HGH. As a matter of fact, I would hazard a guess that the % of players taking PEDs in MLB is now less than the % in the NFL.
I was just saying that the man never had any due process, he was blacklisted while other guys were caught under the upgraded testing policy, found Jesus, and are still active.
"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." - H.L. Mencken
by TerroristFistJab on Sep 22, 2010 9:25 AM EDT up reply actions
I should add, I posted a caption with the story, saying...
“Lest Eagles fans forget about his past…”
"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man." ~ The Dude
by PBR me ASAP! on Sep 20, 2010 4:31 PM EDT up reply actions
By the way are any of you going to The Rally to Restore Sanity/March to Keep Fear Alive
Sounds hilarious. I love Stewart/Colbert.
I'm back. YAY SUMMER!
That was brought up the other day. A bunch of us (myself included) responded with a 'thinking about it'.
"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man." ~ The Dude
by PBR me ASAP! on Sep 20, 2010 9:14 PM EDT up reply actions
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