What? A celebrity's image/likeness/endorsement being used to boost popularity?

Comparables include:

Pierre, Juan

And because of this we get a GTA4 ad, too.

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Heh. Re Toy's comment at end of previous thread. I know, I always find it a bit comical that players expect God, whichever deity they believe in, to come through for their team. If there is a God, I would expect He/She has better things to do than help the Cowboys.

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What, no one's excited about the Arena Bowl? Go SaberCats!

zzzzzzz.

Like help the Dodgers?

I never watched a game.

Pitfall was the best.

Trading two prospects of this caliber for 200 at-bats of Casey Blake is a ridiculous waste... The Dodgers could improve their situation by playing Blake in the outfield in lieu of Andruw Jones and/or Juan Pierre, as those two are among the worst players in baseball in 2008, and Blake isn't. Playing Blake, or if you prefer, the outfielders ahead of LaRoche is actively hurting your team's chances of winning. This is nothing new for the Dodgers, who have come to value experience over performance, but it is a sight to behold.

1/ Sitting A Jones
2/ dropping Kent out of the cleanup spot.

Can Torre face these two vets and sell 'em on what's best for the team?

Another terrible game is Shaq Fu. The most retarded storyline ever - Shaq goes to Tokyo for a charity game, whereupon he enters a "kung fu dojo"... in Japan. It looks like the writers mixed up which Asian mystique they were going for. The mysterious old master ™ working there tells him he is the one from the stars and must go rescue the boy Nezu from the other realm. So Shaq, being a basketball player, goes to the mystery land and uses kung fu (that he learned in Japan) to beat up the otherworldly creatures to save the boy. And every time he wins he says something like "That was easier than sinkin' a free throw, dawg!" To remind us he is Shaq, blaq, or both.

The hit detection is awful. Controlling the game feels like trying to tug a huge block of lead (encased inside an even huger iron safe) using a piece of twine wrapped around the latter. The stock cast of "fantasy characters" doesn't help much either.

I paid way too much.

ESPN might as well give Favre a channel instead of just a category.

Given Shaq's track record, I would think many, many things fall into that category.

Glad I'm not the only one who remembers.

http://www.nescafeweb.com/

There was a Gemco near DeSoto and Ventura, near where I grew up in Woodland Hills. Went there a lot.

LaRoche optioned, Sweeney activated.

http://www.beloblog.com/Pe_Blogs/prosports/mlb/dodgers/

The Dodgers have optioned third baseman Andy LaRoche a day after doing the same to Blake DeWitt. Pinch-hitting specialist Mark Sweeney is back on the active roster. The 38-year-old is hitting .094 with three RBI in 60 games with the Dodgers. LaRoche was batting .203 with two homers and six RBI in 27 games.

Thoughts?

Thanks for inspiring me to finally listen to Band Of Horses the other day.

1B: whomever
2B: DeWitt
SS: Hu
3B: LaRoche

Did you guys really want LaRoche just sitting on the bench this whole time? It's not like they would sit Pierre AND Jones to give Blake any time in the OF.

I do wish they would just scrap the whole Sweeney lovefest and give someone else a chance though.

Ozuna: 70
Ardoin: 46
Berroa: 40
Jones: 36
Sweeney: -18

It can't be that hard to find someone who could do better than that is it?

Joe Torre said this morning that, ``Right now, we're going with the hot hands.'' Andruw, of course, isn't that right now. Basically, what that means is that Andruw has to wait until someone else cools off until he gets back into the lineup on an everyday basis. ``It means we're trying to win as many games as we can,'' Torre said. Joe also said there could be matchups, such as certain opposing pitchers, that he'll still want to play Jones against. ``(But) we faced two left-handers (Friday and Saturday), and I saw some good at-bats here and there. But there is still a lot of stuff he has to get better at. I'm not speaking out of school, because Andruw feels the same way.''

I know he has nothing left to prove down there, but if he is still in LA's future plans, as Colletti said yesterday, shouldn't he go somewhere he'll actually get to play?

He missed a lot of time due to injury this season, combined with riding lots of pine in LA, he's going to finish 2008 with very few at-bats at any level.

I got both. My favorite songs so far are "The Funeral" and "Cigarettes, Wedding Bands."

Sweeney for LaRoche?

Primal Scream ...

Good news, he didn't hurt himself...yet.

The real outfield starts again today!

May it ever be so for the remainder of the season.

Edit-I lied, three things--great range by Casey! Well, OK, but he did get the out...

Not hoping those guys get injuries, better if they get/stay hot, but just being realistic.

Meantime, LaRoche, DeWitt & Hu you guys play like champs in (hot hot hot) Las Vegas!

Way to work the walk, Bison. Better than the joke batting before you.

Too bad he doesn't know how to lead off.