ps Pearl Jam rocks!

"Flu-like symptoms" was created not to satisfy lawyers as much as it was to be medically precise. Nearly everybody has "flu-like symptoms" at some time. But not everybody gets the "flu." Lawyers don't care. Doctors do. Real cases of influenza have treatments with certain drugs. Most "flu-like symptoms" turn out to be some passing virus and they go away on their own

Don't go to any trouble. I didn't really say anything there I haven't said here.

Then there's another song by Pearl Jam that contains the great and oxymoronic Mondegeen "two-inch Mo Vaughn." Can't remember which song that's in, though.

(If anyone has a chance to see PJ on their current tour, by the way, do it. Awesome show.)

I am scarred for life.

He's beloved in Cincinnati.

But so is that weird chili.

Don't go to any trouble.*

are you kiddimg me!!!

Or he hasn't warmed up enough yet.

Or the Reds just have a slow radar gun.

Or ....

Penny is learning that location is just as important as velocity?

do the evolution is cool

Before my time, so I cite Wikipedia
Koufax showed back up for the 1961 season in better condition than he had in previous years. Over the winter, he decided to start working out and running more. Koufax also decided to find out just how good he could be. During a spring training trip to Orlando, Dodgers catcher Norm Sherry told Koufax the same thing that many others had in the past: stop throwing the ball so hard. In the first inning of the game in Orlando, Koufax walked the bases loaded on 12 straight pitches. Again, Sherry told him to take something off the ball to get better control. Koufax finally listened and struck out the side. By the time he came out of the game after seven innings, Koufax had struck out eight batters, walked five and given up no hits.

I know for fact that the Reds gun is slow.

You got a job calibrating the radar gun in Cincinnati?

toped out at 97.

C Martin (high school)
1B Nomar
2B Lugo
3B Mueller
SS Furcal
LF Betemit
CF Repko (drafted as SS)
RF Martinez

Looks like the answer is 9 if we can find a pitcher.

Nice hit Brad.

24. StolenMonkey86
Is Penny still throwing up in the upper 90s?

In a little honky-tonky village in Texas
There's a guy who plays the best piano by far
He can play piano any way that you like it
But the way he likes to play is eight to the bar
When he plays, it's a ball
He's the daddy of them all

The people gather around when he gets on the stand
Then when he plays, he gets a hand
The rhythm he beats puts the cats in a trance
Nobody there bothers to dance
But when he plays with the bass and guitar
They holler out, "Betemit Daddy, eight to the bar"

A-plink, a-plank, a-plink plank, plink plank
A-plunkin' on the keys
A-riff, a-raff, a-riff raff, riff raff
A-riffin' out with ease
And when he plays with the bass and guitar
They holler out, "Betemit Daddy, eight to the bar"

He plays a boogie, he plays eight to the bar
A boogie-woogie, that is the way he likes to play on his piano
And we all know
That when he plays he puts them all in a trance
The cats all holler "Hooray"
You'll hear them say, "Betemit Daddy, eight to the bar"

Almost as good as the one about Dave Winfield's head rolling back toward the infield.

83 - I forsee the NL being disbanded if the wild card team is any criterion, no matter who that team is.

(Since I've never seen the movie, I'm gonna have to use the only quote I know about it to feign knowledge)

81 Sometimes reading the comments here is like trying to unlock the Secret of acroNIMH.

Oops, Furcal'd.

- Abraham Simpson

I assume he's faster.

Its getting annoying, as I already have a season ticket package and have told the previous two gentlemen the same thing. grrrrrr.

I'm still racking my brain trying to remember which song has that Mo Vaughn line in it.

I'd actually pay to see that Bob.

Seconded. Its the only song of thiers I can tolerate, actually.

I heard the only people that now what the song means are the band members.

Berkeley is a lot different from 1987-88 when I went there.

For starters, there weren't any Starbucks. And there wasn't much development around 4th Street.

I wanted to go up to the sign on Oxford that read "University of California" and add a ", Berkeley" to it.

If you are dining at the restaurant half of Chez Panisse, I recommend you get whatever they deem worthy of putting in front of you.

My rental car, which was supposed to be something small, turned out to be a Chrysler 300, which is the size of a container ship and was not conducive for driving around Berkeley, which is the city that leans left in everything political, but makes it very hard for any car to turn left.

(Argh.)

Even after having read that, I really don't understand the song any better.