Doesn't that also describe Dodgers baseball?

5 - Award shows are about the one chance you have all year of seeing the writers' faces.

Should a team be able to name a stadium for a guy who had nothing to do with their organization?

George Vescey had a long piece about the Mets new stadium today and why it should be called Jackie Robinson Stadium.

I like George Vescey a lot, but I don't agree with him here.

Barry Manilow?

I even knew he was going to win and I'm still surprised.

I gave him too much publicity on this site, obviously.

12 - Yeah, Bob was talking about that earlier.

Sports are a special litmus test for that sort of question.

I don't think Jackie came back to the L.A. area much. He hated Pasadena according to the Rampersad bio.

Jackie Robinson is probably my all time favorite player and it's definitely an honor he deserves, but like I said, it seems strange to me.

Of course, I also didn't like the idea of all of baseball retiring 42 either.

It fits, I tell you! It fits!

Ultimately, the Mets new stadium will just be nothing more than the place where the Mets play.

I'm just not going to do it.

I'd like to thank you for not using profanity or any euphemisms for profanity ..

1) TiVo several episodes of "The Office"

2) Wait for Awards show to start

3) Watch several episodes of "The Office"

I'm moving on to "Mission: Impossible" reruns. The bad guys are almost going to walk in on Greg Morris while he's doing whatever he's supposed to be doing.

I hope he gets away.

1. Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling Using Stata
2. Applied Multivariate Statistics for the Social Sciences
3. Regression Models for Categorical Dependent Variables Using Stata
4. Applied Statistics and the SAS Programming Language (4th edition, in case you want to coordinate with my reading)
5. Multilevel Analysis: An Introduction to Basic and Advanced Multilevel Modeling
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Tonight is not about you, It's about the beautiful people (to whom you must never, ever talk). Get your priorities in order.

I hate them because they're beautiful

And they came in. And ran an audit. But Martin Landau had to pass himself as an auditor too.

BTW, kudos to Jean Smart and Gregory Itzin for their nominations in best supp. actress and actor for "24".

On another note, I second the notion that 6 episodes of Andre Braugher is better than none.

Sacheen Littlefeather will be accepting this non-award on my behalf. Thank you.

27 - Just be glad you didn't catch Farrah Fawcett at that Shatner roast! Even Uhura looked younger than she did.

And is that the same Ellen Burstyn that was in The Exorcist way back when?

Top prospect Joel Guzman, traded to Tampa Bay for infielder Julio Lugo, is batting .210 with three home runs, 20 strikeouts and three walks in 62 at-bats for triple-A Durham.

Navarro is doing so-so, nothing great. Typical weak-hitting catcher. Perez is horrible, as expected. Ledee and Cruz aren't working. The rest of them are injured.

Colletti needs to watch out for overconfidence. There's going to be a Joe Nathan or Francisco Liriano popping up somewhere for him, someday.

So far Colletti seems to have really good judgment on which prospects to trade (Guzman, Navarro, Jackson, Tiffany, Aybar) and which to hold onto (Kemp, Martin, Billingsley, LaRoche, Elbert). Presumably part of the credit for this should go to Terry Collins or somebody.

..unless you hit [Caps Lock].

yeah, but it's 62 at-bats right after a big change of scenery for a young player. heck, endy chavez is OPSing .946 in his last 65 at-bats. baseball is a streaky game. guzman isn't doing well, sure, but i don't think the final chapter of that trade is written yet.

I had a very long weekend...

Pedroza: .311/.457/.554 in 74 ABs for Visalia
Ruggiano: .327/431/.615 in 104 ABs for Montgomery

Which proves the old baseball adage, "nobody knows anything."

Your Jose Cruz update: he's chilling on the couch with a beer in his hand.

I'm really sad that Mondesi became a congressman, otherwise, I could have just said that he's chillin' with Raul.

Chillin' with Raul has been a running joke for me ever since he abondoned the Pirates, and now he had to go and ruin it.

Did anybody catch the "suit" Steve Phillips on Baseball Tonight. So now he's on the Reds bandwagon for the Central and the Padres in the West with the Dodgers as the WC. Wait till next week, he'll be touting the Giants as West winner and Marlins as the WC.

As for this week, coming off a 4-5 trip with 2 out of 3 in SF and AZ sandwiching a miserable 3 game sweep at the hands of the Friars. Penny hopefully gets back on the beam tonight, (No Rick Reed sightings, please)! I have tickets for Tuesday when the weak link Hendrickson goes, okay on the road, miserable at home. Hendy is one of the few pitchers in baseball that the Chavez Ravine mound seems to be a detriment.
Hoping we take 2 at least from the Reds and that we can beat up on the Rockies over the weekend. Only one exclamation point, Jon, (seems to happen when discussing an umpire).