And can we have some love for my Crimson, who beat the tar out of George W. Bush University today in New Haven, not only destroying their perfect season, but taking the Ivy League title in the process?

"386 - Terry's Bench Coach blog was one of my favorites. It was a shame when that went away."

You, sir, are far too kind. Far too kind.

"That top post is more than four thousand words long. Which makes me suspect Terry A., except I don't think he's old enough."

HA! I thought just yesterday that I should repost the record-holding post (316 words, IIRC). But I wasn't sure anybody remembered the achievement. We're about three weeks from its one year anniversary.

No streakers this year?

I think my record, if indeed it still stands, is for the longest single sentence.

But "lucid" may be giving it too much credit.

http://tinyurl.com/2b5hnb

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Strike, you sure you don't have triplets?
Anyway, they can't go wrong with either school.

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I love the artist rendering of both Eckersley and Gibson in Gibby's Homer. I should go out and make some children just so I can read that to them. Speaking of which, any word from Humma re: Spawn Of...?

An outfield of Rowand, Kemp, and Eithier with Young and Repko as the backups works for me. I personally would keep third open for LaRoche as I still think he is going to be a relatively good everyday major league third baseman. Also, think Young has a bat we could really use, although he reminds me of Antonio Perez for some reason.

So which schools could replace Oregon State?
San Diego State
Colorado Boulder
Utah
BYU
Nevada

New Mexico would be an awesome addition to the conference, but that's probably pushing it in terms of distance.

Oregon State for years was one of the best teams in the conference not named UCLA. They could become good again.

http://tinyurl.com/yocxlb

http://tinyurl.com/2wccnk

Of course now, USC has a very good chance of winning the Pac-10 and going to the Rose Bowl.

After Juan Pierre comes the Los Angeles Kings and then why isn't there an NFL team in L.A.

Add the Dodgers to the list of teams pursuing Mike Lowell...

http://tinyurl.com/3bdr69

They have seen A-Rod go back to the Yankees, leaving more money on the table had he just negotiated the extension. And now, teams seem very willing to wait for the arbitration deadline to aproach and see if teams offer it to their marginal free agents before signing them.

Lowell reportedly has a 3 year offer on the table from the Red Sox and I seriously doubt he will get another team to bump that up a year (which he wants so he can go back to Boston).

It even has a librarian in a supporting role.

I wouldn't give up any of the Dodgers best young players for 2 years of Cabrera. I want to work toward a ten year team.

That's about as long a sentence as I can write and stay somewhat coherent.

About the only impact is that BYU doesn't want to play on Sunday. The basketball tournament finishes on a Saturday, so I'm not sure this is a big deal.

It's a Festivus miracle!

But I'm more worried about gpellamjr's disapproval of my pronoun use.

Bugs: It's true, Doc; I'm a rabbit all right. Would you like to shoot me now or wait 'til you get home?
Daffy: Shoot him now! Shoot him now!
Bugs: You keep outta this! He doesn't have to shoot you now!
Daffy: He does so have to shoot me now! [to Elmer] I demand that you shoot me now!

[Elmer raises his gun. As Daffy sticks his tongue out at Bugs, he is shot. Daffy walks back over to Bugs, gunsmoke pouring out of his nostrils]

Daffy: [to Bugs] Let's run through that again.
Bugs: Okay.
Bugs: [deadpan] Would you like to shoot me now or wait till you get home.
Daffy:[similarly] Shoot him now, shoot him now.
Bugs: [as before] You keep outta this, he doesn't have to shoot you now.
Daffy Duck: [re-animated] Hah! That's it! Hold it right there! [to audience] Pronoun trouble. [to Bugs] It's not "he doesn't have to shoot you now", it's "he doesn't have to shoot me now"
[Pause]
Daffy: [angrily] Well, I say he does have to shoot me now!! [to Elmer] So shoot me now!
[Elmer shoots Daffy again]

It would be a great deal...for the Dodgers.

That would be amazing.

I think I shall change my handle to "ColumbusDodger".

I think I'm going to abandon subject-verb agreement. And the use of the objective case.

It seems to favor the Dodgers quite a bit, but it does almost look believable. Pierre might fit Guillen's style, and they (Sox) may not want to spend upwards of $75 million to sign one of the available CF's when they could have Pierre for essentially $6 million a year factoring in Garland's contract.

Jerry Owens, Darin Erstad, Luis Terrero, Brian Anderson, et al.

Sox's hunt for OF is on

>> In addition to landing a center fielder of Hunter's caliber, Williams must retool a horrendous bullpen and possibly acquire an accomplished leadoff hitter. <<

http://tinyurl.com/2dnloz

Stranger things have happened. And, as someone may have mentioned, perhaps this was the deal Colletti referred to where the team (Sox) got cold feet?

Bob Gebhard
Dan O'Dowd
Brian Sabean
Jim Hendry
Dave Dombrowski

For fun, can anyone post any other rumors that had the Dodgers coming out on top?

For fun, can anyone post any other rumors that had the Dodgers coming out on top?

Meloan is a small price to