Really?

I would not have bet on that.

Her daughters are not attractive to me, so I will not be watching their reality television show.

I am very shallow.

Reality show producers count on viewer shallowness. They'd be lost without it.

I read not long ago that they were indeed still married. I also seem to remember a story that after Niedenfuer was done with the Dodgers, Judy Landers called Whitey Herzog, and that's how Tom wound up his career with the Cardinals.

I always thought he was a good pitcher and got a bad rap over the 1985 playoffs. Without him, the Dodgers might not have gotten there in the first place. And does anybody remember that Fernando used to call him "Foo-Foo"?

Even Top Chef has Padma Lakshmi.

The guy who gave it 5 stars is 11 for 11 in "usefulness."

But what is the usefulness of saying a review is useful?

"Telephone, Whitey"

"It's the seventh inning!"

"It's Judy Landers"

"Judy Landers?! I'll be right there ..."

He called Sickels and "Moron Loser" for this offense.

All I know is that as a result of it all Sickels has decided to take a few days off, thus delaying the posting of his opinion of the Dodgers' Top 20 Prospects.

I don't blame John. He can do what he likes. But I hope that troll is on the top of Santa's naughty list.

Theres no way Jed Freaking Lowrie is an A- prospect.

But I even as you hold that opinion, I doubt you'd visit Sickels' site and call him a "Moron Loser." I expect you would calmly and rationally explain your point of view, and when Sickels stuck by his guns with that grade, you would agree to disagree. You would not accuse Sickels of Red Sox fanboyism.

Do I have it wrong?

They can also be annoying and even irritating especially if one feels the need to do battle with them.

Another couple to have gone 20+ years of wedded bliss is Dan Ackyrod and Donna Dixon.

No thats right.

Next month will be 50 years for those two.

Sorry... is that still funny? It was, once.

The reality show thing scares and depresses me. The Landers family depresses me. But if it gave Tom Niedenfuer 20 happy years and helped him forget his troubles, I'm all for it. I always liked him, despite the jack to Jack.

http://www.sarasota.k12.fl.us/rhs/RHSVolley/niedenfuerbio.htm

31 - Yes, sisters.

It was not unlike "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" with the printer playing the Elizabeth Taylor part and me being Richard Burton.

Of course, there are other factors at work, who will be better years down the line, three-four years of Furcal versus six from Hu, etc. Once again, we're not building the best team for the money, we're building the best team, period.

Not only is the guy the handsomest man ever. I mean, gorgeous, into his seventies. That's not enough.

He also has not one but TWO guy-fantasy jobs: movie star and racecar driver. And he's fantastic at both, a legend in his fields. But no, that's not enough.

He also is married to a woman just as gorgeous and talented as he is and their love flies in the face of Hollywood scandal and breakups. They seem really really happy. But that is also not enough.

He also decides that he's going to start another business: selling food products with his face on the labels.

And the food products, by and large, tend to be really good and good bargains and worth the money -- not just cheap efforts to cash in on his fame and face.

But that is also not enough.

He then takes all the profits, every penny, from that food business and gives it all to charity.

And what charity? Kids with cancer. You really couldn't pick a more worthy cause. Kids with cancer is maybe the saddest thing.

How can I compete with that? How'm I supposed to just go through my life knowing that Paul Newman is out there?

For the record, I'd happily trade Tom Niedenfuer's marital bliss for a pennant.

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I wish I could say one of my favorite Simpsons lines that involves Paul Newman.

And I agree with Humma, it's hard to compete with that man's life.

But that's it. And it's possible that all three are negated by the sheer awfulness that is A Stranger Among Us.

Hud
Cool Hand Luke
Hombre
The Left Handed Gun
The Hustler
Harper
Butch Cassidy
Slap Shot
The TV version of Bang the Drum Slowly

Story about the Verdict. William Goldman tells this story in Adventures in the Screen Trade.

So Mamet is working on the draft of the screenplay of "The Verdict." And everybody's excited. They've got Lumet. They've got Newman. They've got Mamet. It's Oscar time, baby. And Mamet turns in his first draft of the screenplay. Of the movie that would be titled "The Verdict." And they get to the end -- and it's all "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, have you reached a verdict?" "We have, your honor."

And the movie ends.

I'd add Road to Perdition to the list of Newman movies not to be missed.

Its true, while I am sure there have been some bad stuff written about him, he is the embodiment of the line from the "Christmas Carol," {Newman's] business was mankind.

I always liked the part where after Newman gives his closing, Jack Warden squeezes his arm. We don't need to hear the words, we know he means, you nailed it.

Straight Man is fun, but if you have to whittle it down to two, it can wait.

I never thought DT would get borderline close to NSFW.

80 But doesn't that say as much about the Mariners as anything?

I pretty much believe now that if the contract will make your team better for it's duration, taking into account what the money spent on one guy prevents you from doing in the future, then it's a good deal.