"All postseason games, All-Star games and that, will be full-length affairs, and the rule will be so written," Selig said Thursday following an owners' meeting.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3715896

I can't wait for the 25th inning for the Next all-star game. This time it counts!

I think your roster cannot technically have more than 40 players before the Rule 5 draft, but after that.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=jp-furcal112008&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

Will he sit out a year (without pay, as opposed to with it) if no one offers him more than 3 years...?

Go Dodger Blue!

Did you notice the "golden arches" in right-centerfield of the main stadium...?

Its amazing their style works in the Pac 10. UCLA's like the anti-Pac 10 team.

Strasburg reminds me a lot of Mark Prior - a truly dominant right-handed college pitcher with troubling mechanics: Bad arm action combined with slow tempo. I predict a steady loss of velocity over the first few years of his career leading to him dropping his arm slot and then a major shoulder injury.

Harsh!

Only Lute Olsen did not give a crud about defense and now he is gone.

Oregon still tries to run and gun to a certain extent as does Washington.

When in doubt, foul.

Still, 12 pages must be wrought. I hope Andruw Jones nightmares keep a few of you up with me, at least until the morning shift arrives.

I knew the Pac 10 would be down in hoops, but wow.

...No, not really. Tim Floyd's is just that slimy.

well despite a bruin loss that wasn't entirely unexpected, the kings and lakers are up..what a big sports night

Bright side. : )

The more the ball is in Jrue Holiday's hands, the better we are.

I think the fact that Tracy posted more tonight about the game helped.

Hey everybody! I just got back from the game at Staples Center. I made a stop at the grocery store before returning here in SB.

What a great Kings game! Thankfully I got to visit the in-house sports bar during intermission to check on the Lakers. but back to hockey: Ovechkin is the real deal. This guy's got skills, moves, and a really hard slap shot. The puck just flies off his stick.

Kopitar, Brown, and Doughty are pretty good too, from what little I've seen. I still can't believe that seat. I bought a "college night" ticket today and picked it up at will call. When I got to my $40 seat, it was even CLOSER than I originally imagined. Center ice, too. It was like being in the 3rd or 4th row of a concert. Truly an amazing experience I highly recommend, a Kings Hockey game. So much fun! I can't wait to go back.

If they even make the playoffs, I consider the season a huge success. I don't know much about hockey, like all the rules, and stats and so on, but it does simplify the ability to follow the team. I forget who called them "the Devil Rays of hockey" but that's an accurate statement. btw good crowd tonight with the Caps in town; not a sellout, but close.

ps: Kings beat the Caps... Ducks get blown out by the Caps. Advantage, KINGS!!!

Are there any DT-quality-level sites for the Kings, or hockey in general to begin learning from?

See this is why I feel bad about hockey. I loved the Kings when I was young and Gretzky was on the team, then the Sharks came to be and I love sharks, so I liked them too. Then the Mighty Ducks came and I loved the movies, so I liked them too. Then the Kings adopted Sacramento Kings colors, which really angered me. Then Anaheim became the Ducks and I hated them and this hot girl I TA'd with was a huge Sharks fan, so I became an even bigger Sharks fan.

So now I am stuck in a glass case of emotion, because I get to see the Sharks all the time and love the players, but I have a soft spot for Kings, but they are enemies!!! This is why I cannot consider myself a true hockey fan.

Someone please make an alternative to ESPN's monopoly on sports. I guess my best hope is Fox, uggggghhhh.

Meanwhile, the Southwestern Athletic Conference is 1-23. Praire View A&M sits in first place, with its gaudy 1-4 record.

What the heck is this guy doing to those poor birds? He grabs the live turkey and sticks it upside down, head first into some kind of killing machine. But the machine doesn't kill the turkey right away: it takes it time (for reasons that are completely unclear). You can see one of the turkeys really struggling and kicking its legs around, but for some reason it doesn't die: it's held in place in the machine, presumably suffering and in agony.

Human beings are some piece o' work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPDrC1FjjDk

* Employees stomped on turkeys' heads, punched turkeys, hit them on the head with a can of spray paint and pliers, and struck turkeys' heads against metal scaffolding.

* Men shoved feces and feed into turkeys' mouths and held turkeys' heads under water. Another bragged about jamming a broom stick 2 feet down a turkey's throat.

* A supervisor said he saw workers kill 450 turkeys with 2-by-4s.

* One man said he saw a coworker fatally inject turkey semen and sulfuric acid into turkeys' heads.

A vegan Thanksgiving sounds better every day.

Sad doesn't begin to cover it.

Yeah, I think that's probably right.

I would think good supervision would be needed to keep the workers that have to kill hundreds of animals everyday from from going into the crazy zone and mistreat the turkeys

I also think you're probably right that killing animals everyday can't be good for a person's mental health. Course, you probably have to have some mental health "issues" to choose that line of work in the first place, although I suppose some people just need the money and feel like they have no other alternatives. But I don't doubt some of the worst abusers were attracted to the job because it gave them an opportunity to abuse animals with impunity.

In college I met several Viet Nam vets that usually wouldn't talk about their experiences there. They seemed to think no one would understand understand they were there. One example given about dealing with the stress had to do with injecting rats with motor oil. That didn't go over well with those hearing the story and that is one of the reasons the vets don't talk much about vet experiences to non vets.

"So, Ricky, what do you do"
"I invented a way to kill Turkey's without human intervention".
"Huh....."

103 Is this thread still current?

Albert Einstein (not the Albert Brooks version) never wore socks that matched. Why? Because it just wasn't important to him.

I take my lead from him.

For the guy who asked about Kings sites online, there's:

1) http://www.insidesocal.com/kings

-run by the beat writer for the LA Daily News; basically like Tony Jackson's site except Rich Hammond is cool; usually posts full interviews with players, coaches and GMs

2) Letsgokings.com and Hockey's Future

-both have a pretty active forum that brings together information from everywhere else; kind of annoying, but useful

3) www.frozenroyalty.net

-usually has quotes from players and game recaps that are more extensive than AP

4) www.battleofcalifornia.blogspot.com

-Fan's perspective, writer's mom doesn't understand why he has to curse so much (full disclosure: that's me)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8DTSPzU0RI

Truth of the matter is that I love animals and love to eat them too. Hmmmm, tasty!

Veg is a choice I respect but find the holier than thou attitude of most Veg folks I meet tiresome and their tone pedantic at best.

I wish I was into hockey more. They have playoff beards, and the whole "handshake after a playoff series" tradition (although Jim Tracy tried to bring this to MLB in 2004). Plus, hockey jerseys, er, sweaters seem more socially acceptable to wear in public than those of other sports.

And then there would be less captive animals and thus less global warming.

Close a zoo.
Save the environment.

No discredit to those who are affected and will enjoy their tofurkey--it's a healthy and commendable diet choice. But me and Double Doubles are too close of friends.

Yeah, I kind of feel the same way.

I'd never apply for a slaughterhouse but I also wouldnt give up steak, chops, wings, fish, or burgers.

If PETA wants to protect near instinct animals, I understand. I have a problem when they try to disrupt commerce & trade.

I've always wondered if PETA believe in neutering & spaiding pets? Bc, if anything is cruel & unusual, its that. However, it does help to control the pet population which is good for society.

Controlling the human population would be good for society too, though most people who use this rationale to justify keeping animal populations low (e.g. through hunting) don't seem to apply it to humans, for whatever reason.

The latter isn't useful too much yet, but the technology behind it is incredible. Take a picture of any piece of media's cover (Book, CD, DVD, Video Game) and within a minute, it spits back to you links to Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, Wikipedia, etc. The end after it identifies the result is somewhat lack luster--but if I have to imagine it won't be too difficult to turn the technology into a Delicious Library-esque archiver and a much more in depth price-comparison tool.

Do you guys have last.fm accounts or anything like that?

my last.fm is gyberoarke, though It's semi-skewed. I listen to a lot of certain things on repeat (Wester Singer-Songwriter stuff), which while my favorite stuff, isn't preferred over some of the other stuff I listen to. On # of players however, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Smog dwarf anything that wishes to get in their way.

My last.fm is also "fanerman" I think. It's also skewed to music I listen to as I fall asleep (lots of Brian Eno) and music I wake up to as an alarm clock. When I'm at work I use my mp3 player and that doesn't get synced to last.fm, so the stuff I listen to at work doesn't show up. That comprises a lot of my listening, so it's a messed up sample. Oh well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-wF-kDjmQA

Which isn't really a bad or false impression, but still!

http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/products/meat-quality-standards.php

There appear to be 2 Whole Foods stores in Pasadena.

http://www.officetally.com/frame-toby-deleted-scenes

From the Ball Don't Lie thing at Yahoo.

If the MMJ fans of the board haven't checked out Fleet Foxes' debut effort, I strongly recommend them to.

Thanks. My sister-in-law's fiance's dad is one of the meat buyers for Whole Food's. You would think I could get a discount.

http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/11/mike_downey_out_at_chicag_1.php

Except I have never met him, and there appears to be a reason for this.

Is Modest Mouse from here too?

And we got ourselves literally dozens of stoplights now!

Dido's voice is remarkable as well, and I'm really getting into her new album. I really appreciate that she writes her own music, and even plays the piano, guitar, and drums on her new release.

1. GS/NY - Harrington for Crawford
2. NY/LAC - Tim Thomas and Cuttino Mobley for Zach Randolph.

Both significantly help the Lebron pursuit, but really mucks up my fantasy team that has Randolph and Camby.

For players who sign that are 18 and younger, the first year they have to be protected is after their 5th professional season (earliest eligible players would be those who were drafted and/or signed as a amateur free agent in 2004). For those that are 19 and older, you need to be protected after your 4th season, which in this case would be those starting in 2005.

At the game last night, I noticed the little booths behind the goals are missing.

Do they not use goal judges behind the net anymore?

Maybe the booths were there and I couldn't tell from my vantage point, but I am not sure.

That would surprise some people.

The majority likes their Double Doubles and music I've never heard of.

Any singer capable of playing the piano, guitar, and drum parts of his or her own composition at a level acceptable for publication wrote a boring song.

A double meat, protein style (lettuce instead of bun) without spread is only 260 calories and still quite tasty.

Fascinating! and a great idea for lunch!

Eric, would a ketchup/mustard substitution have an impact on the calories?

Wrong.

176 - you know, I hadn't thought of ordering one that way, but that's a great idea!

Here's something amazing: In-N-Out, which for years didn't acknowledge their secret menu items, not only has a web page for them now, but registered them as trademarks, too!

http://www.in-n-out.com/secretmenu.asp

173 Is this really what you mean to say? The counter-examples number in the thousands.

P.S. Is self-LAT'ing a sin?