(I'll take a Cinnamon Swirl one please)

I am more interested in hearing about the son of Jesus, who if he exists, is probably available.

19 year old son from a 35 year old Pedro. Wowza.

Let's see. You've got a poor, likely not well-educated young man in a country where there likely isn't a lot of access to birth control....

You do the math....

Why? What's the significance? I DON'T KNOW!

Which I will not be engaging in.

Sincerely,
Bob Timmermann

Get more list. More list!

Sigh.

Mitchell Butler.

(I'm getting a jump on somebody else's brilliant hindsight.)

A bit of victory to report. Wendy Selin writes:

"I was at the school that was carrying the signs and hula hoops, I was picking up the Nutrition Network logs from Carver Middle School. I am a Union member, but I did not talk to any of the staff because the camera crew was filming. I would address this question to the UTLA Union for an explanation. Sorry I could not give you the information you requested...."

So, anybody know anybody at Carver? I submitted the question to the unreliable-looking embedded email form in the UTLA website, but, if somebody else had the means and the willingness to do a little groundwork. . .[bats eyelashes]

Then again, with those two blown free throws, he might have just hurt his chances. Collison might be lonely tonight as well.

!!!!!!

very nervous now.

The Greatest College Basketball Team Ever beat South Carolina easily.

Ohio State, Wisconsin, and UCLA all squeeked out wins.

Young hits the three-pointer at the buzzer!

There is only one thing that should be referred to as "Big"...

David Eckstein's heart.

http://tinyurl.com/yydfe8

I hate players that run after the whistle. Especially the guys that pick up incompletions and run the other way, looking back every three seconds.

That could well be true, but I was wondering if the article had been written several weeks ago and was just waiting for the news to be official.

They aren't shooting well.

http://nydailynews.com/front/story/488357p-411202c.html

The Greg Brock list of wiseness:
Gandhi
Dali Lama
Tom Cruise
The second Wise Man
Wisey McWiserson
Deepak Chopra
Kurt Rambis

And he's a professional educator! He should be handle to it!

I will correct Xeifrank no more forever.

I lost my nerve.

Of course, if this had been a baseball player, Ryan would have told us of the incredible shame that the player would have faced for taking steroids. And how the entire game would be suspect.

My fourth grade spelling be championship means nothing. I think I threw away the ribbon. It's all pointless now, this spelling of the words correctly. If there is a spelling nihilism, then I am a spelling nihilist.

Sometimes you just serve them up on a tee.

Or perhaps a te.

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/12/2338259

{Bangs head on desk}

Yutaka Fukufuji played the final period in goal for the Kings in their 6-5 loss to the Blues in St. Louis. All fans in attendance at the game got free food.

They also had to watch the Kings and Blues play each other.

Alas, just a football game.

Please refrain from barreling into me with such force. If the Lord wanted my heart to be on the right side of my chest he would have put it there.

Sincerely,
Reggie Bush

"He should be handle to it!"

Could you translate that from Timmermannese to English, or Middle English, or something?

Hey, what do you expect from a twerp?

That was a Great playoff game. Looking forward to the ice bowl tomorrow. For some reason I like football in terrible weather.

He wore good socks.

Here is the printable portion of her opinion about UTLA:

End of opinion.

Four more weeks 'til pitchers and catchers!!

Not as strong as Pedro or Pedro Jr's, and he tested positive for catnip. Well-clawed, though. And a better free throw shooter than Lorenzo Mata.

(Bringing this back full-circle.)

That was an awesome migraine. I think I can taste my spleen, and I wanted to die. That's a migraine to be proud of. Not those silly little headaches. This thing wanted to kill me, and I respect that. You don't see work ethic like that from today's average migraine.

Do you have any meds for them or do you just go off to a dark room and hope that it goes away?
You're in the prime age for adult males to start developing migraines on a regular basis.

Now that Ms. Selin has let on which school it was, I'm pretty sure all I need do is email my way through the staff directory, helpfully posted on-line. I started with the catch all email address, but will start emailing individuals next Tuesday, if I don't get an answer to that inquiry. If I don't know by Wednesday, I'll be picketing the school, sans hula hoop, on Thursday. That'll learn 'em.

No meds. take a ton of ibuprofen, turn out all the lights, lay in bed for about four hours.

Got rid of the migraines and cleared up that nasty bipolar disorder too.

http://www.thelocal.se/6076/20070112/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealand

If anybody would get in on this Andrew, I know it will be you.

It was on fire, last year. That should bring the price down, some.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Minerva

I think we could build a pretty great country. One-party rule, of course (Whigs). Nuclear power plant, build a Walmart, pretty sweet frisbee-golf team. Minerva has a terrible flag...Gotta get some design guys on fixing that. Barter economy (never enough love for the barter economy).

They're not handing out iPhones and cordless shoes for free (are they handing out iPhones for free?).

1. Bretty Myers
2. Freddy Garcia
3. Cole Hamels
4. Jamie Moyer
5. Adam Eaton
6. Jon Lieber (will be traded soon)

Myers is the closest thing they have to an ace with Hamels the future, but all-around it's pretty dang good. I like ours a little better, but I can see a case being made for theirs.

How do you get "DJ4PE" from "JoeyP"...?

But Martz ruined it.

Because before 1999, it looked like the Rams would never even have another winning season, much less ever win a Superbowl.

That looks pretty dang average at best to me. I mean, beyond Brett Myers, Freddy Garcia is average at best, Cole Hamels has some potential, but Jamey Moyer? Adam Eaton? I'm sorry, this isn't the best rotation, even in the NL East IMO, I think the Marlins have more potential. And the dodgers and Padres rotations are absolutely better than the Phillies right now anyway.

136 - Cole Hamels has "some potential"? That is like saying Barry Bonds has hit "some" home runs! Garcia has averaged at least 200 innings and a 4 ERA against AL hitters his entire career, and Moyer + Eaton are far more reliable at this point than Anakin Sanchez and whichever young back of the rotation arms the LAD, Padres, or Marlins go with...

And it would make an interesting argument to debate which team has changed the NFL more over the last decade or so, those '99-01 Rams or the 01-04 Patriots.

Meanwhile, how about ex-PSUer Robby Gould???

The Rams decided that they no longer wished to play in Los Angeles, and left my city NFL-less. They left a devoted fan base for a sweetheart deal in St. Louis, and immediately became a good team again. It just bothers me.

So I watched it.

They did not immediately become a good team again. They were terrible for the first four years in St. Louis until completely turning things around in '99-'00.

Residents of Los Angeles should be called "Angelenos"

However, I will grant the honorable Mr. Brock leave because there is a neighorhood in L.A. called "Angelino Heights"

http://www.historicechopark.org/id58.html

Brett Myers and Brad Penny are about a wash with both having the potential to be aces.

Randy Wolf and Adam Eaton are a wash since both are coming back from injuries and are considered question marks (with the potential to be very good).

Derek Lowe is a medium-sized upgrade over Moyer. Neither has the potential to be a true ace anymore, but Lowe's ERA should remain a full half run lower than Moyer's.

Jason Schmidt is a medium-sized upgrade over Freddy Garcia once you adjust for Garcia coming to the NL and a possible Schmidt semi-decline.

Billingsley and Hamels are about even right now with Hamels having a bit more potential. Either could have breakout campaigns and either could flop.

So right now, I do see the Dodgers' rotation as better, but if Hamels becomes the dominant pitcher many think he will be and Billingsley doesn't take a step forward, I could see him putting the Phillies' rotation over the top.

I'm testing the waters here. Granted they are ahead of New England now, but I'm just curious as to the niceties of these things.

And you wonder why people in Brooklyn are still angry....

Now when I create a QB in Madden, he's always a speedy lefty, even though I'm a tall, immobile righty. A lifetime of playing as Young forever shaped my Madden style.

The only Niners players I've liked have been Randy Cross and Ken Norton.

And maybe Steve Bono.

And he's dreamy-looking too!

http://tinyurl.com/tb7en

Except the Cowboys tend to have a lot more players who get arrested.

Cassell barely played when he was at USC, although Pete Carroll came close to putting him in as a starter when Matt Leinart struggled a little in USC's loss at Cal.

I just need to know the NFL groupthink story.

Simmons already wrote this column and will just hit "send" now. Then he will go look at his paycheck with many, many zeroes and commas in it and laugh.

And who is the Golf n Stuff?

One of my favorite things about LA is that they have repeatedly told the NFL to fund their own show.

The Rams have never been the Rams since Georgia inherited the team, told her step-son to leave, funded the opera instead of her team, traded Hacksaw Reynolds and Fred Dyer and failed to trade up to get Ron Lott. She roll model has to be the owners of the AZ Cardinals and the LA Clippers.

Her reward for destroying a franchise was to get everything for free from St. Louis.

That's pretty much Iowa in a nutshell.

It seems like I could go on and on

2006 OPS+? 81...Same as Juan Pierre.

By the process of elimination, you would be rooting for New Orleans then.

Career EQA? .253

It's "disabled list." The OED says its first use was in 1864 by the Union Army during the Civil War. The first baseball reference they have is from 1887.

http://tinyurl.com/ydpfff

Actually, how hard would it be to just post them:

Loney .288/.357/.498
Kent .280/.358/.485
Ethier .305/.368/.473
Saenz .272/.336/.492
Nomar .291/.348/.470
Martin .288/.360/.452
Betemit .281/.344/.456
Furry .289/.357/.441
Gonzalez .261/.349/.445
Kemp .273/.330/.461
Lieberthal .266/.328/.437
Anderson .272/.327/.438
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Pierre .295/.342/.391

Other notables:
Wilber .292/.376/.439
Beltre .284/.340/.493
Choi .263/.352/.459
Milton Bradley .277/.359/.448
JtD .278/.355/.439
Piazza .262/.334/.454
Melky Cabrera .289/.365/.422
Werth .258/.343/.435
Dioner .277/.355/.412
Lugo .282/.346/.414
Lofton .292/.353/.398
Robles .266/.333/.386
Eckstein .286/.349/.370
Grabowski .237/.308/.400

Smig versus Bullet Head.

Then he will talk about "Star Trek." Then he will complain about political ethics. Then about religions. Then several pictures of cheerleaders. Then he will blame Harvey Fierstein for the Chargers loss.

Wait...What?

arizona basically has a 2 man bench.

What's the deal, Nate?

arizona isnt a very big team. it would be very hard for them to beat a team that has a couple of big time paint players. but they are so fun to watch if you like offense. All 5 starting players have the ability to pass, shoot the 3, post up and penetrate.

I must be getting really old. ASU dominated UofA in basketball when I was in school.

You must have remembered Byron Scott's college years! And losing at home in the NCAA tournament in 1980 right after UCLA had upset #1 DePaul.

Mark Aguirre cried after that game.

Good times...

Egads.

Most Pac-10 teams not named Stanford or UCLA ever win in Tucson.

I would not have predicted that.

And then back home for home games against the Bay Area schools. Which should be winnable. But then a trip to the Washingtons.

I was there for the UCLA-DePaul game. Great game. That was an amazing run the Bruins had in the tournament that year.

Those Devil teams led by Lafayette Lever and company were terrific. Byron Scott was a great talent, but Fat was the engine that ran those teams.

U of A is the only Pac-10 team not to play in the Rose Bowl.

See, I'm a fair man.

Stanford (7) vs. Arizona St. (10)
Oregon State (8) vs. Washington (9)

Oregon (1) vs. ASU/OSU/Washington
UCLA (2) vs. Stanford/OSU/UW
Wazzu (3) vs. Cal (6)
Arizona (4) vs. USC (5)

Marcus Williams was a beast tonight - he's definitely gone after this year. Budinger was a complete no show for Arizona. I was really impressed with how Oregon played as a team; a really balanced scoring attack. Everyone knows how good Aaron Brooks is. Malik Hairston was one of the top high school players in the country and chose Oregon over UCLA. The two guys who have really gone under the radar are Bryce Taylor and Maarty Leunen (must have dyslexic parents). Taylor is one of the most underrated players in the pac 10. He's quick, can score from anywhere on the court and is just a really good athlete. I believe that he played again Arron Afflalo in high school. Afflalo is a better defensive player, but Taylor is a better athlete and finisher.

Leunen has really impressed me this year. He can play inside or step out and shoot the 3. He's kind of lanky, but plays pretty tough defense inside. I love his versatility on the offensive end though. He has really developed into a nice player this year.

Or just ones who are Dutch.

We don't need a center.

Are you just going for a visit? Will this be your first time there?

But he was Amazing Grace Smith!

Alex English is battling for the sixth-man role with Xavier McDaniel.

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Of course, but what fun is listing Magic, Jordan, Bird, Malone, Olajuwon? You could maybe debate Barkley vs. Malone or Ewing vs. Hakeem, but there's little room for creative license.

1. Adrian Dantley
2. Bo Kimble
3. Byron Scott
4. Glenn Rice
5. Rasheed Wallace

Dishonorable Mention:

1. Jeff Hornacek
2. Bill Cartwright
3. Shaq

I dislike Malone immensely, but credit where credit's due...

I said maybe you could, but I wouldn't. And I actually really liked Malone in his one (half) season in LA. I still think the Lakers beat Detroit that year if he doesn't go down.

I still think the Lakers beat Detroit that year if he doesn't go down.

He certainly would have helped. Course, the Lakers had to beat some very good teams just to get to the Finals, while Detroit walked over a bunch of patsies. I considered the Laker-Spur matchup to be the actual Final that year.

Name___ERA__IP___K__BB__HR

Rotation+1
Schmidt 3.99_184.0_163_75_19
Lowe___4.15_191.0_118_56_19
Kuo____4.20__61.0__58_27_6
Billz____4.23_101.0__73_50_10
Penny__4.26_171.0_129_51_18
Wolf___4.97__96.0__71_38_16

Pen
Saito___3.38__64.0_65_22__5
Broxton 3.67__65.0_68_27__6
Beimel__4.20__61.0_36_21__7
Elmer___4.50__73.0_49_24__9
Yhency__4.50__35.0_28_14__4
Tomko__4.61_121.0_78_38_15
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Lurch___4.90_156.0_94_55_19

Others
Edwin__4.92__54.0_38_24__6
Seo___4.98_140.0_83_46_22
Gio___4.30__46.0_35_19__5

The weather bothers people who like the sun.

The econ department is great. Try to take classes with Whitelaw, Blonigen, and Harbaugh.

Odalis 4.96 126.0 83 34 17

Baez 4.14 62.0 45 23 6

Either way, here's hoping the 2007 NLCS settles this question once and for all!

Book it.

Wrong tense! Wrong tense!

Anyway, I have a question. If I were to happen to be somewhere in the vicinity of Andrew's favorite state sometime near the end of February, and might have a day or two to drive to Vero Beach to see Dodgertown, my question is, is there enough to see baseball-wise to make such a trip worth it before ST games start?

The thought of Frank Robinson ever working in Organized Baseball again makes me nauseous.

Oregon weather is not too bad. Sure it rains, but the spring and summer time is beautiful and not too warm. All the rain makes for a beautiful landscape, so if you are a hiking nut like me it is a great place to live. There are wonderful gardens within walking distance of the Oregon campus. Rafting is awesome too -- take advantage of the programs available at Oregon.

Also, I will never ever complain about Oregon weather again, not after living through a Utah winter. Sure, it doesn't rain so much, but after a snow storm it can get just downright cold. It "warmed" up to about 10 today after a low of 3. Unusual for Utah, but certainly never in the realm of possibility in Oregon. We might be above freezing by the end of the week.

There is nothing like a frigid winter to make you look forward to baseball again. Yes, please, can the baseball season start soon?

Unless Andrew's favorite state is Vermont. Then the drive might not be worth it.