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KC used that 2K promotional picture as his sig during late march.

Looks good as usual KC. But why would Dom want two underperformers as his sig?

Keith was in the booth during the game on Saturday, I remember my friends and I ripping on him. Anyway, they turned such a non-issue to an issue in this case. That was more appalling than the comment in my opinion.

That sucks, I hope you get some work soon man.

What movies? Yankee movies or mob movies? edit: okay, you were clearly referring to mob movies. I'm dumbass.

You live in Irondequoit? Thought you lived more out of the way than that. I guess that's why you are closer to Toronto than NYC. *Now hordes of people are hunting down Y4L.

I wouldn't know, I don't know you. Anyway, everytime I have to go to Rochester for some reason I always to go some god forsaken shitty part. Though the waterfalls are pretty nice, but overall I'm not a fan. I guess I'm used to bigger cities.

I sorta live life like that, but I pretty much have to give my full trust to my family. Who else can I trust? Sounds like you have been burned many times in the past, but what the hell do I know. It's because of whitey. I'll let you in on a secret. Us white guys plot and plan to keep the black man down. We have constructed an entire system that ensures the self-destruction of the black race, all because we are all racist capitalist pigs. We are constantly making sure we put blacks in a disadvantageous situation, just so generations of blacks can never advance themselves. The only way to solve this is giving up to the welfare state, you can trust the government. /end liberal professor talk Seriously, there is no answer to that question, only tons of opinions on that. In my opinion, Americans breed a culture of laziness and self entitlement. When you start out ahead with some money, you are less likely to fall into the bullshit. When you don't, it seems like that you will. America's foundation is the fact that people immigrate here, bust their ***, and keep the system working. Of course, I must add that the fact that people in urban areas having less respect for education and authority happens to be a huge problem. If you are going to get ahead, you are going to have to work with the system and not against it. It is not like teachers and police officers are born just to **** you off. Lastly, it's just sickening that an entire culture can admire crime and the 'thug life'. The only thing that I had experienced that comes close to that is the whole Italian boner for the mafia. Every Italian loves mob movies, and thinks they know a made man. (Despite the fact you have to be 100% Sicilian to be a made man.) There's even people are try to pretend, a "Johnny Bag of Doughnuts". Well, at least around where I live. But of course, instead of being unemployed on the streets the whole life of crime is a fantasy rather than something that is replicated. It's a huge problem and it really is not going to get better unless the excuses stop and the self-betterment starts. Bill Cosby lashed out for a good reason if we all remember. Exactly, ******* exactly. Self-entitlement + no money = you go nowhere. The Irish, Italians, and other Eastern Europeans were not considered 'white' at first, it is as if they had to 'earn' it. As weird as it sounds. If you bust your *** you'll be respected despite what the hell you are. As idealistic as it sounds, it's true. Know of too many people who came here from another country, with jack-****, and now are living perfectly comfortable upper-middle class lives. And this is in the same generation. You know, parents could also work hard to help provide their children a better life. That's a working mindset. Me too. Great post KC, great post. I had random thoughts before this, and now all I'm thinking about is Rochester... Man that place is a dump.

Yeah, Jeter doesn't get his due, right? Agreed, it's one thing to cheat and get caught, it's another to transform your body and flat out morph into a more efficient human. Steroids are sick.

I wouldn't be totally against a salary cap as long as revenue sharing and luxury tax were eliminated. It's one thing to make rules that you can't buy the major leagues, it's another to reward teams for constantly sucking and being unable to draw fans. Anyway, if I'd implement a salary cap, it'd be upwards towards 150 million (and not effective immediately of course). You could still buy tons of good players, you just can't be borderline insane like the Yankees. But hey, just letting crap happen is working out great. The Yankees have had a World Series drought since their shopping spree. So, it isn't even like high payrolls are just a problem in baseball. I just personally don't like 200 million dollar payrolls. The problem with steroid testing to begin with is that no one gets caught, purposely. Look at the NFL, look at last season, bunch of crap got caught other than Raffy. Of course, I have plenty of unsubstantiated theories that explain that, I'm sure you all don't want to hear them. I'd love for bloodtests to be used, and the blood to be kept on file like the Olympics. But hey, all the players (besides one from the South Korean team) passed the Olympic style drug testing for the WBC, so hey people are cheating and getting away with it anyway.

I actually know someone who watches that show and bought the DVDs. - My 96 mb videocard (Radeon 8500) can't run Shattered Union. The customer support (located all the way in Britain) actually told me that I needed a 128 mb videocard despite the fact that the one I currently have already can support the game somewhat. Awesome to get a birthday present I can barely use. I can play the game, but it'll freeze randomly. Oh well, I'll have to install it on someone else's computer, or wait a couple years when I get a computer that comes with a 128 graphics card. - When you listen to the games on the radio, you can't see how many times the Yankees get screwed by the umps. - I'll be doing pretty much nothing until the end of the semester, I finished my unit plan, lessons, research papers, I guess I'll be spending quality time with my roster. My friends have way different schedules than I. (Most people in College wake up at noon, I wake up at 6:30. That means I go to sleep way earlier and it's hard to 'do things'.) - I'll be doing way more work during the summer. - That Bonds on Bonds commercial is pissing me off. The one that says, "They have drugtests, I passed all of them". Yippee Barry, they sure had drug tests before 2004. And as if there isn't a way to cheat them. (Especially an urine tests.) If you are already cheating in baseball, what incentive is there to NOT to cheat a drug test? (Especially when the drugs are the source of the cheating.) - When will the Yankees have Paul O'Neill's number retired? - Basketball and Hockey playoffs happen at the same time, and I don't care.

My only random thought today: Happy Easter!

That's like Al Leiter's cutter. Technically his cutter was a slider, but since it acted like a cutter that's what people called it. Now if you could only walk 80 people a year you could reach the bigs! :lol:

"Now Entering Kombat" If they named themselves after the blood-code that'd be bad ***. Major League baseball in Florida is like a lost cause, the only reason the Devil Rays profit is from revenue sharing (welfare for millionaires) and pretty much no one really gives a damn about the teams. (Other than hardcore fans of course) Losing them wouldn't be a tragedy. Now, Arizona and Colorado are a different story. They have built new ballparks and have shown that they could sustain a fanbase when the team is semi-competitive. (Especially the Rockies, who have drawn like mad until 2002 or 2003.) Sadly, both teams look like they'll be in one of those 10-20 year rebuilding modes right now. Potentially killing any possible interest in those teams possible.

Same here, 'luckily' I haven't missed much. Everyone upstate (I guess excluding you ) loves the Bills, could they really move them? He sucks, just to think he made like 10 crappy movies within 2 years, made tons of money, and disappeared. Good riddance. Bonds on Bonds is an entertaining but slanted sympathy show for Bonds. Sure I dislike the fact that he gets hate mail that drops the N-Bomb on him but most people hate him because he's a cheating sack of crap, not because he's Black. Aaron faced true racism, Bonds is a different story. He is facing a prejudice of sorts, but a prejudice against people who cheat their way against baseball's sacred records. Too bad Bonds can't be happy with his millions. Random thoughs: - Gotta find out what new faces Schmooz threw in - Today I'll get to listen to all 3 1/2 hours of the Yankees losing in embarrassing fashion. At least I won't see a typical insane Francisco Rodriguez celebration. I wonder how his 10+ kids are doing... - The Tigers and Brewers are playing real well, they have true talent on their rosters. The Tigers though will probably tank due to their propensity for injury and their propensity for mediocrity from their pitching staff. That and when Todd Jones comes off the DL that won't help at all. - The White Sox choked up another one yesterday, Vazquez had an unnoticed good start. - Everytime it's warm out it's "Global Warming", every time it's cold everyone bitches and moans. At least when it's warm out people comment how nice it is. If you think Global Warming is real, odds are you'll like it. I am personally an oddity that loves cold weather, snow, not ice, ice sucks. - My brother is actually coming up to visit me for a week, that and finalize his upcoming graduation. - Life is different when you find out that Michael Jackson helped make the Sonic 3 Soundtrack, wait, it is not. He only made the crappy songs. - Is Jacko dead yet anyway? - The new season of Southpark really sucks so far. We need more assinine political events so Trey Parker has better ideas than making episodes as crappy as the Family Guy. (Actually, the current episode is about canceling the Family Guy...) - The last time the Family Guy was good David Justice was a productive ballplayer. - Did I mention I hate gluten? - ABACABB

Tuesday openers suck, you have to wait an extra day. I bet this investigation finds nothing so Selig could say, "Bonds is legitimate". Anna will also have his millions. I would go off on a tangent but I'll spare you guys that! :)

The end of the baseball withdrawal, that and I can say 'It's only April' when the team sucks rather than actually worry. Same here. Don't want to sound sick here, but the only way people will ever give a crap about her again is if she gets into porn, or actually develops into a good Poker player. If two of those guys were still Yankees... Anyway, I don't get why everyone is forgiving Damon so much. His 4/52 contract will probably bone the Yankees as much as that grandslam. Anyway, I dislike Ortiz (obviously) but that is mostly because he hits so damned well against the Yankees, his homerun poses, and his lack of humility during the MVP 'race'. (Should have been one-sided) Anyway, here are the other random thoughts: - 2.0 is almost out - PolishJoe was kind enough to send me an useful file - This is probably the third time I said this in this thread, but I still don't get the hate on Vazquez. It isn't like he tried to give up a grandslam, unlike the guy who tried to hit the grandslam. Vazquez had a lot of bad luck, though his excuses on his way out didn't help. - BTW, one of my friends is really banking on Vazquez in his fantasy team... - The White Sox rotation is stacked, but their bullpen is **** poor. Kenny better make some moves. - Contreras (who is actually 36) just got another three years for almost 30 million. Bad move, simply bad move. They should have made him earn the contract. - McCarthy (the pitcher) must be pissed off - I just found out today that Luis Ordaz is still playing baseball - Plenty of other crap happening, but I don't like sharing my personal life that much - Is the Poker fad over yet? - I can think of three guys off the top of my head that are breaking the sig/avatar rules. If you are one of those three, please, fix your sigs.

Ditto, I actually predicted that in my predictions thread. I think Santana will deserve it, but they'll still give it to Halladay.

Well, I'm happy Delgado left he totally destroyed Yankee pitching. Sadly, he didn't sign for a lot in Florida. They should have just gave him his money and not try to trade him. 4/52 for a guy like him looks really good right now. And we all know, Carlos would have stood in Toronto for that amount. Could have been a franchise player. Owners screw the fans. Think about Gary Sheffield... See, you're all better now.

Too bad the Jays didn't get Delgado back, especially with the way he killed the Yankees. I guess they would have egg on their face. But hey, they can always give Troy Glaus that money. :?

The difference between the Yankees and Blue Jays is that Steinbrenner doesn't care if he spends catastrophic amounts of money. The Blue Jays have a budget, the Yankees really don't. That's why the Yankees never spend their money wisely, I'd be pissed if I was a fan of a small market and my team just threw money away on injury prone players. (Like Detroit and Magglio Ordonez). I get pissed enough being a Yankee fan when Cashman gives injury prone players big contracts, but as the Yankees are the Yankees, they try to buy their way through their mistakes.

- Soriano will probably be playing second base again by July, yes, it's a given that it will be with another uniform on. - Soriano couldn't win in this situation, either he was a selfish asshole (yeah, he was) or if he plays left he's only doing it for the ten million. - Who will have more homeruns? Soriano, or Brad Wilkerson? Really. - According to this, at least his teammates like him: - I have a feeling that Soriano won't totally suck this year, really. Doesn't mean he'll walk 40 times, but if he returns to being a linedrive hitter he'll be fine. (Back with the Yanks, he had great road stats.) - I was pretty close to wanting to change my username/avatar. If Soriano actually sat out, that would have been it. I was considering the consequences of the names of my files, and how the hell people would know who they were talking to. (I don't get people who change their names regularly) Luckily, Soriano just went into left and will hopefully keep his mouth shut. Anyway, I'll change my name if he pulls a 'Gary Sheffield' in left. Hey, Sheffield is on the Yankees. I <3 Sheffield! - There will be no more Soriano thoughts in this post, you can rejoice now. - Torre announced that Bernie will be the full time DH, of course this comes to the suprise of AAAA player Andy Phillips, who even Bernie at this point can out hit. Too bad the Yankees didn't get another veteran 1B, depending on Giambi to stay healthy (or effective) is a big risk. At least from 2002 - 2005 we had guys like Nick Johnson, Tony Clark, John Olerud, and Tino Martinez playing enough first for Giambi's knees to hold up a bit. What's the Yankees' backup plan now? Hell knows Phillips is out of options and he'll be in some other team's AAA. - Only Red Sox fans would think that Choi is a gold glove elite hitter. LA sucked and he could barely crack the lineup there. Of course, it was a no risk move for the Red Sox, and yes, even the Yankees could have used him, what's our alternative? (Though, since the Red Sox were the worse team technically, they had dibs on waivers before the Yankees.) - I finished my Nationals Dynasty, and I really don't feel like doing another one. I'll probably just play some postseason games as the Yankees. - The Tigers, yes, the Tigers have a great lineup on paper. Hell knows that the team has as little heart as any team in baseball, and they'll find a way to screw it all up. That, and the Tigers are pushing Zumaya and Verlander to the show early. It sure has worked for Bonderman, right? - Seems like there are no 'upset' teams, no underdog to pick this year. Of course, that'll change during the season as usual. - Is the Poker fad over yet? - It sucks that Chef was a scientologist. Gotta love being part of a fake cult for the business connections. Hayes, South Park was your career, no one cares about you anymore. Too bad the episode itself wasn't that funny. At least South Park doesn't totally suck yet. - The Simpsons totally sucked after their sixth season, the Family Guy sucked since the end of the third season. - Did I imagine that Futurama sucked too? - Since everything on TV sucks, one can really find the time to watch/listen (matters where I am) to 162+ games of baseball. - Those contracts are going to burn the Blue Jays, too bad they didn't spend that money when DELGADO was still on the team. At least we got to enjoy the return of Pat Hentgen. - The Yankees will be better than Boston this year, but 2007 and beyond I wouldn't count on it. Boston is getting young players, and the Yankees will have declining players and increasing contracts. At least Mussina will be off the books.