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Post by Mike on Oct 26, 2005 11:33:04 GMT -5
No way to argue with any of it. Hell, even NASCAR now has a playoff system. Go Tony Stewart!!! Still dingy from watching the World Series last night.  A historic game. First WS game ever in Texas, and the longest game in WS history. Whew! |
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Post by Mike on Oct 26, 2005 11:41:42 GMT -5
;DYeeeeeeHaw.....had to modify this posting to include a celebration for earning my 2nd star!! ;D Farmboy, I looked at my stars and post count and suddenly am thinking daaaaayum.....could be that I talk too much!  |
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Post by Mike on Oct 26, 2005 23:06:24 GMT -5
First WS game ever in Texas, and the longest game in WS history. Whew! And now it seems like the shortest series in history. We might need some practice at this World Series business. |
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Post by Mike on Nov 7, 2005 22:28:29 GMT -5
Does anyone know what Terrell Owens did to get booted off of the Eagles? I know that he bad mouths his team, coach, and McNabb, but that's nothing new.  |
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Post by chadgumbo on Nov 8, 2005 14:25:53 GMT -5
Only have a minute to type, but in a nutshell... T.O. first was upset that the Eagles did not give him any individual recognition for his 100th TD catch on Oct. 23. Then he smarted off to the press that the Eagles would be a much better team if Brett Favre was the quarterback. And, a day or two ago, he got into a fistfight with Hugh Douglas in the Eagles lockeroom. I remember Hugh Douglas, and that just sounds STUPID to me. Hugh, I'm sure, could take care of himself. And, after the fight with Hugh, he marched into the main lockeroom and challenged any and all comers to a fight. Anyone who wanted to continue to talk about him behind his back was challenged to a fight at that moment. Gotta go  |
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Post by Scott Hays on Nov 8, 2005 22:40:11 GMT -5
... and good riddance, too.
We had to deal with that arrogant, team destroying m**f**ker in San Francisco for far too long. He is, undeniably, incredibly talented. But have you noticed how teams with which he is associated end up in the tank? One does not have to be a humble, yassir boss individual on a team ... but the game is not called a team sport for nothing.
Terrell hasn't learned that. He has been given all sorts of opportunities to turn things around, to do it in face-saving ways, by people who like him and care about him, and want for him to do well. He doesn't get it. With luck, the grievance filed by the Player's Union will end up on the shit pile, too.
Too bad he isn't a baseball player. I would sell him to the Yankees or Red Sox in a hot second and let those two "noble" franchises go to hell (where, in my opinion, they belong). Money can buy all sorts of stuff, but it cannot buy a "team".
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Post by featphoto on Nov 9, 2005 9:02:58 GMT -5
Too bad he isn't a baseball player. I would sell him to the Yankees or Red Sox in a hot second and let those two "noble" franchises go to hell (where, in my opinion, they belong). Money can buy all sorts of stuff, but it cannot buy a "team". interesting ... a team and its fans that wait 80 some-odd years for a World Series win, comes within an inning of elimination then proceeds to pulls off the most remarkable comeback victory ever in playoff history, followed by a sweep of the Series ... when different players constantly step up when others have an off day or week and their focus is on winning the game, that's my definition of a team (without the sarcastic quotes). ... oh, and as far as letting the Red Sox go to Hell "where they belong", well, the team and their fans would all agree that they've already been there. I wouldn't want to speculate on what their opinion would be of your comments, although I'm sure a long drop and a short rope would figure in there somewhere. lighten up baby ... it's only a game ... |
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Post by Rollin' Mark on Nov 9, 2005 11:35:24 GMT -5
... Too bad he isn't a baseball player. I would sell him to the Yankees or Red Sox in a hot second and let those two "noble" franchises go to hell (where, in my opinion, they belong). Money can buy all sorts of stuff, but it cannot buy a "team". Whoa Scotty! Having a bad day? I gotta defend the Sox here. Yankees total $ spent in '05 = $208,306,817 Red Sox total $ spent in '05 = $123,505,125 I realize that 123 million is still a boatload of money, but PLEASE don't put them in the same "league" as the Yankees and "Deep pockets" Steinbrenner. Just for the record, I'm all for Team spending caps to get some parity back in baseball. I'll seeya in Jamaica where we'll quaff a few and NOT talk politics (or baseball!). Rollin' Mark |
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Post by Scott Hays on Nov 9, 2005 11:41:01 GMT -5
Actually, Hank ... according to one of my favorite t-shirts (I like it so much that when the first one wore out, I had to go and get another) ... Baseball is Life!
I am of the old school, and just cannot quite fathom the money involved in (any) professional sport, and the demise of the sense of "team" in professional team sports. Oh, sure, each year a nucleus of players holds over on any given "team", and members of the "team" come together in various degrees of actual teamwork ... but the bottom line for most of the so-called "successful" teams is individual attention and big bucks. In any place or at any time that a movie star or a baseball/football/basketball player earns more money or respect than a teacher, for someone else's gods sake, then there are some serious issues about values in that place.
That's why Terrell deserves whatever Karma is now coming his way. He wanted lots of individual attention ... let him now deal with the rewards his behavior has sown on his own, as well!
As to the two specific Eastern seaboard teams that I relegated to hell ... I really could care less what the fans of those teams would like to do to me for holding that opinion. I have nothing against them for being loyal to their home team. That's what sports ... at any level ... is all about for the fan. And the fan (short, you may recall, for "fanatic") can dislike any (or all) teams, just as well. I dislike teams that have an unfair competitive edge because their owners have more money to throw around. In a similar manner, though I have strong affinity for Stanford University's football program, I was pleased as punch that it lost a game to a team in a different division of football competition. Not as pleased as I was this last baseball season that not a one of the hated empires made it to the playoffs (specifically, so you don't have to read between the lines ... and no one else is spared an opportunity to be offended by my comments ... the aforementioned Yankees and Red Sox, as well as the Atlanta Braves).
Do they have good (great?) baseball teams! You bet!
Do I enjoy the karmic irony of them not being able to win? You bet!
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Post by Scott Hays on Nov 9, 2005 11:50:35 GMT -5
Mark ... of course, both you and Hank are right. Baseball is baseball ... and it sure is fun to argue about it. You know what really rubs me wrong ... something totally out of the control (sort of) of any of the true "America's Teams" (a title stolen by those bad boys of Dallas)? Living here on the left coast, we are subjected every year to decisions made on the East Coast, by East Coast television big shots, about which games the rest of the world wants to see on the nationally televised games. Do you have any idea how often those games seem to feature Yankees and/or Red Sox against somebody, or Yankees and Red Sox against each other. I swear, it seems like the American League (what I call the "phony" league for lots of obvious reasons) has a special schedule that allows those two teams to play each other at least 25 times during the course of the year.
Now don't get me wrong ... my loathing carries over to other sports, as well, where the same tv execs bring us the Notre Dame Football Network. The one thing that Fox Sports does well (NOT its coverage of the World Series, that's for sure) is its regional sports networks, allowing local teams to receive equal rights to air time.
As to quaffing bucketfulls of cocktails, I'm buying.
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Post by featphoto on Nov 9, 2005 14:09:25 GMT -5
I'll seeya in Jamaica where we'll quaff a few and NOT talk politics (or baseball!). Rollin' Mark oh, no ... I know Mark talks a lot more than he types, and if Scott talks an eighth as much as he types, we'd better get them a little island all of their own ... |
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Post by chadgumbo on Nov 9, 2005 20:38:56 GMT -5
In any place or at any time that a movie star or a baseball/football/basketball player earns more money or respect than a teacher, for someone else's gods sake, then there are some serious issues about values in that place. When it comes to professional athletes and movie stars making more money than teachers, we don't have to stop there. They make more than, well... funeral directors  , police officers, firemen, lawyers, doctors, U.S. Senators, U.S. Presidents - you get the idea Of course when you're filling stadiums that seat 10s of thousands of fans {I did not know that 'fan' is short for 'fanatic'}, and those fans are each shelling out large sums of money for the tickets... and then throw in the television deals and the advertisers (God only knows how much Anheuser-Busch, Miller, and Coors throws at the NFL each year), and those huge sums of money are going to overflow out of the team owners' pockets into those of the athletes. But Scott is absolutely right about his comments on respect. A teacher, and many of the other professions I touched on, deserve far more respect than someone who behaves like Terrell Owens (or a group of athletes who board a boat and decide to have group sex on one of the most public lakes anywhere in the country)... oh those Vikings  Still, the likes of the Indinapolis Colts brings hope that other teams will see what they are doing, and finally one day 'get it' themselves. I hope they win it all there this year. Tony Dungy, Peyton Manning, Marv Harrison... they've earned the successes they've had thus far this year. And they're good people to boot. I hope the success continues. |
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Post by Mike on Nov 11, 2005 0:50:43 GMT -5
You know what really rubs me wrong ... something totally out of the control (sort of) of any of the true "America's Teams" (a title stolen by those bad boys of Dallas)? Hey watch it...there's no need to be sac-religious. ;D How can the original owners of a title have stolen it? Back to TO. A few years back he decided to "showboat" in the middle of the Star of Texas Stadium. Emmett came from the sideline and LAID HIS ASS OUT! That's just part of how you get to own the title of America's Team. Oh yeah, there's also the hole in the roof so God can watch his team. ;D Ok, I'll stop now. |
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Post by Mike on Nov 11, 2005 0:59:27 GMT -5
I'll seeya in Jamaica where we'll quaff a few and NOT talk politics (or baseball!). Rollin' Mark No politics...No baseball... Jeeez, what would you do other than laying around the beach drinking rums, sampling the local mota, and listening to Little Feat..live? I could dig that. Ya mon...ya! |
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Post by Scott Hays on Nov 11, 2005 23:45:23 GMT -5
Hank ... guilty as charged, but this one's short! I am adjusting to a retired life, and it's fun to have some spare time to type. At least I am being coherent, and not just typing 3@$Xsl0o lot% sp30) ...
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A historic game. First WS game ever in Texas, and the longest game in WS history. Whew!
, police officers, firemen, lawyers, doctors, U.S. Senators, U.S. Presidents - you get the idea 