Tom Strange

mstar... don't forget the great FREE grub they get as well!!! Evan Grant is pretty well respected (for a sports writer) down here... (of course, I think he's also the only one that Kenny Rogers talks to as well)... I don't know if it was a fluke but I'd sure like to see him do it more than one season before I made him a very rich man. I've thought a lot about the GMJ contract (and the DeRosa one as well)... both had career years here last year and are cashing in... I can't blame them for taking the money, but it's just insane. I shudder to think what the pitchers are going to get for ERAs that would be mediocre at best 30 years ago... but I digress... Both of those contracts puzzle me a little bit. GMJ will be 33 next summer and 38 by the time his five years are up. DeRosa will be 32 in February. They're both very good "in the room"... and both really shined this year... BUT... it will be very interesting to see how they do away from Rudy Jaramillo... BOTH have spent a lot of press down here giving him the credit for their offense, and for fixing them when they were off... Jaramillo did things with those two guys that no one else had been able to do before... let's see if they can keep it up... (no offense to GMJ, but I hope he doesn't... at least not against us!) The GMJ deal is doubly bad for us because it not only took him from us but put him with an opponent in the same division. No one around here liked seeing them go, but we're also still pretty much on board with Jon Daniels decisions (a little bit extended honeymoon and a little bit he makes baseball sense most of the time). Of course, GMJ was a wizard in Centerfield this year for us, but I've gotta wonder how much longer he can do what he did this year... I don't think the contract makes sense and I'd still like it better if they were still here...

yeah... I know john... and they'll be glad they did after the career year he had here... he's a great guy 'in the room' as well... we just couldn't offer him an 'everyday' position...

there's four copies of The House of Acts on Amazon HERE... a book by John Allan MacDonald about their times... (that's the right one isn't it Sunesis?)

Just read "Acts of the Apostles" (without referring to your TWI notes). Imagine it's a movie and let it play out in your mind as you go. Keep a Bible Atlas handy and take the time to see where the places are they're talking about. You'll really dig it.

Sony does this with every new "version" of Playstation that they release. They build a real/imagined "instant demand" through advertising and word of mouth over the web and they're never able to meet it... (but they know that)... I think they just get some sort of perverted jollies watching all the gamers go into a feeding frenzy...

ummm... how long is "a few"???

...just be sure to unload them in the next couple of weeks... before they ship more!

funny pic mstar (although not to you guys I'm sure)... that reminds me, did anyone see that 5'9" guy block 7'5" Yao Ming? looks like the stRangers are bringing Catalanatto back...

yer up pawnbroker!

Did I do this one a while ago??? ...or did I only think about doing it??? As the headline says you're free to choose There's egg on your face and mud on your shoes One of these days they're gonna call it the blues

Not Raf!!!

Dangit! and I thought it was so funny... grab the properties and look at it yourself... if you think it's funny could you host the pic on your deal? I can't even seem to upload anymore with this stinking IE7...

yep GSG!!! ...now it's your turn!!!

DOH!!!

oh... sorry... aren't they from the old (Christopher Reeves) Superman movie? in which case... Yes! I find that humorous!

Yes... CANCELLED!!!

I'm missing it I guess... any clues?

Love Actually (great soundtrack BTW) Keira Knightley Pirates of the Carribean

Crowd ____ ____ Ironside? Perry? Mason?

aw niKa... just let the kids grade their own!

ya think??? Fans ____ ____ Burr? OH!!! is it The People vs Aaron Burr???

How's this one then??? ...and "thank you Linzee, may I have another?"...

Angie, have you asked any of those folks down on the Maine thread? ...just wondering...

so then... there will be a dancing feelowsheep at sisterniKa's house tonight!