Tom Strange

...can't say I wasn't thinking the same thing Geo ...it just struck me that they probably were already 'fast friends'!

There's a good article at MLB.com about folks who have already filed for FREE AGENCY. I personally wouldn't mind seeing Torii Hunter patrolling CF for the stRangers! Maybe the extra $7m or so we'll have (that we don't have to send to the NYY) will come in handy! But you never know with Hicks... Hunter has made it known that he wouldn't mind playing for his 'home town' team (he lives here in the off season) but if I were going to put money on it, I'd think he'll probably be patrolling CF in pinstripes instead... HERE'S A LIST of the 57 that have filed so far...

well... in my time (70's) sometimes I'd have (what I thought was) a great teaching/message ready for twig, and have everything all 'planned out'... and then after all the folks got there I'd just say "c'mon, we're going to the putt putt" or the bowling alley or the ice cream store, etc. And that's what we'd do... I guess I just didn't get it... :( ...cuz on those occasions I'd forget to do stuff like abundant sharing and singing songs... we just 'accidentally' lived life together... (and yes, sometimes we did have snow cones)

I'm neither offended nor incensed to anger... it's your opinion... I just wonder why you're not currently in a TWI fellowship helping people to see the error of their ways? You obviously have a lot to offer to them... I'm sure they'd welcome you with open arms.

I thought the Yankees were hiring Girardi?

tap...tap...tap... (is this thing on?)

a very happening day to a very happening young lady!

what person? ...oh! ..the one above the cleavage?

sorry WW... about the only 'recent' music I know anything about would be if it were by U2... sadly, that's about it...

I don't know about that HAP... I've heard plenty of players comment about some of the older venues (in all of the sports except maybe football) about how the fans were "right on top of them"... and if I recall, Fenway is kind of like that... and when those fans get crankin'... It just looked to me like the Rockies weren't as focused when they showed a couple of dugout shots during the times the fans were really loud... the CR players were just kind of looking around at the fans with their eyes (and mouths) wide open... but then again... maybe not...

son... you've been gone too long from TB... they're 99 cents now...

Charlie Sheen Major League Tom Berenger

Isn't he in The Red Hot Chili Peppers ??? ...oh wait, that's Flea...

rhino... don't worry brother... it's tomorrow (10/30) now... if you had multiple taco bells... think of the possibilities man!

Love 'Rubber Soul'... but then there's not really a Beatles album I don't like. It was 'Rubber Soul' that inspired/drove Brian Wilson on 'Pet Sounds' wasn't it? Or was it the other way around? I know that McCartney has said many times that a lot of the stuff he and John did was inspired by/in answer to something that Brian Wilson had done. And visa versa. Anyway... love the Bee-at-lees.. always have been a Beatles guy... When I talk to the young people about them and their influence they can't believe that all of that happened within about a 5 year window. It will never happen again. We were lucky. And now our 'conversation' has inspired the ad at the top of the page to be "Across the Universe" (the film)!!

Suda... that song came out somewhere around 1972 I think... probably were still in diapers then :) Poco were pretty much the pioneers of country rock, or one of the leading pioneers... if you haven't heard much of them try them out...

I have no clue CalDreamer except that maybe the title includes "George Burns"???

GSG: are we supposed to "hear" the golfer yelling "FORE"???

yes father... I only do it when I'm fairly certain I won't ever have a clue! ...and I wouldn't get this one in a million years! ...never seen it, never had any desire to see it, the only musical I've ever seen was 'rent'...

WW, I'd also heard that about Hornsby on his collaboration with Henley... hmmm

close bulwinkl... very close and another connection... but that's not the one I was thinking of... Randy Meisner left Poco and joined up with Don Henley, Glenn Frey and Bernie Leadon as Linda Ronstadts b/u band (after a short stint with Rick Nelson) who then became the Eagles. Timothy B. Schmidt replaced Meisner as bass player with Poco and then with the Eagles.

I actually grew to like the familia with fig pap... what does that say about me? ...not so with the borscht, I've still never eaten a beet.

Dave, our thoughts are with you... Belle, you are the designated replacement to attend...

starman... that post did kind of surprise me as well... we all have our different opinions, that's why baseball is "the talkin' sport"... As far as the WS goes I think, for the most part, the BoSox were hitting on all eight cylinders and the Rockies were hitting on six or seven at times. I do remember while watching the NLCS wondering whether or not either of these teams could hang with the BoSox or Indians for a seven game series. I don't know why... but the thought did occur to me... and I thought that IF the CR kept playing at the level they were that they could. They just weren't able to maintain that level IMO. Gosh, they're only human and they pretty much did an unhuman thing in winning 21 of 22 to get there. I also think it was a perfect and imperfect series. Perfect if you were a BoSox fan... and I say that with no animosity mstar it's just a fact. I don't like seeing sweeps in these series either EXCEPT when it's my team doing the sweeping. Recent history would seem to suggest that the big money, big market teams win most of the time. But the BoSox do not appear to be the usual collection of big money ballplayers, they seem to genuinely enjoy being a team... honestly thought, I don't know if the NYY weren't as well because there's a built in perception that 'they' are all in it for the money... maybe it's not really the case but it's the common perception I think. Personally, the more I think about it the more it seems that big money or not, it's awfully tough to win a world series if you're not playing together as a team. Now... ARod. I agree that it was awfully attention whorish of him to announce at that time... of course, it's Boras driving it but I don't think Alex minded it at all. I've stated my position plainly before: he's a meaningless stat machine whose stats will sometimes help you get there but when it comes down to crunch time he hasn't produced. When he does, if he ever does, I might change my opinion. I think he's one of the main reasons that a team he's on will not win a WS... because the fact that he's on it keeps them from playing 'as a team'. The perfect scenario (for me) would be that he'll go out this off-season and get far less money than he was scheduled to make... he'll still get a boatload by anyone elses standards but he'll get far less (and we'll be off the hook for the $7M/year!). He'll end up in Chicago or LAA and bring either of those teams down in the post season. The BoSox do not need him... and as far as I can tell they don't want him. Soon it's hot stove time... maybe the Showalter theory was just delayed by a year? hmmm

and now we'll never know... anywho... Was anyone (besides me and the players) really surprised (read disappointed) of the umpires work behind the plate THROUGHOUT this series?