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We'll see about the Red Sox who didnt capitalize on a big chance to go into first. I have to hand it to The Rays who played well coming back in the ninth two nights ago yurning what could have been a potential 1/2 game Sox division lead into putting the 1 1/2 out With another extra Inning Rays win last night they are now up 2 1/2 in the East Its an interesting part of the year when an entire season can come down to a few pitches or a mislocated fastball, Congratulations to Gary Sheffield who hit MLB's 250,000th HR the other day and Jeter who passed Ruth on the Yankee hitlist (Pete Roses comment was "Tell him the first 3,000 are easy")

Well dont Forget Yogi "In baseball you dont know nuthin" and "It aint over til its over" Im not saying things will change.. its probably not likely---but you never know ...the Mets and Rocks had completely unpredicatble finishes just last year Im sure its especially hard after tough losses like that, but you never really know----baseball can change on a dime Good Luck

Sorry there Rock thats about the worst day of the year for me. I'll lift a beer in your direction tonight.... How over is over? over over?

This video cracked me up---- I love Francona's bit --Thanks for all the advice

Well I sorted through the photos and renamed them as you suggested and Im now proud owner of a disc with the pictures in the correct order. Thanks WW--It worked

He picked it up with a HR and 2 RBI's last night. I havent checked the box yet, his avergae may have gone down again (--damn slacker ) Great game last night at The Fens Sox down 3-2 bottom of the 8th, 1/2 game seperating the teams, Bay hits a 2 run homer to take a 4-3 lead going into the 9th. in the Ninth, the Rays facing a very tough closer in Papelbon get two, go ahead, and win 5-4 It didnt turn out the way I would like obviously--but meaningful September games that twist a few times late and then are decided in the ninth are always a worth watching

i had a brief brushby with the Finnegan organization about a decade ago and the setup was basically the same as TWi as DWBH has said. Classes, tapes, In home fellowships, advances, money collecting all followed along in the same pattern set by Wierwille. The structural setup was very similar. Although the doctrine varied slightly from TWI, it was still a renegade organization that had no oversight by any larger body but like TWI was a 'world unto itself'. ... If some of these people want to become ministers, fine ---go get a real education and become a real minister But to watch TWI collapse then jump out immediately on their own using only what they learned from Wierwille as a guide leads to the same foul results no matter how much they dress it up

Yea when we were down there last series the announcers were mentioning the papers were all about football it was way in page and pages before there was any mention of the Rangers at all. The "love" seems to go hand in hand. There were some good articles and interviews by the Sox owners the last few days, Ive said before they know what they have for fans , know how treat em right and are thankful for them so we pay em back in a manner of speaking...they take their time to do their best--the fans respond... If the owner is not doing his best it serves him right to have 600 people show to a game ...(although thats hard to believe these days--but of course the culture is a little different up here).. How long has he owned the stRangers anyway? Maybe a real baseball guy will buy in soon--even though I think you guys could be very close to making a big leap forward anytime if they played their cards right. I have DiceK vs Kazmir for first in the east tonight--So Far DiceK is being DiceK and throwing about 30 pitches an inning but keeping it reasonably close (down 3-1 in the 4th). There was a different buzz in the park last night--People are getting ready its starting to feel like the playoffs are comin' :) .......... (Mike Lowell hits a shot 3-2 now) ...I see Manny is slumpin' ( )-- his average went down yesterday to .397 with a .498 OBP since being with the Dodgers

Im glad its not just me--I didnt know if I had hit some buuton inadvertently

This ones for my Dad. I just got back from his 91st birthday and he's still the biggest kid I know and always has been He still has the enthusiasm of a 10 year old and still holds the wide eyed wonder of a child ---when its all stirred in with the wisdom of age it makes it quite a combination. I count myself as being very lucky Every line in this song exemplifies him.

No signs, no phonenumber, no website, no way to get in touch with them even if you wanted to? Sounds like 'Boldness' Way style to me. :) I wonder if when they pray fro 'the word to live' , they also pray that no one finds out what they're doing or who they are :blink: I wonder whats with all the secrecy? the manifestation of paranoia? I really cant help you as to who or what it is..just read the 'signs' they leave. Last year I drove by a small building in Tallahassee, in a strip mall type place, that couldve been a dentists office. It had a sign that said Bible Research Center (or something to that effect). I never stopped but at least they had a sign

I think Ive arrived. Im officially in the Hall of Fame The Red Sox fans set the record for consecutive sellouts at 456 games tonight (thats about 5 and 1/2 years). In appreciation the Red Sox organization gathered every name that they possibly could of the 17 million or so people and presented it to Cooperstown. I should be on the list about 30 or 40 times. I know that no one will ever read it (maybe some ultra obsessive Rainman type guy someday--but doubtful) and that it will sit somewhere untouched in a back archive somewhere BUT its sort of a cool feeling to know my name really IS in there. I thought that was a very cool thing for the Red Sox to do. They did alot of nice things for the fans tonight and emphasized that WE set a major league record not them. Oddly I was in the exact same seat that I sat in at a game 42 years ago that I remember vividly-- I was in a reflective mood and to paraphrase James Earl Jones in Field Of Dreams " They'll sit in the seats they sat in as children and the memories will be so thick they have to brush them away from their faces"--- and they were thick for some reason---players and plays from 30-40 years ago were playing -- in front of me in my minds eye like ghosts..... Anyway--before I get too schmaltzy or weird ----its was a beautiful night at the park, weather was perfect and Lester threw a masterpiece shutting out the Rays (Papelbon closed out) moving the Sox to a 1/2 game back... It doesnt get better than that.

Wow Alot of great things on this page all the way around! I hope noboby minds my strange selections, they are just my 'songs of the moment' This is one of my favorite acoustic guitar pieces-- this is a bad recording but the only copy I can find of it, and to me, still a good piece. I fully expect if I ever run across elves dancing around a campfire somewhere in the woods they'll be playing something close to this. Thats elves not Elvis Star Island Jig

I miss the old time announcers, youre very lucky to still have him in close proximity everyday. There was something soothing and sonorous about the 'voices' when I was growing up that I hardly ever hear anymore. I had Curt Gowdy then Ned Martin for a long time. Ned was always a gentlemen too --kept the game simple and enjoyable and had a style that could, on a dime, be almost borderline poetic without skipping a beat or being annoying... Hopefully Vin will get more national exposure in the coming year(s) Ive always liked to hear him in the booth. ................................... In an unrelated matter, and just to show that Baseball really IS about everything. Some of the stat geeks and sabermatricians at Baseball Prospectus have applied the analytical skills learned from our game to the political sphere and have started a site at http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/. If you're a political junkie at all and want to see the current "standings", or to analyze many interesting charts, graphs, and projections, or just like poring over data its a great place to stop in...

Manny will do that to players--had anyone heard of David Ortiz before he started hitting around Manny? Not to take anything away from Ortiz but that was when he went from a player let go and unwanted by the Twins to a household name. Id love to see all this play out into deep October--It would make a great subtext to the Series if Manny were to come back here then--- but thats a long ways away and I dont want to get too far ahead of myself. I have Mondays game with The Rays game (It could have been for first-if they didnt lose to the stRangers last night ) and I'll be part of the 456th straight sellout a new record

Thanks WW I was thinking it may be something like that--but after messing with it for many hours I had to let it go for awhile When I have a chance I will give that a shot and see what happens. I appreciate your response--I'll let you know how it works out

Yea ow~ I went back to tasks and let it go when it got to be about 13-4 or whatever it was, and cast it into the forgetaboutit bin Its got me singin...momma told me there'd be days like this..there'd be days like this my momma said. Yea I liked him --he looked good, he hit the corners pretty good had good stuff threw well and seemed confident. I still think you guys still have to tighten up the defense some,It would make him look even better out there ----When it was still close (and i was still paying attention) Bay hit another one over Hamiltons head (thats 2 or 3 times in the last two days--move back Roy)--then still could've had him with a great throw but no one was covering second. The ball showed up, the runner showed up, just no fielders showed up. Bay scored later in that inniing--a few other little things like that happened that I was wondering about----then the game got sloppy, out of hand and I lost close interest and went back to doin stuff We'll get you again tomorrow but I dont know if I'll be able to see it or not . Im heading to PapaMstars 91st birthday tomorrow-- hes a Patriots fan and rules the TV Did I hear that Manny had 5 RBi's and the Dodgers are in first for the first time since April? I think I did but its 2 am and Im not looking it up... If its true I think the Disney Characters should start sportin dreads ,,,alright bedtime for me.........

Ok first off Im about 97.2% computer illiterate. I know the very basics, I generally read GSpot, read my mail and the news,, do a few other things, upload my photos off of my camera and that type of thing --thats about it. Its my first time in this forum(I didnt even know it was here --so that'll give you an idea of what I know..).. Anyway this is the situation. Im giving a talk soon and want to illustrate it with photogarphs. I searched through about 3000 photos that I have stored, chose about 65 pertinent ones and arranged them IN ORDER in a file to match my subject and talk, I then burned the file to CD For some reason when they were burned onto the CD the computer completely rearranged the photos from the arrangement that I had carefully put them in back to a sequential arrangement based on when they were first loaded into my computer. Ive tried a million (or so it seems) different ways to get it them to burn to the CD in the order that I want themto be in but so far nothing works Im sure that there is some simple way to do this but so far it escapes me I have the photos stored in Kodak Easyshare Files (EASY share my eye.. <_< ) Im working on a desktop with a windows operating system. I Apologize for being so inept. If anyone know hows or has an idea how to do this Im all ears and would appreciate the direction and help Thanks

Didnt Cookie play fo rthe 64 Phils? The ones that collapsed like last years Mets? I remember when that infield with Booby Wine at short was ushering in "The Days of Wine and Rojas" which never did quite happen Good to hear his name again though... ...so last inning aftre my TV is screwing up I flick the channel to see if its just the channel or my Tv and on the next station what do I see but drawings presumably by our very own resident cartoonist Hiway as "Phineas and Ferb" danced across my screen 7-4 now and still early

Wakefields knuckler is crazy Fluck---my TV is pixalating due to a thunderstorm and it looks like some weird acid flasback. crazy colors or if there is a partial picture its 2o seconds of the visuals all trailing together so you see ghosts everywhere in multicolor...I cant make out squat . I come to GS for minute --then the tube comes back for about a minute and its 6-1 guess it was Timmy's off night tonight--What I have seen is all sloppy---but its only the fourth PICK OFF!! Thank You!!

..and all this time I thought it was Al Gore who invented the intertubes I learn something new everyday. Looks like there was great game in Toronto today Rays being shutout score 3 in the 9th to tie,(tough tough team), then go ahead with a run in the 13th Greg Zaun of The Jays then hits a walkoff come from behind grand slam in the bottom of the 13th. Go you Jays! Rays lead is now down to 2 games in the East. In a few minutes the Sox will try to bring it to 1 1/2 against Tom's stRangers. Wakefields 500th game on the mound for the Red Sox clapclap clapclapclap ........after a long day--its good to finally have baseball back again! I like the air in here too!! Im there dude! Lets have agood game

according to Wikipedia: Youre right, we had this conversation last winter --The "original Orioles" of the late19th Century moved to NY in 1903 to become the Highlanders--later the Yankees. There may have been other teams in independant or Minor Leagues from '03-'54named the Orioles as well. I had never heard that bit about the original 1901 Milwaukee Brewers moving until just now--That name/team has a very strange history has well--disappearing, coming back 60+ years later, then switching leagues I knew that I should have bought that Seattle Pilots hat back in 68 when I had the chance :) Anyone know whose team records belong to who?--do the Nats claim Walter Johnson? or do the rely on Expos stuff? What a can of worms--I love baseball though

The Twins couldve been the expansion team I suppose but whoever owned The Senators mustve worked out some sort of deal to move his established team out (for business reasons or whatever). I wonder if part of his deal to move out was ensuring that the nations capital wasnt without the national pastime? That would have been a big issue in those days. Who got to claim the history of the franchise? Do the Twins and/or Rangers do anything to honor their days as Senators? Ive seen that some teams (Dodgers and Giants --maybe more) have numbers retired from players in the old city.. Do the Twins have Walter Johnson (or anyone else form the old Senators) retired? How bout The Rangers? Of course I dont know if between '61 and whenever they moved to Texas there was anyone other than Frank Howard that was really worth retiring---Eddie Brinkman and Paul Casanove probably wouldnt cut it. In the story I was reading yesterday (about deaf ballplayers and the development of signs) there were actually 8 different Major League players that were deaf from the early days up until the 1940's and every single one of them was named nicknamed "Dummy". Dick Sipek of the 1945 Reds was the first was the first deaf big leaguer to escape the nickname. There is a movement to get Hoy in the Hall of Fame. He's describes as a Tris Speaker type outfielder with great range who one year had 45 outfield assists including throwing out 3 runners at the plate in one game. He had over 2000 major league hits, 1000 walks and had over 600 steals including 82 in his rookie year. His lifetime average was respectable and one year he hit .357. At 5'4' 150 he was even smaller than Dustin Pedroia. My favorite story that Ive read had him cussing out an umpire in sign language during an argument. The umpire of course had no idea what he was saying but his teammates on the bench(who did speak sign) appreciated it and broke into laughter

:asdf: I read an interesting story today i never really thought about before. This year along with being the 100th anniversary of the Cubs World Series and also "Take me Out To The Ballgame" is also the 100th anniversary of umpire hand signals in Majot League Baseball. The strike call originated in the 1880's in the American Association when a respected deaf player William Hoy asked umpires to raise their right hand because there was no way he could tell what the count was. In the beginning he would turn around after every pitch but it put him at a disadvantage as he would have to rush between looking at the ump and then preparing for the next pitch. The team third base coach remedied the situation by relaying the umps call to him from third in American Sign Language so that Hoy wouldnt have to turn around (these were also the first known signs to a batter from a third base coach). The umpires soon after started using the "safe sign" ( derived from the American Sign Language word for "free") for Hoy. Most of Hoys entire team learned sign language and coaches and managers started using signs to communicate with players which was a new development and gave the team an advantage. The umpires signals slowly caught on as they were used in independant leagues that had deaf players. The fans also liked the signals as they could also tell umpires decisions from a distance. They were used sporadically but slowly grew in exposure and popularity and they were officially adopted by major league baseball in 1908. --Dont know if that interests anybody :) --I thought it was pretty cool.. anyway... By luck of the draw from tickets I bought last January and had no way of knowing the significance or not of the game.. I have great seats to Mondays game against the Rays which not only could be the Sox series of the year so far and battle for first , but is also going to break the ML record with the 456th consecutive sellout at Fenway

That was Jorma Kakounen (on the left) and David Bromberg(on the right). Theyve both been around for quite awhile. Jorma was with the Jefferson Airplane then Hot Tuna. Bromberg has been a sideman for just about everybody. They were both students of the amazing street evangelist/guitarist Rev Gary Davis who im very partial to..Heres another of "the Revs" students Roy Bookbinder Dang you should have waved ! I was about 10 miles from there today myself in Williamsburg. Northhampton always has some great music,... the next big deal we have out in my little town is Richard Thompson who Im looking forward to.. ---I better post another song before i keep talking too much :) Since Im on the topic now-- Kaukonen doing another tasty Gary Davis Tune "Sally Where'd You Get Your Liquor From"