Then nobody from the pre-integration era belongs in the Hall. They played against deliberately watered-down talent which inflated their stats.

Could have been raining. <Thunder rumbles, downpour ensues>

Compared to me, she’s Olympic quality. I wouldn’t have gotten ten feet down that track without falling on either my face or ass. Or, somehow, both.

“Rouge” Alert!

Well, to be fair, saying “It’s not a bomb” would be the first thing to put on a bomb package if you want to sneak it by someplace.

Um... what if it’s supposed to keep us IN? I mean, sure, our robot satellites are being let out. But what would happen if a ship full of us tried to leave?

O thank you, sir, for rescuing me from someone else’s attempt at creativity! I’m sure he* didn’t realize that the only valid response to anything here is snark!

Yeah. One of them sits in the White House, now.

I’m sorry - wasn’t the quote supposed to be “groan like a lecher”?

What’s everyone grousing about? She’s pretty much who The Baron thought the “modern” Olympics were originally for - the rich young dilettante or the serving-class johnnie sponsored by the rich older dilettante (for bragging rights, donchaknow, pip! Pip!).

Let them. Then maybe they’ll put up a park where a normal-sized man doesn’t break his knees trying to sit in those goddamn seats. And if you’re sitting in right field, you’re not staring at the left field wall.

There is(? - haven’t been by for about 3 -4 years now) one in Southbridge/Sturbridge just off the Mass Pike near the 90/84 split. Kinda like a Popeye’s as far as restaurant style goes. I knew it more for the fried chicken.

What’s going on in Iraq and Afghanistan isn’t “war” enough for you?

Personally, I really like Silversun Pickups (they’ve convinced ME that their music has ambition), Lorde (she just kinda ambles into your ear and sits down), Florence + The Machine and Bat For Lashes (as someone who is still into Kate Bush and Tori Amos, they’re Next Logical Steps). And, because, though he’s old, I…

My massage therapist swears up-and-down that it’s a rhomboid!

Feel the Kuz!

I’m old enough to have watch significant plays by the likes of Tucker Fredrickson and Spider Lockhart, so the Giants were my first My Team. For decades - even on the introduction of the Boston Patriots, the Jints were My Team.

I was listening to that game, and that “Yuck!” was almost an involuntary response - a reflex. Because, yeah - “Yuck!” was a perfectly reasonable response to a pitching line did not reflect well on a pitcher who is getting notorious for frailty.

Adam Jones is dumber than a bag of hammers and half as perceptive. And there’s a reason why Felger has taken to calling him The Sports Buzzard or Sports Vulture. Sometimes, he comes out with such a simple-minded take that I have to immediately switch to NPR in order to regain the IQ I lost listening to him.

You see? Danny Ainge *knew* this was gonna happen, which is why he traded him!