Yup. Pretty much the only thing any of those assholes on that jury should be saying are "I'm sorry". Maybe with an extra helping of "I'm very sorry." Possibly with crawling to Nicole Simpson's sister and Ron Goldman's parents on their hands and knees, and saying "I'm very very sorry."

MLB has been garbage about reaching international fans? You know they play exhibitions overseas routinely, right? And baseball is very popular in the Far East. How have they been garbage?

It was not a "beanball". No one has ever suggested Mays was throwing deliberately at Chapman's head.

This is a crock of shit, really.

Yep, the reigning World Series champions are the high-spending, big-city Kansas City Royals.

"Limited series"? Is this fancy new TV jargon for "miniseries"?

No, it's definitely not the Barney Miller scenario, Sam's employees didn't work in shifts. It's sitcom magic.

I already mentioned Ken Levine's blog upthread. This is something else he touches on. He basically points out that Rebecca wasn't that funny a character and the first time they realized how funny neurotic, crying Rebecca was, they rolled with it.

IIRC Bebe Neuwirth quit the show which was why they had to write her off.

That's not really true. Lilith got zany from time to time. There was the episode with the dead lab rat, and there was the episode where she tries to seduce Sam.

There also was a Cheers episode that contained a flash-forward in which Lilith, Frasier's widow, is there for the reading of his will.

I always thought that theory was bogus. Just because the autistic kid on "St. Elsewhere" dreams about "Cheers", that does not mean that Cheers the show does not exist outside of his head. The boy could have watched Cheers, and incorporated Cheers into his fantasy.

That is exactly the episode this discussion is about.

The episode where Robin's going to jail is utterly butchered because they don't play "I Fought the Law" anymore. Grr indeed.

I feel duty-bound to point out that there were two different actors who played Gary. I don't feel duty-bound enough to look up who that other actor was.

It was a Halloween episode.

Peri Gilpin also had a guest spot on the last season of "Cheers", as a reporter covering the "Woody runs for city council" plot.

Ken Levine mentioned on his fascinating blog that the writers actually came to regret that whole gag. That it was a pretty difficult challenge to come up with a zippy one-liner for Norm every week.

If my alma mater had won a championship at anything I would have happily set fires. But we sucked in all sports.

You don't think you're allowed to repeat rumors?