I’m gonna totally agree with this one with a caveat. Buying DVDs is for movies you love, not just any movie (although some of those are good to have too.) There are times when you just want to watch Rush Hour and why rent it from Amazon when you could have bought it at Walmart for the same price? Besides, now that it…

The freshmen ineligibility rule is a nuclear option. The NCAA has no control over the one-and-done rule which they obviously feel is a problem. All they can do is request the NBA to remove it and the NBA hasn’t particularly shown much desire to do that preferring that high school students get a year of free-to-the-NBA…

I think this is the Caps year and I’m saying that as a Penguins fan. The reality is that the Penguins defense is so porous that it requires exceptional goal-tending and they just don’t have it this year. Murray has looked more than pedestrian and he has no backup. The Pens are also moody scorers. Sure, they can put in…

I think that he just had a ‘yippy’ moment. He was probably debating pitching vs throwing over to first and he hadn’t quite figured out in his head which it was going to be so it ended up all kinds of crazy. Probably why he looked so amused. I’ve done the same kinds of things where you don’t know quite what you’re…

Yeah, pretty much. Infield fly rule is a good rule. There should never be a rule that rewards intentionally screwing up. Do you want a Hack-a-Shaq? Cause that’s how we get Hack-a-Shaqs. And stupid fouls at the end of a quarter. Geeze, basketball has the worst foul rules. Anyway, that’s a different subject. Point is…

I don’t think Boston is scrambling to find anything. They have outplayed Toronto every single game this series, including the three they lost. Last night’s was the closest and Boston still looked better than Toronto. They had more shots, more scoring chances, they looked more controlled. The only thing that they…

It was a good play. Kessel looked like he was shooting it the whole time. Watch the blade on his stick and it looked like a wrist shot to the low glove. He got Neuvirth to commit and drop to one knee before passing across. I’m not saying it was the hardest play in the world, but it was a good solid play that he…

I fail to see what exactly Baez is doing that’s against the rules and that demands an umpire intervention. If sign-stealing is gamesmanship, then obscuring the view of the batter is gamesmanship too. It’s annoying and I’m sure throws the baserunner off, but there’s no rule that I know of against shifting your position…

I don’t think you can blame them for Seguin. You don’t know who they would have grabbed with that pick or that the pick would be that high when they made it (although they had to assume it would be top 5) and Kessel for all of the criticism was not a bad player to have. Why the Toronto media hounded him so…

My only aside is that you say Boston is a good bet to play well into spring. This means that barring epic collapses, you’re predicting Boston over Tampa Bay? I’m not saying that’s impossible, but I don’t think it’s a good bet. I think the good bet is that they step out in the 2nd round.

I’m not displeased with how they do it. The reality is that they miss calls all the time. I saw at least three or four in last night’s Pens-Flyers game some for my team, some for theirs. It’s 4 officials and 12 guys. Stuff gets by them. At this point, it’s part of the game. Sometimes your guy gets away with stuff,…

It’s on the way. Their four best players are all over 30. I could see them missing the playoffs in three years. Until then, I’m enjoying it. 3elieve.

I think where we differ is our definition of both rural and development. I don’t consider Long Island or Manassas rural. They are suburban which is a different category. I am also not advocating merely residential development, but rather industrial. I’m advocating businesses begin setting up shop in Troy Alabama or…

Affordable housing means government housing. Developers will not waste valuable real estate on cheap housing when they can make it super-duper-luxury housing and make way more money. Government housing is great except that by its nature, poorer people use it and poorer people have many more social issues than…

What’s crazy is that there isn’t really a reason for it (other than playing in the same division as Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin.) It’s not like they just have Ovechkin and no other talent. They have good goal tending. They don’t have an obviously deficient defense, especially the last 3 seasons. It just seems that…

Not kidding. It’s partially associated with personality traits like risk taking and experience seeking. It’s a pretty well-established fact at this point that our politics are in large part though not completely determined at birth.

Don’t bother, we just unplugged it so it stays at zero. It’s just easier that way.

Just as an aside, we don’t know that political ideology is a choice. Twin studies have shown that there is almost definitely a genetic component and perhaps quite a strong one. As much as 60% of our political disposition could be genetic. If you combine that with environmental factors, almost none of our ideology is…

Here’s the real question. If Bartolo Colon can keep plugging along at a reasonable level for a few more seasons, is he a potential Hall of Famer? Before you start laughing look at Jack Morris’s stats and look at Colon’s and they are strikingly similar. Personally, I think he has a very slim chance (the only slim thing…

Build your own. You can put together a decent 6 foot bookshelf for around 100 bucks. Use 3/4 inch hardwood plywood with 1/4 inch backing and if you want it to be pretty, oak 1X3 facing on the frame and 1x2 facings on the shelves although pine would also work and if you’re really cheap, you can go no facing, but it…