Houston Series Preview

Anyone going to the game tonight? My mom scored a couple of tickets. View Box somewheres…

FIRE BRIAN SABEAN

by zenbitz on May 12, 2008 1:01 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Ironically enought I’m in Houston for job training. I live in NM anyway so wouldn’t be going. I just wish the Astros were in town for part of the week at least so I could go to a major league game.

by paboperfecto on May 12, 2008 1:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yup. I’m going.

2008 Giants: A steaming pile of scrap!

by Goofus on May 12, 2008 2:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I might go.

Depends if I get motivated to or not, and can find anyone to go with.

I would like to get to the game early and watch Zito warming up.

Eugeniooooooo!!!!

by FairweatherFan on May 12, 2008 1:11 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Sounds like going to watch grass grow in the outfield.

by paboperfecto on May 12, 2008 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

There's some nice grass out there...

Eugeniooooooo!!!!

by FairweatherFan on May 12, 2008 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

We're born again, there's new grass on the field.....

by paboperfecto on May 12, 2008 1:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Watching Zito warmup is like going to yoga class.

Adopted father of the AnVil / GIANTSPACE™ returns!

by SoFa King Mike on May 12, 2008 1:20 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

You're right

I did one yoga routine recently that made me feel dizzy and naseous. Watching Zito makes me feel dizzy and naseous. Damn inversions.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 12, 2008 1:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

A great way to pick up hot and flexible women?

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by Bhaakon on May 12, 2008 1:38 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Watching Zito Warmup?

I just want to see if he can throw strikes in warmup…

Eugeniooooooo!!!!

by FairweatherFan on May 12, 2008 1:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Usually guys who hang around watching women working out are labeled as sex perverts…

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 12, 2008 1:56 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

We prefer instructors.

Aaron "Swag" Rowand

by victor frankenstein on May 12, 2008 1:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Remind me to wear my WE BELIEVE XXXXXXL shirt to the next class

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 12, 2008 2:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Back in the day

would take aerobic classes and be in the back of the class. Met plenty a ladies.

by wilriv21 on May 12, 2008 2:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

That why you join the class.

You lose pervert status and gain a shared interest.

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by Bhaakon on May 12, 2008 2:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

No dice.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 12, 2008 2:04 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I taught water aerobics once

But they were all Grandmas. does that count?

Eugeniooooooo!!!!

by FairweatherFan on May 12, 2008 2:05 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

NEXT on Sick Sad World!

G-string grandmas?

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 12, 2008 2:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hmmmm...you're onto something here....

A question for all the ladies out there….what kind of single and available fangirl would willingly attend a Zito outing over any other?

For instance….I’m guessing that the Lowry / Sanchez camps are at odds with each other for the “Oh mai good, he’s sooooooooooo dreamy! His booty looks hawt in those pants!” title.

Zito’s probably very popular with the “skateboarding to work, free-thinking, ukelele playing, bad celebrity boob job, East Bay transplant” types.

Timmy….well because he’s part cyborg, I’m thinking the fembots with a machinegun in their ta-tas would be big fans. The type of woman that can draw a poor and unsuspecting dude into their clutches and can fleece him without him even knowing.

Matty Cain with his bull-ish, farmer-boy good looks is probably big with the flannel wearing, smokeless tobacco chewing, lumberjack kinda woman. Either that or some waify thin midwestern farmers daughter maybe?

(This is where the disclaimer goes regarding rash generalizations and female fandom. We all know there’s only one tk, jprony, or Baron kinda “fangirl”. This small print is also for the single/available legal loving kinda ladies. Hi girls!! Hit a brother up!)

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by PacBellBoozer on May 12, 2008 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

There might be some women out there who find Zito attractive, still. He managed to get Hillary Duff recently, and she’s a pretty girl. My ex errenously assumed I find Zito attractive, but hey, nobody’s perfect.

Personally I like me some Jonathan Sanchez and Noah Lowry because I like the tall guys with the dark features. Cain is funny looking, but I love him just the same (Matt, if you’re reading this, I mean you no harm. Like you’d date me anyway, but still. Are we cool?) Tim, I love Tim. In ways I cannot even describe. But Zito? Once he was the object of many female desires, even my own in 2002…anyway, no I can’t say I know anyone who still likes Zito. I can point to a superficial reason why he may have turned off many female admirers: that horrible child molester beard he’s sporting. WTF is that about? Bad facial hair can ruin things very quickly (see: Brian Wilson’s face merkin)

Conversely I know a lot of gals find Kevin Frandsen zomg so hot but he’s just not for me. I recognize that he’s a good looking dude, but meh. I usually don’t go for the blond thing. Ortmeier looks too much like an ex of mine who just stopped talking to me for no good reason so I can’t even look at him. I have a dumb silly crush on Fred Lewis because he’s just so adorable plus he hits good.

Fangirl is a bad word, IMO. The term suggests a willingly stupid gal who doesn’t even try to follow the game but goes for zomg the hotties. Usually seen wearing pink crap that was not sold to benefit cancer fighting causes, and various other ugly pastel team apparel. That’s the only thing I’ll get on your case about, and not even in the mean way I reserve for jerkwads. :)

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 12, 2008 2:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

“He managed to get Hillary Duff recently, and she’s a pretty girl.”

You had me up until “pretty girl.” She’s actually kinda hideous. In a scary longface makeup queen cheekbones and eyesockets sort of way.

My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on May 12, 2008 3:31 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think she's a dracula.

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by Bhaakon on May 12, 2008 3:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Which would explain the dissappearing fastball

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by Bhaakon on May 12, 2008 3:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I LOL’d.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 12, 2008 3:56 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'd hit it.

Hillary Duff, I mean.

Pfft….who am I kidding…probably Zito as well.

by Lars The Wanderer on May 12, 2008 6:03 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Zito

I’d say “I’d hit it…with my car!” but I just washed the car today…

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 12, 2008 6:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

That’s why you rent one.

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by Natto on May 12, 2008 6:38 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Natto=always thinking.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 12, 2008 8:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

What's wrong with pink?

ZIPS: Milledge: 466 HR, 485 2B, 2282 hits, 278-379-524

by rfloh on May 12, 2008 11:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

What baseball team is pink? Just wear the team’s colors if you want to support them. Sure, I’m biased because I look great in orange, but still. No team in MLB is pink.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 13, 2008 7:29 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

If the team is selling the pink merchandise

and someone is buying it, by buying it, and giving money to the team, would the buter not be supporting the team?

I admit that I like pink, and that it is one of my favourite colours.

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by rfloh on May 13, 2008 7:44 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

You don’t need to wear stupid pink crap to still be attractive and feminine, is my point.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 13, 2008 7:54 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

This illustrates my point, I believe

http://www.sportsbytes.net/article.asp?articleid=70239

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 13, 2008 8:11 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I disagree fairly strongly

with viewpoints like that.

I disagree with the idea that anyone gets to determine the “correctness” / validity of someone else’s sports fandom. That viewpoint reminds of some “old school” writers deriding “statheads” for “not watching the game while crunching stats in their mother’s basements”. It reminds me of some stat based fans who sneer at fans who might like a player who is not necessarily great, or even good. It reminds me of some fans who sneer at other fans who watch sports for the players, instead of just the laundry, and who sneer at fans who support a player who is not wearing the correct laundry.

Some other things in the article that I disagree with:

A mildly offensive fangirl is one who exhibits knowledge of her team of choice, at least enough to name the members of her starting rotation, but can’t provide fact one about a team or player outside her city. The idea that twenty-nine other teams exist in the league is lost on her. Everyone knows the sun rises and sets behind the Green Monster. Duh.

I don’t see why she singles out fangirls for this. Quite a few fans, male fans, only pay attention to their favourite team and their rivals. This behaviour seems more prevalent among fans of East Coast big market teams. Not fangirls. Hell, there are still many knowledgeable fans out there who still view the A’s through the prism of Moneyball, and who have not moved beyond Hudson, Mulder and Zito.

The growing appeal of these items can be summarized by a simple assessment of, "it’s cute." Cute. There’s no cute in baseball

Once upon a time, there was also no “DH” in baseball. Things change. If enough fans want “cute” in baseball, there will be “cute” in baseball.

ZIPS: Milledge: 466 HR, 485 2B, 2282 hits, 278-379-524

by rfloh on May 13, 2008 8:40 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Christ...not this ol' argument again...

All I wanted to talk about was boobies! Must it really come to this?!?

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by PacBellBoozer on May 13, 2008 8:51 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hey I brought up Jennie Finch. If that’s not enough boobies for you then I got nothin’.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 13, 2008 9:02 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

And I thank you for that. I’m not the biggest fan of hers, but yes I do appreciate the effort.

I’ll see your boobies and raise you one well defined ass in tight pants! :P

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by PacBellBoozer on May 13, 2008 9:18 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Thank you

I saw blue and was scared that you posted a Dodger picture for a minute! And then I realized that you know better.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 13, 2008 9:23 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I wrote it. :) And I think we’ve both made it clear we’re not going to change the other’s mind. We can’t really bring much else to the discussion at this point.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 13, 2008 9:01 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

there's a red sox fan in my office

who didn’t know who Barry Zito was. He’s a bearded man.

I think a lot of east coast fans just see the players on west coast teams as little ants soon to be stepped upon.

you can't block the Bocock

by oldjacket on May 13, 2008 9:21 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Around what time was this when this fellow didn’t know who Zito was?

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 13, 2008 9:24 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

two months ago

at a happy hour. I believe we were discussing Tim Wakefield and his abhorrance for soft tossing pitchers.

The man knew quite a bit about the Red Sox and Yankees, but said who, “who?” When I mentioned our soft tossing putative ace.

you can't block the Bocock

by oldjacket on May 13, 2008 9:27 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Two months ago…and suddenly my hatred for Boston sports fans increases. Unless he was trying to be clever and make a joke, but Boston fans just aren’t smart enough for that. They’re too busy complaining about how life with two World Series titles in the last few years is so terrible.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 13, 2008 9:34 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wasn't being clever

I’m just saying there’s plenty of team-myopic bearded old guys.

We have another Red Sox fan who’s much better, I must add.

He grills me for Giants sleepers at the beginning of every season for his keeper league that he plays with other Red Sox fans. I told him to grab Sanchez and Fred Lewis this year, and in doing so I’ve turned him into a crypto-Giant fan.

you can't block the Bocock

by oldjacket on May 13, 2008 9:39 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ya I was giving the benefit of the doubt in my own backhanded way. And yes, keep working on your friend. He has a brain, and that brain can be developed for the good of mankind.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 13, 2008 9:41 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

We’ve discussed this whole “fangirl” thing before, and I hope you realize that I’m not trying to throw you or any of the other ladies into that class. I was simply trying to draw a comparison between your kinda fandom and the zmog the hotties type.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that it’s frustrating that there’s not more ladies out there who share my fascination with how Timmy throws his 2-seamer…as they’d rather fawn over a firm ass in a tight set of pants. I can’t blame them really, because dudes do it too, but at least we’re honest about it.

Another quick comparison. I’ve gotten this friend of mine into soccer lately. We’ve been to a few games together, watch a few more on the tele and also spend some time in the pub as well. The problem is that she’s became the soccer fangirl and refuses to look at it for the beauty of the game. Who can blame her when rich hotty Europeans are prancing around with their fancy hair…but still…it kinda sucks that it’s came to that.

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by PacBellBoozer on May 13, 2008 1:14 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

What if I find Tim Lincecum attractive because of how he throws his 2-seam fastball?

WHAT THEN

Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.

by jponry on May 13, 2008 1:37 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

What then?!?

Then I wish there was more out there like you!

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by PacBellBoozer on May 13, 2008 1:41 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

jponry gets it

Though I like his curveball too.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 13, 2008 7:30 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Tim won me over with his alien cyborg pitching powers. He’s still a skinny, awkward, goofy looking fellow, but his repetoire and badass attitude on the mound is very, very attractive.

One of my favorite players in the game in Prince Fielder. I love him because he’s a great hitter. Was I also into Scott Podsednik when he was with Milwaukee? Sure. It’s hard to resist a good looking guy in tight pants. But Prince always always always has my heart because he’s a monster hitter. And now Podsednik is nothing so I laugh at him.

It’s frustrating to BE that gal who says “hay look Tim’s throwing the slider more isn’t that cool?” while your male peers look at you like ”....” More than a few times I’ve tried to enter discussions with men at my workplace about sports and I just get blank stares. And as you know, PBP, I’m no dummy when it comes to the subject. My guess is it’s just daunting to women to get involved in these discussions with the core fanbase of the sport because they act like we’re speaking Greek to them when we do jump in. Regardless of our abilities to discuss the subjects well. Nope. It’s just “weird.”

And yeah, if Jennie Finch was around here pitching I’m sure most of the dudes wouldn’t be breaking down her pitches and analyzing her stats. They’d just be pleased with the blond girl with the big bazooms. Which is fine. I’m not gonna begrudge anyone for that.

The dynamic just doesn’t need to be as messed up as it is.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 13, 2008 7:39 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I for one would not be one of those dudes.

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by Natto on May 13, 2008 12:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I would try to come off like her pitching was the thing I appreciated most about her, but eventually I would just reply to a wilriv comment with a +1 and my cover would be blown.

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by groug on May 14, 2008 12:28 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Why can't a fangirl / boy

appreciate both? Both the beauty of the movement, and the beauty of the body that produces the movement?

Also, there are also fans who only appreciate players / teams who are “awesome”, ie players who produce great numbers, teams that win; who don’t appreciate the aesthetics of sporting movement. Why is being a fan of team that wins while playing dull “like watching s#!+ hanging of a stick” soccer acceptable, nay, even considered something to be proud of, why is supporting laundry considered the ideal, with wins all that matters, considered the ideal, but appreciating the beauty of the athletes considered a sin?

ZIPS: Milledge: 466 HR, 485 2B, 2282 hits, 278-379-524

by rfloh on May 13, 2008 7:56 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Why is appreciating the beauty of the athletes considered a sin?

It shouldn’t be, you’re absolutely right. Isn’t watching the grace of a fit, athletic person excelling in his or her chosen sport a lovely thing to see? Of course it is. But when I get asinine comments about how I only love sports because I like to look at the guys, all your excellent reasoning goes out the window.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 13, 2008 7:59 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

UGG, grammar and spelling all awry.

ZIPS: Milledge: 466 HR, 485 2B, 2282 hits, 278-379-524

by rfloh on May 13, 2008 8:01 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wrap up the farm boy please

A guy’s appeal is directly proportional to his skills on the field. Zito…no, no, no! I would like to love me some Lowry but it just seems kinda wrong. I’m 37. But my boy Matt – somehow it doesn’t seem dirty at all. Yah, I know he’s even younger but whatever its my fantasy after all.

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by igotnothing on May 12, 2008 3:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Bonus

Matt’s also a very nice guy.

Your 2011 SF Giants: the 2008 Augusta Greenjackets!

by Lyle on May 13, 2008 6:50 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Not a bad preview

At least the guy gave us the Lincecum game.

by WilliamVanLandingham on May 12, 2008 1:37 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Not bad

The only thing I found weird was his preoccupation with how our guys pitched against the NL Central this year. First of all, let’s take an already small sample size (pitchers’ to date stats) and shrink it arbitrarily (since the NL Central does not reflect the Astros). Second of all, ummm… I actually incorporated my second of all into my first of all, so… I can play through Cherub Rock on hard with the guitar without needing to be saved now. That’s cool, because that song is freaking hard.

Enter Sandman owns me, though.

My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on May 12, 2008 3:39 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Enter Sandman

When I got to Enter Sandman on the hard level I just went ahead and started from the beginning on the expert level. After going through the first couple of song groups on expert I was able to go back and pass it.

Speed, defense... and an almost fanatical devotion to getting picked off.

by SF Pete on May 12, 2008 5:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I didn't know the Astros had a winning record.

Let’s put them at .500!

by withclubsauce on May 12, 2008 3:11 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Actually

In a 4 game series we’ll have to put them either above or below .500.

No even numbers for them!

My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on May 12, 2008 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

how about under?

by wilriv21 on May 12, 2008 3:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'll take the under.

My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on May 12, 2008 3:59 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Aren't the Astros...

21-17? A four game sweep by the Giants would put them at 21-21.

by withclubsauce on May 12, 2008 5:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Of course...

That’s being optimistic.

by withclubsauce on May 12, 2008 5:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Whoops

Addition = fail

My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on May 13, 2008 2:47 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

"Math is hard!"

- Barbie

Fred Lewis can stand under my umbrella.

by S.F. Giangst on May 13, 2008 4:47 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Math IS hard. I had to struggle and fight to get a C in this stupid algebra course I just finished. :(

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 13, 2008 7:40 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wrong!

Math is easy. English is hard.

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by WalrusMan on May 13, 2008 8:03 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I know a lot of people who struggle with one or the other. The math peeps can’t write an essay, and the English peeps can’t add or subtract. I’m serious when I say I can do the complex algebra stuff like quadratic equations and rationalizing fractions, but actually getting the number answer? I always mess up the arithmetic. Even with a calculator. I don’t get why.

English however bores me because it’s like snore another essay? All right, here’s a thesis statement and here’s my evidence can I go now?

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 13, 2008 8:08 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I’m feelin’ ya on this one. I struggled for a long while with the math classes I took in college. Until I realized that it isn’t about the answers so much as the process. The only way I got through those engineering and calculus classes was to dumb it down a bit and just try and emulate the process behind the whole thing. Plug this number into here, put that number over there, toss a shot back and pray like hell that you’re getting it right!

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by PacBellBoozer on May 13, 2008 8:55 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yea.

I’m the one who was in Calc in high school, sailed through another year of Calculus in college, but had to re-take English 1a to pass and only passed English 1b by getting in a good group in a group work class.

The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."

by WalrusMan on May 13, 2008 10:57 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

WRONG

Both are easy, Ninja Gaiden NES is hard.

My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on May 13, 2008 12:05 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wrong!

Your mom is hard! Wait, I meant… crap. Can I start over?

SAVE_US.RAY
Nattowear: now featuring new crap!

by Natto on May 13, 2008 12:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wow, I love the internet. Here is a post about a baseball series that started yesterday and in almost 70 posts we can talk about boobies, butts, tight pants, algebra, english, rock songs and probably a few more topics I missed or forgot about.

by paboperfecto on May 13, 2008 9:41 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

McCovey Chronicles: A Misch Mash of content.

"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 13, 2008 9:42 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Penis!

The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."

by WalrusMan on May 13, 2008 10:57 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

bocock

"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 13, 2008 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs