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Good for Franco, I hope his orange sanitation shirt goes in with him.

It all starts with pitching boys, can't do anything without good pitching. who said that?

Just poking fun here......

TheOldMole wrote: Houston Astros still makes more sense than Utah Jazz. and way more sense than the NY Giants/Jets.....

Good for Pearlman if he feels the need to apologize but I don't think he does.

"Um, guys, I'm still here at first base"

at $200 million....yikes....

One of the best conversations I was ever in, circa 1999: OUR LANDLADY: John Olerud is my favorite Met. ME: Mine is Fonzie. OUR LANDLADY (to Mrs. FAFIF): What about you? MRS. FAFIF: I like Ordonez. I miss conversations like those. you really need that fourth person to say Ventura and that conversation would have been the greatest ever.

Did you really feel that way about Mora at the time?, my memories of him are him as a bit player.........nice career after leaving though, Daniel Murphy could end up the same way.

Loved Ordonez , shitty hitter though, I tell you else was shitty, Burnitz and Roger Cedano......nice bodies , shitty bats.

Edgy DC wrote: Rob Castellano of Amazin' Avenue ranks numbers 41-50 on their way to a comprehensive top 50.. reading through it but right of the bat #43) RHP Luis Mateo seems interesting.

Very cool Met Hunter, great for Choo Choo , love this Last week, Coleman flew into New York � his first plane ride in 35 years. �They used to shake more,� he said, recalling the DC-6B propeller planes the Mets used to charter. When he checked into a hotel, he had never seen a magnetic room card.

I've a lump or something in my throat. I think in many ways reading his daughters postings makes it sadder in some respects to see what Kid is going through a long with his family. Sandomir has become one of my favorite writers out there.

Going to the Red Sox Rosenthal reports.

Disturbing but brilliant , watch the first two minutes Hunger [youtube:2joh4adx]yfU8-1DfI0M&feature=fvst[/youtube:2joh4adx]

Love Shameless [youtube:2bzqjefl]ciFzoaZS7T8[/youtube:2bzqjefl] true Blood is great too

I would be shocked if we got either of those two pitchers or simialr for Murphy. He could be one of the few interesting storylines to follow this coming season, I'd like to see him stay healthy and see what he can do.

I'd be disapointed if it were only 15 pages.

TransMonk wrote: I think I will always remember his defensive plays opposing the Mets than anything specific he did for the Mets. this is what I was going to write.

As long as it's not Steven Tyler. LGM

I linked mine up there and here is the thread where Ceetar thinks the Mets will score more runs than the Phillies. viewtopic.php?f=1&t=16799&start=100

Finally had time to myself to watch this tonight, pretty much agree with Vic,Seo and Bucket. I really liked the start with the scouts , the old guy with the hearing aid really set it up for me.All of those guys were great , "ugly girlfriend " was classic, these guys believe in that stuff and it was a great setup for the "moneyball" thinking. The scene when the head scout Grady quit or was fired was brilliant .It might have seemed a bit slow but i liked that it was deliberate in its pacing. I liked all the stuff with his daughter and the fact that as much as he wanted to win he wanted to win in Oakland , not move from her, it seemed real. Regarding Jeremy Brown Peter Brant did say his name when he brought Beane down to the video room , I loved that scene , thought the performances of Pitt and Hill were excellent , Pitt especially with his facial expressions and such really portrayed the agony Beane seems to carry, Overall an excellent movie.

There is some speculation that this is a precursor to a move to London. http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2012/jan/20/st-louis-rams-nfl-london-franchise

Benjamin Grimm wrote: What does "putting on the mac" mean? fairly sure he means putting on a mackintosh coat, perhaps to hide under at the cinema?, to shield himself for the pervs that might frequent such movies, as they jerk off?

As told by Donald Clarke in the Times http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2012/0120/1224310497230.html?via=mr There�s no denying cinematic sex has become worryingly unsexy of late. But there have always been screen clinches that made audiences wince. DONALD CLARKE donned his mac to pick out the 10 worst DOES ANYBODY still go to the cinema to become sexually aroused? Apparently you can now buy some sort of household device that beams erotica directly into the owner�s home. Why would anybody bother putting on their mac and walking all the way to the Ritzy when they could just turn on their Mac (ho ho) and enjoy degrading filth in guilty solitude? No reason. This may help explain why cinematic sex has suddenly become so, well, unsexy. Last week we were presented with the gruesome sight of Michael Fassbender shagging his miserable way around New York in the powerful Shame . Next week we encounter all kinds of horrid brothel action in the ridiculous House of Tolerance . This set us thinking. What are the most unsexy (consensual) sex scenes in movie history? 10. WATCHMEN (2009) If you weren�t already sick to the bleeding teeth of Leonard Cohen�s Hallelujah then its appearance over the super-soft rumpy pumpy sequence in Zack Snyder�s largely ghastly adaptation of Alan Moore�s fine graphic novel ought to have done the trick.Patrick Wilson (dressed as an owl) and Malin �kerman (the saucy Silk Spectre) couple while drifting in a pod above a computer-generated city. They�d better watch themselves. Nobody wants to give birth to something that�s half-owl and half-ghost. 9. JAP�N (2002) A tricky one this. There is, of course, no reason why we should object to a sequence in which a young man has sex with an older lady. But, though he may deny it, Carlos Reygadas is clearly asking us to squirm when the disturbed hero of his troubling arthouse epic engages in full congress with an ancient, battered peasant woman. Ever at home to bad sex, the Mexican director decorated his next film , Battle in Heaven , with lubricious encounters between a pretty young girl and an ugly, obese middle-aged bloke. 8. MOONRAKER (1979) Ah, James Bond. He�s a card, isn�t he? He�s always pressing his flabby jowls against blameless women with gynaecological nicknames. What do you mean �sleazy�? There are so many scenes to choose from, but it has to be Roger Moore and it has to involve an awful pun. Bond, the old devil, is on a space vessel, and has just been observed rolling around in zero gravity with (wait for it) one Holly Goodhead. Q drily remarks: �I think he�s attempting re-entry.� Eugh! 7. CONFESSIONS OF A WINDOW CLEANER (1974) It co-starred Tony Blair�s father-in-law, you know. Was there ever a less sexy sex symbol than Robin Askwith? During the darkest days of the British film industry, this snaggle-toothed rickets victim drew millions to the cinema with a series of supposedly erotic films that seemed positively frightened of the act itself. We nominate the scene in which Robin and some poor housewife roll around the floor while the washing machine spews foam over their pale, sweat-free bodies. 6. HOUSE OF TOLERANCE (2010) Bertrand Bonello�s fantastically vulgar film � set in a Paris brothel at the turn of the last century � generated hoots and boos at last year�s Cannes Film Festival. The scene involving facial mutilation doesn�t quite meet our �consensual� criterion. But the sequence in which one character cries tears of pure white semen has to be seen to be believed. The most jaw-dropping adventure in metaphorical lunacy to have appeared in any recent film. 5. SHAME (2010) It should, of course, be clarified that the sex scenes in Steve McQueen�s study of sexual addiction are meant to be repellently unsexy. By those standards, the horrific threesome towards the film�s close must be regarded as a triumph of self-disgust. Check out that shot of Michael Fassbender�s tortured face during his unsatisfactory orgasm. You don�t get that sort of existential angst from Robin Askwith. 4. LAST TANGO IN PARIS (1972) The film that convinced a million cinemagoers to switch to margarine. In retrospect, it seems astonishing that Bernardo Bertolucci�s self-important epic of spiritual flagellation was ever regarded as an erotic film. Just listen (if you can make out the words) to Marlon Brando as he threatens to introduce Maria Schneider to a willing pig. Watch as he puts Kerrygold where Kerrygold should never go. Good Lord, the early 1970s was a miserable time. 3. 9 SONGS (2004) You know how it goes. Whenever a film becomes renowned for its sexual explicitness, pundits such as your current correspondent appear on the broadcast media to brag about how �bored� they were during the relevant sequences. But Michael Winterbottom�s stupid film � interspersing actual sex with shots of white-boy indie bands � really was stupefying dull and rather horrid. I suppose we have to pick the scene in which Margo Stilley manipulates Kieran O�Brien�s organ to, erm, completion. 2. EYES WIDE SHUT (1999) If only Stanley Kubrick had retired after shooting the first half of Full Metal Jacket. Somebody once suggested that Vanity Fair magazine was aimed at waiters in Pittsburgh who wanted to seem urbane. You could say the same of the hysterical orgy sequence in the great man�s ghastly last film. It�s got people in scary masks. It takes place in a big house with creaking gates. It asks us to view Tom Cruise as an object of desire. The sort of teenager who still regularly gets his head stuck in park railings would feel himself too sophisticated to indulge in this class of saucy costume party. 1. TOP GUN (1986) It�s Tom Cruise again! The sequence in which the Cruiser and Kelly McGillis hump to the strains of Take My Breath Away by Berlin stands in for every terrible, soft-core sex scene from the 1980s. All the elements are in place. Sheets are clenched. The lovers are seen in blank silhouette. The background is illuminated by the same blue shade that coloured contemporaneous teenagers� eye shadow. It all ends with a cut to the following morning. Look, a single yellow flower sits romantically on Kelly�s pillow. For the following decade, all mainstream sex scenes followed this unlovely template.