Frayed Knot

The main reason Benigno never liked Rick Peterson is that he was always so confused by the fact that RP never gave the standard jock answers in interviews. Joe's reaction was along the lines of; 'I can't understand it therefore it must be bullshit'

This morning on WFAN, Joe Benigno and Evan Roberts talked to Dr. Christine Resta, a thyroid specialist, about the situation with Jose Reyes. But did Benigno understand any of her answers? -- I'm guessing not.

I think every game in the state of Florida is canceled today

Right, because a few weeks from a mediocre prospect certainly trumps 5 years of major league accomplishments.

Gossage, meanwhile, notoriously silent on the antics of MFY reliever Joba Chamberlain who does more shuckin' and jivin' ending the [u:24mdej47]8th[/u:24mdej47] inning than Frankie does in the 9th.

Jeremy Renner, he was just nominated as Best Actor for his part in 'The Hurt Locker'

I'm 100% certain that Jose Reyes didn't murder O.J.'s wife.

He was a great player, but only for a short time.

I'm generally against the trend towards more 'check-me-out - over-the-top' type of celebrations ... but this one was pretty funny and the game was over at that point. By the same token, Zito plunking Prince on the broad side of his broad body with a BP fastball in ST is just a not-so-subtle way of saying that the Giants remember the incident but it's not like there was a whole lot of menace behind it. If the details of this thing were different I could see getting more riled up by it but, as is, it's mostly a non-story IMO.

Several folks here claim to either be working or re-working on something here. At some point we're going to want to wrap this up.

I think it's the result of a plot among Miami-based Cubans and the mob.

Yeah, Kunz is likely to have a career as a serviceable middle reliever even if the hoped-for closer role never works out. Meanwhile, lots of guys on this (or any) top 50 list will never see the big leagues. There's no Juan Urbina either. You can argue that he's not included because he's at the other end of the spectrum: young, pure potential with no pro experience at this point and so far away from the majors. Sure, but so is Stephen Matz.

The very nature of farm systems makes judging them not only subjective but very erratic. Having a good one will almost certainly guarantee that it's on the way downward since good prospects who do well will "graduate" and the ones who don't fall off everyone's radar, so either way they won't be top prospects anymore.

I've always known it as one PH AB and one not.

Well, sure, because ugly IS a handicap in Hollywood. Got 5 of the big 6 correct - although there weren't exactly a lot of surprises last night. The only real question was whether 'Avatar' and 'Hurt Locker' would split the big two or one movie would take both. I bet on split and missed. - Baldwin & Martin: good but not great, opening was good but then they were pretty sporadic after that. - pretty lengthy tribute to John Hughes, no? I mean the dude made a lot of movies and certainly carved out his niche in the biz, but if everyone with his resume or better gets that kind of treatment we're talking about a 6 hour show. Meanwhile they missed the first couple of dead guys in the yearly montage because the camera wasn't zoomed in and Farrah was among the missing; not the greatest actress on the planet but worth a mention. - I like the horror movie 'tribute' (basically an excuse to strive for a younger demographic by getting Kristen Stewart and whats-his-face up there) where they complain that no "horror" flick has won an Oscar since 'The Exorcist" way back in the '70s like before computers and shit -- and then the montage shows several cuts from 'Silence of the Lambs', a winner in the '90s. And, if I'm not mistaken, there was a cut of '[u:zthdwda5]Young[/u:zthdwda5] Frankenstein' in there; yeah, that one had me on the edge of my seat.

Edgy DC wrote: Two easy rules: Go for sweeties in the supporting actress roles: funny old ladies or irrespressible cutiepies. Go for creepy performances in supporting actor roles. Creepazoids who've been bringing it for decades and are probably more or less likeable in general get extra juice. Like, Gary Busey will never win for playing a creep because it's hard for anybody to think it's a stretch for him. And handicaps roles. Those get loads of votes and wins.

Ceetar wrote: Arguably, I don't care about any of the awards because they never reflect the decisions most people make when they go to see a movie. I don't particularly care either and most years don't even watch. I'm just throwing this out there as a forecasting exercise while testing my theory about actually seeing the films being a detriment to accurate predictions as it tends to cloud your judgement as to who you think deserves the award, something that usually has little to do with the outcome. Supporting Actor - Tucci Y'know, now that I think about it, Tucci could definitely win. I forgot to consider the dead spouse factor - his wife died about a year ago leaving him with three kids.