Edgy MD

On these sorts of lists, 162 is always good.

I don't get why his arm gets so much play.suddenly. It hardly seems like the most superlative of his skills.

This thread lives too.

Mole sounds worried, so he may need this thread.

I think 05 is wrapped, just not programmed in.

Judge said he hated making this movie, because studio suits kept telling him how much they hated the rushes. The incredible plainness of setting a movie in office parks, strip malls, and a cheap slapdash apartment complex creates such a painfully non-descript look, and they probably reacted to that. They gave him a famous glamorous actress, and he gives them back a movie that looks like an Office Depot commercial. As a depreesed white-collar shnook feeling my thinning hair scraping a glass ceiling, with no ambition to climb over it anyhow, answering to too many bosses I don't respect, I found the commentary on contemporary office culture really incisive. I gave it nine staplers. Subtle small shots like them walking across the grassy drainage depression to go from Initech to Chotchkie's were worth a stapler or two in itself. I gave it nine staplers and then I burned the theater down.

An early entry to the CPF Song Parody Invitational, "Oh, Wally Backman!" described Wally as having a porn moustache. Your call: If I was going to be in a porno, I think I'd want to wear the eye grease: Apologies to Mr. Whitham.

In fact, my biggest problem with the book is that it created an entire wave of idiot religious historians. Can you imagine what it must be like for tour guides in European Art museums and churches? "Yes any questions?" "Isn't the figure beside Jesus not John but Mary Magdalene? "Ah, yes, the Magdalene theory. Well if you look at how young men were painted in this period of the Rennaissance, John is pretty cons..." "Why are you covering for the Church's secrets?" "So, I take it that you've read Da Vinci Code?" "Well, yes, I have, and I'd like to say that..." "And was it the first book you've read?"

Write the cat and ask casually.

Bumped from the predictions forum to honor the winners.

Was this scoring final. This was a good idea, if cumbersome for Yancy.

Two posters wrong Victor winning, a few wrong (so far) on the prospects being ill-boding, one wrong (abeit a brief sample size) in his defense having elevated to something passable, and myself dead wrong in thinking the Mets would find enough at-bats for both.

Nobody saw Bannsiter.

Cooby doesn't have to do anything, and if she wants a nu avatar, or no avatar, she can have one.

I'm just trying to copy the html out of the ranking level profiles and put them onto the spreadsheet, so magic Yancy can refresh every thing by exporting from the spreadsheet or whatever he does. You know, it's the same HTML for the old place. Maybe I'll take it from there. I can't imagine what's wrong that the admin place kicks me and only me off. But it must be my profile because it happens to me at home and at work.

Not so much. I'm loading everything into my table. My problem is tha it takes ten tries for me to get into the admin panel (where all the HTML is hid), and even there I might hit a toggle and then be returned to the forum screen. This is why it took me so long to fix that avatar that was screwing up Elster's posts? Are any other admins having problems getting into and out of administration?

Did Backman try and bunt at that first strike?

That was the nature of RBI Baseball. Hard singles went through to the wall. The outfielders never ran fast enough to cut the ball off, but the batters were often too slow to take advantage. Buckner also was shown to boot the ball instead of it going through him. Great and fun effort though. He gets a blue ribbon just for the Marty Barrett screen.

Extended exercises in futility usually just distract me from the important rest of my life --- an extended exer... what the Hell. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Give the Met who will have the most of each category, names but no numbers Batting categories Games - Jose Reyes Hits - Jose Reyes Doubles - David Wright Triples - Jose Reyes Home runs - Carlos Delgado RBI - Carlos Delgado Stolen Bases - Jose Reyes Caught stealing - Jose Reyes Runs scored - Jose Reyes Batting average (high) - David Wright On base percentage (high) - David Wright Strikeouts (high) - Carlos Delgado Walks - Carlos Beltran Pitching categories Wins - Pedro Martinez Losses - Tom Glavine Strikeouts - Pedro Martinez Walks - Victor Zambrano ERA (low) - Billy Wagner ERA (high) - Jose Lima ERA (low by a starter) - Pedro Martinez ERA (high by a starter) - Scobie Saves - Billy Wagner BAA (low) - Billy Wagner BAA (high) - Scobie Games started - Tom Glavine Games pitched - Duaner Sanchez 2) Give the number for the player and category specified Cliff Floyd - games - 146 Cliff Floyd - batting average - .259 David Wright - runs scored - 97 David Wright - RBI - 114 Carlos Beltran - home runs - 25 Carlos Beltran - stolen bases - 26 Jose Reyes - errors - 19 Jose Reyes - on base percentage - .328 Carlos Delgado - batting average - (who cares as long as 30 of those hits go very far) .274 Carlos Delgado - RBI - 111 Kaz Matsui - games - 95 Kaz Matsui - runs scored -48 Anderson Hernandez - games - 51 Anderson Hernandez - batting average - .226 Anderson Hernandez - fielding percentage - .989 Paul Lo Duca - on base percentage - .351 Xavier Nady - RBI - 70 Victor Diaz - games - 104 Pedro Martinez - strikeouts - 183 Tom Glavine - wins - 14 Steve Trachsel - losses - 9 Steve Trachsel - walks - 72 Victor Zambrano - ERA - 3.92 Victor Zambrano - strikeouts - 176 Brian Bannister - games started - 14 Aaron Heilman - games started - 11 Billy Wagner - saves - 48 Billy Wagner - ERA - 2.22 Jorge Julio - ERA - 3.32 3)Team Categories Total runs scored - 840 Total runs against - 770 Team ERA - 4.06 Team batting average - .268 Record - 93-68 NL East Finish - 1st Games behind NL East Winner - 0 Playoffs (Division winner, Wildcard winner, no playoffs) - Division Champ Playoff finish - Win WS 4)Tie-breakers 1st tie breaker - Total number of rainouts - 4 rainouts, three of which will be made up. I don't know whether that's four or one. 2nd tie breaker - 5:06

I had him down for that in the predictions thread.

If we get Puljols' piss, we should test it.

a gm with an itchy trigger finger who hasn't demonstrated any particular ability to assess young talent Is this referring to the draft, trades, promotions, or what?

I think, at worst, we throw four or five starts to a pitcher that doesn't belong in the bigs --- near-or sub-replacement level. Maybe Lima will be the name on those lineup cards. As we learned last year, we can lose a lot of at-bats at second base to replacement-level performance. With all the redundancy, somebody there is going to do adequately; it's just a queston of how many at-bats are garnered by those who may not. I suppose it's also possible that Paul LoDuca falls off a table, but Castro should provide enough coverage to catch him.

I'm as mad for the Mets as any y'all, probably more than most. But my wilder fantasies don't involve Victor Zambrano.

The poor Cubbie fans have to contend with opening the season with Prior and Wood on the DL.