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Yeah, that guy's a jackass. ="soupcan"]I liked this line though - Sunday is �Take Her Out to the Ballgame� Day, when they'll give away 25,000 man-purses that Mike Piazza left behind. I'll second that. I was about to post that also. Funny. And in defense of them hating the Mets, as pathetic as some of our history is, theirs is worse, and we ripped 'em up when it mattered, and we're the same age.

Technically, no, but because all of the teams in front of them have to play each other, practically, they're eliminated, even if the simple magic number doesn't work that way.

If I was making $15 million year, and someone actually wanted to pay me MORE just to do a television commercial, I would jump on that faster than a kangaroo on a pogo stick made of rabbits. Unless it was for some crazy faith healer.

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Nah, he's still the Cookie Monster. Although he has now added the hit single "Cookie Is A Sometimes Food" to his repertoire.

Ah, they did it once last year. It was Jason Lane or someone like that.

Yeah, this dad is definitely a fan of Dr. Gina. And Ms. Noodle (played by the wonderful Kristin Chenoweth) as well.

I tell you, the trick to winning a AAA championship is to have players who are juuuust good enough. Good enough to make it to that level and succeed, but not good enough that they merit September callups. That's what happened when I was in Rochester in 1997; the club was good -- very good -- but none of the players went on to any major league success. I really enjoyed that team.

Sorry. Widescreen here. Fixed.

Yeah. Let's just count down using pictures of Elmo.

When we did the girls' names song lyrics things recently, someone complained that folks weren't actually reading the lyrics, they were just racing to get the next letter done. At least something with photographs allows for a little group interaction, rather than someone just posting one thing and that's that. I'm just saying.

I believe the Killer B's you're missing are Jumpin' Jim Bronzell and B. Brian Blair.

Give him a chance, JD. I know he's irritating, and he's been so overexposed in the media, but the kids really do dig him. Barney? Whole 'nother story. He's on right before SS in the morning, and my wife turns it on. THAT drives me nuts. Willets, they still do trippy stuff, but that specific bit doesn't run any more. Every once in a while, they'll slip in something old school, like the Alligator King and his Seven Sons, if it dovetails with what they're talking about that episode.

We've definitely rediscovered Sesame Street, and we have come to love Elmo as practically a member of the family. There's really a phenomenal amount of research that's gone into the character development (Elmo's three years old, Grover is six, Prairie Dawn is a precocious four-year-old, Baby Bear's lisp, etc.) and relationships (Telly & Baby Bear, Elmo & Zoe, Bert & Ernie, Baby Bear & Curly Bear, Elmo & Grover, etc.). You could do a fascinating PhD thesis on the whole structure; hell, you could write a whole encyclopedia, considering the show's history. They've structured the show a lot more now than they did when I was a kid; there's a pretty standard sequence of events (opening thematic skit, letter of the day, number of the day, Elmo's World, Trash Gordon), with bits and pieces scattered around. Even Elmo's World follows a very tight script (song, topic intro, musical topic interlude, Mr. Noodle, ask kids, ask a baby, counting, looking in the drawer, one kid's story, talking with a representative of the topic, Dorothy imagining Elmo doing something with the topic, ending song), most likely because kids thrive on routines. The first eight notes of the Elmo's World theme song are practically a national holiday in our house; all other activity immediately ceases. MiniWolf's not at a point yet where he demands his daily Elmo, but I'd bet that if he was older, he'd be confused if it didn't happen. FWIW, Sesame Street released a three-DVD "Old School" set recently, which is good for a laugh if you can find it at your local library. I don't know that I'd spend money on it, mostly because some of the characters are waaaay different than they are now (different Gordon, Oscar is orange, Big Bird's head is smaller), but also because the stories are dated (the whole story of the first episode is very timely for 1969, but would never happen today), and because, quite frankly, I have better things to do with my time than watch 35-year-old episodes of Sesame Street.

Edgy DC wrote: The problems with the sonnets is that the order isn't arbitrary, but there's a narrative thread from one to the next, so posting them backwards is as much fun as reading a book backwards. The other problem with the sonnets is that I didn't read them in college, and I'm certainly not going to read them now. At least a bunch of pictures can be amusing to look through.

Most definitely.

Okay. I'll just hang back and watch, I guess.

...while the rest of the world was looking at Cheryl Tiegs or something.

I always said Johnny Bench had a lotta balls.

I have no idea what's going on in this thread.

Nerds.

="Zvon"]="Edgy DC"]The word is Brooks. You say Brooks, I do this: Well, that explains why he was so good defensively... he was triplets.

Detroit should throw some Alice Cooper in there also. Maybe "Detroit City." I'll say this about "Piano Man"... when we saw Billy live at the Coliseum a few years back, and when Billy and the band cut out during the last chorus and let 12,000 people sing that song together, in tune and in unison, it's pretty frigging cool. It probably wouldn't work in a ballpark, though, as it's too slow.

Nice play by Keppinger to snag the hot grounder. (If only we'd kept him, we'd have a great player for the future at third.) Nice play by LoDuca, staying in the rundown long enough to get Milledge to second. Nice play by Rickey Henderson, reminding Milledge to hustle and get to second base.

="bmfc1"]Right before the double,the Reds color guy said that with Bill Bray's stuff, he can get Shawn Green to roll it over and hit a grounder. Roll over that one! Well, just because he can do it doesn't mean he's going to. Maybe he meant Green could roll it over... there, between those two outfielders.