soupcan

I see your point. Madonna, for me, would basically define my existence. For him - not so much.

All things being equal - if there was a 50 year old woman out there that looked like Madonna and was in the same shape she is in and wanted to have sex with me, I'd have to consider it. Now if you add to that, that the woman is in fact Madonna, I think I would absolutely knock boots with her. It's Madonna.

Female Co-Worker: "How old is A-Rod? 32? 34?" Me: "32 I think." F.C-W: "Would you do Madonna if you were 32 and she was 50?" Me: "Well, it is Madonna" F.C-W: "Sure, but she's 50." Me: "Yeah, but even at 50 she looks amazing. She's in better shape than most 25 year-old women out there." F.C-W: "She's 50."

I started watching it at my father-in-law's house in Rockport, MA, 200 miles from my house Left there at the start of the rain delay for the drive home. Turned on WFAN about 45-50 miles from home just in time to hear Heilman get the final out of the 8th. Listened to Wagner give up the Werth homer as my wife looked at me and said sarcastically 'Wow, shocker.' Got home, put the kids to bed and saw Tatis hit his and Bazooka Joe not throw the last out into rightfield.

Thanks Grimmy, I love stuff like this. Never knew about it. Here's a New York Times article from February. With pictures! February 19, 2008 A Stairway to Sports History From the Polo Grounds By Timothy Williams Steps that lead nowhere today once offered a clear, yet distant, view of games at the Polo Grounds. (Photo: Geoffrey Croft/New York City Park Advocates) A plaque at the bottom of the staircase honoring the New York Giants� baseball team owner, John T. Brush, was dedicated in July 1913, the year after his death. (Photo: Geoffrey Croft/New York City Park Advocates) With the winter baseball news dominated by tales of steroids and human growth hormone drugs, hearings and investigations, and apologies and denials, a look back at a more innocent time in baseball may be in order this week, when position players are joining pitchers and catchers at training camp in Florida and Arizona. The Polo Grounds, the northern Manhattan home of the New York Giants baseball team, has long been the site of a rather imposing public housing complex called the Polo Grounds Towers � four 30-story skyscrapers with 1,616 units. Few clues remain about the glorious things that happened when the Polo Grounds was a sports stadium in Washington Heights � Willie Mays, the birth of the Mets, the New York Cubans, the New York football Giants, and Floyd Patterson vs. Ingemar Johansson, among them. But one relic remains, not as the result of historic preservation, but by accident. That relic is a staircase built down Coogan�s Bluff, the hill that overlooked the stadium, which is roughly where Edgecombe Avenue runs today. The staircase once led to a ticket booth, and was built by the owner of the Giants at the time. Coogan�s Bluff had long been a sort of Tightwad Hill for local fans, a place where those unwilling or unable to pay the stadium�s entrance fee had a clear, if distant, view of the proceedings at no charge. If nothing else, the Giants may have hoped a new stairway would prompt a few fans to buy tickets. Today, the stairway leads nowhere, except for an overgrown stretch of Highbridge Park. Many, if not most, of its steps are missing; its guard rails rusting and falling apart; and some sections have disappeared into the underbrush, making an attempt to walk down them highly inadvisable. But at a landing partway down is an inscription; like the staircase, it has been slowly disintegrating over the decades. Its letters are still clear despite rain, snow and heat, and it reads: �The John T. Brush Stairway Presented by the New York Giants.� A New York Times article from July 9, 1913, retrieved by the Parks Department, says that on that day the baseball club would be formally presenting the �John T. Brush Stairway� to the city. The Giants� team president, H. N. Hempstead, was to present the gift to the city parks commissioner, Charles B. Stover, to honor Mr. Brush, the Giants owner who had died in 1912. But city officials say the long-forgotten inscription and staircase, which might be the last vestiges of the old ballpark, could be in for a reprieve. As part of the Bloomberg administration�s PlaNYC2030 program, Highbridge Park is set for an overhaul, including the historic, and long-closed High Bridge � as well as the staircase. The cost of repairing the staircase is about $1.2 million, according to city officials. So far, the city has only $400,000 to pay for it � all of it from the office of the Manhattan borough president, Scott M. Stringer. Mr. Stringer, 47, who grew up in Washington Heights, near the stadium, said he never saw a game there. Indeed, Mr. Stringer said when someone mentions the Polo Grounds to him, his mind does not turn to images of Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron or Sugar Ray Robinson. �When I think of the Polo Grounds, I think of the housing development and the people who live there,� he said. As for the staircase, Mr. Stringer said he had no idea it existed until the Parks Department asked him to help finance its restoration. �It was sort of left to us,� he said. �But we�ll make sure the inscription is restored.� (For the record, Mr. Stringer said he follows both the Mets and Yankees, but at heart, is a Jets fan.) Adrian Benepe, the commissioner of the Department of Parks and Recreation, said the park �has undergone a significant rebirth in the last 10 years with more than $10 million worth of improvements completed or in progress� and that an additional $75 million in projects were already underway or planned. �Even with all that, there�s still more work we need to do on this historic park, including finding some additional funding for the Brush Stairway renovation,� he said.

Church says it was a migraine. Says he's been getting migraines his whole life and that he is certain it is unrelated. From the radio cast of yesterday's game: Only reason Church didn't play yesterday was because Jerry Manuel has an unofficial policy of not starting a player in the following game after that player was removed from a game for a physical reason.

Do you guys really care that much? I haven't given two craps about the All-Star game since I was 17. Sure I'll watch it but other than that...

="TransMonk"] Last time the Mets were above .500: 6/5/08 Last time the Mets won 3 in a row: 5/29/08 Last time the Mets were 2.5 games back: 5/20/08 In addition, a win today would give the Mets a 7-3 season series advantage with only 2 of the remaing 8 games against Philly to be played in Philadelphia.

Before I met my wife (waay before, I assure you), she dated this guy whose last name was Dickerman. According to her, the guy had both testicles but one was 'dead'. When I questioned that, she said that it was 'smallish, gray and little shriveled'. The story goes that the guy was playing rugby in college and his teste got spiked clean through by somebody's cleat. Ouch. From then on and to this day I refer to the ex as 'Half-a-Dickerman'.

By the way - after Friday night's debacle I am now 1-5 in Mets games attended this year. Yay Mets.

soupcan wrote: Nope. Put your money on Giese or Ponson throwing a gem. You just know its gonna happen. Thank you.

Me too. Jerry Manuel on WFAN on Pedro starting the Shea game tonight: "I want our home crowd to see our good players." Uh, Jerry - as one of those home fans, I'd prefer Big Mike tonight if its all the same.

Nope. Put your money on Giese or Ponson throwing a gem. You just know its gonna happen.

I'm going to do away with part II of my personal history of Yankee animosity because I got the distinct impression that nobody gave a shit. Which is fine because I don't remember much that happened from 1980 on anyway. Alcohol and Marijuana you know. I don't know the Yankee lineup because, well, I don't watch a whole lot of Yankee games. So here is a position by position breakdown. Information contained in this KTE has been stolen from multiple sources..... FIRST BASE Jason Giambi has rebounded from an awful April and May and ranks tied for second in the league in homers with 17. Fifty-one percent of Giambi�s hits have gone for extra bases, and his homer total leads the team. Golden thongs, porn 'staches and undetectable HGH seem to have helped his revival. SECOND BASE Robinson Cano is off to a brutal start and needed back-to-back three hit games in Pittsburgh this week just to get up to .241. So all that talk of being the next Rod Carew has died down just a touch. SHORTSTOP Derek Jeter had a 13-game hitting streak through Wednesday and his errors are down. Probably because he can't get to anything to misplay it. He remains overrated. THIRD BASE Alex Rodriguez has been hot since coming off the DL on May 20 and was second in the league with a .324 average through Wednesday but leads the AL in high-fives not being given to him by teammates. LEFT FIELD Johnny Damon has been hot over the past month hitting .413 over his last 31 games and is in the AL's top 10 in both average and on-base percentage. His left foot has been giving him issues though. Supposedly he still has the best ass in the majahs, but I wouldn't know about that. CENTER FIELD Melky Cabrera is "a third or fourth outfielder with limited range." I like that quote and I'll let it stand for itself. RIGHT FIELD Bobby Abreu is in a slump at the moment but remains the Yankees' RBI leader. He makes lots of $$ and is allergic to walls. CATCHER Jorge Posada is hitting over .300. The Mets should be looking to test that balky shoulder. They should also blow high-pitched dog whistles to confuse him and his supersonic hearing. DESIGNATED HITTER The DH will only be used in Game 1 today. The Yankees are likely to go with Hideki Matsui or Wilson Betemit. BULLPEN Mariano Rivera has been Mariano Rivera. Jose Veras has also been solid. BENCH Matsui won't be playing the outfield this weekend due to a bad knee, but his bat is available. That's pretty much the only real threat off the bench for the Yanks. PITCHING MATCHUPS Game 1 Mike Pelfrey -v- Dan Giese, RHP (1-2, 0.64). Giese threw an impressive 6 2/3 innings in his Major League starting debut against the Reds on Saturday. The right-hander recorded outs quickly and avoided long at-bats, throwing only 75 total pitches. Of those 75 tosses, 53 were strikes. Giese was tagged for three unearned runs to pick up the tough-luck loss. He gave up just four hits and struck out five with no walks. The righty's one mistake was a throwing error to second that blew a double-play opportunity. Giese retired 20 of the 25 hitters he faced in his first big league start. Game 2 Pedro Martinez -v- Sidney Ponson, RHP (4-1, 3.88) Ponson made his Scranton/Wilkes-Barre debut last Saturday, giving up one run through four innings in a tuneup for the Mets. He is 1-1 with a 2.86 ERA in three career starts against the Mets, though he hasn't faced them since 2003. Game 3 Johan Santana -v- Andy Pettitte. Pettitte threw six shutout innings on Sunday in the Yankees 4-1 win over the Reds. He has allowed just one earned run in his last three games and none in 19 innings. He's 7-4 with a 3.48 ERA in 17 career regular season starts against the Mets, though one of those losses came earlier this year. Game 4 Oliver Perez against Darrell Rasner. In Rasner�s, only ever appearance against the Mets, he gave up two earned runs in 0.0 innings of work. Ollie is 4-1 with a 2.88 ERA with 23 strikeouts against the Yankees.

Fman99 wrote: You should've gone all Multiple Miggs on her. 'Silence of The Lambs'

Chill-ax peeps, I'm on it. I'll have it up before Game 1.

Bill Brasky just walked into my office and ate my sandwich! And, hey... my ass hurts.

Bill Brasky makes Chuck Norris sound like Boy George.

This game was my first attended win of the season (1-4). Next game - tomorrow night. No worries - I'm on a roll.

Maine 3.75 Wright 3 Reyes 2 Castillo .5 Heilman .25 Sanchez .25 Smith .25

Ted Barrett. Nephew of former USC head football coach and present SF 49s asst. head coach Ted Tollner.

="Frayed Knot"]Without getting into a whole inane Imus-v-Stern debate, of course Imus was also attempting comedy If we're talking about the Pacman Jones comment - no, he wasn't trying to be funny, he was serious when he said it. It was a matter-of-fact statement made during the news. The following day after the media shitstorm he explained that what he meant was 'Of course he's black, that's why the police are picking on him.' As if to say he sympathizes with the plight of the black man in this country.

I think the difference is that Stern was obviously doing it for comedic effect and Imus was being serious.

My favorite Russo-ism was years ago and pretty innocuous when compared to all the others. He was talking about some team, somewhere doing something stupid and instead of screaming 'It's a travesty!' like he always does, he screamed 'It's a TAPESTRY!' Years later I still laugh about it and repeat it whenever a situation calls for it.

Santana 1.5 Beltran 1.25 Heilman 1 Reyes 1 Sanchez 1