You gonna scare him back to that AWOP thread everyone stopped reading about 3 posts in.

Guessed well on the broad factual outlines, missed the mark on the specifics, although Baltimore is the place to be working, retired, or unemployed if one seeks an enjoyable modo de vivir rather than a rat=race existence.. Once more with feeling, Mencken's "On Living in Baltimore" is a wonderful read on this issue, and the whole essay can be turned up on a Google search. Am a typical provincial who really values things like a few hours deep in the forest with the deer, fox, beaver, geese, great blue herons etcetera and an attractive Baltimore female who doesn't labor under the delusion that she shits nuggets of gold. The worst thing is that we are content down here without the dazzle and sizzle of the town so nice they named it twice and everything costs twice as much as it does down here.. Then there is the fact that I have almost an hour to fuck around online before I set off for my 9am meeting. We have fun doin' it Baltimore-style, but we always keep in mind that we are by no means the supermen that master the universe up there in the Apple, and we want you to know that we hold our collective breaths in admiration for all that is accomplished up there, and we don't hold the panic of 2008 against y'all, y'all remain our heroes and objects of our veneration.

Okay I'll throw one out there. Who the fuck does Derek Jeter think he is? If he wants a recording of Bob Sheppard introducing him when he bats in the All-Star Game then fine. I'm good with that. I think it is a great idea. For him to want to use that same recording for the rest of his career is too much.

I don't know who is or who will be announcing Yankees batters now. I don't know how good they are or how long they will be doing it. I do know that if I was the guy who will be doing it from now on I interpret this demand by Jeter as Jeter telling me I suck and that he wants the old guy back. Some people may think so what, big deal. Now say Posada decides he wants a recording of Sheppard announcing him whenever he comes up to the plate, then Riviera decides he wants a tape of Sheppard announcing him whenever he enters the game, so on and so on. Then you have the Sabathias who do not have a recording of Sheppard introducing them and are stuck with the new guy. If you hire someone to announce the team then he announces everyone on that team, no exceptions. If you are going to go this route then just lock Vin Scully in a studio somewhere in March and let him read the entire roster of every team in baseball. Then just cut that up and give copies of it to all the teams. Jeter may want to just pay tribute to Sheppard but he comes off as an attention whore by doing this.

Jeter is far from an attention whore. You never see or hear from the guy in the offseason. I'm sure it is just a show of respect for a guy that was part of the Yankee family for 50+ years. As for the Posadas and Sabathias wanting special treatment too, fuck em. I don't see a C on their uniform, so they don't get the same treatment.

Side note: Posada is much more vocal than Mr. Never Ruffle a Feather Derek. I think he would have been a better captain, but he isn't, so no Bob Sheppard for him.

Finally, you are really reaching hard for another reason to hate Jeter for this to get you POed. If Jeter played for the Cubs and never won a thing, he'd be fucking cannonized by baseball fans. Instead he plays in the biggest market for the winningest team, gets the press that goes along with it, never accused of juice, never beat his girl, or got caught doing something stupid, and everyone hates him. His five fucking rings are paying for the KC Royals executives bonuses, cause the owner doesn't put the revenue sharing money into the team. You wanna fucking hate on someone, hate the pathetic fuck that runs your team.

wondering if I should tell the guy i broke up with weeks ago, 'call me when you're off drugs. seriously, i'd love to try again. but you need to be off drugs. and i don't mean off drugs for 3 seconds."

Probably not. I know when women call me up with any kind of ultimatums or demands that I change the conversation doesn't go too far.

Let this one go.

Junkies are less trustworthy than whores G, and you know this.

I would, but you're always on business travel.

If Gia was like other women she would stick with guy through everything and try help and change him then as soon as he does change she'd cheat on him with his best friend or NA sponsor then blame him for it because he isn't the same man she fell in love with anymore. Meanwhile Conq will have been sitting the wings all friend zoned and listening to Gia complain about the guy through the whole ordeal from the beginning and hoping she'll see light and dump the loser and give him a piece of ass instead which will never happen becasue Conq is such a "nice guy" and she doesn't want to ruin their friendship with sex.

I'm seriously too lazy and self-absorbed for all that.

^^^Dat nigga don't lie.^^^^

I don't want anything to do with Gia after reading about that burned/shredded shirt thing.

Gia is a great cyber-acquaintance but she is too crazy for me. And I'm bringing plenty of crazy of my own to the deal.

I would perform all sorts of favors for Gia, but like many of us with a dark outlook on life, we have made choices in mates that merely serve to creat a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Gia trends towards Peter Pan, waifish boys who barely need to shave. Likely she will do this all her life. We all have our weaknesses.

The beauty of Gia is she recognizes this. I would like to see a Gia/Have2cit meet and greet though.

This stuff hardly constitutes arguing.

Johnny Cash was a Morse Intercept Operator in the Air Force Security Service. He could copy 35 WPM. He was stationed in Germany and may have been the first American to know of Stalin's death.

Best current historical research indicates that Stalin's inner circle knew they were about to be subjected to a bloody purge, and assisted Stalin's departure from this veil of tears.

Nice job managing the All-Star game Girardi. You have the three best closers in the American League in your bullpen with a 1-0 lead in the seventh inning and you bring out Phil Hughes. Plus you burn through your bench so you have no one to pinch run for Ortiz in the ninth inning and he gets thrown out at 2nd on a bloop single to right field.

All Star Game is a joke. They should do USA vs. World, that would be fun.

I am presented with a rare combination of animosity and opportunity. My team lost last weekend. I lost a friend Tuesday. Another went into Hospice today.

So bring it, but bring it quick- I can't be dicking around with you bastards all night. I will use google, drudge and huff post to argue about anything tonight.

Fuck your team.

Fuck both your friends (not physically, unless she was a chick, but necro is gross, so I digress).

Fuck you.

Fuck you. You are a day and a half later than me at my angriest. I won the interwebs and by extension, the World, when no one responded.

It's good to be King.

Bullshit. FWIW, I AM NOT cleaning your royal penis, your royal highness.

OK, TUP, 3 years later, Mariano still at the top of the game, you still feel this way??? Sure, if he was on a shit team like the Pirates, he wouldn't be as big of a star as he is, because he wouldn't have all those post season records.

Dude is money, and has been the most important Yankee since the day he took over the closer job. Most regular season saves, most postseason saves, and he'da have an easy 50 more in the regular season, if Torre didn't baby him in Aug & Sept all those years, saving him for the post season. Yeah, he's had a couple fuck ups in big games, but he been in so many of them, it's bound to happen from time to time.

Relievers usually have a prime of 5 or so years. Mo has gone 15 years of dominance, with one fucking pitch, in the toughest division in baseball. Boston, Toronto, late 90's Orioles, current Rays, no other division is that deep year in and year out.

603 saves, 1111 Ks in 1211.1 IP. 14 seasons over 30 saves, 8 of them 40+, 2 50+. 11 seasons with an ERA under 2.00. 5x top 5 for Cy Young, 2x top 10 for MVP. If you are into advanced stats, which I'm not, his ERA+ is the best all time, 52 points ahead of Pedro Martinez in second.

Check this line out

96 games, 8-1 record, 0.70 ERA, 42 saves, 141 IP, 110 Ks

that is his post season record. It is fucking SICK.

How about this:

64 games, 1-2, 1.91 ERA, 44 saves, 61.1 IP, 60Ks

Last is last year, at 41 years old, in his 17th season.

In conclusion, hate the uniform all you want, I know how it is, but you gotta be on powerful meds to think Mariano isn't the greatest reliever of all time. You need a face to hate, then hate on A-Rod, or Jeter, or Tex.

P.S. I am happy as a pig in shit that Andy Pettitte is back.

Baseball is a game for slow people.

Being a sports fan is the sign of an idiot.

The need to be part of something larger than yourself. I don't need that so I think It's stupid when people do.

If you have ever said "we won" and you are referring to a team you do not play for you a pathetic idiot.

i never us 'we' for a team i support. and i love the shit out of some sports. Yeah there is a ton of bullshit on some levels, but i dig the fact that it's still (mostly) a meritocracy. you fucking suck, you lose your job to someone who is good.

I always hated that "we" shit too. Ky. basketball "fans" are the worst. A huge percentage of them that rant and rave about them don't even know when they play their next game or are able to name more than one player on the team.
Having said that. Sports is good. Most of the time.

Sports is good for a good reason. It's important to be able to step back and think about those reasons.

That said, yeah, I agree with anything anyone says about UK basketball fans. What kind of fanbase places bkb above ncaafb?

I just want to understand how 2 people can love their chosen spectator sport with the exact same intensity but:

Football fan says "we won/lost" after a game.

Tennis fan says "player X won/lost" after a game.

Can someone explain that in a way which is better or more respectful than my explanation? Which is just that football fans are stupid and NEED to feel like they are part of something larger than themselves. And tennis fans have a realistic view of their favorite sport?

Not really into team sports, although I can watch and enjoy most of them when hanging out and drinking beers (soccer, rugby and basketball are my favourites then). For me, boxing is the only 'sport' I really enjoy watching and following and that's as far from the strange 'we' shit as one can get.

It's not as complicated or as deep as you make it out to be. Football is a team sport...hence "We". Boxing and singles Tennis is an individual sport, so "He". I do know people who say "We're back" whenever Tiger Woods does well so it's definitely not a hard and fast rule.

I think a lot of the "we" stuff stems from the fact that the person that is a fan of the team generally supports them by purchasing tickets, attending games, buying merchandise, etc, so they feel like they are apart of it. Yes it is the owner that signs the players' checks, but it is the fans that gladly hand the owner the money to do it.

Then you can just go to "us vs. them." Yankees/Phillies World Series from a couple years ago. New York beat Philly. Modern day war between city/states for bragging rights. Instead of NYC sending 10K troops to burn Philly to the ground, they send 25 guys w/ bats and gloves to take their pride. Instead of looting treasures, the winner gets a ring. Instead of raping their women, the players fuck their strippers.

Further to this, within NYC, each major sport has two teams, so there's intra-city rivalry as well as inter-city rivalry.

I'm really not a huge sports fan, but there's a couple of friends at work I like giving shit when my Giants have a better week then their Jets.

Man, I don't even want to hear about the Jets, w/ this T-Bo A-hole. I'm just going to be rooting for my fantasy teams until he crashes and burns and sets the Jets back 5 years.

If one of those guys turns out to BDM I. Just. Don't. Want. To. Know.

Nah too old for me and I carry a gun ! [and I hate both Ky. and Louis. with a passion ]

This thread is here for you, people. We need it during these trying times.

Motherfuckers in Columbia SC decided they wanted a local sales tax so what did they do? They provided way less than the State mandated number of voting machines to precincts that had voted it down before. People in "Red" precincts encountered 2-3 hr lines. In a manner as ridiculous as the 59 precincts in Philly without a single Romney vote. Sometimes you cheat so hard, you get caught.

You ever been to Philly? Only people that live in Philly proper are black, gay, students or homeless. I think they got some chinks too, but they aint citizens. The Romney voters are in the surrounding counties, and there are tons of old school union Democrats living with them.

It's not bad when Libs cheat. They're saving the world.