SageAgainstTheMachine

+1 I don't get why people watch awards shows. It's just a bunch of spoiled people masturbating each other about how awesome they all are.

C'mon, Stuck...how can you blame them for not getting involved, when all they have are those little utility knives?

Yeah, I understand people who hate the Yankees, but I honestly don't think there's one negative thing you can say about the guy. Great player, better guy.

I'm very sorry to hear of your loss, Stl. I watched the youtube video and he seemed like a very great man. My own grandfather died a few years back...like yours, he was a war veteran and a quality human being. When the pain fades, you will realize that an 87-year long fruitful, extraordinary life is a triumph and not a tragedy. RIP

As somebody mentioned, we'll still hear Sheppard's voice at Yankee Stadium whenever Jeter comes to bat. I can only imagine how emotional Jeet's final at-bat is going to be. It's something I sort of look forward to from a cathartic perspective. Anybody remember Paul O Neill's final game at Yankee Stadium during the 2001 World Series? I remember being in tears for more than a few minutes.

Smithers, have the Rolling Stones killed. But sir, those arent... DO AS I SAY!

Forgot about Moon...Bonham too.

I don't know why, but this just crushes me. He was 99, but it felt like he was immortal, I guess. You know Jeter's gonna knock one out of the park for him tonight. RIP Bob

Freddie Mercury by a mile. Honorable mentions to Kurt Cobain and Janis Joplin.

+1,000,000 I'll think about heart, guts, precision, etc. later on...just beat the f*ckers

I'd love that, but it ain't happening. Boston went from worst to first by adding an aging Allen and Garnett to Pierce. I can't even imagine how good Miami will be by adding Bosh and Lebron.

Yeah, let's make no mistake...Lebron, Wade, and Bosh will all have to take minor hits in salary, ego, and PPG...but they will win titles barring some catastrophic injury situation.

Yeah, a lot of people are just impossible to please. Everybody complains that the team doesn't have enough grit, so the organization brings in a gritty veteran and the same people complain that he's not a goal scorer.

You're generalizing way too strongly. Not every liberal is a smug prick who brags about reducing his carbon footprint, just like not every conservative is a back-country idiot who thinks the Earth was created 5,000 years ago. Now, there's not a very good way to test for which side is inherently more rational, but I personally know just as many irrational conservatives as I do irrational liberals. Stupidity and ignorance don't follow any sort of political bend.

I got a little lucky, because it happened to be one of my first guesses in the trial/error process. What keyed me in was the two O's in a row...in longer words, I figured the sound is more likely to be fragmented than the traditional "oo" as in toon, and there aren't too many long words with "oo".

Answer to #1...highlight to read, I don't want to spoil it for people. MICROORGANISM

Thinking that this type of disgusting hate-speech is somehow related to liberalism is entirely misguided. I'd estimate that there are an equal percentage of hateful fanatics on both sides of the aisle.

How many cups of coffee are you on so far today?

I've probably got the wimpiest story here, but this is probably the closest I was to dying. I had a pretty bad cold for a few days when I was 15 and one of the symptoms was heavy sneezing. After taking a shower, I stepped out to dry myself off. As I approached the bathroom counter to brush my teeth/shave/whatever, a sneeze suddenly came upon me and I sneezed so hard that I smacked my forehead against the iron, which my Mom had left out. Knocked me out for about 5 minutes, and I only came to after my family found me lying naked on the bathroom tile with blood seeping out of my head. I had a fracture in my cranium and it gave me a very bad concussion...I got bad headaches for a while, but those have gone away. I still have a trianlge-shaped dent in my forehead.

Modern political leaders could learn a hell of a lot from George Washington. To lead, you don't need a fancy education (he didn't have one), or an impressive political pedigree. You need two things...to be a leader, and to be a good person. Unfortunately, we've been very short on men and women like that in political office recently.

234 years ago today, our nation was born (or 11 score and 14, for our lincoln enthusiasts). No matter what your political beliefs are, your level of trust/distrust in the current administration, or past administration, or administrations before that, no matter which pundits you listen to, no matter what you think of the economy....please take this day to remember that we live in the greatest country on earth, and it's because of the people.

The greatest relief pitcher of all time, and he's not slowing down even at the age of 40. His cutter has dropped from 95 mph to 93 mph over the course of a 15 year career, and that's the only difference between 25-year old Mariano and 40-year old Mariano. Amazing. Just look at his stats, he's just as good as he ever was, maybe better. http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/riverma01.shtml Also the best postseason pitcher of all time. Is he the most dominant athlete at his position in the history of American sports? I think you could make that case. And to think, the Yankees almost traded him in the minor leagues.

That option exists in every thread...don't click the link.

So Broward County is footing the bill for Lebron, and not the Heat? That sucks.

David Lee is a scrappy center with some surprising offensive abilities and a tenacious rebounder, but he is a defensive liability.