SageAgainstTheMachine

If I was a betting man, I'd wager that Tebow ends up a Jaguar. Jax is the team that most desperately needs attendance help and Tebow will grant them automatic sell-outs for a couple seasons even if he's horrible. If he's successful, it might be a semi-permanent fix to their attendance problem. In fact, if we can convince Jacksonville we're interested in taking Tebow in the second round, we might be able to leverage a very nice trade out of it. I wouldn't be shocked if our private viewing of Tebow was more of a smoke-screen than anything.

There'll be hecklers, sure. But protestors? It'd take a pretty pathetic person to bother protesting.

It's a nice endorsement for carpe diem. Plan for the future, yes, but not too cautiously because you just never know when a stray bullet is going to fly through your window or a plane is going to fall out of the sky.

One of the many reasons I dislike Sergio is that he should have been Tiger's Raphael Nadal. Despite Tiger's popularity, I believe the sport has suffered from Tiger not having a clear #2. Mickelson has been the closest to this, but he's much nearer to Andy Roddick if you want to continue the Federer analogy. Sergio ought to be racking up the tournaments/majors, but instead he's still acting like the entitled prick he's always been. And you don't win a major if you think you deserve it before teeing off on hole #1. You just don't. Yeah, he's been close more than a few times. But he's also completely missed the cut 13 times in majors over the last 10 seasons.

That's not funny, my grandpa died from being grabbed by a giant octopus.

oh, wait...

I'm with you...I appreciate Tiger's excellence for what it is, but I usually root for the other guy, unless it's that ass Sergio Garcia. That said, I'd like to see Tiger in the final pairing for the Masters. His competitiveness and drive do make for the best Sundays, even if I'm cheering for his competition. Ironically, I am a Yankees fan but that's my dad's fault.

If you were to make a list of "Things to be afraid of when going out for a run", I wonder how far down on the list you'll find "Getting suddenly hit by a silent airplane". Bizarre stuff.

Well, the byrd probably IS overrated...not saying he's bad, but the sheer number of balls thrown right at him or tipped to him probably make him overrated. In other words, don't be shocked next season when he doesn't get 9 INTs again.

Habs are on a nice winning streak, no?

Is your sister Stafford or Connolly?

I have heard this, but I prefer to just ignore these dumbasses. I'd be concerned if these people were the majority, but they're not. I'd actually argue that the tide is shifting the other way. More and more Americans are beginning to label themselves agnostic, and the great majority of Americans don't actually take their religion as seriously as its portrayed. The idiots are just louder, so it seems like there are more of them.

Just wondering how much of a cross-sectional fan base we have here at TSW. I'm equally a Bills and Sabres fan.

Nope. Social progress always makes people uncomfortable because the weak of mind fear change. Why should the institution pander to those people?

I don't have a problem with the state endorsing religion, as long as it doesn't impinge upon my rights to free religion and free speech. I mean, it's not like we're legally required to ever recite the pledge. That's the beauty of this country...it's the freedom itself, not the symbolism. I can sing "I Touch Myself" during the freakin Star Spangled Banner and nobody's allowed to touch me. Not that I would.

I think Hey You is an excellent song as well.

There might be some conflict between Chuck Norris and if you put them on the same bill.

Is this an intentional metaphor for the gay marriage vs. "civil union" issue? If so, well done.

Why do people even care about this? I'm about as agnositc as you get, and I fail to see how this could possibly matter. One nation under god, one nation under allah, one nation under gary busey...who cares? It's just words, people.

Scissored to death, huh? That's rough dude.

Have you ever seen the Rob Reiner episode of South Park? Illustrates your point expertly.

Why should they even have to defend themselves? It's their choice, why judge them for it? Smoking's a gray area because there's the potential for hurting other people...but if you do it in the comfort of your home, car, personal space...why hassle the smoker?

I think it's an unforunate side effect of our human nature, which happens to manifest itself the ugliest in the ultra-hormonal social bubble that is high school. Everybody (and I mean EVERYBODY) thinks that they're abnormal or weird in some way. Who among us can honestly say they've never had a "Jesus christ, what's wrong with me?" moment? Talk in-depth to enough people and you'll realize this is true. So for many people, a band-aid for this insecurity is lashing out at the person who is strange in a more conspicuous way. The gay kid, the fat kid, the nerdy kid...easy targets because it's much harder for them to hide their idiosyncrasies. The secret, I think, is to learn to embrace that which makes you "weird". It's a difficult thing to do, but it's one of the few tangible keys to happiness.

Well if teenagers are one thing, it's rational. The girl should be in the clear.

Yeah, but I hate them because they play for rivals AND they act like pricks. For example, I got no hate for Thomas Jones, Chad Pennington, or Kevin Faulk.