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How you like me now? That having been said, John Hirshbeck's strike zone was ENORMOUS. My commentary on a Phillies board: John Hirshbeck will call a strike before collective bargaining starts. John Hirshbeck will call a strike when you knock down only 6 pins. John Hirshbeck will call a strike before you take the match out of the box. I'm the biggest Phillies homer, but he certainly had some help. Hirshbeck was calling it both ways, tho. The Phillies didn't do much after the 2nd when Travis Wood relived Volquez. Great game though. Going on my "Keep until I delete" roster along with the Phillies '08 WS win, Roy's Perfect Game in May, and "Band of Brothers: The Last Patrol".

Another good round-table review of Chinese Wall.

I was probably good to revisit just to remember a time when the Red Sox were like the Cubs. The best part for me was seeing A-Roid slap at Arroyo's glove. "Oh yeah, now I remember why I harbor such mordacious hate for that purple-lipped phony."

Roger is a completely broken man. From the beginning he had been identified as the guy having an affair with the busty redhead who also knows how to best schmooze the firm's biggest client "Lucky Strike". He basically inherited his position from his father without having to do too much of the heavy lifting. Now he has lost both. He comes home to his new trophy wife (nice to have a Jane sighting) and she presents him with a copy of his autobiography, the true definition of the man. She sits next to him and puts his arm around her. Don has the same scene with Dr. Faye, but he had just left a dalliance with Megan the cements just who Don Draper is. Pete's father-in-law stresses to him that he had his fun with this firm, but now it is time to take responsibility for his family and go to work with Ted Chaough. It was interesting to see Don tell Roger that Pete wouldn't have let Lucky Strike get away. Peggy gave Abe a second chance and that seems to have worked out for her. How about that all-hands meeting? Gee whiz the firm employs a lot of people we do not know. Two more episodes to go.

"The Social Network" is running 97% on RottenTomatoes.com right now. Aaron Sorkin is my favorite screenwriter (A Few Good Men, The American President, Charlie Wilson's War, as well as TV's Sports Night, The West Wing, & Studio 60) and along with Fincher, I have to believe this is a great work. That said, there's a bunch of Twitter chatter about how the script (based on Ben Mezrich's "Accidental Billionaires") departs greatly from reality. To that I say "Feh". I would have gone to see it tonight, but there's just too much football to watch. Maybe next week.

I've quoted this before so for the sake of redundancy:

So we now know what George Costanza is doing these days.

Remember when Don was making the case that the new firm needed Lane and asked Pete "Can you do what he does?" With Lane out of the picture, I think you're right in thinking the firm is finished. Pete has to give up North American Aviation to protect Don, while the firm's centerpiece Lucky Strikes is leaving, too. SCDP is on life-support Joan keeping the baby is the right read. I wonder if Sally enjoyed the concert? That was quite a scream she let out.

I know you guys hate Springsteen, but anyway... Redheaded Woman My favorite line: Big green eyes that look like, son They can see every cheap thing that you ever done Well I don't know how many girls you've dated, man But you ain't lived 'til you've had your tires rotated Our waitress at the sports bar last week was a true redhead. We spent hours arguing whether she was hot (two of us argued in the affirmative, one against). Today we sat in a different section, but she came over and said hello. Once she walked away, the nay-sayer said "I'm still not convinced." Either way, the Bills lost.

I don't know. That might be a bit north of my stomping grounds (Oakland Park?). When I was on the beach, I was either at the Elbo Room or Blondies. Occasionally, I'd hit "Beach Place" when I was landsharking. Now I live in Charlotte and it ain't the same. Just got a text from friends tailgating at the Fish-Jest game. [sigh]

I saw him in the Elbo Room {Las Olas & A1A) a few years ago. Man, I miss the Elbo Room.

It's been a recurring theme lately. Today he went with "Sally's French Toast". This was #9 for Season 4. Just 4 more to go. I'm still watching "Rubicon" with the same attitude: Jeeze, will something just happen? "Breaking Bad" won't be back until next summer. Up to date on "Weeds" and still liking it. Now catching up on "Californication". I like it. Like "Weeds" it's some decent bubblegum for the brain.

Please. GBiD provides 2 links/week telling of teacher/student ugly-bumping. Let's focus on what important, people. Did you see that potato?

Imagine you're Sgt. Mike Geiger. You're charged with investigating this scum that prey upon these girls and then force them into prostitution for their own profit. You're a highly trained professional, armed with a gun. What kind of restraint does it take on your part to not mete out justice on your own terms?

On PTI yesterday, Tony Kornheiser said that "Rolling Mrs. Blankenship" would be a good name for a fantasy team. RIP Ida, you always had the best lines. What did we learn from "The Beautiful Girls"? (1) Sally is still screwed up. (2) Faye is not mommy material but she'll do for now. (3) Megan is easy on the eyes. (4) Peggy doesn't want to hear your pinko crap, Abe. (5) Roger & Joan find mugging to be an aphrodisiac. Now what?

You assured me that it's lack of movement was due to it being tired and shagged out after a long squawk.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.... she's a hand model?

There be no sad pirates! Now... where be me rum?

40 here, but I'm very immature. Last girl I brought home looked around my apartment and said "You live like a child." I replied "Of course. When I asked you if you wanted to come back to my place for some Wii Bowling, it wasn't a euphemism; I actually meant it. Here's your controller. I'll go first."

I went to this game last night. I can't remember the last time a Bills game was that entertaining. The refs were a bit flag-happy but the back-and-forth, "last team with the ball wins" feeling was really cool. The was definitely some FBS talent on the field.

I was thinking of that, too. He was portrayed as a bit of a yokel in the one scene in Korea, but still had the wherewithal to change identities with Lieutenant Draper. He was sort of smooth as a car salesman, not to upsell but rather get the kid the right car. In the fur store with Roger, he was both smooth and obsequious. He still had the confidence to go meet Roger to ask for a job. Maybe he got that confidence from being successful with Betty? I'd like to see that story told. The former. Wow, Joan's little speech about how they'll all have to go off to Vietnam was pretty blunt. I like how Don/Dick said about Vietnam "I hope it doesn't turn into another Korea." Little comments like that are such a big part of these stories when seen in retrospect.

I worked one summer for NiMo. All the summer workers were college kids whose parents worked for NiMo. It was a sweet gig back in '89 because we got paid ~$9/hr to do things like paint the chain-link fences around the substations and stuff like that (pretty good money at the time). On the first day, one of the other guys asked if I was going to work again the next summer. I said I wasn't sure, but probably not because I had to get a co-op job for my degree. It was too bad because the summer work schedule was to paint the high-voltage towers every other year and the pay was double. So I never got to test my will to climb high and paint. Of course, I worked the next three summers for Philadelphia Electric. One of my duties was to 'dip the tanks' which involved climbing to the top of several oil tanks and lower a tape measure to get a true reading on how much oil was there. That was only about $11/hr. I watched that video and got short of breath. You'd have to offer me $10 million... and then only maaayyyybeeeee.

Was in Chicago for a wedding last fall. One night we did a pub crawl: (1) Green Door Tavern (One of Chicago's Oldest Bars) (2) Underground Wonder Bar (Great Music) (3) Mother's (The bar in "About Last Night") We had a pretty good time.