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Ned Flanders

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  1. Well, whaddaya know...I already got a response. 

     

    "The smart money is that MLB is either going to go to No. Va or Vegas."

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    I'd rather they go to Vegas...jeeziz, getting out to a stadium near Dulles will be more difficult than getting to B'more.

     

    What pi$$es me off most about Cropp is that she was in on the deal...she was screaming her lungs out at the Union Station event in September where it was announced the team was coming here. Same goes for Carole Schwartz. Both singing "Take me out to the ball game" and posing for the press. Then, 10:30 Tuesday night, she makes like Dean Wormer and drops the big one. The picture on the front page of yesterday's Post should win a Pulitzer. Jack Evans' reaction is priceless.

     

    This city is a joke. Need more proof? Repeat after me: "Councilman-elect Marion Barry."

     

    Money quote: "This city is pathologically averse to change, captive to deep anxieties about race, class and the urban-suburban and District-federal divides. Baseball was an opportunity to rise above those strains, to reach for world-class status, to lure suburbanites back into a view of Washington as the center, a place of pride."

     

    Wash Post

  2. What's the local take. I'm out of town right now. Cropp, I think, is the mouthpiece for the little consortium that's had it in for Tony since the aforementioned downtown initiatives. It also wouldn't surprise me that the Orioles are playing in there somewhere, even though he was going to get comped.

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    Jeeziz, JK Cooke wanted to build here with his own $$$ and they showed him maps of VA and MD...and they wonder why Congress keeps a tab on these guys.

     

    Local media seems bent and some are blaming Tony W...Fox 5 news broke the news during their newscast about 10:30 last night, that's where I first heard it. The talking heads showed little of no surprise, kinda like they knew Cropp was up to no good.

     

    Nats cancelled unveiling their new uniforms at Union Station today. It's a damn shame.

  3. It's one big **** sandwich and we all have to take a bite...

     

    I should have waited to get the hat...rat bastards city council. Cropp just out to make a name for herself. Christ, I never heard of Cropp before this whole mess, and I live here. And Mayor Tony's lack of personal skills didn't help.

     

    Oh well...it was just too good to be true. Thanks for the coal in the stocking, Cropp!

  4. What, no Charlotte Barbie?

     

    I'll take a lame stab: "This Barbie can only be bought in the gift store of the Spirit of Ontario, so it is very unlikely you'll find one. The Charlotte Barbie comes with an Abbotts Custard t-shirt and an LDR Char-Pit apron. The Charlotte Barbie comes with an 1979 rusted-out Dodge Duster, whose wheels are never in alignment after traveling the pot-hole-ridden minefield which is Lake Avenue."

  5. The most recent telecasts, filled with more commercials of course, often omit the segment about elf practice, where all the elves practice their Christmas song...Elf leader: "And remember, it's for Santa."

     

    Also, in recent telecasts of "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," the segment where Lucy pulls the football up from a place-kicking Charlie Brown, a Peanuts classic, has lost out to more commercials...

     

    I watch too much TV.... :devil:

  6. Morris "Red" Badgro - played offense and defense, and played both pro baseball and football - HOF inductee at 78, 45 years after he retired.

     

    Henry "Motorcycle" McDonald - pre NFL running back for the Rochester Jeffersons; one of the frst black pro football players. He was from Jamaica and came to the U.S. - graduated from the Canadaigua Academy

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    Do you still have your ticket stubs from the last Jeffs' game? :lol:

     

    And how would you compare the Edgeton Park fans with those at RWS? :lol:

  7. 6-5 is just one TAP, one "get your hand up there", one ANYTHING away.

     

    And we challenge the TD in Oakland?

     

    7-4

     

    I'm not normally a "what if" guy, but those two plays (Jax beating 4 of our guys, and MM not challenging the TD in oak) is how close we are to 7-4.

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    And don't forget making a stop on the last drive against the Jets in NJ...then we would be talking 8-3.

  8. Go Navy!

     

    Going to the Emerald (?) Bowl in San Francisco.

     

    They've have been a real joy to follow this year...good senior leadership and a plethora of teamwork on both sides of the ball. Sure it's not the Big Ten or SEC, but it's fun. Navy home games offer a great tailgating experience also. I suggest if anyone has the chance, get to a Navy homegame.

     

    Most importantly, Army is dead meat in two weeks. :rolleyes:

  9. I sit in 312... the most excitement we had was this Canadian couple came to the game wearing yellow radiation suits.  Around the 3rd quarter security busted them with a case of Canadian beer.  Took them to the top of the Ralph and made them dump it out.

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    No!!!!! Oh, the humanity...

     

    Near the end of the game Fox showed a crowd shot of the scoreboard end zone area, focusing on two guys in Maple Leafs jerseys.

     

    Jeeziz, don't these two dopes own a mirror...and don't they know the NHL is dead? And don't they know they're at a FOOTBALL game...and wasn't the Gray Cup yesterday as well? I could go on.... :rolleyes:

  10. It's a joke.

     

    They don't show highlights from all games? Pathetic.

     

    Try to catch "This Week in Pro Football" on ESPN Classic...makes you pine for Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshier, and the classy NFL Films music.

     

    I believe they're shown on Friday nights or early Saturday mornings....check your local listings.

     

    I taped one from 1973 with lots of good Juice highlights...great stuff.

  11. I was at the WWII Memorial in Washington this morning with a D-Day vet. Long-time family friend who came down from Rochester.

     

    At 11:00 AM, Taps was played and vets of the 82nd Airborne gathered at the European Theater section and saluted as an Army honor guard stood at attention.

     

    Days like this make me thank God to be an American....

  12. When I watch Inside The NFL (which is rare the last couple of years) I hate hearing radio teams that openly root for "their" team or actually cheer.

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    And the absolute worst, as I've said many times, is Jim "ALL RIGHT MI-A-MI!!!!!!!" Mandich.

     

    Like teeth down a blackboard....

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