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    Easter Sunday Open Thread | 79 comments (79 topical)
    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#1)
    by glanton on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 10:21:59 AM EST
    It is amazing how much trust you give anyone who tells you what you want to hear. That is the classic definition of someone who just can't wait to be fooled.
    ... said the man who still posts links to, and takes seriously, Bush's SOTU Addresses. Priceless.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#2)
    by Edger on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 10:28:09 AM EST
    Happy Easter, Glanton. :-)

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#3)
    by roy on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 10:32:25 AM EST
    This being an apolitical holiday, all I have to say is thanks, everyone, for making this an enjoyable place to disagree. (Disclosure: I had chocolate eggs for breakfast)

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#4)
    by Edger on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 10:35:03 AM EST
    ...and I tell you, the Easter Bunny was this big! But don't believe eveything you read.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#5)
    by squeaky on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 10:38:16 AM EST
    roy-
    This being an apolitical holiday
    You must be joking.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#6)
    by HK on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 10:49:09 AM EST
    Nice link, edger. But are you sure he isn't indicating his latest populatity poll score...with his fingers?

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#7)
    by Edger on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 10:54:09 AM EST
    HK, I think it's some sort of bush bunny defensive posture... he's probably thinking 'bring it on' cause he heard it once when he was a kid and he thought it sounded macho... ...or he looked at through a microscope.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#8)
    by Edger on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 11:05:29 AM EST
    Jeralyn, How did it go with the library the other day?

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#9)
    by jondee on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 12:30:38 PM EST
    "Both Blake and Paine, living in a culture that still discussed politics in moralistic and Biblical terms inherited from the English Civil War, viewed the American Revoloution as a sort of mass ressurrection or secular apocalypse that would overthrow poverty and cruelty and establish a new Eden in which the arts flourished and hibitations are illuminated, to use Blakes language, not by "destructive fires but by the joys of the noonday sun." According to Paine the doctrines of original sin and hereditary succession were two sides of the same coin. Before the days of Kings there had been no wars: "it is the pride of Kings which throws mankind into confusion." King-making and idolatry were in the first instance disaffection from the King of Heavan. The resultant governments by Kings "is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of Kings are built upon the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear..and irrisistably obeyed, Man would need no other law-giver." David Erdman

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#10)
    by Edger on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 12:40:44 PM EST
    Great Erdman quote, Jondee!
    For were the impulses of conscience clear..and irrisistably obeyed, Man would need no other law-giver.
    As the VP of Sales of one of the largest educational products companies in the world said to me one day: "If you always tell the truth you never have to remember what you said".

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#11)
    by jondee on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 12:55:12 PM EST
    Edgar - Another great quote. Happy Easter btw, to you and yours and to everyone else that comes here.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#12)
    by Dadler on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 01:04:58 PM EST
    My rotiss team sucks this year, my hair is falling out, I have a new dog who likes to wipe his ass on the family room rug, I can't sell ice water in the Sahara in my business, but dammit....Happy Bunny Day. And I recommend A.N. Wilson's JESUS: A LIFE for a good historical biography (not a Christ of faith book) riffing about the life of the dude who started this holiday. (And it's got a main thesis greatly bolstered by the recently rediscovered Gospel of Judas.) Fight the power. F*ck Elvis AND John Wayne. "Do the Right Thing" anyone?

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#13)
    by Edger on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 01:12:39 PM EST
    Sounds good to me, Dadler... mostly. John Wayne never really was my type though. ;-)

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#14)
    by Dadler on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 01:15:43 PM EST
    edger, didn't think so either. i've always pegged you as a bogart man. i really need to go pull out my Do The Right Thing soundtrack and play that song.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#15)
    by jondee on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 01:32:19 PM EST
    Sick of whatever its called. Sick of names, I dedicate every pore to whats here. The wise no nothing at all. Well, maybe one song. Ikkyu

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#16)
    by Edger on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 01:42:44 PM EST
    Dadler: i've always pegged you as a bogart man. Thanks! I'll take that as a compliment, I think. Casablanca is one my favorites. And Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund is my type.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#17)
    by BigTex on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 02:01:59 PM EST
    Hope everyone has/had a happy Easter. Rest assured you can't stick you foot in your mouth deeper than I did today.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#18)
    by Edger on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 02:09:24 PM EST
    How'd you do that Tex?

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#19)
    by HK on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 02:11:14 PM EST
    I doubt that's true, Tex. Some days I only open my mouth to change feet :)

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#20)
    by jondee on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 02:25:35 PM EST
    You'd be suprised Tex. To err is human, as they say. Happy Easter.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#21)
    by Edger on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 02:38:16 PM EST
    A human being is part of the whole, called by us "universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences his thoughts and feeling as something separate from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal decisions and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
    --Albert Einstein

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#22)
    by john horse on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 02:44:10 PM EST
    On this Easter Sunday let us remember the 2300 Americans who have died for George Bush's sins.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#23)
    by Edger on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 02:49:39 PM EST
    John... yes, and for them as well as the rest of us, and so no one has to deal with his kind of garbage again, let's do our damndest to wake up as many as possible.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#24)
    by Dadler on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 02:52:52 PM EST
    Not to mention how many TENS of thousands of Iraqis killed. And maimed. And taken away in the night, to languish. Living under occupation in a de facto civil war.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#25)
    by Edger on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 02:57:44 PM EST
    Jeeze, what an echo chamber this place has turned into, huh? ;-)

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#26)
    by Dadler on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 03:01:31 PM EST
    Tex, Let me guess: you got into an embarrassing political argument with the guy dressed in the bunny suit you hired for the kids' egghunt? One question: were paws thrown?

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#27)
    by desertswine on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 03:32:11 PM EST
    Have a happy Easter Sunday, and Monday, too; to you. And if you're not into that kind of thing, have a coupla good days anyway.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#28)
    by Sailor on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 04:09:26 PM EST
    Happy Easter to everyone!

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#29)
    by jondee on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 04:38:32 PM EST
    Bush's sins yeah, but the signatories of Manifest Destiny for a New American Century and thier lets-go-out-with-a-big-bang agenda should be exposed ruthlessly and relentlessly for the hubris and power intoxicated frauds that they are. Bush is just a celebrity spokesperson.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#30)
    by Edger on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 04:46:04 PM EST
    Looks yummy, Sailor.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#31)
    by jondee on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 05:08:54 PM EST
    edger - But its a gaily painted echo chamber with a couple of windows. A tunnel of love open at both ends. etc etc

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#32)
    by Edger on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 05:14:46 PM EST
    Jondee, real men don't do 'gaily', I think, do they? Maybe we should ask a wingnut for his 'opinion' on this? ;-)

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#33)
    by jondee on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 05:30:47 PM EST
    edger - Youre probobly right. Guess Ive read too many hundred year old books. And dressed up like Liza one too many times. lol.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#34)
    by jondee on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 07:03:19 PM EST
    That was a joke btw.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#35)
    by Edger on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 07:15:53 PM EST
    I figured that... I'm a Kerry guy, myself. ;-)

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#36)
    by jondee on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 07:24:13 PM EST
    lol. He looks kinda like my crazy Aunt Margarite.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#37)
    by Edger on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 07:27:55 PM EST
    You have to be crazy to oppose bush don't you?

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#38)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 07:58:41 PM EST
    Jeralyn: You sure got the short end of the stick on FOX earlier today.. Oh well, good points anyway.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#39)
    by Dadler on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 08:09:29 PM EST
    Chase, No, you don't say, FOX gave a liberal defense attorney short shrift? What's this world coming to? Happy Easter.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#40)
    by BigTex on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 08:44:08 PM EST
    How'd you do that Tex?
    Suggested to my sister that she buy her little boy a pink dress to match the dress she was wearing if she is going to continue to enter him into beauty pagents.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#41)
    by BigTex on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 08:46:13 PM EST
    Needless to say it wasn't one of my better moments. Suprisingly, or perhaps not, her husband agreed with the larger point of he doesn't need to be entered into the pagents.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#42)
    by squeaky on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 09:12:22 PM EST
    A bit of Easter sanity: Philippines Commutes 1,200 Death Sentences
    Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said the death sentence would be commuted to life in prison for everyone on death row
    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#43)
    by Che's Lounge on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 10:33:31 PM EST
    They have beauty pageants for little boys?

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#44)
    by Johnny on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 11:01:56 PM EST
    Easter? Whats that?

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#45)
    by Edger on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 12:19:27 AM EST
    LMAO, Johnny. :-)

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#46)
    by Edger on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 12:20:20 AM EST
    When did you take up poker Johnny? :->

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#47)
    by Johnny on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 01:30:09 AM EST
    :-P

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#48)
    by Edger on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 03:22:50 AM EST
    Suggested to my sister that she buy her little boy a pink dress to match the dress she was wearing if she is going to continue to enter him into beauty pagents.
    Well... at least you got the sense of humor out of your parents genes! Was there any left for your sister?
    her husband agreed with the larger point of he doesn't need to be entered into the pagents.
    Why not? Isn't the kid pretty enough? ;-)

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#49)
    by Edger on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 03:54:23 AM EST
    The Question Isn't Whether You Are Paranoid ...
    ... the question is, are you paranoid enough? Voters in Italy are using electronic electronic voting machines for the first time in a national election. The polls and the exit polling all have the incumbent, Bush's good friend Silvio Berlusconi, who literally owns the Italian media, losing. And for the first time in Italian democratic history, suddenly the election is too close to call. I hope I'm wrong, but I think I've seen this movie before ... in Florida and Ohio. I predict that Berlusconi will win. But only by the grace of machines that have no paper trail.
    An unnamed power block has found a way to corrupt all democratic elections in any country? Democracy and the entire nation state system, not just the political system of the US, has become a sham and a useful fiction perptrated on the populations? Or was it always this way, and is just becoming clear?

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#50)
    by BigTex on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 05:14:44 AM EST
    They have beauty pageants for little boys?
    Unfortinuatley the do Che. I don't know the age brackets, but there are at least two divisions where little boys and girls compete against each other.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#51)
    by jimakaPPJ on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 06:30:36 AM EST
    Big Tex - Such things are more serious than you think. Years ago my spouse talked me into joining her and another couple as judges. When we made a politically incorrect choice for Queen I thought we would be shot then and there. That ended all thoughts I may have had of ever singing, "There she is, Miss America..." ;-)

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#52)
    by jimakaPPJ on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 06:33:44 AM EST
    Dadler writes:
    I have a new dog who likes to wipe his ass on the family room rug,
    Suggestions: Have him checked for worms. Change his dog food. Give him to a (soon to be ex) friend.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#53)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 06:44:01 AM EST
    Daedler, it's obvious that your dog is a Republican, so the problem could be solved by a change in attitude or registration :)

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#54)
    by squeaky on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 06:44:06 AM EST
    but there are at least two divisions where little boys and girls compete against each other.
    Ideal beauty, removed from gender constraints, hmmmm. That is the most progressive thing I have heard of in a while. And to think it is happening in Texas! How about race? Does the heterogny break down there?

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#55)
    by kdog on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 07:01:47 AM EST
    I too have little patience for parents who parade their kids around like show dogs, Tex. But what do I know.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#56)
    by jondee on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 08:00:58 AM EST
    Dadler - ppjs probobly right about the worms. Worm medicine and try adding some brewers yeast and garlic oil to his food. If you can swing it and he can stand it.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#57)
    by BigTex on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 08:34:17 AM EST
    Why not? Isn't the kid pretty enough?
    The little bugger has won every pagent he has been entered in, which is why my sister keeps entering him in them. She is reliving her glory years when she would win beauty pagents. Poker - that would have been great to sing. My sister has suckered me into helping her with a pagent she is throwing. Your idea about picking a politically incorrect choice is excellent. I don't get to judge, but do get to tabulate the scores. *evil mad cow horns glowing* Squeaky - race does not play a part in the equation. Still the whole scenario gives me the willies. Guys shouldn't be in beauty pagents. Fox proved that conclusivly with their cheese-ball male beauty pagent. Kdog - no little ones for you? I had always figured you as a family man.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#58)
    by squeaky on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 08:37:59 AM EST
    BigTex-
    race does not play a part in the equation.
    Does that mean that there are all different shades of skin color or that it is all white?

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#59)
    by Che's Lounge on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 08:42:44 AM EST
    Did anyone see TDS last week where the (newer) reporter used sample paint colors form Home Depot to categorize all of our skin tones? Some of the colors were hilarious.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#60)
    by jondee on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 08:50:27 AM EST
    Tex - Not to make light, but its starting to sound like a King of the Hill episode.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#61)
    by kdog on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 09:42:42 AM EST
    Nah Tex...still lookin' for the right lady. Hopefully one day. In the meantime, my nieces and nephews give me great joy. Or in the case of my nephew, a brutally sore arm today after he sweet talked me into several hours of Easter Sunday batting practice. I'm wincing merely working the mouse. The kid can hit the hide off the ball..his father and uncles were all slap hitters with speed, this kid is a slugger. Hittin 'em further at 13 than I ever could, and I played through high school...I'm talkin' 300 foot frozen ropes. Quite the pitcher too, but if he doesn't stop messin' with curve balls I'm gonna beat his arse:) Speaking of baseball...Let's Go Mets! Best record in baseball, baby.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#62)
    by BigTex on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 10:26:04 AM EST
    Squeaky - all different shades, though black tends to be less prevelent, with hispanics being the majority minority race in the county. Johndee - this would make a good king of the hill eppisode. Can't you just see it, Peggy enters Bobby into a beauty pagent, and he and Connie are the two finalists. All this time Hank is aghast. Plenty of room to work with there.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#63)
    by HK on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 10:56:36 AM EST
    I have always thought the idea of beauty pagents was vile, particularly for children. From time to time, people remark that my children should be models. I try to smile politely, but wouldn't dream of pushing them in that direction. I wouldn't ever want them to think that their worth was in any way based on how they look. When I was a kid, my grandparents used to say my sister and I were 'beautiful' whereas our cousins were 'clever'. I resented that. I never thought of myself as pretty, but my cousins were kind of geeky-looking and in retrospect, I think that my grandparents were well-meaningly trying to give both sets of grandchildren positive labels. Why we couldn't all be 'clever', I don't know. But I'd certainly rather be known for what I had to say or contribute than what I looked like. After all, IQ fades slower than looks ;) Squeaky - great news about the Phillipines! If only some of that compassion and common sense would rub off on the powers that be in the US...

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#64)
    by Johnny on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 11:24:12 AM EST
    My main man Pujols has the best record in baseball... ;) I have a feeling this is going to be his first good year. And maybe the Cards will actually hack up that chicken bone they seem to find every fall and win it all.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#65)
    by kdog on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 11:49:55 AM EST
    I don't know Johnny...David Wright may give Pujols a run for the MVP this year. The kid's off to a scorching start...but that Pujols is a hitting machine. It's a shame the Mets and Cards aren't in the same division anymore, what a great rivalry that used to be. I still have nightmares about the Whitey Herzog Cardinals of my youth...Ozzie Smith, Tommy Herr, Willie McGee, Jack Clark, John Tudor, Vince Coleman. Tough team...I hated those guys. Hopefully the rivalry can be rekindled in this year's NLCS. American League?....They don't play baseball in that league, IMO.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#66)
    by kdog on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 11:53:36 AM EST
    If Congress must involve themselves in professional sports....I wish they would legislate the DH out of existence.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#67)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 12:03:45 PM EST
    Hey, Kdog, I grew up a National Leaguer (Phillies) and still prefer the National League style of play, but right now, there's about 3-4 NL Teams that could hang with the AL. The AL is so far superior, it's ridiculous. You've gotta get 27 hard outs in an AL game. You get at least 3-4 gimmes in an NL game. That's why Pedro and Clemens went to the NL. They can pitch around the guys in the 7 or 8 hole and go to work on the pitcher if the situation allows for it. That saves a lotta wear and tear on the arm.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#68)
    by kdog on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 12:31:44 PM EST
    Not every pitcher is an easy out Charlie...in fact the Mets staff has been getting good wood on the ball at the plate. Besides, if pitchers had to hit in both leagues (as the good lord intended) they would hit better. And it's real easy for an AL pitcher to throw at guys knowing they themselves never have to get in the box. The DH has removed so much strategy from the game, when to pull pitchers, double switches, sacrifices, etc...a robot could manage an AL team. It's blasphemy! The AL is pretty stacked this year though.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#69)
    by Johnny on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 05:44:02 PM EST
    Jason Marquis of the Cards is a better hitter than many teams can claim to have in their leadoff spot.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#70)
    by Edger on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 06:30:19 PM EST
    Steve Clemons (TWN) reports more idiocy from bushco: Note to George Bush: A Golf Course Pond is NOT Countable as a Wetland Field & Stream is now going after the administration. When was the last time someone saw enviro-politics in a hunting and fishing journal. Field & Stream's Bob Marshall writes:
    The Bush Administration announced last week that the nation is no longer losing wetlands--as long as you consider golf course water hazards to be wetlands. Really. Thursday (March 30), Interior Secretary Gale Norton called a press conference to claim our long nightmare of wetlands loss had finally come to an end due to unprecedented gains since 1997 (click hear to read the report she cites). However, she then admitted much of that gain has been in artificially created ponds, such as golf course water hazards and farm impoundments...
    ...just in case anyone asks you "what has bush ever lied about"?

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#71)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 07:32:01 PM EST
    Posted by kdog April 17, 2006 01:31 PM
    Not every pitcher is an easy out Charlie...in fact the Mets staff has been getting good wood on the ball at the plate. Besides, if pitchers had to hit in both leagues (as the good lord intended) they would hit better. And it's real easy for an AL pitcher to throw at guys knowing they themselves never have to get in the box. The DH has removed so much strategy from the game, when to pull pitchers, double switches, sacrifices, etc...a robot could manage an AL team. It's blasphemy! The AL is pretty stacked this year though. Posted by Johnny April 17, 2006 06:44 PM Jason Marquis of the Cards is a better hitter than many teams can claim to have in their leadoff spot.
    Yeah, yeah. And Bronson Arroyo(2) has more homers than Wily Mo Pena(1) and Manny Ramirez(0)combined. How long do ya think that'll last. Steve Carlton hit .291 in '78. He was still a lifetime .201 hitter over 24 Seasons. The exception just proves the rule. I think the pitcher should hit, too, but that doesn't change the fact that the AL is dominant right now. With the exception of the Cards, Phils and the Mets, who's gonna hang with the AL? They either, can't hit, defend or pitch with 'em. The Braves are still tryin' to do it without a closer and a pen. Houston doesn't have enough offense. The Giants are older than I am. The Cubs are the Cubs until proven otherwise.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#72)
    by jimakaPPJ on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 08:03:41 PM EST
    Dark Avenger - Nah. Only a Demo tries to wipe his ass on everything sight. Big Tex - There's a point in which they don't have "Kings." Somewhere around puberty for the boys.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#73)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 08:06:08 PM EST
    Nah, not everything, you'll do.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#74)
    by Edger on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 08:09:20 PM EST
    Hope everybody had a great easter weekend. Back to the unreal world tomorrow?

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#75)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 08:52:10 PM EST
    Only a Demo tries to wipe his ass on everything sight. You speak as if from 1st hand knowledge PPJ, is that why you're an independent these days, you discovered toliet tissue late in life?

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#76)
    by jondee on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 11:53:51 PM EST
    And the reps are so tightly clenched they never need to.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#77)
    by Johnny on Tue Apr 18, 2006 at 12:44:04 AM EST
    Redbirds over Yankees in 5 this fall. You read it here first.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#78)
    by kdog on Tue Apr 18, 2006 at 06:29:28 AM EST
    Mets over the Red Sox in 7. It was twenty years ago this year, that magical grounder up the first base line by my alltime favorite Met...Mookie Wilson. One of the happiest memories of my life, we had a house full of people watching Game 6, most had given up hope. Except for my sister sitting 6 inches from the TV saying "they are gonna do it" over and over. And they did it.

    Re: Easter Sunday Open Thread (none / 0) (#79)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Apr 18, 2006 at 08:01:07 AM EST
    You wish, Johnny. But, I would kill to see a Yankee/Cardinal game.

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