It will be the first true test of Bates’ ability to adjust, considering the Bills are another great receiving team. The Bucs running attack makes my dick hard, though.

Recalling the challenge by Adebayor on Dutch star Van Persie, Wenger said: "I watched it when I got home and it looked very bad.

“You ask 100 people, 99 will say it’s very bad and the hundredth will be Mark Hughes.”

Hughes being the manager of the stomper Adebayor.

Then Arsene was asked about Robin van Persie’s statement in which he was hugely critical of his former teammate. He said:

“If somebody stamps on your head in that way, you wouldn’t say, ‘thank you very much’ and turn the other cheek. Only Jesus Christ did that.”

:D

Obama Screwed Obama, IMO.

The Joker is funny

Rays reliever J.P. Howell was focused on a big World Series rematch against Philadelphia, a game his team won at home, 10-4. But he also was talking about the shock of the day.

“I used to listen to his music so it’s kind of weird,” he said of Jackson.

I actually ran into J.P. Howell a few days ago at my local Best Buy (he was spending way too much money on HDMI cables but I didn’t say anything). I was like, fuck, I gotta ask this dude about that weird Michael Jackson interview. Here’s what he said:

“Yeah, I mean, Michael Jackson dying was kind of weird, like I said. Telling some guy how I felt about it – now that was fucked up. I mean, I’m J.P. Howell, not David Fricke or whatever…Anyway, you want to play some Beatles Rock Band?”

“For me, the Jackson 5 is the part of Michael Jackson’s career that I admired most,” Rays manager Joe Maddon said. “As a young group they were the bomb back then and they were so impressive because of their youth and their talent.”

“Farrah Fawcett, we all remember Farrah Fawcett. And it’s really a shame that the lady suffered. We all had that poster up on our wall at some point.”

He’s talking about the KC and the Sunshine Band poster.

“And God bless her, man, she was a beautiful lady. And it’s very difficult to watch her demise that way.”

People of mlb.com, here’s what I’m thinking: It makes as much sense to ask Joe Maddon about the death of Farrah Fawcett as it does to ask Jaclyn Smith about the death of Nick Adenhart.

I’ve been sharing some of our basement nerd philosophies with a friend of mine who writes for a local magazine and is going to start covering the Orioles for them (SRQ magazine), and one of her spots is a ‘by the numbers’ article (those unoriginal pieces where you state a number then a fact dealing with it, i.e. 2-the number of SN everybody’s favorite DRB troll has had banned).
Here’s a little something from her piece comparing Sarasota’s acquisition of the Orioles compared to the Sox and the departing Reds,

“84-59
—The "ExWL" (Pythagorean expectations of wins to losses) of the Boston Red Sox. Using a formula resembling that Pythagorean theorem, this statistic estimates how many games a team should win based on the number of runs they score and allow. ExWL has proved to be quite accurate.
62-82
—The "ExWL" (Pythagorean expectations of wins to losses) of the Baltimore Orioles.
62-83
—The "ExWL" (Pythagorean expectations of wins to losses) of the Cincinnati Reds.”

At least its a start, she has a piece coming up as well where she will probably use FIP and wOBA, I just thought it would be appropriate to post this on the day FJM comes back from the dead.

from the rest of her article…$70 million
—The rough amount initially offered to the Red Sox to come to Sarasota. How much funding the city and county could pull from bonds to cover costs eventually dropped, as did the amount offered.
$31.2 million. (So i’m guessing we didn’t offer enough in the end)
 I’m sure SRQ was just being used as a pawn, plus we’ve got enough of them during winter, why extend it another 2 months. lol

Why the fuck are the FJM guys spending their time doing shitty unwatchable sitcoms!!!! READ THIS BRILLIANCE AND TELL ME THEY SHOULDN’T BE CONSCRIPTED TO JUST DO FJM

“So I guess you could say that this year’s Hot Dog Eating Contest truly was a lot of bun for everyone! And one final note: there is no God, man’s search for meaning is a cosmic red herring, and we’re all going to die. See you next year!”

yea Shawn Camps 4.68 ERA, 1.49 WHIP and .313 BAA were sparkling compared to his 7.20 ERA and 2.03 WHIP in 2007. Fucking moron. You really dont know dick about baseball. Not only is Camp’s .313 BAA fucking horrendous and Sonnanstine-esque, but the dewd allowed almost every inherited runner to score that year. God Id love to sit and watch a game with you and hear your thoughts from phsycallly observing the game, because I find your complete lack of baseball knowledge startling for how cocky you are, and “advanced” you think your baseball knowledge is.
 
btw, Andy SOnnanstine fucking sucks. You really nailed that Jackson v Sonny debate the past 2 years. Fucking douche bag moron. The funniest part is that you still dont think you are wrong. You sttill think Sonny was far and away the better pitcher last year, even though Jackson had the lower ERA the entire season until September 5. And you wont amdit you were wrong, instead claiming you were right with no explanation for why you look so stupid now other than “certain obscure stats when isolated and looked at by themself suggested he was better”. Still cant admit you were wrong. Fucking moron
 
DRaysBay home to reasoned argument? Yea I guess as much as MSNBC is