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Especially when flukey hitter hit flukey home runs over a two week flukey fluke fluke.

Didn't we got like 2 years without a GS until Castillo hit one?

Why the hell are people holding their breathe for De Aza? Does he even have an extra base hit or stolen base? Jeez, let's let him prove something first. 4 of his 10 hits were for extra bases.

Remember when Chris Shelton won the AL MVP last year?

At least he's still got that whole "Worst QB in the league" thing to hang his hat on.

Homer Bailey, Matt Garza.

This kind of response hurts me more than anything in my conversations with the world. If there is anything Christ taught, it is that we belong to each other in some kind of mysterious way. Life belongs to together for the purposes of love, growth, struggles, and enjoyment. Jesus commanded that we live life together, not suggested. He created us in community just like He created himself in community (trinity), and that is exactly what the Church is; a relationship between people, where the Spirit of God somehow finds his way in it. I have numerous relationships with people, and I think there infinite groups where the spirit of God finds his way in it. I am not knocking those who go to Church, but I am saying it isn't for me, and it never has been. I've never gone to church and felt anything but bored. But I have felt the presence of God (or, for lack of a better term, "whatever") in numerous other places that you wouldn't expect, and this is more powerful to me than anything I can get out of a church. I'm not knocking it, but it's not for everyone. I have a lot of problems with organized Christianity in general, and the church is just one of them. It probably stems from that I don't exactly know what I believe, as it's sort of a mixture of everything, plus my own personal views.

I hope he enjoys his time in hell. Such vitriol for the dead only moves you closer to such a fate yourself. That sucks if you believe in it. I also don't believe more in a church or organization then I do in Jesus, his teachings, and God. I chose the church I did more on the basis of my preference on how God is praised and how it fills my spiritual needs on a weekly basis in a public setting. Not because I wanted to be part of a club or to flaunt my faith. Jehovah's Witnesses believe that only a certain number of people get everlasting life which goes against the teachings of Christ. Personally, I don't feel like I need a church to express my beliefs, and I don't really think anyone does. Religion is a deeply personal thing and you should practice it within yourself and within your life. Being raised a Catholic, I was definetly taught that only a certain number of people get into heaven. Isn't this the same thing? However, in recent years, many in the party took steps to distance themselves without denigrating his past contributions...and to me, that's the way it should be. He was a tremendously influential person, and certainly one of the key quasi-political figures of the past 30 years. I don't think it's appropriate to say he was a "good" man because he was an exploitive and opportunistic pedagogue who truly valued his own fame over the "morals" he claimed to preach, but that does not mean he was a "bad" person either. He wasn't a bad person because he didn't have morals or because he valued fame over morals. He was a bad person because the things he said and did were immoral. They went against basic human rights and were full of hate and slander.

In his 11 starts as a Marlin, and not counting his one miserable one vs the Cardinals... 63.2ip 59h 29r 21er 22bb 49k 2.97era 1.27whip and people wonder why I have been goo-goo for a guy with a career 5era+ in the majors that sinker ball is so nasty That sinker in the heavy air in Miami is nice. He's starting to look like a really solid starter.

The fact that this writer had this editorial waiting in the wings and dancing on graves is lame. This is how the journalism world works. Whoever can get their word in first is king. I garauntee every single newspaper, tv station, radio, and blogger in the world already had their Falwell obit written already. And many of them probably had similar things to this.

We need to keep Cabrera out of the lineup. All of extra base hits are killing our rallies.

A great piece on Falwell that says what I'd like to have said a thousand times better than I ever could have. The stone is cast Jerry Falwell spent a career demonizing others. Upon his death, what else could he expect in return? By Alan Wolfe May 15, 2007 | One never wants to speak ill of the dead, but in the case of Jerry Falwell, how can one not? Falwell will always be remembered for his "700 Club" comment in the wake of Sept. 11: "I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America, I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.'" Even though Falwell later apologized, the damage had been done: A sacred moment had been used for profane purpose. And that, really, is Falwell's legacy. To the religious life of the United States he made no significant contribution. But to the political life of the country, he made one: He founded the Moral Majority. In so doing, Falwell managed to take something holy -- one does not have to be a Christian to admire the life and teachings of Jesus Christ -- and turned it into something partisan and divisive. Falwell, the quintessential conservative Christian, was always more conservative than Christian. To the extent that history will remember him, it will be as a politician, not as a preacher. Even Falwell's political contribution, despite the success of the Republicans during the Reagan years, left a mixed legacy behind. But the Moral Majority disbanded in 1989, prompting the inevitable thought that Falwell's ideas were neither moral nor in the majority. The movement of conservative Protestants into the base of the Republican Party was far too important a task to be entrusted to a man as oblivious to public relations as Falwell. Once the Ralph Reeds and Karl Roves took over the task of blending religion and politics, there was no room for Falwell. Longing for Washington, he had to settle for Lynchburg, Va. But then there was cable television, the perfect medium for someone as shallow as this man. Falwell appeared so many times on cable news that one tended to forget how little influence he actually wielded. Had it not been for cable television, Falwell would have been forgotten long ago (and I would not be writing about his legacy). He was perfect for the world created by Fox: extremist, polarizing, Manichaean. (The Manichees, a Persian sect that for a time attracted the great Saint Augustine, adhered to a black-and-white reality in which evil was always in an endless struggle with the good.) Five minutes of hate followed by a commercial break: It is not a format fit for all, but for Falwell, it fit like a glove. Conservative Christianity has been trying to recover from Falwell for the past two decades. Just as his political views were too buffoonish to make the Moral Majority a reality, his religious sensibilities were too shallow to spread evangelical Protestantism. Evangelicalism grew in the exurban megachurches, and the megachurches, implicitly and occasionally explicitly, rejected Falwell's approach to the faith. Rick Warren, Joel Osteen, Bill Hybels -- these inclusive preachers inherited the mantle of Billy Graham, not Falwell and his great rival Pat Robertson. With the maturation of American evangelicalism has come an interest in social justice, environmentalism and peace. The people who represent evangelical Protestantism's future want little or nothing to do with injustice, pollution and war. Of course America's megachurches offer a thin theology equivalent to twelve-step theology. But Falwell's contribution to American religion was even less than that. Falwell's university -- Liberty University -- never achieved anything resembling serious academic status, although it did produce a decent enough basketball team. Falwell's church, Thomas Road Baptist Church, with its Scopes-trial era insistence on hell and damnation, was not what American Christians wanted to hear. Falwell's 1980 book, "Listen, America," is an embarrassing string of clich?s. "Sin is a transgression of God's law and God's law is unalterable," Falwell wrote. "To sin is to voluntarily disobey God and His divine laws." But it was not the sinfulness of human beings that preoccupied Falwell; it was the sinfulness of the country in which they lived: "Sin brings reproach upon a people. This is the reason we are in a nosedive as a nation." Less than 50 years after the defeat of Nazi Germany, Falwell could write of America that "we have become one of the most blatantly sinful nations of all time." Falwell's theology, such as it was, never made clear how America could be both the promised land and Gomorrah at the same time. Instead of pondering Jerry Falwell's legacy, we would be better off asking how this man ever become a public figure in the first place. America has had more than its share of religiously inspired demagogues -- Dr. Fred Swartz, Billy James Hargis, Carl McIntyre come to mind -- but they are forgotten figures, marginal even to the times in which lived. One would like to believe that the United States has become a bigger and better country since the days when men like them preached about captive nations and denounced the pernicious influence of rock 'n' roll. But then there is Jerry Falwell. In death, as he did in life, he reminds us that demagoguery never dies; it just changes its form. Jerry Falwell expressed great hate for a lot of his fellow Americans. It is no wonder that so many of them will greet his death with something less than love.

And I plan on f***ing keeping it that f***ing way.

There is or was apparently a website which posts quotes from religious figures such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Osama Bin Laden, and asks you to guess who said each quote. It's disturbing how similar their quotes actually are. http://www.godlessgeeks.com/LINKS/Quiz_JPO.htm

This is a guy who has opposed just about every major social movement, from desegregation and civil rights to women's and gay rights. He also spoke out against other Christians such as Catholics, Mormons, and Jehovah's Witnesses. He's a dirtbag. I can't find a single quote from him that isn't filled with hatred.

Look, the show is one of my favorites and it is one of the "Season Pass" shows on my TiVo, but I wouldn't say this is one of the most original sitcomes in a while. The acting and writing is good, but this show has now taken "storylines" from Friends in more than one occassion. The whole Robin/Ted thing is just a rehash of Ross/Rachel, down to the he loved her, then she loved him, then they got together, then they broke up....and Barney is Joey is Barney (except that Matt LeBlanc wasn't gay). I meant the execution of it. It is fairly similar to Friends (though I think they manage to pull off the relationships a lot less awkwardly than on Friends, since the characters actually seem to like eachother, whereas Ross and Rachel always seemed weird to me, since they didn't really have similar personalities and it was mostly based on Ross's crush on here back in the day and all that) and many other situational comedies in that it's just about a group of friends and their lives. I meant in the telling the story backwards, constant flashbacks and references to previous episodes. There's very little continuity in many sitcoms (Friends for example was terrible at it, with the exception of the few episodes devoted wholly to flashbacks) but in this one, stuff that happens in previous episodes carries over (the slap bet being my favorite). And narrator explaining the story and explaining the contexts of everything makes it easier for them to focus on the story or the characters, rather than having to set each episode up with contrived premises. Also, unlike most sitcoms since Seinfeld (and even before that), there is an actual story line running through the series that hinges on the characters action each week. The overall plot is moved forward each week. I have a feeling it won't be on for a long run like Friends, but I really would like to see them conclude the story the way they want to.

Jerry Falwell is a big reason why I've always had a big problem with religion. There is such a disconnect with what the bible says (or the Torah, or Q'uran, or anything) and what the organizations themselves state as their goals. It should never be a religion's goal to preach through politics, and least not Christianity. Christ preached to each person individually and believed in a life of poverty, living off of the charity of those he preached to. The big religions preach a steady diet of hate and vitriol in the name of Christ. It's f***ing sickening.

"I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.'" f*** Jerry Falwell. Good riddance.

My only question is this; should I have corrected the grammar his response as well? :mischief2 No, but you might have wanted to correct the grammar in his response. Probably just a typo, but I couldn't help myself.

Didn't like it at all. I was one of the few people who didn't, I guess. But I just didn't like the "V" character himself.

I enjoyed the hell out of this movie. Rented it a little while ago and I thought it was great.

Yeah, I still lol @ Malone winning the MVP over Jordan in '97. This smells of the same situation. I bet the voting would have been totally different if his 1st round was taken in to account (which it shouldn't have been). It may have been but it still wouldnt have been Nash. Who would it have been? Kobe, no. T-Mac, no. LeBron, ? It would have been Nash. The same guy who missed like 40 games?

It was just the season finale, as far as I know. I can't find anything about it getting picked up, but they have to know it is if they ended the season like that. Great, great episode, and a great, great show. One of the most original sitcoms in a while. Season 1 was probably marginally better than season 2, but thats only because season 1 was so great, and I didn't really like Robin and Ted as a couple for the show. It's much better when Ted and Barney are out together as single men. I hope they don't do the Ross and Rachel (or JD and Elliot) thing with those two.

NPH once again stole this weeks episode, but really it's not stealing anymore, it's expected. This show is definitely in my top 5 right now, and it might be #4.

Again, I don't know what was going on and I haven't heard much more than that single statement, but that one sounded pretty bad. Like "more than one start" bad. You might also be accused of making mountains out of molehills, seeing as you are getting all bent out of shape about this when I was just asking if someone could clarify the severity of the situation. It's not a big deal, and we'll make it through this rough patch, yet.