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Did anyone watch Impact yesterday? Aries and Chris Daniels put on a CLINIC. RVD made his TV return as well. It was one of the better IMPACTs Ive seen in a while. (they may not be saying a lot to some of you lol.)

5 Guys is good and I recognize that but Id take a Steak&Shake steak burger 5 out of 7 times. Yes, Checkers and Rallys are the same thing and I think they have the second best fries of all the places up here. 5 Guys burgers are bomb and thats what this is about but their fries are quite a aways away from their burgers. They have you and ass load of em but they just arent good. LOL And for the guy who said he's only tried Big Macs and Whoppers man go out and get your burger game up! Get a Wendys Tripple Stack burger...those are even better than macs and whoppers lol.

Whats the best burger out there rght now?

Its widely agreed upon that Yanks/Redsox is the biggest rivalry in baseball. If you're like me, you dont care about it, but you know its big. What would you say the second biggest is?

I dont hate LaRussa. The first sentence is "Discuss your all time favorite villains." He's one of my favorites, thus I dont hate him.

My Villains aren't in order, btw. I just put numbers next to them to let me know I had 10 villains. For sure though, Joker is number 1 and Erick is number 2. LOL. Now how in the world are Brett Favre and Miley Cyrus villians?? They are two of the most loved celebritys(sp) to date!

Lets discuss your all time favorite villains from movies, TV, books, comics, sports and real life. You can choose no more than 10 villains. As se go, we'll count up the votes to see who is MB's number 1 villain. I'll get it started with my favorite villains. and of course the Legend Killer Randy Orton

Mets just relagated him to the pen. Fulltime.

Dude now that would be a terrific ESPN commercial featuring the Marlins. I can honestly see them running that. You should see if you can email that idea in. Couldnt hurt anything.

So, Ive been thinking about baseball commercials. Now days, we have the ESPN Albert Pujols ?machine? commercial, every Baseball Tonight analyst has his own commercial, (I like the Peter Gammons one) and most MLB team have their own creative commercials, such as these- So if you could commercialize your favorite player (or any player for that matter) what would it look like? I thought of one a few years ago when Jim Edmonds was with the Cardinals. It went like this: The commercial would start off with a wide angle view of the outfield at Busch Stadium. You?d then see Edmonds on a black horse galloping from right-center field going towards left. All this is in Simi slow motion. Edmonds is now looking up towards the sky. You see a close up view of the steed?s face. Its nostrils flare as it snorts and grunts while digging for more speed. You?d then see Edmonds adjust his gloved right hand. Still on his horse, Edmonds is galloping wildly toward left while fixing a bead on something in the sky. Suddenly, the horse under Edmonds disappears as he extends his entire body and catches a fly ball that just comes into camera view. (I loved hearing Jo Buck announce emphatically "Edmonds?.on his horse!!....")Still in slow motion, he slides across the turf and holds his gloved right hand off of the ground until he comes to a dirt scattering halt. He gets of the ground and flicks the ball out of the glove hand into his left hand and slowly jogs toward the dugout. Your screen fades to black. The words MLB is written in big, bold white letters. That would be for baseball, like advertising the season is about to start. Another one involving my favorite team would go like this: Keep in mind with this idea you need to think about how with today's technology they have the ability to splice video from different periods and make things appear very fluid. THE VIDEO: Using real game footage, the commercial opens up with Musial at the plate and he takes a pitch deep in the gap. As Musial rounds first base he "morphs" into Lou Brock who is hustling to get to 2nd base. As Brock touches 2nd base he turns into Ozzie Smith who is busting his hump to get to 3rd base and as he turns the corner to go home Ozzie turns into Pujols who, as he approaches home, slides and barely beats the throw to be safe. THE AUDIO (and I think this is the key): Jack Buck calls this make-believe inside-the-park HR call the entire way, from beginning to end. And after Pujols is called safe, they add in Jack's famous line, "I don?t believe what I just saw!" The commercial ends with the "Play Like a Cardinal" slogan. So how would you commercialize your player?

For what it's worth, I believe Ollie is one of the pitchers who's been blaming his early-season struggles on pitching in the WBC. He pitched for Team Mexico, but I don't have the numbers on IP for him. There's been some speculation in New York that a lot of the problems are just mechanics. Paul Lo Duca was on a sports show out here, speaking from experience as he caught Perez when he was still in New York. Lo Duca proposed that Perez's herky-jerky delivery is basically a recipe for disaster when it comes to control because he'll struggle with release points and arm slots, and when he starts thinking about that stuff too much on the mound he tends to lose his precision. The New York media is actually floating the idea out there that the Mets should yank him from the starting rotation and put him in the bullpen, but that'd probably go even worse. He'd be almost Turnbow-like in that role...they're probably better off seeing if they can send him down to AAA for awhile to work out his mechanics, even if he signed a $30 million deal.

You dont need to want him to turn it around in order to discuss what his problems stem from, is there anything he can do to get on track and what you would do if you were his GM.

Five Guys is awesome. Damn right. I had a bacon double blue cheese from 5 Guys today around 2pm. You cant beat the fries, they practially filled the bag with them. The double cheese burger was huge of course. Man, they make some awesome f***ing cheese burgers.

4.1IP today Vs the Nats. 7ER 3K's and 3BB's for a 9.31ERA. 12 Million smackers a year. I remember how Rick Ankiel sort of....lost his pitching skills and never got it back. The same has seem to have happened to Ollie, even though he's not throwing pitches to the back stop. He's 100% healthy, what is the problem and is there any chance of Ollie turning this around?

Besides sit down restaraunts and the ones you and your buddy grill, what is your favorite "classic" burger?

Go Marlins in 09. F the Mets. F the Phillies. I hope your team sticks around and shut em both down. Good luck fellas.

- Baseball season coming around. - My and the wifey taking our yearly vacation to Barbados - Jack Buck's call, "GO CRAZY FOLKS! GO CRAZY!" - Going to IHOP after the club closes at three. - Chocolate Pie Cream shakes from Sonic. - Wrestlemania - Summer time - Seeing her face when I surprise her with a new Dooney&Burke - Chris Rock stand ups. - Naruto and Bleach Manga How about some of you?

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I told wifey I was going to 7-11 and she asked for a Code Red Mountain Dew and some Peanut M&M's. It was about the third time she's had this combo in about two weeks - so that got me thinking. What are some of your favorite food and drink combos? 1. Honey Roasted peanuts and Bud Ice. 2. Buffalo Ranch Doritos and Code Red Mountian Dew. (wifey got the code red from me. 3. Steak and Chese Subway Sandwich and Fruit Punch. 4. Hooters mild chicken wings and Long Island Ice Tea. 5. White Castle cheeseburgers with a chocolate shake.

well substitute Ludwick for someone who u think is a better comparison. That wasnt my point.

You know, no one who Ive talked about this with has ever brought up the difference in pay, and Ive never thought about it. You know why I never thought about it? Because the arguments usually go something like this: "The Indians are going to win the world series, im telling you. They have a good, young, hungry group of players and ...well..and they're just going to win it." "The Yankees are simply to old man! Look at all their players...they are like all over 34. No way they compete this year with the DRays!" "The Braves need to look at getting younger in the outfield. If that doesnt happen, they dont stand a chance." "Yes I know Ludwick and Cabrera have similar numbers but Miggy is younger, therefore he is better." You see, no one ever bothered to talk about the fact that youth, or the younger player is better to have, which is essentially what many of you are saying. I just never understood why people would make arguments to the affect that "the Brewers have so much young talent, its gotta be their year in 2008!" If people said "If the Brewers locked up Prince, Hardy, Weeks and company right now while they are still cheap, they'd be beasts for years to come." See the difference? I guess people made the argument in a way that didnt make sense, but with insight here, I am able to understand what they mean to say. So thank u all for that.

I've always had a problem trying to quantify why so much emphasis is put on "youth" when it comes to the game. Obiously I see why its better to have Hanley Ramirez playing SS for you rather than Omar Visquel right now, but some people when arguing youth seem to argue it the "wrong way" as far I can tell. Looks at it this way; why is a 22 year old CFer batting .290/.384/.560 with a 10 FRAA better than a 32 year old CFer batting .290/.384/.560 with a 10 FRAA? Even more confusing than that, often times the argue is made that the 22 yeard .290/.384/.560 CFer is better than a .313/.388/.584 32 year old CFer. It not about how young a player is, its about how valuable his play is. Whats the use of having a young stud who's hitting way below average? By the time the guy's hitting is producing the adequate value to the team, he's not that young anymore. Some players pay immediate dividens why they are really young like Hanley, Jose Reyes, and others we could name, but they are the exceptions, not the norms. Of the top 10 OPS+ batters last year, only Upton was under 27 in the AL. In the NL, three of the top 10 were 27 or under, but after that, in the next 20, 13 of the players were 28 and older. The numbers were similar in the AL. Youth has its advantages, the only one that counts being that you have the chance to have the player when he's consistenly providing his max value to the club, at which point history and statistics shows us that the player wont be so young. So is it better to have that 21 year old right now than it is to have that 29 year old right now? The 29 year old is doing right now what the 21 year old is going to perhaps be able to do years later, so why is that better? Thats just the way I see it any, Id appreciate different points of views on the subject.

I read this yesterday. Just makes you shake your head.

You are on a merry-go-round. Heard this one a few years ago. Three switches in the shed control three different lights in your house. One light is on the first floor. The other on the second and the last on the third. For whatever reason, you cant see you're house from the shed (its a long way away..or whatever.) but you need to know which switch controls which light. You are in the shed, and you can only make one trip to the house to find out which switch controls which light. How can you do this?