Sandrock LQ

Frankly the Phillies scare me a lot more the Braves. This WILL be the year the Braves streak ends. Who know what the Mets and Expos will do, but I would really be happy if they could finish ahead of the Braves and stick them into the cellar.

The Patriots don't stand a chance. The Panthers won in the 989 sports challenge NFL gameday thingy which has been 8 for 8 in regards to Super Bowl winners. That and I hate the Patriots.

The media likes any kind of news that sells. As long as this team is competitive next tear, around .500 or better. I'll be happy. The real wild card in this situation is AJ Burnett. Will he be able to make a comeback. I think he can, after all, Kerry Wood had the same type of injury and look where he is now.

The ball sold for more than the Bill Buckner ball. The guy who won Bartman's ball was a frien of Harry Caray. He said they would destroy the ball in a ceremony in February. Looks like a piece of Marlins history is going to be destroyed.

The govefnment should have really kept those $300 and $600 checks. And the checks for much more that all those rich friends of Dubya got. :banghead

Scientists are jumping to conclusions way too fast. read this if you read any of this post at all: http://www.enn.com/news/enn-stories/2001/1...ozone_45313.asp In 2001, the ozone hole was smaller! If man is progressively releasing MORE AND MORE ozone depleting gas, then how did the hole decrease? The ONLY possibility is that what man releases has NOTHING do do with the ozone, and volcanic activity and methane released from the earth and ocean are whats truly responsible for ozone depletion (1 methane gas molecule is 40 times more damaging than 1 molecule of CO2, and the ocean releases tons of it every year.) Don't buy into that global warming propaganda. But if you want a good piece of propaganda: Conspiracy theory: DuPont, the company with a monopoly on R12 and now R134a car cooling refrigerant influences pro-global warming findings, because it forces millions and millions of cars to retrofit or come with new refrigerants sold by no other than DuPont. DuPont made billions since R134a was made the refrigerant every car must have. I can believe this.

Lee and Castillo won. Lee didn't surprise me, but I thought there was another 2B better than Castillo. Must have been all those nice plays he made in the playoffs.

Well, what do you know. Well step 1 of 100 is now complete. Next step is meeting that March 15 deadline I guess.

This Yanks fan is either a kid or an illiterate moron. Let's hope it is not the latter.

Don't mind me, but I think we should relax until there is a vote by the comission. As far as having a small capacity, I think that would be a good thing. Even with the championship, I severely doubt the Marlins will average 30,000 next year. Partly due to the current stadium and partly because South Florida is so bush league. Face it, there are not a whole lot of die hard Marlin fans down here. People only seem to want to come to games when there is a lot on the line(i.e. an important game). If you look at the Dolphins, they have a huge advantage in that they only need to sell 8 games a year. But even they can't seem to sell out a playoff game, at least in time to make the blackout deadline. People down here just plain suck. And you could look at the Panthers and say that their new stadium has done very little for them in terms of making money, but their avarage attendance seems to be close to what it was back at the Miami Arena. Face it, people down here are fickle, and don't know what they want. Me, I want a new stadium for the Marlins so that Wayne stops ripping them off and so the Dolphins don't have to play on that god awful dirt, its ugly. ANd I don't know why, but Joe Robbie(why is it still named for a bankrupt company?) looks great for football, but ugly for baseball. I actually kind of like the baseball dimensions with the bermuda triangle and all, but those orange seats are ugly, and that tarp in centerfield? So here's to a yes vote by the commissioners next week, so we can discuss more important stuff.

Looks like we showed them. Bobby Valentine did pick the Marlins in 6 right before the World Series started. :marlins

Bud, you are a schmuk. Go fix baseball's econommic problems or step down as commish. Quit worrying about celebrations.

Oddly enough, I've never seen WGN here in South Florida.

In any event, we really can't blame Gonzalez for any loss in this World Series, and he's saved us in one of them. Tough to criticize that.

Urbina would be valuable if we can sign him, but the money probably won't be there. In any event, I'm more worried about Saturday than anything else.

Big time pitching performance, that's for sure. :thumbup

It's a tough decision, but I would go with Beckett. He's shown that he can do it on the short rest in the Chicago series. Granted that was not a start, but it was four innings of relief. I don't like Redman in game six because he's been walking people, and Bernie Williams and Jeter are too hot to let many runners get on. I really think our offfense is ging to have to step it up and score enough runs. You also have to remember that our bullpen has not exactly been lights out.

I was in section 446 and the Yankee fans were louder than the Marlin fans. To their credit they were very respectable for the most part and didn't rub it in our faces in the 8th and 9th innings. I'd guess the actually makeup of the croud was 65-35, but there wasn't a whole lot to cheer about and the damn rain made the experience of a loss just that much worse. And Mariano Rivera scares me. We need to keep his a** out of games.

Mussina and Rivera also have extensive post-season experience. Dontrelle didn't need any distractions, but at least Fox was able to bail him out. Getting back to the stadium.... I was there and the rain sucked a**. We bought a program and had two of the giveaway photos, and the program was ruined and the photos got bent. I would love to see a ballfield where the dirt and seating areas are covered and the outfield is open. Of couse it isn't going to happen but I can dream, can't I?

I still hate the Braves more than the Cubs. And I hate those asshat FOX announcers(Leiter excluded, baseball 101 stuff was over the top though). To make things worse we get Tim McCarver in the World Series. Well hopefully I'll be able to get tickets to one of the games and I'll miss one broadcast.

Can't you use ticketmaster.com as well?

Game 4 Section 414 Row 21 Don't think I'll get a home run ball. :shifty

Well, I hope Maroone is listening, because I sure as hell ain't buying a car from him EVER! That song has been played so much down here in South Florida that if you hum the tune, it will be recognized as the Maroone song rather than the Ghostbusters theme. And if that doesn't top it, this will....while traveling through Atlanta, I saw signs for an auto dealership with that play button that looks like Maroone's signs, just with a different name. We had the radio going and sure enough, a commercial for that car dealership came on and thet used the same song just switched Maroone's name with the other guy's. Must have had the same ad agency. Also, has anyone noticed how Fox Sports Net will come back from commercial late or they will come back for 10 seconds then cut to another commercial? Wah tkind of bull s*** is that. Poor quality if you ask me. :unsure :

You know, can't this stuff wait until the season's over? I hear they got this thing called a wild card race, maybe you can check it out. In all seriousness though, I think the finances are going to work against the Marlins next year. That is all I'm willing to speculate at this point.

I almost turned the game off when the Braves tied it. :banghead Glad I decided to tough it out, but I thought they had us in the 10th, but trader Jack pulls out all the stops. :w00t