True CRaysball

Well, my blog is back online.

http://techcrunch.co...lions-of-sites/ My blog, BRaysball Talk, was effected. It's been down all afternoon. What pisses me off is that people are supporting Anonymous and think by doing so they're supporting freedom.

I've noticed that dish has started blocking all games on MLB network. When you call them they will blame it on MLBs blackout and refuse to listen too you. I had time Warner cable before and that just keep jacking up your price. No wins really. They tried to feed me the NFL blackout rules last night and I called him on it. Did it do any good? All the people I speak to just repeat the same sh*t over. He then feed me a line about how the league forced them to black it out. I was thinking "Are you f***ing kidding me? Do they think I'm naive?" I didn't call him on it that time because it was clear by this point he wasn't gonna help me and I wanted to just kindly get off the phone before I blew a gasket. Glad I dumped them this past Monday for cable.

I withdraw my previous statements now. What an idiot.

I, personally, do not love that. It's very easy to say my bad when you're caught with your pants down. There's no sincerity. There can't be. If it was sincere, he would've stopped using them and come clean if he was really sorry. Before he was caught. Or... at the very least... stopped using them long ago. Or maybe, like a child would, he realized he did something stupid and stopped and hoped the subjected would never rear its ugly head and it would never be spoken of again.

I'm sure someone already mentioned (I'm not gonna go back and read the entire thread) this but I love that he owned up to it and said Mea Culpa. EDIT: Apparently I'm the first to mention it. Oh well. I still like it though.

I've noticed that dish has started blocking all games on MLB network. When you call them they will blame it on MLBs blackout and refuse to listen too you. I had time Warner cable before and that just keep jacking up your price. No wins really. They tried to feed me the NFL blackout rules last night and I called him on it.

I can't wait til Monday when Bright House Networks hooks up my cable. :mad

Does anyone else have this POS service? I tried to watch the Mets and Reds game on MLB Network and Dish had blacked it out. No alternate programming, just a blacked out channel.

Congrats to you, Felix, but you couldn't have waited til your next start? Rays are cursed... I blame Vince Naimoli.

What a catch by Giancarlo. That better be highlighted big time on the Capitol One Plays of the Night on MLB Network.

I love it, Marlins getting Stanton back Tuesday. Rays getting Longoria back Tuesday. Tuesday will be a great day for baseball in Florida.

Was wondering where you ran off to. Also I don't see this is funny. But, y'know, humor is subjective. Meow. My ISP dumped me and had to get a new one.

Post your funny GIFs.

Well if the contract changes hands tonight, we'll know for certain that wasn't supposed to happen.

HAHAHAHA! The handle broke! I wonder if that was intentional?

For obvious reasons (see wrestling thread) Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit.

The theme DDP should have come out to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r767kvSiSQ

In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Supreme Court decided to uphold his signature health care law's individual insurance mandate in a 5-4 decision, upending speculation after hostile-seeming oral arguments in March that the justices would overturn the law. The mandate has been upheld as a tax, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the liberal wing of the court. Tom Goldstein of SCOTUSblog says Roberts' vote "saved" the Affordable Care Act. Justice Anthony Kennedy, usually the court's swing vote, dissented, reading from the bench that he and three conservative justices believe "the entire Act before us is invalid in its entirety." The court's four liberal justices agreed that the individual mandate should be upheld as part of Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce, but Roberts disagreed, and wrote that the mandate is actually a tax, despite the Obama administration's reluctance to describe it that way during the bill's passage. In its argument to the court, the government left open the possibility that the mandate is a tax, but did not rely much on that argument. Under the law, people who do not have health insurance will have to pay 1 percent of their income to the IRS starting in 2014. (There are exceptions for religious beliefs and financial hardship.) "If an individual does not maintain health insurance, the only consequence is that he must make an additional payment to the IRS when he pays his taxes," Roberts writes. He adds that this means "the mandate is not a legal command to buy insurance. Rather, it makes going without insurance just another thing the Government taxes, like buying gasoline or earning an income." Twenty six states sued over the law, arguing that the individual mandate, which requires people to buy health insurance or face a fine starting in 2014, was unconstitutional. Opponents cast the individual mandate as the government forcing Americans to enter a market and buy a product against their will, while the government countered that the law was actually only regulating a market that everyone is already in, since almost everyone will seek health care at some point in his or her life. Before oral arguments in March, polls of Supreme Court experts and scholars showed that most believed the mandate would be upheld as an exercise of Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce. But after justices seemed deeply skeptical of the mandate in oral arguments in March, the consensus flipped, with most experts guessing the court would strike down the law. House Republicans have vowed to repeal the entire law, though it's unlikely the Democratic-controlled Senate would let that happen, and this decision will most likely slow momentum for that move. Though the sweeping, 1,000-page plus law passed more than two years ago, much of it will not go into effect until 2014. That's when states will have to set up their own health insurance exchanges, Medicaid will be expanded by 16 million low-income people, and Americans will have to buy health insurance (for many, with a government subsidy) or pay a penalty of 1 percent of their income to the IRS. Employers who have more than 50 employees and don't offer insurance will also begin to face a penalty. Insurers will no longer be able to turn away people with preexisting conditions, or charge people higher premiums based on their gender or health. Only about 6 percent of the population will actually be required to buy health insurance or face a tax under the mandate, since most people already have coverage or will get it through Medicare, according to the Urban Institute. Many of the more popular provisions of the law have already gone into effect, including a regulation saying insurers have to let children stay on their parents' plans until they are 26 years old, which 2.5 million Americans have already taken advantage of. Insurers can also no longer turn away children with preexisting conditions, and sick uninsured people can buy coverage in high-risk pools set up by the government. Despite this intentional front-loading of consumer friendly, popular provisions of the law, the American public is pretty evenly split on the law's benefit. Slightly more people wanted the Supreme Court to strike down the law than uphold it in a recent poll. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/supreme-court-issue-obamacare-decision-135554880.html Ummmm, yeah, I don't know what to say. So I will just smh.

Way to bury young talent WWE by making the WWE Championship MITB match for past champions only. But I'm assuming the World Title MITB will have the younger guys. True but I don't like how this year the matches are title seperated. Part of the intrigue was seeing which title the winner would cash in on. It's been like this the past couple of years on the dedicated PPV. The last time someone chose was in 2010 when Swagger won the contract at WM 26 and later cashed in on World Heavyweight Champion Chris Jericho (who was incapacitated on a spear by Edge), becoming champion. http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xVn5IwWKHw ____ I'm not too fond of the WWE Championship one only have four former WWE Champions either.

Dude, stop being so defensive. He's just saying that in the past, this thread was in another forum. Not defensive, confusion. There need to be fonts for certain expressions. Back to the topic at hand.... If it wasn't for the satellite view you'd never know there was a tropical storm out there right now.

This is news sooo..... No, "hurricane season" is not news. It's been every year. Now, if a hurricane wiped out half of Tallahassee, then yeah, that'd be news. Just saying, in years past, I remember this thread being in the "outfield" forum. Wasn't saying anything against you posting it here. How is following a tropical system NOT news?

This is news sooo.....

Who's keeping an eye on T.S. Debby and who's feeling her effects?

I see Fenway has it's usual pace going...takes forever to get a game done at Fenway.