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The Warlord had a staff with a W and a Phantom of the Opera mask. Ryback has nothing on that. I didn't say he was a good Warlord If that's the case, why didn't you say Barbarian? "Warlord" is easier to spell?

As well it should be.

Now THAT'S trolling....

Hey all: Is there a reliable (emphasize reliable) site that details future releases in Archives/Masterworks series from Marvel, DC, & Dark Horse? I'm really getting tired of spending hours chasing down info that turns out to be nothing more than some fanboy's wet dreams.

Well, neither of us saw Honus Wagner play, but your points on Smith are excellent. You can cherry-pick certain stats to show him as less than great, but one really has to look at how he evolved as a player. No, he wasn't George Brett in the second half of his career, but he certainly was a complete player. The first half of his career he likely was the best defensive player at his position at least in the modern era, if not of all-time. His last few years he was an offensive threat as well. When you nail almost 2500 hits from a primarily defensive position, you've made a pretty compelling argument for induction.

Frankie Frisch would be proud.

Thanks, Jerry. I'll post some photos as soon as I get the attachment for my phone to download them. This hasn't been a good couple of years, we lost Carnacki summer before last. (Apparently he'd been hit by a car YEARS ago, and eventually his intestines eventually got all twisted up. He came through the surgery just fine, but contracted pneumonia and he just sort of gave up; cats don't really have a whole lot of fight in them when they're sick, instinct is to just give up.). We adopted Fantom shortly after that, he was found in a cage out on the rez with no food or water, so the poor little guy has been on borrowed time his whole life. He disappeared on us in October (we thought for sure that someone grabbed him because he's so friendly he'll go up to anyone), but amazingly enough, he showed up at the door a week later, very thin and hungry so we figure he was trapped in a garage or something. So I guess these last two months with him were a gift. Feline Leukemia is awful. I can't stress strongly enough to always get cats vaccinated for it. It is so contagious that a cat can catch it just from bumping noses with an infected cat.

Really? Really? I didn't get on board until last year, but then watched from the start and other than the improbable detour to Ireland, I think it has been pretty much great. Why the negativity?

A big FUCK YOU to either the ice or a stray dog that caused my little cat Fantomas to sever his spinal column yesterday. We don't know if he was just running around and slipped on the ice or if a dog shook him. There weren't any skin breaks, which makes me inclined to think it was the former, (he tends to zoom around at top speed when he's outside and just loved playing in the snow). When we called him to come in, we heard him cry and found him lying on a patch of ice. He can't move his hind legs or tail and has no control over his bladder and bowels. They don't make colostomy bags, catheters, and wheelchairs for cats, so we have to let him go... He wasn't even two years old.... The worst is going to be when my four-year old niece gets home this weekend. She lives next door and just loved Fantom. He would let her drag him around like a rag doll and would never scratch or even growl about it. I've never seen a cat so tolerant of little kids. I'm taking all the Christmas shit down this morning. Fuck all that.

I think I've exploded the Jack Morris mystique on this board on more than one occasion. Certainly, Hall of the Very Good, but not HOF. The more I look at Doc's numbers, the more I become convinced that he and Pedro should both go in. I think we've likely seen our last 300 game winner and W-L is probably the worst stat to use when evaluating a pitcher.

J.R. Richard called to say "WTF?"

It's hometown heat, okay. So let's no go overboard with this. Dude, Aberdeen is like 100 miles from Seattle. When Danielson was tearing up the indies, no one in Seattle cared.

To steal a line from "My Cousin Vinnie". "That's a cogent and lucid argument". It just happens to be wrong. Comparing a first basemen to players in all other positions is a mug's game and will occasionally bite you on the ass (Ala McGwire better offensively than Morgan). If you want to compare McGwire, at least compare him to somewhat similar players like Kiner and Greenberg. As I've said before, Big Mac's job was to terrify pitchers and he did that very well indeed.

I'll echo everyone else, I take 60mg of Fluoxetine a day, and while I may not have the sunniest disposition in the world, at least I don't want to kill myself .

Dude, abebooks.com is your friend. That way you avoid dealing with the Hubbardites. I do recall back in 1988 when they were starting to go full bore on "Writers of the Future" (with ridiculous contracts that essentially made you an indentured servant), they rented a suite at Norwescon and loaded the place with goodies. Michael Reaves and I ate and drank like kings for the weekend and never did get around to signing a contract. ;-) I will take a little credit in suggesting to the President of Bridge Publications that they get Hubbard's pulp stuff back into print...

He spent most of his career in Toronto, what are you expecting? Name a better pitcher from 00-09. If you are the best pitcher of a decade, you'll get in, and I can't think of many who have a case against him. Best pitcher of a decade is criteria? Jack Morris calls to say "Hello!" I'm very much on the fence about Halladay. One of my favorite pitchers during his career, his career win total looks low, but in context of the times will probably look a lot better in a decade or so. (We'll have new voters that grew up only seeing two 300-game winners, and those guys were at the tail-end of their careers.) Just as hitting stats are going up, pitching stats are going down. Yeah, he probably belongs in, but not for the reasons you suggest.

If we wanted someone to sulk and pout, I'm sure Griffey could be induced to come out of retirement. Of course, compared to Randy Johnson, Ichiro has a downright sunny disposition.

I fear that Davey will suffer the same fate in NXT as Chris Hero. He will find some way to fuck things up. I have no problems with Davey as a worker. My first exposure to him was during my tape trading days when I scored on some German pro wrestling and watched him work with Murat Bosporous. Davey was smart enough to let Murat carry the match, bump huge, hit his spots, transition back to Murat, and stick to the script. I agree with the guy that said that Davey's NXT matches will be okay if someone reels him in. Davey hasn't learned on his own that you don't have to work every spot you know into a single match. If Davey makes the roster, he'll benefit best from a manager that does his talking for him. Davey's attitude isn't nearly as bad as Teddy Hart's is. Hart is fucking delusional. Yeah, I was perhaps a bit unkind with that comparison. One is stupid, one is a lunatic.

A big FUCK YOU to the weather and the Gallup Police Force that does nothing to make sure that people that are inebriated during a cold snap are safe. The cops laugh and call the dead "popsicles". During winter it isn't uncommon to lose five or more people a week in this area. Last Friday my best buddy's brother-in-law was found frozen to death behind a Wendy's. Leaving aside that a 51 year-old man should have more sense than to be outside drinking when it's snowing, you would think employees could at least have picked up the phone and called the cops. It got down to 11 degrees that night, he didn't have a chance. Funny thing is, the Gallup cops stopped and offered me a ride home at 2AM when I was leaving the local. They were surprised to see that I wasn't drunk, I explained that I don't drink, but do shoot pool and mentioned it was only a mile home and I have a heavy leather trench coat. They were nice enough to give me a ride anyway. Wonder if the result would have been the same if my skin were a bit darker... I'm pretty sure that I know the answer..

I am not at all enchanted with the six inches or so of snow we have screwing things up here. These people don't know how to drive under best of conditions, let alone in snow and ice. Everyone with a truck thinks they're one of those ice-road truckers from the Discovery channel. My best buddy's brother-in-law was found frozen to death behind a Wendy's on Friday morning. Why these people don't wait until they get home to start drinking is a mystery to me. I've done plenty of drinking in my younger days and it would never occur to me to sit down on a bench in a snowstorm and crack a bottle of vodka. I didn't have much self-control, but I could at least wait till I got home. Guy was just 51 years old, way too young to die from stupid shit like that.

No one ever bought a ticket to see Dave Kingman. Please explain why no team in baseball wanted Kingman when still in his prime and McGwire was loved by both teams he played for? Kuetsar: If Big Mac is so one-dimensional, how come he's a respected hitting coach? Numbers don't lie, and no hitter with less than 2000 hits should sniff Cooperstown. Not a big fan of Travis Jackson, Sam Crawford, Jimmy Collins, Home Run Baker, or Gabby Hartnett, eh? There are quite a few more with less than 2000 career hits. An important thing to evaluate is "What was the player's job?" Now if it was to get on first, then we have to say that Big Mac wasn't very effective, however, to my knowledge, he never batted lead off or second. His job was to drive in runs. That he did with flying colors having one of the highest extra-base hit ratios of any player. Think about it for second, a third of the time he got a hit it wasn't just for extra bases, it was a friggin home run. I was able to watch his entire career and while there were several better hitters during his era, he gave pitchers nightmares. It was all or nothing when pitching to him, and if you didn't strike him out, he would hurt you by getting on base or knocking the ball out of the park.

I see. In what State can a sixteen year-old get a wrestling license? Kozina's even more of a jerk than I had previously thought, and that was based on meeting him a few times. I'd like to see him try that crap with someone that knew how to fight back. It would be dwarf-tossing 101.

How does Tony Kozina take liberties with ANYONE? I've met the guy and he's about 41/2 feet tall.

Teddy Hart

No, and I've actually seen a manuscript in that form... Very little insanity among the pulp writers, though, oddly enough, a couple of the best like Paul Ernst and Wyatt Blassingame trained themselves to completely forget what they had written. Plenty of interviews with guys in later years and they could tell what they had for lunch on the 3rd of April in 1936, but couldn't recall anything of the hundreds of good stories they had written. I can recall individual lines in stuff that I wrote a decade ago, but then I've never come anywhere close to a million words a year, which is what Hubbard, Zagat, Blassingame, Burks, Cave and many others did for over a decade. Think of your most productive years writing about the rasslin, I'll bet that at most you came in at about 250,000 words a year (which is a LOT). Now imagine doing four times that for ten years AND having it pass muster with an editor.