OSJ

Nope. Also, I like that Ronny Markes is in one entertaining fight and gets absolutely ethered. For a wrestler, Romero is a pretty awesome striker. Hell, Romero is a pretty awesome striker period.

Why is Romero holding his hands so far apart? Does he enjoy getting kicked in the face, 'cause that's what is likely to happen. Well, didn't get kicked in the face and has the nastiest left I've seen in a long time. Dude was 32 when he came to UFC, short window for a career but he looked awesome tonight.

Am I the only one that thinks Lioness Nunes is awesomely cute?

Khabilov is the goods... Troops are far and away a class act, they cheer for the scruffy hippie that beat the army guy and they cheered for the Russian kid. Now that's how MMA crowds ought to behave.

There's also the bit that she's a doctor and it is very unlikely that anyone in her field is going to question her.

I'm assuming the delivery guy left it deliberately as a calling card, perhaps one the gang wasn't intended to notice until it was too late. I don't buy that. I mean, once they realized it, it only took them like 60 seconds to clear out. So they were supposed to notice it at exactly 7:59:55? So we're left with the delivery guy accidentally leaving his pen which just happens to be festooned with shamrocks. Because of course all Irish people make sure everything they own looks like it came out a leprechaun's dickhole. You don't have a pen with shamrocks on it? I feel so sorry for you.

The San Juan Islands are awesome. We spent 4 days in Friday Harbor and just loved it. Would definitely go back, in a heartbeat. But the city of Seattle proper? Yeah, don't like it. Been there a few times, will go back again multiple times, and I just don't like it. It's kinda dirty and it just doesn't work for me. San Francisco is a dump. There's fun stuff to do but it's filthy. To be fair, it's been 13 years since I've been there so things may have changed. I doubt it but you never know. Anyway, what I saw in downtown was trash, lots of dirtiness, and multiple people peeing right out in public (this was downtown). It's also way overcrowded and just...ugh. Not my scene at all. My favorite city? I liked Portland, OR a lot. And I LOVED Arlington & Dallas, TX. I could probably live there. Oh yeah, and St. Paul, MN. Arrrgh... Typical Seattle hatred from the Eastern part of the state... Hardly dirty compared to most major cities, unless you are talking about a certain stretch of downtown or Pioneer Square. I will grant that Portland is many degrees cooler, but they do have ice storms and they DON'T have major league baseball (of course, you could make a pretty compelling case that neither does Seattle...)

Horsefeathers Saloon on Wurzbach Rd. was quite the place last time I was there. Picture is likely still on the wall, if they haven't torn the place down... Whoops, sorry about that... Guess it's been gone for over a decade. Well, there still has to be some divebars with great live music and darts SOMEWHERE in Alamo Town.

Just saw the doc and she's finally sending me to a specialist later this month. Weight is under 280 for the first time since my twenties. 273!!!! Only 33 lbs. to go to get back to my fighting weight of 240. That stupid BMI says I should weigh 185. Only time I weighed 185 was when I almost died of mono when in high school. Idiots. My doc is of the opinion that 240lbs or 230lbs is just fine. I said, "What about the BMI?" "That's for people who aren't built like football players to start with." Okay, cool, I don't want to be a member of Team Emaciated.

Big thumbs up! They really need to have Harper actually decapitate someone. I'm thinking that we can do nicely without Alex Riley or Conor O'Brian (yes, I am rabidly Irish, but I still have no love for these guys).

Damn, that just killed the thread, didn't it? I laugh at the fact that I was tearing up little league while Rev Ray, Phil, and Rippa, and Dean were still pooping themselves.

Why are they having pre-lims at 1:00PM in the afternoon, I'm just now finishing breakfast...

You didn't give round one to Eddie? I had it 3-2 the other way, 1,3,5 Alvarez. However, Chandler so dominated Rd #4 that it could have been a 10-8. Great, great fight, though I still wonder about Chandler keeping his hands down, either he thinks he's a lot faster than Eddie, or he forgot that Eddie knows how to hit people in the face...

Nope. It's the two girls.

56, but age is just a question of mind over matter... If you don't mind, it don't matter.

This so needs to happen...

How many managers? I may be wrong, but it seems to me that Mr. Martin managed a few games.

I think that you're confusing LaRussa with Connie Mack.

I like Fit Finlay as much as the next guy, but he can't draw for shit.

C'mon OSJ, you're a writer, you know the word is "dominant" I did look at his numbers but looked again and I still think he's a no. Not a bad pick by any means, I just don't think he had quite enough great seasons. One or two more 1978s or 1985s and he's a shoo-in. Well, even in 1990 he was in the top ten for total bases, hardly a choad by any stretch. Black Ink Batting - 26 (72), Average HOFer ≈ 27 Gray Ink Batting - 145 (99), Average HOFer ≈ 144 Hall of Fame Monitor Batting - 124 (111), Likely HOFer ≈ 100 Hall of Fame Standards Batting - 42 (148), Average HOFer ≈ 50 From this you would conclude (as I have) that once you make adjustments for the first half of his career (pitcher dominated), he not only looks like a very good candidate, he becomes a slam dunk no-brainer. I'll drag out the case of Alan Trammell, whom we both agree on. In the era of inflated stats when a Luis Gonzalez or Brady Anderson slams fifty taters in a season, Parker doesn't look that good. When we look at how dominant he was as a hitter (even well past his prime, he was a serious threat). Parker becomes one of those guys who is robbed by his era. Trammell doesn't look so great against Nomar Garciaparra until you get to WAR, but guess which guy I'd rather build a team around.

By Crikey, that was easy... Here it 'tis:

You make a good case and left out what I think is his best color work. The cover of Fantastic Novels for Merrit's The Snake Mother. Simply stunning. I'll see if I can find it on-line... My copy is in storage and I've too much on my plate today to go up there and rummage around in six boxes of pulps... ;-)

From Tabe: "Dave Parker - No. Another guy whose off years were too "off". A great player but the drugs turned 5 prime years into 5 average-or-worse years." I think you need to look at the total picture again. Even his five years staying too long at the dance don't hurt him that much. One of the dominate hitters in a pitcher-friendly era, a tremendous defensive player, and a terror on the basepaths (unless he was trying to protect his vial of coke). I fully agree about Tony's dirty teams, however, I think guys like McGwire and Sosa still belong in. What they were doing was part of the game then. Yeah, it was cheating, but I don't hear anyone campaigning to kick Gaylord Perry or John McGraw out of the HOF.

You are high right now, aren't you? Just need to check. Well, I just took 30mg of morphine, but it hasn't kicked in yet, no the answer would be "no".