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Youkilis fights like a sissy. Punk *****. I'm convinced we'd have won that game if we didn't have to go to the bullpen in the second inning.

Getting away with it? Are you being serious? You do realize the NFL hasn't even decided on Stallworth's punishment, right, and in the meantime, he's suspended indefinitely and can't practice or play? How is that "getting away with it"? You might also be interested to know that Stallworth spent a month in jail and will spend two years on house arrest and can go nowhere but work and back (except, he doesn't work because he's suspended), is doing 1,000 hours of community service, spending eight years on probation, and he's lost his driver's license indefinitely. If that sounds like something you'd like to do, by all means volunteer. It's not a sentence that's wildly out of line with what a normal citizen would have gotten. And he's not playing football right now. Not guilty. I'm not on Kane for breaking the law. I'm on Kane for being a greedy cockhole about 20 cents when he's worth millions. I tip cabbies despite being worth a small fraction of what Kane has in the money department, as do, I'm sure, 95% of people here. I don't act like a prick over 20 cents. Hell, if I'd left $15 on a $13.80 fare, I'd feel like a cheapskate for leaving a cheesy 8% tip. Patrick Kane is not a normal citizen, he has privileges all of us can only dream of, and with that comes a little responsibility to at the very least act like a decent person.

Honestly, I keep looking for someone that might be as bad or worse and I can't find one. I'm pretty convinced. Wrecked Harvick today, didn't he? All I know is that if next year starts and guys like Stremme and Scott Speed still have full-time rides and Brad Keselowski still does not, something is seriously wrong. I'm biased because Keselowski is the only Cup driver from Michigan and I'm always pulling for him, but it's obvious he's got major-league talent and if some team somewhere can't find room for him even with the yutzes that are in rides today, that's messed up. Maybe the 1 car, then he can still run Chevys like he plans to in Nationwide. That'd make EGR into a pretty damn solid team, and obviously it'd basically be my runaway favorite.

Red Sox fans are their normal angsty melodramatic selves and are convinced that we're going to get at least three of four. Of course, last week (before the Yankees sweep), I had Red Sox fans snickering at me for being a Tigers fan, which is easily stopped when I ask which of our two teams is in first place.

I think you mean, hope he likes only ever playing the Sabres, Islanders, and Rangers. He's being charged in the state of New York. Infinitely funnier. Anyway, I know you're joking, but I don't see that happening, and anyway, there's nothing preventing felons from leaving the country, or even returning, once they're done serving their time.

I'm no legal expert, but, I think that: 1) you have to actually be physically in possession of an open container to be charged with MIP. They likely were not. 2) the cops have to have some kind of reasonable suspicion that you're under the influence in order to breathalyze you. Maybe they didn't smell any alcohol. Doesn't mean they hadn't been drinking, but it really doesn't matter: the charges are plenty serious enough. It's not like being drunk would be what tips it over the line here. In any case, I realize that yes, you are innocent til proven guilty, and it's very possible the cabbie was being a dick to them. But I doubt that. People whose livelihoods depend on tips are very rarely dicks to their customers.. Besides, I don't have to stamp "criminal" on his forehead if I can stamp "selfish *******." For chrissake, tip your cabbie and don't be a greedy jerk about 20 cents when you make millions.

If this is true - what a complete dick. Multimillionaire and 1) you clearly have no intention of tipping the cabbie and 2) you are enough of a skinflint to assault someone over 20 cents? What is 20 cents going to buy you that your Blackhawks contract can't?

I really like Robby Gordon, but given his history it takes a REALLY bad driver doing a REALLY bonehead thing to be the one blamed for a dustup involving Robby. Totally agree about Pocono. LAME. Give it one race a year and give the other to Iowa or a second date in Darlington. (But any race with JPM in the top five is a big plus in my book. Too bad he didn't quite have enough for Hamlin.) I think Ragan is being kept at Roush because he's still only 23 and he really did have a pretty good season last year. I mean, for all the talk about how young Logano is, Ragan's not that much older. Besides, UPS probably was promised some continuity when they signed up with RFR. McMurray's pretty much hit his stride and isn't going to improve much over what he does now. He'd be a great driver for a second-tier team that needs the decent revenue he brings in with his usual 15-20 finishes.

Hear hear. I love how Bettman is the boogeyman for everything, whether it's his fault or not. Sillyballs has tried to buck the system no less than three times. You wouldn't walk into an exclusive club, apply for membership, and trash the club's rules and ways of doing business. That's basically what NHL ownership is. It's not Bettman who won't let him in, it's all the owners, because they very understandably don't like him.

Sillyballs has come off as an arrogant ass three separate times now, and he's shown himself more than willing to uproot any amount of hockey history to get his little Hamilton toy. I don't care if Hamilton gets a team or not, but frankly I hope it's never with him.

Nah, I hate to say it, but I don't think he got hosed. If the monitors all say he was over the limit, he was over the limit. I don't like NASCAR's attitude about warnings: they say they won't issue them if the drivers are close to the limit because "the drivers should know." They come off like the "gotcha" cops who are issuing speeding tickets for the revenue. The point is safety on pit row for the crewmen, not to play gotcha with speeders. They ought to issue some kind of notice, even if it's totally non-punitive, to the drivers in the 5 MPH window. Still - over the line is over the line. It sucks, but them's the rules.

You said them to me in response to what I said. Does this ring a bell? Again - you said that to me. What exactly are you defying? Actually this started after I said how much I loved it that Kyle Busch crashed out of the race. Then you jumped in. Go read the thread and stop revising history. Unless you're talking about my response to you from over a month ago, in which case it sounds like you're the one who needs to let it go. Pretty damn sure I already acknowledged that part. Again with the selective reading. And if you think I literally meant only Junior, look up "metaphor" in the dictionary. Personal attacks, too? Really? Yup, really.

You've got a long and distinguished history of not paying attention to anything I say, and picking and choosing what you want to hear out of my post, I figured you wouldn't even notice me correcting your spelling. And I never said anything about stopping you from posting Shrub pictures. You've gone from ignoring what I say to inventing stuff I didn't say. But since you asked, I bet I can find something wrong with everything you said in the post, and not even have to correct your spelling to do it: Here we go with the inventing of things I didn't say. For example, I didn't say you're not allowed to post about Nationwide stuff. Indeed. You do tend to make those. You do know that baiting people is against forum rules, right? I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'. Actually, since NASCAR operates both series, it would be very easy to ban a driver from driving in both series on the same weekend. Nothing to it. After all, you yourself pointed out earlier that they're both NASCAR, in one of the few correct things you said in the whole post. No, every driver does not have a right to work. There's no such thing. I told you already, I would not have posted here if JPM had won the race. This is what I mean by you cherry-picking stuff I say. All you did was whine about me correcting your spelling, and then claimed I didn't rebut anything you said. How long does it take you to come up with these essays anyway? The ones where you claim it doesn't bother you that I hate your favorite driver?

How is it risky to go with the guy who's got more experience?

Unless the KHL limits expansion to countries not part of the IIHF transfer agreement, there probably will be legal fights ahead. If the KHL expands to, say, Finland, the IIHF would probably then claim that at least the Finnish team, and maybe the entire league if they get ballsy enough, falls under the transfer agreement which Finland (NOT SM-liiga) signed.

I have another rant: start-and-parkers. These guys drive me up a wall. The 36 and 66 teams are especially guilty of it - it's all they do. I think Gilliland has been doing it on and off too. I say bravo to Scott Riggs for refusing to drive that way; he took himself out of the 36 car because they asked him to start and park too much. To me, it takes away spots from teams that are much more deserving. I get that NASCAR wants the little-guy teams to have a shot, but when you get to the point where you can't compete except by not racing, you shouldn't be competing. Look at Dexter Bean - guy's attempted a whole bunch of races this year and made only one, but he finished the race. That's the kind of team that ought to be out there - I'd rather see a slower car actually make an effort than one that uses up a spot and won't race. What they ought to do is something like, if you don't complete half or three-quarters of the laps, you only get prorated prize money. Drive 10 laps of a 200-lap race? Fine, you get 5% of what you'd have gotten. NASCAR can hand out waivers for being crashed out of a race in a wreck that wasn't your fault. This probably bugs me more than anyone else, but I just hate having my intelligence insulted by hearing that the 66 car has once again developed "handling problems" for the fifth race in a row.

Actually, no, I would not "of" posted here, because it's like I said: bullying the minor leaguers doesn't impress me. Heck, I wouldn't even have posted here. By the way: "Weather" is what happens when it rains or snows or is sunny. You want "whether." I'd advise you to get out more too, since you're the one admitting you ran here and posted just to get a rise out of little ol' me (I'm pleased to have gotten in your head like that) but Shrub fans probably get their asses kicked at races. I remember having a lot of fun watching the Indy Lights whenever I'd go to the Grand Prix on Belle Isle. You're right, it probably is a minority, but I'd be a lot more interested in Nationwide if it actually showcased the drivers who don't otherwise get a spotlight.

I fail to see how a Cup driver winning a Nationwide race is cause for excitement, whether it's Shrub or Harvick or anybody. We wouldn't call it some kind of really great achievement if Sidney Crosby went down to the AHL and scored 150 goals, why do we celebrate major league drivers dominating the minor league? If I had my way, any driver entered in the Cup race would forfeit his Nationwide points for the weekend. I'd actually ban 'em straight up, but that'll never happen cause NASCAR knows they lose three-quarters of their Nationwide viewership if Junior doesn't race. P.S., did you seriously capitalize "He" as if you're talking about the racing Jesus? What do you see in that guy besides "he wins"?

It's a full two-week break in between, which is longer than the usual homestand. Six games isn't too bad, it's on the long end of things but it's not at all unprecedented. Eight is a stretch, but they obviously make up for it by having a whole bunch of home games mashed together. It's because they have to get rid of all the advertisements. The signs on the stadium, inside the arena, underneath the ice - everything. Can't have corporate sponsorship in Olympic venues. And they need a much much much bigger press box than they have now, so they have to do some temporary conversions. Hence the need to keep the Canucks out.

Ideally they should pick a year and both replicate the uniforms from that year precisely, or as close as they can with modern uniform-making techniques. That never happens, but at the very least they shouldn't wear uniforms from completely different eras, it looks silly. They should go with an early 70's look.

I don't know how you figure that. But whatever. Anyway, Jeremy Mayfield: Dude tested positive again. I don't know who's telling the truth between him and NASCAR, but it seems clear to me that there's no middle ground here. Either NASCAR is off on a vile, idiotic smear crusade, or Mayfield is a lying sack of s***. Two tests now, and the stepmother, lined up against him. NASCAR should take this stuff to an independent lab to settle it; if they're confident it's a positive test that couldn't be anything but meth, they should be OK with a little verification.

I totally did not realize the Pistons have Sean Singletary on the summer league roster. Can't believe I missed that. I'm giddy like a schoolgirl in the presence of 5,000 Jonas Brothers. I really really really really hope Singletary sticks with the Pistons for the season. All-time favorite UVA baller. The guy's got a million times the heart, hustle, desire, everything, of any NBAer out there. He's a Joe D type of guy for sure. All character.

On Spartantailgate there's a list of M players that have transferred/decommitted? It's no wonder we think Spartans fans are obsessed with Michigan. Anyway, yeah, RR's a real *******, just ask Elliott Mealer and his family: Whoops. And what's with this about Beaver? Who cares? Good for Tulsa. Did we or did we not replace him with Denard Robinson, who is from Florida and turned down in-state offers from Florida and Miami, as well as Georgia and OSU offers, for Michigan? OSU and MSU fans can focus all they like on the players Michigan doesn't have. It might be worth taking a page out of RR's book and talking about the ones we do.

Granderson = pimp. If Carl Crawford hadn't made that catch (a very nice catch, but still not as nice as Granderson's from earlier ) Curtis would be the ASG MVP for sure.

Yeah, I hate dealing with diversity, don't you? Anyway, White might be good eventually, but he only played seven games this year. If you can't crack the lineup of the OKC Thunder, whose lineup can you crack?