Things that made you smile today.

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*smacks that ass*

welcome back hun

To nervous to take this to his lair i sneak up to Logan and blushing give him ghis Christmas kiss under the mistletoe I am holding. before quickly stepping back giggling.:rose:

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Thyri asked me to pass this coupon on.

* giggles * You've been tagged, and now you must pass it on.

Start an epidemic of kisses. :) :kiss::rose:[/COLOR][/FONT]

(Lol I am a little late I know:eek:)[/CENTER]
 
THAT... is more than COOL... I LOVE THAT... WOW....


Slips close to rain holding up the mistletoe, blushing she kisses Her gently on his lips before quickly stepping back giggling.


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Thyri asked me to pass this coupon on.

* giggles * You've been tagged, and now you must pass it on.

Start an epidemic of kisses. :) :kiss::rose:


(Lol I am a little late I know:eek:)
 
To nervous to take this to his lair i sneak up to Logan and blushing give him ghis Christmas kiss under the mistletoe I am holding. before quickly stepping back giggling.:rose:

*wraps arms around her and kisses her back before tickling her*
 
A full night of sleep.

No more stomach flu.

I am happy That FD has appeared on Lit I hadn't wanted to disturb his thread.

Quietly I glide closer holding up the mistletoe, blushing as I stand on tip toe to place a small kiss gently on his lips before quickly stepping back giggling.

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Thyri asked me to pass this coupon on/

* giggles * You've been tagged, and now you must pass it on.

Start an epidemic of kisses. :) :kiss::rose:
 
A full night of sleep.

No more stomach flu.

Hearing this!

Resists urge to tackle, and licks a cheek instead.

So totally corny, but you made me smile today. I read your thread with Brit, and it's wonderful. I forgot how talented you actually are. :D

Reading this!

And in the RW? Icing a Christmas cake that's been made by 3 generations of our family this year. Awesomeness! It looks pretty good, if I say so myself and tastes bloody fantastic! :D
 
"God created the sun, the stars, the heavens and the earth, and then made Adam and Eve," Everett said last Friday, before the Red Sox lost two of three in Atlanta. "The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Someone actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus rex."

What about dinosaur bones?

"Made by man," he says.

Everett has trouble, too, with the idea of man actually walking on the moon. After first rejecting the notion, he concedes, "Yeah, that could have happened. It's possible. That is something you could prove. You can't prove dinosaurs ever existed. I feel it's far-fetched."

Proof that you don't have to be smart to play baseball.
 
I'm curious as to who this person who saw Adam and Eve was.

Also, this guy is a fucking moron (this is not a comment about religion so much as it is a comment about his ability to make use of reason and logic)

Obviously, it was the guy that wrote the Bible. Joe Bible was his name.

He's also the same genius that said:

  • Everett has had gay teammates, whom he has accepted, but: "Gays being gay is wrong. Two women can't produce a baby, two men can't produce a baby, so it's not how it's supposed to be. ... I don't believe in gay marriages. I don't believe in being gay."
  • Most baseball fans don't know diddly: "Fan is short for fanatic -- he's crazy about something he really doesn't know about. And it's proven that 99 percent of baseball fans have no idea what they're watching."
  • The congressional hearings examining steroid use were a waste: "We have a war going on -- I have family in that war -- yet we're talking about steroids. ... If everybody in the world got on steroids, we'll still lose more kids to a war than we will from steroids."

He's not a smartie.
 
Well, to be honest, I kinda agree with him on points 2 and 3.

I came across this while reading (well.. re-reading) a blog run by a bunch of comedy writers that makes fun of bad sports journalism, and they point out the absurdity of both of those statements pretty well:

I like the insanity of saying that it is "proven" that "99% of baseball fans have no idea what they're watching." Because by using the classically hyperbolic figure of 99%, Carl is demonstrating that he himself has no idea what he is talking about. It's like when people say things like, "Dude, I was so hungry last night I LITERALLY ate a thousand hamburgers."

One would have to do a fair amount of research, and devise a sophisticated method of evaluation of steroids qua mortal force, in order to prove or disprove this statement. I'm guessing Carl has done neither. In any case, I enjoy this comment because he essentially argues that no topic is worth our time and attention if it is not at least as life-threatening as war, which, ipso facto, is the most life-threatening thing that there is. Also, considering Carl's problems with rage, and his massive frame, and his propensity to injure, it's probably in his best interests to remain silent on the whole steroid issue.

Also, one of the comments on the post by another of the writers there made me blurt out a laugh:

Guys-

This is kind of embarrassing, but here goes.

As a baseball fan, I've seen hundreds, maybe thousands of baseball games. And to this day, I have had no idea what I've been watching. In fact, now that I think about it, some of those things I watched may not have even been baseball games, but reruns of Trading Spaces.
 
OK, you are right, the specifics of what he is saying are foolish.
I do, however, think that the majority of fans know fairly little about what they aretalking about (this isn't just about sports) and that the congressional hearings on steroid abuse were moronic.

Yeah, there are plenty of sports fans that are absolutely clueless. I've had enough run-ins with them on baseball matters alone to know that. Interestingly, they're also some of the most dogmatic and unwilling to change their views, despite the plethora of new information.

The congressional hearings were probably a bit much, but the investigation was necessary.
 
Sure, I suppose an investigation was needed. Maybe. But, then again, I don't see why. If these guys want to shoot up drugs that will ruin them for life, what do I care?
(I acknowledge that it is illegal, and therefor an investigation required, but its a police matter, isn't it? Or DEA?)
(needless to say, I'm a proponent of "consenting adults get to do what they want")

I am too, as a general rule, but in this case it affects more than just them. There's too much money wrapped up in baseball, and contracts signed now worth hundreds of millions of dollars (from 2001-2017, for example, Alex Rodriguez will make more than half a billion dollars) to just let it go on. If they were private citizens, though? Who cares.
 
In what way do the contracts have any relevance?
In point of fact, they remain private citizens. Baseball is not a part of the government.

I'm not saying they're no longer private citizens, just that it is in baseballs best interest, given the money they're paying these people, to make sure they're clean.

Just as private citizens can gamble on baseball, but a player doing so will ban them from the HOF for life.
 
In what way is getting the off steroids in baseball's best interests?

I would think that gigantic batters hitting home runs and pitchers with arms that shoot balls like cannons would be better for the fans.
ANd when it is better for the fans, it means more money.

(also, lets be real...baseball has always known these guys were shooting up...)

Oh yeah, baseball definitely knew.

But, in the public eye, someone that uses steroids is cheating. People think of Lance Armstrong differently now than they did before. It was once amazing that he was able to win the Tour so much and do it clean. Now, he's just a disgrace. Bonds was considered by many to be the greatest player ever, and now there's a very good chance he won't even be a first-ballot HOFer because of his connection to BALCO. McGwire broke the single-season HR record and was a hero (even has/had a stretch of highway named after him in St. Louis), and he barely gets enough votes to remain on the HOF ballot now.

Fans, as a general rule, want players of any sport to do things without the aid of steroids and growth hormones. Michael Phelps would be looked at much differently tomorrow if it was discovered he was taking them than he is today. Which is why it's also in baseball's best interest to rid themselves of it. If people just see a sport full of roided monsters, they're not going to watch.

And, given that run production is down, and no-hitters seem to be happening at an elevated rate recently, along with a growth in revenue almost across the board for baseball, that seems to be true.
 
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