First off...the burger and Sam Adams were downright scrumptious.

Secondly, it's still not as bad a West Virginia: "We're one big family here. Really."


Ok fine I made that one up.

Lol, I've got league tryout in a few weeks if anyone wants to come tryout to see how easy it is!

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!

Oh please dear God I hope that doesn't happen. They have their priorities so messed up. As much as a legit #1 receiver would be nice...we need a different damn quarterback! The problem won't be solved until we get "knee-jerk" McNabb out of there.

Dear Happybone - With absolutely NO ill intention meant by this... I think we'd all appreciate it if you didn't quote the entire original post when it is a page long.

Cheers.

Crazy, they usually don't let you play anymore after 4. I had to fight to still play after my third.

But you probably wouldn't go into a NASCAR thread and declare to every NASCAR fan and/or driver that it was super simple and easy. Haha.

So I hear. Best of luck with that.

6?! How did you get 6?

Alright well I'm definitely not trying to evaluate anyone's talent levels here, but I can definitively say that it is very hard to play baseball on a highly competitive level. It's just my opinion, of course, but for an example...suppose you were driving 65 mph and something jumped out 60 ft. in front of you. Odds are, you would be able to quickly jerk your steering wheel in the time before you got there. But now imagine that it's 80-85 miles per hour, and instead of a small turn of the steering wheel, you have to swing a 2 lb stick and hit a ball the size of your fist (which most likely will not be coming in a straight line).

I respectfully submit that it is very hard.

He's right. And it sucks when you're really not trying to meet women AT ALL. That's when you find someone awesome and you kick yourself because you don't have time or something. Haha.

Then of course you wind up making time for them, if they're really that awesome.

For the record, it's: concussion.

It's one of the few things I remember after having 3 of them

Ok are we talking about when you were 10 years old, or at an advanced level?

I'm talking about semi-pro levels here, and there is a lot of skill and strategy involved (again, I admit there is less strategy than other sports, but not less skill).

As a diehard baseball fan, I have to chime in that there are some tactics and strategy involved...although I admit that the strategy aspect of baseball is far less than most other major sports.

Good guy - I disagree, I think the schedule is appropriate as it stands now. Because baseball is a game where any given team can win on any given night if the pitcher is having a great or bad game (regardless how good or bad the team behind them is), it is necessary to have a long season to accurately separate the teams which can win consistently from the teams that have one or two good pitchers and win on those days.

Brenda - Baseball is an incredibly difficult sport. I believe that it is ranked second or third in least amount of reaction time available to players (behind Indy racing/NASCAR and possibly cricket).

And because of the jalapeno bacon double cheddar big mouth burgers

Ok seriously I'm starving. I'll see you all later (or at Chili's as it may be )

**Heads to chili's**

Yes I do realize!

And that's why I'm always at the damn gym whenever I'm not at the bar!

Yea I managed to pilfer a ticket to one of their playoff games against the Angels (the one that manny hit the walk off HR in the bottom of the 9th...I thought I was going to die haha). Went to Boston and back in 24 hours. Great times.

My grandmother owns 3 cabins on Sebago Lake (about 40 minutes NE of Portland). My friends and I head up there for a week or so in the summer and hit up Portland at least once or twice, and Old Orchard Beach of course.

Possibly a correlation between intelligence and people who have a diverse variety of favorite music?

You may be on to something here.

But that's only because I have a diverse taste in music and it would be nice to have scientific evidence that maybe I'm smarter than a 5th grader.

I'll be at Fenway at least a handful of times this year, for sure.

Plus I'll be up in your neck of the woods at least once before summer, and then for about a week sometime in July or August on vacation.