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Since I live in a single A town & the TV only carries the Braves or the Cubs, I'll once again fail to participate in spectating the great American pasttime. I may pay attention later, when it actually matters but the Dodgers & the D'Backs will have to carry on without my undying devotion & support.
chcr
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hehe, now it's your turns for the SI curse. 
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Ouch, I know your pain all too well, HomeLAN. Our DL is probably one of the most watched considering it is the biggest variable again this year: how long for Prior and Wood? Already off to a bad start with Prior starting the season there, er, rather AAA tonight, gonna be a huge crowd in Albuquerque.
Dave
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ON MARCH 30, when the New York Press published its annual list of the ''50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers,'' Bostonians who follow the entertainingly rabid newsweekly online might have noticed a couple of locals-made-good in the mix.
More abhorrent, for example, than Yankees third-baseman Alex Rodriguez (who, at No. 50, is described as ''the supreme embodiment of...the toothy, handsome, strapping jock who beats up the nerds''), publisher Judith Regan (No. 48, the roster of whose authors, including Jose Canseco and porn star Jenna Jameson, ''reads like an itemized list of what's wrong with America''), and the Olsen twins (No. 34, just because they exist) is, at No. 32, ex-Bosox pitcher Pedro Martinez. ''The mercurial, ferret-looking, 33-year-old crybaby duped the Mets to the tune of $53 million into thinking he's an eight-inning pitcher still capable of producing anything but mediocre numbers and gel stains on his pillow,'' splutter the NYP editors.
Leading the pack at No. 1, meanwhile, ahead of even such deplorable figures as ''Today Show'' co-host Katie Couric (No. 24, for unprintable reasons), ''Tony Danza Show'' host Tony Danza (No. 19, because he ''makes us wish our Italian grandmother was Lithuanian''), and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik (who, at No. 12, is said by the NYP to be as ''silly, vain, precious, falsely plumed and preeningly proud'' as the cultural institution for which he works), is Medford's own Michael R. Bloomberg. The ''scheming billionaire'' mayor of New York, we read, is guilty of having ''never cared about anyone but himself.''
More abhorrent, for example, than Yankees third-baseman Alex Rodriguez (who, at No. 50, is described as ''the supreme embodiment of...the toothy, handsome, strapping jock who beats up the nerds''), publisher Judith Regan (No. 48, the roster of whose authors, including Jose Canseco and porn star Jenna Jameson, ''reads like an itemized list of what's wrong with America''), and the Olsen twins (No. 34, just because they exist) is, at No. 32, ex-Bosox pitcher Pedro Martinez. ''The mercurial, ferret-looking, 33-year-old crybaby duped the Mets to the tune of $53 million into thinking he's an eight-inning pitcher still capable of producing anything but mediocre numbers and gel stains on his pillow,'' splutter the NYP editors.
Leading the pack at No. 1, meanwhile, ahead of even such deplorable figures as ''Today Show'' co-host Katie Couric (No. 24, for unprintable reasons), ''Tony Danza Show'' host Tony Danza (No. 19, because he ''makes us wish our Italian grandmother was Lithuanian''), and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik (who, at No. 12, is said by the NYP to be as ''silly, vain, precious, falsely plumed and preeningly proud'' as the cultural institution for which he works), is Medford's own Michael R. Bloomberg. The ''scheming billionaire'' mayor of New York, we read, is guilty of having ''never cared about anyone but himself.''
SouthernN'Proud
Southern Discomfort
I fearlessly predict that my beloved and beleagured Rangers will hit a ton, lead the division for awhile, melt in the late summer Texas heat, suffer from a woeful lack of reliable pitching, and miss the playoffs.
Again.
Again.
Dave
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i fear my Sox will revert back to their old ways this season. they'll be at the top of the division by the all-star break, crash and burn for about a month after the break then struggle to gain ground on the Yankees but ultimately coming up short. if they make the playoffs, they will be out in the first round.
Inkara1
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Caught any of their games this year? Luckily for me, I'm considered to be in the Angels' TV market so I've gotten to see some, albeit with Anaheim-biased (oops, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim-biased) commentary. It looks like instead of bad starting pitching and excellent relieving like last year, we're going to have decent starting pitching and a worrisome bullpen.SouthernN'Proud said: