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6069. concerned - 7/8/2008 7:38:11 PM Why don't the Mote administrators just rename this thread the 'Spurts Illustrated Gay Lust Object' thread? 6070. wabbit - 7/8/2008 8:15:53 PM Why don't you pony up and take on the responsibility for maintaining a thread for a while?
That said, concerned is right. I'm personally bored to tears with all the gazing in here. Put it in the Sex Thread or in Jexster's thread. And no, Jexster, your one-liners aren't going to cut it here; either have something more than the usual ooohing and aaahing or put it elsewhere.
It will all be moved or deleted without further notice in the future. 6071. alistairconnor - 7/10/2008 4:08:11 PM Oooh mama! The boss is back!
The Tour is arriving at Super Besse, a small ski station in the Auvergne. It's not an extreme climb -- 2nd category -- I've done it myself, a few years ago with my mountain biking crew. This time of year, hot day, melting road, and severe time constraint (we wanted to take the cablecar up to the top of the ski slopes, to ride down the other side, and they only took bikes in the morning)
We probably suffered more than the guys are today. 6072. wonkers2 - 7/13/2008 3:13:59 AM 100th Detroit Gold Cup Hydroplane Racing 6073. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 7/15/2008 8:42:56 PM What a culture!
6074. jexster - 7/15/2008 9:37:23 PM Never bothered with the NEW Yankee Stadium til today...Seeing as this is the last year for the old one
It is BEAUTIFUL
Cool thing is ..all field dimensions exactly the same except distance from Home to the backstop. 6075. wabbit - 7/16/2008 3:52:47 PM Holy cow, is that poor kid being fed steroids or what? That can't be natural. 6076. wabbit - 7/16/2008 3:53:43 PM  I didn't make it to the end of the game, but from what I saw it was a good one this year. By the ninth inning, Tito had used all his field position players, so his team (except for the pitchers) was set for the duration. After a record-tying 15 innings and a record-shattering four hours and 50 minutes, after every player on each team that could be used was used -- and some, possibly, abused -- the AL finally put away the NL, 4-3. It was one of the most remarkable, frustrating, thrilling, patience-shattering exhibition games in the long history of the sport. The last All-Star Game in Yankee Stadium continued the AL's mastery of the sad-sack NL, which hasn't won one of these things since 1996. The only non-loss in that time for the NL came, memorably, in a 2002 11-inning tie in Milwaukee that prompted baseball to up the All-Star rosters to 32 players per team and award home-field advantage in the World Series to the winner.
For a while, it looked like this might be the NL's year to win. The NL took a 2-0 lead, the first run coming on an opposite-field home run from Colorado's Matt Holliday. The AL tied it up with -- horrors of all horrors in Yankee Stadium -- a two-run homer from Boston's J.D. Drew. The NL struck back in the eighth with a run off Boston's Jonathan Papelbon (to the delight, somewhat strangely, of the Yankees fans). The AL tied it in the bottom of the inning.
And then they played on and on and on. And on some more. The NL got its leadoff hitter on in the ninth. Nothing. The AL had its first two on in the 10th. Nothing. The AL had its leadoff man on in the 11th and 12th, the NL in the 12th and 13th. Nothing. And some more nothing.
Then finally, in the bottom of 15th, with the NL on its last pitcher, Minnesota's Justin Morneau singled off Philadelphia's Brad Lidge, Tampa Bay's Dioner Navaro singled Morneau to second, Drew walked to load the bases and Texas second baseman Michael Young -- who hit a game-winning two-run triple in the 2006 game -- lofted a fly ball to right field that was just deep enough.
The throw from Milwaukee's Corey Hart was a little on the first-base side of home, and Morneau slid in just ahead of the tag from Atlanta catcher Brian McCann. Somewhere, commissioner Bud Selig -- who took the blame for the 2002 debacle -- let out a long, slow exhale...
6077. wonkers2 - 7/17/2008 5:19:02 PM 2008 Pacific Cup Cap'n [Dirty's daughter Sarah is sailing in this race, double-handed on a Moore 24.] 6078. iiibbb - 7/17/2008 6:16:02 PM Another EPO doper in the tour was caught today. First person of any significance... Ricardo Ricco... who had won two stages this year and was in contention for the climber's jersey.
Ricardo Ricco
6079. iiibbb - 7/17/2008 6:19:08 PM Also in cycling news... UCI meltdown.
Won't be sorry to see them go because I think they're one of the things bad about cycling. 6080. alistairconnor - 7/22/2008 4:01:32 PM "Put Gollum on serious bike training and you'd end up with something close to Cadel Evans," reckons Chris Hatton, "the strange voice, watery eyes and all. He wants the precious jersey, he has the precious jersey, then he meets his doom on top of a large mountain - hmmmmm"
 6081. alistairconnor - 7/22/2008 4:05:03 PM Look out for footage of John-Lee Augustyn who topped the highest pass of the Tour first, then plunged off the edge of the road on the other side... his bike fell several hundred metres, but he hung on by his fingertips, waited for another bike, and carried on.
These are the same roads I was riding on last week, more or less. 6082. jexster - 7/27/2008 5:29:31 PM I looked AC...guess I missed it
Break up Spain 6083. wonkers2 - 7/31/2008 3:55:35 PM Final report on Pacific Cup Cap'n Dirty's daughter "crushed" the competition in DH2 division. 6084. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 7/31/2008 5:35:12 PM A chipette off the old block--congrats!
6085. wonkers2 - 7/31/2008 8:54:24 PM The Cap'n sez, "Thanks. I taught her everything she knows!" 6086. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 8/4/2008 10:41:56 PM This is fun . . .
6087. jexster - 8/6/2008 3:47:45 PM Cool!
The NyT has an interactive Olympic calendar which allows you to drag and drop your favorite sports to the top of the list. Your time or ching chang chong time 6088. wabbit - 8/8/2008 12:19:52 AM Whoa, Ronaldo!
Wired also has some links for watching the Olympics online, for those so inclined.
My apologies for my continued absence, when it rains it pours. I do check in (as you all have no doubt surmised), but will be largely absent for a while longer.
Before I go, let me say one thing for the benefit of the also largely absent Banks - boo hoo about Manny going to LA, it's about damn time. I know of exactly one person who wishes he was still in Boston, but only one. He is welcome to be Manny on the left coast. They'll learn.
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