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That Giancarlo Stanton injury sounded pretty gruesome. -- nm - budice Sep 12, 08:15 13
- Eh, that's nothin' -- nm - Aroldis Chapman Sep 12, 08:23
- yeah, he kinda half swung, so his face was wide open, and it hit him flush. - groiny Sep 12, 08:19
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    - yeah, and he was damn near in tears post game. -- nm - groiny Sep 12, 08:22 1
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  - Yeah, I heard he has facial fractures and dental damage. Terrible. -- nm - Krusty Sep 12, 08:21 1
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  - the greater concern is if he can come back from that mentally. - groiny Sep 12, 08:20 4
    - Step 1: extract the baseball form their skull. -- nm - Spawn Sep 12, 08:22
    - Good point. Not easy to stay in there after something like that. -- nm - Krusty Sep 12, 08:21 2
      - would be a shame, because he had boatloads of ability. - groiny Sep 12, 08:23 1
        
        Yup. I hope he recovers with no issues. -- nm - Krusty Sep 12, 08:28
So do we have any Thirty Seconds to Mars fans? - JD Sep 12, 08:13 5
- Didn't Pippy just see them? -- nm - Spawn Sep 12, 08:15 4
  - yes I did and I am a bit miffed at Leto for the exact reasons JD mentioned. If I pay $ 60 a ticket - SING THE DAMN SONGS - Epiphany Sep 12, 08:19 3
    - Yeah, I always see it as a crutch. And if you are using that many, you may have a problem. -- nm - Spawn Sep 12, 08:21 1
      - that's just it, the songs he does sing - they are great. the other band members are talented - its just him taking over and doing what HE wants - Epiphany Sep 12, 08:25
    - Agreed. Everybody wants to see the Britney show in Vegas but its all lip synch with her just gyrating on stage. -- nm - budice Sep 12, 08:20
Anyone hear anything about Chris Davis? -- nm - Krusty Sep 12, 08:11 9
- He forgot his room number after being out all night drinking -- nm - budice Sep 12, 08:19
- It has not been a good week for Baltimore sports. -- nm - David Sep 12, 08:17
- He got in a slap fight in an elevator? -- nm - Spawn Sep 12, 08:13 2
  - I think he threw bottles at someone in a NYC club last night. - Krusty Sep 12, 08:17 1
    - Effin' bad bottle service. -- nm - Spawn Sep 12, 08:18
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  - His .196 won't be missed.The 26 HRs might be missed. He's not having a good season, the drugs didn't do their job. -- nm - Krusty Sep 12, 08:15 2
    - Just shows even the top players still take enhancers when/where they can. -- nm - budice Sep 12, 08:18 1
      - Greenies have been taken for decades. Willie Mays has talked about taking them in the 50's and 60's. - Will Hunting Sep 12, 08:23
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Orioles 1B Chris Davis has been suspended 25 games after testing positive for an Amphetamine. -- nm - budice Sep 12, 08:09
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- That picture is disturbing. -- nm - Spawn Sep 12, 08:10
It is Friday Tri-fecta. 1. It's Friday. 2. It's Payday Friday and 3. It is Taco Truck Friday - amoxy Sep 12, 07:59 4
- Coolness..Don't get Kragled! -- nm - budice Sep 12, 08:04
- i will probably be eating a late dinner on a beach in san diego -- nm - Truman Sep 12, 08:04 2
  - Nice! - Krusty Sep 12, 08:05 1
    - Surf and Turf! -- nm - Spawn Sep 12, 08:06
15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of arson on a dogs homes. 60 dogs have died and 150 saved so far. -- (link) - LMS Sep 12, 07:57 4
- That's awful. :-( -- nm - Krusty Sep 12, 08:01
- dogs home = kennel/shelter for the uninitiated -- nm - budice Sep 12, 08:00
- I assume that is a shelter for strays and owner surrenders? - groiny Sep 12, 08:00 1
  - It's a charity run dog shelter -- nm - LMS Sep 12, 08:02
5th most read article on the BBC News website today - How to delete your US album. -- (link) - LMS Sep 12, 07:50 2
- rather U2! -- nm - LMS Sep 12, 07:53 1
  - Throw your iPhone in the trash? - Krusty Sep 12, 08:18
Harvest Jazz and Blues music coming in the window! -- nm - Beaker Sep 12, 07:47
So, 2pm, today, is the deadline for anyone to join or leave the mayoral race in Toronto. The news is reporting (aka making up) - Andie Sep 12, 07:38 14
- By the way, are you the Andrea H who just posted on the Toronto Sun's comments section? -- nm - Roger More Sep 12, 08:11 5
  - ha - no! what did the other me say? -- nm - Andie Sep 12, 08:16 3
    - (i only ever use "Andie" as an online name.) -- nm - Andie Sep 12, 08:16 2
      - "Ha ha, that's so funny" - Roger More Sep 12, 08:20 1
        
        oh, well, i would totally laugh at anything Joe Warmington related. -- nm - Andie Sep 12, 08:24
  - "So many swears" -- nm - prayformojo Sep 12, 08:11
- Is he still treating for a tumor ( I mean detoxing)? -- nm - Epiphany Sep 12, 07:48 1
  - yeah. they did a biopsy yssterday apparently. -- nm - Andie Sep 12, 07:54
- does he have to resign from Council to run? Cause that might be two birds with one stone if so -- nm - Beaker Sep 12, 07:45 1
  - Doug? I don't think so, and he wasn't already running for council, he was going to be done. -- nm - Andie Sep 12, 07:53
- This is amost exactly like replacing John Belushi with Jim Belushi. -- nm - Reagen Sep 12, 07:44 3
  - perfect analogy -- nm - zork Sep 12, 07:52
  - Replacing the good one with one that will not ever go away? -- nm - Spawn Sep 12, 07:46
  - yup -- nm - Beaker Sep 12, 07:45
If it's legit, which it apparently is, the picture in #2 may be one of my favorite sports photos ever -- (link) - prayformojo Sep 12, 07:36 5
- Manute Bol in a swimming pool is ridiculous. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 12, 07:41 4
  - He could hang off a 3 metre board and his knees might be in the water -- nm - zork Sep 12, 07:51
  - "He's what Slenderman sees lurking in the back of his family photos" -- nm - Reagen Sep 12, 07:43
  - There should be a standing one of him, like it was a kiddy pool. -- nm - Spawn Sep 12, 07:42 1
    - The horse photo is ridiculous. "Leg up?" "No thank you." *swings leg over* -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 12, 07:48
Look! Another teacher carrying a weapon in a school has accidentally shot herself. -- (link) - TWuG Sep 12, 07:34 3
- "A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator." -- nm - Beaker Sep 12, 07:39 2
  - "if teachers could carry guns, there would be no school shootings." -- nm - Andie Sep 12, 07:40 1
    - now, I don't know that anyone would say that. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 12, 07:44
so, sitting in a hotel trying to work before i leave to go to the airport is not a productive tRu. -- nm - Truman Sep 12, 07:34 3
- yeah, on the work vpn, so cant look at that (its all blocked anyways, even youtube) -- nm - Truman Sep 12, 07:51 1
  - i have appearantly forgotten how to respond to posts now. -- nm - Truman Sep 12, 07:52
- Turn off the porn. -- nm - Spawn Sep 12, 07:44
Nicole Kidman's father Tony dies in Singapore -- (link) - Beaker Sep 12, 07:34 2
- :( -- nm - Epiphany Sep 12, 07:34
- yeah, sounds like a very sad freak accident. :( -- nm - Andie Sep 12, 07:34
If we go back to 2002, there have been exactly 100 teams to start 0-2. Just nine have made the playoffs -- (link) - Beaker Sep 12, 07:30
The USS New York. A floating memorial to 9/11. -- (link) - TWuG Sep 12, 07:25 1
- Love that ship! -- nm - Krusty Sep 12, 07:36
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- What's the penalty for drinking? That's what people should get. -- nm - Krusty Sep 12, 08:04
- Krusty *is* coming! -- nm - David Sep 12, 07:28 1
  - *woof* -- nm - ceregon's dog Sep 12, 07:29
- but what if they find a video of him smoking weed? -- nm - Beaker Sep 12, 07:27 7
  - Did the blunt hit back? -- nm - Godell Sep 12, 07:32 4
    - the blunt started it -- nm - Epiphany Sep 12, 07:33 3
      - the blunt was asking for it -- nm - CQ Sep 12, 07:36 2
        
        It should not have been all rolled up like that. -- nm - Spawn Sep 12, 07:40 1
        
        Just a little spark can set it off and then watch out. - Krusty Sep 12, 07:53
  - 9 games -- nm - eag Sep 12, 07:31 1
    - And he has to write I will not smoke weed again 1000 times -- nm - eag Sep 12, 07:33
- I'm looking forward to seeing the justification on that, if it's accompanied with the marijuana threshold being raised. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 12, 07:24 2
  - Yarr, I don't know what I'm doin'. -- nm - Sea Captain Goodell Sep 12, 07:30
  - He still broke the rules in place at the time and because I said so. -- nm - Goodell Sep 12, 07:28
- Welker? -- nm - Spawn Sep 12, 07:21
Speaking of recipes -- (link) - ty97 Sep 12, 07:21 3
- sweet -- nm - prayformojo Sep 12, 07:26
- And here, have an Amazon link for Berymandering -- (link) - ty97 Sep 12, 07:23
- awesome! -- nm - Epiphany Sep 12, 07:23
Someone brought beignets to work. I've never had one, so I have to eat one, right? -- nm - Was Bar Was Sep 12, 07:13 10
- Meh (blasphemy, I know) -- nm - con_carne Sep 12, 08:16
- It's a doughut. Why wouldn't you eat it?! -- nm - Shaun Sep 12, 08:09 1
  - this is like calling the Hope Diamond a ' bauble" -- nm - Epiphany Sep 12, 08:20
- Final report: Delicious, still warm, not too large. A little jam and I might have had another. 9/10. -- nm - Was Bar Was Sep 12, 07:38
- Yes! It's always a yes -- nm - J Sep 12, 07:34
- Yes. If you have a lemon, dribble some lemon juice on a few bites. -- nm - JaxSean Sep 12, 07:25
- oh yeahhhhh -- nm - Epiphany Sep 12, 07:23
- you better eat 2 just in case -- nm - decline Sep 12, 07:14
- oh yeah -- nm - prayformojo Sep 12, 07:14
- I held out until I was in NoLa. -- nm - Spawn Sep 12, 07:14
Oldest item in my inbox: 2/18/2000 -- nm - prayformojo Sep 12, 07:11 2
- You are not going to get a better deal on Penis enlargement -- nm - amoxy Sep 12, 07:40
- DELETE THE EMAIL!!! -- nm - Spawn Sep 12, 07:11
Get your ish together: NJ F1 race not on the official calendar for 2015, making it the 3rd year in a row organizers couldn't get it done -- nm - MDH Sep 12, 07:09
5 Insane True Stories of Hostages Outsmarting Their Captors -- (link) - Beaker Sep 12, 07:00
Have we noted the brawl that the Palin family got into recently? - Brian Sep 12, 06:51 5
- I read this yesterday. I love idea of Palin running around and screaming, "Do you know who I am?" -- nm - David Sep 12, 07:27 3
  - I'd go with as straight a face as I could manage: "No, should I?" -- nm - Reagen Sep 12, 07:28
  - I love the comeback: “This isn’t some damned Hillbilly reality show!” -- nm - Beaker Sep 12, 07:28 1
    - priceless -- nm - Epiphany Sep 12, 07:34
- I read the headline and was happy that ST no longer felt the need to mention her. ::looks at you:: - Spawn Sep 12, 07:07
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- What type of moron reviewer criticizes the work because it was free? - David Sep 12, 07:30 1
  - YEAH -- nm - Facebook Users Sep 12, 07:35
- I'm sure someone likes it. Did everyone who has an iTunes account get it? -- nm - JaxSean Sep 12, 07:12 8
  - It's a mixed bag. A few good songs, more duds than usual. I don't think it meets the quality of most of their albums, but it's still not bad. -- nm - pmb Sep 12, 08:04
  - *shrug* I can't be bothered to check. I was whelmed by their last " free" song. Ironically - Epiphany Sep 12, 07:21 2
    - it sounds like old U2 to me -- (link) - Epiphany Sep 12, 07:24 [youtube] 1
      - Oooh. Embedded YouTube now? Nice, Bery -- nm - JaxSean Sep 12, 07:25
  - I'll have to listen to it first -- nm - Roger More Sep 12, 07:17 3
    - It is more of the same. Nothing outstanding, but good. -- nm - Spawn Sep 12, 07:18 2
      - Im not a huge U2 fan but like some of there stuff and the album is ok -- nm - eag Sep 12, 08:00 1
        
        And free works well. -- nm - Spawn Sep 12, 08:02
- "Nobody" makes that a dumb headline, though. -- nm - Spawn Sep 12, 07:11
- Next time they'll announce that they're spending $100 million to make sure a Nickelback album never sees the light of day. -- nm - Reagen Sep 12, 07:11
- .06% of their available cash. My lord. -- nm - volnelk Sep 12, 06:48
- They have to spend all that extra cash somehow! -- nm - ty97 Sep 12, 06:40
Pretty sure the screen size isn't the reason you loathe the Z10 :) -- nm - Shaun Sep 12, 06:39 1
- Larger screen = uncomfortable for me to type. And it's only the #3 reason. #1 is the awful battery life. #2 is the terrible browser. - Roger More Sep 12, 06:48
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- May some day those responsible be brought to justice - prayformojo Sep 12, 06:37 2
  - $5 fine! -- nm - Goodell Sep 12, 06:38 1
    - *pays $15 in Monopoly money* -- nm - Manti T'eo Sep 12, 06:42
- I had to check, he had 6 solo tackles with one for a loss Monday night. Not too shabby -- nm - Beaker Sep 12, 06:36 3
  - was there ever ... resolution? -- nm - peggy ann m Sep 12, 06:38 2
    - I mean, has the real story ever been published? -- nm - peggy ann m Sep 12, 06:38 1
      - Nothing totally definative, but it seems fairly certain that the friend was gay and in love with him - Reagen Sep 12, 07:07

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