Pirate1974

Is Mark Cuban still blaming the refs?

Happy Birthday, Excathie

Have a great day!!!

How 'bout them Canes!!!

I think that "Secret Decoder Ring" belonged to Captain Midnight.

Obviously I'm not old enough to remember a 1930's radio show, but my dad told me about it. I think he might have even had one of those decoder rings.

I know what happens, but I didn't want to spoil it for anybody that doesn't.

Malkovich was good, but I don't think anybody can top the original film version of Lennie - Lon Chaney, Jr.

Bummer.

At least in hockey there are some actual shots at the goal.

The only World Cup game I've ever seen was the final some years back between Italy and somebody else - Brazil maybe? The two teams kicked the ball back and forth up and down the field the whole game and nobody scored. I don't think anybody even came close to scoring.

So after that thrilling 0-0 finish, four or five guys on each team lined up to take turns kicking the ball into the net. That excitement continued until some poor schmuck missed and the other team won the championship. Play until somebody wins for real, even if it takes all night. That's like deciding the NBA Finals with a free throw shooting contest.

Burt Reynolds

Deliverance

Angelina's Old Man

oops

The "biggest sporting event in the world" and games end in a 0-0 tie. No wonder the fans get into fights all the time. It's the only way to stay awake.

Marriage? There is no marriage and no plans for one either from what I hear.

You know it wasn't all that long ago that Ingrid Bergman's career was almost ruined because she was fooling around with her director while she was married. Now that sort of thing is celebrated on the front page of the newspaper and the cover of magazines.

I'm probably an old fogey but I don't think that's exactly a change for the better.

"Exclusive rights" to pictures is basically a joke these days.

The photos were being posted to the internet almost before the bidding war was over. Of course, nobody knows how they got there.

Ridiculous.

Officially, it's the Queensboro Bridge, but I guess that doesn't sound quite as "groovy."

I wonder if there'll be a corner room at the Raleigh Y available during the Finals. Might just have to check in.

4-2 Hurricanes

Just 4 more wins and the Cup comes to Carolina.

Bring on Edmonton.

When I first saw this, I though it was a joke. It almost looks like something you'd see in "The Onion."

SIDNEY, Neb. - A judge said a 5-foot-1 man convicted of sexually assaulting a child was too small to survive in prison, and gave him 10 years of probation instead.

His crimes deserved a long sentence, District Judge Kristine Cecava said, but she worried that Richard W. Thompson, 50, would be especially imperiled by prison dangers.

"You are a sex offender, and you did it to a child," she said.

But, she said, "That doesn't make you a hunter. You do not fit in that category."

Thompson will be electronically monitored the first four months of his probation, and he was told to never be alone with someone under age 18 or date or live with a woman whose children were under 18. Cecava also ordered Thompson to get rid of his pornography.

He faces 30 days of jail each year of his probation unless he follows its conditions closely.

"I want control of you until I know you have integrated change into your life," the judge told Thompson. "I truly hope that my bet on you being OK out in society is not misplaced."

Electronically monitored for four months and get rid of the porno. Gosh Judge Cecava, are you sure you're not being too hard on the guy?

I'm sure the parents of this child are relieved that Shorty won't be "imperiled by prison dangers."

Good grief.

Well, I watched this thing for the first time last night, at least the last 10 minutes of it.

I admit that I don't know much about music, but I was just wondering

This is the guy that won it?

What were the rest of them like? I don't get it.

Bob Dylan turned 65 today.

Impossible.

Wasn't it just a few years ago that my dad was telling me to turn down "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" because he didn't like the line "everybody must get stoned?"

No, wait a minute. That was 1966.

Yikes.

There won't be any Game 7. Hurricanes take the series, 4-1.

Bring on Buffalo.

And Otis wants to lock himself up in the penalty box.

Do you think the "brains" behind this show will ever let a straight white guy win?

Excathie,

That would be 3-0 Hurricanes now.

Lord Stanley's cup in Carolina? Could be.

Carlos Oliveras is a 25-year old airman in the U.S. Air Force, stationed at McGuire Air Force Base in Fort Dix, NJ. Yesterday, he went to a baseball game in Philadelphia between the Phillies and the San Francisco Giants to see if he could witness history being made.

And he did.

Barry "I never knowingly took steroids" Bonds hit the 713th home run of his career and Airman Oliveras came up with the ball.

After the game, Oliveras had his picture taken with Bonds and asked him to sign the ball. Barry being the all around nice guy that he always is, refused. I guess I can see his side. Why do something for free that you can do and get paid for it?

However, Barry did ask Oliveras to sign something for him - a release so that he could appear on Barry's lamer-than-lame "reality" show "Bonds on Bonds." Reality is, of course, very subjective in this case and is basically whatever Barry says it is.

If I had been Carlos Oliveras, I think I would have had to tell Mr. Bonds to stuff his release up his steroid-enhanced a$$.

The kid cleans up pretty good.

Fortunately, he takes after his mother.