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Yes he should...but to go one step further...that game should have been called.

No smarty pants. He said all the right things.

Yawn.

Sure you are...

I am none too pleased with Wagner at this point but I'm not in favor of running him out of town yet.

You are the best thing that's ever happened.

mudziw...

It's not. Some businesses are just real picky.

Hamstring - 15-day DL. Out until at least mid-May

Philly or even the Skins. My 10 -6 prediction is high hopes too. I'm thinking maybe 9-7. I am a pessimist for no other reason than I have no where to go but up. Think the worst and if the best happens it's all good. Think the best and if the worse happens it sucks times 10.

Tough division is how I see it. The WC will come out of the North.

1. Regular season record...10 - 6 2. How far do we go this season? Miss playoffs, same as last year, nfc championship etc..?? Miss the play offs 3. Who will lead the team in TD's? Shockey 4. Who will lead the team in tackles? Arrington 5. Who will lead the team in interceptions? Wilson 6. Who will lead the team in sacks? Osi

Mary Mary Quite Contrary: origin Nursery Rhyme Origins & History The origins are steeped in history... Bloody Mary! The Mary alluded to in this traditional English nursery rhyme is reputed to be Mary Tudor, or Bloody Mary, who was the daughter of King Henry VIII. Queen Mary was a staunch Catholic and the garden referred to is an allusion to graveyards which were increasing in size with those who dared to continue to adhere to the Protestant faith - Protestant martyrs. Instruments of Torture! The silver bells and cockle shells referred to in the Nursery Rhyme were colloquialisms for instruments of torture. The 'silver bells' were thumbscrews which crushed of the thumb between two hard surfaces by the tightening a screw. The 'cockleshells' were believed to be instruments of torture which were attached to the genitals! The " Maids" or Maiden was the original guillotine! The 'maids' were a device to behead people called the Maiden. Beheading a victim was fraught with problems. It could take up to 11 blows to actually sever the head, the victim often resisted and had to be chased around the scaffold. Margaret Pole (1473 - 1541), Countess of Salisbury did not go willingly to her death and had to be chased and hacked at by the Executioner. These problems led to the invention of a mechanical instrument (now known as the guillotine) called the Maiden - shortened to Maids in the Mary Mary Nursery Rhyme. The Maiden had long been in use in England before Lord Morton, regent of Scotland during the minority of James VI, had a copy constructed from the Maiden which had been used in Halifax in Yorkshire. Ironically, Lord Morton fell from favour and was the first to experience the Maiden in Scotland! Executions! Another form of execution during Mary's reign was being burnt at the stake - a terrible punishment much used during the Spanish Inquisition. The English hated the Spanish and dreaded the idea of an English Inquisition. The executions during the reign of Bloody Mary were therefore viewed with a greater fear of the Spanish than the executions themselves - it is interesting to note that executions during her reign totalled less than 300 an insignificant amount compared to the executions ordered by her father King Henry VIII which are believed to have numbered tens of thousands! Click the link for another Rhyme which features 'Bloody Mary': Three Blind Mice rhyme

The wife in the rhyme may refer to Mary I, daughter of King Henry VIII of England, sometimes referred to as "Bloody Mary." She is called a "farmer's wife" because of the large estates owned by her and her husband, King Philip II of Spain. The mice in the rhyme may refer to Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley, and Thomas Cranmer, three Protestant noblemen convicted of plotting against the Queen. They were subsequently burned at the stake.

I'd take Moe, Larry and Shemp/Curley (and even Curley Joe) over you and your band of merry men any day.

Don't concern yourself with me. Ever.

Give up. All they want to do is piss you off.

Pitching tonight...

Link April 28, 2006 -- NOBODY likes an I-told-you-so, but . . . I told you so! Right here, April 19, 2002: "In his growing gig as a Mets' TV announcer, Keith Hernandez has a chance to be good. Very good. Good enough, even, to get fired." We went on to explain that Hernandez is blessed by a curse and cursed by a blessing. Beyond the fact that he's not a trained broadcaster, he's not particularly discreet. If something bothers him, we'll know it. Even before he completes a sentence, we'll know it just by his tone. He's a see it/say it type, which, we figured then - and now - is a style that generally will better serve viewers than it will Hernandez. Hernandez, in that April 2002 column: "I've always been an emotional person. I'm not the kind to engage in calm debates. So I do sound annoyed, a little cranky. I definitely have to work on that; I have to watch my tone." Funny, several days before the tempest this week over his remarks about a female in the Padres' dugout, Hernandez worked the first six games of this season. Then vanished from SNY for a week. Ron Darling moved in. Naturally, a rumor spread that Hernandez was suspended, that during his last telecast he'd "said something." SNY denied the rumor, laughed at it. The schedule called for Hernandez to be off, that's all. And yet, with Hernandez, ya' never know. It seems just a matter of time. Who knows? Maybe it was a practice suspension. So Saturday in San Diego, Hernandez saw something that startled him - a woman in uniform seated in the Padres' dugout during the game. It was startling, and we're glad Hernandez pointed it out and SNY focused on her. But it did more than merely startle Hernandez; it appalled him. And he said so. But which way do we want it? Do we want him to see something that appalls him and not say it? Of course, Hernandez's rush to judgment, his tone and his chosen words put him in the Caveman Hall of Fame, La Brea, Calif. Instead of referring to the female as a woman, he called her "a girl" (in a hair dye for men commercial, Hernandez refers to a woman as - ugh - "a hottie"). And before he could ascertain whether the woman had a legit reason to be in the dugout - she's a member of the Padres' training staff - he determined that she did not. And then his apology, Sunday, sounded defiant. It was one of those "sorry if I offended anyone" apologies, rather than, "I'm sorry for offending." He tried to represent that Kelly Calabrese didn't belong in the dugout, in uniform, because she had no immediate on-field official business. But his original gripe was with a woman being in the dugout. Such is Keith Hernandez. He's arrogant, vain, condescending, impolitic, opinionated, judgmental, profane, sarcastic, obnoxious and scornful. And because of it, rather than in spite of it, he's among the best pure baseball analysts we've ever heard or ever hoped to hear. I suppose that our advice to Hernandez would be to better choose his spots, better pick his fights. But if that means pulling his punches or ignoring something that bothers him, we don't want that, either. So SNY should, before the start of every season, simply announce: "Keith Hernandez will be suspended. He will be reprimanded and he will issue an on-air apology. We have made it clear to Keith that we in no way condone whatever it is that he will say or do. And Keith has made it clear to us that he will not say or do it again. For a while. "We consider this open-ended matter closed."

Fixed.

What is "taught" and what is learned are 2 completely different things.

Bump...... and grind...

Hello Mets Mod?

C'mon...No matter what happened you fools would be in disagreement over it. Stale as yesterdays bread.