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Tampa just blew a big lead. Jose Bautista just hit his second HR off Benoit to tie the game at 8.

One thing makes me doubt this. Manny is notoriously cheap. If he made the Hall, he'd be likely to try to sell the plaque on Ebay.

My wife got hit by a drunk driver who totalled our SUV at 60 mph. He was traveling from her right in the intersection at highway speed. He blew through a red light. She never saw him coming. He hit her on the right front bumper spinning her completely around and deploying all the airbags. She was very lucky that he didn't hit any further back on the vehicle. If he had hit at wheel depth or further back, her car may not have spun out and it would have absorbed even more of a devastating impact. As it was, the car was demolished. When I called the insurance company, he said that it was unlikely that the car was totalled, because it was only 1 month old with 2k miles. He said that he would have to write more than 20k in damages. I told him that I was pretty sure it was totalled, because the entire car was bent up and crushed. As soon as he got to the salvage yard, he called me to tell me that it was a total loss. Anyway, the dirtbag that hit her had been pinballing down the street before he entered the intersection in his stupor. He never slowed up. My wife never saw him coming. There were no skid marks at the sight of the accident. It was a full speed collision. If the point of contact had not been so small, the accident certainly would have been fatal. The dirtbag would not have stopped after the accident except for the fact that after contact he caromed off course and ran directly into the local fire department's brick supported sign. He knocked down one column of the brick supports. The good news was that the fireman were on the scene immediately and cut my wife from the car and sent her to the hospital. When I got to the hospital, I heard the dirtbag being interviewed as he was on the other side of the curtain from my wife. He stated that he had been taking Xanax, Vicoden, Prozac, plus he had been drinking. At one point, he was whining that he didn't understand why he had been arrested. He didn't think he had done anything wrong. He was so out of it that he didn't even realize that he had caused an accident. I had to send my son outside, because I thought he was going to rip the guy's head off, and he was in police custody. Weeks later the DA called me and asked my wife to give a statement. The DA told me that the guy had prior offenses. He had a prior DUI and he had a prior conviction for leaving the scene of an accident. This guy was not going to clean up his act until he went to jail for homicide or he killed himself. We never found out what happened to the guy. The DA never called back, so I assume that it was plead out. Hopefully, an accident with a high profile athlete will get more attention and the DA will be forced to throw the book at this guy and get him off the street.

Oh, okay.

Is he an idiot? If Tom Brady and the other guy were drowning and you had one life preserver. You could only save one person. Who would you save? Let's assume that the other person is not a woman or a child, but just another guy who is the same age as Brady.

Example getting pissy with a Yankee fan. Lol! It's about time. If you interact with them long enough, you come to realize that they should never be treated with respect. I live with them. They are a loathsome group. Keep up the good work.

I don't know if any of the things that he proposed can be accomplished. I do agree that they need to do something bold to reassert themselves within the AL East. If they just rely on guys getting healthy, I think we will find ourselves in a similar situation next season.

I'm glad that I did not pick him in my draft last night. I heard that it was not a minor accident, but that he wallked away from it and he has already called the Patriots. It doesn't seem that he has any serious injury. On another note, does anyone think that this guy may be living just a bit too fast even for an NFL QB?

The Sox played to much station to station this season. There were to many games where they had a bunch of hits and very few runs. Speed pressures a defense and causes mistakes. Ellsbury maybe over-rated, but his speed is a very useful weapon. The key is that his value is at rock bottom. Thatks not when you sell an asset. I think he will be a Red Sox in 2011.

I really can't believe that members are researching and debating the minor league stats of some nobody. Here's the relevant fact about Navarro. We just need to take a poll as to what percentage of the die hard fans on this site will lose their lunch if the 2011 Red Sox break camp with Navarro as the starting SS. If I wanted to root for a team with that caliber of player, I'd root for the Long Island Ducks of the Independent League.

And that is why the Yanks are the best team in baseball and we are in a free-fall. In this scenario, we would be the Orioles.

If we go into the 2011 regular season with Lowrie, Navarro or Iglesias as the starting SS, I think I'll open a vein. Does that clarify my view?

Stinks!

With the track record of our crack medical staff, I fully expect that he will need off-season reconstructive shoulder surgery and never play another game for the Sox. http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/extra_bases/2010/09/scutaro_and_low.html

Even when you were at your Rivernator worse, you were pleasant compared to my cousin. He recently went to a BBQ and started in on a Met fan he had just met. After about 20 minutes, the Mets fan loudly announced "get this guy away from me before I punch him in the mouth." The guy can get under your skin. I've told him that I haven't punched him in the nose yet because my mother is still alive. May she live 100 years, but she is already 86. I'm staying in shape. His day will come.

Kid, welcome to the board. I love your enthusiasm, but when your team is getting kicked in the balls by its two rivals, it is better to cover up and be quiet. The 2010 season has been a bucket of suck. Let's be happy that football season is here on Thursday.

By the end of September all of baseball will know that most of our call ups are destined for the scrap heap. Manuel is a future Independent League pitcher.

and balls too