Strawman

Conspiracy theory nothing, my ex-roomemate's mom works for a drug rep company and they do stuff like all the time with drugs that don't need extensive testing for a diagnosis. Whoever invented (or I guess I should say, whoever owns the inventor of) ritalin was very pleased.

Yeah, I agree with you. I have actually met a person with actual ADD and he treats it like any other clinical disorder: with medication and self-determination. But as far as I know, he could be the only actual case out of the millions diagnosed. Alternately, it might be that it was just a little something doctors found imbalance wise and since nobody blows things out of proportion better than the American media, suddenly we have Tom Brokaw, like a concerned but not-wishing-to-be-overbearing grandparent, drawling out, "Are your children overactive and seem to have no concentration? Then it's probably ADD."

Well, I'm glad to see that she was already vindicated. I went to school in upstate NY and routinely turned my radio on and my TV sound off. I would comment to my Yankee friends that I was amazed how big of a difference in quality there was between the TV broadcast and the radio, and expressed my wish that there was any quality differential like that for the Sox.

Isn't that what everyone was saying last year? What was their record again? Anyway, I think Pudge is going to have a bigtime rebound year.

So does this mean we're tied for first? WORLD SERIES HERE WE COME!!!!

I considered that trade fairly brilliant even at the time. Also because OC hit a home run his first Red Sox AB

Well, it's important to note that while a vast vast number of people have been diagnosed with ADD, a very small number of them actually have it. I know that it's kind of a joke syndrome because kids who misbehave and have parents that are too dumb or lazy to do anything about it get diagnosed, but there actually is a condition like this. The percentage of people that have it out of the people who are diagnosed with it may be incredbily small, but still.

ESPN has been wildly changing the article throughout the morning. An older version painted the comments in this derogatory and mildly racist light. It would be better to just read the source material for the article, ultimately.

So you're saying the norm for all Asian people is to work in drycleaning?

What? What do you mean...? Oh. Oh! I get it now! Hahaha, you are a funny person, you.

Oh man, I so want to see this guy play in Portland! Though Hansen, Murphy and Concepcion are going to start here, with Hanley, Papelbon, DelCarmen, Lester,and Pedroia gone on to bigger and better, we need some excitement.

The real sad question is: is he gonna get into the HOF at this point? What kind of major resurgence is he going to have to have to accomplish that? I remember ca. 03 he seemed like a shoe-in. I have mixed feelings about all this: Nomar for a long time was my favorite player and was a major reason why I got back into baseball and sports in general. Now he's Ken Grifey, Jr. II - The Whiney Sequel/Harbor Hero.

Yeah, later. But I thought he started last year on the DL too...

O man, I was watching the game at the time and just DIED. The after game interview was classic. Barry was all like, "I'm not going to say anything, that's for you media people to say." He looked like someone just stole his lunch.

Isn't this the identical way (same injury, same method of injury) that he started last year?