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Paps just gets bored and likes to make it interesting for himself. *rolleyes* Another notch in redsox belt...yay. Overlord2 time. Smash, kill, destroy! Have a nice weekend talksoxers.

Do Californian's sound funny to East Coast people?

Darn, no spanking. But good job.

Don't blow it, Oki, or I'll spank you with my Furminator. It would hurt, believe me.

I thought it was funny. :/

LOL, I'm stealing that one.

C'mon Youk...show us your stuff again.

Nah...the rest of him works for me, too.

At least Lugo's good for a sacrifice bunt to advance Green.

Greenie's hairy bullet of an arm turns me on.

It's Friday...people out on dates? heh My new monitor's high resolution is making game+multibrowser window tasking less do-able on my old pc and hubby's using the game pc/big tv for Overlord 2, which I bought today. Twas nice to see Papi's HR and our 2 run lead.

Did Pedroia and Drew shave their heads for some charity? Or just because it's 90 degrees.. And I agree it may be a low-score game.

I hate one word answers since it's not always easy to tell what you're saying no to...that said, I still say yes, but it's based on the idea that I actually know how Free Agency etc. works in baseball now. I may have it wrong, so feel free to correct me if that's so, and perhaps I'll change my mind then. My understanding is once you're a FA, the player/agent is looking for the highest(or best terms) bidder via being given offers and accepting/rejecting those offers. Boston wants Bay, they offer him a price, he says "I want more" and eventually others can bid, right? So then Yankees offer more, and if Boston can top it, Bay gets to pick which one? Salaries at that point are determined by what teams will pay. Any time you have such an arrangement, player greed plays a major role in rising salaries, as well as, obviously, the team/cooperate ability to afford the greed. When the economy is decent, they rise and rise as (at least some) teams can afford to bid high to snag who they want. If that's the case, then if a bid Bay accepts/courts is a new high price, it increases the average player salary of his caliber and thus the next player desires bids closer to "what Bay got" and so on. By Bay deciding that, say, 80 million sounds better than 60 million, he starts or continues the chain reaction, which doesn't cease unless the economy goes in the shitter for a long period of time. Thus, it is/can be one or several players each year that get higher offers that lead to even higher average salaries the next year. Since Free Agency/arbitration 30-40 years ago(?), average salaries have skyrocketed by what...5 or 6 thousand percent?...it's not entirely because of the player stuff, of course...but it is a large part. True, but the fact remains that once a standard for an "A" caliber actor is set/rises, it tends to remain high...so whoever is the 'next big thing' gets the huge/ever rising salary while the no-longer A-list salaries drop. It doesn't matter who the actor is...the ones the studios want will command the high price tag, the price for A-list actors never really decreases. I'm not, btw, saying the system has to change, since I'm not sure there's any better way. But it is...stupid. imo.

Well that was an interesting game. Nice to see Jon have a good closing inning.

There's just no good way to give Papelbon a different nickname than Pap or Paps, and I don't like either of those much. Makes me think of...doctors. 2 outs, that's all we need... 1 out...phew, Ells to the rescue.

Everyone's changing their avatar lately.

Thanks for the strikeout, we needed that.

#10 is another fine example of ballplayer who likes his ice cream and beer a wee bit too much. Jog a little more for those millions.

1 more strike. C'mon.

The Nationofnuts are gaining. I don't like it. Stop the bleeding please.

There is that point, and it's valid. But there's always one guy (or a few) who starts the ball really rolling fast, then everyone has to get in on it. Like I remember how Jim Carrey was the 20million dollar actor one year and suddenly EVERYONE had to have at least that or more. Now movies are so expensive partly because of outrageous salary demands from actors. Same thing in sports...

Lugnut at least has amusement value. If someone would play him constantly, he might improve some more...I just don't want it to be us that let's him do it. ;P

Auto-logged off again. Har. I like it when the game is a little boring...as long as it's in that "we're kicking butt" kind of way.

Isn't it fun to have the Big Papi back? I love that man.

Thanks, Dusty...nice to know you're listening.