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I realize this may be a bit harsh, but it is really annoying when people just drop by when it is not an emergency. People who I don’t really know. At all. You should always call before you come by. If you get the answering machine – guess what? Don’t come.
I rarely meet anyone who thinks along the same wavelength as I do on this… but I consider it to be proper manners, if nothing else.
Congratulations Tammy! ;)
Man, what a great pair of games. 14 runs in 6 innings of Pedro (8 in 5) and Lowe (6 in 1). Moose holds his own vs. Pedro. Leiber pitched great as well. Nice job, guys.
Jeter’s batting average is at .290! Awesome.
Read great pieces by Larry Mahnken and John Donovan of SI.com.
Derek Jeter’s Career Number of Postseason Games Played
Minus
The Red Sox Franchise Postseason Games Played from 1904 – 2003
Equals
1
99 – 98 = 1
:)
Well, here we are… same as Friday… the Yankees/Red Sox nationally televised ESPN game that I was looking forward to is blacked out. It stinks. I didn’t even know that ESPN games could be blacked out, but apparently they can and it has been a reality as I try to watch my first baseball games in my new residence of West Springfield, Mass.
So, I’m relegated to MLB.com Gameday – which, if not for me expecting to watch it on TV, is really pretty good – for the moment.
Langer rubs salt in Sutton’s wounds.
“I figured that Hal would front load, which he did and I tried to counteract that by putting my guys where I felt was best for the team and I think the matchup is very good.
“I’m not scared. I’m pretty sure and convinced that out of the first three matches I’d be very surprised if we don’t get two points,” said Langer.
I don’t mind that he said it, I mean, I wouldn’t be opening my mouth just yet, but this is athletics, afterall, people do talk – the way the article is written kind of gets me, though. What he says is “confidence”. If we said that, it would be “just another case of American arrogance”. Bah.
It is written by someone from the AFP, which is headquartered in Paris. I’m not going to speculate, as I am not familar with them – it could just be a coincidence.
By the way, at this very moment, there are 5 matches in play – 2 are all square and 3 are 1 up in favor of the Americans, including 2 out of 3 of those early big 3 matches. It would have to be an amazing comeback – a completely dominated Sunday – for us to win. Let’s go guys.
I was invited to participate in a roundtable of other sports bloggers, webmasters, etc. at MLB Center.
You can keep tabs on it here.
I have been thinking about this entry for awhile. I was reminded of it by a related entry by Chris.
I run some successful Internet communities. I have been doing this for years now and I think I am pretty good at it. It’s all about making fair decisions, standing your ground and dealing with people.
I have to ban users. Sometimes. I give people a chance – usually, many of them. It all depends on the severity of the violation. All of my communities have User Guidelines. When someone violates these, we warn them. If they do it again, we warn them. Maybe several more times, if the violations are not terribly offensive or spread out over a span of time.
It is not uncommon for someone to be banned after disagreeing with a policy of mine. This is where The Grand Delusion comes in. The people who get banned under these circumstances are the people who don’t know how to handle themselves, how to speak respectfully and not get personal. They disagree with my policy, but they take it to another level – they get personally nasty, disrespectful and they are out of line.
If they do it enough and they go far enough out of line – they are banned. When they get banned, most of them have a similar thought process. “Patrick banned me because I disagreed with him” or “Patrick wanted to silence my disagreement”.
This is so far from the truth. I don’t care if people disagree with me. That has nothing to do with it. If you are nasty and disrespectful without regard to our User Guidelines, staff or users – you will be banned. If you are nasty and disrespectful without regard to our User Guidelines, staff or users AND you disagree with me – you will be banned. I don’t distinguish. It is not if you disagree, it is how you disagree.
If someone believes that I banned them because they disagreed with me, they are deluded – this is The Grand Delusion.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! This is nuts! I am gonna have so much extra time to work on things when I get settled in.
I will close with… let’s go Yankees.
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