FB: Liberty League

[mattvsmith]

LLPP Fact # 1934.5 Paragraph 8 reads:  The biggest misconception in wedding history is that your guests will want to spend their Memorial Day/Labor Day/4th of July weekend on vacation where you get married. 

If you aren't married, write that down.

Noted. 
The Rev remains unmarried, but is working on a good prospect right now.  If it goes any where, The Rev vows no 3-day weekend wedding.  The Rev was thinking about a ceremony at the Hobart chapel, with the Union or RPI game in lieu of the reception.

Damn.  Kids just came in the room.  Time to work.

[JT]

LLPP Fact # 1934.5 Paragraph 8 reads:  The biggest misconception in wedding history is that your guests will want to spend their Memorial Day/Labor Day/4th of July weekend on vacation where you get married. 

If you aren't married, write that down.

Noted. 
The Rev remains unmarried, but is working on a good prospect right now.  If it goes any where, The Rev vows no 3-day weekend wedding.  The Rev was thinking about a ceremony at the Hobart chapel, with the Union or RPI game in lieu of the reception.

Damn.  Kids just came in the room.  Time to work.

Elope to a place like Hawaii.  We got gifts from people that basically said, "Thank you for not dragging us to NJ over a holiday."  And these were un-solicited.  We haven't planned the after party yet. No announcements have been sent yet.  These people were just like thanks for not making us go.

[PBR...]

a very interesting read on title IX and whether men's athletic programs are now being discriminated against in the name of womens programs....pbr is in agreement w/ this articles reporter

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/05/AR2009080503089.html

[stimulator]

The Stim won't suggest he knows the details of the why, or even if Title IX was the culprit, but something is seriously wrong with the athletic financial landscape when both the University of New Hampshire and the University of Vermont drop baseball.

Pleeeaase... State funded schools can't have a baseball team?  Someone's priorities are out of whack.  I am sure the decisions weren't taken lightly by all parties involved but the convoluted formulas and mandated equal opportunity policies can't end up with baseball ("baseball Roy") being eliminated at schools with ~ 10K students.  It's a disgrace.

Give me a break.  I love college hockey and I know they bring in most of the revenue to these Hockey East schools but I wonder if they don't spend more on sticks for a season than it would cost for balls, bats and uniforms for the entire team. 

[dlippiel]

The Stim won't suggest he knows the details of the why, or even if Title IX was the culprit, but something is seriously wrong with the athletic financial landscape when both the University of New Hampshire and the University of Vermont drop baseball.

Pleeeaase... State funded schools can't have a baseball team?  Someone's priorities are out of whack.  I am sure the decisions weren't taken lightly by all parties involved but the convoluted formulas and mandated equal opportunity policies can't end up with baseball ("baseball Roy") being eliminated at schools with ~ 10K students.  It's a disgrace.

Give me a break.  I love college hockey and I know they bring in most of the revenue to these Hockey East schools but I wonder if they don't spend more on sticks for a season than it would cost for balls, bats and uniforms for the entire team.  

Are you ****ing kidding stim? When did UVM (dlippiel's alum) drop baseball? dlippiel remembers them being quite competitive on the diamond during his days. All that money dlippiel gave that school and they drop a sport like baseball? Wild. Well at least when a student called dlippiel the recently asking for a donation dlippiel politely told her that if UVM decided to pay off all of his remaing college loans he would be happy to give a small contribution on a monthly basis. Until then **** off! Now that they dropped baseball dlippiel will be even more annoyed with the next phone call.

[dlippiel]

a very interesting read on title IX and whether men's athletic programs are now being discriminated against in the name of womens programs....pbr is in agreement w/ this articles reporter

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/05/AR2009080503089.html

This just in: All LL schools have officially dropped mens football starting in the year 2010. A rumor has recently circulated that the womens coalition for bull**** has approcahed all LL schools with a petition for womens football. With football fields abandoned across the LL many college presidents, following title IX's path are deeply considering this new addition.

[stimulator]

UNH was a ways back maybe 6-8 yrs ago UVM made the call after this last season.  My son had a HS teammate who accepted a partial scholarship to UVM for baseball.  Played one year and was done.  He transfered to UMass Lowell. 


Here you go..d.http://caledonianrecord.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&subsectionID=2&articleID=44566

[stimulator]

Oh and dlippiel one last thing... I'm not a finance whiz and I understand that colleges and universities are under fiscal pressure but included in the ~$280M budget for UVM were $6M for salary increases but not ~$1.2M for baseball and softball.


Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come:

[pumkinattack]

a very interesting read on title IX and whether men's athletic programs are now being discriminated against in the name of womens programs....pbr is in agreement w/ this articles reporter

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/05/AR2009080503089.html

This just in: All LL schools have officially dropped mens football starting in the year 2010. A rumor has recently circulated that the womens coalition for bull**** has approcahed all LL schools with a petition for womens football. With football fields abandoned across the LL many college presidents, following title IX's path are deeply considering this new addition.

Vassar, Skidmore and RPI get my preseason votes for lady football.  Can we get Geena Davis and Madonna (damn she still holds up well at 65, or whatever age she is - she should be the Maude in a remake of Harold and Maude) for the movie (we'll leave Rosie O'Donnell out of this one). 

[HSCTiger74]

Just wanted to post a quick RIP for John Hughes. "Pretty in Pink" might have earned him -k on the boards, but "Uncle Buck" and "Trains, Planes and Automobiles" more than made up for it.

[mattvsmith]

Just wanted to post a quick RIP for John Hughes. "Pretty in Pink" might have earned him -k on the boards, but "Uncle Buck" and "Trains, Planes and Automobiles" more than made up for it.

For all the bad things people say about Wikipedia, there's no other source of information that is updated so quickly.  His entry on WP was updated probably within minutes of his announced death.

The only place you can get more timely and meaningful updates to world knowledge is the LLPP.

[pumkinattack]

Here's a story for those free marketeers out there to get fired up about:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aAoMEkN9lWGA

I actually like Breakfast Club.  It's a little harder to watch these days, but as a kid I remember it being pretty cool.  Never understand Molly Ringwald though. 

[Knightstalker]

Did DJ Conner grow up to be Joba Chamberlain?

['gro]

JT, Reg, JT, Reg, JT, Reg... FF signups, FF signups, FF signups, yup.

JT and Reg would make 15... how many teams should be in 16, 18, 20?

[PBR...]

JT, Reg, JT, Reg, JT, Reg... FF signups, FF signups, FF signups, yup.

JT and Reg would make 15... how many teams should be in 16, 18, 20?

come reg get in the game...u blew your stack last year when u missed your chance to sign up besides we all need a cupcake on our LLPPSCFJFFL schedules