FB: Liberty League

[dlippiel]

How about the US Hockey team?

AMERICA - F YEAH!

insane! what a beat down...never have seen anything like it. goal after goal in the first few minutes...loved it when finlands goalie pulled himself and skated to the bench the usa responds by immediately ringing up 2 more on the back up!!

****ing beautiful!!!!

Oh say can you see by the dawns early light...

[Lyco80]

Plus K to the USA four-man bobsled team!

They pulled off four impressive runs down a very unforgiving track.

For perspective, remember the Dutch driver who left the games after crashing in a practice run.

A 62 drought is ended - I don't care what sport you are competing in, that in itself is extremely noteworthy.

Now - let's hope the USA can get the gold in hockey today, set a new Olympic record for total medals in the best fashion.

ATB

[JT]

Plus K to the USA four-man bobsled team!

They pulled off four impressive runs down a very unforgiving track.

For perspective, remember the Dutch driver who left the games after crashing in a practice run.

A 62 drought is ended - I don't care what sport you are competing in, that in itself is extremely noteworthy.

Now - let's hope the USA can get the gold in hockey today, set a new Olympic record for total medals in the best fashion.

ATB

Steinbrenner's meddling in '88 has USA medaling in '10

-snip The strides were slow at first: 11 medals in 1992 at Albertville, France; 13 apiece in Lillehammer in '94 and Nagano in '98 to an all-time high of 34 in Salt Lake City in 2002.

This year they currently lead all countries with 36 medals.  7 medals ahead of second place Germany. Thanks, George.

[mattvsmith]

Steinbrenner's meddling in '88 has USA medaling in '10

-snip The strides were slow at first: 11 medals in 1992 at Albertville, France; 13 apiece in Lillehammer in '94 and Nagano in '98 to an all-time high of 34 in Salt Lake City in 2002.

This year they currently lead all countries with 36 medals.  7 medals ahead of second place Germany. Thanks, George.

Where is everybody crying foul, "Steinbrenner BOUGHT Olympic medals!!!" like they cry, "Steinbrenner bought the World Series!" ?

[HSCTiger74]

Steinbrenner's meddling in '88 has USA medaling in '10

-snip The strides were slow at first: 11 medals in 1992 at Albertville, France; 13 apiece in Lillehammer in '94 and Nagano in '98 to an all-time high of 34 in Salt Lake City in 2002.

This year they currently lead all countries with 36 medals.  7 medals ahead of second place Germany. Thanks, George.

Where is everybody crying foul, "Steinbrenner BOUGHT Olympic medals!!!" like they cry, "Steinbrenner bought the World Series!" ?

You won't find us. Unlike the Skankees, everybody LIKES the Olympic teams.

[mattvsmith]

Steinbrenner's meddling in '88 has USA medaling in '10

-snip The strides were slow at first: 11 medals in 1992 at Albertville, France; 13 apiece in Lillehammer in '94 and Nagano in '98 to an all-time high of 34 in Salt Lake City in 2002.

This year they currently lead all countries with 36 medals.  7 medals ahead of second place Germany. Thanks, George.

Where is everybody crying foul, "Steinbrenner BOUGHT Olympic medals!!!" like they cry, "Steinbrenner bought the World Series!" ?

You won't find us. Unlike the Skankees, everybody LIKES the Olympic teams.

So if you like the team it's OK to buy championships, but if you don't like the team, it's not?

The Rev bets that if Steinbrenner started using the Kevin James method of finding value players with statistical analysis rather than buying big names with raw dollars, there would be howls of execration and moral outrage at such dishonest business practices.

Of course, if the Rev were George Steinbrenner, he wouldn't care what anyone thinks because The Reverand Steinbrenner would be sleeping on piles of Benjamins and wiping with Abraham Lincoln's face.  The Rev would then donate those five dollar bills to the boys from RPI to bounce off of friendosauruses' foreheads.

[mattvsmith]

You won't find us. Unlike the Skankees, everybody LIKES the Olympic teams.

BTW, The Rev loves anti-Yankee venom.

The Rev is a lifelong fan of the Yankees but has never felt the need to talk trash about the Red Sox.

1.  The Rev doesn't own the Yankees so if they win or lose, it says nothing about the Rev and does not affect his quality of life.  The only time the Rev cares is if he buys a ticket.  Rev buys tickets to see them win.  If they lose, they didn't deliver what The Rev paid for.  The Rev is that cold blooded.

2. The Rev doesn't need to try to make other teams look bad to raise the Yankees' image because being the winningest sports franchise in history speaks for itself. i.e.  Yankees don't need to talk trash because they are already the best.

The only team The Rev gets emotional over is the Hobart Statesmen.  In that case, Rev goes positively apoplectic upon defeat, unless the other team is clearly better.  viz.,

Hobart loses to Union: Rev throws a temper tantrum. 
Hobart loses to Mt Union: Rev shrugs his shoulders.

The Rev's universe is really that simple.

[mattvsmith]

In a flurry of posts, The Rev reports that now that Domino's has opened a branch in The Rev's little town of Sacheon, South Korea, the local pizza place from which The Rev used to order pizza every weekend has vastly improved the quality of their pizza.  It's still not quite as good as Domino's, but for half the price, The Rev will accept the trade-off.  but this is the beauty of competition: it makes everyone better.  Well, if they don't become better, they die off, and then those that remain are better than ever.

P.S.  The Rev only considers Dominos to be good pizza while in Korea.  When in the USA, only local joints will do.

Franchise pizza is worthless crap.  It's science.

[Lyco80]

Just so you know where I stand and why on the NY Yankees - my father had a try out with them in the early 1950's when they were in the process of winning five world series championships in a row - service in Korea with the Marines (getting wounded, carrying a BAR and flamethrower) hurt his arm so he did not make it - but since that time we have been life-long fans.

Some observations:

Everyone tries to buy their championships - some just do it with less money.

America is a capitalist society - what do you boys say on here - oh yeah - taste it.

We function on the premise that the best should get well-compensated for what they do but since baseball is paying for last years results you never know for sure how things are going to work out in the future.  Sort of like mutual funds.

Additionally, no Yankees - no Tampa Bay Rays - Big Stein brought them into existence.

Yankees help payroll lots of small market teams - Kansas City, Pittsburgh, etc.

And, for all you history buffs, when Elston Howard was forced to stay in separate accommodations - the Yankees relocated - so the entire team could stay and eat in the same facility.  This story, remarkably, has not received much attention of late but showcases the team concept that contributes to Yankee success.

The Yankees are not God, nor are they perfection, but they are successful and strive for excellence.  Billy Martin used to say, ". . . we wanted to beat their brains out in the parking lot."  

I see nothing not to admire in those two attributes.

Go on and hate them if you must, but at least now you know the rest of the story.

27 World Series rings - now on to number 28!

ATB

[Jonny Utah]

In a flurry of posts, The Rev reports that now that Domino's has opened a branch in The Rev's little town of Sacheon, South Korea, the local pizza place from which The Rev used to order pizza every weekend has vastly improved the quality of their pizza.  It's still not quite as good as Domino's, but for half the price, The Rev will accept the trade-off.  but this is the beauty of competition: it makes everyone better.  Well, if they don't become better, they die off, and then those that remain are better than ever.

P.S.  The Rev only considers Dominos to be good pizza while in Korea.  When in the USA, only local joints will do.

Franchise pizza is worthless crap.  It's science.

I actually ordered Dominos the other night.  Its actually different now than it used to be, but Ive actually always been a fan of dominos pizza.  Sure, it's a little hard on the stomach after 8 slices, but it is tasty.

[SaintsFAN]

Yeah SF thinks they are (Dominos) one of the few companies that would look at what they were doing and change it because of feedback from customers.  Bravo to them.  Their pizza is much, much better in my eyes now. 

SF agrees with Rev... local joints are the best.  SF found a place that does sheet pizza (no thats not sh!t pizza, LD) like the kind you had served in cafeteria back in school. 

[PBR...]

dang talk about getting your A game on at the olympics! always heard it was basically a brothel and judging the numbers pbr says they are spot on...

The initial number was 100,000 condoms for the 7,000 athletes and officials (roughly 14 per person). Additional 8,500 were sent in when the initial shipment ran out. Several athletes stated basically they were all just having fun...so much for the theory of having sex before your race would make your legs weak...

[JT]

dang talk about getting your A game on at the olympics! always heard it was basically a brothel and judging the numbers pbr says they are spot on...

The initial number was 100,000 condoms for the 7,000 athletes and officials (roughly 14 per person). Additional 8,500 were sent in when the initial shipment ran out. Several athletes stated basically they were all just having fun...so much for the theory of having sex before your race would make your legs weak...

Its college without wasting time with commie professors.  All these fit young people, lots of down time, shacked up in one area... Its science.  The curling (shuffleboard on ice) crews probably got busy too.

[PBR...]

*** note to self...when crashing into telephone pole dont pee on downed power wires (especially when drunk...)

     Montesano, Wash. (AP) -- Authorities believe a Washington
man was killed by accidentally urinating on a downed power line
after a car crash.
     Grays Harbor County sheriff's Deputy Dave Pimentel
(PIM'-en-tel) said Monday 50-year-old Roy Messenger was not
seriously hurt after he collided with a power pole Friday and
called a relative to pull his car from a ditch.
     However, family members found Messenger electrocuted when
they arrived.
     Pimentel says Messenger apparently urinated into a roadside
ditch but didn't see the live wire. The urine stream likely
served as a conductor, allowing the electricity to reach his
body.
     Pimentel says there will be an autopsy but burn marks
indicated the way the electricity traveled through Messenger's
body.

[Gray Fox]

*** note to self...when crashing into telephone pole dont pee on downed power wires (especially when drunk...)

     Montesano, Wash. (AP) -- Authorities believe a Washington
man was killed by accidentally urinating on a downed power line
after a car crash.
     Grays Harbor County sheriff's Deputy Dave Pimentel
(PIM'-en-tel) said Monday 50-year-old Roy Messenger was not
seriously hurt after he collided with a power pole Friday and
called a relative to pull his car from a ditch.
     However, family members found Messenger electrocuted when
they arrived.
     Pimentel says Messenger apparently urinated into a roadside
ditch but didn't see the live wire. The urine stream likely
served as a conductor, allowing the electricity to reach his
body.
     Pimentel says there will be an autopsy but burn marks
indicated the way the electricity traveled through Messenger's
body.

OUCH!