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I went with Queen, but I'm really surprised Rage didn't put up more of a fight.

Hawk Harrelson is obnoxious.

So I don't sound like a complete whiner, these seeds look dead on to me.

Can I just vote for Tom Petty? I don't want either of these advancing.

Yeah, so maybe Mothers of Invention shouldn't have made the tourney.

Wow. I expected CCR to be about a 5. This is Vermont/Syracuse bad.

Come on man, I've had a rough night and I hate the [expletive] EAGLES MAN

It's hard to over-rate when you have the most yardage from scrimmage by a RB, most rushing yards, and most rushing TD's. Saying Smith is over-rated would be the same as saying Hank Aaron is over-rated. You can do it, but it's pretty ridiculous. Hank Aaron is overrated. He had incredible longevity and consistency, but he never had ridiculous years like Babe Ruth, Barry Bonds, etc. had. I don't think he ever had more than ~45 homers in a season, not saying thats not great, but he isn't the best home run hitter of all time. Just for some comparison, Aaron had 40 more homers than Babe Ruth in 4,000 more at bats. BTW, just to add to the discussion, Payton is the best, end of discussion. C'mon, Emmitt Smith isn't better, don't be ridiculous. And by what metric do you support this? I'm not being ridiculous. Smith: #1 Rushing TD's. Smith: #1 Rushing yards. Smith: #1 Yards from scrimmage by a RB. Smith: #1 TD's by a RB. He was the most productive RB in the history of the NFL. Sure that was due to longevitiy which should be a credit to him. Look at the average career of an NFL running back. The fact that Smith showed the toughness to stick it out and be productive through all those seasons is a testament to his greatness. The same could be said about Aaron in baseball. He was remarkably consistent in hitting HR's. Whether or not he is the greatest HR hitter, I'm not sure, but he certainly isn't overrated. So if someone rated Aaron as the greatest HR hitter, what would he be?[/b]

Phish sucks.

I thought there was a possibility there'd be no votes for Slayer. I'm pretty shocked.

Too late.

Sabbath for 3!!! YES!! Listening to my dedicated guitar friend rant about the standard Santana solo is great entertainment.

If we were ranking the best chicken wings you'd care.

They should trade for someone who can throw a slider low and away on an 0-2 count.

But where would he play?? And Liriano would have to be as bad as Rusch over his next 20 innings to just EQUAL Contreras's numbers in the first half. (Not saying Contreras shouldn't be an all start, just that Liriano definitely should as well. And wasn't addressing that last part to you RSF, just quoted you to put in the Hawk-ism.

Smith #1? Ha! Ha I say.

I'm just gonna throw this out there. I HATE The Beastie Boys.

The irony is Stone wasn't as critical when it was a team 30 games under 500. He only became Steve Stone, defender of all truth and justice once he had beefs with the players. Stone was always the way he is now. This is absolute revisionist history. He was never the way he was in '04 back in '99 and '00 with truly terrible teams. Revisionist history? No. I would go so far to agree that Stone had never had such an adversarial relationship as he had with the '04 team, but to levee the fault of that situation on Stone is shortsighted. Recall the immaturity and unprofessionalism of Alou and Mercker alone. However, his criticism of poor play and bad baseball (which is the topic here) has been consistent going back the 80s. Making a claim of revisionist history is just misplaced. Oh, I'm not placing blame for the '04 feud solely on Stone, I thought it was unprofessional all around, and the way the organization handled it was a joke. I just don't recall Stone being nearly as crtiical of teams that were far worse.

The irony is Stone wasn't as critical when it was a team 30 games under 500. He only became Steve Stone, defender of all truth and justice once he had beefs with the players. Stone was always the way he is now. This is absolute revisionist history. He was never the way he was in '04 back in '99 and '00 with truly terrible teams.

Proof once again that fans shouldn't have anything to do with voting. Liriano and Hafner not being on the team is just criminal.

The irony is Stone wasn't as critical when it was a team 30 games under 500. He only became Steve Stone, defender of all truth and justice once he had beefs with the players.

Steve Stone was never as critical as Brenly has been at times.

Unless it's Eddy (2 FGs) Curry against my alma mater.

The real question is if Barrett's dealt, does Blanco have to play every inning of every game? Obviously Soto can't.

Seeing the full quote makes this look a lot less accusatory.