jonnyjonnyh

hmmm i just remembered..........can you believe they wouldn't let us into liquor mart?..........was that my fault?

had fun hangin' with you all!

mmmmmmm dot's...

I eat there so much I might have lobbied for the village coffee shop, though...

sounds like it was fun! however, my date went fantastic, and I can't be sorry I missed anything.

Thanks for the compliments on the "propagandagate" article.

hey, welcome to The sexual awareness.
I hope to see many contributions.
this is not a group that want to talk about screwing eachother
and it is not to only be used for hook ups. you are to respect
each member. and remember the educational value of the group. I am glad to share my community with you

Capp Mighty

your gf's parents rule.

ick, I'm sorry, I'm becoming of the opinion if I dont apply, I can't get rejected

sent out 10 resumes, got one form letter back, bastards....

thanks for telling me that

Every time I drive past the WWE building in Stamford I'll think of you

Actually reading your journal filled in a lot of the blanks in my head....

you rule, I love Calvin and Hobbes, good stuff.....

My yearbook quote back in HS was " Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us"

All hail Bill Watterson

congrats....mulder should be a fine addition.........where do you work??

Merry christmas -- hope you get a good season from Ankiel this year! Wonder how he will deal with Shea -- that will be the big test, IMO. I hope we give him a standing O -- something tells me we will, and be wsupportive until the second batter, and then hate him, which I think he will be appreciative of.

Delgado rumored to have pulled out of signing with Baltimore after Pedro announced, saying he was very impressed with Minaya and Randolph. This interests me. One thing I wrote on NYfansties.com was that Pedro enhances the team and Minaya's credibility and makes more moves likely -- I mean we couldn't even say the word "Beltran" without people giggling last week, now it's still totally unlikely that we get him, but people can't dismiss the idea we go hard after him, and that he doesn't just go "The Mets, yeah right."

If Omar makes us good short term without trading Reyes or Wright and any high prospects or blocking them with ludicrous deals, I'll just be so fucking pumped for the first time since we took 21 out of 24 to gain 9 games on the Braves to move within 3 back in the games surrounding 9/11 (of course Blownitez ended that hope by coughing up a lead at Turner Field -- the worst of all seeing as how we were riding the emotion of a game we won two weeks earlier on the eighth inning blast by Piazza against the Braves in the first game in NY by any team after 9/11) I was at the game , the Friday 10 days after 9/11. I don't think any Met or Braves fan didn't hug or cry after Piazza hit that dinger. I think we all were proud to be part of 45,000 people who gave the finger to terrorism and packed ourselves into a totally easy target for anyone who wanted to take us out, and we were proud as hell of both teams for going out and playing like it was a pennant race -- best moment in Mets history, for my money -- anyway, I digress, but it was Piazza's best moment, and I am glad it was him. Braves fans, and problaby the Braves were never so ahppy to see a ball leave the aprk..

Anyway, Omar was just on Mike and the Mad Dog (our local big kahunas of talk radio, this was their 15h aniversary show) and I watched the simulcast on Al Yankazeera, and dude, compared to how Duquette stammered throught the post-Kazmir interviews, I totally was like Jerry Stiller in Zoolander going "now that's what I am talking about".

He talked about 1986 and how every Met fan should look to that and remember that NY is at its heart an NL town, and is all about winning and that we're going to do our best over the next few years to give reasons to be proud to be Mets fans again.

I really just like having a badass man from Queens and the king of the DR as GM -- we are going to rule the signing of non-drafted DR FAs thanks to Omar and Pedro.

BTW, please sign Orlando Cabrera -- Omar loves him from MTL, and he is the only player I could see my boy Reyes getting traded to make room for.

Dan Patrick just said the trade is imminent. A combo of these players Dan Haren, Jason Marquis, Kiko Calero, Rick Ankiel and Daric Barton.

He has been wrong about the 'imminence' of other issues this week, though.


Any word on this?

dude give it all up now. life matters little for people like us. you will be permanently scarred and never understand why people will always find you strange. and do you know why?????? because you are from st. louis, mo. yes my friend it is a curse. and i have heard it said no matter where i go; when i lived in chicago, alaska or georgia, "what the fuck is wrong with you people?" and simply it must be stated that st. louis holds some sort of connection with the twighlight zone and after having consumed enough water you suddenly find that you have become receptive to this mid-western virus. lmfao. take care dude

You can tell me one thing about the Jeffrey Loria hearings....is he as much of a dick as they make him out to be?

Not at all. He was really cool and we talked baseball all the time. He'd bitch about Cameron only hitting against the Marlins and give me shit for wearing my Reyes jersey in the office -- "nice player, too many co-pays:" even looked at my roto club. Really good guy. The Commish and Bob DuPuy . . . .Conversation for another day, buddy, when we take in Mets-Card at a game at Busch II. We were right to win that case, completely right.

What does all of the grand jury testimony leaks mean for the BALCO case? It seems like each day more is released; will an apellate(sp?) court throw out an indictment based on this info being released? Will a trial judge throw out the case all together because of this kind of tampering?


Means nothing, other than that they will no doubt move for a mistrial and be denied. Whoever leaked it at justice will be fired if caught, and it's a ploy maybe to force a plea if the case is weak. The testimony is certainly admissable, as it will be at any trial for Bonds for pejury -- and dude, I can't go with you on standing by Bonds. He flat out lied to the Grand Jury twice. A) I don't believe the greatest athlete in any US Sport since His Airness was in his max flow took things without knowing what they were and B) Giambi went to Bonds trainer, said "do for me what you do for Bonds to keep him at this level" and ended up with tons of different steroids. It's clear from what we know, IMO, that Bonds was on more than he admitted.



Victor Conte has said from the beginning, and of course I question his reliability as much as the next guy, that this is not a case about drugs, it's about the athletes involved.


Agreed, especially the caveat that every time you rely on Conte's statements you rely on the words of the man facing serious criminal charges, always a credibility issue.


If this information continues to be leaked, and then the case gets tossed out, then I think that is complete utter bullshit. The government already knows they can't spend the money it would take to combat people who have the kind of money the BALCO defendents have right? So maybe someone is leaking the athletes names to the public, they all get hanged in the public court, and then whoops! Ahh, too many sealed documents leaked, gotta toss out the case.



This of course is my conspiracy theory. In the Bonds article this morning it says that he was interrogated on the stand. Giambi and Sheffield weren't, they told what they knew, and that was that. Once Bonds said he didn't take HGH or anything else they were like, "What's this calendar from Greg Anderson's office?"



1. The government has the money ot litigate EVERYTHING. I worked on Enron at my first firm. I know the civil fees for the US trustee appointed by justice were in the millions each month, and this is nowhere near as complex a case -- those fees were because of all the experts needing to analyze the structure of the very complicated SPE deals - literally hundereds. This is only the documents seized by one lab. Not an expensive case at all. The satellite cases against Bonds or anyone else for perjury wouldn't be expensive either -- US Attorneys don't get paid a lot. Experts and such do but it's not an issue. Bonds would no doubt hire a firm that bills at the rates my firm (a big NY firm does) or higher - - partners at 1000 an hour, mid-levels like me $400 per. He'll be the one paying.


2 Remember, Bonds and Giambi were given immunity in exchange for testimony with the express condition that they could be tried on perjury charges if he lied on any issue. They were government witnesses, not defendants brought in not as adverse parties but still under suspscion that they had reason to nopt be forthcoming. Giambi gave explicit details about his knowledge and use of steroids that he received from the same source as Bonds -- What was there to confront him about? On the other hand, Bonds denied the more serious use -- use from 2001 - 2003 and use of injectables. It was perfectly appropriate to confront the person you felt was lying with documents that said otherwise. Has Giambi denied injecting, and had the documents said otherwise, it would have been appropriate to confront him too -- both to get him to break and further implicate the defendants OR to go on record with comprehensive denials to keep the door open for future perjury charges. No need to be conspiratorial here. I think Bonds gets bad treatment sometimes, and sometimes he's a dick and brings it on himself, and here, he spoke contrary to documents seized in the BALCO raid. End of that. And as of yet, Sheffield's testimony hasn't been leaked, so we don't know what he said. Also he only trained with Bonds and Anderson wfor one summer. Probably less of a paper trail for him than either Bonds or Giambi in my mind.


I also can't stand that even on this website people sort of feel bad for Giambi. But they are all ready to take down the greatest black hitter of our era.

Until I see Bonds proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt I'll stand by him

No, a man's admission in a jusdicial proceeding is enough for me. Just like a suspension by MLB for a positive test wouldn't be beyond a reasonable doubt. . . but it would be good enough. Rose wasn't proven guilty in court of anything but Tax evasion on racing bets. I think people, myself included feel bad for Giambi not in the sense that he is less culpable, or shoufd get less of a penatty, but in the sense (at least this is my feeling) that they are scared for his wellbeing. All three of these guys should face the same punishment, be it nothing or be it suspension. Personally what I want is strong policy going forward, that's it. You can't hang three people because one source out of 50 steroid sources got busted. I just think Giambi is sensitive, looked frail and troubled all last year, and really is possibly a person who could hurt himself out of desparation. It's jsut how I see him. I have no undertstanding for his decision to bring it on himself. I think anyone who looks at three players can't but help that assuming all three face no suspension and play in 2005, Giambi will fair the worst and Sheff and Bonds will likely kick ass. Those, are my brief thoughts now.

wow nice baseball entry!! my faith/enjoyment of sports is seriously diminishing.....

you bet we'll get that oberst on vinyl!!!