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Bill Lawrence must have special pictures of someone at ABC.

Well, now I've seen everything -- John Lackey thrown out of the game after two pitches! First one, behind the batter. Second pitch hits the batter. You're out of the game. Wow!

Looks like there will be a season 9 to Scrubs. Mass panic on the internet over the move by Scrubs fans, people jumping off the ledges as I type. Geesh, it's only a tv show, I love it, and I hoped this was the finale, but life goes on, if season 9 is good, great! If it stinks, I think I will somehow survive....

Stange as it may seem, Capitol was able, during that era, to do tasteful emotional excess (if that's possible??). Now, when singers tackle this kind of material, they always make sure you know that they're above taking the emotional content seriously, which, to me, is a huge loss for music. I often wonder if the emotional aspect, and at times, way over the top emotions at that, is, in a way, too honest for out times.

Ichiro was just light out against Lester last night. Good win for the Mariners. I was very surprised that Papi sat down against Jakubauskas, Jak is the kind of pitcher that Big Papi could get some good hacks off. Of course, the big event last night was Yuni Betancourt getting not just one, but two walks in the game. Pigs are now flying around SafeCo field as we write this. It's Garrett Olson vs. Beckett tonight, looks like a huge mismatch, we'll wait and see what happens

Darn, this is sad.

Disk two this morning. This is really good stuff.

Yeah, the Mariners are sinking fast in the west, still hoping for .500 though. Would not be surprised if there isn't a fire sale come June or July. Beltre gone, Bedard gone, Washborn gone, maybe even Felix..... Most likely a three game sweep by the Red Sox, once you're past Bedard & Hernandez, the pickings are very slim, I don't think Washborn can keep going like he has for much longer. It's going to take a long time to recover from the damage that Bavasi did to this team.

Now Dan, relax, you just know they're going lose 2 out of three to the Mariners this weekend. Chuck: .429 isn't too bad....

Amen to that, and I'm not sorry if it offends, it was just "Friends" set in a hospital. You're not far off. They even admitted as much in a roundabout way in one episode when either the janitor or Dr. Cox was giving JD & Elliot grief about them being like Ross & Rachel. "From Friends?" "No, Ross the doctor and Rachel the nurse. Now THAT'S a cute couple." (Going from memory here) I mentioned earlier about Zach Braff not having much range, and at this point, the same can also be said of Sarah Chalke. Shame, too, because her character was cute without being cloying, alluring without being slutty, and just the right bit of nuttiness to become endearing. Unfortunately, her character ended up being cloying, slutty, and anything BUT endearing. Okay, so the writers ruined her character; that's not an indication of anything else, right? Not to those of us who watch "How I Met Your Mother" and saw Chalke basically reprise her Elliott character as one of Ted's love interests. (And she worked in the medical field on THIS show as well! Talk about type-casting!) Imagine our shock when she came back for the last two episodes of this season. Hopefully, it's just a two-episode deal. But it looks as though she's only capable of playing whiny, sex-obsessed neurotics. Either that or she needs to get a better agent who can get her better parts, because I think she's still quite attractive. I also hated what the writers did to Sarah Chalke, things really went downhill for Dr. Elliot in terms of quality, especially after Molly Clock (Heather Graham) went away. The final season was especially painful, to see a once vibrant character descend into a cardboard cut-out. That Miss. Chalke can do better is proved by her performance in Why I Wore Lipstick To My Mastectomy, where she was very good and believable.

Very Interesting Article on Manny and PED's

Will someone please shut Joe Morgan up! I mean, no thought left unspoken. Please Joe, Shut Up!!

Scrubs: Season one, disk one. Yes, I'm going to go through the entire eight seasons, from beginning to end.

I didn't know you lived in Southern California also...

It got overlooked but I noticed that Dominic DiMaggio died Friday, was supposed to be a very good player in his day. On to something else: The Mariners looked so bad yesterday, with Beltre looking especially terrible, it was like he left his brain at the hotel. Plus Felix Hernandez looks like he ready to call it a season already. The Mariners should trade these two and at least get some people who want to play.

I had some time to read on my recent trip, and so I read Handling Sin by Michael Malone. It is a wonderful book that is about life and death, family and isolation, God and religion, father and son, what it means to belong to a family, about friendship, about how we shut down in life, about handling sin in our lives -- in other words, about life. The characters are people that you care about, and you don't want the trip that is at the center of the book to ever end. Highly recommended.

Yeah, the past few season haven't been too good. The way the writers have let the characters become dumber and dumber is not too good. Elliot has become a mindless dope, who says the lamest feel-good crap ever, JD has no self respect, and the other people don't come off great either. Still, something about the series stuck with me and it has become my "comfort food" for stress busting. I have all the DVDs, I watch them in order, and I'm on my tenth go-round watching them all. Zack Braff is insufferable, and a lot of the complaints and observations are true, but I still keep watching. Now what my love for Scrubs, and my love for Cecil Taylor has to do with each other, I don't know. I'll let the Chewmister explain that one to me.

No problema, after all, it is just a tv show. I dislike Scrubs also at first, but then I saw the episode My Screw Up (the best episode in the series to a lot of fans) and I said to myself: "This show needs to be looked into," and I was hooked ever since. It is a series you either love or hate.

My all time favorite tv show ended this week. I was able to catch up on the last four episodes this morning since I missed them because of a business trip, and thankfully, the final episode was very good. What I liked best was that it was open ended, with no strange twists taking place, just leaving the characters is a good place for us. Scrubs is the only tv show I really felt a close attachment to, where the characters were interesting, and I was drawn to their lives. I was sad to see this show end, but I have the dvds to watch from now on. But it's over. *Sigh* I really loved Scrubs.

Well, the Mariners are now Your Second Place Seattle Mariners, at least they're still .500. And, WTH??? Manny gone for 50 games??? Manny is really being Manny this time.

:angry: I want to announce that I'm leaving also! :angry: Well, actually, I have to go to Europe for some dumb meetings. See everyone in the middle of May, and may the Mariners still be in first place when I get back.

Keep posting them! It's hard when a longtime announcer passes, you listen to them for so long you feel a bond to them. Everyone expects this to be Vin Scully's last year, and I can't imagine a Dodger game without Scully. It's hard for me to believe, but I'm 50, and I've listened to Scully all my life. The Dodgers, without Vinny, are not going to be the same. It's like the Lakers, without Chick Hern, it's just not that same.

The point is: Musicians/artists do terrible things in life, but their art should still be enjoyed.

Even though I don't like what Beckett did, and he strikes me as a little too "figjam" for me, this is a raw deal for Boston & Beckett.

Truly, that also goes for Frank Rosalino...