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Season two of “Rome”
picks up only minutes after the events of season one, with Marc Anthony squatting over what’s left of Caesar on the bloody senate floor. Lucius Vorenus cradles the corpse of his wife. Titus Pullo sits in the meadow with his pretty ex-slave.
James Purefoy takes center stage is season two, stepping up heroically as the fierce, profane and gratifyingly vengeful Antony, the Brock Samson of ancient Europe. Set upon by a dozen of Brutus’ knife-wielding thugs the minute he leaves Caesar’s corpse, he manages to fend off the throng of assassins as he embarks upon his long, cunning and brutal sprint toward justice.
Antony is not the only attraction as the series’ final episodes unspool. There’s Gaius Octavian (Max Pirkis, then Simon Woods), who has evolved into a being of extraordinary persuasive ability - and improbably proves himself even gutsier and brainier than Antony. There’s Marcus Junius Brutus (Tobias Menzies, never more Rickmanesque), Antony and Octavian’s sneering, scheming nemesis. There’s David Bamber as the cowardly, duplicitous Marcus Tullius Cicero. And there’s Pullo (Ray Stevenson) and Vorenus (Kevin McKidd), whose post-Caesar stories build toward adventures brimming with horror, tragedy, heartbreak and mayhem.
I adore this series, and believe I prefer this second season of “Rome” to the excellent first; the later season’s plot zips along like rocketships, owing to what I’d guess was an abbreviated episode order from HBO. (It makes my temples throb to think that ten times as many people were watching “Desperate Housewives” Sunday nights at 9 p.m.)
The 10 season-two episodes are augmented by extras designed to enhance one’s appreciation of the series:
* “A Tale of Two Romes” (20:30). Twins Romulus and Remus are said to have co-founded Rome in 753 B.C., and this minidoc looks at the city’s dual communities: the 30-odd richest patrician families who resided on Palatine Hill with Atia and the not-so-rich plebeians who resided on Aventine Hill with Vorenus, where there was no real police or courts.
* “The Making of Rome, Season II” (22:52). Learn that extras on treadmills in front of bluescreens were computerized and electronically cloned to form Rome’s sprawling civil-war armies. Learn that one episode required 768 costumes. Learn that beautiful Kerry Condon, who plays Octavia, actually speaks with an Irish accent. Learn that series director Tim Van Patton still talks like he did when he played Salami on “The White Shadow.”
* “The Rise of Octavian: Rome’s First Emperor” (20:44). While Caesar’s heir was highly self-interested, he also turned out to be a spectacularly productive and popular dictator. Learn that as Rome’s first emperor, Octavian ended a century of civil wars and ruled for 41 years. (I happened to catch the Elizabeth Taylor “Cleopatra” on cable this week, and it’s striking how differently Octavian is portrayed in that movie by Roddy McDowell, all sickly and sinister.)
* “Antony & Cleopatra” (14:48). Historian Jonathan Stamp suggests that both Caesar and Antony were attracted by the Egyptian monarch’s undisguised ambition. A coin bearing Cleopatra’s profile demonstates that she was considerably less attractive than Elizabeth Taylor or Lyndsey Marshal, but Stamp allows that she had other virtues: “She’s very clever! She’s speaks lots of languages, she was the first Ptolemaic pharaoh to speak ancient Egyptian, so she’s super-bright, super-accomplished, brilliant singer, brilliant dancer, plays lots of instruments, obviously great at chit-chat and talk and schmoozing and all the rest of it. One has to suspect fabulous in bed. Quite a package.”
* Each episode comes with “All Roads Lead To Rome,” an optional scene-specific pop-up text feature that adds historical context to the proceedings.
Commentaries include:
* Co-creator/showrunner Bruno Heller and co-producer/historical consultant Jonathan Stamp on 2.1, “Passover.”
* Director John Maybury and actress Lindsay Duncan (Servilia) on 2.7, “Death Mask.”
* Producer John Melfi and director Carl Franklin on 2.8, “A Necessary Fiction.”
* Actor James Purfoy (Mark Antony) on 2.9, “Deus Impeditio Esuritori Nullus.”
* Co-creator/showrunner Bruno Heller and co-producer/historical consultant Jonathan Stamp on series finale 2.10, “De Patre Vostro.”
As with “The Tick Vs. Season One,” “The Tick Vs. Season Two” cannot be billed as a complete season set because it’s short an episode. 2.2, titled “Alone Together,” about the Galacticus-like Omnipotus, is the missing component, and presumably sits out the set due to copyright issues. Sadly, this was the only season-two episode script credited to future “Venture Bros.” mastermind Christopher McCulloch. (One wonders why the “Venture Bros.” season sets, which feature the Impossible Four, don’t stir Marvel’s ire. Perhaps because litigation-happy Disney isn’t behind that production?)
The 12 second-season episodes that did make the new set pit the slow-witted superhero and his mothman sidekick against the Swiss Commandos, Venus & Milo, Leonardo, the Deadly Bulb, Brainchild & The Idea Men, El Seed & Rosebud, the Ottoman Empress, Queen of the Ants Betty, Santa Clause, The Whats and the Heys, the Fin and the Terror.
In 2.8, originally aired in 1995, we learn that The Tick’s universe boasts a TV series titled “Heroes,” about superpowered people.
Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show was the 1984 almost-final season of “Super Friends.”
It was the first cartoon to feature the interplanetary mass murderer Darkseid, a character Marvel legend Jack Kirby introduced to the DC Comics universe in 1971. Darkseid had largely vanished from DC comics by 1984, and “The Legendary Super Powers Show” restored him to the comics' supervillain A-list. (Note that Darkseid and his minions utilize the wormhole-like Boom Tubes in the series, but for some reason they’re renamed “stargates.”)
Another notable aspect is TV’s live-action Batman, Adam West, with this season took over from character actor Olan Soule the role of “Super Friends’” Batman.
The season introduced the chrome Terminatoresque honeycomb-brain version of Brainiac, as he appeared in Action Comics the previous year.
On the hero side, the show brought to Saturday-morning animation the insanely powerful comic-book character Firestorm, who could turn instantly turn anything into anything else.
Non-funnybook Hanna Barbera ringers like the Apache Chief, Samurai, Black Vulcan, El Dorado and the Wonder Twins were brought forward from previous seasons, but at the expense of bona fide DC heroes like Flash, Atom, Hawkman, Aquaman and Green Arrow, who may appear in the title sequence, but do not appear in the episodes. (Green Lantern cameos in only one segment.)
More negatives. Standards of the era prevented the heroes from actually beating on anybody. Only eight half-hours (comprised of 16 11-minute stories) were produced for the season.
Extras include two documentaries: “Evolution: New Heroes, Vilier Villains and Ethnic Additions” (17:43) and “The Super Powers Collection: The Effect of the Toy Industry on the Super Friends” (7:37). Five segments feature DC historian (and “Kingdom Come” author) Mark Waid interviewing those five segments’ writers.
The beginning of the end. I never saw a “Simpsons” episode wholly devoid of funny until the series’ 10th season rolled around. Not every episode was a dud, but I remember the dud-to-decent ratio falling to about 50:50 with this era. Sadly, this season does not represent the series’ nadir; season 10 looks downright spectacular when compared to its 21st century counterparts.
“Marvel at our superior gate-sliding technology!”
Killers From Space represents the first sci-fi effort mocked by the Film Crew comedy collective, comprised of latter-day “Mystery Science Theatre 3000” vets Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett.
They make great sport of the movie’s interstellar props, its muppet-y bemittened aliens, star Peter Graves’ history with “Mission: Impossible” and “Biography,” and how long it takes for killers from space to actually turn up in this budget 1954 RKO thriller.
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can't wait hell yeah...
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...my life is now complete.
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Whats The Hills about? The cover has me intrigued. A lesbian lust fest?
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well?
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tentatively due end of 2008.
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Mr Show Season 5 as we will get.
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I thought it was a Criterion Collection Box. I guess not. HA!
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is a box set of HBO's America Undercover documentaries. Regardles of topic, these programs were always difficult to switch off. They rarely show older ones on TV, but their artistry in presentation makes them timeless.
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would be on my wish list.
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It may contain two of my favourite episodes EVER ("Bart On The Road" & "22 Short Films About Springfield"), but is also the season that contains most of my least-favourite episodes! (Bart Sells His Soul, Lisa The Vegetarian, King Size Homer, Marge Be Not Proud, Scenes From A Class Struggle In Springfield, Bart The Fink, ...Curse Of The Flying Hellfish, Summer Of 4'2")
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Sorry.
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Yep, that's how everyone'll know if your cool, hip and "with it"... if you've got one of the 27 lame different ways to complain about how the second half of the Simpsons canon was tired and unfunny. ENOUGH alfuckingready. And what's worse, I'm so beyond sick of hearing any 22 year old with a functioning windpipe tell me how the Simpsons sucks but Family Guy is the shit. Swear to god I'm gonna rip out the brain stem of the next fratboy punk who tries to sell me that.
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Oh, so, what, 2008 huh, is there a.... black out period... until then?
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DVD is available again after being out of print for so long.
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I remember Superfriends but didn't realize how god-awful it was till I caught an episode late at night a few weeks ago. Piss poor animation, plot, acting (voice charecterization) and the lamest sidekicks ever. Ugh.
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Fuck, I didn't know it said that on the Lost season 3 DVD cover! Coolness. So who (or what) do people think Jacob actually is? Personally I think he's either Locke's ancestor or a past incarnation of Locke. Remember it was once said that Locke was immaculately conceived. What if that were true all along? What if the island has just been waiting for Locke to arrive on it? I can see that being the case. Some fucked up shit anyway with Jacob, what a great episode The Man Behind The Curtain was!
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i hope no one watches that.
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why the year long wait?
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I usually find that when I see a first run episode of the Simpsons, I too get a "Meh. Not as good as the old stuff" reaction.
But when I see the same episode again in syndication and the episode is removed from any sort of continuity or context of being a NEW episode, I enjoy them a helluva lot more.
I think we've been brainwashed into regarding new Simpsons as crap and old Simpsons as classics, when it reality, most episodes--old or new--hold up pretty well when viewed from an unjaded perspective. -
I watched one episode... enough for me to buy the whole season.
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Half the s7 episodes you mentioned are classics, esp. "King Size Homer" and "Bart Sells His Soul". I can't conceive of anyone not liking those.
Oh, and still no DUCKMAN. Fuck. -
lol just kidding. I agree Seeker. Simpson bashing is so easy a Caveman can do it. With that mind, all the post-cancelation FG's suck ass. But pretty much anyone with half a mind knows that.
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And SIMPSONS-bashing has completely come full circle where it's now cool to like THE SIMPSONS again because so many other people bash it. Well done, haters, you've served your purpose.
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PLEASE! It! is! retarded! Just! like! the! dolls! advertised! on! this! web! site!
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Deserved as much (though leaps-and-bounds better than Painkiller Jane).
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the lost tales was shite! It was like watching some stage production of b5 w/ stories that don't mean anything or have any repurcussions. Really sad jms.
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Classics degree.
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Only! We! Have! Exclusive! First! Look! At! Anorexic! Newscaster! Twins! Chewing! Food!
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Sure, the main storyline was pretty cheesy, but the opening bit with the church congregation singing 'In the Garden of Eden by I. Ron Butterfly' was THE funniest bit in the history of the Simpsons, and the subplot with Moe's becoming a Bennigan's ripoff was awesome too.
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Good job, Herc!
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Sigh, well I guess it makes sense being as how they would let like a year and a half pass between regular seasons.
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with cthulhu bay denis hogan as the baddie...whaddaya mean this isn't a cloverfield talkback?
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And they still charge $99.98. yeah I know its less on amazon, but how come they're still charging the same price as they would for a full season?
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I watched that show like crazy as a kid. I am so excited to see how bad it is after all these years!
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...everywhere. I mean, just look at that cover.
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I totally agree, and I notice the same phenomineon when I watch it with my friends. But it hardly matters: Both Simpsons and South Park at their worst is still better than Family Guy at its best.
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“Evolution: New Heroes, Vilier Villains and Ethnic Additions”
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http://www.tiny.cc/pmnzp
10/23 peep.......2007.
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Look how he died.
What, because he ran from certain death in Rome? Throwing one's life away needlessly is not brave. In the end, he was caught, instead of running, he wrote warning to the enemies of Antony. He did not beg, he prepared himself and died bravely, with dignity. Cowardly? Did you even watch the series? -
canada's equivalent to nickelodeon used to play superfriends about a year ago and i tell ya, it makes for fun hilarious tv....its not a good show and aged BADLY but hell if it isnt fun to laugh at. and not in a rude way, its just a good time. course that applies to just about any 80s tv series, cartoon or live action. i may have thought all that shit was cool as a kid but its still enjoyable today, just in a different condesending way. lol
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when it became apparent that Stephanie Tanner was going to be hot. Of course, I never thought she'd turn out Crystal Meth addled, porn star skank with fake boobies hot, but whatever - it works. http://images.wikia.com/openserving/entertainment/images/thumb/4/45/JodieSweetin.jpg/250px-JodieSweetin.jpg
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John McGinley (spelling?) cracks me up consistently on that show, and his and Zach Braff's performances are also incredibly moving at parts. Sometimes I do wish the show wasn't quite as preachy, but overall, I'm hooked.
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I completely agree with that. Family Guy is pure dreck. The whole basis of Family Guy's humor is saying "Oh, yeah, I remember that from the 80s". Except there's no joke.
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Spread the word!
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Congratulations, juicer.
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Barry Bonds record is that of a drugged up addict. Hooray American Sports.
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That gives you super strength. Eveyone knows that! Cheater! haha.
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When You Dish upon a Star ("Homer, we're out of vodka.") Lisa Gets an "A" (Pinchy the Lobster) Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble" (Homer's voyage on the ship of lost souls is genius) Mayored to the Mob (BiMonSciFiCon may be a season highlight) Wild Barts Can't Be Broken ("Now playing at the Springfield theatre ... AFTER DARK!!") Sunday, Cruddy Sunday (Superbowl episode has a ton of great eps, and the ending with Vincent Price is gold) Homer to the Max (all the stuff with the Police Cops is also gold) Maximum Homerdrive ("Must finish stake. Must defeat guy I just met.") The Old Man and the "C" Student ("Kiss me or I'll crush you) Thirty Minutes over Tokyo (Alot of Lost in Japan style gags make it worthwhile)
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mention?
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Well Kristen Ball anyways...big TV Guide rumor.
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Not on here, but elsewhere; if he's so clean, then why is his personal trainer volunteering to have his three squares a day in jail?
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She and Damon Lindelof were guests at Kristin Veitch's wedding (E! Entertainment Television's TV gossip columnist and Ausiello's 'frienemy'. That's how this got started, I think.
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Since the unedited Razor DVD will be out a few weeks after the 11/24 airdate. And the reason why HBO cna charge $100 for a half-season of the Sopranos? Because they can.
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As I would be spending all my time banging the bejesus out of Emilie De Ravin and Kristen Bell.
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Metalocalypse is METAL.
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Do tell? It seems like there is an ever changing point in time when the simpsons started to "suck" according to you haters. I remember people complaining they had lost it back when season 4 was new. I still laugh at every single episode. People who think that any episode of the Simpsons is "wholly devoid of funny" are either humorless pricks, clinically depressed, or stupid as hell.
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Aug 08, 2007 12:34:10 PM CDT
Im a humourless prick. Simspons topped being funny
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from Season 11 onwards. Theres the odd laugh, but its just boring now. My mouth doesnt even turn up at the edges anymore. Recent examples of crap epiosdes, the jockey episode, the fucking manatee episode, every episode with marge as the main character, the simon cowell epiosde, the fucking Mo and Maggie nightmare, the fucking RICKY GERVAIS episode. My god, you've made me un-lock a dark place in my mind where I had stored this shit! Thank God we have new Futurama episodes to cleanse my mind of this mediocrity.
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Aug 08, 2007 12:34:18 PM CDT
Im a humourless prick. Simspons stopped being funny
by col. tigh-fighter
from Season 11 onwards. Theres the odd laugh, but its just boring now. My mouth doesnt even turn up at the edges anymore. Recent examples of crap epiosdes, the jockey episode, the fucking manatee episode, every episode with marge as the main character, the simon cowell epiosde, the fucking Mo and Maggie nightmare, the fucking RICKY GERVAIS episode. My god, you've made me un-lock a dark place in my mind where I had stored this shit! Thank God we have new Futurama episodes to cleanse my mind of this mediocrity.
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This is a whole load of booo-sheyuuuut!
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or is that old news?
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Recent examples of great SIMPSONS episodes: The Lisa dates Fat Tony's son episode, the Bart gets a driver's license episode, the Marge plays World of Warcraft episode (although SOUTH PARK's take was much better), the Homer as a paparazzi episode, the volunteer firefighters episode, the Santa's Little Helper becomes a police dog episode, and especially the fucking brilliant 24 episode.
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They had to take it to the next level, what with the world becoming even more cynical and self absorbing. Simpsons had to get more radical, nastier, but you see, they didn't. Instead shows like Southpark and Family Guy took it to that next step. Which made the Simpsons seem tame in comparison.
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Happy tree friends must fucking die!!!
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Didn't this air in 2005? WTF is the holdup with this?
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While it doesn't have a release date, this is from May and does touch on S4. http://tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=7278
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At least they've *talked* about it relatively recently...I hope it's out soon.
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here is the thing, i don't for one second think that bonds is "clean", i just don't CARE if he took steroids or not. MLB didn't see fit to do much about 'roids until very recently, so for the leauge to get "tough" about them now seems very hypocritical to me. i know everyone wants to make bonds the poster boy for everything wrong with american sports today, but i just can't work up the frothing rage to give a shit. the baseball hall of fame if full of cheaters, wife-beaters, alcoholics, coke-heads, and worse, so to me, barry bonds fits right in.
if MLB wants to put a asterix next to bonds numbers so be it. just as long as they take away the 1986 world series rings away from the mets because EVERYONE on that team (from hernandez to gooden to strawberry), was a coke-monkey. and last i checked cocaine was illegal too. -
I read a rather compelling argument that Bonds' mechano-arm device he wears might be more responsible than any roids he might have taken for his HR record.
See it here:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003621797
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...which kind of speaks to my point. if you are going to go after "cheaters" in baseball, retroactivly, they you have to do it across the board. that means every guy who wears a pad that might be to big, every guy who might have thrown a spit ball, every guy who might have used a corked bat, every guy who even knows how to spell "pine tar", every guy who might have smoked a joint, or popped a ephedurine pill, or snorted a line before a game. to me, it's all just lines drawn in the sand, and no one can convince me i'm an "apologist" just because i don't care what other grown men put into their bodies.
sorry about the off topic, but i just needed to ven., because i'm sick to death of every talking head on the sports shows trying to convince me i'm supposed to be outraged over this. personally i think congress and geroge mitchell should have more important things to worry about. -
again, sorry.
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Why they're waiting for 2008 to market this, instead of holiday quarter this year, when demand would be an all-time peak, is beyond me. The only logical reason is to produce new "added value" features that can justify consumers who have already collected all seven sets to buy the series a last time so HBO can milk their prized cow once more before it's dry. Well, I've waited this long, so I can wait another year to watch the show again. Home video has given us nothing if not a proven case for consumer capitalism.
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The armor these guys get to wear now allows them to sit on top of the plate and get comfortable in their spot. Add that with incredible strength and you have broken records.
All sports are tainted. All of them. Whenever you give millions out to people, they will do anything to keep it. Shit, my FF league was charging $350 to get in and people were becoming dickheads and cutthroats. Oddly enough, the $50 league has none of that behavior.
HGH can only be found via a blood test. Cheaters will always stay ahead of the law. Look at the Tour De France debaucle this year. How many dudes went down on testing or skipping the tests? Landis? Full of crap. Armstrong? It gets tougher and tougher to believe he won that many races in a row because he's natural.
I say that, like any drug, legalize em. Everyone knows what to expect coming in. You have a choice if you want to grow a third eye by 50. If you don't, you can compete naturally against the genetically engineered freaks... -
A lifetime ban, banned from the Hall of Fame, because he bet on baseball? He supposedly compromised the integrity of the game by making bets. Crap. Even if he did bet against his own team, as manager he has some control over the outcome by how well (or poorly if he wants his team to lose) he manages. But ultimately the outcome of the game is in the hands of the players. His power in controlling the outcome, or even a point spread, of a game was limited.
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I can't believe you left this out of your list, Herc!!! In just over a month, we'll be able to get the entire Twin Peaks series... including the Pilot. No word on if it will include "Fire Walk With Me", but that's still readily available if it's missing. http://tinyurl.com/34az4v
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