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1 2 3 >I had a link to Igawa getting torched at the bottom of the page. Did the Yanks call him up and I missed it? No, the article was from May, 2008. Odd.
this nomenclature has always amused me--Greenwood Lake is about 5 miles from the Jersey border, yet it's "upstate"
And if you grew up in Westchester, as I did, that nomenclature would infuriate you.
A decent percentage of that increase is probably due to the "OMFG! OWNED BY TEH JETES!" factor.
when i worked in manhattan, upstate generally referred to something like westchester. far upstate was something like poughkeepsie.
What does one do with a 31-thousand square foot house?
when i worked in manhattan, upstate generally referred to something like westchester. far upstate was something like poughkeepsie.
Upstate starts where MetroNorth ends, which is to say at Poughkeepsie.
It's not breaking news, but it's still amazing to me that sq footage of the home. Once you hit 10K sq ft, what's the point?
It's not what, but who.
Of course, if you get injured in that house, you might die before anybody finds you.
Especially considering Jeter's lack of range.
Thus the eat-in kitchen.
Also, the sale of the apartment includes Jeter's panty collection which is valued at $3.65 million.
I sense the influence of a good woman suggesting that her boyfriend might want to get rid of a few reminders of past conquests. :-)
(As you can tell, I've been re-reading LOTR recently).
I would use it to have rooms in wildly varying styles for different moods, like one living room in sparse modern style, one rustic, one Roman, and one in New Russian Oligarch style.
I knew a guy who considered anything above 14th to be upstate. And he wasn't even a local.
And one like a pirate ship!
I was born on a pirate ship.
I deem that an acceptable use of one's wealth. Sounds like fun.
Amazingly, this is also true of the house he's building in Tampa.
Awesome flick! There's a novelization?
Nobody wants to read another one of your long-winded defenses of squatter's rights. Get a job hippie.
All it's missing is Tom Hanks and Elizabeth Perkins on a trampoline.
If I could just walk away from the house if it becomes a bad investment like in (parts of) the US, there is no way I would ever rent.
Dear God, Delta. Same birthday and we're re-reading the same books at the same time? Weird. I just finished and newly outraged that they didn't put the scouring of the shire in the movie. Hell, they could have expanded it and made it its own movie.
I wonder why I don't own several castles?
Owning with healthy downpayment and reasonable payments > renting >>> "owning" with no down payment and balloon payments.
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Upstate starts where MetroNorth ends, which is to say at Poughkeepsie.
Either of these is a reasonable definition. One could also consider Poughkeepsie to Troy as a DMZ of sorts.
upstate generally referred to something like westchester
Yonkers is not upstate.
I never much liked the scouring of the shire, but let's see how I feel about it this time (right now I'm just at the point in the Two Towers were Grima gets kicked out by Theoden king).
Truth be told, I started re-reading LOTR this time because I wanted to brush up on the back story (not so much the tale of how Frodo and co. went from here to there and back), this huge alternate history that Tolkien thought up going back thousands of years).
One doubt that has come to mind while re-reading LOTR is why Elrond Half-Elven didn't go medieval on Isildur and make sure the damned One Ring got thrown into Mount Doom.
I guess that the answer would be that doing so would have entailed an enstragement between the Humans and Elves, but I'm not buying it. Personally, I think Elrond and co. themselves didn't quite realize how treacherous the damned Ring was (it doesn't look like Elrond or any of the surviving Elves in Eregion when Rings were forged), though perhaps Gil-Galad would have known (or Galadriel, if she'd been around for the final battle, but I don't think she was).
Jeter's 67% appreciation probably means the price of comps doubled in the first six or seven years and dropped by half in the past three.
Some of my family have a story of driving into the Bronx from Yonkers with snow on their car, and having another family member say "Oh, they're from upstate," when queried as to the snow.
(Which brings to mind, why would Yonkers have snow but not the Bronx?)
(I also wonder how Gandalf had his staff broken by the witch king of Angmar, if he was a Maiar, reborn by Iluvatar with extra powers to lead the struggle against Sauron. But I digress).
This bothered me, too. Not only would it have been the right thing to do, it would have been right in line with Elrond's character. Heck, he could have simply chucked Isildur, ring and all, into the fiery abyss.
Wait, Elrond is half-elven?
This bothered me, too. Not only would it have been the right thing to do, it would have been right in line with Elrond's character. Heck, he could have simply chucked Isildur, ring and all, into the fiery abyss.
Wait, Elrond is half-elven?
Had the same problem. My only conclusion is that no one is perfect.
Yes, Elrond is half-elven.
I simply re-read it because I only read it once, quite a while back. I enjoyed it thoroughly. I enjoyed Two Towers the least of the three, though, and can see why Jackson deviated so far from it in filming.
The movie character maybe, not the book one. Gil-galad, sure, but not necessarily Elrond. He always struck me as a bookish, quite, contemplative sort. Sort of like Karl Malden's Omar Bradley to Gorge Scott's Patton.
Assuming this is a serious question, yes. His father was the son of an elf-human coupling, Tuor (human), and Idril of the Noldor. His mother was Elwing, daughter of Dior of Doriath, son of Beren (human), and Luthien, daughter of Thingol, king of the Sindar.
Elrond, and his brother Elros, who chose to be human and began the race of the Numenorians of which Aragorn was a descendant, had the blood of the three Elvish houses, the three great human houses, and of the divine Maier (the race of Gandalf) through his maternal great-grandmother.
Aaaaand we're back to baseball!
Here's a family tree
EDIT: Lost my copy of the Book of Lost Tales, but I found it hard to read, and The Silmarillon boring.
For the love of God, why? The worst three weeks of my life was the three weeks I spent on that drek.
One of Arwen's grandparents is an ancestor of Aragorn. That makes them first cousins (unless one of Aragorn or Arwen are descended from the other one, which they're not, or if they're brother and sister, which they're also not).
(reposting from another thread that I accidentally put this reply in initially)
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