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It's a noticeable contrast to the uptight nature of the Yankees and their controlling manager Joe Girardi, whose jockstraps seem to get tighter as the situation gets closer.
I don't think the Yankees are the right team to chastise for folding up the tent in the late innings of a close game. They are the 29th MLB team I'd think of like that, the 30th being the Phillies.
I'd vote for Cuomo. Patterson seems out of his league and I'm hoping he drops out. I think Cuomo and Bloomberg could get things done...well, except for the morass that is Albany gumming up the works.
you forgot "old school" and "blue collar"
(I guess he's saving them for future columns)
(I guess he's saving them for future columns)
Nobody believes in them!
As a Democrat, I believe Cuomo is doomed to be a disaster before he even starts: his party apparatus is just too beholden to the sort special interests (unions, esp.) that any Governor will need to make squeal like a stuck pig in order to bring the budget into line. I'm convinced it's politically impossible for a Dem to do the sorts of things that need to be done in NY state. There isn't even enough wiggle-room for a Nixon-to-China move.
It's one f##king game, and the Phillies won because Cliff Lee was untouchable. If he had been merely "good" and the Phillies had given up three runs, Rivera would have pitched two innings and it would probably be 1-0 right now.
I'm pretty OK with the anti-gun thing, actually.
Actually, it IS 1-0 right now.
A bit premature.
I'm pretty OK with the anti-gun thing, actually.
This just struck me as kind of funny -- "Shooty" trying to establish some kind of anti-gun character alibi for the McGurk killing.
I am always amused when issues are framed as jurisdictional. This is federal, that's local, etc. etc. The fact is nobody gives a #### about jurisdiction. They just what their way.
And the problem is....?
This is why I'm not voting for him this time. Also, there's no way he's going to lose so I don't feel the vote is all that important. I just don't want him to win in an I AM ABOVE THE LAW type of landslide.
There wasn’t last year, there wasn’t this season and because of that swagger-licious, wholesomely arrogant and unparalleled ability to collapse the trachea of an opponent
GRRRRR, TOUGH! THEY EAT THE BONES OF THEIR ENEMIES AND TAKE THEIR WOMEN AS SLAVES
I am a big fan of 311, but that's about it.
Congestion pricing was a good idea that got killed because the outer borough politicians didn't like it. The term limits law was a bad idea that he succeeded in overturning by winning the support of a plurality of the Council. I don't know what you mean by the social promotion debate, but please, undemocratic?
We could use more parks. Now that I'm able to travel more, I'm really struck by how little green space NYC has compared to other cities.
It was a good idea, which he completely failed to sell to outer borough politicians, who had legitimate concerns about the effects on their constituents, who were going to bear the short-term burden of it. Bloomberg's response was to threaten to finance the campaigns of their opponents. They called his bluff.
The term limits law was a bad idea that he succeeded in overturning by winning the support of a plurality of the Council.
It was a bad law, overturned by the small set of people who had the most to gain from it. I am opposed to term limits in principle, but that was a rotten bargain.
From a bare knuckles politics POV, that was some serious chutzpah by Bloomberg.
Hey. Esoteric. I'm here too. Don't wish this on me. Wish it just on Shooty.
The problem in Albany is a microcosm of the national urban-rural political imbalance. Upstate NY would be up #### creek without the NYC-Rockland-Nassau tax base, but that doesn't stop them from putting their hand into the till whenever they want.
It's cute that conservatives, after decades of GOP irresponsibility, still think it's liberals who can't balance a budget.
Kumbaya ############!
OK. I'm not sure how much I'll want to shoot, though. I'll be pretty into the game. Pedro, man, Pedro!
Hey. Esoteric. I'm here too. Don't wish this on me. Wish it just on Shooty.
That's ok, he means me, too.
Although, be careful, Pavement's going to be playing in Central Park next freaking September or whenever, the post-apocalypse might catch them!
Dude, they sold out with the blue album.
Awesome.
There's no way that we could play during the whole game, and there are plenty of bars in the area playing the game. Actually, there's on that very corner of 11th and 3rd that plays the game with sound for the college games, they might for the Playoff game as well.
Is that Nevada Smith's?
Couldn't tell ya. I can't be the only New Yorker who knows things more by location than name.
Good to know you changed parties. ;-
I agree to blame McCoy.
Just don't kill Shooty--he needs to live to see Pavement in NYC.
Gentlemen, I believe we have reached an accord. It's all McCoy's fault. This is a great day for New York City, a great day for the State of New York, and a great day for The United States of America.
And if my aunt had a frank and beans, she'd probably be my uncle.
My Liberal superpowers will protect me! I could take those two out with my Welfare Queen death ray. I won't even need my Shield of Entitlements or The Fist of Organized Labor.
I know. I still think the Yanks have to be considered the favorites, but if Pedro can get the job done tonight, then you guys are in trouble.
I don't like the Phillies much, but to be honest, I hope they pull it out. You have been such a typical insufferable Yankee fan all year long, it would be kind of great to see your season end in bitter misery.
I think they are a pretty likable team actually.
If it's more, or no one at all is interested in pool, I won't insist, either Nevada Smith's or Pourhouse is fine.
I'm trying to figure out who Larry is responding to. I don't think he's that insufferable, though. At least compared to other folks here in the city.
Larry and Joey B. are GETTING IT ON!
You need to invite DiPerna. He plays pool and lives in NY. SBB lives there, too, so you you could have two conservatives, two liberals, a Libertarian, and a Classical Liberal/Tax Slave.
Just keep him from skipping out on the 22 trillion dollar check.
I should rise to combat you, Shooty, but my chair is just too comfortable. Such is the drawback of being a conservative superhero.
Ohhhh I should have figured that out. Joey took over kevin's spot as my sole "ignore" person this year.
Rooting for one team so that another person will be unhappy is a pretty ####### douchey thing to do.
Oooh. We can alternate between social and economic 4-on-2 beatdowns.
I'm drinking beer and watching baseball and generally wallowing in my own crapulence. I don't work out the world's problems at World Series time.
Believe me, it's far from the only reason I'm rooting against them. But yeah, I find you to be one of the most annoying and insufferable fans here, chest-thumping about the mighty Yankees when they win, and whining when they don't.
Hey, I live right by that place. I almost went in their with my brother once but we got worried we might get challenged to a game and embarrassed by our total lack of skills.
Is it a pool shark place, or were we just being paranoid?
Paranoid.
A great way to avoid getting sharked is not to play strangers for money. ;-)
It has more nerdy pool players than sharks - as a group they are like any nerdy group. It certainly has some sharks, but as I said, there's an easy way to fix that. Also, it is too popular a place to let evil folk propagate in any volume, it would hurt business, I'd imagine.
Rooting for one team so that another person will be unhappy is a pretty ####### douchey thing to do.
I have three very good Yankee fan friends who all know I will be very happy for them if their team wins. They also all know that I want everyone where I work to be miserable and destitute for making cracks about the Mets all year if the Yankees LOSE, so I may be dancing on a fine line as far as you're concerned, Larry.
In that I wear floaties and bite people.
Perhaps--and yet, sometimes it's the only plausible tiebreaker.
Yes, but it's not that much. It's something like $8.50 an hour per person on the weekdays.
Tuque, I haven't played pool in the city since McGirr's closed in the 80's, but I guarantee you that whether or not they'll try to trap you, there are likely to be at least a few players in Amsterdam at any given moment who would have you crying for your momma in about three racks. Possibly even including a woman or two. Amsterdam's former location is mentioned prominently in the best pool book ever written, David McCumber's Playing Off The Rail: A Pool Hustler's Journey.
If you guys have formalized the plans please post them here and I'll do my best to make it. Lassus, I'll email you with my cell number.
Robin, I "shoot pool" if by that you mean "once got beaten to a pulp by Andy."
I know, but that's no disgrace. Andy is apparently damn good as long as he has his glaucoma drops with him. ;-
Pedro who? I wouldn't get my hopes up about these "stories" if I were you. All the rumors going around about Pedro Martinez these days are coming from Pedro Martinez. So you're telling me that you actually seriously believe that this is a meaningful story and that he's going to play in the majors again? That pea-sized brain of yours is in an even sadder state than I thought it was. Just keep it up though, I love a guy who doesn't know how to quit when he's behind. Classic mother's basement child logic.
Fortunately, in order to play pool, you only need to focus out of the bottom half of your eyes, and you can work around the other blind spots....
As you can see from Shooty's very specific "I'm in", formalizing is indeed the problem. ;-)
I'll TXT you with whatever happens, Ray.
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Szymborski shut it down, it appears.
Yep, I was wrong on that one, and I know how gay you are for Pedro. The flyer Philly took on him once he dropped his ridiculous contract demands has worked out pretty well for him.
If he can do well against the Yankees, they might even bring him back next year.
Not that I shoot pool very often, but I wondered why as I got older I had trouble focusing on my shot. One day it FINALLY dawned on me that my progressive bifocals were the problem -- I was looking at medium distance through the reading part.
Yeah, I have lasik (btw that's ≠ steroids, Ray), but before that it was contacts or else. Some players I know who hate contacts use special glasses with lenses that seem to extend halfway up their foreheads. Works for them, anyway.
I like Manhattan.
Damn it Bill, I'm TRYING to vote for your sorry ass.
Don't be bitter, Joey. There's always a brighter tomorrow. If you're lucky, some accomplished player might even suffer a career-ending injury.
That's just plain idiocy. Hurting businesses? Nitwit.
ANYHOW - are we just saying 8 PM at the pool hall or the bars? All this "whatever, I'm in" makes me want to mention my bank account in Nigeria.
SO - 8 pm, Amsterdam. We can play for a bit, then go to a bar or whatever, as no one else has any other ideas. That sound good?
Yep, I was wrong on that one, and I know how gay you are for Pedro.
Where were you in the Yankees beat Phillies in sexiness thread, Joey? Please keep in mind, I can't see your answer.
Done. I'll probably be there around 8:30. I'll be the guy wandering around in a brown corduroy jacket looking lost.
Tsk. You're going to miss Pedro plunking Jeter!
Just ask which table I am at at the desk. You know my actual name.
You're going by your first name, right?
"Hi. Which table is CommiePinkoBastard sitting at, please?"
Yes. And that isn't "Orlando".
T & B sent me an email regarding he'll be somewhere drinking at a table, but I'd imagine I'll get their first. I'm confused, did someone say snapper was showing up?
Who's bitter? You're the guy who keeps bringing this sh*t up over and over again. I give my opinions, and I'll gladly admit when I make the wrong call, as I did in this case. I predicted the Yankees would win this series, and in this case I hope I'm wrong yet again.
Just do yourself a favor, and please try to keep yourself under control if Pedro pitches a good game tonight. You might want to keep a box of Kleenex within arm's reach just to be on the safe side.
It was condo-ed out of your homeland on the upper west.
Ok. It's only 50-50 that I'll be able to make it, but we'll see.
b/c Joey hates all people, regardless of race, color, creed, or personality.
I've often wondered if Joey is a Repoz creation. His anger and hostility seems too pure to come from an actual human being.
Amsterdam's former location is mentioned prominently in the best pool book ever written, David McCumber's Playing Off The Rail: A Pool Hustler's Journey.
See, regardless of whether I'm gonna get sharked, at the very least now I know I'll feel stupid playing there because I'll very easily be the worst. Though if anybody ever wants to get drunk and have a spelling contest I'm down, cos I'm pretty sure I'd win.
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