jester43

i also think he is getting way more sh-- than he deserves. i hope he gets to go to AZ (as far away from thde afc east as possible) and rushes for 1500 yards.

i still don't get where all the hate is coming from...i'm not saying he's the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but geez...

now that was a good one...bravo!

i suggest you download the fine alice donut song "J Train Downtown: A Nest Of Murder." i am positive you will be able to relate. hell, i am only in NYC about 3 times a year and i can...

heya...coy wire will be back! now that our special teams are actually playing well, i would have hated to see this guy cut loose. i know the comarisons to tasker are a little cliched at this point, but i remember #89 took a few years to come into his own also. and he wasn't a competent position player until he was already a special team star. i predict many more good things from this kid. too bad he can't play guard.

yeah it's kind of weird isn't it? although i must say, we outsiders are conditioned to frame every conflict like this in terms of "good guy vs. bad guy" ...we assign each side a role and then stop thinking about it. like i said, i am not at all comfortable with ending this woman's life for her. but i truly do not know what went on between she and her husband. i just know that it must be a nightmare for the parents to have their daughter's life ended for her, no matter how pitiful it is. also, i think a lot of people are confusing her condition with that of a person who is "brain-dead" and on a respirator. someone like that would die immediately if you turned off their respirator. but this woman only needs to be fed. tome that is different.

jesus that would hurt wouldn't it? is it possible that they taste good? i would never have eaten the slow-moving poop-eating behemoths that we used to pull out of the allegheny river when i was little, but then they sure couldn't move like that.

that is the funniest avatar/handle combo i have seen in 5+ years of wasting time on this site.

for once in my life i think the right-wing christian whack jobs have it right- this time. this case makes me very uncomforatble. the fact that she is breathing on her own changes everything as far as i am concerned. i can sympathize with the husband wanting to go out and begin a new life with someone who is not a vegetable, but i just can't rationalize making the decision to hasten someone else's death.

i am about 160 and the large is way too big. my next jersey will be medium.

i remember hearing the same things about rob johnson.

bledsoe was not a d- ....a c maybe, but no worse. and i think you grade the LBs too high. the word is out: you can run on this group. and i think they will be EXPOSED this year without williams plugging the middle for them.

i am just pissing and moaning because i am not sure if i will ever get back to that level of training again....which likely means no more personal records for this old dog. although... the marathon is the one race you can still run well into your early 40s so i can't give up yet. there is a poster called "runner" who ran in the women's olympic trials last year and i think she was 41. i can't remember when she last PRd or if the race she used to qualify was a PR for her, but obviously you don't just crumble when you turn 40...although lately it feels that way!! ok,...vent over...i feel better...

but could it have been a side effect of chronic high BP? ...which is a side-effect of steroids. i'm not accusing...i am asking.

ok i am to cry like a B word just this once and be done with it: one year ago at this time i was averaging over 100 miles per week and feeling great. i averaged 105/week from december '03 to august 04, and topped out at 131. i had two mild bouts of anemia, but once i got my supplements straightened out i was running PRs- at age 38, no less...that's not supposed to happen to a lifelong runner, but it did to me. i felt like a stud and it was frikkin awesome. then in september, 3 days after running a 1:16 half-marathon while going out way too fast, and also while still on antibiotics from strep throat(it was like i could do no wrong), i tore the tendon that holds my ab muscle to my pelvis. i was doing an ab workout with my team and i just felt it rip. yes it hurt, but not as bad as you would think. it felt like a muscle pull, and i couldn't look at myself in the mirror if i had skipped a workout because of sore abs. plus i had a marathon coming in 2 months so i kept training. as the weeks passed my "ab pull" did not heal, it got worse. but i could still manage to train...in fact i still had one more awesome race in october (another 1:16 half-mar...on a very hilly course)before the pain also spread into my groin. but once that happened, it made it harder and harder to do anything but slow easy running. i cut my milage way back so i could make it to the starting line of the philly marathon in november. i made it through ok (2:46, about 5 mins slower than it should have been), but i knew something was wrong. got a diagnosis of athletic pubalgia and in january had surgery to (a) reattach the ab tendon to the pelvis, and (b) cut grooves in my overly-tightened groin muscles to get them back to their normal length. it was my first "injury" in 25 years of running and racing, but technically it wasn't a running injury cause i did it doing !@#$ing pilates. the recovery was a B word, but after the first month or so (during which time all exercise was forbidden)i got better fast. i followed my rehab plan to the letter and waited patiently till i was allowed to resume baby 1-2 mile jogs in week 6 of rehab. meanwhile the surgeon pronounced me healed after only 7 weeks post-surgery and removed all restrictions on my training. unfortunately on my 4th day of running, during a TWO MILE run, my knee started throbbing like a B word, and the MRI shows a small tear in the meniscus. it is so small that the doc thinks it may be an old injury, but there is so much pain and swelling he doubts that it is. so i go for a 2nd opinion on 4/1 and if the 2nd doc agrees, i will get it scoped. son of a B word. how i managed that in a slow 2 mile run i will never know. but now i am back on the shelf again. it has been two weeks since i hurt it and i am nowhere near healed. meanwhile i haven't trained normally in 6 months and i have barely exercised at all in 4 months. i am depressed and miserable from all the inactivity and i just want my life back. i know in the grand scheme of things this problem is miniscule...and you guys can put this post in the LAMP hall of fame if youwant, but i had to get this off my chest. there are just not enough swear words to describe my frustration! i was enjoying this late rennaissance in my competitive career and i am just crushed that it may very well end like this. it is going to take me at least a year to come close the shape i was in last summer and i will be 40 by then...if i pull it off it will be the greatest comeback ever, but i think it is more likely that this is how it will end. i feel like joe theisman getting his leg snapped in half...ok, i admit it's not exactly the same thing, but man it is going to be a LOOOOng road back...maybe too long.

what does that gaelic word mean under your avatar?

we can only hope....damn, i want our colors back. meanwhile, dude might as well get "jester" and "43" on the back because at this point it seems like i have about as much chance of playing for the sabres in an nhl game as the current roster of players does...

while i would not care one bit if this guy was executed, i have two problems with the death penalty: 1. first, i think life in prison is a worse punishment. i think a life of incarceration, despair and regret... sprinkled with an regular dose of a$$rape...has to be more miserable than the quick painless method they use now. but also... 2. I DO NOT TRUST THE GOVERNMENT TO ADMINISTER IT FAIRLY! there have been too many innocent people found on death row to justify state executions.

i am not saying he's guilty cause i have no idea about this case....but it seems like you can definitely buy your freedom if you're rich and famous. the next one to get off the hook will be michael jackson.

yes...but if i remember correctly he was a FA...either way, the best rushing team in the nfl considered him expendable after going through an uncharacteristically poor season with him as the LT. hopefully TD finds a way to put him on the bench and improve the line at the same time.

none of these possibilities represents anything but a step backward for the o-line.

no you're not. i'm not saying we had much choice in the matter, but the roster now is OBVIOUSLY weaker than the one we finished the season with. forget about the QB situation. ron edwards for pat williams? teague for jonas jennings? god-knows-who for teague? i am not slamming TD here....i almost always stick up for the guy, as a matter of fact...i know he would have been an idiot to re-sign those two for anywhere near what they got from the niners and vikes. but at the same time we are not one bit closer to the playoffs than the team that ended the season. and i know it was time for bledsoe to go, but i think that starting a guy with lots of talent but zero experience is at best a wash in '05. i am sure by '06 he will represent an upgrade, but barring a spectacular draft (crossing my fingers) i can't see how this team will be any better than the one that pissed away a golden opportunity against the steelers. and i can't WAIT to hear all the pissing and moaning when losman gets off to a rough start this fall...it may be the right decision in the long run, but YET AGAIN we seem to be taking one step forward and two back.

man, you really don't like the guy at all huh? i dunno...i figure there are no "decent" offers because TD doesn't want to trade the guy for a box of tape when he could really save our asses in case willis goes down. he is holding the cards here, not travis. either he gets someone (or a pick)who makes the team better, or henry stays around as a back-up. and inasmuch as a back up RB "loses" games for his team, i think shaud williams would lose us more games than henry.