UConn James

I don't think there is any substantiated or quotable evidence that Losman rubbed the other Bills the wrong way. Mularkey clamped the lid pretty tight on players talking to the media other than the general "I'm going to go out there and do the best I can" interview --- no behind the scenes stuff, no revealing what was hurting them, no tell-alls of who didn't like who or who cut a loud fart in the film room. There's the assumed veteran non-support that caused Meathead to make the switches to Holcomb, but that's surmized. Moulds wasn't very flattering toward the team in general, but I don't think even he came out and said something like "JP's a horse's ass." And, even under the new admin and among our UFA losses, no one's said anything like that publicly. Probably b/c saying an essentially rookie player is a tad immature or had his struggles on-the-field is not exactly breaking news. If JP is the best option, the coaches will put him on the field. If not, they won't.

Good. Those lying, defecting bastards.... and they're friggin' priests!

-- For the "What is your biggest weakness" I have an old standard that I picked up when talking to one of my profs for some job-hunting hints. He said I am "low-key almost to the point of unenthusiastic" and I am always happy when this question comes up, b/c it lets me address something that the interviewer is probably wondering about. I'm a serious, task-driven person. I say that I'm not very excitable or prone to panic, and I think the message and words are what matters (rather than being a bubbly hand-talker, tho I don't say this part). -- 15 minutes is too much; you're "hanging out" in the office and appear too desperate. Five minutes early, more like, even if you just wait in your car for the other ten.

Bastage! *ptui* *ptui* Miami, VT, Boston College can all go to the drink for all I care. We call the Mecca of College Basketball "the U" in our local parlance.

Worst question I've ever gotten was, "Why do you get up in the morning?" I think now it was meant to be kind of philosophical, but at the time the look on my face was and I had to fight the urge to say, "Usually because I have to pee." I'm doing serious job-hunting and have had some interviews myself in the past couple of months and one coming up this week at the U. Have been self-employed in a construction niche job that I'm not really seeing a future in --- especially w/ rising costs on everything b/c of gas (which is making it too expensive to work, odd as that sounds). Just prepare, know something about the company/organization going in (researching what they're about shows that you actually give a hoot), and be honest. And have a firm handshake; most interviews are decided w/in the first 10 seconds. azjepp, I'll have to take your advice about writing a follow-up....

OH YEAH!

Gotta watch out for that sudden-onset osteoporosis. He could shrink before our very eyes.

Wrong! I hear he's 3 inches short of 7 feet.

Maybe they just want to give us the opportunity to showcase our fine PK, those big-hearted bastards.

Don't sass them, Monkey! They're from Canada. They invented the game. They don't get penalties! Any more of your backtalk, and they'll send the Canadian Mafia down to ice-cap your simian ass.

Purdue doesn't stress the THE as their trademark thingie. Their claim to fame is having put more people into space than Eli Lilly. On topic, Kelso pretty much nailed it. But in the Coaching Turnover category, I would add that we've had to work with the remnants of those several different philosophies in amalgum. I think generally, it's called 'bad fit.' It's now up to Jauron et al. to try to make some kind of combination that will work.* *Not running the Meathead trickery shovel pass to Shelton from the 1 should help.

The penalty section of the NHL Rulebook doesn't apply to anyone with the last name of Chara.

That sure quieted things down in Ottawa....

I don't quite think those were the arguments for picking Nugent. Nor was it being blind to our other areas of need. I've been clamoring about OL and the other key but unsexy positions for a while, but when the GM doesn't address them, what can a fan do but shrug. More like trying to play to our strengths. ST unit that could get even better with a much more powerful directional kicker, and an offense that would be more reliant on FGs for scoring what with the non-support it was getting from Donahoe beyond the shiny new skill players to whom the QB had no time to throw. They say you can't win in the NFL by kicking FGs, but you sure can lose in the NFL by not having a good, reliable kicker. Nugent will be that for the Jets for a while. As a matter of fact, I consider the Kicker and punter to be one of those key, unsexy positions.... b/c you don't know how key it is until you have someone like Jake Ariens shanking 20-yarders and extra points. TD's 'dime-a-dozen' comment when he first got here pissed me off. In perspective, Lindell was coming off a year that... well, let's put it mildly by saying it wasn't his best year, ending with that missed 28-yarder in the win-and-you're-in game vs. Pitt. Well on him that he got his sh-- together, got over the shoulder injury that was hurting his technique and got a much better long snapper. But sucks to TD for mostly waiting for the problems to go away by themselves.

You've got the startings of a good point there. But I don't think AY's grooming depends upon Troy Vincent. Also, another year in college most anywhere else would be negligible in terms of development, but it was at Ohio State, which has become DB U. I was pleased with this pick. There was no <sarcasm> tag in your post, so I'm just going to ask.... You do know that the average shelf-life of a RB is less than 2 years, don't you? And it's an area where you can put a young player in and they'll do all right. If Willis bolts, we grab a power-rusher in the 2nd.

What, is someone going to put his feet to the fire? Or are you talking about some other appendage, extremity or orafice?

Je m'excuse. Bob McNair. Ke-rist, that whole Oilers-Titans/Texans, McNair(the QB)/McNair(the owner) incest triangle catches me sometimes.

Also, why did Locke send his map sketch up the tube? Does he want to keep Eko from using it or to let the people at the other end know that he knows something? I'm surprised that Locke didn't get the sense that it was coming together more --- that he was 'destined'/the island wanted him to find the hatch that was under the plane, only that he missed the sign and now he can start again. His giving up tirade last night, that it's all a mindf--k is so un-Locke-like. No doubt it rekindles/reinforces his belief that he (or rather, his use of the numbers that haunt him) are cursed and cause harm to people around him. How does he react?

I had heard that he was up for a League front-office job, and was to meet with Bud Adams today to discuss his future.

Day-um, there's a lot of stuff to digest. The psychic Claire went to says he's a fake, that he lies and just takes people's money.... Why then was he so adament w/ Claire? As I remember in that ep, he was shocked; maybe it was the first time he really had a vision? But there's been a little discussion whether he's involved in Dharma. A little more of Eko's backstory. But the question remains why he had to go to LA. When he and Locke were at the plane and after Locke's dream, I was getting the sense that history would repeat itself, jogged along a bit by Locke's tired/memorized performance line that "Boone was a sacrifice that the island demanded." Again, Locke fails to tell the person doing the climbing the whole truth, especially with regards to seeing said climber die. And, a really dumb thing for Locke to do; imagine him accompanying two people in the space of a few weeks island-time, who fell in the same spot. Might raise a couple of red flags, ya think? What they find in the ? hatch... A viewing station, where the only working television is for the Swan hatch. Another orientation film that now features a "Mark Whit----?" in a tweed coat who before was Dr. Marvin Candle in a lab jacket; and again, the tape was damaged in a certain spot. Despite Eko's faith that it's something more (a Purpose for the lost souls of the island), I remain convinced that it's an experiment to see if they'll push the button. So, in this hatch, the Pearl, it was set up for viewing, yet there was a camera in it, too. Maybe someone's watching the watchers?

HB to a fellow Connecticut Yankee. (Tho, being in the upper right quadrant, I root for the Sox).

The preview would lead one to believe that Eko does a humpty-dumpty. Also shows Michael in the armory/jail. As the season winds down in the next few weeks, there will be a lot of stuff happening b/c the writers will want everyone talking over the summer.

I'm guessing it's a quote by everyone's favorite fictious mailman and "Cheers" scholar, Cliff Clavin. ----- I thought he signed a longer-term contract earlier this offseason but maybe I'm just remembering something that never happened. Sounds like either the Bills were seeking a discount b/c of the relative inexperience or Peters and his agent are holding off b/c they think he'll be very good this season and he'll get a big payday next year.

Had to read an excerpt of that for a lit class and after the semester was over, ordered it online. It was Michael Herr who wrote that screenplay, n'est pas? Basically a stream of conciousness, that you have to read about five times to really get exactly what he's writing about. But once you do... Fabulous account of the innanity, the horror, the hilarity and the sorrow. My uncle, who was about 1/2 mile south of the DMZ when Tet started, read it and upon handing it back to me, said, "Yep."

My brother's FTO last year called in the bomb squad when he saw a wristwatch lying on a backpack on a call they went to. Is it just me or is everyone wound way too tight? Not to mention that a lot of people have very high opinions of themselves as high-value targets. These people have never heard of useless saturation marketing? Use some fecking common sense.