SB, you can't miss Opening Day!! :p

Shit, watching from 10PM-1AM is surely easier than it was last year, when I had to get up at 5AM! (Or did I just stay up, I forget... )

At least watch it under the covers w/ Mr Babe... I'm sure you won't fall asleep right away.

We didn't lose you already...did we?

I'm going to see if my mom will let me stay up, too. To support my fellow Yankee fans, SB and JG, I'll tell her.

I guess the sports Gods aren't that mad at me. The Padres/Giants game was on ESPN last night. I watch West Wing from 7-9, so I only watched it off and on from the 5th inning, so I didn't see Vinny's first two at bats. Even though he didn't get a hit, he did get a sacrifice fly to bring a guy home, so high five for that.

Good to see all our teams won. Can I officially call The Padres my team?

Of COURSE I fell sound asleep during the video they showed before the game. However, I woke up in the bottom of the 7th inning to see that the Yankees were winning 13-1 and that the Big Unit was still on the mound. EXCELLENT opening day. I liked the comment from the A's manager. He said that having to play the Yankees on opening day was like having calculus first period. Great analogy!!

And, Gina, what's up with Clemens? Talking to BOSTON?????? Arrrrggghhh!!

Bethie, of course the Pads are your team. You've been with them since Day 1, right? Day 1 when Vinny joined, that is.

SB, Chemistry first period isn't much better. Oh, we're talking analogies.

Congrats to your boys!

On Opening Day, during the daytime, Clemens was invited to the Rangers stadium. He's got the right to talk to anybody - he's a free agent, after all - but I think I have a right to be jealous. We'll know soon enough what his decision is, so I'm just waiting him out. I'd love to have him back, but if he chooses not to, I'll still support him, as always.

The Yankees said that they've reached out to Rocket, made their intentions clear, and they will not be pursuing him, although they would love to talk to him further.

Yankees play again at 10, and I'm never going to make it. Never.

What are The Orioles wimps? They play one day, and they're already off?

As promised to Gina in the baseball thread, sorry about your guys tonight Gina. Hopefully they're just getting the cobwebs shaken off, and they will get this out of their system. Remember how they started off last year, and how they ended? Remember...it's not how you start......

Thanks, Bethie. I actually read your post last night but had to get to bed - it made me feel a lot better, though. I think it being bad for both personal and business is what got me so upset, but this is only the beginning of my baseball emotions.

SB, these late games just suck. Too bad Tivo can't work backwards and show you the game early!

Soo this is the sports thread, well I'm a personal fan of football and the NYGiants, Baseball- the NYMets, no, not the bloodsucking, extremely rich and overly paid yankees. ahah Anyway, I'm starting to get into Hockey too, Canadian hockey is pretty crazy!

NO!!! This is a Ladies Thread.

What are you doing here??? :p

Thanks JG.

But it's true, you do need special clearance to post here. :p

The nerve of some people!! Sheesh!!! :rolleyes:

Maybe a show-me-yours test would work... Oh, wait... err uh.... okay, so, an IQ test to realize what "Ladies" are??? That might do it!

JG - Will you volunteer as Inspector?? :p

My boys lost again last night. When I went to bed they were winning 4-3. Obviously, the game unraveled for them soon afterwards. WTF?????

Sorry SB that the Yanks lost. My Indians didn't play yesterday. They play the Twins tonight. So far we won 2 lost 1. I haven't seen any games yet to busy getting the house in order

The boys have lost 3 out of 4 games now. I'm holding out hope for tonight. Jeter started it off with a homer.

Vinny went 3-4 today, scoring a run. Atta boy. All this on is "special" day. It was Vinny Castilla T-shirt day. My right clicker on my mouse doesn't work so I can't copy and paste the article on The Padres website.

Actually, I am a lady, shh no one knows :p haha no, but seriously I am, my friends call me Krissy. And yes, I love sports, I'm like addict.

Oh, in that case, welcome! We can always do with fresh chick talk around here.

Speaking of which, my Lakers played the Clippers today... those games get SOOOOO crazy, because even if only one team is technically the home team (it was Lakers home today) but they're really both at home... so the place gets PACKED, and Clippers fans are insane. It's crazy, really crazy. The refs get crazy too. You'll never see more trash-talking than you will at a Lakers/Clippers game. You know no one talks trash like L.A. sports fans, and when it's L.A. against L.A., MAN. There was almost a huge fight behind me, everyone got involved in trying to break it up. I was just sitting there, leaning forward and praying that no one's nachos would end up in my hair. :rolleyes: I'm SO glad we won, and by 17 points, too. Very fantastic game.

Unfortunately my boy Sasha didn't do too well, but he did have 5 assists. Not too shabby. Tried a lot of really dumb shots though. Although you never know with him, sometimes those dumb shots go in and they become AMAZING shots. There's a fine line.

Also, I'd like to take this moment to thank you, SB. I'd actually like to thank the Yankees, but you're the closest thing I know to them. What I'd like to thank them for is for KILLING the Angels today. They had it coming, those jerks. I almost wish I went to see them lose, but I had a Laker game to go to, and we all know I don't consider baseball season to have started until basketball is over.

I was just LMAO at the L.A. Times Lakers blog... check out this part:

"Speaking of folks up in your ear, I tell ya, man. Smush is gonna hear Sam Cassell's voice in his head for the next three days. Dude does not shut up the entire game. It's actually pretty entertaining if you can hear it."

It's so true... he totally doesn't shut up, doesn't matter if he's playing or just on the bench. I only go to Clips games when they're playing the Lakers, but sometimes I watch their games at home on tv when they're playing other teams, especially if I have Brand and Cassell on my fantasy team, and the whole time, I go, "Shut up, Sam!" Today my cousin and I kept turning to each other and saying it under our breath. It's like our catchphrase. Gotta love close seats though, I imagine if you sit far from the court, it's probably like a whole different experience. You don't hear what Jack Nicholson is yelling, you don't hear players talk trash, you don't hear anything. What's the point of actually going?

SB...have your eyes quite welling? You know what I mean.

I was just about finished bawling when the last scene.."Thanks boss". Man, this was definately a show without any comic relief tonight.

Tell me something, in the "future" episode, with Bartlett's library opening, was Leo there? If so, this kind of makes that episode null and void.

Now, I'm probably going to need a sedative before next week's episode, or I'll be a bowl of jello. Seeing Josh and Bartlett up front as pall bearers is going to be so sad.

The poor Orioles can't get any love, even at home. The Red Sox came in and swept them, but the bad thing is their "house" was turned into Red Sox Nation. They don't sell out anyway, but usually with either The Red Sox or Yankees come to town, the stadium is packed. The whole upper decks were empty, and whenever the Red Sox fans would chant "Let's go Red Sox", The Orioles fan would try to drown them out with their boos, but they were outnumbered. A newscaster this morning on one of my local stations compared it to being a guest in your own bathroom. He went into the gift shop and they were actually selling Red Sox merchandise. :rolleyes:

Go Padres!

Go Tribe
I just wish I could see the games

After a few losses, the Yankees finally won. I wish they could take the 25 runs they scored in the two games they've won so far and scatter them in a few games, but I guess we'll take what we can get.

Zia, you've very welcome!! I love being close to the Yankees!

Beth, I couldn't stop bawling either. An amazing show. When Josh and Donna saw Annabeth at the hospital, and she said "Josh, he died," I almost completely lost it. My annoying mother-in-law was over and was in the process of leaving, so I missed the part where CJ told POTUS, but I recorded it and intend to rewatch it this week. And next week's show looks soooooo sad. I can't help wondering if we'll see Sam, Toby and Mallory, though. I never thought about the Bartlett Library scene. I can't remember if Leo was there, but I don't think he was. Weird. I'm going to have to check the recaps on televisionwithoutpity.com now. You've got my curiosity going.

Yeah, that would be something if Leo was in that show. My thinking is, why wouldn't he be. No one could know that John Spencer would die in real life, so would they have had Leo dead by then.

What really got me was not just the characters saying goodbye to Leo, but in real life the actors saying goodbye to John Spencer.

C.J.'s scene with Bartlett was very poinant and sweet. He needed no words, he just knew. I expect alot of tears next week. And I'm not talking about from the actors.

Note to self for next week SB. No visitors allowed from 8:00-9:00 PM Sunday night.

Hey, Beth - Next Sunday is Easter!! I'm going to be at my brother's house for dinner!! Thank GOD I got the DVR box.

Anyway, I checked the recap for the Presidential Library scene and here it is: >>We see a distinguished, white-haired gentlemen walking (with the aid of a cane) through an empty but utterly gorgeous library reading room. Another subtitle informs us that we're at the "Dedication to the Josiah Bartlet Presidential Library." Wait, "dedication to?" Doesn't anyone edit these things? The white-haired gentleman is Jed, by the way. He's followed in Bill Clinton's footsteps and lost the Just for Men look he's been sporting in the last couple of seasons. I had thought that Jed was planning on installing his library in an abandoned mill building, but the ornate ceiling in that reading room doesn't look like it was ever part of a factory. And then Jed walks up to some of the old gang. We see Danny (standing with his hand on C.J.'s back), C.J., Toby, Kate, Charlie, and Will. Not only have clothing styles not changed, but every character (other than Jed) has exactly the same hairstyle as in the present. C.J. greets Jed with a kiss on the cheek, and we learn that she's living in Santa Monica. Jed looks at C.J. and Danny and tells them that Abby wants a picture of the baby. Danny points out that he emailed one, but Jed wants one that he can stick on the refrigerator. Jed greets Toby, who thanks Jed for the invitation. Toby is apparently teaching at Columbia University. Or running drugs in Colombia. Or maybe he's playing forward for the Fighting Gamecocks at the University of South Carolina (in Columbia, natch). Any of those could be true from the context. Jed has read Kate's recently published book, but Charlie dismisses the book as a load of hogwash. Charlie also congratulates Jed on something he recently did in Jakarta. And Will is now a member of Congress. And that's the wrap-up on "Where are they now." And then Josh walks up to let everyone know that "the President" has arrived.

Outside the library, the presidential motorcade pulls up. Jed and company emerge to greet the unnamed leader of the free world. The President steps out of his limo, but before we can see anything, we cut to credits.<<

Actually, it sort of makes sense for Leo NOT to be there if they planned on having Santos win. The VP and POTUS wouldn't make a joint appearance, would they???

I suppose that's correct. How long after you leave office do they dedicate your library? I always thought it was more the 4 years.

I hope Charlie makes an appearance next week. I would have at least liked to have seen him in the scene where they show all the White House staff morning him.

I forgot about next week being Easter. I don't have off Monday, so there's no way I would be out of my house at 8:00 on a work night anyway. If I do go anywhere I'll just have to be home by 8:00. My family's parties usually wrap up early anyway. We can only stand being together for a certain period of time.

Eww, the Red Sox...the enemy! I really am not a fan of them, they're too cocky just like the Carolina Panthers were during football season.

You know what I was pondering SB? On West Wing wouldn't a brilliant ending for all of Josh's hard work to be have him named the Vice President? He could ask Donna to marry him and they would enter the White House as husband and wife.

Man, I know that's a pipe dream, but it's my dream.

Between the pipe dreams and stoned crabs, it should be a fun time in Philly!

Between the pipe dreams and stoned crabs, it should be a fun time in Philly! [/b][/quote]It's gonna be narly dude!