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Cavs show some spunk and grind out a win against the Pistons at the Palace last night. Hollins and Villanueva get ejected in the 4th. Villanueva charges the Cavs bench and then goes searching for Hollins in the locker room. I wonder what he said? Hollins is really getting under players skin these days. Imagine how flustered teams could be with Hollins and Andy playing at the same time. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/basketball/nba/04/11/cavs.pistons.ejections.ap/index.html

Two sweeps in a row. Go tribe. Winning is fun!

The Bulls handled the Celtics last night. I am starting to actually looking forward to the Playoffs. Here's hoping that the Celts hold on to the number 2 spot in the East.

Sort of on a related note of good times, one of my co-workers had the battery in their programable thermostat die while they were gone on vacation for a week this winter and came home to a freezing house, burst pipes and a freezer full of melted/spoiled food (to cool for fridge to kick on so the freezer melted)

Well if the rules of internet debate apply to SB5, the anti-SB5 group just lost. I saw a "Hitler hated unions too" bumperstick on I-90 this morning. First party to invoke Hitler loses. Although that is factually correct in this case.

^ God, let's hope so.

Great call by Manny for the bunts to get the run. He coached us to a win today.

Crisco. Bardol. Vagisil. Snot.

Nice way to start the season. "How's your wife and my kid?" Edit: Love this nugget from the game write up. "Carmona's ERA dropped from 30.00 to 9.00"

The 6th inning pitched by the BoSox Reyes was one of the craziest I have ever seen. 12 pitches, 1 strike, 1 walk and two hit batters, loaded the bases. After he hit Buck the STO announcers were like, "sometimes you do that in a situation like that." After the second batter was hit, " it was, nevermind, he just absolutely no idea where those pitches were going."

Sure. We've got uniforms and everything! Do you think the Indians have a cardboard cutout of Dolan in the locker room, ripping off a piece of his clothing after each win?

^ I missed that memo....3 kids by the time I was 28....but I digress...also my wife is not what I would call "career driven"..

I personally like a women who is willing to drape herself in raw meat, so much hotter than Pam Anderson's PETA Cabbage bikini.

^ I found it interesting that it's happening faster than they predicted and that the percentage of white children (and blacks too) isn't just decling but the actual number of kids under 18 is declining rapidly too.

Numbers of Children of Whites Falling Fast By SABRINA TAVERNISE Published: April 6, 2011 WASHINGTON — America’s population of white children, a majority now, will be in the minority during this decade, sooner than previously expected, according to a new report. The Census Bureau had originally forecast that 2023 would be the tipping point for the minority population under the age of 18. But rapid growth among Latinos, Asians and people of more than one race has pushed it earlier, to 2019, according to William Frey, the senior demographer at the Brookings Institution who wrote the report about the shift, which has far-reaching political and policy implications. ... Read the whole article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/us/06census.html?_r=1&hpw

Playing .500 ball for the first two months will go a long way with the fans (looking at you Senor Mustache, Eric Wedge), well at least me. Manny at least seems to have the team firing on all cylinders coming out of the gate. When the Indians are out of the playoffs by June it is just extra hard to get motivated to go to a game.

^Nice talking points by the Kasich admin, Salaries will not be cut by SB5, take home pay will be but salaries won't be. My personal problem with this bill is that it is not a reform bill in the sense that it wanted to correct the issues with collective bargaining, it was an idealogically driven anti-union designed to neuter the collective-bargaining rights, masquerading as a reform bill. If you are going to go Anti-union have the balls to come out and end collective bargaining with state employees. Employee compensation is a three legged stool of pay, retirement benefits and health benefits. This bill took away two of those three legs off of the bargaining table.

^ So did I. I was the CSA vs MSA post.

Oh boy, MSAs popping up on sports forums, it's the end of the world. http://www.waitingfornextyear.com/2011/04/some-thoughts-on-the-indians%e2%80%99-record-setting-attendance/

One point about Europeans, I do believe that Europeans are more tuned into the world because the basically the world, well European world, is right on top of them and there is far more international interaction. We are a huge, for the most part isolated country and even our cities are far apart compared to Europe. I think it's more of a cultural change, and the older generation which just as consumed by thier cell phones and movies on demand are looking back unfairly and comparing their college years with these kids. There are knocks against every generations. The WWII/Greatest generation bombed the hell out of the rest of the world and then spent the 50s and 60s drinking Pabst, mowing the lawn and working 40 hours weeks while having 3 martini lunchs, The Boomers, were strictly motivated politically because they had huge numbers of their generation killed in Viet Nam, then spent the rest of the 70s and early 80s partying and being greedy. These are gross generalizations, but the nostaligic notion of the previous generation being unselfish are generally unfounded.

Just a quick point but there is a world of differenece between a city that has a stable metro area population (CLE and Cincy) and most of the flight is to the burbs and sprawl versus oversized Mill towns such as, Youngstown and Flint. Hell Y-town had whole neighborhood infrastructure on the East side that never even was built out during the boom years.

HA HA HA HA...

^yep.

^I can see the TV being on 40 hours a week but being watched that much? I highly doubt that. Thank god engineering internships were paid. Or at least when I was in school.

I love Thinkgeek! Start the Apple brainwashing early with your kids! http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/looflirpa/e8bb/?pfm=Carousel_20110401_Apple_Store_2