Chipper Jones. Braves hero. Still.

[BigDDude]

It's true. He saved Freddie Freeman's life last night.

Sort of.

You be the judge.



Chipper Jones hops on 4-wheeler, saves Freddie Freeman | FOX Sports on MSN

 

[BigDDude]

I know there have been some curling jokes going on here. Maybe this will cause them to end.

For a moment anyway.

 

[BigDDude]

An easy nominee for dick of the century.

A wife who donated a kidney to her ailing husband who allegedly cheated on her after the operation, has changed her mind about the donation. And yes, that means she wants it back.
U.K. couple Samantha and Andy Lamb have been married since 2007. Four years ago, after Andy's kidneys started failing, he began undergoing thrice-weekly dialysis sessions. In an effort to save her husband's life, Samantha, now 41, offered up one of her kidneys, which Andy, now 45, gratefully accepted. Sounds like a sweet story, right? The BBC even documented the couple's journey as they underwent the organ transplant in a documentary called "Diet or My Husband Dies."
But soon after the operation (for which Samantha had to lose weight in order to undergo), she began to suspect that Andy was cheating. He was moody and distant, and was spending a lot of time on his computer, according to her interview with Britain's the Mirror Online. Samantha didn't have proof until she stumbled upon his online sex sessions with another woman and her mother and sister allegedly caught Andy with his arms around her best friend. (Andy denies the cheating allegations.)

Yahoo Shine could not reach Samantha or Andy for comment, however, Samantha told the Mirror Online that she is filing for divorce, that she feels bitter when she looks at the four-inch scar left by the operation, and that she wishes she could take her kidney back. "I can't ­believe he now has a second chance to live to see his grandchildren grow up," she told the Mirror. "I would definitely go through the operation again - but I wouldn't give the kidney to him. I hate him. If I could, I'd take it back and give it [to] someone else. Obviously I don't want people to be put off putting their names on the organ donor list. But all I want from him is his name on the divorce papers."


It's unlikely that Samantha will be getting that kidney back, however, says Fred Silberberg, a Beverly Hills-based certified family law specialist. "Here in the United States, there are no property rights to a kidney," Silberberg tells Yahoo Shine. "The first issue is that this woman made a medical donation and one that wasn't conditional on him remaining faithful. The second issue is that no court would have jurisdiction over a body part. It's already in his body."
Similarly complicated cases have made headlines in recent years, including one in 2007 about a divorced Texas couple's closely battle over three frozen embryos. Augusta Roman was initially awarded custody of the embryos that she and ex-husband Randy fertilized in 2002. However, two years later, a higher court reversed that decision because the couple had signed an agreement to have the fertility clinic destroy the embryos in the event of a divorce, and that verdict was later appealed. Since then, many fertility clinics around the country require couples to sign similar agreements outlining how they would handle the embryos in the case of divorce.

In Samantha's case, while she may not get her kidney back, she'll likely get her divorce. And then there's this consolation she shared with the Mirror Online: "At least he always has to remember where his kidney came from." Indeed.

 

[BigDDude]

If I needed a reason to hate the NFL, this would be a good and valid one.


You cannot walk to the Super Bowl this year. It is against NFL policy. You cannot have someone drive you to the Super Bowl and drop you off. Again, against policy. You cannot even take one of New York City’s famous and plentiful taxis. Want to grill some burgers in the parking lot? Against the Law of Goodell. Instead, head inside MetLife Stadium for a $15 kale sandwich.
Why, you ask? Why have I been transported to this hellish dystopian spectacle as imagined by a vegan corporate attorney for Bank of America? Where has my beautiful, grimy football gone? Don’t these skeeving suits make enough money hawking commercial slots to the penile-compensation (“Erection lasting longer than four hours? That’s just the hemi power rubbin’ off, fella.”)
Why? Early on, the NFL cited strains on infrastructure and logistics, which might make sense if the game was actually being played in New York City and not in a colossal parking lot in New Jersey, one that spent the last five months hosting NFL football games for two different teams without any apparent infrastructural or logistical problems. After some backlash, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell closed his eyes and summoned his George Orwell spirit animal, citing “security concerns,” the magic phrase accompanying any proper bureaucratic shakedown.
The NFL thinks of you not as a human being whose loyalty and wallet contribute to its preposterous franchise valuations (), but rather as a number on an Excel spreadsheet, and the league is determined to wring as much guaranteed profit out of Super Bowl XLVIII as possible. A $9 billion yearly profit is not enough. Now Super Bowl-bound attendees are being told to head to one of the NFL’s nine designated “Fan Express” zones around New York and New Jersey and pay $51 to take a league-sanctioned shuttle bus to the Big Game.
Fans can also take the New Jersey Transit (hellish traffic-wise, Super Bowl or not), but even if only half the ticket-holders attending the Super Bowl are herded like cattle onto the Fan Express, that’s 40,000 sheep x $51 a pop. A cool $2 million in cooked-up revenue that goes straight into the pocket of the NFL, a not-for-profit institution that paid its CEO nearly $30 million in 2012.
Fans who are outraged should have seen this coming. Jerry Jones, a billionaire who happily took $325 million from Arlington taxpayers to fund the new Cowboys stadium, had the audacity to say this with a straight face about the motivations for the 2011 lockout:

“Rather than before it goes over the cliff, like we wish we had done in this country 10 years ago, make the changes now in the business model that will grow the pie, because it’s too great a game for our fans.”
​

Seems the NFL was close to imminent financial disaster. Funny then that just one year before the lockout, commissioner Roger Goodell publicly stated that the NFL expects to triple its revenue to $25 billion by 2027. Pretty ambitious for a league that was going off a cliff.
Of course, the revenue isn’t going to triple itself. That’s where you come in. That’s why you cannot walk to the Super Bowl. That’s why you cannot tailgate at the Super Bowl. Come hungry, because the menu inside MetLife Stadium includes healthy options like a chicken-sausage and Tuscan kale sandwich for just $15.
The ghost of Hank Stram just started drinking bourbon straight out of the bottle.
All this despite the fact that taxpayers have paid for a ridiculous, stupefying, unbelievable 68% of NFL stadium construction costs since 1923—a number that has risen astronomically in recent years despite a crippling recession and bankrupt state governments.
All this despite record-setting, unfathomable profits for the league, including a deal with Anheuser-Busch to make Bud Light the “official beer of the NFL” that’s worth $1.2 billion over six years.
There’s a certain pavlovian response that echos in the comments section of any article that dares to point out the NFL’s runaway greed, often made by high-T Baby Boomers wearing really big polo shirts in their Facebook profile photo, and it goes something like this: “Durrrrr that’s just good ol’ American capitalism! Love it or leave it.”
No, it’s not. It’s the opposite. Under a capitalist system, taxi companies, black cars, Uber drivers, bus lines, and other services would compete, creating a fair market price for a ride to the Super Bowl. The NFL’s closed system is designed not just to crowd out competition, but to ban it entirely.

 

[Brocktagon]

It's true. He saved Freddie Freeman's life last night.

Sort of.

You be the judge.



Chipper Jones hops on 4-wheeler, saves Freddie Freeman | FOX Sports on MSN

people in Atlanta are fucking idiots. that is all. just fucking idiots.

 

[BigDDude]

Just a couple of Dodger fans.

 

[Brocktagon]

I know there have been some curling jokes going on here. Maybe this will cause them to end.

For a moment anyway.

so curling is actually a pre-workout for cleaning the floors? nice!

 

[BigDDude]

so curling is actually a pre-workout for cleaning the floors? nice!

I would have never thought of that. But, she probably does have clean floors. If not because of her, but because she probably have roommates. And they are probably the ones with the brooms.

I wonder if her oven is clean too..???

 

[BigDDude]

A sad day in Dodger history.

It was on this date in 1958 that, driving home from his liquor store in Harlem, Roy Campanella breaks his neck when his car hit a telephone pole in an early morning auto accident on Long Island. The 36-year old Dodger catcher, who has won three MVP awards (1951, '53, '55) will be paralyzed for the remainder of his life.

 

[BigDDude]

An interesting twist in Matt Garza's new contract.

Matt Garza's four-year contract with the Milwaukee Brewers contains a complex fifth-year option for 2018, according to [ame="[MEDIA=twitter]428233013387091968[/MEDIA]"]Joel Sherman of the New York Post[/ame].
The deal, which will pay Garza $12.5 million each year from 2014-2017, also [ame="[MEDIA=twitter]428233013387091968[/MEDIA]"]comes with a $5 million opt-out for 2018[/ame], which could drop to as low as $1 million if Garza spends 130 days on the disabled list. However, the [ame="[MEDIA=twitter]428233375527489536[/MEDIA]"]contract also contains a $13 million vesting option[/ame] that kicks in if the right-hander is able to start 110 games during the life of the contract, avoid the DL at the end of the 2017 regular season and reach 115 innings pitched in 2017.
News of the Garza signing broke over the weekend and became official Monday afternoon. The 30-year-old Garza has been a consistent, if injury-prone, starter throughout his career, tallying a 3.82 ERA and a 3.2 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 155⅓ innings pitched for the Cubs and Rangers last season. He has been unable to reach the 200 innings threshold for three straight years and missed six weeks of the 2013 season with a muscle strain. Garza also spent significant time on the DL in 2012 after suffering a stress reaction in his elbow, an ailment that kept him out for the entire second half.

 

[moxie]

Just a couple of Dodger fans.

See what becoming a Dodger fan does to you? She shoulda stayed a Blue Jays fan!

 

[BigDDude]

See what becoming a Dodger fan does to you? She shoulda stayed a Blue Jays fan!

Are you sure that is a Dodger fan thing, or, because she has been used and used by more people than a New York subway turnstile?

 

[Brocktagon]

See what becoming a Dodger fan does to you? She shoulda stayed a Blue Jays fan!

OMFG what the hell happened to her??

brunettes >>> blondes

 

[BigDDude]

Vin



WHY?

 

[BigDDude]

OMFG what the hell happened to her??

brunettes >>> blondes

9,999 dicks, and Hep - C

 

[Brocktagon]

9,999 dicks, and Hep - C

"i'd still hit it" ~worrld-C

 

[BigDDude]

"i'd still hit it" ~worrld-C

Maybe like this. Maybe.

 

[Johnnydollaz89]

Hello, everybody!

 

[moxie]

Why is Olney trying to grind my gears?

There are still some front-line free agents who will sign before the start of the regular season, and the inevitable spring training injuries to come, so it's too early to lock in predictions for 2014. But right now, this is what I'm looking at:

Division winners for the AL -- Tampa Bay Rays, Detroit Tigers, Oakland Athletics
Wild-card teams -- Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees
Division winners for the NL -- Washington Nationals, St. Louis Cardinals, Los Angeles Dodgers
Wild-card teams -- Atlanta Braves, San Diego Padres

G'morning, Johnny

 

[BigDDude]

Hello, everybody!

Hola!