myLot Discussions| Dodgers 2008 season, good? Bad? Undecided? | | I'm thrilled that baseball season is upon us! I'm thinking that the Dodgers will do better this year, due to the strength of the lineup, the addition of Andruw Jones and Joe Torre, and hopefully that our pitching is stronger this year.What are your thoughts on it? | |
| | All Star Game | | I was just wondering how many people have seen the new ranking for the All Star Game? As of yesterday (6/11) Russell Martin has taken over the top spot for the starting catcher for the all start game, along with a few others moving up in the runnings. What i was wondering is any one excited about this move by the dodger catcher? Or do you think maybe Paul LoDuca should start? | |
| | Rihanna takes romance with baseball player | | The singer Rihanna, who since he was assaulted by ex-boyfriend Chris Brown avoided giving details of his personal life, took her romance with Matt Kemp, third baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers. The information is the website of U.S. magazine People.
Recently, the singer announced its new North American tour, which will be accompanied by concerts of Ke $ ha and begins in Seattle in July. To prepare for the concerts, Rihanna has some classes with Travis Barker of Blink 182. | |
| | Phillies Win the National League Pennant | | Last night, the Philadelphia Phillies won the 5th game of the National League Play-offs, to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, 4 games to 1.Now fans of the Phillies just need to wait until the American League Play-offs end.Next Wednesday, the winner of the American League Play-off will play against the Phillies in the World Series to Crown the Champion of this year in Major League Baseball.It looks like most likely it will be the New York Yankees, although not long ago with a commanding lead, the Yankees lost to the Boston Red Sox in the ALCS, meaning although the Yankees have a major advantage, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim can still make a comback and win.
I'll be watching to see which team will be next in line for the Phillies juggernaut.Go Phillies. | |
| | World Series | | I'm from the Philadelphia suburbs. Last year the Phillies did what only one other Phillies team did, win the World Series. Right now they are in Colorado with a 2 to 1 lead over the Rockies in the play-offs leading to the World Series. I am looking for the Phillies to win tonight and then this weekend and next week against the Dodgers and go back to the Series, with them getting revenge for 1950 when the Yankees beat the Whiz Kids of that year.Of the 5 teams left, The Phillies and Rockies, the New York Yankees, and the Los Angeles Dodgers and Angels, who are you rooting for? Are you a regular season fan of one of the teams or just interested because it's the play-off? How big a deal is it that your team wins the World Series? | |
| | Twenty Five Millions Dollars Turned Down?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | | Manny Ramirez, who played the last three months of the season with the Los Angeles Dodgers, is a free agent this spring. He can sign with any team that will pay him what he wants. This week he turned down an offer from the Dodgers. He would have gotten $25 million for one season. But he turned it down!!! When was the last time you turned down $25 milliion? | |
| | Manny Ramirez rejects 1 year/ $25 million offer from the Dodgers | | What does everyone think about Manny Ramirez rejecting a 1 year/$25 million dollar contract from the Los Angeles Dodgers? His agent Scott Boras has said that Manny wants a multi-year deal but that is a lot of money. If he would of accepted this deal, he would of became the second highest paid player in all of baseball. The only other team that is offered in Manny are the San Francisco Giants but they can only offer him in the $15-$20 million range. I guess its Manny being Manny. | |
| | Word Origins | | Did you ever wonder where words comes from? What did they originally mean? The study of word origins is etymology and it's my passion. I find it extremely interesting. Here are some everyday words in English, and the words they derived from:'Hysteria' comes from the Greek 'hyster' meaning 'womb'.
'Allegory' comes from the Greek 'allos' meaning 'other'.
'Elite' comes from the Latin 'elire' meaning 'to choose'.
'Hazard' comes from the Arabic 'al zahr' meaning 'the dice'.
'Silly' comes from the German 'selig' meaning 'happy'.Both 'sugar' and 'candy' come from the sanskrit 'sarkara' meaning 'grit'.
'Incentive' comes from the Latin 'incanere' meaning 'to sing to'.
'Nice' comes from the Latin 'nescius' meanig 'ignorant'.
'Idea', 'idol' and 'ideal' all come from the Latin ''idein' meaning 'to see'.
Rhubarb is named after the Volga River. In Greek, the name of the Volga is Rha, and barb means "uncultivated." Rhubarb is thus a wild plant that grows along the Volga.
'Toboggan' is derived from the Algonquin language and loosely meant 'instrument with which to drag a cord'.
The Dalmatian dog is named for the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia, where it is believed to have been... | |
| | Baseball Season is almost here! Are you excited? | | Okay, I'm a huge baseball fan! I adore baseball! (Yes, and I am a girl.) My team is the Los Angeles Dodgers, and it looks like we should have quite a season. What with Torre as our new manager and adding Andruw Jones to the team roster... I start getting excited, as soon as spring training starts. So, who else here adores baseball season? What is your team? How do you think they will do this season? | |
| | Knowing Stuff | | Knowing stuff.That’s what becomes important to most men my age when the realization hits that we can no longer run faster or jump higher, and that anyone in America under the age of 40 has no clue what PF Flyers are. PF Flyers, that’s what helped us run faster and jump higher though if we’re being honest here, I could never run very fast or jump very high.Then there were Red Ball Jets, and Keds, and then of course the old standard, your basic Chuck Taylors, the Converse All Star high tops. These were what we called sneakers before the age of Nike, Adidas, Reebok and Air Jordans, and they didn’t cost as much as most places charge for rent either. Coolness of shoe was judged by a little rubber logo smaller than a postage stamp glued to the heel of your shoe. There were no pumps back then, no gel in the soles, no zippers, or aerodynamic design, though I still have trouble seeing how an aerodynamically designed shoe could make it possible for me to slam dunk. Give me my Chuck Taylors and a stepladder and I’ll show you a thunder dunk to beat all thunder dunks.I bet half the people in America under the age of forty have no idea what a thunder dunk is either, and... | |
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