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Apostrophe (04/04/08)

by Falcon02520
created April 04, 2008, last edited June 22, 2008
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"The Stream of Consciousness is the process of the chain of thoughts that occur in one's head.  Simply put, the thought of one thing in the mind leads to the next thought and the next through association.  It is how the thoughts flow.  It is how you can go from thinking about baseball to wondering if the stove is turned off at home.  It is that stream that flows..."

A continuation of the thoughts of the falcon from English 102...

"This damn Poetry Analysis essay is due Monday. Probably should have started it by now. Can't help being a procrastinator. That extra pressure of a deadline is the only thing that makes the work come out effectively.  When there isn't a deadline, that is when writing can be enjoyable...

"There is a reminder... I need to write at the chair today. Ha, I don't know if it would be a good idea. BracketBot has created a monster.  The Hottest Sports Wife Tournament already has cleared the 700 vote mark.  It is easily the most voted for page in the site's history.  People are signing up non-stop to fill out their brackets...

"Filling out the bracket turned out to be quite difficult.  It should come down to Elin Nordegren and Carmella DeCesare.  Well, it is filled out more along the lines of who I think should win.  It is probably wrong.  The community better agree with me, because I want my free T... yes, it rhymes (the class is talking about poetry) so unless your name is Carmella DeCesare get off me."

Trying to pay attention is hard because the class is just so facking boring. Between the teacher, the subject, the stories, who needs sleeping pills?

"Contacted the second coming of ManRays earlier.  Now there is something to look forward to on Monday ('cause normally I got "The Mondays").  Pean better not be busy because the Rays and Spankees fans are going at it during ESPN2's broadcast of the game in a real live blog.  We are going to show the kiddies what live blogs really are about.  It won't just be stupid score by score or by play updates and users just typing crap to get comment points.  Real written conversations and the exchange of thoughts, ideas, and in-sight on the game at hand.  (If anyone wants to join, bring your "A" game because we aren't accepting bull-spit/useless comments...

"None of the users know how to do a live blog (I only a few weeks ago realized this myself).  Stupid commenting along with their self... pointless.  Score by score updates... pointless.  It even caused my to block a few users because it can get out of hand. Agent0 used to be on that list, but has earned my respect enough to come off.  Manny straightened him out last night.  Agent0 was pulling a SSR and commenting on a page, having a live blog all on his lonesome.  Mr. Stiles explained that he should add some insight and then the two went on to have a really nice running blog.  I hope The Agent continues to add opinion/insight to his commenting...

"Speaking of adding opinion, Cougar should start doing that.  All his posts can also be found on ESPN.com/SI.com/MLB.com/etc.  That is because he simply reports news.  If I want to read this news, I will go to the source.  If Cougar wants to add something to his posts (like his opinion, breaking down the news, or any type of bulk) I'd read his stuff.  Until then he will never reach his potential."

BE ORIGINAL...

Some time passes in which I cannot recall what occurred.  Add that onto note taking notes and I'm totally lost.  So picking it up later in the class...

"Washington should have beaten the Phils last night.  Five runs before the red team touched a bat, into the bull-pen before the fifth inning, they have to win those kinds of games if they are going to be taken seriously this season. 

"It isn't just that they lost, they gave the game away in the tenth.  With Jimmy Rollins on first they knew that Victorino was going to bunt.  Zimmerman fielded it and threw him out at first but nobody covered third.  Rollins and Guzman were in a race to the bag and J-Rol will win that every time.  Colome has to cover the bag there so they have a chance at throwing Rollins out.

"Utley is then intentionally walked as is Howard.  Then Colome can't find the strike zone and delivers a bases loaded walk to Worth-less.  JuT is going to make a comment about that remark.  "Worth did great last season... this, that, and the other thing." Oh well, I can't really skip through my thoughts when posting this, so that is getting included.

"JuT is the designated Philly Sports Fan here at the chair.  Especially with Christof gone.  Speaking of Christof, I wonder who is doing the Friday Fryer for him this week?  It'd better be..."

(whisper)"I'm leaving. Are you coming?"

"Is she done?"

"Nope, but I don't care."

So we (friend and I) bailed... that class sucks anyway...

Today's Lesson: Procrastination = Leaving Early (Guess that doesn't make sense... whatever)


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Too Manny StilesVarsity Captain
584 days ago
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Yeah, it should be fun to do a Rays-Yankees running blog without a news camera in my face for once!!! Here's a tip for you wannabe running blogsters: Pick good games!!!
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JuTMSY4Legend
584 days ago
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1) I agree, not many people know how to liveblog...i have a buddy (diehard boston fan) who actually does

2) Designated Philly Sports fan eh?

3) Its Werth...and he did great last season, this that and the other thing...

And he's a pretty typical sub-par right fielder...I'm not attached, I don't think he's great and frankly, i still wish Vic was in right and Rowand in Center and the phillies payroll was 110 mil and the team had some god damned balls in the outfield


For Who? "My Team" For What? "To Win"
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SSreportersLegend
584 days ago
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Agent0 was pulling a SSR and commenting on a page, having a live blog all on his lonesome. He's got it much easier....basketball is so quick, baseball you have breaks in between all of them. But yes, I think we're seeing less and less live-blog participation since we moved it to the LR.
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Tmil42AAA-er
584 days ago
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We don't say that we've got a case of the Mondays around here.


I reckon you'd get your ass kicked sayin something like that.
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LASportsblogAAA-er
584 days ago
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Yes, yes you will.
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JuTMSY4Legend
584 days ago
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and Falcon...you're the kinda guy who can take this, so I'll say it here:

But commentary on another writer, journalist, person, etc is fine, but to me its among the lowest forms of journalism. Sometimes things need to be said or discussed in a more open forum (see jim rome or his lackies) but for the most part its just because someone is too lazy to brainstorm their own ideas.

Its fine in small doses, but doing it over and over just belabors the point to where I stop caring. There are users who do this and there are bloggers who do this and there are professionals who do this (Simmons for example)...

Honestly, we get it, you're schtick is to blow gus johnson or lambast billy packer or something...that's fine, but unless there's a fine point, please save it for a rainy day rather...

alright, sorry if i offended anyone, but I think it needs to be said...

Now i'm going to write an article about hating some journalist so I can be hypocritical...
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Falcon02520Legend
584 days ago
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I appreciate the honesty... Really, I just write down the thoughts that go through my head in the order in which they do. That is just what I happened to be thinking about earlier today...
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Too Manny StilesVarsity Captain
584 days ago
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May I add: Write it like you'll want to read it a year from now, five years from now, etc...
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Falcon02520Legend
584 days ago
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Admittingly many bad habbits returned while writing this but laziness caught up and it got published as is...
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Too Manny StilesVarsity Captain
584 days ago
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For life is not lived for what we know, but for the tree of freedom and to watch it grow
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Falcon02520Legend
584 days ago
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This is the quickest on of my articles has ever reached the front page. A thank you to everyone who voted...
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Yakob878MVP
584 days ago
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procrastination is my middle name as well, basketball is very hard to live blog (thats why i stoped after the 1st round). "Ya I Agree" Poetry sucks, i am doing a segment on it in my english class as well, Lastley, i'll pop in time to time during the red sox commercials or if the game is a blow out.
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SSreportersLegend
584 days ago
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You almost spelled everything right. Which reminds me, did you pass your English exam?
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Falcon02520Legend
584 days ago
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Poetry doesn't really suck (it is just how my first Apostrophe ends up), diagnosing poetry is what sucks. A tree is a tree, a tree is not freedom...
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JuTMSY4Legend
584 days ago
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tell that to the sons of liberty...
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Too Manny StilesVarsity Captain
584 days ago
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yet, freedom is a tree...
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Yakob878MVP
584 days ago
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SSR, HA, HA, HA, Falcon, I should have been more specific thats what i meant to say
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JuTMSY4Legend
584 days ago
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Poetry in general is useless, but i suggest you pay a little attention...i had a history teacher (10th grade maybe) who, when probed regarding the issue of "when will we ever need to know this" responded:

"Well, you may never need it, but to be a well rounded person and be able to interact successfully with the intellectuals at large and/or talk with people at some type of social level beyond, 'i got so drink last night' or 'yeah, i banged her'"

Plus, knowing that weird stuff makes jeopardy more entertaining...I love owning the nerds in history questions..."Sumner Brooks Incident!, suck it trebeck!"

And seriously, read up on sumner-brooks, its a fascinating tale about how crazy congress can be...
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Taytay 24All-American
584 days ago
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Poetry is useless? That's pretty utilitarian of you, JuT. Shakespeare is useless? Wordsworth? Keats? Shelley? Hopkins? Poe?


The real reason most people (and by "people", I mean "students") don't "get" poetry is because they only read it once.
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Falcon02520Legend
584 days ago
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There is a theory that Shakespeare didn't even write his own stuff. I'll try an find the article that convinced me of this theory. Even if you won't agree with the article, it is still an interesting read...
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Taytay 24All-American
584 days ago
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As an English teacher, I'm well aware of the theory. It's rubbish.
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JuTMSY4Legend
583 days ago
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err yeah...poetry has no practical use...keep reading my comment
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Taytay 24All-American
583 days ago
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I did, and I agree. But it doesn't change that you began by saying that poetry in general is useless.
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JuTMSY4Legend
583 days ago
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i suppose...

but what the hell do you use it for?!

all poetry has ever really proven to me is that most people don't like it, yet those who do (or pretend they do) see it has a means to prove how the masses are so uncultured when in fact its just simply a way to suggest how much better they are then the rest...

Poetry, to me, is just a nice way for so-called intellectuals to explain how their shit doesn't stink when in fact, its just like the rest of us...

Want further proof? I think jackson pollock is a steaming load of crap and that our society, while growing and moving at times, also gets caught up in seeing depth in shallowness...

it has no practical use, ergo, generally useless
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Taytay 24All-American
583 days ago
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A great deal of what you say is true about a great deal of poetry. Much of it is pretentious, self-absorbed rubbish. But none of that is what poetry is really about.

In it's simplest form, poetry is a means of expression. And in the hands of a true poet, that expression can rarely be achieved any other way.

(Note: I am no true poet.)

Also, I often find it interesting that poetry is so unappreciated when everyone loves music, considering songs generally are bad poems with a soundtrack.
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JuTMSY4Legend
583 days ago
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great point:

ask anthony keidis...who i believe defined his career as:

i was writing poetry and they asked me to sing it

now he's the lead singer for arguably one of the greatest bands around
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Taytay 24All-American
583 days ago
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Absolutely. Some songwriters have it, and I call them poets, not songwriters. In addition to Keidis, off the top of my head, I would include Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Jeff Tweedy.
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Yakob878MVP
584 days ago
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ok, History is my best subject and i love how stupid peopleare when i say i bet i know every anwser to the q's in jeopardy, when you have to say the question. My cousins are really dumb when we watch it in the summer
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RomiezzoLegend
583 days ago
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Nicely done, once again, Falcon. I loved the fact that you mentioned Jimmy Rollins. That guy is one helluva player, in terms of instincts and hustling. On a decent bunt by Victorino, Rollins was able to move all the way to third base. The Nats has not choice but to walk Chase Utley and Ryan Howard.

Honestly, I only would've walked Chase Utley. You could still get the double play, and you'll have a 40% chance of striking him out anyway; then all you need is an out to get out of the gem. Sure, if Howard hit a sac fly, they would've won the game, but I'll take those chances. Just pitch around him, and don't give him a good pitch to hit.

But, what's done is done.
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Falcon02520Legend
583 days ago
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Well, I believe a ball got away from the catcher allowing Utley to take second base but wasn't far enough away for Rollins to score. At that point (with second and third, one out) they had no choice but to walk Howard. Colome just couldn't throw a strike to Werth...
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