10. Back to school specials at clothing stores
9. Kids almost as impatient to get back to school as parents are to have them back
8. Hot humid days, late afternoon thunderstorms
7. Need to click between meaningless NFL exhibition games and Osborne reruns
6. Weekends at the beach are packed
5. Employee parking lot nearly empty every day
4. Grass needs to be cut every other day
3. Nuthin' much going on in the basketball discussion forums
2. Damn hay fever kickin' in again

and the number one way to tell it's almost September (drumroll)
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<table>
<tr><th>2003 American League Standings</th></tr>
<tr><td>East</td> <td>W</td> <td>L</td> <td>PCT</td> <td>GB</td> <td>Streak</td>
<tr><td>NY Yankees</td> <td>78</td> <td>47</td> <td>.624</td> <td>---</td> <td>Won 7</td>
<tr><td>Boston</td> <td>71</td> <td>55</td> <td>.563</td> <td>7 1/2</td> <td>Lost 3</td>
</table>

:D

Here in Oregon, we always know when summer is almost over. The rain starts to get colder.

Mark -- Have you been visiting out of state? There hasn't BEEN any rain for about three weeks...

Grass doesn't grow much around here in August, even if you want it to.

Are you telling me.....
 

baseball season is still going on?

Wow, I did not notice. :rolleyes:

Peace

September in Texas
 

In Houston, we only have two seasons:
Summer
Christmas

As far as grass goes.
The green stuff..That's the weeds
The brown stuff..That's the grass.
All the other stuff..That fire ants.

Tsk,tsk,tsk! How juvenile!!

Btw, http://www.sodamnfunny.com/Animation/Gif/baby1.gif

It's been raining on my side of town. Maybe you guys on the east side didn't pay your rain tax.

I'll be at Fenway tonght. Hope the bums can pull this one off. Oh well, it'll be a beautiful evening to be at the ballpark, but even more beautiful if they win. We SOX fans are a hearty people.

Detroit : 34 games GB

Lions cannot be that far behind.
 

Mick,

It is just the preseason. Mooch will get it together and be at the very least, better than the Bears. :D

Peace

Re: Lions cannot be that far behind.
 

Rut,
You knew I was talkin' about my Tigers.
My Lions are tied for first, and Mooch the Yooper seems to be having some fun.
mick

Of course I did.
 

There is a team called the Tigers? Are you sure you are not talking about the golfer? When does Hockey start?

Of course I knew you were talking about the Tigers, but I just would rather not talk about them, it hurts too much. :D

Remember I am originally from Michigan. So I feel your pain.

Peace

Geeze, I'm starting to see a reason for the mercy rule afterall.

Dan,
Oatmealqueen and other Michigan officials have told you how much we like it.
I didn't realize till now that it could be imprinted on us.

mick

Re: Of course I did.
 

YU.P.
Another way you can tell it's nearly September is when Lions fans are full of "Hope". ;)
mick

Maybe, but soooooo true!

Re: Are you telling me.....
 

That's too bad. The best basketball player ever just retired (again, and is apparently unemployed???), and the best football player ever has been retired for a few years (hint: only QB with 60,000 passing yards as a pro, and five championships). But the best baseball player in the history of the game is playing today. And he is doing some amazing things.



Dan_ref,

For the sake of my Blue Jays, I'm glad you didn't take those standings any further. But you could have. The order of the AL East has been the same for five straight seasons, and it looks like it will be for a sixth: NY, Boston, Toronto, Baltimore, Tampa.

Re: Re: Are you telling me.....
 

Armando Benetez? :p

Quote:

Dan_ref, For the sake of my Blue Jays, I'm glad you didn't take those standings any further. But you could have. The order of the AL East has been the same for five straight seasons, and it looks like it will be for a sixth: NY, Boston, Toronto, Baltimore, Tampa.

I recently heard this will be the 6th straight season where the same 2 teams end up 1 & 2 in the standings - if Boston holds on that is. It's been done 5 times before, never done 7 times in a row.

Re: Re: Are you telling me.....
 

Coach, I can only assume that you're talking about Bonds. But to claim that he's the best ballplayer ever is debatable at best. No doubt he's put up amazing numbers in the last decade, but I would have a hard time listing him above some of the true greats, particularly those from the first half of the 20th century. The two most obvious names would be Ruth and Cobb. DiMaggio (the NY variety) and Teddy Ballgame might be up there ahead of Bonds too. Just my opinion,

Chuck

Re: Re: Re: Are you telling me.....
 

I thought he was talkin' about ARod.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Are you telling me.....
 

Hmmm, I suppose that's possible too. But I guess I don't even consider ARod in the discussion yet. Give him a few more years and then maybe we can discuss how far he falls short :)

YES! We have a third!!!

I guess it really is true -- 3 wrongs don't make it right. Brought to you by the Yankee fans (26 championships and counting).

Re: Re: Re: Are you telling me.....
 

There are usually some good discussions on this topic at http://www.baseballprimer.com . Ruth and Honus Wagner are the only two players you can even make a case for vs Barry, IMHO. Because of Ruth's pitching, you can call him the greatest player, but most of those in the sabermetric community would narrow the list of best hitter to two--Ruth and Bonds. DiMaggio is nowhere near the class of Bonds--another product of NY hype and East Coast bias. DiMaggio got far too much hype over his fluky streak, and doesn't even compare to Williams in his own era.