Who have you gotten to meet that knocked you on your ass?  I met Steve Earle today.

Pictures later on MC.  Holy hell.  He was so good to my son and I, and even signed my dear aging mother's Mother's Day card.  My son is goddamned lucky - between my music and basevall friends, we're having lunch with Churhill, Drayer, most of Alice In Chains, PJ, or now Steve Earle.  No one is going to believe my child when he is older.

So...

1.  Favorite "outlaw country singer"

2.  Why do the refs suck so bad in the MLS???

3. It's summer soon - what is you're biggest summer plan?

4. How goddamned idiotic and stupid is Bill Bavasi?

5. (BONUS QUESTION): How should Bavasi pay for his mariners sins?

Here it is.  Been a while.  Nothing going on right now.  No hispanic people playing baseball, no new aquisitions, no news from Jesse Jones, and nothing going on with Seattle College basketball.  It's all really too bad.  I wish there was more to report, but it looks like it's going to be Iran and Jerusalem in the championship game of the WBC.  I certainly hope this "RAD Jihaad" is all it's purported to be.

Topics for discussion:

What's your favorite ice cream flavor?

Royalcurve is so fucking awesome and sweet, she makes the sun come up every morning (THIS IS A SCIENTIFIC FACT).

Rent a goddamned video in a certain Fremont store once in a while, you pricks.

Going to a game with some awesome LLers.

Do these pant's make me look fat?

Fuck you for doing what you did to me last week at Jeremy's party and never calling me back.  You owe me for the Plan B pill.

Jeff is secretly a Rangers fan.

Sec108 has an opium den in his basement, and you're all invited.

House has lupus.

What do you want to accomplish career-wise before you die?

Why can't we get rid of daylight savings time?

My record label has a new forum, and I'm not ashamed to ask you there.

What's better? Classic Super Nintendo,  Dreamcast, or Sega Genesis?

Why in God's name do the Olsen Twins look like Good Luck Trolls?!

Kermit sucks balls.

Remember those text-based games where you had to type, "west," and such? Yeah - never got past about 15 minutes of one of those.

Charles In Charge or Facts of Life?

C'mon bitches.

I really haven't cared enough to post this, but tomorrow night may well be the very last show I play with my current band.  Not necessarily shocking, as I went on hiatus for two years to help my wife overcome breast cancer, but I guess it holds some importance after all.  I'd love for you guys to make it, if you can.  IT'S LATE.  We headline, so we go on at 12:00 AM.  Even if you can't stay that late, I'll be there at around 8:00 or 8:30 if you want to hang out for some drinkies. 

Location:   Fuel (in Pioneer Square)

Anyway, Frank Thomas can't figure out why he can't  get a job.  I'd personally love him as a platoon DH (you guys are probably going to murder me for saying that), but I'm sure he wants to play every day, which MUST make him unattractive to, well, everyone.  I remember being a huge fan of his.  Too bad he seems to be fading away slowly like no big-time player ever should.  Thoughts?

Other fodder:

Biggest childhood movie/tv crush

Corey Haim or Corey Hart?

Rush or King Crimson?

Most underrated Mariner

Biggest unfulfilled thing you've always wanted to accomplish

Alright.  We have a couple of takers.  Others undecided.  I think (correct me if I'm wrong) the game starts a little after 3PM.  I'll double check that.

I'll have some munchies here, but potluck items would be appreciated.  BYOB.  Housebroken children are welcome (so Robert, get out of work). 

Email me for my number and directions.

Our meager home can fit a few more, so if you're interested, let me know.

I like people.  Especially large people hitting each other while running full force into one another.  That being said, we have a meager home, but we'd love to host an LL Super Bowl party with you.  Are you able to make it?  Would you like to meet Silas?  Would you like to share a snack plate?

BYOB, and kind of a potluck deal, though Mrs. Ess might be cooking as well. 

Lets have some fun watching the Super Bowl and hanging out at my badass house in Phinney.

I met a great amount of LL people tonight, and I'll tell you, they were all more attractive than Jeff, Graham, and Mathew combined.  We had a great night of bowling and drinking, and drinking, and drin-wait--- was that just me?? 

To all there, you were gracious and awesome.  What a great night.  Here's to putting my shirt into a bra-like status in order to get a strike.  And fuck you all.  Tomorrow is going to suck.  The great part about this off-top??  I won't even be around to see it until late tomorrow.

And royalcurve made those goddamned tatertots with bacon.  Holy mackerel, they were tasty.

It's 10:15 as I write this.  I haven't been around LL long, but goddamned long enough that some people like me.  I don't usually contribute to the ON topic threads, because, well shit - it's either already been said by Jeff, or I'm repeating my posts from MC.  I've met some awesome people from this site lately, which leads to the first question:

Of all of the LL posters, who do you really want to meet in person, and why?

Are the fucking Seahawks worth talking about anymore?

If Sheri Lewis and Joan Rivers mated, would the world implode?

Nada Surf is HORRIBLY underrated.

If you had to choose between the Mariners winning the World Series or getting a raise of two dollars, what would you choose? 

If you happened to live in New Orleans and wanted coffee but couldn't have it, would you slap Robert in the face?

If you were tied down and tortured by listening to repeating streams of either Enya or Josh Grobin, which would you choose?

And finally, Who here likes my friends, Steel Pole Bath Tub, and tell me why.

So MC is having an informal meet ant greet.  I'm posting info below, as we'd love to have a few crossover members attend, as well as some people I've grown fond of having been on your site for a while now.

Here you go:

We're meeting at the game on the 26th of September (FEAR NOT-- IF YOU CANNOT MAKE THE GAME, WE ARE ALSO PLANNING TO MEET BEFORE OR AFTER - I WILL UPDATE AS WE GET MORE PUBLIC INFO).  There will be a handful of us at the game, but I would love to have some regular posters here come by as well.  Gomez, PosPaul, dpseadv, Robert, Matthew, Jeff, Churchill, and ALL others, I'm talking to you.  We're thinking like the Pyramid Alehouse or somewhere near the stadium might be the best place to gather.  Any thoughts or questions or suggestions are invited.  Fuck it.  I have ways to block phone bullshit.  Here's my number for said questions or hell yeses:  206-909-1322.

Anyone interested in meeting the MC crew?

I'm seriously not pandering for hits - I don't even own the site anymore.  I'm just wondering what your collective thoughts on it are.   Have you visited it?  Do you love or hate it?  I know a few members of my old site have been banned from this site - I find our sites MUCH different.  Some dick named "Gomez" has put up some great shit on our site.  A few other names I recognize here have done the same.  I love coming over here and speaking my abstract mind without reprehension, but what do y'all (my wife is from South Carolina, I can say that, MFers) think about the site I house after SportSpot.net ended?  

Again, not an advertisement for a site I no longer own, just a question of thoughts...