Brandon

Welcome to capitalism and the free market. Basic economics, buy low/sell high. Also a situation of leverage as the shop doesn't need to buy the items, while in most cases people need the money. The worst is that Detroit pawn shop show with the ghetto people.

Might as well. He is acting when he is at the plate as well.

Well, she dislikes our guys only trip. Actually, I think she dislikes our trip the next weekend when we took them because of the whole running deep in the poker tournament with a dead cell phone and going to the Tiki Lounge expecting to meet you all there. I kind of still make light and fun of the situation. But yes, she's out. Things are more tame and there ends up being no Derek saying, "She doesn't love you"

Funny you mention Kennedy. That is my second most memorable moment. Strangely, my most memorable moment from that 2002 playoffs didn't even include the Angels. It was when the Twins first baseman caught a pop up foul in Oakland to end the series and send Oakland home. Oakland was the only team I was worried about that year. After we beat the mighty Yankees, seeing Oakland go down the next day it really hit me that we could win this thing. The rest is kind of history.

LB, you should ask a mod to move this Angels question into the baseball forum for better results and more input about experiences.

I miss his batting stance. Either him or Jeff DaVanon should be the default avs.

If they don't put up avatars make them all pics of Rob Quinlan

My Peugeot sedan doesn't require this. Look into getting one guys.

He is, but the team can franchise him again. Although, it's looking more like they are close to a long term deal.

My jet is grounded at the moment due to high gas prices caused by Obama.

Tossing money at people to make them happy is a good business model, Blarg.

Dave and Busters in Ontario/ Getting kicked out of Dave and Busters It was a double dip where the buddy I was living with and I wanted to watch the game, but some chick he was talking to wanted to go out. So we went there to watch the game and the girls were meeting up after. Now, we weren't 21 until a couple months so we ran into trouble as they wouldn't let us in because of age. So we snuck around back and entered through the video game portion and found a little inconspicuous corner booth in the bar area. All rationale says just shut up, stay quiet, and just watch the game. But no, I got the grand idea to go to the game section and grab an empty beer from one of the games then walked up to the bar with confidence and did the beer nod and started drinking and getting us beers. This gets me kicked out as one of the security guys saw me making rounds at the bar, luckily I didn't have beers just that he remembered I was underage. But this wasn't going to deter me as this was game 7 for an Angels championship. So I snuck back in again and we moved tables. All was going well until Erstad made the final out and my buddy and I started high fiving and hollering with the rest of the crowd at the bar. Well, when you walk around a bar high fiving people you are attracting attention and I got caught by the same dude and escorted out again....strangely my buddy wasn't even questioned, and lucky for him the girls just showed up. So, I sat in his truck in the parking lot listening to the post game stuff for what seemed to be forever because my buddy did a ho's before bros. It actually kind of sucked being stranded in a parking lot with so much excitement, but no one could take away that feeling of finally winning the big one.

Yes. It's because of the wear on the old tires and the wheel circumference that affects the all wheel drive system.

The way Arte throws around money, I really doubt it's just a matter of a few hundred thousand.

The lady still hates me for talking about it or bringing it up. When four dudes from AW get together for an Angels minor league game and it turns into Vegas debauchery. Just magical.

lol, damn.

Easily. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gudEttJlw3s

I swore when I opened this Scott was going to say the Tiki Lounge. There is day drinking, then there is DAY DRINKING.

I have a friend that's a GM and would propose something similar to his structure: 1.2 million for 150 years. Everyone wins.

Nice. That was my first and only TJ trip like that. I have been one other time as a kid and the rest were just to pass through going to other places. I think I was 19ish at the time.

Correct. MLB has 4-5 manufacturers that they are testing now, all pad style hats. Some padding, some kevlar. MLB has no plans at this time to make the pitchers wear helmets or masks (which would be really awkward)

Finally on. I guess they are going to follow Rory for two hours. I see Rose fell off. Bogeyed 3 of his last 4.

Did a night trip one time without my knowledge. I was with a buddy and a mutual friend calls him and says, "I'm picking you up right now, don't ask." About the time we are around Lake Elsinore we finally get what's going on and he finally spills the beans. He just got out of the service and I guess this was a regular thing for him and he ended up knowing all the people down there and the spots. The dude is driving about 120 trying to make it in about an hour or so. The first place he takes us is some loud club and I remember walking in and thinking, "Oh, it's like a real life rap video." I just remember dudes hanging from railings swinging towels around their head or standing on everything and everyone was dancing like those little Dominican kids (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdgv1h_children-perreando_latino#.US-y-KUTsy4). Just kind of a big wtf? We go to sit down and out of the blue some dude blowing a whistle throws my head back and pours the worst liquor down my throat, I guess the mutual friend knew him and he told him to hit us. While sounding unique, we see the dude making rounds doing it to everyone without wiping off the nozzle or changing it. Pretty disgusting. I think we hit a few different places and my buddy was pissed because I kept checking my cell (texting wasn't in yet) and he kept saying we would get robbed. Finally we are in a cab and the mutual friend tells the cabbie to take us somewhere of his choice because he is out of ideas. The dude takes us to what I assume is a strip club, but with no nudity and it looks more like a poor mans Victoria Secret runway. I was pretty drunk by this time and mainly just remember wondering if these were the infamous Tijuana hookers that people talk about. We leave and get street tacos, drive home where I pass out and like clock work as soon as the mutual friend pulls up to my buddies place I open the door and throw up cheap plastic bottle booze and who knows what was in those tacos. I'm getting a headache just writing this.

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