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  11. Posted · Edited by Gummy

    Braves? <_<

     

    I am not a Braves fan. I live in Louisiana right now, but I grew up in Florida. When I was a kid my dad used to take me and my brother to spring training games. The first one I remember was played between the Yankees and the Dodgers. I had my little Yankees batting helmet on and wore a pin stripped t-shirt. All I wanted was Yankee's 2nd baseman Steve Sax to autograph something for me. But he blew me off, walked right past me as if I weren't standing there (and there wasn't a crowd, he just ignored me). I was crushed. Instantly turned me into a Yankees hater.

     

    That day I became a Dodger fan. And now that Tampa has a team, I also cheer for the Devil Rays.

    Let's see.

    Your Dodgers are now being led by a former Yankees Skipper (Mr. Torre) so, they should be fine.

    As for the Devil Rays, I see them making a move up the standings in the A.L. East this season.

    They've got a terrific young team that will be exciting to watch.

    As for Steve Sax, he was and still is, a jerk. I hated him when he was with the Yankees.

    Once he got the Yips and couldn't make a throw from 2nd to 1B, he became even more useless.

  15. Posted · Edited by Takara_Soong

    LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) -- Roy Scheider, the actor best known for his role as a police chief in the blockbuster movie "Jaws," has died. He was 75.

     

    Scheider died Sunday at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital in Little Rock, hospital spokesman David Robinson said. The hospital did not release a cause of death.

     

    However, hospital spokeswoman Leslie Taylor said Scheider had been treated for multiple myeloma at the hospital's Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy for the past two years.

     

    Scheider received two Oscar nominations, for best-supporting actor in 1971's "The French Connection" in which he played the police partner of Oscar winner Gene Hackman, and for best-actor for 1979's "All That Jazz," the autobiographical Bob Fosse film.

     

    However, he was best known for his role in Steven Spielberg's1975 film, "Jaws," the enduring classic about a killer shark terrorizing beachgoers and well as millions of moviegoers.

     

    Widely hailed as the film that launched the era of the Hollywood blockbuster, it was also the first movie to earn $100 million at the box office. Scheider starred with Richard Dreyfuss, who played an oceanographer.

     

    In 2005, one of Scheider's most famous lines in the movie -- "You're gonna need a bigger boat" -- was voted No. 35 on the American Film Institute's list of best quotes from U.S. movies.

     

    That year, some 30 years after "Jaws" premiered, hundreds of movie buffs flocked to Martha's Vineyard, off the southeastern coast of Massachusetts, to celebrate the great white shark.

     

    The island's JawsFest '05 also brought back some of the cast and crew, including screenwriter Carl Gottlieb and Peter Benchley, who wrote the novel that inspired Spielberg's classic. Spielberg, Scheider and Dreyfuss were absent.

     

    Scheider was also politically active. He participated in rallies protesting U.S. military action in Iraq, including a massive New York demonstration in March 2003 that police said drew 125,000 chanting activists.