Bolliger&Mabillard

^If it's the end of the world...I'd like to ride Terminator first. After that it could end all it wants. Wait...maybe that's how MM is advertising this ride!

^^Weird. I live in Lynwood and felt a jolt for a good 10 seconds. ^I'm watching K-Cal and it says 1.7 miles Northeast of Hawthorne at 3:49pm

^^^^I agree that matchups are more even than in the opening round, and though I made the point that the Lakers have inconsistant play, most people use that as their excuse, which is why everyone thinks they weren't playing "hard". Houston just played better than any team that lost in the second round.

Small earthquake. Epicenter 1.6 miles from Hawthorne, Ca. 4.1 meter with a depth of 7 miles. You feel anything?

^Perhaps not, but winning 65 games this season and going either 2-2 or better in every season series against western conference playoff team would suggest that they can at least play to a superior level. Whether they do it consistantly is another topic, as is whether or not they choose what games to "show up" to. I don't use the term to discredit the Lakers; opponents, if that's what you're implying. I mean that in all the years I've been a Lakers fan, and since they've been under the direction of Phil Jackson, I've seen them "struggle" in games that would produce a better result against another team. Now maybe these teams that ultimately beat the Lakers are perhaps better teams than they. Perhaps they're are two or three teams right now that are playing better than L.A. However, I would think it nothing short of naive to think that L.A. is going to go quietly into the night because they "struggled" with Houston. Houston would have given anyteam a seven game series. Both teams played hard.

That was...interesting...

Shouldn't be that bad. Lines here and there but nothing horrible.

^Sound like great ideas but without the capital to do it we'll have to be satisfied with what we have now.

^For the record, I'm not one of those people who thinks the Cavs are "superior for sweeping the Pistons and Hawks. Who wouldn't have? And the fact they went 0-2 vs L.A, 2-2 vs Boston and 2-1 vs Orlando. To think Cleveland is the best team playing right now is absurd. They're good, but I would say Denver is the best team RIGHT NOW, so I'll give you that. But I digress. As a Laker fan, I'm well aware of their tendency to play down to their competition. That's nothing new. At the same time, I look for L.A. to jump out on Denver early and take a 2-0 lead. This L.A. team has recently come too close to perfection to hang it up in the conference finals. Denver on the other hand is playing extremely well, but playing this system by ear with Billups running this team in its first year, I look for Denver to be in this position for years to come. However, I'd say the Lakers edge them in 7. Also, If Cleveland actually won at least one game in their 2007 finals appearence, or beat a team that was a fair matchup, I'd have a different disposition. But as long as they keep "sweeping" teams like the Pistons, "struggling" agianst teams like the Celts and getting "swept by teams like the Spurs, how can you really say they're that good?

Congrats to you both and may you prosper in riding coasters together as one!

I have work and get out at 5:30 on saturday, so I'm gonna hafta run out there after work (looking at an hour drive)

^I don't know about "denying" those facts, but I could give exellent counterpoints to them. 1. Without Houston running their offense through a 7-foot-6 spot shooter in the low post, that allows players loike Carl Landry, Aaron Brooks, and Von Wafer to play to a much faster tempo. Seeing as how the Lakers run their defense through Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum, any lineup that had a run-and-gun offense was going to be problematic for LA... in short, Houston was a much dangerous team without Yao for anyone, and end the end they didn't show the will or desire to close out L.A....which brings me to my next point. 2. Though Denver is playing phenomenal basketball right now, they face the same problem that Cleveland has so far in these playoffs, giving credit before real accomplishments have been acheived. Sure the Nuggets are playing great, and pretty much dominated both of their series so far, but as the number 2 seed, that's expected of them. All in all, the Lakers still edged them in the regular season 3-1. Though the season and playoffs are two completely different levels of play, I find it hard to believe only one team would "show up to play.... in short, You can't say Denver's going to come hard without ackwoledging L.A. will to, and since the Lakers won 11 more games than Denver, you could expect them to rebound from a hard fought series.

Well...The mods here do a much better job than say...NBA officiating, so it's not that bad.

^Wouldn't be so bad if you jump ship before the Nuggets boat sinks. Lakers in 7.

Seeing as pornography and prostitution and explicit websites are billion dollar industries worldwide, I'm sure quite more than a few people would have checked it out. Would it have attracted the most wholsome crowd? I doubt it, but would it have striked a bone in local tourgasm? You bet.

Or quiting drinking to live longer only to be kiiled in an accident by a drunk driver.

^^&^^^...Or don't know the definition of irony

Contrary to everyone else. I suggest GhostRider First, followed by Xcel, due to it having downtime later in the day so consistent you can set your watch to it. Bullet has more capacity for a ride than Knott's needs so even long lines for that ride move quickly. Everything else you can play by ear.

^Thank... (I'll finish the phrase once the video is posted)

^Probably at the Edwards in the Valencia Mall.

^^^Steel Eel takes Magum over its knee and gives it a wiked, disciplinary thrashing. To put it blunt. Steel Eel is the business. I dare to say groin-grabbingly the business.

^^The difference with those two, is they're at the minimum, able to live up to some of the hype.

^Testing was SCHEDULED to begin Sunday. Things happen...

^I^^^^ Thank you for keeping the dialect of the discusson civil!, but like I originally stated, the four times I've been to Cedar Point, I had a great time, but it has yet to give me an experience that completely dwarfs the experiences of parks I've had elsewhere. And while I agree that not every ride in a park has to be the "worlds biggest" or "fastest" or "longest", Cedar Point is one of a small few parks that tends to make a name on that practice. Which brings me back to Magnum... I don't think Magnum sucks, though I'm not a fan. I just think that so much more could have been done for a ride that turns 20 for opening day than adding a sign...though the sign does look nice. The restraints ain't all that comfortable for those of us over 6', and reprofiled trains probably would have been something worth a second look before a sign installation. Would've been cool if they did both, though!

And I stand by my statement. I reiterate that I don't HATE Cedar Point, nor any of it's rides. I look at their lineup and just see that nothing in it except for Maverick and Dragster differentiates it from any other park. My statement is bold, but it's even bolder to say you hav the "best" collection of coasters when only two or three really stand out. And for the record, I don't really think that MM's lineup is anything worth jizzing over.