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Welcome to the 34th installment of Love it ? or Hate it ?..as usual we take a subject and tell you whether we love it or hate it.

We want you to feel free to throw in your 2-cents.

Humor us..tell us which subjects you love and which ones you hate.

The panel this week consists of Harry Callahan, i B4 e, ( Curly Lambeau is on vacation this week in Bora Bora), KPKahder, rstowe and guest panelist Blueashriel.

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The first subject is..which poker game do you love and which one do you hate.

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 Harry

Love..7 card stud..it's just a pure old school poker game..when it's dealers choice..everyone knows what we are going to play when it comes around to me.

Hate..any game with the dealer calling acey deucey wild..come on..we are adults..what are you 5..it's usually a woman..you can't have an ace as a wild card..it's the highest card in the deck you idiot..in fact i hate any wild cards at all in poker.

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  IB

Poker game I love is the purest form of poker - 5 card draw. You get five cards and one chance to get 'er done. I don;t need 27 cards to choose 5 from to make the best hand. Don't get me wrong, I like Texas Hold 'Em (side note here, I was playing Texas Hold 'Em in the Navy long before it was a household name), and 7 card stud, but 5 card draw can't be beat.

I hate any poker game with wild cards. When I played in the Navy there was always one guy who called "Dr Pepper wild". It drove us crazy. We were like, dude, seriously. We all folded before the first round of betting even started. For those who don't know, "Dr Pepper wild means 2s, 4s, and 10s were wild because the old Dr Pepper bottles had 2, 4, and 10 on them.

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  Kp

Love- Acey Deucy Wild.. hahaha.. just kidding Harry ! .. I like 5 card draw personally. Its neat, its clean and I can bluff like noones business. Want me to show you ?

Hate- Blackjack.. Because I never win. Ever.

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 Stowe

Love - no limit hold em. Do you have the stones to call my all-in with the tourney on the line with your Q J? Am I really bluffing? Call me to find out.

Hate- anything with wilds. Real men don't need wilds to play poker.

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   Blueashriel

The poker game I love is the one where everyone has to take off their clothes and the game I hate is the clothed variety. (actually, I like 5-card draw AND the taking off of the clothes)

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The second subject is..Tom Brady.

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 IB

Hate him.. I hate him even more now because of the "Brady rule" which is now one step shy of putting pink skirts on QBs and making it a 35 yard penalty and automatic touchdown if you get with 5 yards of them. That mega hot little number Gisele on the other hand....

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 Stowe

Sorry, I can't comment. Nobody is allowed to comment about a Patriots player without express written and also verbal consent from one Bill Bellicheck. And don't try to comment without him knowing, because he can always go to video tape to find out what you did.

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 Kp

 Love HIM ! And he loves me. He's just with Gisele to make me jealous. All I would have to do is snap my fingers and he would drop her like yesterdays lingerie. You cannot ever convince me that she's better for him than I am. First, I don't live in NY, 2nd. I know more about football than the hussy and 3rd, I wouldn't let him walk out of the house looking like he does in that picture. Trust me on this, Gisele is so last week.

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 Harry

Hate him: In the offseason anyway..yes i am a fan of the Pats and he is their QB.. so i love his on the field skills of course..but his offseason activities i could care less about..too much coverage.

"Hows the leg Tom ?..."Oh it's coming along fine..i see no problems"

"Is Giselle pregnant Tom ?..."Well i can neither confirm or deny that question"

WHO CARES !!!!

It's not just him..if you think about it.. almost all player interviews by the media are the same and offer no information in their answers..they talk but tell you nothing.

Sort of like the old.."What do you think about next weeks opponent ? question that has been asked a million times to an athlete.

The answer is always the same..no matter what player..in every sport.."They are a tough team..we are going to have our hands full..we just have to go out there and play hard and hope for the best"

Looking at that picture..i wonder if she dresses him..he looks like a longshoreman that just stepped off a tuna boat.

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   Blueashriel

As a team player, I hate Tom because he is on the Patriots (I like the Bills). As a person, Tom is cool. I mean, when you are not looked at as a star player, and then you are put in to replace a good quarterback, and then you go on and win 3 Super Bowls (and don't tell me it's just because he had great players around him), who could hate him?

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The third subject is..which online game do you love and which do you hate.

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 Kp

Well, I guess I have to say Bejeweled is my current favorite. I really don't play too many online games because during the day, Im at work and when Im at work, Im working - most of the time. But at home, sometimes I go to play just one game of Bejeweled and the next thing you know, 3 hours have passed and I'm saying, "just one more".

The game I hate ? hmm.. Any game on NickJr or Build-a-Bear .

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 Stowe

Love - The Zynga games from Facebook. They are amazingly simple and highly addictive. I will spend hour after hour trying to level up.

Hate - Anything that involves playing against idiots (most on-line poker sites)

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 Harry

Love..Hold em poker on yahoo..very addicting..i spend way too much time with it.

Hate..Slots on yahoo..idiotic timewaster that will take all my make believe cash in a New York minute.

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 IB

Online games I love - Bejewled Blitz because I always kick Kp and stowe's butt at it. I hate multi-player on line games because they are nothing more than modern day dungeons and dragons.

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   Blueashriel

I don't really dig on those online games: I tried playing one once and I got my butt kicked by a unicorn.

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The fourth subject is..which take-out pizza do you love and which do you hate.

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 Stowe

Love - Pizza Hut Meatlovers Pan Pizza....has to be a large and I generally only leave 2 pieces for lunch the following day. I normally order from an italian restaurant here in Hampton Roads, called Dino's Pizza Shop that has the best sausage pizza but for "chain pizza" it has to be Pizza Hut.


Hate - used to like Papa John's but they switched something the last couple of years (sauce, spices, something) and it's just not like it used to be.

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 Harry

Hate..Domino's..i can cook a frozen pizza and have it come out better than this slop.

Their pizza is always cold, dried out and just waiting to suck.

Love..Papa Johns..sausage, pepperoni and mushrooms is the bomb..i always tip the driver well.. to avoid hidden loogies on my next pizza.

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 Kp

I have had Dominos once in my life and it was the most horrible pizza I ever had. It actually caused me to go into labor. Pizza arrived at 4pm and by 8pm I was in the hospital having my daughter.

Pizza I love. I love the pizza at the Golden Pond Country Store in Holderness NH. Its awesome. Too bad you guys will never know how awesome. I also am partial to my own pizza. I make great pizza.

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  Blueashriel

Man, Papa John's is the best! And their garlic sauce, talk about artery-clogging! The kind of take-out pizza I definitely do not like is the kind that is late AND not warm. "Sorry I'm late. I couldn't find the address." Dude, get a map! It's not like I live out in the sticks! And I live ON A CORNER!!!

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 IB

Take out pizza I love more than any other is Little Ceasars. Pizza Pizza.

I hate Papa Johns. It's too expensive and it doesn't taste any better than the frozen pizza from grocery stores.

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The fifth subject is..which running back do you love to watch..that is not on your team..and which do you hate.

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  Blueashriel

Well, If we can include old running backs, I always liked to watch Barry Sanders. I swear, the way he could change directions while moving; it's like he would teleport from spot to spot, like that X-Man character Nightcrawler (I have a young child who watches cartoons). New RBs, I like LT. He is an all-around player; he justs needs to stay healthy.
Oh, I hate Michael Vick as a running back (is that the position he plays?)

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 Harry

Love..Matt Forte..he is just an unstoppable beast..racked the numbers up for me like there was no tomorro last year in my fantasy league..he is just a blast to watch.

Hate..Edgerrin James..always whining about something..hey dude..sit or produce..it's quite simple..the days of riding on your name recognition are over..he has lost his juice..he's still a free agent..nobody picked him up after he demanded to be let go..oops.

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 Stowe

Love - Adrian Peterson (the one from the Vikings not the Bear). Very explosive.

Hate - Brian Westbrook. He's a great RB and always kills the Giants. So if I'm watching him, he's playing the Giants and I really really really really really hate him then.

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 IB

I'm going with old school running back here and saying Sweetness. Sure Barry Sanders was fun to watch because of his fancy footwork, but he had to be fancy because he was always running for his life. Payton never backed down from a tackler. He could juke them out of their shoes or bowl them over. Sanders rarely ran anyone over.

I hate Tomlinson. He's just a whiny, prissy, loud mouth primadona.

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 Kp

Running Back I love to watch ? hmm.. good question. Not on my team huh ? Then I have to say Larry Johnson. Don't ask me why. You asked for a name, I gave you one. Since Im not giving you a reason, I'll give you a second RB I love to watch, Joseph Addai

The RB I hate to watch. We know who Im going to say right ? LDT. I hate watching him, listening to him, seeing his whiny pissy little face at press conferences.

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And the sixth and final subject is..Jon Gruden replacing Tony Kornheiser in the booth.

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 IB

Gruden replacing Tony K? I don't really have an opinion so I'll say hate him until he does something to make me change my mind.

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 Kp

On Gruden replacing Kornhusker. LOVE IT ! John Gruden is so much easier on the eyes. Not to mention his voice is decidedly much less irritating and he HAS to know the game better than Kornheiser. Kornheiser just grates on my nerves. He always looks like he hasn't showered in several days with the greasy lid. Someone should have fired the makeup person who did his.

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 Stowe

Love Gruden replacing Tony K. Tony K is fine on PTI with Wilbon, but in the booth he wasn't good at all. I don't listen to announcers for opinions, just their comments/analysis of the game going on and that is where Tony fell short. Hopefully Gruden does better, although I normally just watch games on MUTE because most announcers suck.

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  Blueashriel

I reserve judgment on JG until he starts, but ANYONE is better than Tony Kornholio man, I hated to hear him talk; it always seemed as if he was an anxious little kid raising his hand to speak, and when he got to speak, all that came out was gibberish. klasdiuoweriowerkmn34894@@#^%^%^" Dennis Miller was better than him; at least with DM you got a very obscure history lesson (I do like my history).

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 Harry

Love it..yeah bring in some fresh commentators..Kornheiser never really bothered me..he was just sort of there..people generally disliked him because he was bald and ugly..but he amused me sometimes.

I saw some of Grudens work not too long ago on draft day and he wasn't bad..even though he always has that look on his face like.."Who cut the cheese ?"

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Well that's it folks..we hope you liked it..if not..as always..we could give a crap.

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                                                       Est. 5/ 5/ 09

 All panel members were at least 18 years old at the time of production.

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