As I see it the real purpose of the supscription is to keep this site up and running, as you know it takes money to run this site, I have personally seen many of my free sites such as sportstalk.com close down, excite went bankrupt and many others have gone down because people were not willing to help support them. Interestingly enough Sportstalk is back under a different name, Bootlegsports.com and you know what, in order to access it, you have to pay $3.50 per month, which of course I did. Personally will purchase this subscription the moment I get back from my vacation, and I urge all of you too as well, unless of course you want to see this site fold like others. I for one, use this site, and will support it fully. At least that is one man's opinion.