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Not so good. Awful dialogue and perhaps the most predictable story line ever. Cold Case was also crappy and predictable. I can't tell if tv was always like this--or, since I rarely watch it, that I've forgotten its crappiness.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ May 19, 2005 -> 09:14 PM) I'm willing to bet that Dusty believes in voo-doo and faith healing as well. Did you miss the sprinkling of Holy Water on injuries? The man is insane in the membrane!

I don't have a tv, but I'm going to a friend's house. This should be sweeeeeeeeeet!

I would love to compare this to the pre-season predictions that the trib made position by position. Does anyone know where I could find that?

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ May 19, 2005 -> 02:58 PM) Agreed. And if we are to accept the opponents' assertion that sacrificing surplus embryos from a fertility clinic is essentially murder, then how do they deflect the counter assertion that leaving the embryos frozen on a shelf is essentially an undeserved lifetime prison sentence? That being the case, they should be railing against fertility clinics. Instead infertile holy rollers keep lining up to get a fistfull of eggs artificially implanted (which, curiously seems to fly directly in the face of God's will which was apparently for these people not to have kids) and doom another fistfull to eternity in the freezer. Is the Catholic church against fertility treatments? I can't remember (since I'm not Catholic) the Vatican position.... Anyway, Congrats to S. Korea! I, honestly and truly, look forward to all of the exciting medical break throughs that stem cell research will give us.....

QUOTE(Chisoxrd5 @ May 19, 2005 -> 12:10 PM) I've heard from a few people Lake Cumberland in Kentucky is a pretty nice place to visit, especially if you like to water ski...have you ever been there? We used to go there when I was a kid. Learned to waterski there. Got the crap bruised out of me tubing on some rough waters. Jumped into the part that was the gravel quarry from the top of the edge. Oooooooh, those were some good times. I

QUOTE(kapkomet @ May 19, 2005 -> 12:13 PM) you got some personal experience in that area? *cough* Uhhhhh, man it sure is a beeeeeeaaaaaaauuuuuuuutiful day today, huh? *cough*

QUOTE(TheBlackSox8 @ May 19, 2005 -> 11:59 AM) ummmm...it is LITTLE LEAGUE, in a farm community.....How many players do you think are as good as her.....not many. So you would expect someone so good would dominate so much. Not much of a competition in farm communities obviously. I'm not doubting her talent, I'm just doubting the talent of the competition. This isn't the first game she's totally dominated in either. I'm not saying she's Cy Young or anything--but come on, she struck out all the batters she faced while not getting above 2 balls. That's awesome at any level of play. And never underestimate the atheletic prowess of farm boys....

QUOTE(The Critic @ May 19, 2005 -> 10:36 AM) Nothing about Clay Aiken seems masculine.... Beat you to it!

QUOTE(Middle Buffalo @ May 19, 2005 -> 10:34 AM) I thought Claymainac sounded more masculine. Maybe, but Clay Aiken is still involved so.........

QUOTE(kapkomet @ May 19, 2005 -> 09:53 AM) I bet all the dudes are too scared to ask her out. Oh wait, this is an 11 year old we're talking about. Wait until she's 16. She's gonna be highly sought after. Hehe. Unless she turns out like the USA Olympic softball players.....Heck, all the more reason to stick to baseball..... Plus, she's probably at least 5 inches taller than everyone else on the team....

QUOTE(kapkomet @ May 19, 2005 -> 09:49 AM) Daaaayyyyyuuummmm! She STRUCK OUT EVERYONE? :o :o GOOD JOB! Seriously. I bet she got taken out for ice-cream afterwards.

QUOTE(jackie hayes @ May 19, 2005 -> 09:41 AM) I don't know either, just something mentioned in an article about this. But the researchers can't really control the uniforms, and I doubt most pro teams would be willing to randomize their unis in the name of science. If the jerseys really were assigned at random, that sounds like a pretty good trial. Less 'violent' sports might be an interesting test. Problem is the uniforms usually aren't dictated by officials in those. That is very true--but man, that would be pretty much the sweetest experiment ever. But maybe at lower levels (semi-pro, college, high school) that would happen--if someone else footed the bill...

Wow!!!!! Shy Smile. Mean Fastball. By THOMAS J. LUECK and BEN BEAGLE Published: May 19, 2005 As the only girl in her upstate Little League, 11-year-old Katie Brownell had already made her mark. An all-star since she was 9, Katie plays hardball better than almost any boy her age in Oakfield, Alabama, Elba and Pembroke, her home turf of farm towns between Rochester and Buffalo. Enlarge This Image Max Schulte for The New York Times Katie Brownell, 11 years old and 5-foot-8, threw a perfect game on Saturday in Little League action in Oakfield, N.Y. But nobody expected what happened on Saturday. Katie pitched a perfect game. "She's very bashful, but very talented," said Jeff Sage, a Rochester firefighter and the manager of Katie's team, the Dodgers. Her pitching on Saturday mowed down the opposing Yankees in an 11-0 shutout before a stunned crowd of about 100 parents and friends in the bleachers of the Oakfield Town Park. "I can't imagine being a boy that has to face her at the plate," said Eric Klotzbach, an engineer and the president of Katie's seven-team league in Genesee County. "It has got be a shot to the ego." News of Katie's achievement, lacking some of the urgency of a major-league feat, was first spread yesterday morning in an article on the front page of the sports section of the closest daily newspaper, The Daily News of Batavia. But by afternoon, when she returned home from her sixth-grade classes, Katie was in an unexpected - and unsought - spotlight. "She had no idea," said Denise Bischoff, Katie's mother, who began taking phone calls about 1:30 p.m. from the "Today" show, Buffalo television stations and New York City newspapers. Katie, whose prowess on the pitcher's mound has yet to extend to the press box, offered an easy smile but only terse and quiet responses in a short interview, often deferring to her mother. Ms. Bischoff said Katie turned "beet red" when she got on the telephone with a producer for "Today," which eventually decided not to present a segment on the perfect game, apparently because videotape of Katie's pitching was not available. It was all a little dizzying for Oakfield, a community of about 3,200 with one traffic light in the center of town and three verdant baseball diamonds in the town park, with bright red sand around the bases and a small electronic scoreboard provided by the local Pepsi distributor. "This is nothing we ever expected would happen," Ms. Bischoff said. It is still, after all, the Little League, where players at widely varying stages of physical development are sometimes poorly matched. Katie, at 5-foot-8, is taller than any boy on her team. But her performance Saturday was rare. Her perfect game was even more perfect than the common definition of the term, which refers to a pitching performance in which every batter is turned back, either by striking out or hitting a ball that results in an out. Katie made it simpler: She struck out everybody, yielding no more than two balls to any batter. "I can't remember this ever happening," said Mr. Sage, who was on duty with his Rochester fire company and missed Saturday's game, but said he received several phone calls from excited relatives as soon as Katie struck out the final batter in the six-inning game. He said players on other teams in the league might find it unnerving to be overpowered by a girl on the pitcher's mound, but that Katie's teammates "think it is great that she's on our side." Katie, whose full name is Katelyn, is in her third season playing hardball in the Little League. She decided at the last minute not to switch this summer to a girls softball team in the same league. "We're glad she stayed with us," Mr. Sage said. Even before the game on Saturday, which was her team's third outing this year, Katie demonstrated striking abilities on the mound, relying almost entirely on a fastball that she can "place just about where she wants," Mr. Sage said. In the season's first game, she allowed only one hit and struck out 14 batters in five innings. She is also a major threat at the plate, with a batting average of .714 after three games. Ms. Bischoff said her daughter had been an avid baseball player since she was about 6, and learned the game from two older brothers. But she said Katie's first year as the only girl in the Little League was trying, and her teammates sometimes told her she should play softball with the other girls. "She is very competitive," Ms. Bischoff said. "She has proven herself, and now baseball is fun."

Interesting.... Graduates fear debt more than terrorism By Greg Toppo, USA TODAY Thu May 19, 6:21 AM ET Forget terrorism. The generation that came of age after Sept. 11, 2001, fears college debt and joblessness more than another terrorist attack. That's according to a new survey of college seniors and graduates of the class of 2005, most of whom were just weeks into their college careers that fateful Tuesday. They still fear terrorism, and most believe that Americans will experience another attack. But when asked, "What are you most fearful of at this time?" only 13.4% said a terrorist attack; 32.4% answered "going deeply into debt," and 31.2% said "being unemployed." The survey, released today by the bipartisan Partnership for Public Service, finds that 45.1% say they expect to graduate with $10,000 or more in college loans, with 20.6% saying they have more than $20,000 to pay off. Another 27.5% say they will have no college debt. "It is the central challenge that they face," says William Strauss, co-author of Millennials Rising and other books about Americans born since 1982. By 2001, Strauss says, these kids already had their sense of security altered by the Columbine High School shootings in 1999 and similar tragedies, which prompted schools to reconsider safety years before the rest of the country. "The adjustments that the society made post-9/11 seemed less startling, and they were more willing to accept it," Strauss says. Though most of the students surveyed say it's likely the USA will experience "another serious terrorist attack" in the next five years, Strauss says economic concerns will play a larger role. "This is a larger issue than many people realize," he says. "It's altering life directions." Rather than pursuing academic paths, "they feel much more obliged to pursue the highest-paying corporate path. That is a significant change from 30 to 40 years ago." Samantha Yarbrough, a senior at Oberlin College in Ohio, says debt burdens didn't change her career plans, but she adds that many friends "opted not to travel for the year because they knew that their payments would start in October." Yarbrough, 23, of Flagstaff, Ariz., plans to attend law school eventually and run for elected office. She says Sept. 11 wasn't really her generation's wake-up call - the Iraq war may have more long-term impact, she says - but that the terrorist attacks were "a shock" that made them more aware of the United States' place in the world. "The knowledge that something like that can happen is now tucked away in our memory," she says. "Before I think - for myself, at least - you knew it was a possibility, but like winning the lottery was a possibility." The Internet survey of 805 randomly sampled students was conducted May 2-5. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

Disgusting. And cruel.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ May 19, 2005 -> 07:36 AM) Interesting. :headshake You'd think SEEING red, or an opposing red uni. would get you more fired up. ^^^^^^ Although, it did occur today that both the teams in the WS last year wore red. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. As per the selection being random, I don't know. But I think for this to be totally valid they should do it across ALL Olympic sports, team/single/etc. Heck, maybe even go for non-Olympic Sports like professional ones over here.... Then I would be FAAAAAAAAAAR more willing to accept

Happy Happy!!!!!

My only quibble is mentioning Loaiza and Garland in the same sentence--one always had it (just needed to put it all together) and one was a fluke..... But this is crazy--who plied the Cubbie Koolaid away?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 19, 2005 -> 08:43 AM) Yeah, but she is at work right now Poor lady.....

His plan is better--but he's such an attention whore I hate admitting that....

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 19, 2005 -> 07:08 AM) OK, so I have a question. Theoretically, would long periods of steroids reduce the bodies ability to fight infections? I know that the kidneys and liver can be taxed by steroids, and often times ex-users suffer shutdowns of those organs, right? And the ability to fight off this stuff is a function of the kidneys and liver somewhat, right? Sorry if I am off here, but my biology knowledge is lacking here... Hm, isn't your wife a bio teacher? I bet she would know.......

QUOTE(Middle Buffalo @ May 19, 2005 -> 12:21 AM) Solitary Man - Clay Aiken What can I say, I'm a Claymaniac. I believe the term is Claymate..... As per American Idol, Kelly Clarkson's cd is probably the best cd for working out that has come across my way in a long time. Hell yes cardio! Also, I can't speak for the whole cd--but I looooooooove the Blake Shelton cover of Goodbye Time. Really two thumbs up......

Would I be a huge dork if I said that I wanted to see their data and statistics? And if I pointed out the obvious, correlation does not equal causation?

Okay, I'm stealing Nuke's line: EAT s*** TEXAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, that felt good. I hope the boys carry the momentum into Wrigley!!!!!!!