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QUOTE(Kalapse @ Feb 14, 2008 -> 02:58 PM) Aside from the Mets the Cubs have as good a chance at winning the world series as any team in the NL IMO. You can say that about every team before Spring Training actually starts. But it ain't gonna happen.

Reinsdorf, Mariotti, Kenny and Ozzie are caught at a brothel in Northwest Indiana, "sowing their wild oats." Juan Uribe eats O-Cab to "get his job back." Alexei Ramirez is sent to AAA but doesn't report and "refects" to Cuba. AJ becomes the next Sean Casey. Owens runs around the bases 3 times during one Konerko hr trot. Steve Lyons drops his pants again...but this time in Nancy Faust's organ hole. Sox win World Series...of Poker.

QUOTE(Steve9347 @ Feb 14, 2008 -> 07:38 PM) I'm so f***ing depressed right now man... 4 people dead. This just hits too close to home, I've been in Cole Hall countless times. I can't even fathom what those families/friends are going through. And people in Blacksburg, Virginia are probably shuddering right now. Prayers go out to all friends/family of ALL NIU students.

According to MSNBC.com, the shooter killed himself. Good...I guess.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Feb 14, 2008 -> 01:15 PM) and people who judge other people for judging other people.... oh gosh, it'll never end! gmafb. Let me guess, you're a people should do whatever they want with no regard of other people and probably really into the idea of Universal health care. smoking cause insane amounts of health problems and to boot it makes you smell like a dirty sock that's been lit on fire. Eating fast food makes you big and fat if not on the outside on the inside and causes insane amounts of health problems. So when it comes down to paying for Universal health care...guess where the burden is? not on the sickies, that's for sure. so please, don't give me crap for looking down on people for not taking care of themselves. I'm pissed at myself for not doing more, but that's why I'm trying and working out and watching what I eat. More people need to be judged not less. If parents JUDGED their kids actions more, we wouldn't have problems like this. "Judge" doesn't mean not caring btw. "Judge" means recognizing bad behavior and not allowing it to go on. and not using direct deposit is just stupid. more work for you, more work for me. Well, actually, I am more of a libertarian. But, I put that in green because I was joking. I WAS a smoker, but I quit. I used to eat fast food, but not so much anymore. I used to have direct deposit, but I freelance now. Hey, you can have your opinions, but, you know something, so can I.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Feb 14, 2008 -> 01:02 PM) Lickliter's job is not in jeopardy. He's got much more support here than Alford ever did. Don't get sold too quickly on Keno, either. I don't think Tony Bennett would leave either. Scott Drew might, but living here in Texas, I can tell you that the Baylor community absolutely loves him for what he has done for that program. He has given them hope. Now, Drew may want to be back in Indiana, but Baylor might make it worth his while to stay.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Feb 14, 2008 -> 01:09 PM) You'd think so. For the same reasons that coaches who signed new contracts leave to get another job. If he signed his LOI, he should lose a year of eligibility. It would be like paying the school you left after signing that contract...just ask Rich Rod and Jerry Kill.

QUOTE(bmags @ Feb 14, 2008 -> 11:37 AM) I go to U. of Missouri (MU campus), which has the, perhaps self-acclaimed but I've heard it elsewhere as well, distinction as the #1 journalism school in the country. That's all trivial, though. But it's clear MU, Medill (NU), Columbia, and UNC are tops, tops of an education many in the profession consider useless. But here is my qualm. At MU, if a newspaper or magazine major, you will work at the Missourian. It is a daily that serves the town of Columbia. Not a student newspaper all about the University, but it's supposed to cover the town. So every semester for this J4450 class, you have a new batch of kids writing this newspaper, covering a town most are unfamiliar with, and ending up getting some weird struggle between useless stories about student life and life in the town profiling a small business owner. There are a very large # of reporters. Today, this story appeared: http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/...4-percent-2007/ Violent crime increases 34% in 2007. The cause we get in this story, is the hilarious "criminal assault" charges rose. You can't get much more literal than that, criminal assault rose, so violent crime rose. But what bugs me is that with all these reporters, we won't go out and assign them to find out what is going on. Why did crime increase so much? Is it an outlier year, or is there something going on in places like first ward, the poorest ward in Columbia, that is never covered in the paper (why would students be there)? And why won't it be covered? Because that takes a long time. It's tough enough that you have reporters inexperienced with the town they are in, but they also have one semester, and their grades are mostly based off of # of clips, or articles, in the paper. No student would take on a story like that b/c it would take a lot of work and a lot of time and at the end of it, you'd be behind the student who covered 26 BBQ festivals (like me.) For the oldest J-school in the world, and #1 in the world, we're certainly teaching journalists to do the current garbage level of reporting, listen to officials, report it. Job well done, informed citizen. Sorry for the long post. Are there full time journalists there? Professionals? Or is it like the campus radio station at Illinois, where the general manager and sales director are the only full timers (unless it has changed) and the rest is students? Either way, that's not good journalism. Someone should be assigning them stories, not based on #, but based on 1) what you are interested in covering and 2) depth and research and writing of pieces. Maybe you should be the pioneer and delve into the 1st Ward.

Big deal...call me when they use magic underwear.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Feb 14, 2008 -> 12:05 PM) In Happier News... Texsox will be taking the weekend off. GREAT!!! Dreamers and La Rouge are a block away from my house!!! Who wants sex toys?!?! Tex? PA? Britney is beyond interventions, she needs to be committed. Or else I think she'll be dead by the time she's 30. It's a sad story and she needs help.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Feb 14, 2008 -> 09:17 AM) smokers = honorable mentions for the darwin awards. but so do: fast food visitors kids who stare at you when they're in the drive thru at the bank because they want a lollipop. people who don't use direct deposit You forgot one: People who judge other people.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Feb 14, 2008 -> 12:54 PM) ****WR Sedrick Johnson, who f***ing signed with Iowa State, may be getting out of his LOI to sign with A&M (it may have already happened). Jesus f***ing Christ, never a f***ing break. Mike Sherman pwned Gene Chizik.

Anyone think Keno Davis might be in the picture, considering what he has done with Drake this year? He may wait for Iowa, though. And I think you have to do two things with the IU situation. One, punish IU for hiring Sampson knowing that he left Oklahoma for the same sanctions...what's the old saying...fool me once, shame on you, fool me...I won't get fooled again! Two, the NCAA should give Sampson the Bozeman treatment and keep him from coaching in the NCAA for a specific amount of time. Three years maybe?

Pat Knight with his first win tonight on "Pat Knight Day" in Lubbock. And against the Big 12 leading K-State Wildcats. Congrats on win number 1...only 902 more to go to break daddy's record!

QUOTE(RME JICO @ Feb 13, 2008 -> 10:23 PM) Some pretty interesting info from a Body Language Analyst: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3244344 Basically says Clemens exhibited several signs of deception, whereas McNamee only a few. Y'know, to boil it down...McNamee has nothing to lose. Clemens has everything to lose. I wouldn't be surprised if Clemens lied MORE...but I don't believe either of them.

QUOTE(shipps @ Feb 13, 2008 -> 08:32 AM) I was talking to a x-ray tech friend of mine and she was telling me that when a man lays on the x-ray bed his man junk will lean towards the side the pain is or the side the pain hurts the most.Not believing her I asked another credible source and they confirmed it as truth.I find that pretty interesting it really does have a mind of its own. Are you kidding me? It took this long to post about this? Man, you admins are self-absorbed! So shipps, there's no way that's true, is it? And if it is...and it was long enough, would it actually point to the place that hurts? If not, I think it should. I mean, when I stub my toe, my groin hurts!

QUOTE(bmags @ Feb 13, 2008 -> 04:36 PM) but the beagle won! I love beagles, but the Akita shoulda won...that was a beautiful dog. But, Lester really swayed that crowd!

QUOTE(AngelasDaddy0427 @ Feb 13, 2008 -> 08:46 PM) How has no one said this hypocritical moron yet... I'm so glad you did that...I was aghast that it took until the 14th post for someone to bring up that ignorant blowhard. Ugh. But may I also add this, especially after the interview this past weekend (I know she's not a pundit, but, she needs to go back to morning tv):

QUOTE(iamshack @ Feb 12, 2008 -> 10:35 PM) This is somewhat embarrassing, but I actually just finished the infamous book written by Neil Strauss- "The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists." A roommate of mine a few years ago had it and was always telling me about it, and I read a few chapters then but never got around to getting into it then. Recently, some friends of mine had just read it and asked me if I had heard of it. I ordered it from Amazon (was too embarrassed to go anywhere and buy it in person and read it this past weekend. What an amazingly interesting book! And not even from the side of the interactions with men trying to pick up women, but how this "goal" absolutely took over and ruined some of these men's lives. Anyone looking for a really light, yet extremely interesting book on interaction between the genders, especially in the singles' scene, I highly recommend it. I found it humorous, ridiculous, and certainly obnoxious, but absolutely fascinating as well. Ladies and gentlemen...the new and improved iamshack:

I was drunk once and tried to light a cigarette off the stove...singed my Eddie Munster pretty good...especially since I had long hair at the time. Didn't look right until I cut it. Yikes.

A story of the intertwined lives of baseball fans posting on a message board. Each week can tell the story of a different one. There would be unlimited episodes! You wouldn't use names, you would use handles. I'd buy it!

QUOTE(Soxbadger @ Feb 13, 2008 -> 07:36 PM) Well thats where you and I have a fundamental difference. I dont believe that govt needs to protect people from ruining their own lives. I think people should make the choices they want to make, otherwise why not ban drinking, smoking, gambling, the internet, video games... All have proven to lead to people's lives going down the sewer... Exactly! That's why I think they need to lock the owners rep (Selig really isn't, but kinda is) and the Fehr, the players rep and a mediator that won't let them out until it's a good solution. Leave the gov't out of it.

QUOTE(TheBigHurt @ Feb 13, 2008 -> 01:45 PM) That's ridiculous. WE aren't making the decision to take drugs and open ourselves up to this kind of peril. If you'd give in to "pressure" like that, you must be pretty gullable. Fans are not to blame for players' actions. No, but we like to watch things that we can't do. We didn't inject any player, never said we did. Fans didn't force anyone to do anything. But to say that more fans showing up to watch players like McGwire, Sosa, Bonds, Brady Anderson hit 50 hrs, Palmeiro, etc. it's irresponsible to think that fans didn't have a small part of it. If we stopped going to games, that sends a clear message. Shoot, I'm responsible too, I didn't stop going to games.

QUOTE(lvjeremylv @ Feb 13, 2008 -> 01:40 PM) I don't know of 1 real fan who would want a cheater to have any amount of success, much less break any records. These players broke records under false pretenses, and those who did should be ashamed of themselves. I don't see us fans as being partially to blame. Just because we...LOL the chairman just OWNED Roger, who tried to chime in when his time to talk was over. Anyway, just because the fans show up to the ballpark and cheer, that doesn't make it OK for those players we're cheering for to cheat the game and lie to the world. Don't even tell me that you were ignorant to the fact that there might be an issue of PEDs. C'mon. Juiced balls? I don't think so. We were talking about this in '98. We were whispering about it in '88 with the Bash Brothers. We didn't want Bonds to break Aaron's record because he's an asshole. Steroids was second. I'm not saying we are the only ones, but we are partially to blame. And as for Donaghy, I wasn't talking about the NBA, I was talking about fans thinking they are crooked. You're right, though, the NBA acted swiftly and smartly and it isn't nearly as bad as it could've been.