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I would put him squarely in the B category of outfielders. He's the kind of guy that everyone wants (if he's not injured). I think he will be a Reggie Sanders type as he gets older...decent outfielder, good hitter, winner.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 06:56 PM) Every time I flex my biceps in the mirror. And here I was thinking you would say, "Anytime Golden Girls or Maude is on TV."

The way it sounded to me, Kenny didn't pursue Delgado, the propostion was brought to his attention. And Kenny is the kind of GM that will listen to anything.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 04:49 PM) I've been to SxSW twice in the late 90's. It's tough to see anyone who has any type of buzz entering the event. I was just joking around. I picked the most uncool place on earth so as to not require the green text. I guess I was wrong. Hmm...the most uncool place on Earth...yeah, Orlando fits the bill, but I wouldn't put it past the Disney empire to steal it away. how about Albany, Georgia?

QUOTE(Reddy @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 03:23 PM) ok but you were saying that democrats would try and spin this against Bush which is clearly impossible to do You clearly haven't been watching the past 20 years or so. Politicians can spin ANYTHING in ANY WAY they want. And that's going across political lines there.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 02:02 PM) I think they moved it to Orlando this year. Ummm, no. It's always here in Austin. And it's always the week of Uni. of Texas' spring break. End of March-ish. It's REALLY expensive to get a badge. And the wristbands, from what I've heard, don't always help. but, there's so much music, if you are a music fan, it's worth it. This year, from what I've heard, Morrissey will be giving an interview AND doing a set. The Flaming Lips will be here and the featured artist is Neil Young. There's also a North by North East festival somewhere in Canada in September or October. ADDITION: And I was at the first Lolla' at the old New World Music Theater (now Tweeter Center). I was sooo hungover that I fell asleep during Rollins' set. I still kick myself to this day. But whoever made them open wasn't thinking to straight.

Definitely international range, if you ask me. As said before, it'll open up more of an inside game and may reintroduce the mid-range jumper.

I tell each and every one of your wives/fiancees/girlfriends that I love them EVERY DAY!!! Seriously though, I do tell my fiancee that I love her every day.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 10:59 AM) BTW, I like a Pres or Veep that fishes and hunts. Tell me he actually cleaned his catch and I'd be even happier. I was thinking how sad it is that he travels with an ambulance. In a couple years, the ambulance goes away, as if he doesn't matter anymore. He matters now?!?! (Ba-dum bum) Thank you, try the veal.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Feb 13, 2006 -> 08:53 PM) Sadly, that wouldn't actually happen...unlike most metals, like Iron, which react with oxygen to give an oxide phase and energy, gold is actually stable at room conditions. For those who understand what it means, the free energy change of the reaction Au + x O = Au2O3 has a positive free energy of formation...which means you literally need to heat it in order to make it rust. This is why, for example, when gold is found in nature, it is actually found as metallic gold, and not found as an oxide, like aluminum which is found as Bauxite for example. Of course, they might have made the tropies back then out of Iron, at which point none of that would matter. But ours looked nice in gold. :sleep

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 10:05 AM) so he OD'd. [fingers doing quote signs] Accidentally. [/fingers doing quote signs]

Capital Sports Entertainment, located here in Austin, does a pretty good job with the Austin City Limits music festival. there's usually at least one big band (this past year it was...yeeeeuck...Coldplay). But the rest were either up and coming acts or group B bands. Y'know, the 3000 seat venues, not arena rock. I would guess there would be a big headliner a night, but the rest of the 100+ bands will be up and comers.

It sounded like he wanted to be in the running for Rowands spot in CF. Yeah, sorry Joe, but we don't need a 27-year old rookie whose best season was .174 and 9 hrs. You may be a nice guy, but only being nice don't get you the bling. If you want to play baseball next year, I wish you well. If you want to play football (if that's what you can call it in the CFL ), I wish you well. If you can be one thing in this world, it's happy.

I must say, everyone here in Austin is a little on edge. Now, if I hear a car backfire on IH-35, I'm screaming, "EVERYONE GET DOWN, CHENEY'S IN TOWN!!!!"

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Feb 10, 2006 -> 06:28 PM) Well I contributed exactly the same amount of offense to the Sox World Series title as Timo. Hey...me, too!!! Damn it Gene, where're our rings? If we left right now, I bet we can get to the White House by Monday, too!!!

Timo Perez has a World Series ring. Soxtalk posters have jokes. Timo 1 Soxtalk 0

QUOTE(Drew @ Feb 10, 2006 -> 05:50 PM) If this is what you call deceptive, there are lots of ads that you'd consider bald-faced lies. Let me rephrase... "If that is what you call deceptive, then ALL ads are bald-faced lies.

Draft Reggie...Trade Dominick. DO NOT PICK Vince Young. I see another Kordell Stewart in Vince Young. Oh yeah, and FIRE CHARLIE CASSERLY!!!

QUOTE(mreye @ Feb 10, 2006 -> 12:44 PM) It took many many months to go to Iraq. We didn't go in overnight. Plus, we're in Iraq being "proactive instead of reactive." Isn't that what you want? Isn't that what will make you happy? Or is that only when it comes to bashing Bush? But we sure were prepared for it. That's my point. Not condemning Bush. This country is getting so that if someone needs help other than people in our own country, we're ready to jump at the chance. It seems we are always more prepared to help elsewhere than for disasters at home. PS...Notice, I never said Bush or Iraq in my statement.

Franklin Cover: completely uncool "honky" married to Roxie Roker, aka, Lenny Kravitz' mother. RIP Franklin Cover...you will live on in re-runs.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 10, 2006 -> 12:13 PM) Exactly. Its not as if we were deploying to California because some translator of Nostradamus said it would happen - this was a high probability event, at a known location. No good reason not to be prepared for it. And furthermore...why are we so prepared to go to another country, any country, and fight a war (good or bad) and we can't be prepared in our own backyard? That's the question I have. Just because this battle was against nature and we were sure to lose, doesn't mean we can't be prepared for it.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 10, 2006 -> 12:05 PM) I am sittng here wondering how much time and money should have been spent on the possibility that NO would take a direct hit, and the levees would break, and this and that. While we have an unlimted budget to destroy and rebuild Iraq, we don't have an unlimited budget to mobilize thousands of people and tons of equipment on a worse case scenario. All that has to be balanced in the response. Can you imagine the headlines $67,000,000 spent on diaster that never came. What a waste of our tax dollars. I'm not saying they should have had the entire Louisiana and Mississippi and Texas and Alabama National Guards sitting and waiting in full gear...but I am saying they should have one first response team ready. One. Call in one battalion. That's what they are there for, isn't it? And if something does happen, then those teams are doing what they can and the rest should be called up within 24 hours...or as many as they can within 24 hours. I know what you are saying, but personally, and I may be alone in this, but if my president/governor/mayor says to me, "Yes, we did spend a lot of money, but I would rather be proactive than reactive." That would make me happy and wouldn't lead to this he said/she said crap that we are dealing with now. I see it as...Spend some money now, save lots of money later.

The problem is a lack of preparedness. As has been said. If the feds didn't want to step on the local or states toes, that's fine, but they should be RIGHT BEHIND THEM, breathing down their necks. Or close enough that if something should go wrong, they can jump in. Weather reports or no weather reports, New Orleans is a dangerous city to live in when it comes to heavy rains and flooding. EVERYONE should have been ready as soon as there was a threat...and I mean EVERYONE. The mayor, the governor, FEMA, and even the President f'ed up on this. They are all to blame. That's what bugs me...each group is pushing blame when instead they should all stand together and realize...we all f***ed up, we admit it, and now, we are going to fix it...TOGETHER!!! BTW, I will be going to NO for my bachelor party because the best thing I can do for them is pump some money back into their economy (at least that what the NO Convention and Tourism Bureau says).

QUOTE(mreye @ Feb 10, 2006 -> 10:48 AM) :headshake Another reason why I pretty much leave it on the History Channel. Now THAT'S reality TV.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Feb 9, 2006 -> 12:58 PM) Milo may or may not be accurate in his version of what happened ( since Harry's not around to give his side, we can never really know ), but he really needs to just let it go. Walking around with that kind of bile festering inside you can't be good. It's hard to let it go when the grudge seems to be carried on by Harry's son Skip and also Jim Dowdle. Much harder when you can't get away from it. I think this book is helping him let it go.