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Jon is getting fitted with her ruby slippers.

The count is 4-0 with a 1.45 ERA. WOW

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Apr 28, 2006 -> 10:26 PM) I'm not necessarily pissed off about that, per se, but I do think it's an insult. Being in Dallas, we have a very large population of LEGALS and ILLEGALS here. Most of the legals are pissed about it. I find that interesting. They say it's a slap to what they worked so hard to achieve. Funny how they're offended, but we shouldn't be. Here you go again in Texas. In Houston they get an MLS soccer team. They name it Houston 1836 which is a European like naming of a local soccer team. However they are forced to change the name, after making uniforms, marketing ideas. Why, because the local mexican american community is offended at the name 1836 because that is when the mexican army was defeated. This is the same as people getting offended if a team was named 1776 because the English were kicked out. 1836 to change name

That was the best break he has had on a curve all year long.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Apr 28, 2006 -> 10:36 PM) Son of a b****. I hate the West Coast. Sure its the west coast. Not the blame of our team at all.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Apr 28, 2006 -> 08:49 PM) Bulls*** call there to Thome. Thome is a funny guy, he goes down 2 times in a game, and then usually winds up destroying the next pitch he sees.

I hate Weaver. I hope they shell him so more.

Keep pouring on the runs. Freddy needs them.

Thats a nice RBI for Anderson. LOL

Juans front foot flying open. Thank god he forgot what he learned from Hrniak in the second half of last year. f***!!!!!

The crowd boos AJ, LOL.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Apr 28, 2006 -> 08:30 PM) In the starts I watched he was very good. Well, typical first inning Freddy. Hopefully he'll settle down and we can score a few runs. Not gonna be easy but we can do it. In all the years of watching Freddy, when did he become Typical mid 80s Freddy. He usually gives up runs in the first inning, however he usually can break 90 on the gun once.

QUOTE(SSH2005 @ Apr 28, 2006 -> 08:24 PM) Farmer is talking about scouts' concerns about Freddy's velocity. Methinks its MRI time for Freddy.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Apr 28, 2006 -> 08:22 PM) So I guess that means he's not gonna hit .054 against us this series, or whatever it was. haha. Well not many major leaguers are going to hit that when someone is getting behind everyone and throwing junk and backing that up with 85 mph heat.

How does someone who has had a good fastball for all these years, come in this year with a mid 80s to high 80s fastball and no one is saying maybe something is wrong with his arm.

Freddy Maddux throwing junk. And all over the place.

QUOTE(fathom @ Apr 28, 2006 -> 08:16 PM) Weaver's fastball blows tonight, but his slider is nasty. Hopefully they swing at strikes tonight.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Apr 28, 2006 -> 01:11 PM) As far as I can tell, these things wouldn't be as big of a threat to the U.S., it would just drag out any air campaign longer, because you'd have to go after them first with the stealths. It's doable, but it just takes an extra day or two of sorties. Cruise Missiles...well this system is used by quite a few countries, including China, and supposedly it's moderately successful against them. If the U.S. goes after those, they'll almost certainly go after them with stealths. The real issue here is how much Israel is willing to trust the U.S. as its first line of defense. If Israel is willing to hold off and let the U.S. say "We'll deal with it", then we'll be ok, because there's nothing yet built that's going to find a B-2. But Israel has a habit of not wanting to rely solely on other countries for its security. These sorts of installations would pose a major threat to the IDF, and the IDF would lose a ton of planes in trying to go after them. That's the real problem...if Israel isn't willing to rely 100% on the U.S., they'll have to strike before these things are active or potentially lose their ability to strike. You hit it on the head. The first thing that will happen the minute Iran is attacked, is that Iran will lob something over at Israel to bring them into the frey. You know their rockets are a hell of a lot more accurate than the bottle rocket scuds that Iraq had back in the first gulf war. We started using stealth based cruise missles in this last war. So B52s could come in and stay quite a bit away and do so stand off launches for a first salvo also.

Ohio recalls voter registration CDs; Social Security numbers included Why would you think that putting social security numbers and say a voter cd was a good thing. Dumb.

QUOTE(Wanne @ Apr 28, 2006 -> 12:49 PM) Great read....good stuff! Is it just me...but don't you think they could find a better greeting party? Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson. Guess I'm just not into blonds. I originally had Ms May 2006, however this months Cybergirl blows her away. YIKES. She has clothes on also, sorry this is about as far as I can go with a pic on here. Now this is the type of Hunny Brian should be all over.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Apr 28, 2006 -> 11:11 AM) So this morning, there was This moderately interesting column in my LA Times by Rosa Brooks, one of their columnists that you probably wouldn't call a major hawk. Her prediction? There will be a war with Iran by September. So, I did a bit of reading into these Tor missiles, and They do actually appear to be quite formidable. They can operate in radar-jamming environments, so traditional anti-radar missiles won't necessarily work well against them. They have a very high kill rate, hitting somewhere between 92 to 95% of airplane targets. They also have the ability to hit cruise missiles, hitting between 60 and 90% of those. It can engage multiple targets simultaneously. Basically we're talking about a missile that is approaching the quality of the current Patriot system. As far as I can tell, once Iran gets these operational, there will be exactly 2 weapons systems in the world (that we know about) which are capable of actually doing damage to the Iranian nuclear program without extreme casualties; the F117 and B2 stealth bombers, which these missiles still cannot detect. So therefore, if Israel genuinely were planning a strike, this author is correct, as of September of this year, the cost of such a strike to the IDF would go up massively. Unless Iran installed more of these missiles, they wouldn't have enough to totally defeat the IDF with just those devices, but it is now officially safe to say that beyond Iran's fortifications on the ground, Iran is prepared to make any attempt to shut down their nuclear programs into a major conflict in the air over their country, involving heavy casualties on both sides. Our first strike MO for the last few engagements has been the same. We hit hard with Cruise Missles and Stealth aircraft the first few waves to take out command and control and also use it to take out Sam installations. Once that is thinned out, we then lauch major operations with the rest of the air fleet. We also have F22 Raptors that have stealth capabilities to add to the B2 and the F117. Also remember that the Russians talk up their techology and their ability to compete, however in the last few wars we have ran up against the Russian technology and have beat it. Remember the Mig29 in the first gulf war, and how supperior it was to our fighters. How the advanced sam installations would take us down. Their tanks and how they would take us out due to numbers. We were ahead of them technologically then and we are now. The only real risk that we have to worry about in a fight with Iran is the following. Silkworm missle attacks on our fleet in the gulf. Balistic Missle attacks from their long range rockets on Israel, and our bases in the gulf. This of course is until we get air supperiority. Suicide attacks. This will be the lingering issue for the long haul. You cant defend the single minded insane person who wants to kill himself and lots of people around him. Iran wants confrontation, at least their nutty leader does. He wants to bring about the 4th imam. He is a religious nutcase. The Iranian people dont want a war.

Here is the beauty of our justice system. These two morons will get to view the world in he eyes of the victim when they go to prison for a bit. After they are passed around like rag dolls they will have a new appreciation for being a victim of sexual assault.

Well CC Fatabia did good in his start. They are deciding to either pitch him against us on Tuesday or pitch him against the As. So we are probably looking at facing Cliff Lee on MOnday and then the Snickers Model on Tuesday. Buerhle vs the large one.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Apr 26, 2006 -> 01:14 PM) Umm, the only problem is that they fired all the hot ones and hired a bunch of below average females. It used to be about T and A, it seems that someone complained and ruined it for everyone. Rock, This one is for you. Remember the 2005 Pride Crew and their contributions to the championship season.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 27, 2006 -> 02:14 PM) Nuts to the left, nuts to the right, here I am stuck in the middle with you. Like many important debates in our society, the fringe groups get the press because it's entertaining, but we really can't take them seriously. Can we start to fire the nuts that are teaching our kids Usually its the fringe groups that start to use violence to get their way. At some point something is going to happen whether its a klu klux klan guy killing a mexican, or its one of these nut jobs trying to resurrect their homeland. The ones that worry me are the the ones who identify themselves with the Palestinian resistance group and likes their methods.