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it was cold as balls in Columbia, MO today. How's that for a weather report.

mean and cynical, chisoxfan.

nice and friendly, VAfan

How sad is it that our uber-patriotic whackos buy foreign designed guns. "The AK-47, when you absolutely, positively have to kill every motha ***** in the g** d*** room"

You don't want to give the government too much power but are going to have the gov't decide whether you are mentally capable of owning a weapon.

QUOTE (almagest @ Apr 6, 2009 -> 06:25 AM) So if you're not defending Wise as the lead off hitter, but think Getz might not be able to do it, who should leadoff? Alexei-->Getz (that was intended to be an arrow, not a "greater than" sign - edit) Alexei is not the typical leadoff hitter at all, he doesn't take pitches ... but his aggressiveness and speed on the paths I think would be better for colder weather as a transition to Getz. And because of Alexei's history of being moved around in Cuba, I think he is so tough mentally he would do it for the team.

Well you have no idea if you are correct. If the russians do start to reduce their arsenal, it would make me happy because they seem to have an extremely corrupt country that finds itself losing things that would make certain smaller nations much more powerful.

It's a pretty stupid strategy to complain about. We can start reducing our nuclear arsenal and still be at it for decades.

This sucks, Tuesday I have to work the elections all day and night. NOT FAIR

So then never strive for it, instead, encourage everyone to build UP their nuclear arms!

I think the season really all rests on Colon and Contreras' shoulders. If they aren't improving on Vazquez/5th last year, I don't think we win the division. We'll still be around 85 wins, but they need to push us to 92 or greater, I think.

I think we are being a little too video game minded with this whole Getz situation. Mind you, I'm not advocating defending or rationalizing Wise as our starting CF or leadoff hitter, OKAY, TO READ WHAT I SAY AFTER THIS YOU NEED TO SIGN THAT YES YOU UNDERSTAND THAT FACT, but: Getz is a human, and it's not like a video game where if a guys an 81 contact hitter with good batting eye you can put him anywhere and that'll translate. We know little of the mental makeup of Getz, and perhaps with Ozzie there every day around him, he may actually know more about starting him off. The sox waited a long time to name Getz the 2nd even when it had become pretty clear. He may be someone they think needs to focus on getting good at bats, and hitting in front of Q means he's going to see a lot of fastballs, I think his confidence will build and then he'll move into the first spot of the rotation. Unfortunately, Ozzie's same judgment is likely the reason Wise is leadoff, Wise seems confident and respected in the club house, and that is probably the reason they feel he can lead off. Talent be damned.

anger management and fast and furious, April is a pretty awful month.

I don't know about Eli, while I don't believe the Giants currently have any intentions of replacing him obviously, he is still pretty inconsistent and after two mediocre seasons might be gotten rid of. I see him as something of a Chad Pennington.

Simms was pretty good that year in Tampa, it would hardly be surprising to me.

QUOTE (Soxy @ Apr 3, 2009 -> 06:58 PM) Here's the thing. I feel like people think that the midwest is really conservative and all that. But I don't think it is very socially conservative--I think it's really just that people are more private. I'm not surprised at all by this ruling. That's very apt, but perhaps only to Iowa. Missouri is bats*** crazy, imo. The things that get added to our constitution are just embarrassing.

Orton could do well, but he will be facing some tough defenses in the AFC. BUT, he will have a very good line in front of him and two good receivers. With McDaniels offense, he could get away with a weak arm. But in the end, i be this team implodes under McDaniels.

Brandon marshall is friggen awesome, so...yes. We won't be able to improve upon Denvers WR. however, we have a really good RB and two great pass catching TEs. And we face awful defenses. So we have that going for us.

Since I had the torture of watching the rams last year. I'll say, the one thing that impressed me, was in the midst of an AWFUl season for them, Pace comes back before he's ready just to play for the team, (against the dolphins) and actually played a damn good game. He's a MAN, for whatever b****ing cutler will do, pace will make up for it in his humbleness. CLASS ACT

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 2, 2009 -> 11:46 PM) I just checked the data...turns out that Denver had more rushing yards and more ypc than Chicago did last year by quite a bit. They were at 4.8 ypc, 12th in the league in rushing yards total. Now of course, one can certainly argue that they were able to rush more because their offense was more open with a solid QB, wasn't facing 8 man fronts, wasn't regularly going 3 and out because they had the ability to convert on 3rd down. They may not have had a premier back, but they picked up quite a bit more yardage than the Bears. you would most certainly make that argument. But keep in mind, not that the AFC West defenses were amazing, but the NFC has pretty weak d with the exception of a few. The entire north is pretty weak. The west is very weak. The east has some talent and the south is a joke. So, he's got a lot of teams he can exploit.

I'm going to buy a football video game for the first time in 7 years!!

JUST SIGNED PACE ITS OFFISH

I heard he's in the running for our leadoff spot.

I heard he's in the running for our leadoff spot

is it possible this was written with a straight face: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseb...0,5558156.story ??????