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but Morneau is a Twin. So he's greater than a white sox

FLOYD!! oh, and forgot this we don't want to win. This team is awful. We don't deserve first place Way to go Thome! Ties Mickey Mantle what a feat

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Aug 31, 2008 -> 07:40 PM) It's because I started it. i feel like national games are always shorter because so many more can watch them/aren't coming in for updates.

wake's knuckler is getting better. I want to see quentin just bat the entire time.

Nice hit there Ocab! Let's go Swish!!!

Sox are a good team and will find a way to win today. A three game losing streak doesn't mean the team is the worst team in the history of teams.

Nice play by Crede. Gavin will settle down.

eh, I like Chad Johnson. Dude plays his ass off and compared to the trash on that team that take their fights OFF the field, I'd take him anyday.

for all that talent, I don't think we've ever had a recruiting class as high as some of yours the past years. Just a great coach who finds players who work in his system. Derrick Washington is going to be reeeallly good this year, however. And Weatherspoon and Willy Moore are just fantastic players. If we lose Maclin, please please please just let it be a 4 week injury, we can bear without him during that time especially if danario can come back

Just got back from the game. Don't know how people could blame it on Zook. Our offense is just so good. Maclin please god let you not be too injured. At the very least thank god it wasn't your knee. Coffman is awesome, glad he's back to being a primary though it was fun with Rucker last year. Our defense was fine if literally not for our one cornerback who sucked so much I hope he gets cut. Weatherspoon showed why he is an absolute beast and Willy Mo racked up the tackles. Overall, we got much better on defense as the season progressed last year and I see the same this year. Illinois is probably the fastest team we'll play the rest of the year so I'm glad we beat them. That last TD was garbage anyway. Scary to face a good team to start out but even as it got close it wasn't ever that close. Lookin forward to a nice blowout next week though, that's for sure. Football sure makes it feel like the school season is here.

I'm heading to St. Louis right now. Go Mizzou!!! I'm a bit nervous but I'm thinking we'll pull through. Pretty experienced team now.

is this game national?

wish you the best of luck in the rest of your career mike, but not today. Dude was a cubs fan anyways.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 30, 2008 -> 04:19 PM) The sad thing is that his fee went up after he announced he had cheated on his wife. Stay classy John, stay classy. Really? Another reason for Mizzou to beat the crap out of U of I this weekend. (I'm headin there now)

QUOTE (shipps @ Aug 30, 2008 -> 01:07 PM) Been listening to The National alot lately.Isnt it about time for a new album?I really hope so that guy has the coolest singing voice I ever heard outside of the lead singer in Kings of Leon. It's only been a year

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Aug 30, 2008 -> 09:03 AM) Tonight at the Pacific Division show Hollywood Holt bought me a Heineken...highlight of my night. ha nice. I want to get up to see another one of his shows.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Aug 30, 2008 -> 01:28 AM) Well.. Black Mountain, Times New Viking and Yo La Tengo too. Plus it's like 300 miles away. where do you go to school?

knots in my stomach. I was friends with Mike Bowden in high school, but I hope he kids the crap beat out of him tomorrow.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 30, 2008 -> 02:00 AM) Yea, I just haven't had time to read ANYTHING about her other then what's been posted here, and frankly a lot of it is Democrat attack points from AHB. Wikipedia has been going crazy with updates on her. I think that would honestly be a great place to start. I like to check wikipedia and then follow their links on the reference section.

this was going in the Palin VP thread: Alright. Perhaps my initial reaction being so critical of this pick was a reaction to McCain's campaign's heavy push that Obama is too inexperienced and running off of his celebrity status. I've in the past shown why I think experience is a load of bunk. Some posters, balta and lostfan, have echoed these sentiments in a way I agree with. I'd add, historically, some of my favorite presidents (Polk, Lincoln, Truman) had little experience compared to their peers, but personality and drive to do what they thought was right. In my posts, I was hypocritical. I do think this helps Obama eliminate one attack against him from McCain, that he is inexperienced. This doesn't mean that Obama is going to attack Palin for being so, rather that McCain won't be able to effectively use it. I say this, because in my opinion your VP pick is someone you are saying is qualified to be president and will fight for your agenda. McCain in picking Palin, is saying that her drive and personality and work as a reformer qualify her for president. I would like to know more about Alaskan politics. My view right now is it is in shambles due to many scandals, and that Palin enjoyed heavy favorables for taking on these. Although, she herself is in a scandal. And Alpha dog made a good point, that Biden's son Hunter is going to get him into trouble. The NYTimes has already ran coverage of his son's lobbyist ties and questionable practices. This is troublesome to me, in addition to Biden's cozy relationship to the credit companies. However, the reason I think Palin's scandal could hurt her more than Biden, is that even if you taint Biden with lobbyist ties, it's a bit watered down because that has been a story with aides in this campaign and none of them have gotten too far. And if you taint his populist cries, he still has his foreign policy experience. With Palin, if you taint her reformist agenda with a scandal such as she has, she has little else except her social conservatism, and I don't think that will win too many moderates. All in all, this actually was probably a good pick for McCain. Clearly, Pawlenty and Romney were not exciting people, as this day was mostly met with dread in the lead up from the conservatives here it seemed. She, a fresh face and history-maker of her own, adds conservative credentials - and most of all - enthusiasm to this campaign. I can see her closing the enthusiasm gap vs. Obama, and in that sense she was probably a good choice. In the end, this will come down to Obama vs. McCain, and probably on foreign policy on whether Obama can convince enough of the country that he is ready to take over our country during 2 conflicts and rising super powers. And as opposed to certainly Romney and in my impression Pawlenty, Palin will add youth and charm and be in asset in these town halls McCain runs.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 09:25 PM) I got in a car accident and missed my only chance to see Titus Andronicus. I might catch them in Champaign with Dan Deacon but man, thats some serious monies. Dan Deacon and Titus Andronicus is an expensive show?

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 11:44 PM) I couldnt watch the cable nets for more than 45 seconds at a time, would immediately switch to C-SPAN. Their opinion that their talking heads were more interesting than the Democratic party's propogandist speech givers was interesting. I'll choose PBS anyday.

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 11:40 PM) I'll agree with the governor is running things. W Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Carter, etc have been recent presidents that were governors. There hasn't been a senator elected president in a long time. I know she's a possible vice president, but she does have some, even if little, experience at running things. It's true that there haven't been too many senators jump to President in history, but much of this I believe has to do with the Senate not being popularly elected until the 20th century. And if you were to look at it then, we have had a lot of our presidents move into the presidency that HAVE been senators. LBJ, Nixon, Kennedy and Truman. And certainly LBJ's time in the senate was invaluable to him in pushing through his legislation. Carter on the other hand had executive experience, but the Georgia legislature held little power vs. their governor, and Carter had little idea how to deal with the legislature. So in these cases I think it's fair to say that both of these positions are distinguished and prepare the president in different ways.

Anthony Bordaines no reservations episode in Osaka made me soooooo hungry. Just thinking about it is making my mouth water.

QUOTE (WCSox @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 10:15 PM) That's still not a very smart thing to say, especially when Iran is developing nukes, threatening to use them on Israel, and has significant influence on global energy prices. Hence the "judgement" issue. Maybe you should read what he actually said before saying it questions his judgment.