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QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Oct 4, 2006 -> 12:32 PM) Has Frank been up yet this series with anyone on base? 8 plate appearances, led off the inning 7 times.

agree with Tex's first reply. Term limits are un-American. Don't like the person in office- vote them out! Clinton would probably still be in office.

people are so self-righteopus about this steroid issue. Geez folks, get over yourselves - like you've never cheated or sought an advantage on another person. What's that quote - "If you're not cheating, you're not trying"? I like "Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat, cheat, cheat."

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Sep 26, 2006 -> 11:01 AM) Now that I have paid proper respect to the Gipper........ Appeaser? Was he the one that said the Soviets couldn't be defeated? Was he the one that said we should try to co-exist with communisim instead of trying to defeat it? ........ ...........not going to hold my breath waiting for an answer. while we're at it, what's wrong with co-existing with communism? Reagan spent like a drunken sailor for no good reason and f***ed our economy for years afterward.

I will entirely blame the Bush administration, for failing to respond to the Cole attack, blowing off Richard Clarke, ignoring the PDB about "Bin Laden determined to attack in America", reading "My Pet Goat" for 10 minutes after the attacks happened, failing to get Bin Laden in Tora Bora - their failure list grows everyday.....

so what? How is this newsworthy?

It looks like I'm in the minority, but so what? Unless the US is being directly threatened in this conflict, we should not be involved. Same goes for Iraq. We are not the World's Policeman.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 13, 2006 -> 12:16 PM) I would love to hear a show that actually treats all opinions with respect and will fairly discuss issue from both sides. I'd be about the only one listening, everyone else would be screaming too biased towards the other side, but I can dream. Who d you believe has the most neutral, even handed show? I agree - this is very hard to find. I tend to think, even though I disagree with about 70% he says, that Michael Medved is the most even-handed show. He takes a lot of calls from people that disagree with him and doesn't get defensive. I really like Ed Shultz, but man does that guy get defensive. There's a non-partisan but political show out here in LA on KFI called The Jon & Ken Show that is pretty even-handed too. They're pretty opinionated but they disagree with both Repubs & Dems. It's the shows that just toe the party line, where it seems the host does absolutely no thinking for themselves that I hate - like Hannity and Limbaugh.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Sep 13, 2006 -> 05:34 PM) I think after Unforgiven there is gonna be a roster trade with Batista and Cena. Latest rumor from a good source is that Cena will not be moving to Smackdown. Don't know if that means he's winning the title or what, but I've heard he won't be leaving Raw. I think this is a bad idea as Smackdown could really use him and Edge is a good champion who could use an extended run.

Yay Jerry Owens! My preseason pick for Rookie of the Year. Ha, I'm so smart. S-M-R-T.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Sep 13, 2006 -> 02:32 PM) Am I the only one who's extremely torn when it comes to Garcia's possible perfect game? I mean he is a White Sox player and all but this is more of a personal accomplishment and I really dislike Freddy Garcia, he is without a doubt my least favorite player on this team (outside of Podsednik) and I'd rather he not be one of the worst pitchers ever to pitch a perfect game. Are you saying you're actively rooting AGAINST a White Sox player to throw a perfect game??

No way. We have too many frivolous holidays (St. Patrick's Day, Columbus Day, King Day, Casmir Pulaski Day, President's Day, Labor Day, Easter) as it is. Get rid of them all, I say!!

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 11, 2006 -> 01:28 PM) My logic isn't to make people less mad at us, or that Israel can defend itself. Neither are the main point to me. There are two main problemsx I have with us staying involved is that I don't see Israel as being any more right or wrong than the Palestinians at this point. And I think that's been true for some time. Secondarily, if we want to be seen as a real broker of peace, then we cannot possily be credible in that role if we heavily support one side of the conflict and not the other. Really? Do you really believe that? If the Palestinians disarmed, there would be no more violence over there. But if the Israelis disarmed, there would be no Israel. We have to support the "right" over the "wrong" in this conflict. It's that simple.

I watched part 1 of the miniseries last night. Thought it was quite good, despite the scenes that were made-up. I especially liked the direction and the editing. As for the content, the first part (The first WTC bombing was done well), the search for Bin Laden seemed problematic and way too easy for Donnie Wahlberg's character to find The Tall One. The stuff with the higher-ups in the Admin, although important to the story to get across the themes of the piece, didn't make sense at times. Why did Berger refuse to give the order to kill Bin Laden? It's not clear. Although, despite this, it's clear the federal bureacracy hinders operations like this rather than helping them. Can anyone picture Jack Bauer waiting for 4 different federal agencies to clear an operation when a terrorist is in front of him and about to move? And even when the intentions were good, the Clinton admin was hampered that everytime it acted, the public believed it was to cover up something in the impeachment scandal. The film did not go into detail why the intel was faulty during the last Cruise strike, although that would have been interesting. Was it a drug manufacturing plant, or a bomb plant? I expect tonight's episode to be as hard on Bush 43's failures in the eight months preceding 9/11 as it was on Clinton. Lord knows they definitely had as much, if not more, responsibility for what happened.

QUOTE(Hideaway Lights @ Sep 8, 2006 -> 08:45 AM) Let's get some context on a bad season. A bad season is where you start out 8-19 coming off of a division title and are fighting to get back to .500 the whole way. A bad season is where you are expected to contend for a division title because your ownership group acquires the then-highest paid FA in history and then your all-star third baseman breaks his leg in spring training. A bad season is where you are a middling team with no direction and you go on a August West Coast trip in which you go 0 for your first 8 and finish with the worst record you've posted in a decade. who is that?

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Sep 7, 2006 -> 02:13 PM) Let me just get this one straight... What you're saying is that Catholicism is a "stupid religion" that encourages "poor people to have tons of kids"??? I totally apologize for the stupid religion comment. It was out of line and I was wrong to say it. I do believe however, that catholicism encourages poor people to have large families. The argument that someone made about agrarian families needing to be large to do the work of the farm is a good one, but I don't believe that to be the case of many third-world (specifically latin american) countries all of which have been mostly catholic since the Spanish missionaries conquered them. All religions have their followers under a kind of spell, believing mostly silly doctrine, but I think Catholicism is the worst offender. I wasn't familiar with the mucus method, until that pdf, but readng it as well as the other "natural" methods advocated by those sites, it's clear to me how complicated those processes are. I don't see how a third-world worker in some latin american country or an illegal mexican immigrant here in the states, many of which cannot even read, can understand these complex procedures. Until the church changes its view on sex as not only being used for procreational purposes and embraces artificial contraception as a population control, they will be in effect keeping these people in the squalor they're in instead of helping them rise above it. It's just an example of what religions do best - preaching ethereal theology instead of focusing on the "issues on the ground" and the people they actually affect.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 7, 2006 -> 01:04 PM) I am not aware of any religions that encourages poor people to have children. Most mainstream Christian faiths allow for artificial contraception, and Catholics are encourage to use natural contraception. Catholicism totally does. Natural Contraception? You mean nothing? What's the harm in letting all those third world countries (and portions of this one) dominated by catholic dogma use artifical contraception, when it will bring down the birth rate, creating more food and resources for the people already living? I see this in LA every day. Until religions try to encourage poor people to have LESS children, they are not helping. "Leaving it up to God" is a bad idea.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 03:05 PM) Done deal. Mascherano and Tevez to West Ham! Holy moly. Roma signed Lecce striker Mirko Vucinic today too. Man, that guy is talented. Damn. I wanted Tevez for the Gunners. Boo hoo.......

Pardon my ignorance, but who are the Willis children and what do they have to do with Ryan?

Which goes to prove why the government should be working with poor communities to educate them in ways of contraception, sex education, and make varieties of contraception more available and easy to obtain, like the morning after pill. But we're so hung up on not promoting recreational sex & not to mention the stupid religions that encourage poor people to have tons of kids....

Twins throwing some real dogs in this Tigers series, so my money's on Det taking 2 of 3.

QUOTE(beleiveinbrian44 @ Sep 4, 2006 -> 08:50 PM) i know i spelled belIEve wrong someone already told me and i cant change it its microsoft words fault didn't you use spell check?

You spelled BELIEVE wrong.

Listening to the Tigers/Yankees game on MLB Gameday. The Yankees radio pbp guy is generally pretty good, but he does his home run call when the opposing team hits one. I would think that would piss off their fanbase. Why would he do that?

Yeah, but Thome is a home run machine. I hit 120 hrs with him in MLB 2K6.