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QUOTE (DABearSoX @ Sep 3, 2008 -> 11:20 AM) Ha, this is the 2nd Palin thread... she is a b**** for allowing aerial hunting, and thinking wolves will not become endangered though... Well, let's try and stay above resorting to name calling. It's not needed.

Please forgive me for opening this thread. It was a mistake.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Sep 2, 2008 -> 10:28 PM) What passes for bias, placement of a story, amount of coverage, local versus national coverage, is more business and ratings driven and not some media conspiracy to elect more Dems as some would claim. In my opinion, the media is not stupid enough to be blatantly biased with a particular story or a particular subject. It's more of a general mindset in how they present things. For example, I watched Tom Brokaw for 20 years or so use voice inflection, facial expressions and body language to express his progressive leanings. It's something that I saw night after night. It was something that took some time, and slowly dawned on me that it was happening. As respected as Brokaw was, I still was able to pick up on it and then watch and verify that it, in fact, was happening.

After a brief email exchange with Rex, who closed the original thread after McCain named Palin his running mate, I'm going to bring this subject back into the open for discussion. Maintain civility or this thread will suffer the same fate as the last one. Her speech is scheduled for Wednesday night, so this should be an open topic again.

Don't want to put a damper on things, but this specific topic has been discussed in this forum on many occasions. The liberals will claim there is no media bias and the conservatives will claim that there unquestionably is a media bias. There is nothing I can add to this conversation that I haven't said in here before.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Sep 2, 2008 -> 09:41 AM) A kind of parliamentary system who's chief executive is really nothing more than a figurehead. Putting one man in charge of the largest military in the world is just dumb. What does China's military have to do with this conversation?

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Sep 2, 2008 -> 08:14 AM) Let's be honest, anybody who cares about the issues has their mind made up by now. The rest of the campaign will be dictated by gotcha bulls*** so if the other side wants to play this game I'm down. This is why democracy is a failed concept. I would be very curious as to what form of government you would advocate.

I voted that it should have been called an error. The play should have been made, and I believe the average pitcher would have made it with no problem. That said, I don't think it should be overturned now.

QUOTE (forrestg @ Sep 1, 2008 -> 04:57 PM) Amen brother, one can't possibly estimate how much Iguchi helped us during the 05 season.. He was a great #2 hitter.. Frank Thomas said he had the softest hands, I guess meaning he could place hit. How many times this year have we not been able to advance the runner.. Tadahito did it so well in 05. We should pick him up and Tomko too who seemed better toward the end of the season............ Tomko on the same team as AJ again? Yeah, that'll work.

QUOTE (Whitewashed in '05 @ Aug 31, 2008 -> 09:53 PM) So Sweaty Freddy was like Black Jack? Garcia was different in the fact that he would step up against good competition and/or big games. Against The KC's of the league, Garcia didn't seem to motivate himself to dominate like he was capable. McDowell was motivated by in game circumstances and Garcia was motivated by the competion level of the opponent.

I'm not at all shocked to see that mariotti was as popular with his colleagues as he was with us. Good ridence you slime sucking piece of crap!

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Aug 30, 2008 -> 11:38 AM) Well, unless you mean a World Series winner, ha. Touche'

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Aug 30, 2008 -> 11:07 AM) If we are a good team then we need to win against other good teams. You can make the argument that we can beat up inferior teams and struggle against 3 or 4 good teams during the regular season, but when we are playing all good teams in the playoffs we had better be playing our best and be seen as the better team. We can't afford to struggle or obviously your done. We weren't seen as the better team in 2005 after our late season struggles. It's not how good you appear to be, it's how good you are when you need to be.

PKINASS

QUOTE (G&T @ Aug 30, 2008 -> 10:53 AM) Agreed. Except in 05 when I wasn't nervous about any playoff opponent. God that was fun. This year though, yeah, I'm going to be very nervous about who the Sox play. I must confess that was nervous about every post seaason series in '05. Hell, a series can turn on one umpires call at the right moment. I offer the AJ dropped third strike call as a classic example.

QUOTE (djcollie03 @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 12:53 PM) It's terrible but, the guys in my office call Ramirez the "Ethiopian Missile" In '05 my wife came up with "Andale Andale Uribe Uribe" in homage to Speedy Gonzalez. Juandele' Uribe! I like that.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 12:43 PM) Its a valid point. I still think Aaron's future is in the pen though. Rock, you're argument makes a lot of sense. But with that screw in Bobby's arm ... well, I'll take the if it ain't broke, don't fix it stance.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 12:17 PM) People who are on the internet too much use lol. LOL

QUOTE (thedoctor @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 03:40 PM) i won't be excited until we clinch the division. i plan on being pretty excited that night. the next day, i'll be anxious about our playoff opponent. i'm looking forward to that anxiety. The next day, I'll be hungover!

BlackJack was one of those pitchers that pitched just well enough to win. In fact, he's the one example I use when I run into that argument that W's is a bad stat to judge a pitcher by. BlackJack was the exception to that rule. He was the type of pitcher that when he didn't have his best stuff and the game was close, he'd battle his ass off. He was also the type that if he had a 5 run lead, he'd come right after a hitter and if that guy hit one out, so be it. ERA be damned, Jack McDowell was a winner in every sense of the word.

Ok, I'll take a shot at this. I have a conservative mindset due to, basically, Ronald Wilson Reagan. My first vote cast for president was in 1976 and I voted for some peanut farmer from Georgia. By the time 1980 rolled around interest rates had skyrocketed to around 20% and this country was hamstrung. At the time, I was a self-employeed carpenter with a wife, and a baby on the way. Work was very hard to come by because of the interest rates. People just weren't building new homes, though you could occasionally find some remodeling work. Then, there was the Tehran American Embassy takeover and the Iran hostage crisis. Carter totally bungled that fiasco. I was already pissed off about the capture of the USS Pueblo in 1968 and the fact that we didn't flatten North Korea for doing it. I felt that if this was the Democratic idea of national security, I wanted someone else in White House. Yet, when the Beruit marine barracks bombing occured, even Reagan did nothing. That seems to be so puzzlingly out of character for him that I still wonder why he let that slide. However, at the end of Reagan's presidency, I was happy with where America was. Sure, I wasn't happy about the deficit he built up, but I considered it a necessary cost of rebuilding our military and setting up the break up of the Soviet block. I really thought America at that point would just roll up it's collective sleeves, go to work and get that debt eliminated. And yes, I acknowledge that Bill Clinton was reasonably fiscally responsible. I was also ecstatic that in 1988 the America once again had a swagger, and a pride in it's power. Of course, the current abuse of that power not withstanding, I feel strongly that the USA has to be in a position of strength when dealing in international politics. I went through my 20's listening to Reagan, aka the great communicator, espouse conservative values and just simply could not disagree with him. Therefore, today, I consider myself a moderate with strong conservative leanings. I know I come across as a staunch conservative, but that's due to having to argue with all you damn liberals out there

QUOTE (DABearSoX @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 09:27 AM) The difference is....Obama doesn't play the "race" card in his campaign....McCain's campaign is his Military and POW experience. he doesn't have to play that card, the MSM does it for him.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 09:22 AM) I just got to thinking as I was driving to work, how readily will McCain use the "dont attack her... she's a woman" line? We have seen over the last month that they have no shame in using his POW experience as shield on every possible political attack. How long until every attack on Palin is defended with a "dont attack the woman" kind of line? McCain has now set up a great political shield: Dont attack him, he's a POW. Dont attack her, she's a woman. And anybody that attacks Obama is labeled a racist. Yeah, you a valid point.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 09:16 AM) Kay Bailey Hutchenson was the other name I heard mentioned, but it sounds like she has designs on Austin instead. I had heard KBH's name as well. In fact, I wouldn't have been shocked if she was the pick.