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QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 9, 2012 -> 04:37 PM) I'm guessing we might see Houston be worse this year (from their peak with Schaub), due to Mario Williams being gone. Mario Williams only played 1/3 of a season for them last year.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 9, 2012 -> 03:57 PM) I mean, maybe i'm wrong, but a 60% completion and 4000 yards passing is a lot to replicate. You often see NFL QBs that had good rookie seasons slide a bit the next year. Some of those yards were piled up in games where the Panthers got behind early. You could conceivably see them get better and have his total yards go down somewhat if he isn't throwing to try to catch up.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Aug 9, 2012 -> 03:51 PM) I just don't think we'll lose 7 with the most stacked team we've seen in ages, unless injuries happen to key pieces. I'm in this boat also, which means that either I'm wrong or that the Bears are going to beat some teams that look like challenges right now.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 9, 2012 -> 04:04 PM) Great post. The bench isn't going to be improved this season. The key is Viciedo to pull his head out of his ass and start hitting like he's capable of. A .250 batting average with horrible on base percentage isn't cutting it. He's just not having a very good season. Has anybody noticed Alexei's on base percentage this year is horrible with his 10 lousy walks as well? If Beckham, Lexi and Viciedo were able to have a great final six weeks, our lineup might be amazing. I don't mind Alexei's low OBP as much as the complete disappearance of his power. I'm used to him not taking walks, I can live with that, I'm not used to him having only 4 HR.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Aug 9, 2012 -> 03:46 PM) But does that mean we should fear them and expect a loss to them? We're a pretty good team too, we were even before this offseason. We were a good team with Earl Bennett and Knox as our #1 receivers. Once you get to this point, you ought to realize the futility of projecting W/L based on which is the better team. The better team will lose some of these games and the worse team will wiin some of these games, and that applies to every team in the league.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 9, 2012 -> 02:02 PM) You think so? I just think there's a lot of blue collar people on the south side who would disown their own kids over this issue and it has nothing to do with CFA or anything like that. They are just opinionated beer drinkers who want grandkids the natural way and don't want their kids to be gay. I could be mistaken, but there are some badasses on the south side who simply will not tolerate their kids being gay. We would call this "Hate". It's also troublesome that you would use the phrase "The natural way". There is nothing "unnatural" about being gay. It happens in nature all the time. It has happened throughout human history.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Aug 9, 2012 -> 01:01 PM) Quick, everyone go drive on LSD. You'll see the world like you've never seen it before....

Thankfully, the NBA has never and will never have a gay player to concern itself with, right?

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 9, 2012 -> 12:48 PM) So I saw a mars sunrise pic but it was in color. I thought all the pics were black and white? Was that one fake? I don't know where I found it anymore...get off my lawn. I looked and have not seen a "Sunrise" pick. There is the first color panorama out today though.

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Aug 9, 2012 -> 12:12 PM) This is all very intriguing to me now, thanks for the info shirtless Tim Tebow. From what I've read this thing is not going very far correct? Just millimeters at a time right? Well, technically everything moves only "Millimeters" at a time, even your car. The rated driving distance per day is about 200 meters (660 feet) per day (couple of football fields). For comparison, the farthest that the Opportunity rover drove in an entire week was 478 meters, so we're about a factor of 5 faster. This rover has software that is capable of recognizing and avoiding hazards while driving, and it's possible that they might be able increase that driving distance as the software gets better. Perhaps more interesting...it's not necessarily going up to the whole peak, but Mount Sharp, the mountain this rover will be climbing, goes up to 18000 feet.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Aug 9, 2012 -> 09:19 AM) I think they activated from the DL a few days ago and used an option to send him to the minors But then right after that there was a post saying he was reassigned. Let me see if I can find it. Edit: Right here.

Doesn't everyone love how that shirt refers to Penn State as "Innocent"?

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Aug 9, 2012 -> 09:13 AM) Yes, but the key their is great offense The NY Giants were the #8 offense last year in yards and #9 offense in points, #27 defense in yards, #25 defense in points.

Morel's back in Charlotte? Wasn't he just reassigned?

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Aug 9, 2012 -> 12:01 AM) Seriously? It didn't even look like Dyson hit him. How'd he get a concussion from THAT??? Elbow while running = more force than it looks like. Also worth wondering if PK14 has ever had a concussion before. Once you've had one, the others get a lot easier to get.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 8, 2012 -> 09:37 PM) Ok, I need a rocket, some pop-tarts, and a battery powered heater. (The whole plant seeds thing was quite facetious. I know they want to find out if it can support life, most likely so they could terraform it) You would need to increase the atmospheric pressure substantially. The surface cannot currently support life. At some point in the past, Mars had a denser atmosphere. There is a possibilit of supporting life underground, but deep into the rocks.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 8, 2012 -> 09:43 PM) It was a joke Wasn't quite sure...

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 8, 2012 -> 09:42 PM) Mariano for two? Um.....

Nice job again Jose. Really ought to have bullpen start te 7th, he was really wearing down there.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 8, 2012 -> 09:31 PM) Two things: 1) Sad it's not in color. 2) Should have attached seeds to it, plant near water. LET IT PLANT LIFE TO BUILD OXYGEN. There will be plenty of color images. If you could find liquid water to plant next to...you'd be quite famous. You'd also have totally overturned thermodynamics.

If I had to suffer, so do all of you.;

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 8, 2012 -> 06:31 PM) How devoid of any sort of morals or sense of country can you be? It would be amoral and unpatriotic not to make money any way you can.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 8, 2012 -> 06:16 PM) If a boycott is successful, it will hurt the company in that it has to shut down locations. Otherwise the boycott failed anyway. Which it did. But creating demand for additional products from other businesses would, over the same time interval, give reasons to open additional shops. You used McDonalds as an example. Let's say that a McDonalds in an area increased its customer base by 50% thansk to former CFA customers. While the McDonalds may be able to handle this increase, in a competitive market, some other businessperson would step in and realize that an additional McDonalds location could both bring in new customers and grab a share of the customers at the now crowded but extremely profitable McDonalds. It might or might not match job for job; that depends on which business is actually more efficient per customer. In the long term, shifting that business to another company shouldn't produce a substantial shift in total employment overall. And if you're going to say that they won't necessarily hire former CFA employees, you're right, but they also would be hiring other people who could use work to jobs of similar poor quality. And of course, if we could get people to instead switch to a healthier option, or even cook for themselves after buying groceries, this would also lead to decreased incidents of things like heart disease, leading to a healtheir and higher productivity work force, creating a better situation for everyone. Overall, I stand by my:

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 8, 2012 -> 06:14 PM) Eh, doesn't quite work out that way...that doesn't mean the new place is going to hire former CFA employees "just because". Most chains like that can run just as efficiently, regardless of increased business, without adding headcount. Most stores, like McDonalds, have a headcount per sq foot number...regardless of business. They're like well oiled machines. If that's the case though, then subtracting customers from CFA shouldn't produce a significant decrease in jobs either.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 8, 2012 -> 05:55 PM) Let's also remember that CFA employs a LOT of innocent people who need that job. Something you and others are obviously not thinking about. If you hurt their business, the CEO, who is already mega rich, isn't affected whatsoever. The employees he will lay off, however...are. So good job. You've hurt innocents via collateral damage, but accomplished absolutely nothing in hurting your actual target. That, and if the media posted what other CEO's or CFO's or company executives from various companies supported or believed in, you'd be left buying nothing at all...of course, since the media isn't doing that research for you, you aren't going to bother doing it yourself. I'm sure there are executives at Apple that hate gays, and are mad that a homosexual is their new CEO, too... GG. Doesn't that assume that by not eating at CFA, I also don't eat anywhere else, as having a substantial number of former customers start eating somewhere else would produce job gains at those locations? Basically, as long as i don't starve to death, this isn't a big concern.