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QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 11:51 PM) Bane's voice was ridiculous. He sounded like a 70 year old English man. Not a scary voice at all. I was waiting them to reveal he had some sort of voicebox on his face, which he why he wore that mask. And why did he wear the mask? Because he was ugly or something? How did disconnecting those valves almost kill him? I didn't understand. I'm pretty sure they said something along the lines of the mask held his jaw together after his face was busted up in the prison. If he didn't have the mask he'd be in agony. During the fistfight batman hit him there and from that moment he started playing like his face was in agony.

QUOTE (Noonskadoodle @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 11:22 PM) I didn't realize Courtney Hawkins is playing CF down in Bristol? Have to think he projects more into a right/left fielder. He also has 8 SBs already. CF's a harder position, may as well put him there eh?

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 11:40 PM) I had a bball game tonight so I couldn't watch. Stats look good but how'd Christopher look? He started getting hit kind of hard late in the game, got in trouble with 0 outs in the 8th, then stepped up for 3 outs like you wouldn't believe.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 10:16 PM) I thought it was interesting that Danks said he was happy to get the chance to be healthy again. Makes you wonder how long this bothered him? He's been on the dl for 2.5 months already...

That was one solid 8th inning.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 10:04 PM) I don't get bunting with Escobar there, as he's fast enough to likely not hit into a double play. Royals announcers were expecting it too.

Wow.

Man I'm glad Sale didn't get hit harder there

That works!

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 09:59 PM) Look over the last 20 Not going to count Ozzies year against this team yet.

Do we have anyone on the pen who throws a lot of ground balls?

That works!

We really need the K

End an inning on a nice play, leadoff double right?

Yowza

QUOTE (daggins @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 08:24 PM) Same thing as Byrdak? http://www.amazinavenue.com/2012/8/6/32244...y?ref=fangraphs They make it sound more serious. That's not a positive sounding list.

Descent video and next batch of Hazcam images are out, including crater rim and Mount sharp. Link

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 06:26 PM) Also, once again, PSU is clearly only worried about the state of their football team. And the other thing that ought to be perfectly clear...this applies to a very large portion of the Penn State Community. Large enough to elect trustees.

Mosque in Joplin, MO burns to the ground. 2nd fire there in a month. Previous one was on July 4 and deemed arson.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 05:14 PM) How did SLaM get it's name? Random thought. Started as "Sex Lies and Politics", became Sex Lies and Music, got shortened.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 05:19 PM) They all agreed on it as well as their president and chairman. I dont see the point. PSU's very own investigation gave the NCAA all it needed to rule on their sanctions, that is all the process they required. The NCAA sent them a notice of investigation and PSU never responded to their allegations. PSU has proven time and time again they are just ridiculously stupid. How many of us on here have been through NCAA sanctions or the firing of a coach? And how many rioted? I'm pretty sure they "all" didn't agree on it, or at least this minority didn't. And I'm pretty sure that at least one, maybe all of these trustees were recently voted onto the PSU trustees by Alums angry at their feeling that Paterno got unfair treatment/shouldn't have been fired. (Checking, yup, names match). Basically, these guys are on the board because they're loud Paterno supporters and the people who voted for those slots wanted loud Paterno supporters on the board. I'm trying to avoid saying anything too harsh right now, but I take a whole lot from the fact that Penn State Alums were still electing Paterno Supporters in April of this year, and those Paterno supporters are continuing their support to this day.

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 04:34 PM) I know baseball "rankings" are pretty much BS anyway, but if you want a laugh, check out these from today's SI.com. They're pretty embarassing, even for SI: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/base...p;sct=hp_bf3_a2 Interestingly, it looks like those are solely based on fangraphs team WAR.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 03:59 PM) How long before NASA fires up the space laser? I can't wait to see some of the hi-def photos. It'll take at least a week of Mars-days, maybe more, for them to lift up the mast, move out the arm, and decide where they're heading off to. Lots of "how is everything doing" checks and warmups. And frankly, we all know that the engineers will want to find the skycrane wreckage and take a photo of that.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 02:53 PM) Yes, but if we have another one of these soon, it's like a national crisis will be upon us. There were 8700 murders involving guns in the US in 2010. That's about 3.5 of these per day.