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And this author doesn't think there is any bias at all inherent in using 2008 as his comparison point?

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QUOTE (YASNY @ Apr 15, 2011 -> 12:12 PM) This thing might not be over. They may spend even more taxpayer money to retry him. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=6356053 Personally, they got their butts handed to them. Let it go. They had 11 in favor of conviction and 1 holdout on the lying about injection charge.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Apr 15, 2011 -> 10:51 AM) Just yesterday I sat down and figured this out: We are paying around $65 for the cheapest cable we can get. We can only get it on 3 TVs because we have to have these stupid little converter boxes on every TV. The first 3 are free. We'd have to pay $5 a month to get more. We get about 63 channels. Of those 63, we only watch about 20 regularly. There may be another 5 or 10 that we watch occasionally. The rest of the channels I couldn't care less about. That's roughly $2-$3 per channel. We've been thinking about switching to satellite but we're not sure we'd save much money or what channels we'd have to give up. It'd be so, so, so nice if one could actually save money by being able to just purchase the channels or small groups of channels that one actually wants.

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QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 15, 2011 -> 10:50 AM) The Twins have been really unlucky with the injuries the last two years. Is it really bad luck when Mauer gets hurt?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 15, 2011 -> 10:44 AM) To be fair, you were totally asking for it the way you were dressed... I can't resist an "I voted" sticker either.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Apr 15, 2011 -> 10:34 AM) Are there really election officials that are minors? Pulling out your penis in front of an adult is a sex offense as well.

2 days ago on the A's broadcast they showed someone at the Cell preparing something that to the outside viewer certainly appeared to be a deep dish. Was that just totally made up?

Rodriguez has a limited NTC to 10 teams, any idea of the Sox are ont here?

F*** it, give them back to Mexico. I don't even want the canyon.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Apr 14, 2011 -> 06:52 PM) we already decided in the GOP thread it's either: Oblahblah or Odumbo Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on, brah!... Lala how the life goes on.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 14, 2011 -> 09:08 AM) Yes, back in the 80's. It was very awful and low rated. And Keanu Reeves made a movie in its honor.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 14, 2011 -> 11:04 AM) I know I work in a different world, but the things I have been called, and have called people would have gotten about 99.9% of people fired. So would "Trying to destroy the world" but y'all got bonuses for that...

Congratulations. Whatever you do, just don't google his name.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 14, 2011 -> 09:04 AM) Nice changing what you said. Look at my post - I specifically said, they had steadily improved over time, and only recently fell back. That is true. And it's also true that it recently began plummeting because of a price spike in one particular commodity.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 14, 2011 -> 08:54 AM) I mostly agree, though I do definitely blame him specifically for yesterday's f***-up. You don't tell a guy you're his closer, then pass him up when he's rested in favor of a rookie who pitched 2 innings the night before the day game, and then bring in said supposed closer once the situation is nearly out of hand. That is poor managing. Didn't Ozzie stop saying that Matt was his closer after the first loss to the A's?

QUOTE (Tex @ Apr 14, 2011 -> 06:43 AM) What happens to our legal system when we stop prosecuting people who lie under oath? A high profile case is the best bang for the buck to show that lying under oath is not something you should try. Convicting some random dude doesn't garner the attention that Bonds gets. So from spending taxpayer money, it seems like a bargain. You're missing the point tex. Bonds can afford to make it expensive for the government to prosecute him. He's rich. That makes him more important than you or I.

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Apr 14, 2011 -> 04:21 AM) I started taking Muscle Milk last week and have been mixing it with chocolate milk because it tastes better than when mixing it with water... Is that okay to do (even though the directions say "mix with water")? Of course it's "OK", just mind the fact that you're taking in extra sugar.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 04:32 PM) This is patently false, the numbers rose a lot for a bunch of time, only recently coming back a bit. And jobs will help this number anyway. It's patently false that the consumer confidence number jumped off a cliff in March?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 04:43 PM) ALL IN FOLKS!* *Except for our bullpen where we spent no money. WTF? We spent money on Crain, Thornton, our #1 pick last year and his signing bonus is out there?

Sigh

Well, that didn't work.