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QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 3, 2011 -> 11:21 PM) Hopefully this has a good explanation: http://i.green.autoblog.com/2011/03/01/gm-...issan-67-leafs/ Yes.

In the neck.

QUOTE (TheBigHurt @ Mar 4, 2011 -> 01:16 AM) Ozzie didn't pull a Toby Hall again, did he? I'd imagine we'll see Dunn at 1b once or twice a week this season.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Mar 3, 2011 -> 06:40 PM) Damn, Dayan is really pushing to make the team as the 4th OF, although I think I'd rather have him playing full time in AAA. Then again, if we are "ALL IN" and willing to stunt Sale's growth to benefit 2011, then we may as well bring Viciedo as our 4th OF. No, no, no, no no. Please no more Viciedo on the bench.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 3, 2011 -> 06:15 PM) What whistle did Manning blow of any consequence? I mean really? What big secrets did he expose and what's going to change as a result of anything he did (for the better)? Some misguided hero-worshipping here. He just grabbed as much classified s*** as he could find, put it on a disc, and gave it away. f*** that. He did supposedly expose that Iraq helicopter massacre video. That's legitimate whistleblowing.

You're saying we won't go winless this spring? Nice.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Mar 3, 2011 -> 10:16 AM) I think he can too plus when you look at developing a roster I believe you look at versatility. Teahan can play 3B and the OF and maybe IB all when needed. Milledge will get his chance to show what he can do as will others trying to make the roster out of ST, but in the end a vetrean player like Teahan probably gets the nod Mark Teahen will not be the only backup OF.

Heh

He's talking about us!

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 2, 2011 -> 03:25 PM) Start up times is a piss pour excuse. We have had the same problem for years now, and we keep ignoring it for some uptopic ideal, that is probably not going to happen. This cloud hanging over the oil industry is all of the reason that they need not to advance at all. Why would you invest billions if the whole idea was to replace you? The answer is you wouldn't, and that is why we have $100 oil now. That is why production continues to decline. Production continues to decline because of a lack of investment? Do you have any idea how backwards that is? The amounts of money invested in new dirty energy resource extraction are absolutely, ungodly, enormous. Annual spending on oil and gas exploration is currently about $500 billion a year, globally. The EIA projects it to rise to $1 trillion a year by 2030. They even drill and frack wells that they don't expect to produce for years. The Macondo well, which we all remember, was years away from production. They were going to seal that off and put an actual production rig on it in a few years. Pretty much none of the gas being extracted at great cost from Pennsylvania right now is profitable, but billions of dollars are dumping into it in anticipation of future production. Companies have dumped tens of billions of dollars into developing oil extraction from tar sands, which in many cases isn't profitable when oil is below $75 a barrel, same reason. Production is declining because you have to discover amounts equal to the amounts you extract for production to stay constant. Discoveries in the U.S. peaked in the 1950's, and peaked globally in the 1960's. There is no more oil to find, and the amounts that are undeveloped are an incredibly small sliver of the available supplies. It has absolutely nothing to do with a lack of investment.

Phillies might disagree, I'd imagine.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Mar 2, 2011 -> 11:59 AM) Watching the Music City Miracle was pretty ridiculous. Definitely was a "did that just happen" moment. Still was a forward pass.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 2, 2011 -> 01:19 PM) I'd have to throw in some random March Madness moments. Bryce Drew's shot in the tourney to win an opening round game and Tyus Edney going end to end to win a game at the buzzers' were legendary. I was in 11th grade, 9th period physics at the time. Teacher's name was Yan Wolfman, mad Russian who would occasionally run out of the classroom to trade stocks. People in class managed to convince him to turn TV on. At the time the shot went in, the entire class erupted in cheers. From down the hall, you could hear a similar eruption from just about every classroom. Whole damn school had that game on.

A friend of mine:

QUOTE (Lillian @ Mar 2, 2011 -> 02:57 PM) It's reasonable to question his health, which I do as well. However, is it really fair to say that he has already demonstrated that he can't play in the Majors? Depends on our definition. So far, he's revealed that he's not been able to be an above average major league player. He's put up numbers that are reasonable for a part time or platoon player, but you can only fit so many of those on a roster. He hasn't put up the numbers of a full time MLB starter. You can say "oh that's just the injuries" but then why do you expect him to be healthy this year. If he were to take a step forwards, then we'd have a bargain.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 2, 2011 -> 02:23 PM) How about quit acting like not drilling in the short term is a solution? How exactly is drilling even a short term solution? Ignoring the startup times...we've been drilling like f***ing madmen for the last decade. There are huge supplies that have already been tapped and drilled but which aren't being deployed because of either a lack of pumping resources or the fact that it makes good economic sense to wait and sell the product in a few years when the price is even higher. Combined with the fact that despite all the drilling that has been done, domestic production continues to decline and will continue to decline...this is a joke. And anyway, if we're concerned about the impact on the poor, when you pump more, it just gets consumed by the wealthier people and the poor people get very little.

SERIOUSLY, YOU DON'T NEED TO HAVE A f***ING 15 MINUTE CONVERSATION WHILE SITTING ON A MACHINE MAKING IT LOOK LIKE YOU'RE ABOUT TO START LIFTING.

What's the verdict on seeing this version of the iPad in the sun?

Lets just think of you as on your spring break too then.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 2, 2011 -> 01:23 PM) Sure, and how many decades down the road would that actually take to be anything near reality? In the meantime we have oil shortages and electricity delivery problems to deal with because anyone in those in industries would do anything because they know it would be throwing money down a drain. So what is your answer? Additional production? Tax credits so that the government pays for energy rather than the poor people?

Charlie Sheen and the Family Circus.

If Brent Morel struggles this spring, then the right answer is to come north with McPherson splitting time with Vizquel and Teahen until someone plays like a big leaguer.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 2, 2011 -> 09:10 AM) LOL were those mounties? Might have been some of those in there also. Take a look at the background features.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 2, 2011 -> 11:05 AM) The "huge win" comes with a huge price. This is going to kill poor families who can afford to have their transportation costs potentially multiply. That has been my biggest problem with all of this so far. Wait, what? If we were to accomplish the "Huge win" of getting off of oil, that would be a boon to those poor families, because that would theoretically stabilize transportation/energy costs for the future.

This morning's game: What's odd about this Fox video of violent Union Protests while talking about Wisconsin?