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Herbologists might know more, or less, depending.

Don't know how much meat is actually on their bones though...a lot of them is water-storage space.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 4, 2011 -> 01:38 PM) The question is who would you want to fight. It wasn't who would you want to get your ass kicked by. There would be no fight vs Shatner. He has double axe handles, flying leg kicks, and a plethora of haymakers the likes of which you couldn't begin to handle. This wouldn't be a fight, it would be a funeral. Didn't recognize where the exact quote comes from?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 4, 2011 -> 01:37 PM) The article bs posted was mocking Republicans for whining about no debate or study and having it "shove down our throats," but now the defense of such a quick repeal is "oh it's been debated enough already!" Can't have it both ways. I'm sure plenty of liberals would still be pissed at this quick vote even if it didn't fly directly in the face of conservative rhetoric on the issue, but that's not the point. Let em go ahead and have the vote. The timing's beautiful actually. 3 weeks after everyone on Medicare gets a big chunk of the "Donut hole" closed. The real fun is going to be in Feb. when they pass a budget de-funding the ACA and the Senate passes one funding it.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jan 4, 2011 -> 12:38 PM) I think the Bills need some D. A good pass rusher. Is there anyone who stands out like Suh this year? If not, then I wouldn't spend the #3 pick on that spot.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 4, 2011 -> 12:39 PM) Perhaps my memory is incorrect here, but I thought that changes were made late in the process such that the final draft was passed before members of Congress had the chance to read it? If you had to read the entire bill from scratch the moment it was presented, yes, it would have been impossible. However, you'd also be the worst legislator in human history, since 99% of the bill had been available for weeks beforehand, passed by the House about 3 times, passed by the Senate twice, passed by 3 different Senate committees and I can't remember how many in the House. If you didn't know what was in the bill, after a year of hearings, discussions, proposals, etc., even after the 2008 Campaign had a strong focus on Health Care reform (especially in the Democratic Primaries), then you're just lazy. Sure, a clause or two might have gotten through that your team missed or didn't understand, but come on.

Brings some interesting texture to meats.

Zero chance it stays out for long. it's in everything.

Xanthan gum was likely not a major ingredient in that product.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 4, 2011 -> 12:27 PM) It wasn't read. Legislators don't fully understand what they were signing. They don't need to become healthcare industry experts, they simply need to know wtf is in the bill. Did you ever consider that maybe it was the people voting against the bill who didn't know what was in it, and that was why they voted that way?

Very surprised they'd been invented by then.

Time to make the doughnuts.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Jan 4, 2011 -> 09:50 AM) I bet all 6 of their fans are really excited. David Stern is one of them. They're filling up opposing arenas at 99% clips right now.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 4, 2011 -> 09:48 AM) I understand how they arose, I just think they got lazy. Instead of actually enforcing reasonable rules, they layered on a multitude of arcane, ridiculous ones in the hopes of burying players into submission. The rules should be about cheating, competition, recruiting violations, etc. - things that actually effect the team, the school, the league. I don't think it's laziness...I think it's one case where a "Slippery slope" isn't a logical fallacy, it's reality. I mean, honestly, if Tom Crean could go out to every IU alum and ask for a contribution of something valued at $5 to help him sign a basketball player, you don't think he'd be able to cut the kid a million dollar check the next day? He'd have $5 from this alum. And you could even give me something of value, like an autograph, back, so that I'm buying merchandise. These are all cases where the benefits of getting a player or keeping a player are so much larger than the costs, and where the competition is so massive (100+ universities) that the arcane, restrictive, seemingly silly rules wind up being useless if they're not written so strictly that they sound stupid on the surface.

The Heat are 2 games short of the NBA's longest road winning streak in history.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 4, 2011 -> 08:31 AM) That's from the perspective of the University. But... I also have zero problem with players finding ways to make money outside of the university, as long as it doesn't interfere with the operation of the team or the school. Getting free tattoos, selling memorabilia, etc., I think should be perfectly fine. Its immature and stupid, but that's what 19 year olds go through, and they need to learn their way through the life lessons. As long as they aren't actually cheating in the games, or cheating the school in some fashion, then I see no reason why its not OK. These players are adults - treat them as such. Don't coddle them or write a zillion stupid little rules they have to follow, and don't allow them to take something of great value and then complain when they don't get more. Let them make money outside of school however they want to, even if its immature and idiotic - as long as it doesn't result in cheating on the field or breaking real, actual laws (not NCAA rules). The set-up is f***ed up, no doubt. But not in the way the author states. A lot of these zillion little NCAA rules seem arcane and wierd, but when you spend some time thinking about how they relate to the recruiting process and where the money is, they start making more sense. For example, selling memorabilia, one of the exact ones you cite, is a great way for people to buy off athletes to make decisions that a booster or gambler would want. Memorabilia in particular is odd because it's hard to come up with an exact value for it...the market value of the materials that go into making a Big Ten Championship ring could be $1000, but if I were a graduate of a Big Ten school and my team won a big ten championship, I might be willing to pay a lot more than that for the item and I could testify accurately about that. Meanwhile, the guy who sells me the ring, or pants, or helmet, whatever, gets $500,000 with the understanding that he's going to stay at Ohio State as a Senior rather than go pro. That's a great way to set up a bribery system. The one I always come back to is the Kelvin Sampson at Indiana mess. His biggest crime was sending too many calls and text messages to recruits. How awful is that right? He's just calling them too much. Big Deal. Well, for one coach to do it maybe it's not a big deal, but then the other 30 coaches trying to recruit that player realize the NCAA thinks it isn't a big deal, and next thing you know, the recruit isn't sleeping because he's spending 24/7 receiving recruiting calls. Free Tattoos? Fine. Where do you draw the line on free stuff that a player can get? The NCAA has chosen to define anything free as an inappropriate gift. Say you allow each gift if it's under $100 in market value. Hey, five star recruit, I've got 10,000 alums lined up each of whom are willing to give you a $99 gift. Oh sure, they're just coffee makers, baseball cards, and collectables, but you can sell them all off and pocket everything you want. Or, you're never paying for your own meals again, just come to our school

Really, you just asked for that.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jan 3, 2011 -> 11:49 PM) The Shatner Cannon failed on Mythbusters. They didn't mix up the gunpowder correctly though

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jan 3, 2011 -> 11:52 PM) If someone could tell me that Nathan was 100%, I'd take there pen over ours to be honest (or at least consider it). I really am scared about our pen and the back end of our rotation. But I like the potential of our club and I like what Kenny has done. That said, we have holes that could end up being critical (no 5th starter if Sale is in the pen and I have a hard time expecting anything out of Peavy as of this point). I hope he puts everything together but given the injury and the fact that he hasn't pitched in a long time for a full season, it is hard to expect him to regain his ace form and foolish for the Sox to count on it. Luckily Buehrle/Floyd/Danks/Jackson is still a solid 1 through 4 (in no particular order). It has the potential to be well above average too. Our pen could end up working out brilliantly too, but we lost Jenks/Putz/Liney (not that Liney matters) and added Crain. I guess someone could make a case that we added Sale to the pen too. Thorty is rock solid and the big X-Factor is health (like it is for every team) and Santos (if he can grow upon last year, than I'm a lot more confident) but Crain is our only righty which we can really count on as of now in that 7th/8th inning. Pena hasn't proven much in that role since joining the Sox, although he could very well kick total ass cause he has the stuff. Actually, I'm really not that worried about the back end of our pen...there's 3-4 guys I think could handle the job, and it's just going to be a question of which one gets it. Sale, Thornton, Santos, Crain, I could live with any of them in the Closer's role. The thing that worries me is the 5-6-7 guys. I think Infante's likely to come out and rock, that's just what guys who throw hard in the pen tend to do until the league figures out what their fastballs look like. I really have no confidence in Tony Pena right now, and if Anthony Carter takes that 7 spot, which is how its set up right now...that leaves us a bit weak on lefties and I don't feel confident in Carter just yet. I'm hoping we get 1 more bullpen signing to clear things up.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 3, 2011 -> 06:31 PM) So the guy is a pervert. It's not the best character trait, but give me a break, this is not a criminal offense. It is if it happens in a place of or in the context of employment and is unwelcome. That's pretty much the definition of sexual harassment.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 3, 2011 -> 06:24 PM) Oh jeesh, Brett is a perve, but grow up ladies. How is this any different than Brett trying to hit on them in a bar? You usually don't lose your job over that, for one.

Shatner. I'd fight William Shatner.

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QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 3, 2011 -> 05:56 PM) Yeah but all we've done is replace one of the worst DH spots in the AL last year with one of the most feared power hitters in baseball. Their Bullpen right now is presumably: Nathan Capps Jose Mijares Pat Neshek Jeff Manship Anthony Slama Glen Perkins If Nathan is 100% Nathan that's still a formidable back 3 with some potential in the other guys, but there's still more question marks than we have in our pen.

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Jan 3, 2011 -> 03:33 PM) I can't wait to get back into the T-RECs. I don't belong to a gym anywhere in Memphis since I'm hardly ever here, so it's been killing me being away. I've been sitting here having random parts of my body painfully cramp up for the last 3 hours. Leg, then arm, then neck, ugh.