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QUOTE(jackie hayes @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 07:28 PM) From the defense, but specific and easy to verify. They claim they have cell phone records, and an atm receipt, and campus records. And the cab driver was on CNN saying, yes, I drove that guy. He's not a defense lawyer, as far as I know. Again, it's at least worth considering that yes, everything from the defense is easy to verify, but we have no idea how easy to verify the prosecution's evidence might be, because they're not leaking.

QUOTE(Jeckle2000 @ Apr 21, 2006 -> 12:31 AM) He might not be the same for a few years after this... If ever... Well, hopefully he's still young enough that given time this will heal. And it's also not a bone he's regularly putting a lot of force on, like basketball players when they suffer Amare/Webber type fractures in their legs. Yeah he does have to swing, but it doesn't hold all his weight, so hopefully he'll be able to come back at some point. But if the Cubs are smart, they'll say "Screw this season" when he comes back and hold him out 120% of the time it should take to heal, just to make absolutely certian he's as healthy as possible when he comes back. (Which, btw, is what both we and Oakland should have done with Thomas the last 2 years) On a side note, has anyone thought about what this does to the Cubs infield defense? If they're moving Walker over to 1b, which makes sense to me, that leaves Cedeno and Ramirez throwing to Todd Walker across the field. Cedeno's throws are already wild as all hell, and Ramirez is Ramirez. We're going to see a metric ton of throwing errors for the next 2 months over there.

Mark, you know what to do. Bats...be strong. Go get em boys. This would be a very nice win to have.

"Wait 'til next year."

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 04:55 PM) Wow. I didn't know Betancourt was hurt, too. Their game yesterday was almost as bad as the Cubs'. And they lost theirs too.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 05:17 PM) i knew right away it was broken when the cubs reported x-rays were "inconclusive". aka, it's broken, delay the news so drunk out of towners buy more tickets for a couple days. This is terribly sad for DLee. Damn shame, I wanted to see what he could do this season. But when I saw the collision that's waht I figured, and the Cubs sounding hopeful last night certainly was good confirmation.

Oh great...now our PA announcers are trying to start a war with China! It's like a Bushism, but not even out of Bush's mouth!

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 03:10 PM) Oh yeah, I believe that is authentic :rolly Actually it is. Her office has spent a good portion of the day trying to explain where it came from. I believe that's also her actual handwriting at the bottom, though I could be mistaken on that one. Here's ABC News talking about it. It's made a hundred news sources today.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 03:02 PM) Joe Crede will get a long-term deal before the Sox get to Mark Buehrle. If long term = the 2 remaining years on Crede's contract, I'll say...maybe.

Well, I guess that means Jerry's going on the cheap for next year's rings.

Brian anderson beat the Hell out of me and knocked me to the floor. I got up and knocked him to the floor. He was being such a jagoff. I whupped Brian Anderson's ass! Rock over London, Rock on Chicago. Wheaties, Breakfast of Champions.

Good lord, can't we just do this in the other "Brian Anderson should be drug out into the street and shot" thread?

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 02:18 PM) I should move to Antartica because cold weather rocks. Bring me back a meteorite.

QUOTE(fathom @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 02:13 PM) Yes, after Contrereas re-signed, KW said something about how those guys have no clue how close they were to getting traded. Just like KW said that negotiations broke off with both of them. KW lies well enough to apply for the White House Press Secretary job.

The word "Monsoon" does not necessarily indicate a heavy rainstorm. It indicates a seasonality to rain patterns associated with the winds.

7-4 Baltimore on a 2 run single by Conine. Hey Indians...PITCH!

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 01:10 PM) But we've cut off the last two presidents at the nuts. Some would say they both cut themselves off there. One more figuratively than the other.

I think if we want to get an idea of what Buehrle will cost on the open market, we can wait until Zito hits it this winter, and then offer Buehrle the same deal.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 11:32 AM) 10 Billion a month still seems kind of high to me. Where'd you get that info from? Congress.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 11:18 AM) Actually, the official line from East Germany was to keep Westerners out. But having had a family separated by a similar wall, I tend not to like them. Yeah, which is why they shot all those easterners trying to get to the west. Because they didn't want them to find a westerner and then bring them back across to their communist paradise.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 11:15 AM) You saying we're spending 520 billion dollars annually on Iraq? Methinks that estimate is a touch high. I had read where the burn rate over there is more on the order of 4 billion a month. That seems far more realistic, especially based on the amount requested for Iraq and Afghanistan every year. As for cutting taxes. We've been over this ground before dude. Revenues are still rising thanks to the booming economy. Bloody hell, I meant months, not weeks. Damn units. Bane of my existence.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 11:01 AM) Im sure you could slice off 5 billion from the defense budget to fund this project. Right now I think a physical border to keep invaders out is a lot better use of funds than a handful of F-22's that can be put off 1 year. I would have said the same thing about rebuilding the Levees around NOLA, but well, we gots to cut taxes, and Iraq's costing $10 billion a week now.

Phrases you don't expect to hear from your Congressperson: "I think you're an ass hole"

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 10:52 AM) What's the opposition to a fence?? I know this addresses only part 1 of the problem. I just want to hear the negatives to it. Well, I'll give you 1..$$$$$. Do you have any idea how much that long of a fence, including motion detectors, surveillance cameras, people to monitor both, repairs, and so forth would actually cost? Just building the 2 barriers with a road inbetween them would probalby run $4-$5 billion, or more. Add in all that high tech stuff, and we're talking tens of billions. And even in areas where there currently is a fence, it usually is still penetrated with relative ease if you know where to go.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 10:32 AM) Wait. Are suggesting that Bush should select someone that doesn't have the same political point of view? I mean ... Come On! I'm more interested in what it says about Fox News that one of their people is being seriously considered to be the official spokesperson for an administration. No other network would EVER be able to live that down.