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Johan Santana. Pujols a close second, due to some level of "Where would he play"-ness. And the fact that if you think Vazquez will make a good 5th starter...imagine what Johan can do.

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Mar 3, 2006 -> 01:41 PM) Only 3 days? Dude, they're still saying that he'll be ready in a couple weeks. They leak in stages. The worse the news is, the longer it'll take for it to come out.

anyone know who's pitching the 5th?

Fafblog may very well have reached a new level of fafblogginess with this one. (More at link)

So they've finally accepted the scientific explanation for the origin of the universe and turned against fundamentalism! This is wonderful news!

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 3, 2006 -> 12:35 PM) Did Bob Dole earn over $1.5 million in differing forms from the President of Dubai, and then try to enlist someone working on Liddy Dole's staff to get them a high paying job consulting for the approval of this deal, while simultaniously saying that the deal should not be done in support of his wife's position? As far as I know...we don't have a clue what the lobbying firm Mr. Dole works for has done in terms of lobbying for that company, because they've refused to say.

WSJ: The deparment of homeland security doesn't have the ability to create mass email lists. (Scroll down the page).

Things that can get your name on Homeland Security's lists: Making Too High of a payment on your credit cards.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Mar 3, 2006 -> 12:13 PM) Man, it's surreal. The people are on the radio talking about how much of an opportunity this is for Al-Queda to make their 'stand' right here and now. What radio? U.S.? Pakistani?

QUOTE(YASNY @ Mar 3, 2006 -> 10:16 AM) If she runs for president, then this is an issue. If it's inappropriate in the case of a Senator who may run for the White House, how exactly is it not inappropriate in the case of another Senator?

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Mar 3, 2006 -> 09:56 AM) What is our government really for if they can't get their stories straight in a time like this? I mean I know disasters means that you can't have it all right, but the thing that's sickening about this whole thing is they are all lying their asses off about what happened to save their own tails. They all are to blame to certain extents. However, IMO, the federal response is the last in the pecking order because the people that are there all the time should know how to deal with their own areas the best, period. See, I disagree with the last part of that, because this was simply not a local problem after the storm hit. Before the storm...planning for a storm, setting up emergency systems that could survive the storm, coming up with and activating evacuation plans, those are local responsibilites. But when a major, interstate disaster strikes, you simply have to assume that some state level agencies will be overwhelmed, simply due to the fact that they're just too local. If communications for 1 police department go down, it could screw up a response for dozens of different precincts if there is no one up at the top giving orders and controlling the situation.

QUOTE(Cuck the Fubs @ Mar 3, 2006 -> 08:39 AM) They aren't pissed with Maynard or Gould. They want to give them more competition in camp. Adam Vinitieri would give them competition.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 3, 2006 -> 07:41 AM) The NYT issued a correction on the original statistics, but then of course gave their own spin on that correction. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/tsc.html?URI...Q5EQ3BQ20xiQ51m Dude, that's the exact same spin I gave above.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Mar 3, 2006 -> 08:42 AM) Exactly. BTW, we should kick them all out of their ports. I'm not protectionist by any means - but I don't feel comfortable with private industry controlling our country's exit and entry points. And I'm really uncomfortable with other governments controlling private industry. Well, in that case, you should really like this bill proposed by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA).

Here's something scary...I'm about to agree also. Heard more of that phone call 2k5 alluded to on the news this mornin' while waiting for the rains to die down so I could bike in. At least based on the report from Fox 11 L.A., the call 2k5 was quoting was one that happened in the afternoon, at roughly noon. Link. That one doesn't nearly bother me as much as the one that evening, the "Give us everything you've got" call. Why? Because the Levee breaches had only occurred a couple of hours before she placed that call, which may not have even been time for it to be noticed by major authorities unless they were standing right there. But if Blanco couldn't confirm by the call to Bush at 9:00 that night that the levees had breached (that call we haven't heard in this AP release I believe), then something was seriously wrong with the way Blanco was getting information. That's half a day after the breaches...she certainly should have made certain beforehand that there was some means of investigating those levees right after the storm passed, or at least forced someone into the city to give her a real report. These are the sorts of things that cost lives...and the sort of things that decent folk resign when they realize they did.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 2, 2006 -> 01:44 PM) Oops. So if we assume that call would look as bad for Blanco as humanly possible, it would be the last call she put through to the President on the day Katrina struck...since by Tuesday morning everyone on Earth except Chertoff knew the levees were down. Interestingly, we have other details about that call from earlier press reports. A little reassuring probably is comparable to the "we have no confirmed reports of levee breaches" statement, but even though Blanco was clearly wrong to include any positive news at all in that phone call, it also appears that Bush didn't do anything based on the call.

LA Times shows the same thing...Bush at 38, Down 5 from January. Quinnipac has Bush at 36, in a poll which talked to 1837 people (almost twice the average, for a margin of error of 2.3%). This is what you call clustering. CBS is an outlier by about 2 points. Bush somewhere between 36-38, down about 5 points from January.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Mar 2, 2006 -> 05:39 PM) i don't have a link, it was on the local CBS news. Oh come on man, Google News is Not that hard to use.

And here we have another reason why these vicious, soulless killing machines must be stopped before they destroy us all.

I just noticed, you stole calling them "The power couple" directly from Drudge. Interesting.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Mar 2, 2006 -> 03:22 PM) Clear out your cache. They're all working for me. Dat seems to have worked. Thankyee.

QUOTE(SnB @ Mar 2, 2006 -> 01:46 PM) the link on the top of the thread is broken still though. "Soxtalk.com > Sox Baseball Headquarters > Pale Hose Talk" It's not just that link, there's a few others broken throughout the forums as well.

The NFL has delayed the start of the Free Agency period by 3 days to allow for more time for talks before teams start having to purge their rosters to get under the cap.

QUOTE(WCSox @ Mar 2, 2006 -> 03:04 PM) This hypocritical garbage only scratches the surface. Hillary has so many skeletons in her closet and the distrust of so many moderates that her campaign is dommed from the beginning. It's also not just moderates who don't like her.

QUOTE(samclemens @ Mar 2, 2006 -> 02:56 PM) BILL CLINTON HELPED DUBAI ON PORTS DEAL... (http://news.ft.com/cms/s/60414c4c-a95e-11da-a64b-0000779e2340.html) ...As Hillary attacks its US ports deal (http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/03/02/060302151101.0epolmxs.html) i'm not suprised. this is why hillary will not win the presidential election. Elizabeth Dole, in a letter to Sen. John Warner of Virginia, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, of which she is a member. (CNN)