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QUOTE (chw42 @ Mar 17, 2010 -> 01:50 PM) FanGraphs speed index of Cubs lineup 1. Fukudome - 4.4 2. Theirot - 5.5 3. Lee - 3.5 4. Ramirez - 3 5. Byrd - 4.3 6. Soriano - 4.7 7. Soto - 2 8. Fontenot - 4 ML average speed is 4.2. They have 4 above average runners and all the rest are below average. I don't know where this illusion of speed came from. xD are they projecting Fontenot as the starter? yikes

QUOTE (The Gooch @ Mar 17, 2010 -> 11:56 PM) Mid-life crisis? LOL And less action taken on recreational drug use doesn't bother me at all. Steroids give players a competitive advantage that is unfair to players that are clean. Recreational drugs do not give an advantage, and most likely hurt performance. I say let them destroy their own bodies if they want to, as long as it doesn't make them better at baseball I am pretty sure nobody is worried that Ron Washington is getting an advantage from doing coke. And coke is speed, so it can give a player an advantage, its the reason that they spiked their coffee with speed back in the day

QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ Mar 18, 2010 -> 06:22 AM) He's the poster of the year several years running, so he is good, no doubt, but don't you also get a small feeling that he believes he is ALWAYS right, no questions asked and no further debates??? :-). Gotta appreciate the cockiness I guess... Every once in a while you can catch him off guard. I never do it on the board, but I caught him a few times in chat. It is usually followed by a 4 letter expletive aimed at me

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Mar 17, 2010 -> 06:52 PM) So if you're a player and you take some substance that might contain something on the banned list, you get 50 games and tarred and feathered for life. If you're a manager and do a little blow, you get no penalty? Why did they give him a drug test in the first place if there is absolutely no consequence for failing? No rehab, no suspension, no nothing. I'm pretty sure most people employed where drug tests occur probably wouldn't get off as easily if their test had the same result. He offered his job up immediately and the Rangers said they wouldnt make him resign. You are right though, totally crazy rules for PEDs vs recreational drugs.

QUOTE (The Critic @ Mar 17, 2010 -> 06:55 PM) That would be great, actually. I wouldn't mind seeing some kind of "off-season" for the older guys, to rest their old bones and give some new guys a shot on the major shows. Not sure how paranoid guys would be about "their spots", but as a viewer I'd like to see something new. They have to do something with the NXT crew, and they have to see what they have in some of the FCW guys as well. It makes sense, it(after Mania) is when you see the most guys in WWE take off time, we already know Taker and HBK are taking time off, they have been talking about Cena having a herniated disc for a while now, Orton has been on TV for a long time without a break, Stephanie is having another baby so HHH will be taking time off soon and recently WWE dropped a lot of dead weight off their roster. I could see it happening.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 17, 2010 -> 05:56 PM) I stand by my criticism of pixar raping itself in two successive films. Had they been lampooning some other cultural touchstone I wouldn't take issue with it, but it was at best two production teams that didn't communicate, and at worst a rare example of pixar being lazy. That is what I'd like to see them avoid - lazy, uninspired filmmaking. And so far they have done a remarkable job of it. Re, the Godzilla comparison. I love the franchise because it got so campy and low rent and that was part of my childhood. There is no question in my mind that the reputation and legacy of the original film has been dameged by decades of shoddy remakes. So, if the goal in serializing pixar's best work is to provide camp fodder for a new generation of kids, then let the subpar sequels fly. I may be selfish here, but my hope is that the amazingly rare phenomenon of a flawless big screen track record that is pixar remains intact. I just done see how sequel for a movie ruins this track record. What if Brad Bird meant the Incredibles to be a 3 story Arc, and the Moleman was leading into it? With the game tie-in, it is possible

I love the fact that he tried it "just once" and ended up getting tested right afterwards. WHAT ARE THE ODDS?!?!?!

Dreamworks-Antz, Shrek series, Kung Fu panda, Shark Tale, Madagascar, Over the Hedge, Bee Movie, Monsters vs Aliens, How to Train Your Dragon this month, (As well as The Prince of Egypt, The Road to El Dorado, Chicken Run, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Flushed Away Ice Age is Blue Sky Studios, originally supposed to be Fox Animation Pixar- Toy Story series, Bugs Life, Monsters Inc, Incredibles, Chicken Little, Finding Nemo, Cars, Up, Wall-E, Ratatouille Until I looked at it like this, I never realized how many movies Dreamworks has cranked out already

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 17, 2010 -> 03:55 PM) I loves me some bad Showa era Godzilla installments, that is true. But not one of them can hold a candle to the 1954 original (the version without Raymond Burr spliced in, thank you very much). The beauty of Incredibles and the way it ended, with the Underminer (the Mole Man parody) showing up and the family going into battle mode, was that it let the viewer know that this family of superheroes is out there fighting the never-ending comic book battle against the baddies. That those adventures are not chronicled for us in sequel upon sequel (akin to month after month in the comic world) doesn't diminish the satisfaction of imagining they are out there doing battle somewhere on our behalf. The Monsters Inc. talk brings up a key criticism of mine regarding Toy Story 2. The airport baggage conveyor belt seen was totally derivative of the Monsters climax scene with all the bedroom doors on the conveyors. Pixar ripping itself off. That's the lack of original ideas that I'm afraid the sequels could devolve into if they go that route. You didnt quite answer my question though, you LOVE your godzilla movies. Lets say you were a kid/teenager when the original Godzilla came out. Would you think "I hope they dont make another. This is great, dont mess with perfection."? Its all in the eye of the beholder. Personally I like reading books/comics/watching movies that continue on with a character or storyline. I want to know what happens next. And I am sorry, but your Monsters Inc/Toy Story 2 criticism is kind of weak. There have been plenty of movies that have made fun of the mysterious behind-that-door baggage service at airports. The story in itself didnt rip anything off, maybe they did use a similar idea in one scene, but overall the movies arent very similar.

QUOTE (CryptviLL @ Mar 17, 2010 -> 03:19 PM) Exactly, WWE is fire right now, even im semi-enjoying its product. I have no idea what's going on on TNA but I know they wont revert to complete s*** in a month or two like the WWE will. Why not just wait a month, then boom hit it hard ! Im actually thinking after Mania, when a lot of the superstars take time off, we will start seeing the NXT guys in the mix and some of the callups that everyone has been hearing about like Dibiase and Hennig and the Hart kids. I actually am looking forward to that.

FlaSoxx, would you be happy if they stopped making Godzilla movies after the first one ever made?

I didnt see the Incredibles as a movie that was supposed to be funny as much as an action adventure.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Mar 17, 2010 -> 12:05 PM) They are also making a Cars 2 (coming out next year) which is the first Pixar movie I'm not really looking forward to. But they are also releasing an original movie in December of next year as well. I wasnt a fan of Cars either, but that movie made some money. Aside from the 461 mil in gross revenue, I found this on the wiki for the movie: Maybe Pixar knew Cars was one of their lesser efforts, so they are letting Disney bastardize it for the profits

Elijah Dukes is Milton Bradley with more kids

did the DVR numbers ever get revealed from last week?

I think that Pixar has been good enough about releasing original films in a timely manner that they can be afforded a sequel to a franchise. Lets be honest, Toy Story as of right now is the only movie they have done a sequel for, and even though you percieve it as a somewhat cheap knockoff of the original, it could of stood alone and would have been just as successful(IMO). we just had another movie to compare it to. Pixar also has been somewhat vocal in being against the Disney-ification of their originals into sequels, and I think that was one of the main rifts that they had when Disney and Pixar briefly went their seperate ways. There are a few movies that i think they could make into franchise vehicles that could be fun and not watered down(The Incredibles, for one), but I think they will maintain their stance on sequels for the foreseeable future.

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Mar 16, 2010 -> 08:20 PM) I hope that Jazz don't draft him with the Knicks pick. Sloan vs Cousins, it wouldn't be pretty for Cousins. Sloan always wins

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Mar 16, 2010 -> 11:35 AM) Their mistake. I don't think Depaul and think major school/power conference. That may be their mistake, but a bigger mistake would be sticking someone who is a good midmajor but bad major conference coach at the top. Depaul needs to think big or they will remain the perennial bottomdweller in the big east. Hopefully when they think big, they think big and round and hire Chris Lowery

QUOTE (Palehosefan @ Mar 16, 2010 -> 11:20 AM) Pretty clear he's calling Depaul a mid-major :-). If they were still in a midmajor conference, I would agree. But they decided to play with the big boys

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Mar 16, 2010 -> 10:53 AM) I think Lick to Depaul would make a whole lot of sense. He's a great mid-major coach. Not a good major conference coach. LOL, your statements contradict each other

I finally thought of one I really would of liked NIN March of the Pigs

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Mar 16, 2010 -> 10:11 AM) If I had to guess, I'd say... John Wall Evan Turner Wesley Johnson Derrick Favors DeMarcus Cousins Greg Monroe Xavier Henry Pat Patterson Cole Aldrich Damion James I'm sure I'm missing a name or two though. There is always 1-4 names that blow up in the tournament out of nowhere too.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Mar 15, 2010 -> 08:22 PM) Bought these today.....cushy on the feet. Did you get a complimentary robe and tobacco pipe?

lol Bret Hart couldnt sell that broken leg to save his life. "which leg is broken? which side do i put the crutch on? "

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 15, 2010 -> 01:01 PM) Alice in Wonderland in IMAX 3D was good, but it's probably a mediocre movie in regular 2D. Also, everything should be in IMAX 3D. agreed in both counts