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Anyone have NCAA football 2009 for the PS2? Is there not an in game save like they had in Madden 07?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 19, 2009 -> 09:11 PM) I'm totally willing to grant you this point. So here's the question...on the ones who take it further than that. The ones who go back to their districts and then say "look at the great program coming to this district" and that program happens to be in the stimulus bill they voted against and called the worst socialism in history or whatever. Does that rise to a different level? Because that's already been happening. When else has there been a trillion dollar spending program proposed? Its hard to compare this to anything else if you want to talk about a different level. I am sure if you looked at it, there are plenty of examples that could be found the other way.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Feb 20, 2009 -> 08:00 AM) I say he dies in 5 weeks, which is the perfect way to the original cast back together... I agree 100%. It would be the perfect way to end things. I admit they totally had me fooled, when he said his wife was still in Paris, I was thinking divorce. Until they showed him strapped in for chemo, I was totally not thinking cancer.

How can you have Wallace Shawn on ER last night as a special guest star and never once have him say "inconceivable" is beyond me. Also, nice twist with John Carter coming back to Chicago with cancer.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Feb 19, 2009 -> 03:26 PM) I'm sure he did, just for you since you're obviously the taxpayer gestapo. Bleh, that must be a photoshop job, because I know what the Kap looks like

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 19, 2009 -> 06:24 PM) Link I wonder if this means we have Bobby's Rush's blessing to not be racists for wanting Burris out of office?

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Feb 20, 2009 -> 01:38 AM) Reagan was bad. But I'm not going to say anymore for fear of being a part of this stupid thread accomplishing it's worthless goal. You are upset that someone else is making outrageous statements just to stir the pot? He totally stole your schtick!

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Feb 19, 2009 -> 09:27 PM) Question that was brought up in a class of mine this afternoon. Vince McMahon was indicted in the mid-90's for supposedly distributing steroids to wrestlers in the WWF. Now Selig knows that players tested positive for PED's.... Should Selig be indicted? I think he should probably spend some time on the hot seat. Do we know that Selig knew the individuals who tested postitive? I have not seen that confirmed.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 19, 2009 -> 07:38 PM) I think this argument about the GOP'ers looking for the money being hypocritical is not realistic. They fought against the bill, for some good reasons and some stupid ones, and using some stupid tactics. But, once the money is set for the exits, they HAVE to get as much as they can, or they aren't doing their jobs. There is plenty to be disappointed in, when looking at Congressional Republican behavior over this bill. But on this, they are doing the only thing they can, and they should. Especially since if you take the Democratic logic to the opposite extreme, they shouldn't be using anything with gasoline or oil because they voted against oil exploration, and want other fuel sources. They shouldn't be sending troops to Afganistan, because we don't invade sovereign nations, and then we definitely don't send more troops there when things get bad. They shouldn't ever use a bank, since they want to put restrictions on how they operate. They shouldn't drive cars, because they want higher fuel standards. They shouldn't use their insurance at the doctors until everyone has coverage, heck they should get rid of their Congressional retirements, pensions, and insurance until the entire nation has it. Etc, etc, etc.

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=273388

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-1...0,7410380.story

Rick Santelli, my hero. Note the cheering in the backround. http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1039849853

Preliminarily it sounds like the game will be on the August 8th date, with the game against Cleveland being the topper.

QUOTE (letsgoarow @ Feb 19, 2009 -> 01:19 PM) anyone else thought this was Brandon McCarthy at first lol Bobby would slather Bmac in BBQ sauce and eat him.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 19, 2009 -> 01:12 PM) I doubt Tim Thomas plays much if Tyrus can keep up with the improved play. Tyrus does get into foul trouble so its good to have another bigger guy around. With Rose, Gordon and Hinrich around and Thabo and Salmons playing a little 2 on the side, there is very little room for guards, so the roster is more balanced at the very least. Maybe a little better, but I hope they don't make the playoffs. I don't think it would serve a purpose. No doubt. Anytime one or two of the bigs got into trouble, VDN had to run out a 4 guard line up. I'll be happy to never see Thabo, Ben, Rose, and Hughes out on the floor at the same time again. Now the Bulls have a legitimate big man rotation. How long has it been?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 19, 2009 -> 12:55 PM) Seems your right: I played with Tim for a couple years and had him in Phoenix. I didn't have any problem with him. I enjoyed playing with him," Bulls coach Vinny Del Negro said. "That was a long time ago. I'll sit down and talk to Tim, tell him what I expect from him, what his role is. I expect him to be professional and go do his job. He has the ability to help us." I'm fascinated they ate all that money because Skiles didn't like him. The trade really wouldn't have made sense at if there wasn't a reason Thomas was willing to come back here. They aren't gaining any cap room, so they must have thought Thomas was better than Hughes. If the choice was keep Hughes or someone else disgruntled, they would have been better off to just buy Hughes out. As it turns out they got a guy who helps them out right away.

Creating the site is the easy part. Running it, and recruiting are the really hard parts in the early stages. You really have to work hard to ID quality talent to trust with your vision of things. If you try to do it alone, you will burn out.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 19, 2009 -> 12:46 PM) Doesn't matter. The point I'm trying to make is that while the large majority thinks it isn't a problem, it is a problem enough that it keeps hurting them, and not dealing with it or pretending it isn't a problem makes it worse. Maybe its the industry I am in, but I am not surrounded by people who look like me. I have worked with people of all sexes, races, creeds, etc. I have had people all of the way up to partners in the companies that I have worked for who were neither male, nor white, nor Christian, and sometimes none of those. There is only one part of the country that I have been in where discrimination was more than a very, very small percentage of the population, and that was even in an area that barely had anyone living there. I grew up in a diverse town, I work in one of the most diverse cities in the world, and I went to college in a place that was completely racist. I have seen all over the spectrum, and I truely believe that is not as big as those who use discrimination to advance their personal and political agendas make it out to be, for either the discriminators, or the people who need discrimination to stay important.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 19, 2009 -> 12:44 PM) I'm not sure it makes sense on its own either. Thomas is the Ugh we already know, I'm sure he's looking forwards to playing with the Bulls. James hasn't played since December and is out for the rest of the season with a Ruptured Achilles tendon, and I doubt he has a Contreras like work ethic to come back before next season starts. This move seems like rearranging parts that will never play for us unless it's tied to some other move that needed a smaller salary than Hughes. I am guessing if they brought back Thomas, that was all about Scott Skiles. We all know the guy had issues with players, and especially ones he felt weren't working hard enough. Thomas also fits right into the rotation, as he can score a bit.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 19, 2009 -> 12:41 PM) Took me a minute to do the subtraction and I posted it first at Talkbulls Cap implications: Both James and Thomas expire at the end of 2010. Hughes's contract has $13,655,268 on it for 2010. James has $6.2 million this year and $6.6 million on it next year, Thomas has $6 million this year and $6.45 on it next year. Roberson makes $797k this year and has an $850k team option next year. Bulls take on 220k in salary this year, take on $267k next year if they pick up Roberson's option, save $589k if they don't. That's assuming no one has a trade escalator clause in their contract. No change in 2010 unless someone is extended. So it was totally to get rid of Hughes. Thanks.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 19, 2009 -> 12:33 PM) Link KC has it officially at the Tribune. What does this do for the salary cap implications in a couple of years.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Feb 18, 2009 -> 09:50 PM) Ben at the dock... he went to go kill Penny. He referenced having to go take care of something he promised an old friend... Charles... he proposed Charles he'd kill his daughter... Penny. Looking at the LOST easter egg site, Ben is in a port of some kind when he is calling. I think you are spot on with your theory http://getlostpodcast.iimmgg.com/image/c28...93b5d56e9f8be3f

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 19, 2009 -> 12:03 PM) I think you missed my point a little bit there. If anything I think you made made a point you weren't really meaning to make. I know what you were trying to do, but you also illustrated something else in the process.

I watched the history channel version of the story years ago, and had no real interest in seeing the movie.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 19, 2009 -> 11:05 AM) But there's a weird counter-point to that, and I think perhaps the most interesting perspective on it was the one we heard then Senator Obama give last year. It's not just that there's that small percentage at the edge that dominates everything and the other 98% is fine, it's that the other 98% isn't always fine, that there are real issues there just as much as there are at the margins, with things like economic status, education, cultural differences, etc., but that the 98% really doesn't like discussing it except to get angry when it affects them negatively. And that is what makes me a republican. I don't believe in penalizing 98% of the country for the actions of 1 or 2% of it.