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Good for Brandon!!!

Rita has been officially upgraded to a Hurricane.

Wow. Too bad Pat Robertson didn't say it, that way the rest of the networks could run it as their top story.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 19, 2005 -> 06:27 PM) If I'm reading this right...I think we can say precisely why it is the Republicans have increased the size of the Federal Government by 33% in the last 4.5 years since Bush took office. At least 1 Congressional Republican thinks $500,000 is greater than $223 million. Anchorage Daily News. A Clinton recession, terrorism, and war will do that to a budget. Also interesting from that article There were SIX THOUSAND items added by congressmen to the Highway Bill. Even worse than things like bridges to no where were items that had NOTHING to do with easing traffic flow such as these... Those over 6000 items that were added to the Highway Bill were worth $24 billion ALONE, which would supply potentially 15% or so of the expected cost of Katrina. That isn't even touching any other of the wasteful bills and budgets that exsist out there.

QUOTE(whitesoxgt @ Sep 19, 2005 -> 03:32 PM) HE WANTED TO TRADE MCCARTHY FOR GODS SAKE HE didn't want to trade McCarthy. Other GMs wanted him to trade Brandon to THEM. Everyone was asking for him, and judging by the fact that KW didn't trade for anyone, I would take that as KW NOT wanted to trade BMAC.

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I have been in trading for 7 years now, almost 8, and let me tell you this makes *perfect* sense with everything I have ever seen.

That story about the nursing home drownding is not agreeing with the timeline of events... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9368952

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 19, 2005 -> 02:57 PM) That's about as dumb as the people who think the Sox are better off not making the playoffs instead of winning the Wild Card. ^^^ They'll let anyone on the radio.

Boy when you add the way the Sox have been playing to a bottle of lotion and some kleenex, this is the stuff that dreams are made of for Kotex-boy.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Sep 19, 2005 -> 01:51 PM) Oil spiked 4 and some change to 67.5 a barrel today cause of concerns about the new hurricane forming near Florida. That and they aren't sure OPEC is going to raise production at all.

So I had to find out, but the first pitch of the game was in post #306 of the opening day thread QUOTE(Wong & Owens @ Sep 19, 2005 -> 01:36 PM) Yes, but how many of them were yours? :finger

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 19, 2005 -> 01:22 PM) Is there a record for most posts in a game thread before the game even starts? I think the opening day thread had way over 100 posts before the game started.

This is a taylor made Freddy Garcia game. For whatever reason he has trouble getting focused early against patsy teams, but comes in locked and loaded for big games. I think we will see a vintage Freddy Garcia preformance.

If the rain holds off, the walk up could make this game a sell-out.

http://www.nbc5.com/news/4991249/detail.ht...317&dppid=65192

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 19, 2005 -> 12:06 PM) Right now, the 17th street Levee gap is filled by a bunch of sandbags...so if it gets hit by any wind at all...that city could very well re-flood completely. It also is again on path to hit the exact same sort of waters that turned Katrina into a cat 5. Hopefully...people will have learned to get the Hell out of the way of this one if it stays on its current path. BTW, in order for that storm to make a beeline to Houston, it would have to pass right through Galveston, Texas...the site of the current worst natural disaster in U.S. history in terms of loss of life. http://www.noaa.gov/galveston1900/ If anyone ever wants to watch a compelling story about this, try catching "Isaac's Storm" on the History Channel when it comes on again. Galveston was the biggest city in the state of Texas in 1900 when this storm hit. The devestation and dead were incredible. Galveston is a lot better equipped to handle storms of this nature today as evidenced by the hit they took from Hurricane Alicia in 1983. They also remembered a valuable lesson in leaving the island if there is going to be a hurricane. http://www.usatoday.com/weather/huricane/history/walicia.htm

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Sep 19, 2005 -> 11:57 AM) http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT1.../151209W_sm.gif The center of that circle is a dead on aim for Houston Texas, which has the biggest gasoline refinaries in the country in Texas City, Texas... not to mention a metro area of about 5 million people, give or take a few. The far east track line is almost exactly what Katrina did.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 19, 2005 -> 11:26 AM) They have needed to move a piece to get a good arm for a couple years now, and each year they've chosen not to do it. This year they even traded away a pitcher to get another bat. It would be very smart of them to talk to someone like Chicago or Minnesota about grabbing one of their young bats, but thus far they've just been unwilling to do it. I think they're just scared about trading any player the fans like for pitching and having it blow up in their face. Plus, my money says Soriano is the first one to move from that team out of anyone. Calling Chan Ho Park a pitcher, is like calling El Duque's second half solid.

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Sep 18, 2005 -> 01:15 PM) cas it's slowly becoming WSI. But yet you keep coming around...

All of those thousands dead, still have not materialized. So far there are only 579 dead officially in New Orleans. Also they are estimating only 40% of the city under water now.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Sep 19, 2005 -> 10:15 AM) I find myself skeptical. This seems like a pretty quick 180 by North Korea. And this part - "North Korea doesn't want to totally disarm without getting concessions. Washington has said it wants the weapons programs completely gone before rewarding North Korea" makes it sound like the deal could still fall apart. This kinda smells like more posturing by North Korea to me. I hope they're sincere, though. To be honest, I have zero expectations that NK will abandon their nuke program. I am sure that one of the involved countries bribed Il to say that they were going to comply, since that has pretty much been their MO for negotiations all along. They scream and yell about needing to have this program for energy and defense, and then when someone offers them oil and/or food, they take the offer.

TO THE CHAMPS!!!

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Sep 18, 2005 -> 10:29 AM) Case in point. Buehrle's consistant immunity is really getting out of hand. The guy deserves to be blasted right now. Until he proves otherwise, Buehrle is far from "ace" material. :rolly

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Sep 18, 2005 -> 12:36 PM) Don't go to the Cell. Our team f'n blows with fans in the seats. Now is not the time to start going. What happened to you never coming back here again?