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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 27, 2009 -> 03:12 PM) Cincinnati is close (Willy Tavares). But no. wow, I knew it was bad, but damn... honestly, I'd gladly give CF to Norris Hopper and David Cook just to see if they can do better than absolute suck.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090626/ap_on_...nce_plantations Seriously???? SERIOUSLY???????? My god, who the f*** cares? Don't they have more important things to worry about than taking away part of the official name of the state that no one knows about? What stupidity.

does any other team in all of major league baseball have worse production out of the CF spot?

Maybe we could get him extremely cheap in the offseason. I got no problem taking chances on guys with an arm like his.

Yep, looks like I will try to manually fix my ps3 and if that doesn't work, I'll likely just buy a new one when the price drops (rumored to drop $100 in August). I heard somewhere that Target offers 3 year warranties on PS3's, so that seems like the best route to take if I can't fix the PS3. Or maybe my brother who never uses his will give me his, that'd be awesome. When I called Sony today to try and negotiate a better deal and all they said is they can't do anything about it, and that's BS. No way in hell I'm spending $150+ on a refurbished model with only a 90 day warranty, that's ridiculous, especially considering I've done nothing but take very good care of my PS3 and have been a loyal Sony costumer for the past several years. The guy tried to sell me this crap about the refurbished ones being factory compared, and all I gotta say is who gives a f***. $150 is a decent amount of change, and if I'm gonna spend it on a reused system, I want more than a 90 day warranty. No way do I want to go through this s*** again in a year. However, I did send them an angry e-mail. Maybe if I'm lucky, they'll send me a free game or accessory.

Can he still swing a bat? If so, it would make sense to see him back in September in a pinch hitter only type of role.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 27, 2009 -> 02:05 PM) Good, back to the point. Let's talk about the bill. Here again is what I posted a few pages ago, about the bill, but no one seemed interested in the bill at that time... So, about the bill itself, a few points for discussion... 1. CBO and EPA say this will cost households on average $100 or $200 a year, somewhere in that range. Spread that out over 80 million households, that is $8B to $16B, and is effectively a tax increase. That's an increase in cost that will be put directly on families, and that seems less than ideal. However... why is it that some people are OK with spending 100 times that amount of money fighting wars in Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries, but they aren't OK with this amount of money spent on getting us out of their grip and-oh-by-the-way maybe making all our lives healthier? Seems like screwed up priorities to me. 2. GOP'ers are claiming the real costs will be much higher when you factor in passed-down costs. Probably true. But then, the CBO and EPA numbers also don't reflect the creation and sustaining of a lot of high-paying jobs that this will result in, with money going to that instead of out the door for oil. So, you need to really look at both sets of indirect cost/benefit pieces, not just the one that fits your views. So, all 1300 pages of the bill is just that? Also, can anyone deny that this bill wasn't rushed and poorly put together. If the bill was basically those 2 points, than why in hell did it take the length of Les Miserables to explain it?

I'd love to get Morgan. He might not have the plate discipline or consistent hitting ability to play everyday, but he can play a good LF or CF, is extremely fast, and when he is hitting, he uses the whole field well. In fact, he'd be our best option in CF right now anyway.

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Jun 27, 2009 -> 03:55 AM) Basically every team we play is a friendly game in the name of God, but with this team it never is. Most of the people I talked to said they had no problem with anything I did tonight, and nobody was upset with me except for one girl, whether only one is true or not I'm not sure. What I did was had someone pinch run for our slowest player and she had her feelings hurt because of that. It might not seem like a big deal, but she was "humiliated" about that, according to her. My brother and I got into a brotherly argument and there was a lot of yelling. And a little arguing with the other team occurred. What it all comes down to is I'm just ashamed that I put winning ahead of personal relationships in church softball. It's supposed to be fun and I didn't make it that way tonight. If it wasn't church softball, I see nothing wrong with how you acted... however, considering it was church softball, yeah, maybe a little overboard.

QUOTE (shipps @ Jun 26, 2009 -> 06:52 PM) Wow. They were f***ing creative they shouldnt have went so heavy on the Iverson. Those dudes had the talent to mix in some more rants into that song. But still.....WOW. LMAO for the Jim Mora. I think it's easy to do it with Iverson cause he talks like he is rapping...

Can someone explain to me how this bill will change anything except making everyone's financial situations tougher? I really don't care if you believe in man-made global climate change or not. Quite simply, this subject is far from settled, and to shove a bill like this down our throats, a bill in which no one has read or understands, is bogus. If you have common sense, you know this bill was forced through in a poor manner, even if you want these things to pass. There really needs to be a limit on how many pages a bill can be and that everyone has time to read and get a full understanding of the bill before voting occurs. This is ridiculous. Billions of tax payer dollars are at sake, and we are forcing this thing down everyone's throat when there still is plenty of time to be a lot more logical about this. Lets continue the research and be smart about this.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 27, 2009 -> 11:32 AM) it pisses me off to no end as well, we were willing to spend $1T, kill a few thousand American soldiers and a few tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of civilians to go to war in Iraq on this evidence: reports by a single lying informant (Curveball), and satelite images of trucks moving around. An yet, when thousands of scientists all over the world in near-unison say, hey, maybe we should do something to protect ourselves... well, we can't spend money on that, can we? f***ed up priorities. I feel safer without Saddam, but that's just me. And how exactly is this bill gonna help anyone besides investors in global warming and some select businesses? I got no problem with wanting to make the earth cleaner, but this is completely the wrong way to go about it. This is nothing but a huge tax increase, the largest in American History. And I'm shocked how so many people can support this bill, even though it provides no evidence it will help the environment, and not one politician read the damn thing. This is absurd. Is there any common sense left in the world?????

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 27, 2009 -> 11:14 AM) As has been posted in this forum on multiple occasions... 1. The whole 1970's cooling thing is a joke. One article by one scientist says there is a cooling trend, and now all people looking for any crack in climate change grab onto the MEDIA panic FROM that article to say "SCIENCE WAS WRONG THEN". That is of course not at all the case. There was not some huge trend or wave of science talking of global cooling - there was nothing of the sort. You have been fooled into thinking there was. If there was anything more than one pseudo-science piece and a bunch of media tripe, please do show me. 2. What counterscience? Last I looked, just a few months ago in here I think (I need to go look), they scraped up thousands of peer-reviewed scientific pieces that studied global climate change, and nary a one made an argument that it wasn't happening. Most said it had at least a partial human causation (how much is of course very much up for debate). So again, what counterscience? Can you cite a single scientific research piece (not some writer pulling together bits and pieces of other articles) that shows its not happening? Because I have yet to see such a thing. You guys are really grasping at straws here. Its not that one science is good and the other is trash - its that there IS NO SCIENCE saying its not happening. Some dude looking at 5 years of data and saying "SEE, NO WARMING!!!" is not science. Its not a peer-reviewed, academic or research piece. Show me an example of where I am wrong. Really, no science saying it's not happening... here's a list of some of the global warming skeptics who so happen to be scientists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scien..._global_warming Oh, how about this one: http://www.tulsabeacon.com/?p=462 Also, what about more and more scientists standing up against global warming in Europe? But yeah, I'm sure you're right... there is absolutely no science against global warming.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 27, 2009 -> 11:12 AM) Another false meme. Literature reviews of papers published show a 44-7 margin in favor of warming in the 70's. What Time or Newsweek chooses to hype doesn't determine what the mainstream scientific thought is. They will often pick the more sensational story. Also, the cooling periods cited were often 10 or 20k years out, not exactly short term. It's not about the money. If you think it is, then you probably don't know any actual scientists. With that line of thought, you can just dismiss any and all scientific findings because they're just lying for money. It makes me sad to see people denigrate scientific study in such an ignorant manner. If it's not about money, why did congress just pass a bill that does nothing but tax the s*** out of everyone?

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Jun 27, 2009 -> 08:19 AM) her little wink is mesmerizing I think it's the two fantastic boobs bouncing up and down that is mesmerizing.

QUOTE (JorgeFabregas @ Jun 27, 2009 -> 10:22 AM) He's currently on pace to hit 20 homeruns. I'd be surprised if he reaches 20 this year unless he changes his approach. Pitchers are going to be throwing him more and more breaking balls away, and until he realizes he has to go the other way with those pitches, he won't be hitting anything out. Hopefully he realizes that what made him such a good hitter in 08 was because he didn't try and hit the home runs. Last year he saw ball and hit ball, and he went with the pitches.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 27, 2009 -> 03:57 AM) it's this thing called reporting. lol, what? The e-mails came from his personal e-mail account. Either someone hacked into his account or he left the computer on and someone jumped on. And the newspaper got it from an annoynmos source over 2 months ago. Michael Savage's theory of the DHS or NSA accessing his e-mails isn't that crazy. Why wouldn't Obama want to eliminate his opponents one by one. I'm not saying that's the case, but the conspiracy theorist inside me kinda believes it.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 27, 2009 -> 09:05 AM) I haven't yet read the details of the bill, but I suspect its another case of a generally good idea, poorly executed. The whole far-right take on climate change (or whatever you want to call it) is pretty hilarious. Basically, it goes like this... Liberals/Moderates: Thousands of peer-revied scientific pieces all agree basically 100% that its real, and a large chunk of those see an anthropomorphic effect. Conservative: They don't all agree, look at these scientists! *pulls out link to article written by non-scientists gathering anecdotal data* Liberal/Moderates: But, that isn't science, or its lousy, unreviewed, silly science. Conservative: Well hey, at one time, science thought (fill in with silly assumption made at some point in history), so what makes them right this time? (this is what I call the scorched earth method of argument - since my stack of evidence is so much smaller than yours, I'll level the playing field by saying all evidence is useless) There is no point in even having a logical discussion when the other side is basically going to say they will ignore the overwhelming majority of evidence in favor of their gut feeling or some columnist they like. Your the arrogant one if you completely ignore the science against it. Global Climate Change or whatever the hell it is called now is FAR from a fact. In Europe you are seeing more and more scientists stepping up against Global Warming. But yeah, you're right... we're just all deniers if we don't accept the crap Al Gore has been feeding us over the past several years. I should get my head checked because I don't agree with "90% of science."

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Jun 27, 2009 -> 12:57 AM) It seems there were several occasions where the Globe, Enquirer et al were talking about a Bush family divorce. I think the Globe was talking about a potential Obama divorce last week, in fact. Frankly, I feel better about the press in my country when they arent taking their cues about where the priorities are from the supermarket checkout line. I'd feel better about the press if they weren't all bending over for Obama. Yep, you gotta love a press where a national television network does an all day infomercial that only talked about how awesome Obama is and that his healthcare reform idea is the best thing everzzzzzzz!!!

Balta, I got a question for you.... why has California's healthcare system worked so brilliantly? and why would doing it on an even larger scale make it work?

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 27, 2009 -> 12:33 AM) Yeah but it was the f***ing Enquirer though. Sure they ended up being right, but... it's the Enquirer. Had to be taken with a massive grain of salt. What if this story had broken in the Enquirer, as opposed to him disappearing for almost a week? Yeah, but John McCain's made up affair with a lobyist was on the front page of the New York freaking times and was big news for at least a week. I guarantee you if the Enquirer broke the story about Sanford or Ensign, the media would be covering the s*** out of it... do you really think the media didn't cover the story because it was reported by the Enquirer and not because it was a liberal who was running for president???

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 26, 2009 -> 11:48 AM) That 5% = seeing if Jim Thome suffers a serious injury Honestly, especially if we are sucking and need to sell tickets, I wouldn't mind signing Thomas and letting him get a few AB's during September. Let him go out as he came in, as a White Sock.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 26, 2009 -> 11:16 PM) Eh, no, its because there's been a "debate" in scientific journals for decades. That's where science gets hashed out, not on the floor of the Senate. And the overwhelming majority of the conclusions of the papers published in the journals is "Climate Change is real, and we play a part in it." The legit and very serious argument has been had between scientists. Most (something like slightly over 90% of actively publishing scientists on all topics) are convinced that there's at least some human aspect to global warming. Watch, someone will try to assert that there's somehow an equal amount of evidence on both "sides" even though this doesn't come close to reflecting reality. Oh, wait... You got a credible link to that "90% of science agrees with Al Gore"? Also, I'm pretty sure there was a time when about 99% of science believed that everything revolved around the Earth, and that Earth was flat... granted that science was forced to believe that, but is it really different today than it was back in the dark ages? Think about it, if you don't believe in Global Warming, you are attacked by the liberals and labeled as "deniers", like you are some sort of crazy person.

^If the cap and trade eventually gets signed, Al Gore is likely gonna become a billionaire off "Global Warming." Also, Nancy Pelosi and a bunch of the other progressives are gonna profit big time off of it. They all have very large investments in companies that will be benefiting tremendously from this tax.

I got a question... how does it make any sense to pass a bill that is suppossed to fix something that might not even exist? Should we also be passing bills that tax the American people a total of billions of dollars for search parties to find and destroy ManBearPig? This is beyond ridiculous. How about instead of the dems shoving "Global Climate Change" down everyone's throat, we have a legit and very serious argument about it first?