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QUOTE(Kalapse @ May 15, 2007 -> 12:40 PM) A #9 in the AL is the #8 in the NL and I'm sure even the numbers would show that. Your worst hitter is your worst hitter only difference being there's usually 1 guy who's even more pathetic than your worst offensive player when you are an NL team. Even the worst hitting starting position players in the American league are still going to hit over .200 in a lot of cases you're not even getting a .100 batting average from your starting pitcher. Obviously the pitcher comes out and is replaced by a DH. But is taking that entire gain valid? For example, if Frank Thomas had been drafted and played in the NL. He would have been forced to play the field. He'd be a positional player.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ May 15, 2007 -> 12:28 PM) The one thing you can look at is the one guaranteed automatic out you have when pitching to an NL lineup, a luxury you don't get in the AL. Have you peeked at the bottom of our order? One mitigating factor is the bottom of the NL order forces small ball. Sac bunts, etc. Would it be more statistically valid to compare a DH to a pitcher or a #9 to a pitcher?

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ May 15, 2007 -> 12:18 PM) While watching "Lockup" on MSNBC last night, a thought came to mind: are prisoners now banned from smoking? I know that they have made exceptions for state-run nursing homes so that they can smoke in their own rooms still. Depends on if the state uses an electric chair or lethal injection?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 15, 2007 -> 12:01 PM) Are you serious? Who was the last person President who won the office on a shoestring budget? The Presidency has been bought every four years for a long time now. I tend to agree with SS, but it is all part of a bigger picture, I think a great candidate can overcome some spending differences. I'm not certain where the balance is, but I don't think that money alone can win office for a poor candidate. I'm struggling for the correct words here, as usual. Take two candidates A is 20% "better" with 20% less money. I believe A is still the winner.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 15, 2007 -> 12:00 PM) I know that it is much easier to miss the big picture, and just jump on the outrage train with everyone else, but I still don't get how this is OK for some groups, but it isn't for others. You mocking me just proves that point. It is OK to slander people as long as they aren't one of the groups who are under the spotlight now. If they aren't in that spotlight, it is OK, no scratch that, socially admirable, to joke about them. The thing is it is just as bad when you do it about one group as another, no matter what the TV tells you is funny. If you want to be outraged about the T-shirts, fine, but I hope you stand up everytime this happens instead of joining the mindless hypocrates who don't see anything wrong with their actions. You raise a great point. I believe there is a scale that society has and is using. What suffering has this group endured, how justified was the suffering, how recent, how severe, and what is balancing it? So while it would seem to be unfair to negatively portray WASPy millionaires, we accept it on some cosmic balance scale. Figuring they can go home to their nice homes in the suburb, polish their Mercedes, and feel better about themselves. Conversely, negatively portray a disabled person who has been denied employment, denied a quality of life, liberty, and happiness, and we feel a need to "protect" that individual. I'm not saying it is fair in any way. Beautiful, white millionaires have feelings too. But we cheer for the underdogs, protect the weak and helpless. There is a certain humanity that I believe works for us.

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ May 15, 2007 -> 11:07 AM) He'd also be too busy whoring himself out to score treats and belly rubs. Who did he learn that trick from?

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ May 15, 2007 -> 10:34 AM) Lame. Partly because it's offensive, but mostly because it just wasn't very creative or funny. The ironic twist is Anglos took a reasonable somber Mexican holiday and turned it into a Mexican Mardi Gras, then used the anglicized version and attempted a lampoon of Mexicans.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 15, 2007 -> 11:04 AM) Then please explain demand increasing with increasing prices. Fear of loss? Get it now or possibly not get any? I'm thinking of Middle East flareups, hurricanes, etc.

5-3 good guys.

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Good points.

QUOTE(BearSox @ May 12, 2007 -> 01:25 PM) Dogs at the park >>>>>> fireworks You don't want to spook the dogs and have them s*** and piss all over the stadium.

Which coaching staff do you get? Walker could work some magic with that Cubs lineup . . .

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ May 14, 2007 -> 03:52 PM) I'm not addicted at all. Once I realized some of the questions were flat out wrong, I didn't even have the desire to keep trying. Think of it as a memory test, it doesn't matter what the question/answers are.

QUOTE(Y2HH @ May 15, 2007 -> 07:51 AM) I was really far into the original game. I was half way through Naxx, I had completed Zul Gurub, Molten Core, Blackwing Lair, AQ20 and AQ40. I was decked in tier2 or better and wiped the floor with most people I encountered 1 on 1...it was like working toward a goal and being rewarded by becoming one of the strongest in the land -- I also decimated battlegrounds so much that the person below me had half the kills and damage dealt in the battle. Then Burning Crap came out and everyone with their non-epic greens and blues were just as strong -- if not stronger than me -- and did absolutly nothing to earn it. Meh. I'm level 70 -- still have a character that can hang, but I just got bored after all that time. How do you mention that on your resume?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 15, 2007 -> 07:59 AM) Historically, I don't think there will ever be a real change. There always seems to be a divide between the groups that are socially OK to look down on, and those that are protected. I don't see that changing. It hasn't for millenniums and in all societies. The groups change, but there is always another group to take their place. I just thought of this, we are arguably the greatest mix ever assembled on this planet. Perhaps it is amazing it has worked this well. (OK, the native Americans may disagree).

QUOTE(kapkomet @ May 14, 2007 -> 11:43 AM) His (lack of) substance at this point is by design. He will start to veer hard left before the primary and turn back if it looks like he has a chance to win the nomination. I think he has a huge challenge and it will be interesting as this plays out, but I just wish it was 9 months from now, and not now, if that makes sense. By hard left, do you mean to the middle? (He already is right of center) Part II I agree with Kap that Bush tried to do the right thing. I really think he allowed his morality and integrity to guide decisions. I see a lot of parallels with Carter. I also believe that while 9/11 was his brightest moment, it also was the beginning of a long terrible slide. And perhaps any other human would have also slid. Perhaps at that moment he realized that while he was the most powerful person on the planet, he was also just one person and the world is a large and dangerous place, that he would not be able to control. I just went back and read Kap's full post and noticed it was a Clinton v. Bush on personal morality and I have to back Kap even more. I do believe that with Clinton the prosoner abuse issue would have been settled along a much different path. But if I had to leave my kids with Dubya or Slick Willy for a week, I'd rather they be with Dubya.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ May 14, 2007 -> 09:21 PM) You should be fine if you have any visible facial hair. So his girlfriend can get in, can he?* I kid because, I thought that was funny. Maybe I care ™

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 15, 2007 -> 07:00 AM) Which is fine. What isn't fine is foreign governments using us as a dumping ground for their unwanted citizens (ie namely poor and problematic) and then using our burgeoning social programs as a rallying cry against our country for propaganda purposes. I would be a supporter of a no immigration without jobs or non governmental support for the newly immigrated policy.

I hasn't considered that possibility before, of programming new stereotypes. I agree that appearance does come into the hiring process. So are you suggesting we need to have more, less, or the same diligence when issues like this come up, (when student groups do stuff like this)? I am wondering, from a practical standpoint, that there has to a critical mass of negative events before we start acting.

What consumer habit protests aren't stupid?

All good comments Mike, but I wonder if we aren't missing something in that definition. I think there needs some actual damages, some opportunity denied, access, promotions, perhaps violence against, and that body of human misdeeds before elevating. By comparing the histories of blacks, Hispanics, and blonds in this country, there are some stark contrasts. Maybe that is why we are less sensitive to blond or pollack jokes and more sensitive to black and Hispanic issues?

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ May 14, 2007 -> 04:17 PM) If he raises whenever the price goes up, but lowers only when he refills his tanks and the price goes down, he would make a very hefty profit by the end of the year. When the station owners cry poor, not sure I believe them. He lowers it when the station across the street does. My mom is in the wholesale gas business, Kap is accurate.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ May 14, 2007 -> 09:45 PM) Thank you, sir, I do appreciate it. I think this is the best way to do it so we don't pollute Nuke's thread. I do wish he'd stop by and share what guys serving feel when they see their former Generals disagreeing with the Commander in Chief. BTW, from what I've seen votevets has been fairly moderate.