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QUOTE(Y2HH @ May 8, 2007 -> 09:24 AM) Regulating legal products in terms of drinking and driving is one thing...telling me I can no longer drink at MY home or MY business is another entirely. And that's exactly what they are doing with smoking. And I don't like it. You are arguing apples and oranges to make your point now. Drinking *and then* driving with a blood alcohol level under .08 is legal. Drinking *while* driving, regardless of BAC, is illegal. Apples and oranges? You said I was ignoring the fact that cigarettes are legal. I pointed out when and where we regulate legal products. Seems very point on. Your business must be safe for your employees. Or should you be allowed an unsafe workplace because it's private and people can choose to work there, or not? No one is arguing if you are over 18, that you can not smoke at home. YOUR business has to comply with US laws. YOUR business, must comply with ADA requirements, all license and regulatory issues. Why should smoking be different?

QUOTE(Heads22 @ May 7, 2007 -> 01:08 PM) My dad once had a cricket crawl into his ear, no joke. He was shaken by the incident. I swallowed a bee, was buzzed all day.

83 but I gave them all back . . .

QUOTE(Y2HH @ May 8, 2007 -> 08:47 AM) You still haven't told me where in the Constitution is our right to eat. Comes to my attention that some of us need to be told how much we have the right to eat because some obese people are clearly over-eating and killing themselves in about the same life shortening way as smokers... In a private establishment, the government shouldn't interfear with the use of LEGAL products, that is the fundamental problem with this. You are choosing to ignore the fact that tobacco is LEGAL, and you seem content/ok with the government telling you when you can and cannot use said legal product in your OWN ***private*** establishment. I'm not buying what you're selling me here. Next thing we know, the government will tell us what times of the day or night we can eat LEGAL foods in our own homes. You may be ok with that...but I'm not. Because that's called Communism. *YOU* called it unconstitutional (sic) I thought for it to be Unconstitutional, it would have to actually be in the Constitution. We regulate legal products all the time. Liquor is legal, but you can't drink in your car. Guns are legal, but you can't take them into banks. Private airplanes are legal, but there is restricted airspace. Playing music is legal but you can't blare it at 3 am. Taking a crap is legal, but you can't take a dump in the middle of a bar. Well, at least not the bars I go to. Driving 65 is legal in some places, not allowed in others. Nude dancing is legal in some bars, not others. Just because a business is private, doesn't mean it can ignore laws. I'm not ignoring it's legal, I've pointed out we regulate legal products all the time. And where do your freedoms and rights come from? Are they different than the freedoms and rights of someone who lives in Canada or Cuba?

QUOTE(NUKE @ May 8, 2007 -> 08:05 AM) That was our assessment as well. I'm becoming convinced it doesn't matter if we leave in six months or six years, they will fall back to life as usual and what they are comfortable and familiar.

QUOTE(Y2HH @ May 8, 2007 -> 08:20 AM) First, hiding behind the 'literal' intrepretation of the constitution is a weak way to argue. Does the consitution tell us what's safe or unsafe to eat? And since it doesn't, do we have no right to eat anything? See the way that works? And if you have the right to clean air, shouldn't I have the inverse right to dirty air, if I so choose? Oh, wait...I need to be more open minded, right? And as long as I agree with everything you say, then I'm free to do it? That's not how freedom works. Oh, and before you say something insane to counterpoint me like, "Ok then, should I have the right to shoot people randomly on the streets", let me clear something up. I have no problem with them banning smoking outdoors or in publically owned places...but telling a privatly owned establishment, like a bar, that smoking is banned is, IMO, unconstituational. You don't have to go there if you don't like smoke...but walking out in front of it to get from point A to point B is something different, entirely. I agree in that case you shouldn't have to deal with it...but nobody is forcing you to go inside, either. We protect workers and the public all the time from unsafe conditions. Asbestos, lead paint, lead in gas, auto emissions, etc. Why is smoking different? The evidence of health risks from second hand smoke has reached a critical mass where society can not ignore it anymore. Hiding behind a literal interpretation is weak? Objective evidence is far stronger than inference and freedoms by omission . And where in the Constitution is the right to smoke?

QUOTE(Y2HH @ May 8, 2007 -> 08:08 AM) I don't smoke and never have, and I don't like this law. Every freedom they take, even if they are freedoms we don't all agree with, is one we never get back. Think of it like the dominos of freedom falling. Next they will ban beer at the ballpark. Oh, and hotdogs are bad for you, too, let's ban those while we're at it. Meh. Don't we have a right to clean air? Did we take away the "freedom" of car owners to drive cars with poor emissions? Many parks already have non drinking sections. We have health inspectors to keep that hotdog safe. Should we have the freedom to make unsafe hotdogs? I don't understand the right to smoke anywhere, where is that in our constitution?

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QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 7, 2007 -> 07:01 AM) And this in a nutshell is why the rest of the world hates the New York Yankees. Everyone else has injury problems and they either dip into the minors or make a trade. The Yankees have injury problems and they spend $5 million A MONTH for a another pitcher. Be grateful they have to pay $5 mil for another pitcher. Let's pretend that all players were paid the same and could pick any franchise to play for. How many would like to play in Yankee pinstripes on the largest stage in the world? Hear the ghosts of a HoF lineup? Add to the 20 something WS titles? It would suck even more than it does now. Hell, the Cubs and their almost constant sell outs would attract more players than the Sox. And finally, isn't it cool when the greatest lineup money can buy loses? Look at wrestling, you need someone to be knocked off that perch. If baseball didn't have the Yankees, they would have to invent them.

If we waited to see what happens, this would be a very boring site. Part of being an avid fan is playing armchair GM, manager, hitting coach, etc. Like K-Dub, sometimes you are right, sometimes you are wrong.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 8, 2007 -> 06:18 AM) So nobody still cares about the people who practically do... IE the employees? I do. But most are probably illegals, so who cares? BTW, that is the best argument I've heard for smoking bans, it is where people work.

I doubt the story is true, but I will speculate. If my kids were out with one of my co workers and they encouraged my kids to do something unethical, immoral, etc. I'd have a little problem with that. BTW, it is a theory, it's possibly true. Not all theories are correct.

Illinois WI MN IN Ky TN Mississippi Missouri Michigan OK TX CA NC SC Georgia NM OH Penn NY Maine Vermont Florida NH Mass KS Iowa LA Alabama I am probably forgetting some.

"Just" Illinois? Bunch of whiners. Say Illinois proud! Illinois, now I'm from Texas, what country y'all from?

Small steps by everyone makes more of an impact than nitpicking a few people. Let's all applaud Bush, on vacation he rides a horse. I believe the environmental impact on a horse is better than any hybrid.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 7, 2007 -> 12:29 PM) Honestly, so do I. Because I think it'd be a great thing for these gigantic media conglomerates to realize that there's a huge potential cost to putting people like this on the airwaves. But there are reasons that contracts are pages and pages long. I'm guessing Imus' lawyer failed to mentioned the various parts of the contract that are not helping his client's cause.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ May 8, 2007 -> 12:16 AM) Last time I checked, I don't live in a bar. Cheers!

QUOTE(mmmmmbeeer @ May 7, 2007 -> 01:07 AM) Sooo...exactly what study are these guys using to deem second hand smoke so destructive? Or is it just the smell? I'm just not seeing the basis of this law. I suppose if you spent 4 hours a day in a 400sqft bar which is always packed with smokers, well, you may face a true quality of life violation...but the average person hitting the bar once or twice a week for a few hours, often in very large buildings with ventilation, doesn't exactly sound like a grave, even minuscule, danger. It's hilarious to me, you see a town a few years back claim that they were going smoke-free. Since that time, it's been a freakin' contest to see what town/city/state can come up with the newest "safety law" (blatantly abusing the constitution) to make the news and get their name on the map. And the sad part is that some of you selfish people are applauding this blatantly political move. Workers. They are there that often. And there have been lots and lots of studies, going back a few decades that show the negative effects. You are correct, it's the same people who make you wear a seatbelt, not speed, inspect elevators, inspect restaurants for health violations, enforce building codes, tell you what drugs will require a prescription, and all those other "safety laws". And of course it's the same people who wrote laws to keep you from playing your stereo loud enough for the whole neighborhood to enjoy at 3am, who stop you from painting a billboard on the side of your house, make you mow your lawn, and all that other b.s. I wonder why no one brings up the Constitutional right to cigarettes? Maybe it is because there isn't one? There is plenty of legal precedent that polluting the air isn't protected, but the right to clean air is? We generally protect the rights of the person who isn't harming anyone or anything over the rights of the person creating the nuisance.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ May 6, 2007 -> 08:44 PM) Aren't dogs a man's best friend? American dogs are man's best friend, not Iraqi dogs . . .

mixed bag. I thought rowand sucked last season.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ May 6, 2007 -> 08:35 PM) "We called in EOD to blow it and then raided the house where the wire led back to. Nobody was home except for a dog ( which we shot ) so we turned the place upside down. The command wire led to a breaker switch. We took video of it and then destroyed it with our shotgun. After that, we exfilled the area and returned to base." This disturbed me a bit. boys will be boys . . .

I was just thinking, and two lazy to research, but how have players like Rowand, Olivo. etc. done after they leave Walker's tutelage? I'm trying to think of the position players who have left. If Walker sucks, theory states the players should show the immediate improvement that some of y'all think will happen.

f*** owners. I love it when a player has the owner over the barrel.

Once again we seem to be trying to help a country who doesn't want to help themselves or us. It that scenario, no matter what we do, when we leave it's chaos all over again.