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QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Aug 29, 2006 -> 02:16 PM) Dell... enjoy your call to India When I was having a problem with my home network, a call to Linksys in India was the best group I worked with. Even after they knew it wasn't their product they continued to help. Screw Time Warner (Roadrunner) HP, and Microsoft. (It was a Microsoft update that was f***ing up HP computers.)

You have to look at the second team in the wild card standing to know what it took. A team may have taken the wild card with 98 wins, but if the runner up only had 89 then it actually took 90.

TX Hutchison (R, I) 55% Radnofsky (D) 37% I have watched her and I do like Hutchinson. She seems to be well informed (great staffers). Of course I disagree with many of her votes, but by election time will probably vote for her reelection. We know what a softy I am for GOPerheads

Mark is the team leader. He has got to find his old form and fast.

While getting to the playoffs shouldn't be a requirement, it does weigh in the voter's minds. With guys this close, and a strong argument could be made for all of them, guys who are watching the playoffs will not be given consideration over guys who are playing. So JD, pray for some pitching.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Aug 29, 2006 -> 12:43 PM) That article is amazing. It is rare that an article could totally change my opinion. It does seem like they are being unfairly singled out.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 29, 2006 -> 09:05 AM) Joe Borchard? He was a good kid, and he got us Thornton Yeah him. I forgot his name.

The practice is illegal in most countries, although it seems strange any society would offer more protection to a dog than say a cow or pig. I'm not certain why Asians have become the brunt of these jokes. It could be that with the meat cut up it would seem easy to substitute one type of meat for another. http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/chinese.htm http://www.snopes.com/critters/edibles/tourist.htm

The other thing that uniforms do is put every student on a level playing field. They all dress the same and it is difficult to tell the poor kids from the rish kids. It also helps to create school identity and school spirit. I was initially against uniforms, but came around when my kids attended a school that tried to enforce a uniform program.

QUOTE(UC76 @ Aug 29, 2006 -> 11:46 AM) Hopefully, the Sox will have already clinched the division by then and the game will be meaningless anyway. Then we won't be missing much. I'm thinking positive. clinch the division, I think you are testing positive. Maybe the wildcard . . . in hell for the division

QUOTE(mu mu @ Aug 29, 2006 -> 11:40 AM) "True performance levels?" Is it mandatory that every player have the same statistical year, every year? Are better statistical years always due to good luck, and worse statistical years always bad luck, and median statistical years, no luck was involved? It's really just semantics, and means nothing, there is no such thing as luck. Replace "luck" with "chance" or "the abundance of random events helping not hurting the performance". I believe sometimes a player does get "lucky". A ball hits a door hinge and caroms away from and not towards a fielder. A fan reaches across the wall and gives the batter another chance. An umpire makes a homerun call when it wasn't. That can drectly result in a W instead of a L. Easy to see that happen for a game. Perhaps some players are in the right place at the right time to benefit from these random events more often than others. Watching a team you get a feel for some guys just always having good things happening and others have bad luck following them. I think both cases are magnified by the attitude of the player. Some guys "make their own luck". QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 29, 2006 -> 11:45 AM) ^ Soxtalk irony I discovered, after extensive research, that I agree with every baseball genious and disagree with all the baseball idiots. Amazingly enough, that same discovery was made by thousands of other soxtalk posters , go figure

currently the majority of this board rate the team's chances at ZERO, and we b**** that a computer comes up with 40%

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 29, 2006 -> 10:32 AM) It's CRITICAL that we get through the hurricane season unscathed. Having said that, I say in the next two weeks, something ugly is going to happen geopolitically, and Iran will be right in the middle of it, because they need to prop the prices higher again. I passed by one of the offshore rig repair facilities and they are still crowded with work. That would indicate to me we are still behind in production.

I remember the outrage that one nursing home did not evacuate and that elderly people drown when the floods came. I also remember at the time the feeling that the owners were inhuman idiots who should be charged with murder. After reading an article in Esquire this month, I am inclined to disagree. The defense in a nutshell. Gov. Blanco turned over legal responsibility for evacuation to transportation sect'y Bradberry even though there was no plan in place. The state turned down patient evacuation assistance from the Federal Government, like the nursing home owners did to the state. Only 21 of 57 nursing homes evacuated 35 of the 200 patients that died, were at this one nursing home. St.Rita's nursing home was unscathed by the storm, it was the failure f the levy that caused the deaths The levy failing resulted in 1,500 deaths, not just these 35. It also turns out the story that a survivor called for five days for help and none arrived, was a lie. By accounts this was one of the best run nursing homes in the area. I have never had my opinion changed so quickly by "the rest of the story" http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2...ved_Ones_1.html

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So is it back to the family did it? I still say we should lock that creepy dude up for the stuff we didn't catch him doing.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 02:26 PM) Nobody is going to say, "this sport is dirty." If he's calling for testing, then he's ::winkwink:: saying it. It might not be sterioids as the performance enhancing drugs. John Daley came out ten years ago and talked about how half the tour was on beta blockers, and not all of these guys could have high blood pressure. Beter performance through chemistry.

Makes me forget about the last guy we had out in right . . .

Oops. Good opening though.

Better the first day of school.

This is an intersting crossroads. Telling people they can not rebuild in their neighborhood doesn't seem right, but the alternative, houses without infrastructure doesn't work either. I can see why a master plan hasn't been finalized in a year. Could you imagine the infighting that must be occuring? Where would you rebuild in Chicago first? Gold Coast? Southside, Westside, Downtown?

Last night I moved to the dark side. I will not be excited until the team shows a glimmer of hope. I'm not "out" but I am no longer solidly in the playoff bound category.

When a Pollo Loco opens in your neighborhood, rejoice and be glad. I can't say more.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 11:32 PM) Seeing a brief minute of an old Queer Eye episode the other day, this guy had hideous feet and got a pedicure, they said he had "Country Toes". Why the hell don't we have a forum, Grooming Tips by Rex? Maybe we could bring back Mercy!

When geese fly in a "V" formation, there will always be one side of the "V" that is longer than the other. The reason for this is it has more geese.