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OMG, I'm being sucked into the BeGood vortex, I'm responding to two of his threads in one week. Must try and get out of the spell can't look any more

Shouldn't this be in the Sport's Bar or is this Sex, Lies, or Politics[/color]

right but who do you think released it? My theory is someone has a copy, probably within Em's group, and the peon gets pissed and calls company B and says hey how would you like a copy of Em rapping about liking the president dead? They snatch it up and release it. I don't see Em wanting this released. Notice it only gets those people who don't care for Em upset. His hardcore, loyal not matter what, followers will continue to support him. In fact it may increase his street cred.

How can you automatically say that one conference can never have the two best teams in the nation? By limiting the championship game to conference champs only we are saying before they play a single down that no two teams from the same conference can be 1-2 in the nation. Does that make sense logically? It also then makes the assumption that, for example, the winner of the MAC is a stronger team, more worthy of national title hopes, than say Ohio, Texas, or Oklahoma. You just eliminated mid conferences from your equation. Why does the NCAA invite more than 1 team from some conferences into the basketball tourny? Could it be they recognize that the second place team in a conference may be the best team in the nation? How many times have we seen the winner of a b-ball conference tourny is seeded lower than another team in their conference?

Heads, did you have a doe only permit? Does Illinois still have multiple seasons based on weapon? Interesting thing down here that surprised me at first. When I was is Illinois, it was always possible to find a landowner willing to let you hunt theirland for free or a small cost (meat, work, etc.) In Texas with all this scrub brush, nohing on it land, deer leases are big bucks (no pun intended). A decent lease will run you $2,000 and up. Makes venison a bit pricy. Nice doe

Do you get to the island at all?

It would be a bad idea if the BCS limited teams in the championship game to just conference winners and here's why: First off you have eliminated the possibility that the top two teams in the country could be in the same conference. The Big 12 and the Big 10 both have 2 teams in the top 6 or 8 this season. It is theoretically possible, if not probable, that someday two teams from the same conference could finish 1-2 in the country. In NCAA basketball they do not put every team from the same conference into the same bracket. It is possible the championship game could be with two teams from the same conference. One of course would not be the conference champion. If the NCAA went to a 8 team playoff and you believe that conference champions only should be eligible to play for the title you would have to toss out Texas and Oklahoma, both top 8 teams. Ohio State would also get tossed. That's 3 of the top 8 out of the playoffs. Would you take the winner of the MAC most years over the 2nd place Big 10 team? Looking back I couldn't see a year that made sense. In prosports you would eliminate the wild card and the Marlins would not be the WS Champs. College football will always have subjective rankings. There is no feasible way to have a 64 team tourney so someone or something (computers) will have to rank subjective factors like quality of wins, quality of schedule, etc. to determine the champions.

And you took it as well as you dished it. This is what quality board posting is all about. While I'm not a fan of rap, I did buy The Eminem Show. Very good cd.

One day, while working in Mexico, I wish I knew how to say liver. I loaded up a tortilla, added some salsa, thinking it was bistek. Two chews later I discovered it was liver and I hate liver.

LMAO

Definately. Remember the Rio Grande Valley is 80+% Hispanic. I'm the minority. Especially since I can't seem to learn enough espanol beside cerveza, taquilla, nachos, etc.

The BCS replaced a worse system. USC would be locked into playing the Big Ten Champion in the Rose Bowl which, except by a miracle, would never have the top 2 teams in the nation. The BCS needs to be tweeked. The best rule I can think of is if the Coaches and Writers both agree on the #1 and #2 then they play, regardless of the computer rankings. Oklahoma was down for 6 minutes the entire season leading up to the Kansas Game. The computers didn't regard losing to Kansas as bad as losing to Cal.

Poor BeGood, he tries a nice holiday thread and gets this

No, that would have been better than the Oklahoma tree. We make a lot of money from Mexico in Texas. Mexican Nationals spend over $10,000,000 per year in McAllen. More than they spend in San Diego, Vegas, Chicago, or New York. No returns for the retail stores, no "just shopping". They arrive with $$$ and intend on spending it all before they leave.

Prostitutes Rally for Brothel Legislation Mon Dec 8,12:34 PM ET ATHENS, Greece - About 50 prostitutes marched to Parliament Monday to protest a government decision to withdraw legislation that would have made it easier for brothels to operate in Athens during the Aug. 13-29 Olympics. AP Photo Reuters Slideshow: 2004 Olympics "We will protest," Dimitra Kanellopoulou, head of the Movement of Greek Prostitutes, told The Associated Press. "Those who persevere win. They cannot decide for us, without us." Prostitution is legal and highly regulated in Greece, but only in state-licensed brothels. The bill, which was a key demand of unions representing Greek prostitutes, was withdrawn in late November after discussions between Socialist Premier Costas Simitis and Parliament Speaker Apostolos Kaklamanis. It would have eased restrictions in a 1999 law that sets strict rules on the location of bordellos. Prostitutes accused the government of trying to enforce the legislation to clean up the capital ahead of the Olympic next summer and demanded that it be changed. Closing legal brothels, prostitutes have said, would feed the illegal sex trade before the Olympics. "We demand our right to work and to our dignity," the prostitutes said in a statement handed to a parliament official. "More than 7,000 women who are licensed to work are being hassled and abused daily." Under the current law, Athens' mix of residential and commercial zones makes almost any area off-limits to brothels. The Greek Orthodox church and other groups were opposed to the new legislation, which would have allowed bordellos to operate closer to public buildings such as schools, churches, and daycare centers. Prostitutes — mostly linked to state-sanctioned brothels — have staged dozens of protests in recent months demanding that authorities back off enforcement of the 1999 law. They now promise to stage more demonstrations. "We will not sit with our arms crossed," they shouted outside parliament. Before the bill was withdrawn, Deputy Interior Minister Nikos Bistis had pleaded for its immediate approval because of its connection to the Olympics. Kaklamanis' office has indicated the bill would not be presented to the unicameral body during its current session, which ends when elections are held next spring.

Not using a TEXAS tree. He would have been in trouoble with a Oregon or Wisconsin tree. An Oklahoma tree would of had him thrown out of office.

Did you google that or is that from your giant depository of trivial knowledge?

Plastic Christmas Tree Shakes Texas Politics Mon Dec 8,10:11 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo! DALLAS (Reuters) - The speaker of the Texas House of Representatives is under fire and having his Lone Star State pride questioned, all because he decorated the House floor with a giant made-in-China plastic Christmas tree. The state's tree growers are up in arms and crying 'Bah Humbug' over the 15-foot polyvinyl chloride tree that Speaker Tom Craddick, a Republican from the west Texas town of Midland, had installed on the House floor. They have supplied the State House with free trees and are ready to bring in a Texas-grown tree to replace the plastic model. "I think people can deduce for themselves about what it means to have a plastic Christmas tree from China in the Texas State House," said Lanny Dreesen, a spokesman for the Texas Christmas Tree Growers Association. Texas Christmas tree growers produce about 150,000 trees a year and Dreesen said the trees are crops that are grown for the sole purpose of being harvested for the holidays. There has been a real Texas tree on the House floor for over 20 years. The Christmas tree in question is a top-of-the-line plastic model that came with 3,500 lights and a retail price of $3,400. It looks like an Oregon fir and was donated to Nadine Craddick, the speaker's wife, by a store in Austin. "It is a beautiful tree. It is well decorated and it is really hard to tell the difference," said Bob Richter, spokesman for the House speaker. Maintenance crews at the House are happy about the plastic model because they do not have to clean up pine needles or fend off the occasional bug. "It is like a dirty little secret. A lot of people are using artificial trees now," Richter said.

Oops. In my parish they would of had a hard time rounding up all the videos

On the six day of Christmas my true love gave to me 6 WS WS games (4 won by the White Sox) I still like the 1 spel chek Hmmm World Series and White Sox both have WS initials. Could this be why we haven't won in a few years?

I know I wish I had unlimted ability to delete some of my posts.

Em is getting hosed a bit here IMHO. Even thought I believe it was monumentaly stupid and wrong to record those lyrics, all he has to say is he was considering this song and recorded it for review but he immediately decided against it and had no plans to release it. He could even continue and say that he disagrees with the president on X, Y, and Z I was already a fan but have some new respect for him that he never denied the lyrics were his. I believe some artists would have tried the "I didn't say that" first.

Using that logic losing to a team rated 100 in the US in week 9 isn't as bad as losing to a top 3 team the last week? How far you drop is based on a lot of things. If OU dropped this game in week one we wouldn't be having this discussion. Who you lose to is also important. I dislike comparing "quality of loss" as much as I dislike defending OU. I see a bunch of 1 loss teams. If I had a ballot for the top two teams this season I would select USC and OU over the course of the entire season. The two hottest teams right now are USC and LSU. But the game should be sleected based on the entire season not the last 1 or 2 weeks. Regardless, these are subjective rankings. Either subjective by the checkmarks made by writers and coaches or subjective based on programmers determination of how different factors should be handled. One thought on playoffs. If we have a 4 or 8 team playoff the contriversy will still rage just who should be #4,5 or who should be #8

Which brings up a very good thought and some defense to Eminem. While it may have been unwise to record these lyrics, shouldn't there be some leeway for his private thoughts? We all have said things in private that we wouldn't have wanted to be made public. Ask Dr. Laura about photos. I usually dismiss most conspiracy theories, but in the world of rap, I smell a rat. Purely a guess on my part but I would not be surprised if a rival record company had these for a while waiting for the award show nominations to come out and hurt Em's chances for Grammies, etc.

If winning your conference is so important why have ranking throughout the year? Those that complain that OU didn't win their conference, are you saying they should be ranked behind every conference winner? For example Miami won the MAC, are they a better team than OU? Would you also argue that it should be impossible for the two best teams in the nation to be from the same conference? No other sport requires you to win your last regular season game to be in the playoffs. The Bowls are the playoffs in NCAA football. OU is clearly one of the top two teams this season.