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Maybe someone needs to sing the alphabet song?

Jim, that is a fine documentary.

Hello again, I've been away for a while. FYI, education systems suck.

Different seasons, same results

QUOTE (scenario @ Sep 27, 2009 -> 01:18 PM) The more I think about it, the more I believe Ozzie's little outburst was simply him venting after a bad game at the end of a disappointing season. I don't think the fact that there were TVs on and people watching football had much to do with anything. If it wasn't this, he would have found something else to blow up about. ding ding ding! Great point.

QUOTE (bobryansson @ Sep 27, 2009 -> 12:14 PM) but I think I would be so pissed about going from 5-0 up to lose 12-5 that I'd say something to the effect of, "I don't want to hear that football "stuff,"" and turn it off myself. I agree with almost your entire post and I agree with others that believe the players on the field owe it to the fans to play hard the entire game. I disagree that a player has to be pissed for very long after the game. It is a long, 162 game season, and even in the best of times, there will be 70 loses. Imagine coming home pissed from work 125 days out of the year? (I'm comparing 50 weeks of work to a baseball season). That is probably not how to remain confident and focused for a season or a career.

better cancel da evening, family going home instead.

And my opinion could really change based on who was involved. Perhaps someone like AJ should set a better example, but yo question his competitiveness would be crazy.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 27, 2009 -> 09:51 AM) Obviously you paid no money to watch last night's game. The people who did deserve a better effort, and if you are so unmoved by getting embarrassed that you can't wait to watch a college football game, I hope they find the door for you. This is a player's job. I don't know who was watching games and Konerko's quote that the TVs were already on, indicate to me that the players actually had them on during last night's game as many are in the clubhouse during the game. Perhaps its being blown out of proportion a little bit, but Ozzie has every right to be pissed off. I prefer guys that hate to lose myself, not guys who say, well we can't win so who cares. I hope incidents like this help management weed out the riff raff. You make a lot of great points. But I will stand by my thought that I would rather have a guy that plays 100% when there is something to play for then drops to 50% after the team is eliminated, than some guy that plays 80% all the time. And of course we all want guys that play 100% all the time, but I really do not believe there are that many guys like that. Plus, who knows maybe a few guys in management have bets on the Twin winning the division.

In no particular order . . . There was strong support around here for the team to shut down almost every player with any value to avoid injury, see what the youngsters can do, etc. While it may be a nice indicator of the competitiveness of the players, some of these guys we already know how competitive they are, especially when there is something to really compete for. So to label, for example, PK or AJ as quitters is an awful stretch. I prefer a player who is competitive when there is something to actually win, then lays down, over a player who is the same half ass all the time. Young players better be all out all the time. Games are won on the field.

My father married a pure Cherokee My mother's people were ashamed of me The indians said I was white by law The White Man always called me "Indian Squaw"

Zoolander was only funny in spots.

QUOTE (son of a rude @ Sep 26, 2009 -> 01:06 PM) f***ing ridiculous. People who use aesthetics as a reason for not wanting wind turbines are just f***ing selfish. If these could be built, it would do wonders for the environment and is renewable, but you want a good view over lake michigan. ridiculous. What are lake shore Condos selling for? If you owned an asset worth $750,000 that would drop to $600,000, how happy would you be? It may be selfish, but people don't want their property values to decline. There are some real hardships in owning real estate that is declining in value.

QUOTE (knightni @ Sep 26, 2009 -> 03:40 PM) This I almost replied with that same joke. OMG, I might start repeating myself like the old guys around here, BigEd and FlaSoxxJim.

Eventually the guy will throw the ball away. What a shame. The guy should have hit his first home run at home in front of the home fans

Wondering what you googled to find that hit

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 26, 2009 -> 11:56 AM) are they like, big obnoxious turbines? Because I thought about how many birds get caught up in those things and started laughing at the thought of it raining dead birds all over the lawn. No, three blade, maybe 30 feet tall. This happens to be the premier place in the US for birding, so we take our feathered friends seriously.

The sun beaming down between the leaves (Grazin' in the grass is a gas, baby, can you dig it) And the bir-ir-ir-irds dartin' in and out of the trees (Grazin' in the grass is a gas, baby, can you dig it) Everything here is so clear, you can see it And everything here is so real, you can feel it And it's real, so real, so real, so real, so real, so real

scuz' me while I kiss this guy* *FlaSoxxJim version, used my permission™

But please realize you'll probably be surprised For it's the land unknown to man Where fantasy is fact So if you can, please understand You might not come back

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When i'm sixty-four.

http://www.valleylakes.us/pdf/Windy%20Futu...-Oct%202008.pdf It seems some of the articles I am finding are to pay for content. If you search Los Fresnos Texas wind power / turbine / etc. the articles should appear.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 26, 2009 -> 08:55 AM) would love to see a pic http://www.valleymorningstar.com/articles/...mainstream.html

Map of pipelines. Green is oil, red is gas. And they extend from here all the way to the east coast and on up to you Yankees, so don't f*** with us or we'll flip the valve and shut y'all off.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 25, 2009 -> 11:14 PM) bigsqwert how would you expect those turbines to connect to any sort of grid? We have pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico, hundreds of miles of them, actually, thousands of miles of them, so getting the power will not be that difficult, it is actually easier than working on land permits. We have a new housing development going in down here that will feature a turbine at every house. The cost is about $10,000 after rebates and such with what is projected to be a 9 year ROI. Currently there is a small manufactured home that sits at what will be the entrance and it has one already running.