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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 26, 2010 -> 04:21 PM) This tells me that FOX is a much more savvy company than CBS. I know it's a better way to make money, it's still really annoying to watch. That's pretty much all the NFL is anymore, a giant revenue/hype machine.

Voter registration fraud ≠ voter fraud. I could register my penis to vote but if I pulled it out at the school I vote on election day and try to make it vote I'd still get arrested and probably have to register as a sex offender.

When I watch broadcasts of AFC games on CBS it makes me realize how much I hate Fox broadcasts with its blatant and shameless self-promotion of its programming every 5 minutes.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 26, 2010 -> 03:58 PM) Yes. No manager can win with crap talent. I think this team had some talent, some awful baseball players/pitchers as well. Translation: Managers in MLB are relatively easy to replace

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Sep 26, 2010 -> 02:18 PM) Ah, I was not aware of the impeachment angle. From what I heard it was a guy who completely changes his worldview at the drop of a hat and decides that the best way for him to enact change is to leave his position as *most powerful judge in the country*. Nah they go into it, they at least tried to explain it instead of just making it random. It's still kinda silly though.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Sep 25, 2010 -> 08:27 PM) This is one of the worst show premises ever. If you can get past the utter ridiculousness of Sam Alito stepping down because he had a personal revelation about the American legal system and that he was also about to get impeached for getting in gambling trouble, and that the main character seems to randomly pick liberal and conservative views, the show isn't really that bad.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Sep 24, 2010 -> 04:44 PM) BTW, it's been reported Joakim was offered 5 years/57 million a few weeks ago, and was none too happy about it. Apparently, he's looking for max money, or at least what Bynum got. The reported figure when the story first drop was higher for the initial offer. He's out of his mind if that's true.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 25, 2010 -> 06:11 PM) The point is, and always has been, you don't need to call people names to have a discussion. Calling people stupid, dumb, retarded, etc, isn't having a discussion. It is not allowed here. That is not negotiable. And please don't pretend like that was the first place you did this. Go back and read the rest of the thread again if you don't understand. That or saying "Well I can't call you ignorant but seriously you don't know a motherf***ing thing and I wonder how you passed the 3rd grade with that brain" doesn't really count either.

NBC has a new TV show "Outlaw" where the basic idea behind it is an uber-conservative Supreme Court justice steps down for various reasons and becomes a trial lawyer. Anyway it had a "ripped from the headlines" case on it on Friday's episode where a cop gets involved with a Hispanic suspect that he was required by law to stop, he asks the guy for ID and he gets belligerent because he is a US citizen and the cop ends up shooting (but not killling) him 3 times. I don't want to summarize the whole plot though in case you watch it.

Hurt you're going like way too far with it, farther than anyone else will go.

He was a decent player overall but he was epic horses*** as a hitter.

QUOTE (TheBigHurt @ Sep 23, 2010 -> 07:15 PM) Holy s***. Thanks for putting that into perspective for me well enough for me to really grasp the concept. WOW... As far as Ozzie being likable (the only point in the quote I felt was even worth anything)... I dunno. On the fence there. I think he USED to be... I dunno about now. Once you start s***ting on your fans, I don't think "likable" is the word I'd use anymore. In defense of Ozzie's hitting stats he played during the time before the steroid era really took hold and the SS didn't usually put up good offensive numbers, they'd hit 8th or 9th and were there for their defense.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 23, 2010 -> 04:48 PM) Once again that is one example of a decision out of many during a game. The question is, what is it that you actually want from a manager? What would be your sucecss criteria? You understand saying "a guy that doesnt do dumb s*** like this one time something happened bad" isnt actually explaining your viewpoint. Either is "he does THAT regularly". How regularly? How many times has that happened? If you can remember each time, then it really didnt happen that often, its just that you remembered a particular instance because it upset you personally. Personally, I dont think a manager has all that much influence on a game, in fact the good ones you never notice. I am of the frame of mind that the players do the actual work while the manager takes the blame for when they dont. This. Usually I think it's easier for a manager to be noticed f***ing up than not f***ing up but generally managers in baseball are really overrated. It's not like the NFL or the NBA where they can make the difference between a below .500 team and a playoff team because of certain strategies and schemes.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 23, 2010 -> 02:58 PM) He was not a terrible hitter. He swings at everything much like Tank. He was a decent hitter and a good baseball player. He's also a damn good manager. Whatever team he goes to I will start to follow and root for No. 2 behind the Sox. Guillen is very likeable. The dude has a career OPS+ of 68. That is legendary bad. 100 is average and he was never close to average in any given year. Actually since that's for Ozzie's whole career which means that for half the time, he was actually worse than that. He was a fantastic fielder and usually had respectable batting averages but he never walked and he almost made Juan Pierre look like a power hitter. I wasn't that old but I definitely remember this. To put this in perspective, there is 32 points between 68 and 100. Going the other way, a career OPS+ of 132 (the point I'm making in the difference between an average hitter and Ozzie) is usually approaching Hall of Fame territory (and for a middle infielder you're a shoo-in). Derek Jeter is 118, Cal Rikpen was 112, Ryne Sandberg was 114... Joe Mauer is 136, Ken Griffey Jr was 135, Alex Rodriguez and Jim Thome are 145 and 147. To put it further in perspective, Brian Anderson has a career OPS+ OF 69. One point better than Ozzie.

yeah I love this type of s***, always hilarious.

I saw someone had carved "BICTH" in a park bench once. Whoever spelled this sign wrong missed it by a hair.

Urlacher needs to start f***ing Kim then (seems like that would be his type)

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Sep 21, 2010 -> 06:21 PM) If Ozzie doesn't like the way the media operates in Chicago then he can follow his own advice and gtfo. How many times has Ozzie basically asked or challenged management to fire him?

Jupiter is visible tonight, and probably tomorrownight, to the left of the moon. You can't miss it, it's really bright like Venus and there's nothing else in the vicinity that's as bright.

15 things to like about the school in my crotch. In layman's terms you would call this a "fail."

Bullocks was probably going to get cut before Wright's hamstring injury

Someone forgot to tell the 49ers they're supposed to look helpless and that they should be getting blown out by now, it's still looking like a game.

QUOTE (Brian @ Sep 20, 2010 -> 09:10 PM) And hwo do you call Brandon Jennings overrated? Rookie year takes his franchise to the playoffs and revitalizes it. That is awful writing. Who is talking about Brandon Jennings like he's the next big thing anyway? Joe Johnson and Chris Bosh are overrated but it's like everybody knows it so it's a moot point.

Stupid, stupid article here if you want something to laugh at. Yahoo writer has Rose and Durant as the 1st and 2nd most overrated players on his list. http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ac-6753654

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 20, 2010 -> 06:10 PM) I feel amazed that this hasn't become a bigger story. Jeff Passan was harping on it a couple times earlier this year (like Kalapse has said a few times, Passan is an awesome writer)