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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 23, 2010 -> 01:33 PM) Also, global temperatures continue their steady rise: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article....ates-new-normal 106 today. Still no global warming jokes. Or even "it's all a scam" rants. I'm disappointed.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 24, 2010 -> 05:25 PM) I'd hate to see the cold hand. See: Chicago White Sox, April-May 2010

I like that widget except when I'm using Soxtalk on the phone because it jumps down after I think it's finished loading.

QUOTE (ICP! @ Jul 24, 2010 -> 11:33 AM) lostfan, whats with all the angryblackmanitis going around ? It is so frustrating for us white guys to deal with. lolwut?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 24, 2010 -> 05:00 PM) He DOES have that power, but it would have been stupid. But for you to say it's not his policy now is like blaming Bush on everything bad happening now. Oh, wait. lol. Cmon kap. Your reading comprehension is better than this.

He doesn't have the power to walk right out of Iraq. People like to think that when it's convenient but he doesn't and never did. It's physically impossible. He never said he was going to leave Afghanistan. Ever. Unless Dick Cheney is a credible source of information.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Jul 24, 2010 -> 12:52 AM) He's doing a signing at TTS in Mokena tomorrow, too. Speaking of which, a friend of mine tried to say he's the 4th best QB in this division? Really? Behind 2-win-60-QB-rating Matthew Stafford, too? No way. I think Cutler will have a better year in 2010 (26 TD's-17 INT's) and they'll end with 10 wins. From the sound of things, Forte looks fantastic. I saw a guy on ESPN Insider say Cutler and Martz are going to fail together (citing how Martz hasn't had a top 10 offense with the Rams, ignoring that Martz gets hired by teams who have s***ty offenses because they have s***ty offenses). He called Cutler the worst-ever free agent QB acquisition though. So I'm wondering why he thinks people should assume he knows what he's going to talk about.

QUOTE (hi8is @ Jul 24, 2010 -> 03:42 PM) What's the name of the program kind sir? I have a program called JLC's Internet TV. There's probably better ones though you can find in CNET.

QUOTE (hi8is @ Jul 24, 2010 -> 03:31 PM) Anyone know if there is some crazy hacker like place online which would allow us to watch the game?? You probably can download a tv for pc program from somewhere like CNET that does pirated broadcast streams digitally (you can watch Houston's NBC affiliate in Miami for example). It's not illegal because it's a public broadcast. That's how I watch some NFL games.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jul 24, 2010 -> 03:26 PM) That made for such an awesome f***ing picture though. I remember I had a bottle of beer at my computer and I did a spit-take at the monitor.

QUOTE (Cali @ Jul 24, 2010 -> 03:24 PM) I'd like to add to the f*** FOX sentiment... Is there ever a chance they change these s***ty blackout rules ANYTIME soon? Freddy is the day time hopefully = win I've been b****ing about it for years.

Greg, seriously leave it alone. You're actually toeing the line really close right now.

I don't remember Owens getting ripped either except for having a weak arm. He didn't get the best jumps but obviously he had plenty of speed to cover for it. Macowiak was awful, may as well have had Jermaine Dye in CF. Erstad, actually, used to get ripped pretty unfairly for his CF defense although this was before I started posting here (I was at WSI). Erstad was terrible at the plate, and at that point should not have been starting over Anderson, but his defense in CF was pretty good except for that one really embarrassing play where the ball he lost in the lights that fell 20 feet behind him (too small a sample size for UZR to really be useful, but it was 31.5 that year).

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Jul 24, 2010 -> 09:24 AM) I actually noticed there was no winner thread about 20 minutes after the game. I thought about starting one, but didn't want to jinx anything (yes, I'm that superstitious) since I hadn't made one the entire year. Good win almost all around. Blame it on being a West Coast game. God I hate those.

Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

This reminds me of when Wise said "keep booing me" last year while striking out in like half of his at-bats.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 23, 2010 -> 10:14 PM) Ozzie's hands are tied. Who would possibly dare leave Kotsay out of the lineup the way he's played this year? Talk about clutch. The clutch he forgot to press and is why he's unable to shift out of first gear

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 23, 2010 -> 08:14 PM) This one counselor at a camp I went to this summer thought he was so clever bringing up federal spending to slam Dems, yet he refused to acknowledge the fact that it was largely based on Republican policies. The Dems are pretty horses*** with handling money most of the time but saying anything further than this is like talking to a brick wall.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 23, 2010 -> 07:52 PM) The results, however, speak for themselves. He's taken a batch of s*** offensive players and leads the division with them. That has a lot to do with pitching more than it does anything else. There is no justifiable defense for having Kotsay on the roster in favor of a better hitter in for any reason whatsoever.

f*** these West Coast games.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Jul 23, 2010 -> 07:24 PM) There's no defending a lot of lineups decisions Ozzie has made this year. It's like he's taken a golden shower on every piece of research about rational lineup construction ever published. That's Ozzie in a nutshell.

This is hilarious. I'm going to use this next time someone starts trying to paint me into a corner with manufactured stereotypes. The writer left out the part about the baby-killing though. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/7/23/88...th-a-Republican

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 23, 2010 -> 12:03 PM) <!--quoteo(post=2214717:date=Jul 21, 2010 -> 03:59 PM:name=lostfan)-->QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 21, 2010 -> 03:59 PM) <!--quotec-->This video brings the funny. I think everyone knows somebody like this. Wasn't this posted here when it came out about 3 weeks ago? Was it? I don't remember.

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Jul 23, 2010 -> 11:56 AM) well its also a mathematical exageration too. people who want to make the case that Obama has increased our deficit 3x that of Bush, are taking Obama's budget (which includes the 2 wars) and comparing it against Bush's budget (which did not include the 2 wars). I've read someplace, and I would need to google search it to get more info, that 2 biggest causes in the multiplication of the deficit are (1) The reduction in government tax receipts due to the recession and (2) The whole Obama includes wars and Bush doesn't calc. (3) was the stimulus spending. Stimulus and other things that are mandated that has nothing to do with the president in office at the time. Anyway yeah that's mostly true. It's really not that complicated and the idea that Obama came in office and blew up the deficit is absurd on its face. That's not how the federal budget works from year to year. The screaming over the 2009 budget was funny to because that was still Bush's budget which despite 2 years of Dem control of Congress was on a trajectory largely set on by Republican policies (Dems didn't really do anything and if they did Bush would've vetoed it so I'm not really listening to anybody who wants to lie about how they remember things. Hell, Sarah Palin said it in her convention speech and I bet they cheered or fist-pumped that line.), mostly the tax cuts and the wars. This is not so much assigning blame or pointing fingers as it is just stating things how they happened.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 22, 2010 -> 11:00 PM) This isn't a party thing. It's a budget issue. Let's cut... cut what, when you have to spend to maintain your budget? That's the mindset, and has been for 50 years. They won't cut s***, that's the point. As the budget gets more bloated every year, of course it's the same percentage of the economy as it was 50 years ago, but it's 500 times larger. Weee have a problem that no one wants to face, and we've done more in the last 24 months (note that, for those who want to make this partisan) to damage s*** then in the first 224 years of this country. I've already said this before, among other things (kind of why I don't want to go into this again). Not every dime the government spends is a waste of money or really actually matters or is worth getting mad about in the context of the big picture, and I don't really have the energy to argue over stuff like that.