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QUOTE (kapkomet @ May 27, 2009 -> 09:32 AM) Candidly, I have a hard time with your comment, because you know damn well this pick was for exactly the reasons you're questioning. This was a wedge pick by Obama, he knows it, the GOP knows it, and she'll get through it without much of a fight - and it has VERY LITTLE to do with "qualifications". That's all true to an extent but you completely missed my point, I wasn't even attempting to go there.

QUOTE (BearSox @ May 27, 2009 -> 10:11 AM) You need some glasses than cause they look nothing alike. Their stances, approach, and swings are very different. Read what you wrote again

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 27, 2009 -> 10:05 AM) As I said, they both suck. So you are washed up at 25 because you got to the big leagues sooner, but 26 there's still a learning curve. Gotcha. I'd bet $1 million if KW was offered Chris Young straight up for Josh Fields right now he'd do it. You didn't even read my post, just went straight for the blanket assumptions my post was actually in response to. That's pretty awesome. I've never been a big Josh Fields guy btw, my opinion of him is the same opinion I have of any struggling young player (let him play, and sink or swim).

QUOTE (BearSox @ May 27, 2009 -> 10:06 AM) Tell me how Nix does not have a better approach than Nix. Please tell me. From watching them, they look like two complete opposites. Please tell me what Nix is doing wrong at bat. They look exactly the same to me.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 27, 2009 -> 09:43 AM) So raise your hands if you though the Sox would take the first two games of this series... I'm not going to say I would've predicted it, but the Sox tend to play well in Anaheim.

Why does Japan need them if we have them? Don't we have a defense pact with Japan?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 27, 2009 -> 08:15 AM) What is really weird is how you defend Josh Fields every chance you get but rip this guy. They have basically been the same offensive player in the major leagues except Young runs better and plays better defense and is younger. They both suck, but why would Young's stats at this point be tell-tale, at least so important you have to make a thread about it, and Fields' stats mean very little? Again, Young is a younger player. Chris Young has had 3x the (meaningful) PAs in the majors, he has been well over the amount of PAs you need to see before you can judge how well he'll do in the majors for a while now (~800-1000) while Fields has only had about 600, with a season where he was injured and sent back to AAA - through no fault of his own - in between. Also Young has never hit for a high average in the pros, ever. There's really nothing to suggest a ceiling he's going to reach where he suddenly becomes a .290-.300 type hitter, I don't know why some people seem to think that. He isn't any more likely to do that and become a leadoff hitter than Fields. Fields is 26, Young is 25. There is not even a full year in between them, Fields born in December 1982 IIRC and Young born in September 1983. That's another reach.

Whenever people bring up demographics and the SCOTUS (i.e., Sotomayor is Hispanic), and they say things like "the most qualified person needs to be selected, not someone based on their gender/ethnicity" why is it assumed there is only one? There's dozens of possibilities in reality, and if the president wants to, say, choose a woman, he's not at all excluding potentially "better qualified" candidates. The whole thing is subjective anyway. I just find that annoying. It makes it sound that choosing a justice who is a minority or a woman automatically means that's why they were chosen, before looking at their qualifications.

QUOTE (T R U @ May 27, 2009 -> 12:48 AM) Right, but in a poll that is "Who is the most swayed by superstars" the NBA is far and away the winner. I don't think there should have been multiple choices, but since there are its not like you're wrong or anything. If it was "choose one" then I def. would've chosen NBA.

QUOTE (T R U @ May 26, 2009 -> 11:49 PM) No one should vote football The only time there is shady business in football is rule changes Ex. All the new rules so no one can touch Tom Brady I still voted football specifically because of that (voted football and basketball, we can choose more than one). The officials still blatantly favor offensive players, especially quarterbacks.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ May 26, 2009 -> 11:24 PM) LeBron should just take it to the hole on every possession since breathing on LBJ is considered a foul. He just got pwned by Howard

Damn, the refs are so obviously in the tank for the Cavs it's not even funny.

http://sports.yahoo.com/box/news;_ylt=Amu9...p&type=lgns So sad... this is something that should never have to happen to anyone.

I think Japan has it somewhere in their constitution or somewhere that they'll never have nuclear weapons.

The sexual position known as 69 will now be known as 96, due to inflation resulting from the poor state of the economy it now costs more to eat out.

Technically that's the third Gulf War depending on who you ask.

The US Army is only about 500k (rounding up), the 1.4 mil is all the services combined.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 26, 2009 -> 06:20 PM) Unfortunately...the forensics on a nuclear detonation are actually pretty easy to do (if you have a western style isotope chemistry lab). If you gave me the records of the atmospheric signatures produced when the Soviets were detonating bombs, the Americans were detonating bombs, and the Koreans were reprocessing those fuel rods, I could probably go outside a couple days after the explosion, collect some dust, walk downstairs, and a few hours later tell you which country built it. Ok, stealing their plutonium, making a nuke out of it, sneaking it into Pyongyang and setting it off.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 26, 2009 -> 06:15 PM) I'm pretty sure that successfully testing a nuclear bomb = them having a nuclear weapon. This one didn't fizzle. It worked. I don't know how much plutonium they reprocessed in 2003 while we were dealing with Iraq (yes, that's actually when they did it), but if they had more than what they've used in these first 2 devices, then it's logical to conclude that they have more. And Tokyo, Honolulu, and possibly Seattle and L.A. are already within range of their missiles; you don't have to be all that accurate with a 20 kiloton weapon. If nothing else, please warn me before you try anything that could possibly be considered a "Military Option". I want to drive to Texas first. Well not necessarily, you still need the delivery system. Which we know they have because they flew it over Japan and they tried to call it a communications satellite. You're scared s***less of North Korea if you're Japan.

You know what would be awesome, sneaking a nuke into Pyongyang, setting it off, and then saying it went off by accident and blaming the North Koreans for not knowing what the f*** they were doing.

QUOTE (Texsox @ May 26, 2009 -> 06:07 PM) How many years have we been at war with Iraq? Now sit back and think for a little while what war with North Korea will be like. If that doesn't scare the shipps out of you, think harder. Different situation though. We were at war with the actual Iraqi army for, what, 3 weeks? Then there was a lull with some anarchy and random happenings, then the s*** hit the fan, then the s*** really hit the fan.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ May 26, 2009 -> 05:57 PM) i don't see why the GOP would bother to protest the nomination, but they probably will anyways. Campaign funding

Well you can pretty much kiss Seoul goodbye if you choose the military option. NK has a ridiculous amount of artillery aimed straight at it, ready to go at a moment's notice. The American forces there are just a tactical speed bump.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ May 26, 2009 -> 04:37 PM) isn't kind of cool to stay up late and watch a game? Nope, not when you live on the East Coast and it starts at 10.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 26, 2009 -> 04:18 PM) This is the post of the year. Its Greg Walker's fault Josh Fields strikes out. Why wouldn't it be Don Cooper's fault Mike MacDougal couldn't throw a strike? Maybe they should fire him to show fans they care.