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QUOTE (Kid Gleason @ Apr 14, 2009 -> 08:40 AM) Am I the only one here who has to think REALLY hard as to what he calls the stuff everytime this discussion comes up??? I swear, I must use all of them, "soda", "pop", "soft drink", and or "soda pop". Ya know, everybody wants to hit people for using one or the other. Me? I personally want nothing to do with some high and mighty twit who thinks they are above somebody else just because they choose one dumb word over another. Who really gives a crap what somebody calls a liquid? God damn dude, lighten up a little

Hopefully Danks can go a good 7 tonight, and hopefully the offense stays hot and beats the s*** out of Porcello to give Danks some decent run support for once.

tl;dr

QUOTE (Felix @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 11:43 PM) Wow. I realize Hawk and DJ were painful (and Hawk still is) when we played the Twins, but I'd take them over Dick and Bert any day. I cannot stand those two idiots. Also, the little I've heard of Stoney so far has been awesome. It's good to listen to a game from someone that actually knows what they're talking about. I can't stand them either, but I'm serious. It was either that or just mute my speakers (most of the time I just did the second one).

Ok, this is something of a public service announcement for everyone's benefit - I understand conservatives protesting high taxes and having "tea parties," but please don't go talking about how you're about to go out "Tea Bagging" because that has a very different meaning than it had in 1776. Just saw someone say that and I felt like I had to get that out there.

Well yeah I mean it's not a big deal at all that a Supreme Court Justice basically said that civil rights aren't that important.

Bahahahaha. Hilarious

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 09:58 PM) I'm not allowed to challenge Kaperbole with similar (insert random prefix involving my name)-bole? Touche. Carry on.

Is he for real?

Kap likes the GOP now? I didn't get that memo.

QUOTE (G&T @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 08:16 PM) Hawk is great when the Sox are good, but when they go bad, he gets intolerable. Meanwhile, Hawk and Stone is an awesome duo! Or when he starts b****ing about the umps. I love his sayings though.

Well MN's SC appointed that panel so if they ruled against it they'd be effectively ruling against themselves.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 07:06 PM) i guess i'm one of the few - but i love hawk. yes he's ridiculous, yes his STRETCH calls when the ball is in shallow RF are dumb, but a) he's the only guy i've known and B) i'd miss 'you can put it on the board' and 'he gawn' and yes - even 'stretch' he's an idiot, but i love the hawkeroo. Hawk is a love/hate thing for me.

QUOTE (Wanne @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 06:09 PM) I don't think out of the lineup...just out of the leadoff spot. I had no problem with Weezy playing CF and hitting 8th or so against righties. Me too, and I wanted him to be getting fewer starts, but I didn't mind him on the 25-man and getting time. But he f***ing blew as a leadoff hitter.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 06:19 PM) I think you are nuts ^^ I literally used to watch games in silence when it was Hawk and DJ sometimes. If we were playing the Twins, I had decided I'd rather listen to their announcers than to hear Hawk sucking off Carlos Gomez for 3 hours.

Man there is like zero circumstance that should ever have Anderson batting leadoff, even if he was hitting like .265.

Yeah, I thought last year was cool, this kind of just diminishes it all.

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 05:32 PM) Yea. I think people get heated up for certain sides of this, but if polled almost 100% would say 'we dislike all options offensively at CF' Agreed. It's a tallest-midget kind of thing.

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 05:27 PM) The very part you highlighted absolves me. I indicated "Some (not all) Anderson" people In your earlier rant, that's the qualification you had asked for. I actually read that and did it. Point taken, what I'm saying is that someone that doesn't like Wise getting a lot of ABs and playing every day (i.e., me) isn't automatically someone that supports Anderson getting the same.

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 04:47 PM) Some (not all) of the biggest Anderson supporters read off Wise's career numbers as a reason why he's not worthwhile. Yet if you just do the same thing for Owens w/ his career numbers, it's not thaaat horrendous. At least not enough for the hate level it brings. Owens at .268/.321 in 381 at-bats in the majors....... Obviously it's not what you want in a leadoff hitter - but it gets so much hate in comparison to .221/.276 for BA. Owens cant get an extra base hit to save his life but he at least projects to be somewhat of a basestealer, essentially making some 'doubles' that way. Doesnt it pretty much come down to Jerry playing this week over Brian because you have less of a hole in your lineup that way? Plus the whole vs. RHP aspect. I think we face several righties in a row here. It will be interesting but I'm sure Owens bats #9 right? This drives me f***ing nuts... I already made an issue of this once today, but why is pointing out the fact that Wise is not good linked to Anderson manlove in the minds of so many? It's annoying.

Not sure why, but that epic rant just made me laugh out loud.

QUOTE (jenks45monster @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 04:55 PM) I just acknowledged that he still needs to develop. Just showing how much I'm against bringing Owens up. You'd basically be sabotaging the start to his career basically to spite Owens

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 04:52 PM) This is true. But your point would still stand, because he got shafted out of a W.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 03:58 PM) i saw a hilarious story in some tabloid at the supermarket a couple weeks ago. the big story was "Soldier doesn't support Obama!". there was some picture of a random soldier in his gear, scowling. don't know why, but i thought it was hilarious. this random dude is a big story for the tabloid. lol I don't even know why that would attract someone's attention. The military probably has a 2:1 ratio of Republicans to Democrats and there are plenty of people that hate Obama although it's pretty subdued at my job from most people.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 04:20 PM) in all fairness, i don't think anyone rips HuffingtonPost articles in the Dem thread. actually, i think i may post a huffington article in the dem thread right now I was about to say this