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Worst song ever. Note the lack of the adjective "Christmas" describing the noun "song."

You can give them Johnson without giving them Semien. That's what condoms are for.

Big Ten having more eligible teams than tie-ins does not automatically leave Illinois out. There are invariably other conferences that can't fill all their bowl slots.

ACC is at 14 members for football and 15 for other sports so I don't think they are looking for more members. When Maryland left for the BIG, it came down to Louisville vs Cincinnati vs UConn for that spot and Louisville's recent Sugar Bowl win and Top 10 ranking pushed them over the top.

So I'm going to be within 100 miles of a school in four of the five power conferences. Probably not a lot of people can say that.

Any school associated with Geno deserves anything bad that happens to them.

Hahn in the sense that he has only failed to win a pennant twice but Beane has failed to win one 15 times.

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I would be very excited if Detroit got Cespedes.

Can't behave, it's Friday.

Yes, as in when the Red Sox call about Sale, Hahn says that the package starts with Pedroia, Nava and Owens, and then the conversation is over.

The new playoff/bowl structure has created some very odd bowl procedures.

If I were rating all three of these incidents on a scale of 1-10, with 1 being the victim is fully liable, 10 being the police officer is fully liable, and 5 being the threshold at which charges should be brought, I would say: Ferguson: 2 New York: 7 Cleveland: 8

The difference between what Hamels and Q would get on the open market is much, much smaller than the difference between what Hamels and Q are actually under contract for, which by definition makes Q's trade value higher.

Both GM's have won the same number of pennants.

There are 81 bowl eligible teams, plus two more than can become eligible by winning this weekend. There are 78 bowl slots. I find it hard to believe that a BIG team is one of the only 3 teams left out. Bowls aren't going to pick these teams over Illinois: 6-6 Ohio 7-5 Central Michigan 6-6 South Alabama 7-5 Texas State 6-6 Old Dominion Not sure about how the OSU-Wisconsin game affects things, but you definitely want Oklahoma to beat Ok St and Tulane to beat Temple.

I agree with this. The officer did not need to harm the suspect due to self defense, so there should be some sort of criminal liability available whether there was intent or not.

Yeah, I don't think the Sox have enough prospects to get them all.

Using a best guess as to what the 25-man roster would look like on Opening Day if no further moves were made and estimates as to what the arb and pre-arb players would make, and also adding in the $5.5M owed to people no longer in the organization (Konerko, Keppinger), the payroll sits at $79.6 million. For any player signed or acquired via trade, you would have to add their 2015 salary to that figure but then also subtract the salary of the player they replace. Depending on who gets replaced, adding a $15M player to the payroll brings it up to no more than $94 million, but potentially less if somebody like Viciedo, or even better, Danks, is moved in the deal.

I think part of contacting Scherzer is to see what he is asking for and trying to figure out how that number trickles down to the players who are their more realistic targets.

I don't think he should go to jail for the rest of his life, but I think he should face some kind of felony charge. If the statutes don't allow him to be charged with something that carries a sentence less than life, then that's a serious problem. He should lose his job, do some time, and the department should be fully civilly liable.

The Oregon State that has only gone to a bowl in 2 of the past 5 seasons, or is there some other Oregon State?

Zippers are instrumental in easy access to your junk.

I always felt that Electric Company and Water Works were underrated properties. Not everybody can have Boardwalk.