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Seattle just paid Bennett and have a lot of other young players who are going to have to get paid. Bears should be in better position financially.

I've always said that I'm moving to Arizona when I retire, but of course that is dependent on my financial situation and if I have grandchildren where they are located.

Well, we now have this report from the Malaysian military that the plane made a left turn of about 130 degrees right after communication was cut off. If there had been a massive depressurization, the plane would not have turned but kept going. I've heard two plausible theories about why the plane cut off contact and then turned. (1) Either by their own choice or by force, the pilots deliberately cut off communications and then re-routed the flight (2) There was a massive electrical failure that cut off all systems except the emergency navigation backup. The pilots re-routed the flight to try to return to Malaysia to land but did not succeed.

Not familiar with this guy. Is this a good signing?

3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . . GO!

There's no crying in bachelor parties!

Down here, we have a chance for severe storms ahead of the front and snow behind it. Snownado??

1999 MLB batting splits: http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/...1999&lg=MLB 1999 Mark Grace batting splits: http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/...ar=1999&t=b Should be easy to get to the other years from there.

baseball-reference.com can do it for any given year. In 1999, the MLB average OPS for 1B was .853, and Grace's OPS was .870.

If it was hijacked, by whom and for what purpose? Hijacking doesn't really accomplish anything if the hijackers aren't claiming responsibility and/or making demands.

If phones are ringing, then signals are reaching them. What I don't know is how far underwater a signal could reach a phone. If it's not far, then that would mean that the phone is on the ground somewhere and not in the water. EDIT: Here is a bit more info: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-25...nes-active.html

A lot of people do listen to him, and more mentions of Chicago teams is never a bad thing.

Fleetwood Mac, for example. They supposedly piled up lots of "snow".

WARNING: Make sure you are not near any sharp objects before reading. http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014...on-google-maps/

This thread had drifted into a conversation about the missing Malaysian airlines jet a while back. Maybe it needs to be split into a different thread.

So the two guys who were using stolen passports have been identified. They are both Iranians, and according to family members, they stole passports in order to get into Europe where they were going to seek asylum. It is possible that their families are covering for them, but a Malaysian jet carrying mostly Chinese citizens does not seem a likely target for Iranian terrorists. Most likely just a coincidence that they were on a flight that went down. In other bizarre airline news, North Korea conducted an unannounced missile test that happened to come close to crossing paths with a Chinese passenger jet. That's pretty dumb on NK's part. If they piss off China, they pretty much cease to exist.

Which is exactly why this isn't a very good place to ask the question, unless you really are trolling.

I don't listen to Colin Cowherd because I can't stand him, but I did hear that he is running a bracket pitting franchises across various sports against each other with the winners in each round decided by vote. Please vote and pass the message along to all Sox fans you know. Everybody on Soxtalk should go here: http://espn.go.com/espnradio/bracket?id=9030976 Everybody on Soxtalk except GoSox05 should also go here: http://espn.go.com/espnradio/bracket?id=9028373

You and I do not have the same definition of "fun". That sounds like exactly the opposite of "fun" to me.

Right, it's not like journalism schools lean liberal or anything.

That's 2.5 cents per ticket.

So ticket prices go down now, right?

I agree. Olbermann/Maddow and Limbaugh/Hannity. I think collectively they do far, far more to damage this country than they do to help it. I refuse to watch/listen to any of them.

Olbermann?

A Culver's just opened 2 miles from my house. If I disappear from soxtalk for an extended period of time, it's because I had a heart attack.