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Best caption "John Mabry, whose role seemed little more than avoiding punches from Brian Anderson, argues that he should not be ejected from the game." Yeah...that tends to happen when somebody is kicking your ass. And how did the Trib miss Mabry's attempt at sissy-slap fighting?

QUOTE(DePloderer @ May 20, 2006 -> 01:54 PM) For your viewing pleasure; Is it just me or does it look like Barrett is trying to kiss AJP there (I mean if you didn't know he was going to throw a punch) It almost looks like some Brokeback Baseball going on.

QUOTE(ottawa_sox @ May 20, 2006 -> 01:32 PM) From our vantage point, the only person obviously saying anything was Barrett after he grabbed AJ - I don't understand where Jackson gets off saying Pierz said something. It's AJP. Do you not think he's talking s*** to the opposing team all the time? It's his schtick. I'm sure he said something when he slapped the plate that may have set Barrett off (more than the playing for the suckass team, getting their ass handed to them with all the trimmings by their South Side rivals and totally realizing that the Cubs will be in the basement during 2006)

QUOTE(AWhiteSoxinNJ @ May 20, 2006 -> 01:29 PM) Sorry if it was already posted but what was Anderson's and Marby's role in the fight since I only say AJ get hit by Barrett They were slapfighting. Both missed each other with glancing blows. Kinda funny really in the replays. But this fight needed one more thing -- more Right Fielder Jump Kicks!

Seems Barrett got the memo after getting run over.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ May 20, 2006 -> 11:34 AM) Throw in Konerko and that'd be one for the ages. I see your Konerko and I raise you a 'Carl Crawford on his knees.' to add a little mystery to the race.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ May 17, 2006 -> 11:35 PM) LCR goes on to talk about this being about "pitching inside". I'm sorry, there's a difference between pitching inside -- establishing the inner half of the plate as yours -- and intentionally trying to hit the guy. But, you are correct, he didn't say what I typed. It was more a general comment towards people here in general, and LCR was the one who received the 'quote'. Intentional beaning has been around for years. It is part of the game as much as hard slides, take out slides, suicide squeezes and running over the catcher on a close play at home. Intentional beaning is a means that has been quite successful in dealing with issues in-house -- between the players themselves. It was a plunking -- Bonds got the message and it was heard loud and clear, cheat and face the consequences on the field. Mesa beans some f***stick and nobody says s***. But now because it is Bonds being intentionally hit -- it is somehow a 'disgrace to baseball' and Life As We Know It will cease to exist because St. Barry took a ball in between the shoulder blades, took off his gear and walked to 1st base. If intentionally hitting players is so very bad, then how come all the whiners now didn't say Word One when there had been previous HBP this season when it has been intentional?

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ May 17, 2006 -> 11:31 PM) And if he would've charged the mound, he would have been called out by fans and media alike as a punk for going after a guy five inches & thirty pounds lighter than him. Funny how this double standard works with Bonds -- if he charges, he's a big meany, but since he doesn't charge, he's a puss who deserved it. Bonds actually confronting the guy would be the first gutsy thing he's done in a long while. I'd actually commend him for that but the news media that makes issues out of non-issues (such as this douchebag on douchebag plunking) would try to lambast him. I merely said that if Bonds didn't like it and he was so outraged and feeling that it was so unfair, he's just 60 feet away.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ May 17, 2006 -> 10:59 PM) Bonds is a meany so we should throw at his head and take the risk of ending his career. The beanball has been around for centuries. The mindset that we should forego throwing at players is yet another step in the wussification of baseball. From not pitching to certain hitters (pre-"Holy s***, my steroid advantage is gone" Bonds, Pujols, et al.) just because they can get a HR possibly to looking down at hard slides/take out slides -- hitters everywhere have to abide by fake rules that prevent them from playing as hard as they can and policing on the field, in house style. Pitchers lose an important tool in their arsenal, one that brushes players back from crowding the plate. In the age where hitters get to wear arm gear so large it could have its own Congressman, the ability to pitch inside has been greatly negated. Hitting batters is also a way to police within the game. It sends a message to the other team that certain s*** won't be tolerated. This 'old school' formula has worked for years. Why should pitchers be forced to lose a tool in their arsenal that they and their team believe is necessary and has worked for decades to effectively deal with issues on the field? I said it before and I'll say it again. If Bonds didn't like it, Springer was just 60 feet away. The only reason any of it is different now is that we have the media overanalyzing the issues and shoving them down our throats. I swear, if we had ESPN back in the deadball era, you'd see "Should Cobb Be Suspended for 10 games for going spikes up into a slide? Harold Reynolds and John Kruk parrot the same goddamn opinion for 20 minutes!" While informative for scores, injury reports, trades/roster moves, sports media by and far has become a tool where a relatively minor issue (i.e. Springer throwing at Bonds) gets blown up to gigantic proportions all because Bonds is a cheating, steroid abusing tool. It is just another step towards the 'sanitization' of baseball. Soon enough, the players will be sitting in group therapy talking about their inner children and their feelings instead. Christ, a douchebag who deserved it got hit by a douchebag. That was it. The pitcher isn't saying he is innocent and is willing to serve his impending suspension. End of story. For all those saying that this is going to 'disgrace' baseball -- if baseball can survive gambling scandals like the Black Sox, the events of Pete Rose, numerous fights/beanballs/brawls and numerous racist/dirty players (i.e. Cobb), it sure as Hell can survive just one more plunking.

Couldn't have have happened to a bigger asshole. If Bonds really didn't like it, Springer was just 60 feet 6 inches away. That said, I do find it much more interesting to watch the results of stroids completely deterioriate Bonds' body much rather than a possible successful beanball to his coconut.

Fundamentalism of any religion leads to crazy s*** like creating a "Biblical" definition of marriage being one man and one woman (despite the Bible explicitly saying that marriage is between a man and more than one woman...yet bigamy is oddly illegal) being trumpeted around or bombing the Atlanta Olympics or making guys like Paul Hill a hero while giving out the home addresses and phone numbers of doctors that work at abortion clinics. For an example of these nuts... **WARNING -- NSFW/Squeamish Stay Away Photos of Aborted Fetuses at Site** http://www.armyofgod.com/ Or guys going into a place of worship and opening fire with an assault rifle killing unarmed people (a totally off the wall Zionist guy named Baruch Goldstein) Every religion has their bad apples, the ones that take good ideas and lessons at the core of every religion and turn them into something to justify murdering those that don't agree with them. And Evil, the quick method: 1. Keeping the Shah in power even though the people didn't want him. Add in the assistance given the Shah to exterminate moderates to the throne (which the fundies were doing as well) and you get the power vacuum that leads to the eventual fall of the Shah and the installation of the fundie whackjobs in Iran. 2. Our interventions in Iraq in the 1960s to stabilize the region with leaders that we liked, even it was for the incredible short term -- leaders who decimated their populations under an iron fist. 3. Our support for the Taliban, training and funding of Al Qaeda during the 1980s (despite knowing they hated us as well) While nowhere as insane as our rampant intervention in Central and South America, the United States very well did get themselves involved in what turned out to be the long term instability of the region. For much more info, check out William Blum's "Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since WW II" (he's a former member of the State Department who resigned in protest to Vietnam's escalations)

Pretty good factually on events, etc. Truthout.org is a community website devoted to alternative politics and news. Primarily American, it provides what is liberal or left-leaning reporting and commentary on current events. As well as hosting original reporting and multimedia content, it collects articles from other places, particularly those that cover topics which the community consider to be under-represented in the mainstream media. The site was founded by Marc Ash, currently the Executive Director, in an attempt to create a grassroots movement for alternative media, reporting and commenting upon issues ignored by the mainstream press. The site has particularly focused upon the various aspects of the American-lead war in Iraq, the "war on terror" in general, and reporting other abuses of power associated with the Bush administration and multinational corporations.

QUOTE(samclemens @ May 11, 2006 -> 04:33 PM) my question is: how is this group not being sued for billions by these multi-billion dollar companies they are impersonating and humiliating in a national spotlight? They just create similar looking websites with similar addresses. From their FAQ asking the same question: On the other hand, what we do might not be illegal. Lawyers don't seem to know; the ones we've asked can't point to such-and-such a law that means we're in trouble.

Needs more ManBearPig!

The Yes Men are a group of 'culture jammers' that put corporate egg on their faces when companies/groups mistake them for being the actual spokespeople. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men And the Yes Men have struck again. On Tuesday, a man claiming to be a representative for the company Halliburton gave a presentation at the "Catastrophic Loss" conference at the Ritz-Carlton in Amelia Island, Florida. The conference included leaders from the insurance industry. The phony spokesperson gave his name as Fred Wolf. He told conference-goers Halliburton had invented the SurvivaBall -- a new orb-like inflatable product to protect corporate managers from the effects of global warming. Wolf said: “It's essentially a gated community for one.” The hoax comes less than two years after a Yes Men member appeared on the BBC claiming to be a spokesperson for Dow Chemical. He said Dow was taking responsibility for the Bhopal chemical disaster -- forcing the company to remind the world it did not take responsibility for the disaster and that there was no compensation fund set-up for the victims. May 9, 2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: mailto:[email protected] Photos: http://www.halliburtoncontracts.com/EPDU/ HALLIBURTON SOLVES GLOBAL WARMING SurvivaBalls save managers from abrupt climate change An advanced new technology will keep corporate managers safe even when climate change makes life as we know it impossible. "The SurvivaBall is designed to protect the corporate manager no matter what Mother Nature throws his or her way," said Fred Wolf, a Halliburton representative who spoke today at the Catastrophic Loss conference held at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Amelia Island, Florida. "This technology is the only rational response to abrupt climate change," he said to an attentive and appreciative audience. Most scientists believe global warming is certain to cause an accelerating onslaught of hurricanes, floods, droughts, tornadoes, etc. and that a world-destroying disaster is increasingly possible. For example, Arctic melt has slowed the Gulf Stream by 30% in just the last decade; if the Gulf Stream stops, Europe will suddenly become just as cold as Alaska. Global heat and flooding events are also increasingly possible. In order to head off such catastrophic scenarios, scientists agree we must reduce our carbon emissions by 70% within the next few years. Doing that would seriously undermine corporate profits, however, and so a more forward-thinking solution is needed. At today's conference, Wolf and a colleague demonstrated three SurvivaBall mockups, and described how the units will sustainably protect managers from natural or cultural disturbances of any intensity or duration. The devices - looking like huge inflatable orbs - will include sophisticated communications systems, nutrient gathering capacities, onboard medical facilities, and a daunting defense infrastructure to ensure that the corporate mission will not go unfulfilled even when most human life is rendered impossible by catastrophes or the consequent epidemics and armed conflicts. "It's essentially a gated community for one," said Wolf. Dr. Northrop Goody, the head of Halliburton's Emergency Products Development Unit, showed diagrams and videos describing the SurvivaBall's many features. "Much as amoebas link up into slime molds when threatened, SurvivaBalls also fulfill a community function. After all, people need people," noted Goody as he showed an artist's rendition of numerous SurvivaBalls linking up to form a managerial aggregate with functional differentiation, metaphorically dancing through the streets of Houston, Texas. The conference attendees peppered the duo with questions. One asked how the device would fare against terrorism, another whether the array of embedded technologies might make the unit too cumbersome; a third brought up the issue of the unit's cost feasibility. Wolf and Goody assured the audience that these problems and others were being addressed. "The SurvivaBall builds on Halliburton's reputation as a disaster and conflict industry innovator," said Wolf. "Just as the Black Plague led to the Renaissance and the Great Deluge gave Noah a monopoly of the animals, so tomorrow's catastrophes could well lead to good - and industry must be ready to seize that good." Goody also noted that Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Futures Society was set to employ the SurvivaBall as part of its Corporate Sustenance ® program. Another of Cousteau's CSR programs involves accepting a generous sponsorship from the Dow Chemical Corporation, whose general shareholder meeting is May 11. Please visit http://www.halliburtoncontracts.com/EPDU/ for photos, video, and text of today's presentation.

He's staying underwater for 9 minutes or something like that.

QUOTE(YASNY @ May 5, 2006 -> 03:34 PM) Was that intentional? Yes, I mean what can they call it? Watergate is already used for the 70's Nixon scandal. Plus, the media's affinity for putting 'gate' at the end of every scandal, I just figured it fit.

QUOTE(YASNY @ May 5, 2006 -> 03:29 PM) As I said, I have no problem with him getting head. Just the lying. I just see this new Watergategate (or would it be Fornigate? Or how about Watergate 2: Electric Boogaloo?) as a bit different. They were using the brothel to elicit political favors. What Clinton did with the lying was pretty bad. This one is just as well because it was pandering political favors. Perhaps the GOP should just stay away from the Watergate. They seem to have really bad experience there.

The Watergate Hotel -- Seems to be Republican kryptonite. Clinton just f***ed some random women but he never tried to claim the 'higher' moral road of family values while doing it, YAS. Therein lies the funnier difference. Yeah, what Clinton did made him a scumbag but he was doing it for his personal gratification. These guys were doing this with the assistance of lobbyists to get political favors. Plus, many of them are anti-porn, anti-sex, pro-family values sorts and engaging in this behavior. Funnier still when you see that the limo company is a DHS contractor and has gotten millions from the government (and the CEO has a 62 page rap sheet)

Kinda funny that I moderately like two of the people on the list (Feingold and Kucinich) but don't like the rest of them. (100%) 1: Sen. Russ Feingold (D) Information (84%) 2: Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D) Information (82%) 3: Sen. John Kerry (D) Information (81%) 4: Ex-Gen. Wesley Clark (D) Information (78%) 5: Sen. Joseph Biden (D) Information (77%) 6: Gov. Tom Vilsack (D) Information (77%) 7: Sen. Christopher Dodd (D) Information (75%) 8: Ex-VP Al Gore (D) Information (74%) 9: Ex-Sen. John Edwards (D) Information (73%) 10: Gov. Bill Richardson (D) Information (71%) 11: Sen. Hillary Clinton (D) Information (69%) 12: Ex-Gov. Mark Warner (D) Information (61%) 13: Sen. Evan Bayh (D) Information (57%) 14: Gov. Mike Huckabee ® Information (48%) 15: Sec. Condoleezza Rice ® Information (42%) 16: Gov. Mitt Romney ® Information (40%) 17: Ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani ® Information (34%) 18: Ex-Rep. Newt Gingrich ® Information (34%) 19: Gov. George Pataki ® Information (33%) 20: Sen. Majority Leader Bill Frist ® Information (28%) 21: Sen. George Allen ® Information (26%) 22: Sen. Chuck Hagel ® Information (25%) 23: Sen. John McCain ® Information (24%) 24: Rep. Tom Tancredo ® Information (13%) 25: Sen. Sam Brownback ® Information

That was some amazingly big balls by Colbert to go do that kind of humor at the White House. So much nervous laughter. It was classic.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Apr 29, 2006 -> 05:24 PM) Yes, I agree. /faints The hardcore positions will not fix the problem. That's for sure. But, there MUST be a hard stance taken to send the right message, both to the people who hire illegals and to the illegals themselves. Do I hear the idea of a Soxtalk PAC? Let's get a few billion dollars together and start making some campaign contributions

QUOTE(Jeckle2000 @ Apr 19, 2006 -> 12:30 AM) This is the part of that article that desturbed me most. Forgive my language but what kind of f***ed up church does this. I think then must of missed the part about forgiveness and not judging people. They're legally a 'church' but it is basically just his family...not to mention that he beats his own kids outside of protesting funerals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rev._Fred_Phelps Man, you know you're a f***ing douche when even Castro basically calls you one. It is kinda sobering when you realize all these states are just getting around to these bans. Somehow, these states seemed to believe it was okay when it was just families of gays/lesbians getting harassed -- but now that it is soldiers, that's crossing the line. Perhaps that's harsh of me but this rat bastard has been at this for years (protesting funerals) and nobody really got up in arms about it until now. (not saying people on ST...just the general US public) He's got the right to go out and make an ass out of himself as long as he is on public property though, as disturbing as the thought is.

Funniest factoid about the film is that when they were showing it to test audiences, the audiences said that the actor playing McCarthy was hamming it up way too much and made a joke out of the role. (Note: they merely used file footage of actual "Fightin' Joe")

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Apr 16, 2006 -> 01:27 PM) like Michael Moore, the savior! Yes, because I am liberally minded must mean that I love Michael Moore! Sorry, no. He is the Coulter of the left and an entertainer more than a serious political pundit. But please, try to put more words in my mouth.