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Ok...submitted an online question to Time Warner to get some clue as to if there will be anything resembling an Astros TV schedule.
Burke should never have been sent. He held up a looong time to make sure that the ball cleared Wilson, and then it was in shallow left center. Duffy only had to throw it about 150 feet. I would have been amazed if they didn't get him.
Nice team loss today. Hitters, bully, coaches. Everyone had a hand in the L.
Boy, did he hit the snot out of that thing. How deep was that?
The question is for the first 3 batters, did he look improved at all? and then just get rattled after the BS?
Great....get to watch the Opening Day game on tv, at least, but we get to cut away from baseball....already....to interview Clay walker during the game.
Nice guy, I am sure, but.....WE HAVE BEEN WAITING MONTHS FOR BASEBALL, NOT CMT!
Scott had no business pushing that.
Couldn't really get a good idea of his jump on the replay, but it wasn't especially shallow or far away. I'll have to assume he got a late start.Looked like that to me. Also looked like he had it through one and a half rotations, but dropped it on the last half-roll.
Fuckstick Doug Eddings stationed at 3rd. Lets see if he can make himself part of the game.At least he doesn't make it behind HP this series.
And Adam Dunn was batting in the 2 hole, NTTAWWT.I think a new Funk and Wagner entry has been born.
if you get a chance take one of the tours of the place. you will see its a whole different world from the dome (seats are all the same color can you imagine that)
I am sure some would find here a bit annoying, but I and Superfan really enjoy her as does Mama Navin R, when she sits with us.
I honestly don't get why Wandy is still in discussions about the Astros rotation other than "remember when..."
He wins when he gets run support (and doesn't give up 8 runs in 1.1 innings on a Friday night when Limey's taken his visiting family to see a game and has front row seats and ends up watching a fucked up game and has to explain why baseball isn't normally like this and why the fuck couldn't Rodriguez' herpes have flared up that night so that Sampson could've started the game at 0-0 and not down 8-0 and fuck!!!!).
That's a blissful reminder of reggie's tumble a couple years ago in game 2.
Would like if there was a link at the top for "Who's online". I know it's at the bottom, but I use it alot...While it's not a full list, the PM icon (speech bubble) under each poster's avatar has a yellow mark on it to indicate if they're online. It's plain if they're not.
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Texans just released Carr. Insert Darwin joke here.
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Shiner Kolsch. Reminded me of a good lawnmower brew. Pretty clean taste.
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They blue prostate cancer wristbands may not be required, but they are worn during a league-sponsored event.
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... and San Diego can wear CAMO shirts in the REGULAR SEASON to honer the military, but Biggio can't wear a tiny star on his hat in SPRING TRAINING to promote cancer awareness in Children.
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Sampson said Ausmus told him he was opening up and rushing. Sounds like nerves.
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Red Sox support terrorism
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unfortunately, squinting or not they looked pretty damn good to me.
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Without cricket? It's World Cup time, Baby! Ain't no cricket-loving limey gonna be away from the World Cup.
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If .093 makes him pass out, it should be LaPussy. Hell, I can calculate VORP and BABIP at .093.
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Well, not just yet. But perhaps some day soon. The OWA is pleased to announce that we've reached a tentative agreement to allow Alkie back into the ranks of the great scribes, including Limey, of the Columnista Row.
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Tanked's new uniform number?
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MARCH 22--Meet Tony LaRussa. The manager of the reigning World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals, was arrested early this morning for drunk driving. LaRussa, 62, was popped in Jupiter, Florida, where the team's spring training facility is located. According to a police press release, LaRussa was found slumped over at the wheel of a Ford SUV that had stopped in a traffic intersection around midnight. After "repeated knocks at the window," LaRussa awoke. After failing some field sobriety tests, he was arrested. Breathalyzer tests later administered at the Palm Beach County Jail showed LaRussa's blood alcohol content to be .093, above Florida's .08 legal limit. After posting $500 bond, LaRussa was released at 8:20 this morning from the Palm Beach lockup, where the below booking photo was snapped.
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Raup to Zipp to Waldo. Doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
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Do you suppose Leverock knew how many wickets had been taken?
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You've got an opinion, which beats facts with a stick. It's all anyone needs today. Any opinion is equal to any other.
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...which would make EXACTLY as much sense as having El Paso in the territory. I was closer to something like 29 other teams, and yet the Astros were blacked out.
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Do we get Fox Sports New Hampshire inside 610?
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It's amazing that you bring this up. Because as I was watching Blood Diamond over the weekend, all I kept thinking about was what happened to Jennifer's boobs. Of course, she's still smoking hot.
She's come a long way from topless by the lake in "The Hot Spot" and riding the department store mechanical pony in "Career Opportunities". Those were nice.
[insert Limey YouTube clips here]
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Is it possible to have a thread simply devoted to making fun of Richard Justice without bringing up the abominations of breast reduction? Can we focus?
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I. Must. See. This. Movie.
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Isnt lard pork fat?
Rendered pork fat. I don't exactly know what rendering involves, and I am pretty sure I don't want to find out.
In the supermarket, down the "ethnic" aisle, I see huge 10 lb. buckets labeled Manteca de Cerdo, or something like that. I have mixed feelings. The butter of pig. I am guessing that's what goes in the refried beans, when they're getting "refried."
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I wonder if there is any predictive significance to the name of the brewery ... "Schmaltz" means "Lard"
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The "tip" would be the "dump" in American. Presumably "fly-tipping" would best be translated as "drive-by dumping" (or simply "unauthorized dumping" for those with less imagination).
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I've heard of 'pitch-tipping' and even cow-tipping, but can someone (Limey) please explain this?
Fly-tipping
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I look forward to sporting a campaign bumper sticker: "Foggy & Craig or go fuck yourself!"
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China, TX is only about 80 miles away from the Galleria Area...it's not that impressive.
Is there a Germany, Texas near Lake Jackson?
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So... you wouldn't hit that?
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I thought we were going to see the Foggy/Craig ticket for President.
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By that math, Oswalt isn't worth a shit, and makes the entire trade scenario illogical.
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I like the randomly capitalized "R" replacing the randomly capitalized "A".
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and Simmons, Gene.
thank you! at least someone is getting the appropriate youtube links.
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"If you give it an extra second to make sure where it is and go get it, it will give you an extra jump and you won't look like you're running around with your hair on fire. Those were his exact words."
See: Berkman, Lance
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Dammit, I was hoping this thread was going to be about Richard Justice being knocked unconscious by an errant Brad Lidge 100 MPH fastball.
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It's part of the grieving process.
Denial -> Anger -> Bargaining -> Guilt -> Sadness/Melancholy -> Acceptance
Limey looks to me that he's at Melancholy about his long lost love. All we can do is offer our best wishes to him!
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I'm getting a kick out of Limey's posts citing the missing YouTube clips that he would have linked to if only his miserly employer didn't have some twisted devotion to productivity.
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For one thing, it would throw the organization into several years of confusion.
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Also, wouldn't be able to restrict where a team could locate. Like the DC situation, or a possible San Antonio team.
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"... Baseball is being held to a different standard."
Sucks when it doesn't work in your favor.
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Foul ball down the 1B line.
Maybe a strike, maybe a ball... Not sure.
Another pitch missed, I heard the pop, but no mention.
Ball in the dirt. No clue what the count is.
Ball again. No mention of the count.
I think Munson walked.
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Does anyone else sort of feel like Milo is giving a little more detail than usual? Maybe it's just been a while since I heard him.
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Did you miss the part where he is a southpaw?
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I agree with that, but where people publically invoking their religion really bothers me is when politicians do it. Political figures in this country should operate in a religious vaccuum, but instead they have to publically make a demonstration of their faith in order to be taken seriously. That always sticks in my craw.
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Like I said- and maybe didn't convey accurately enough, I have no problem with Luke's interview. I share his faith. I have no problem with him talking about it.
I even said he did it in the right way, talking about how it helps systematically with his values and the like. This is, imho, the proper role of speaking about faith in a daily venture. I try to put my faith in God and his promises to take care of me every day into my life at work.
I agree completely with limey- I hate it when players talk about how god wanted them to win. I've never thought- Oh- I got this particular deal over a competitor b/c God likes me more than them, and I deserve it. It irks me a bit when ballplayers do this. Luke wasn't doing that and seems to have his faith in a proper perspective. He just talks about it alot- at every interview opportunity seemingly. I have no problem with that, as long as he doesn't go out and say that God made him hit that HR b/c the inference is he loves Luke Scott more then the pitcher.
Berkman had a great thought on this when he was in studio on 610 this winter. He talked about how he was all ready to credit God for the HR and getting the stros to the WS, until Pujols bomb ended the game. Pujols then gave all the credit to God (presumable God likes him more than lidge?)
Anyway, Berkman said that it reinforced to him that God is bigger than Lance, and doesn't need Lance to further his agenda. It sounded like Lance had a good head on his shoulder about things, and it sounded like Lance learned something from it.
That is all.
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From Whitey's PPV-blog at ESPN...
Ausmus thinks Lidge will be successful again in '07, in large part due to the sinking fastball he used heavily at the end of last season. The fastball, which bores down and in to right-handers is a great compliment to his slider.
Ausmus also thinks Sampson will win the #5 spot in the rotation.
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THIS is one hell of a good land investment.
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I mean, I wouldn't mind a blow job from Shania Twain but that ain't gonna happen either.
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Who cares if he mentions God in his interviews? If he is a religious man, good for him.. if not, ok then.
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Just once I'd like to see a ballplayer come out and say, "I just want to thank my lord and savior Satan." That would be pretty funny. People would flip. Could he backtrack out of it and say he was just kidding to get a rise, or would he be doomed?
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Perez walked only one batter in two innings, but gave up four runs and five hits as the New York Mets lost 5-4 to the Detroit Tigers in their spring training opener Wednesday. "I got hit pretty good..."
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I doubt it and I wouldn't lose sleep over it. In your case, the quality of your takes is reflected well by the avatar you use.
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Interesting class assignment: Go 'redesign' someone else's shit without their permission.
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That's something I've heard Garner mention several times, with respect to both the pitching staff and the hitters. He always harps on the importance of a 1-1 pitch as the make-or-break pitch of an at-bat and the statistics backing that up.
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The Astros held an intrasquad scrimmage on Tuesday. Garner was most impressed by closer Brad Lidge, who threw 13 pitches and struck out two batters. "Lidge was perfect," Garner said. "If he maintains his mechanics like he did today, he'll be in perfect shape." ... OF Hunter Pence homered off RHP Ezequiel Astacio. Pence hit .283 with 28 homers and 95 RBIs at Double-A Corpus Christi last season. ... SS Adam Everett went 3-for-4 with two doubles.
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Okay, but we need to stall to find out the rules first. And then figure out a way to cheat if we have to. Where is Limey?
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Yes I can, predictions are for idiots. (ETA) Also, his idea of pitting AstrosDaily vs Orangewhoopass in a "friendly" competition, somebody needs to gently and privately explain to him why that is a very bad idea.
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Last season they said out loud that they were very interested in how hitters work a count. I'd suspect that is tracked as well as every other stat that any 10 year old kid can find on the Internet.
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Does anyone know if recent contracts include "use of illegal performance enhancing drugs" such as HGH or steriods as grounds for breach of contract?
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First I've heard of it. I think it only refers to the 04 run. I'd be interested to see what moves the author suggested. I think, 1st trade for Carlos Beltran, 2nd play him shorter in center, 3, hit him second, worked really well.
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We're covering old ground here. Jesus got rung up by Pilate. After three days, he was gone from the dugout.
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or a cool guy who may be the Son of God but who didn't meet the all tests for Messianic status.
Within Judaism, there are a bunch of different views about Jesus. There are people who say that Jesus never existed historically. There are others who say that Jesus was basically an early "reformed rabbi" in the sense that he sought to change existing religous practices, including the laws of keeping kosher -- not that he ever claimed to be the messiah. Then there are others who say that he claimed to be the messiah but did not meet the tests in Judaism for messianic status. I don't believe that you are going to find a lot of practicing Jews who would take the view that Jesus was the "son of god" except in the most broad sense that we are all children of god.
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Then there are guys like Zola Levitt. I think he calls himself a messianic Jew. What's a Christian to think?
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I know a few people here frequent Woodorows, I heard a rumor that the lot it is sitting on has been sold and Lil Woodorws is going to be torn down. Anyone else hear this?
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Is it just me or does this seem like the longest offseason ever?
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Reminds me of high school football. One year several track guys were persuaded by the football coaches to come over to football. Most of the distance guys looked kind of emaciated to us, and I think they all got put at WR. But we had one guy, a sprinter, who was built like a truck. Not a Mack truck, ok. Maybe an S-10 or something. But he was solid, and this cat could fly. He had run a sub-10 second 100 yd. dash in a meet that spring (this was pre-metric days), which was very, very fast for a high schooler at the time. He had decent football instincts, too. We figured we'd found us one.
Three seperate times in our first two games, this guy negotiated his way through the line of scrimmage and secondary and broke absolutely free, running all alone down the field for the end zone. But each time at some point, with no one within 15 yards of him, the ball would just fly out. Fumble. This drove the coaches to distraction, of course; and then this guy's excuse each time was that he was just running along and he forgot he had the ball in his hands. Which drove the coaches insane.
Apparently, while he was plowing through the line and dodging guys in the secondary, this guy could remember he was playing football. But once he broke free and was running all alone, he'd forget, revert back to his sprinter's form, and drop his arms and start pumping.
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James Bovard wrote a book on American's short attention span entitled Attention Deficit Democracy which I can't recommend highly enough. Rather depressing though when I think about it...
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Don't count on Bagwell, the Dome he plays in will keep those fantasy numbers down.
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email him
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when i played at UT in the dark ages, the entire freaking uniform was wool. on a hot day, they weighed about 100 pounds.
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so, do we call him the Rail Splitter?
That works. Or, maybe the Great Emancipator.
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I've been blasted frequently by beer snobs - I use the term endearingly - for liking Newcastle. There's something about it that appeals to me.
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Because of things like that, Everett - in his Astros days anyway - is one of my favorite players ever.
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are you kidding? Everett was well known as combustible when he came to Houston. it is the only place where he behaved.
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The shipping is part of it, but most European brewers brew different beers for export than they do for indiginous consumption. Hacker-Pshorr is one of the rare exceptions, which is why it's my favorite beer in the world. At any rate, as for the Heineken being brewed under license outside The Netherlands, I dont' think that's true, though they could certainly brew an "Americanized" version for export.
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I've been drinking a lot of Irish beers lately (Guiness, Kilkenny, and Harp).
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History professor Neil Waters says Wikipedia is an ideal place to start research but an unacceptable way to end it.
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OK, now I'm frightened.
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but the fact that it is self correcting, shows its strength. the fact that it's self correcting (with malicious intent or with just pure ignorance), shows its weakness.
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Doesn't even have to rub her legs together, or anything.
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Makes you wonder where the good guys were last season.
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Thanks! Astros v Cardinals, April 7th. Wahoo!!
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Nope, Kim Kardashian is the "celebrity" videoslut of the week.
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Well, maybe this will take some heat off NASA.
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"Choosing" to live only 5 years beyond a superstar career is moronic.
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That, kids, must be some serious shit.
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I hope he shakes hands with everyone in NYC.
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I'm sure everyone is excited about Opening Day as I am, and I hope that we can have another OWA Opening Day Eggstravaganza. However, unforunately, I will not be able to be the bag man for tickets as I have in the past. If anyone is wanting to jump in and save the day, please speak up. You can pm me if you need some details of what I've done the last few years.
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that's all, just wanted to report it.
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The Shiner dunkelweizen is excellent. Most of the time when seasonal beers come out I'll just buy them once to try them, but I've picked some of this up several times this year.
I also agree that the 97 is very good. I even liked the 96 last year, though it was a little wimpy for a M?rzen. But then O-Fests are probably my favorite style if I was forced to pick one.
Great, now I need to go to the store...
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I didn't see that he used his weapon of choice, but I think he has a concealed weapons license for it.
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Bring beaver shooting into the 21st century?
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Speaking of which, I saw a commercial recently for Sexy Scissors. Yikes! Even the "hair technicians" they showed in the commercial were skanks.
A rare event of truthful advertising.
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Clemens is going to SportsClips to have his hair styled and his tips frosted. NTTAWWT.
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I just can't understand Pettitte. He was upset that Houston didn't bend over for him, but yet he was saying I am not sure I want to play. To me he acted like a fickle little school girl.
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I disagree. I think it's because he doesn't have to make Sportcenter highlight plays to do everything. He's got such good instincts, range, and positions himself so well, he doesn't have to go diving after everything up the middle or in the hole. He's so fucking good that he doesn't attract the mindless' attention.
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In all seriousness, this is a case of Everett "hasn't" won the gold glove instead of "can't" win the gold glove.
He'll have one soon I bet.
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Off topic (or on with the you're v your)
Why is it that on internet boards everywhere mongaloids continue to talk about their teams L as a loose, or how their team is loosing. This drives me up the wall. It even happens on college message boards which leads me to shake my head in bewilderment.
I'm about the worlds worst speller but this one drives me up the wall. Who freaking can't spell lose correctly?
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And by the way, funny is not when you get the joke, it's when other people get the joke. The trickiest part of that is knowing your audience.
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Name your top five Sports Men of Integity?
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Astros signed RHP Brian Moehler to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training per rotoworld.com
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Andruw Jones looks like a tool here, but how can anybody living in 2007 say this is in the top 5000 things that are "what's wrong with society today?" The fucking US Attorney General just said that habeus corpus is not guranteed for everybody and I'm supposed to take out my pitchfork and torch for some dumbass outfielder for the Braves?!
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But that has nothing to do with whether the tax is unjustly high on the people who do have to pay it. I'm not persuaded by the notion that something overly burdensome is OK as long as me and likely everyone I'll ever meet won't have to deal with it.
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If you have a problem with stepped-up basis at death, say so. Don't pretend the estate tax is there to resolve the problem.
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Tax it once as income, and let that be the end of it.
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I don't care what Roosevelt was on about. Do you think that today's estate tax is promixately representative of user fees for services used? If so, then why have the high exemptions? Why not impose them on everyone as a reflection of the resources they use?
The estate-tax-as-user-fees argument is a fantasy under today's system.
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I don't care what the cut-off is or could be. In principle, I find the idea objectionable. And that is not self serving. I am of the background where the only thing I'll inherit are some old lamps and a stick of gum. The gum, by the way, just might be older than the lamps.
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You do understand, don't you, that there was no significant income tax at the time Teddy Roosevelt said that?
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Drayton McLane pays taxes on his income, and what he keeps he accumulates as wealth. But then you're saying that the government should take another big chunk of it because Paris Hilton is a twit?
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And it's a fallacy to pretend that it's anything other than coercion (just as all taxes are). I admit that I think a certain amount of coercion in the form of taxes is necessary for society to operate.
But pretending that the estate tax is really just user fees for use of the highways by the Wallet's trucks is a bit euphemistic, isn't it?
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Do you think that this tortured logic somehow supports the estate tax? Do you think that things should somehow be different so that people would be dissuaded from building wealth? What exactly are you advocating?
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So making someone give a large chunk of his wealth at death to the government to dissuade his descendants from being idle does not constitute a form of coercion?
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There oughta be a law against advocating that there oughta be a law to coerce every form of so-called good behavior.
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What kills me is that it is entirely possible to pass on a fortune to your children while at the same time instilling in them a strong positive and lifelong work ethic. It ain't the money, it's the parenting.
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Proverbs 13:22 (King James Version)
22A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
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Spack ain't just the court. He's the cop, DA, judge, hangman, and spleen eater all in one.
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But seriously, do you have to drag politics into another thread? I mean, my God, next thing you know wiretapping crap will creep into this thread, and... well there it is, now see what you've done.
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Interesting that you quote two men who rose to power thanks in no small part to an inheireted family fortune.
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Marc Sacommanno will probably make the RR roster after two years at AA. I see Sellers as the opening day 3B choice at CC.
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this is one of the main things wrong with the world today:
"But you want to be completely set to the point where your son's son doesn't have to do anything...."
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Speaking of A. Jones, my hometown's very first Hooters opened the other day.
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Well, as reported on another thread, I witnessed a man purchasing a Schlitz 12 pack yesterday. I would like to know if anyone on the board has tried a Schlitz lately, and can confirm if it would or would not compare to Morgan Ensberg's batting approach.
Better?
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You know, this post got me to thinking about how useful that Brit dry sense of humor can be. Case in point: The phrase "With all due respect" can be (and I suspect often is) used in cases where it is quite clear that the speaker believes that absolutely no actual respect is due. Much more satisfyingly subtle than the direct, American approach of calling someone out.
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So Ausmus has hockey ties, too, further endearing him to BG.
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Cirque du Sammy?
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He's working his way through Jane's Defense Intelligence Equipment catalog. He just adds prepositions and viola, best selling novel.
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But surely he shouldn't expect to get a deal like Crede?
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Yesterday I sent myself home from work ten minutes after I got there, but made sure to grab some "necessary" items from the Tigermart on the way home. Clerk looked at me crazy; guess he isn't used to seeing people buy an 18-pack at 8am on a Monday.
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Maybe it's not him, maybe it's the Astros. They had 9 arb contracts to get through. Maybe they're doing the easy ones, the one year deals, first. Everett, Lidge, Ensberg and Lane left to go. I see Lane signing next. Another 1 year deal.
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He might need therapy afterwards. Or at least a hug from Drayton.
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Right on. I'll go ahead and fall in line now, because I'm sure others are tired of clicking on the Jason Lane thread and seeing this go on and on...
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Sounds like they're a bit snarky that Beckham's getting $250 million and they're not.
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he is no doubt drawn to the US by the mouthwatering prospect of lining out with Galaxicos such as Landon Donovan and Cobi Jones in a club that clearly plans to transform itself from a team of obscure no-hopers to an international laughing stock.
This is just outstanding stuff.
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Ali G asking Posh if she'd been "backdoored" by Beckham was pretty freaking funny to me.
I would love to hear how they had been prepped for this "interview."
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MLS changed the rule to allow one exception to the salary cap. Expect each franchise to have it's own designated has-been lined up for the new season.
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but to call him brilliant in his prime is a little overstating it.
I disagree.
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So Limey. I suppose the biggest question for you is how bad is the American version of "footballers wives" going to be.
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Deserved, didn't deserve, many people didn't think he should have been. Regardless of that, he was. You ARE knocking him, and to some extent he does deserves that. England laid a fat egg in Germany and he was the Captain. I think many more point the finger of blame at Sven Goran Erickson than the team Captain. Beckham was brilliant in his prime and on the 06 squad still possesed one of the most deadly free kicks in the game.
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Did Ronaldo officially sign in Saudi, or is it just an offer?
No, Luis Figo signed there. Ronaldo is rumored to be NY bound.
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Head and shoulders may be a bit strong. Beckham, while no longer in his prime, is not even a year removed of being the CAPTAIN of England. I think the two players you are talking about, Ching (?), who is not even a full time starter for the US (yet) and DeRosario who is still unproven on the world stage are super player, but let's keep this in perspective. This is a BIG deal for the MLS. Fringe fans are exactly who they are trying to attract with this signing.
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I think in his heart, he wanted to be in Houston, but he way overplayed his hand and had his bluff called by the team which forced him to NY.
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Is Spitfire available in the US?
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Not to mention the beer--Shepherd's Neame Spitfire (not the bottled, the real stuff) is the finest beer in the land. Or one of them, at least.
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McGwire never hid his use of Andro...
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An unfortunate design feature of the Spitfire placed the fuel tank directly forward of the cockpit. Often when the tank was damaged, the fuel would ignite and spill directly onto the pilot.
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In the '04 games, the real beanball war was in the final game of the series, when I think four players were hit (officially), from each team - Berkman, Beltran, Lee and somebody else on the Cubs - and a few others were brushed back. That was the day Mike Remlinger went apeshit, among others. For missing Berkman's head, which he'd just thrown at. The ball instead ticked off the bat (behind the helmet, which it just missed, as Lance bailed out); but Berkman went down like he was shot. If I was the umpire, I'd have given him 1B too, even if it wasn't great acting (I think Berkman was reacting out of fear as much as anything.)
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In his entire 20-year career (1982-2001), Tony Gwynn only struck out 434 times. From 1999-2001, Preston Wilson K'd 450 times.
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Clancy's books through "The Sum of All Fears" are great reads, with a good amount of detail well balanced with story. After that point, they slowly tailed off into egotistical bloat, with "Bear and the Dragon" and "Red Rabbit" crossing the line into unreadable.
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Bill Simmons made a good comment along that line of thought:
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Watch the end of "61*" sometime, or reread Mike Lupica's gushing book, "Summer of '98." (Note: Lupica now argues that Big Mac doesn't belong in the Hall. He never says anything about returning the profits from his book, however.) The home run chase meant something back then. And by the way, when it was going on, we all chose to overlook the fact that McGwire was a can of green paint away from being the Incredible Hulk and that Sosa looked like he was developing a second jaw. Let's not forget that.
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Also, they didn't always vote annually.
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Or Barry Bonds, for that matter. I think the question will be whether the writers will admit Bonds despite the standard they seem to be setting with McGwire.
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Why not Lee, Burke and Scott with Lamb on the bench?
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Oh please. Florida just absolutely dismantled the unanimous, wire to wire #1 team in nation. Give them some credit instead of sucking your own dick for a change.
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No youtube link?!? Limey, you are getting sloppy.
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so, what changed for Pundit Kennedy?
what an Egomaniac Roger is.
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Wow the Hates are STILL around? Growing up in the Houston punk scene in the early and mid 90's the question was WHY are the Hates still around. They were always looked at like a joke. Dude does look like Berkman though.
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Oh yeah! Forgot about Lee May.
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If Derek Bell isn't #1 or #2, I'll eat my hat.
Try it with a little salt. Bell is not even in the top 5.
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I have been following cricket since I moved to New Zealand and I have learned that Australian cricket culture mixes the worst elements of the Yankees, Cowboys, Notre Dame and the Celtics...except they win all of the time.
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Am I wrong to protect my brain from being implanted with alien emanations from untrustworthy frequencies ? I think that's just good brain goo hygiene.
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It's the agents job to get the most money for their guys
That is not the agent's job.
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Limey --
Would you believe I was just curious if I asked for an Ashes update?
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Just so we're all clear, Randy Johnson is coming off surgery to repair a herniated disk in his back. That's not a good thing for a pitcher.
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The silliest part is Todd is advocating Loretta as a step up from Biggio. Here's Loretta's numbers the last 4 years. See if you can guess when they started steroid testing...
Year--AVG/OBP/SLG
2003--314/372/441
2004--335/391/495
2005--280/360/347
2006--285/345/361
Biggio's OBP is a lot less than Loretta's but his SLG is much higher. I'm not sure there's a lot of difference in the final offensive output between the 2 players.
If you want to make a case for Biggio splitting time with Burke at 2B, I'm all for that. Especially given how Biggio's home/road splits look (I still say Biggio has tinkered with his swing for maximum MMPUS effect, which kills his road productivity).
But I'm not sure how Loretta instead of Biggio makes this a better team on the field. I'd say to bump out one of the organizations top players of all time, on the verge of a MAJOR career milestone, fan favorite and every single other intangible out there for a guy who is just as good (maybe worse) is the dumbest thing ever.
I'm sure the other players would love that. "Gee, we can spend an entire career with the Astros only for them to bench me (cut me) when I'm less than 100 hits away from 3000 to bring in a guy whose stats aren't any better than mine."
THATS the ticket.
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Pitchers are one pitch away from being injured. You try to minimize that by teaching proper mechanics and all, but overall, it is a foolish investment to give a pitcher at any time a seven year commitment. Five years is pretty good for the pitcher and still a minor risk. Three years is a great investment for both parties.
Going seven means you're a desperate team and if this is setting a trend for contracts in the future, then those who follow this lead by the Jints are in fact... STUPID!
I hope Zito lives up to his contract length, but chances are against that happening. It didn't for Kevin Brown, Randy Johnson nor Mike Hampton. The first three years of the contract may pay off, but the last four will be difficult for the Jints to carry. Very difficult.
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SEVEN years. Jeeze-O.
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The drummer was particularly talented.
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4 yrs/$42MM
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You're obviously a terrorist, hell bent on destroying our freedom. Oh the irony, Orwell had it right.
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BTW love Love LOVE your avatar. Best rock and roll almum ever...EVER!
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I got an Astros talking bottle opener.
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I'll be on the road the next few days. I just downloaded the videos to open on the correct days.
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But wouldn't you get any added satisfaction if the DQs lose to the team they left?
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Did he mention anything about owning a ranch? Is he having an affair? Did he say anything about the Astros "kept pushing and pushing" while the Rockies "didn't do much?" These are things we need to know.
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It would be fun watching the awkwardness on ESPN if the Yankees lost.
Stuart Scott and co. wouldn't know what to do with themselves. They would probably just re-run old Duke-UNC basketball games for a few weeks.
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THE Ian Thorpe retired??
My world is shattered.
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Man if Clemens goes back I'm going to be praying for an Astros-Yankees WS.
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Tom Smykowski: It was a "Jump to Conclusions" mat. You see, it would be this mat that you would put on the floor... and would have different CONCLUSIONS written on it that you could JUMP TO.
Michael Bolton: That's the worst idea I've ever heard in my life, Tom.
Samir: Yes, this is horrible, this idea.
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I was not aware Cliff looked in on little boys through their windows. I thought that was Day Three.
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I always considered it more about a look or fashion then about a sound or genre. A lot of different sounding bands got lumped under the Glam Rock banner. Like most things that take a broad sweep, you get a range of offerings, good and bad. Some of that shit's timeless.
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Leslie of Austin cashes in The Link on his interpretation of the "characteristics of a woman".
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The was one of the worst lip-synching I have ever seen!
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Ah yes, a man who truly embraces the christmas spirit.
Good song, though.
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Maybe it was all the acid, but people seemed to have a lot more fun in those days.
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For one brief, not really paying attention moment I thought, "Holy crap!! Michael Caine was in a band??"
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Of course my wife also has Sean Cassidy's greatest hits. She also just bought the Patridge Family's greatest hits AND the Brady Bunch's greatest hits.
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only half those of those 150 qualify for era title(which is where he got his numbers). and if you count relievers, do you really think hed stay at top 25?
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You need the power of "I've got another team ready to pounce on X deal if you're not interested...". The Hendricks Bros know that if they didn't have the Yankees and it was all about Pettitte wanting to come back to Houston exclusively, 12 million, one year would've been a *GREAT* offer.
Anything they say beyond that about "respect" and such is a bunch of hooey! It's all about market and how to play it.
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25th out of how many? top 25 of say 75 isnt much to write home about
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No defense is mediocre with Adam Everett at SS and Lance Berkman at 1B. Heck just everett makes for an average/to above average infield defense.
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I have always wondered how much Lava and/or disinfectant one needs to apply after a meeting with Randy Hendricks.
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He *really* isn't that powerful, he just thinks he is.
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Wow, I think I just messed my pants. The national sports media figuring out the real deal? Must have read Alyson's mailbag! Or maybe the machinations of Boras, Hendricks et al have become so transparent that not even the national sports media can overlook them anymore.
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So help a brother out, is the Exilim s what I should be looking at. (Budget is a concern)
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I love the retro design of the Leicas.
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The newer Exilims are pretty sweet. They have some of the biggest LCD screens I have seen on compact cameras, and seem to be pretty highly rated.
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I wouldn't say ridiculous. Maybe unnecessary for typical family photos but if you find yourself cropping your photos for the best composition or shooting subjects at some distance then 10 MP is worth it. Plus, 10 MP cameras are more likely to have a better quality CCD than lower resolution cameras.
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Great cameras can be had for far cheaper than $400. I am partial to the Canon brand name, but I like the Casio Exilim series. Sony makes good cameras too, but they don't use the standard SecureDigital or CompactFlash formats.
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Now with Firefox, the firewall, the virsu protection and my "fear of God" (not to mention restricting his rights to user instead of power user or admin, he doesn't do that any more. He was given his own account, I don't allow him to use my account or my wife (we are admins).
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One of the things I like about Firefox as is the tab browsing feature that allows you to have multiple webpages up without having multiple browsers running. Although, I do hear that the new IE is boasting this feature now as well.
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What about the Big Lebowski? I think the movie changes with the time... Kind of like the weather...
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Yes, there was a train right-of-way there. The tollway there now is a huge four-lane elevated freeway.
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We know McLane wants to win and Zito would cost less than the Pettitte/Clemens combo.
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I'm just not used to grown men acting stupid when it comes to sportsmanship. I love baseball and the common courtesy of tipping the cap at the other team for a job well done.
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Oh, let's be fair. #1 pick Mario Williams had 2 tackles and no sacks in this game. Play. Maker. Game. Changer.
He may turn in to one of the best DEs of all time; it was STILL a stupid fucking use of the #1 pick.
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Fuck it, dude. Let's go bowling.
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This all raises a question: is there even a sports editor at the Chronicle, or are these guys just left alone to publish whatever they want?
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can you retype that in layman's terms for the less intelligent of us?
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I can't imagine that Drayton cares too much about a one time loss of $3M.
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I'm surprised the Phils gave up Gavin Floyd. He was rated better than Cole Hamels and Taylor Buchholz at one time. Floyd was going to be the next great young arm to come around in the majors.
Cole Hamels leaped frogged over him last year because Floyd got injured. From what I saw of Hamels, if Floyd was supposed to be better, then the ChiSox made a great deal.
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I understand this is a business, but I ask again "When is enough, enough?" What can you buy with $15 Mil that you cannot with $12? Especially after you already have ~$50 Mil in previous salary earned?
Why not play where you want to? Shocking concept I know.
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i was listening to this as well and Lance said some curious things that aren't the usual PC stuff coming out of a ballplayer. it's the first time i've heard him on 610, so i don't know if he's always this candid. he was talking about how he likes Carlos Lee and all, but he thought the money would have been better spent on pitching (Jason Schmidt was his example). he did mention that he thought Pettitte was probably giong to NY and that Roger would probably go with him, which surprised me. he also called Richard Justice the "writer of wrongs", which i don't know if that's a new tag or not, but i like it.
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Is there a trough around here where people can gorge themselves of lead-based paint and then post on the Internet?
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Sorta like preparing your sphincter for dildo insertion. Um, not that I'd know or anything,... but, um, I can just imagine what it... um, NTTAWWT, but yeah, ya know, ok.
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Yeah but, it was nice of them to get us ready for it, dont you think?
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I'd put Barry in front of Poo Holes, but I'm sure LaGenius will figure out the optimum solution is for Barry to bat 2nd, Poo Holes 4th and the pitcher 8th.
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In light of the fact that Pettitte's family is here and that the Astros have been at least as competitive as the Yankees have been over the past few years, the only reason that I can see Pettitte going back to the Yankees is the additional money. Therefore, Fuck Pettitte.
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There was a trial balloon, Lane is slimming down and could play CF, a couple weeks ago.
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$12mil in a no-income-tax state like Texas is roughly the same at $15mil in New York, right? Plus, Andy would avoid needing an expensive apartment and all those costly trips back and forth, just in case he is reading this...
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The idea of Bonds and his .400 OBP hitting in front of Poo Holes is a bit worrisome though.
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It's likely that the property taxes on a place suitable for a multimillionaire in many big-league cities would be higher than the property taxes on Lee's ranch.
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"I really don't know how these things get started," said Hendricks, who upon hearing the report felt compelled to hold court in the lobby to dispute it.
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Michael Kaye, of 1050 ESPN radio, and the television play by play announcer for the Yankees, said this morning that there is a 70% chance that Pettitte would go back to the Yankees. He spoke about the friendship that he and Pettitte have, although he did not say that his belief was based upon any conversation he had with Andy. Rather, it seemed to be his impression based upon the news reports that he has read. So now we have a second level of speculation -- i.e. commentators speculating based upon the speculations of various writers.
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As long as I get royalties, I don't care who plays me in the movie.
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Lugo gets $9m PER for 4 years??? Someone explain this to me. Feel free to use any stats or facts you have.
Total. Lunacy.
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With this kind of money I think it's time to dust off the spikes and see if I can get on as a non-roster invitee with oh say the Royals or Rays..
Not that I have much talent mind you..
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There seems to be a lot of confusion between the concepts of misspeaking and being misunderstood these days. If you misspeak and say something you didn't mean to say, fine, but it doesn't mean that the rest of us misunderstood you.
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I don't think Albert correctly understands "misunderstood".
If he was "misunderstood", then he has nothing to apologize for.
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In other words, imagine being an Oiler fan.
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I have no idea what that means, though it doesn't sound good.
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so if you werent joking, just go ahead and tell me what was so dumb about that post. id really like to hear why you think that alkie
well ive been gone for a couple days and im not surprised this hasnt been answered
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How about now,
from Pinwheel's most recent nocturnal emission "Memo to Uncle Drayton: you did a terrific job in signing Carlos Lee and Woody Williams. You're not finished. You need one more impact addition. It's not going to be cheap. It's necessary, though. Don't make me tell you again."
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I think it's silly to confine the MVP award to a player from a playoff team. This is saying that an individual award should be given to a player based partly on the performance of his teammates. At the very least, if you want to insist that "value" only counts based on how well the team does, you'd want to consider all teams in contention, which the Phillies were.
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Perhaps "Alkie's Toteboard" should become "Alkie's Dream Sequences" for the off-season.
Only if it comes with Wet-Naps.
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I couldn't read the story because someone's huge face popped up over it. No matter. Pooholes bitching about not getting an individual honor after winning a World Series ring just seems so...typical.
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I'm blocked from it here at work. If it's the homicide detective one, that one is hillarious.
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Any thoughts to bringing Dotel back?
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I'm no batting expert, but his swing has always seemed awkward and flawed to me.
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It's the only thing I can think of.
I know Lane was a masher in the minors, but Jesus Christ, how many more seasons of well-below-average from him do we have to put up with?
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I saw Lane in Costco the other day
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Purpura has had a hard on for Lane forever.
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You other guys are missing the point here. Limey just posted 6 straight posts without a link to youtube. Get off his case already.
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Yet Pinwheel whistles right past his use of the word "insane" in the first post.
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Its implicit. How can you talk about what is 'too much' if you aren't using value to the team or overall value as a player as a metric?
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Yes, he did (reread pravata's quote). After saying the Astros should pass on Lee at 90 mil "...ought to take a pass and find another way to improve the club." The obvious implication is that Lee would improve the club but not for more than the O's reportedly offered.
(Emphasis mine)
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Fair? Not in the mood for fair with this guy. Consistency would have been to say that the Astros need Lee to improve and they should pay market price (and not "lowball") for him from the get go. And, it's not "overpaying" because the Astros bid was not even the highest, Giants would have paid him more. Lets not even consider how he moved off of "insane" as a description for the projected price. Giving him a toe hold for future criticisms and an opening to his readers for current second guessing.
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Not to me. First he says the net of paying more than 90 mil and whatever Lee brings to the field is a negative, ie don't do it. Then he says they got "way better." For me, way better means you pay what's necessary. Justice is diarrhetic.
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It's a stunning reversal to go from thinking that we had heard the last of him to finding out we have four more years of him. I am shocked.
I am sick about it. Milo isn't even a shell of his former self. He is approaching Harry Carey in the hanging on too long category.
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The problem comes down to this (among other reasons) and I've discussed it here before. Columnists and reporters should not also be writing blogs for the same publication. The lines are blurred and it creates confusion apparently, in this case, for the writer.
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That would be ok, I suppose, if he just stuck to one Somewhere and didn't insist we take his opinions seriously. Here is the latest trip to Somewhere, then a detour to Elsewhere,
From the Blog
11/22
It appears to be down to the Orioles, Phillies and Astros for Carlos Lee, and the bidding has gotten insane. It's believed the Orioles have offered as much as a six-year contract worth about $80 million to $90 million, according to the Baltimore Sun. If those numbers are even close to accurate, the Astros ought to take a pass and find another way to improve the club.
11/24
Drayton McLane overpaid to get Carlos Lee, but he did get him. And because he got him, the Astros didn't just get better Friday. They got way better.
It's difficult to tell if he was either in his underpants, or inbred when he typed those two "opinions".
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I'd like to see it in the real world. Maybe LeGenius could try it?
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McGwire (evasive before Congress)...
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Money, the real world, and the fact that baseball players are carbon based lifeforms and not robots are irrelevant.
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How much bigger is the hard drive on the Time Warner HD DVR box? And you say it doesn't count any more than the standard DVR box?
I intend to go the HD route after the first of the year,
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Aren't cricket players smart enough to wear a cup? Jeez, they have those huge pads on the shins, you'd think they'd get a bit of armor where its needed.
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Does "biennial" mean something different in British English than it does in American English or does it merely benefit from trans-hemispherical flexibility?
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does Kim Basinger own an island off the Georgia coast?
- Pete Schewedy & his balls
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Cute. But still waiting for that first test summary,
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well i see you edited so ill forget what i was gonna say to dispute your logic there. and im not gonna cut you down like i know you would do to me if i made such a mistake.
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In that case, can Lee's nickname be Brenham, even if his ranch is somewhere down near Wharton?
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I agree with this in part. But what sets fuel at $2.50 now is what people are willing to pay for what is available now and you can't ignore that people's willingness to pay is determined by underlying economic rationale.
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Available bandwidth also affects the number of HD channels. Keep in mind that both satellite providers have far less bandwidth to work with than cable or OTA. DirecTV has increased compression so they can provide more channels, and DISH will eventually do this too. For now, DirecTV has more available bandwidth for channels and DISH's offerings look better.
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So what is the monthly cost? I'm thinking of going that route but not sure if I can justify in my fugal mind $100 plus a month to watch a fancier TV picture.
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BTW: Grapevine Market in Austin has a shitload of the Shiner 97. I bought a case based on yours and the other beer snobs' comments.
Gracias. I was in Central Market this morning on the annual Thanksgiving load-'er-up trip and didn't see any there. I'll stop by Grapevine on the way home.
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The other five, the Marlins, Devil Rays, Twins, Royals and Athletics have had their existence threatened.
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I have read speculation that Google was going to buy TiVo and start delivering the same personalized ads on television shows (obviously quite a few years away).
That would be scary good advertising.
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BTW: Grapevine Market in Austin has a shitload of the Shiner 97. I bought a case based on yours and the other beer snobs' comments.
Gracias. I was in Central Market this morning on the annual Thanksgiving load-'er-up trip and didn't see any there. I'll stop by Grapevine on the way home.
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He ran up a score of 216 today before being caught out ... his ninth double century. The writer's sobriquet of batting genius is no hyberbole. The Windies have the Pakis on the ropes.
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Sam Adam's chief attribute is that it's offered in just about every restaurant on the planet. If my choices are Bud, Coors, Miller and Sam Adams, well you can guess which one I'm choosing.
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Sam Adams is the worst offender of the brew poseurs. They are basically Budweiser in a fancy bottle. Undrinkable. How Sam Adams has managed to swindle beer drinkers all these years should be required reading in American Salesmanship 101.
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I never got Sierra Nevada's line. Their barleywine is among the worst on Earth and their more "popular" stuff just never struck me as that good.
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Oh please. Sierra Nevada is the second most over-rated swallow defiant piss ever produced. Right after Fat Tire. Let's face it...if it's brewed in the US anywhere but Shiner, TX, it's crap.
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I'm in Houston. I'm just learning about HD, so I have no idea.
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You're kind of right - the first step, though, was becoming the premier search engine. It wasn't until they accomplished that that they also figured out the best way to monetize that accomplishment.
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...that's what happens in a world where Google is trading at $500. For advertisements. The company HAS NO PRODUCT PEOPLE!
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Deny it if you want. It is the single greatest advertising tool in the history of earth.
Instead of spending tens of thousands of dollars force feeding your brand to EVERYONE, you spend less than a buck feeding your brand (and website) to someone looking for exactly what you sell.
The first 10 months of business, I set my Google Ads budget at $60/mo. And we were doing 8-10x the business we had anticipated; revenue wise.
Three months ago, I ran a targeted ad in 2 trade journals that go out to the folks we're trying to get to hire us...$720/mo...literally ZERO clients.
Tell me that isn't magic.
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sunsabitches.... The Link (click through the print option) that's what happens in a world where Google is trading at $500. For advertisements. The company HAS NO PRODUCT PEOPLE!
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Is it ever too early to have a beer thread?
And on that note, is anyone else enjoying Shiner 97 as much as I am??
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You know, I may be in the minority here, but I find Nancy Grace inexplicably attractive, in a "I want to have very angry sex with you" kind of way.
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Perhaps we could have Jeff's grafted onto Manny's body. The Jeff head would be in charge of baseball things, and Manny could still be available for interviews and hunting out imaginary racists.
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Is Viv Richards still playing?
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I'm looking forward to your review again this year, though with decidedly different hopes and expectations (having been introduced to the greatness of the game in Sydney). For the uninitiated, just think 'five days straight of baseball'. And in this game, it is the batsmen who are on defense!
On a related note, Brian Lara is on 196 unbeaten against Pakistan and seems sure to get his double century tomorrow.
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Ashes Cricket???
I have heard of burning roaches, but crickets? I guess that chirping can get annoying after a while.
I remember this one year when I pulled into a gas station at night and it was like a sea of crickets, it was pretty creepy.
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Which, by the way, is the proper amount of press this should be given. Don't you know anyone else here in Houston who speaks your language? Maybe a nice Englishman who has a youtube addiction?
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Spending other people's money Link
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About 20 years ago a Boom Operator on a KC135 got his friend to fly for him on a local mission. While the plane was doing touch and goes, it crashed. Part of the aircrafts engine, I believe, landed in the parking lot of the squadron killing the crew member who was supposed to fly that day.
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Cafardo reminds me of some dude sitting behind his computer wearing a Nomar jersy and a Sox hat on backwards tilted to the right.
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I still just can't shake the fact that Lee and Soriano aren't the answer. No matter what Schlum says.
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Wow. This got me to actually look at Ensberg's career stats - check out 2003 v. 2006. The games played, ABs, runs, doubles, homers, and RBI are damn near identical. Bizarre. Then you look at walks, Ks, average, on-base pct, and slugging pct, and they are just as wildly, tragically different as you would expect, given how much his approach has shifted since that breakout partial season. What a weird evolution as a player...
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"I'm going to first assume that this whole process is done in good faith," Boras said.
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Richard Hidalgo? Oh wait, that was someone else.
Thanks Gerry.
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Selig has always been able to do anything, regarding any trade, if it's in "the best interest of baseball".
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Also, the deal is usually worked out between player and new team first. In the case at hand it is sort of a contingent transfer fee ... contingent on the Red Sox working out a deal with whatshisname.
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For those Euro-types that hang about here, is this how transfers in Non-American football work? Are the transfer fees refundable? How much leverage does a player have to refuse to play for a team that he's transfered to?
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How about "paranoid"?
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In all fairness, it was in response to a question about what it would take to land Peavy in a trade AND you were recently discussed as the back of the rotation starter the Astros were likely to use next season. Give him at least 1 more post before any conclusions are made. All I know is I won't read thru 10 pages of that again before finding the handy-dandy ignore feature.
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...anyone want to actually talk about Jason Jennings?
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Last I heard JimR trusted his stuff better than Wandy.
And Albers is likely ahead of Wandy after his meltdown this year too.
Most mammals are likely ahead of Wandy.
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Damn you know more about what I did than I do.
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Turns out one of my college roommates is one of his drinking budies.
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But is wreckless the same as reckless?
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Do you actually do any work, or do you just look at YouTube all day?
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If one has tea parties with the same imaginary people exclusively, does that make one's opinions inbred?
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That indeed is Matt Harrington, but Boras was not his agent, at least not then. It was Tommy Tanzer. Harrington was the first overall pick in the 2000 draft, and demanded a signing bonus of $4.9 million. The Rockies offered $4 million and a guaranteed Major League callup, Harrington turned them down. He was drafted again in 2001 by the Padres and demanded $2.5 million. The Pads offered him $1.2 million. He turned that down, and went back into the draft in 2002, where he was selected in the Devil Rays in the 13th round. They offered $200,000, and he turned that down. By this time Harrington had fired Tanzer and replaced him with Boras. In 2003, he was selected in the 24th round by the Reds who did not offer him a signing bonus. He, of course, turned that down. In 2004 he was selected in the 39th round by the Yankees, but they refused to offer him a contract even. He went undrafted in 2005, finally becoming a free agent, which he sought to be all along. No team would sign him in 2005, and he went undrafted again in 2006. He finally signed a few weeks ago with the Cubs as an undrafted free agent for the minor league minimum, with no signing bonus. He is without a doubt, the single most self-wasted potential in Major League history.
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?One of the things that will be a challenge for Bud,? said Larry Dierker, the former pitcher who managed the Houston Astros from 1997 to 2001, ?is to try to get the hitters to believe that he knows what he's doing as far as putting some lineups down and putting some plays on that score runs." (a problem that Dierker never solved)
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Whiskers O'Kelly is that old man in the trench coat who stumbles across a couple having at it in the park and then rubs one out watching them.
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(Pirates) Second baseman Jose Castillo was not in the starting lineup Monday against the St. Louis Cardinals, mostly because manager Jim Tracy thought Castillo needed a rest after starting 19 of the first 20 games. Tracy said he noticed in Houston that Castillo had started taking "elongated swings," but he insisted that was not the reason Castillo was out of the lineup. Tracy said he saw Castillo trying to reach the Astros' porch in short left field "way too often" in that three-game series.
"He just needs to realize that you can't allow the environment to change your approach," Tracy said.
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See also, Hidalgo, Richard
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Porn name is Whiskers O'Kelly.
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The right-handed Wells could take advantage of the short left-field porch at Minute Maid Park
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Lets see, we've mentioned proximity to large tracts of land, revenge fantasies, moldy ballparks, tasty condiments, like minded teammates and an opportunity to use their skills...nope, I got nothin.
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I may be naive enough to think that players base their decisions on where to play on the organization and the team and the best fit for their temperament and skills.
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I've always tried to hold my fire on Drew, aware as I am of my perhaps irrational disdain for him ever since, early on in his career, he seemed to be advocating celibacy as a viable lifestyle choice.
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Correction, certain players get paid at certain times. Ask Millwood how well his FA situations worked out prior to the Rangers. I wouldn't call his previous contracts "overpaid paid". True, players like Beltran and A-Rod set the standard. Most fail to live up to the hype or contacts of either of those two.
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It's difficult to identify a part of Drew's body that has not been injured in his 20s. Does that look to improve with age?
It's closer to the truth to say that he missed part of '05 for the same reasons Bagwell did and Everett did. He had to get his shoulder cleaned out too.
And before that it's been his wrist, his ankle, his back, his neck, his ribs, his quads, his hammies, etc., etc.
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Even funnier in other languages. Schwanzus Longus
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I don't agree that his numbers at Wrigley will be any more of a draw than his ranch, but I think the ranch thing is total hooey. If everyone just played close to home, San Diego or Arizona would win the WS every year and no one would play in Boston or Detroit.
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I didn't say anything to Ewing, he just walked by like he was late for the movie.
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Britney Spears told husband of two years Kevin Federline that she was divorcing him via a text message while he was recording a TV interview... The wannabe rapper, 27, was filming a segment for MuchMusic in Canada at the time. He interrupted the interview and stormed off, returning 30 minutes later visibly upset.
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So when this fails miserably, can America rid the country of soccer once and for all?
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I saw Patrick Ewing at the Edwards cinema on Wesylyn (sp.?) once.
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ETA: By the way, one of my good friend's wife used to do Bagwell's girlfriend's hair at some upscale salon in Galleria. The friend's wife said this bitch used to come in and brag about Bagwell and all the things he bought her and was a general pain in the ass who didn't tip for shit.
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Bowie is my current dog.
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The Reds' new pitching coach's parents took it to another level:
Reds Hire Dick Pole
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Nobody who made $2M last year needs alimony. I don't understand why alimony isn't subject to some sort of needs-testing.
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Britney files for divorce
I told you it was crap.
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I think I'm the guy who comes home and finds my old lady in a three way with Rocket Streamside and Dick Thunderbird.
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Rocket Streamside
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Sparky Northfield. I'm not kidding.
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I don't know, but if he wins, I'm singing "Asshole From El Paso" all day long.
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c) Would this player fit in with the Astros' team philosophy?
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That would make me "Major County Road 145". But for about 3 months a few years back I would have been Major Nut.
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I find it hard to believe that a fraud of that size can be run by only a couple people at the top. Enron had a fake trading floor set up, and run only when investors were coming through. Getting a hundred people to jump around and yell like bond traders? and no one knew it was a scam?
Someone as high as HD apparently was, had to have known.
IMHO, the only reason most of them were unhappy was they could not transfer their 401(k) money out when they saw the house of cards about to collapse.
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Hetero wasn't funny. He was annoying. And an Enron lackey that probably still believes nothing was wrong with Enron and he should still be working there.
Huh?
I don't understand what you're saying. Are you saying that H.D. was an Enron lackey who probably still believes nothing was wrong with Enron?
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Fenton can be coy all he wants about it meaning feeling lonely after a breakup, but there's no doubt the song is about whacking off to a girl's picture.
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Harvey Feirstein. There's your Jim Edmonds.
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I think it's a "psyched lone-ranger" but anyway, it always seemed to me the song was written from the perspective of a guy who is in prison... uh, feeling isolated and horny.
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You know what that song is about, don't you?
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Why is that? The field tests are on camera. Are you saying it is easier to pass the field test, and the attorney can argue the blow?
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Well, she was never supposed to know. That was the beauty of my plan...if she was within distance to hear her phone calling mine, she wouldn't need to call me on the phone. But alas, the inevitable happened...the ol' "there's something wrong with my phone it won't dial...let me test it out"...busted.
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So, who gets to play the main characters? Suggestions? I'm wracking my brains trying to figure out how to get Tom Berenger and Gary Busey in there.
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I just hate the drunks who drive and talk on the cell phones at the same time.
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If this ain't the topper, La Bobble-Genius is now the subject of a movie.
BFIBs, I'm certain,will become the BFOM (Best fans of Movies).
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Not knowing any of the circumstances of what Pence did, and acknowledging that DUI is a serious charge, I think throwing out the "he could of killed somebody" line is absurdly over the top.
Downing a bottle of tequila and hopping behind the car, yes, that's very bad and very dangerous. Not waiting the five minutes after having a couple of beers that drops your BAA from .08 to .07? That's a youthful indiscretion. And one is no more likely to "kill anybody" in the latter situation than drinking iced tea and getting behind the wheel.
DUI is always a serious charge, because that's what the legislators wanted it to be. It doesn't mean that in reality it ALWAYS a mortal risk to society.
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I made a passing reference to HD in a post earlier this year (during Lay's trial maybe) and almost instantaneously received an email from himself - not flattering, but as usual, entertaining in a perverse sort of way.
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Exactly. Notice that Bagwell is last in that group in every category.
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I think you're forgetting Jimmie Foxx.
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Unless you didn't. The focus in the NYCU note was on his "strange" bowlegged look. I think he'd fill a real void in the wierd stance department with the Astros.
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That is why I said Gehrig is probably the only one who is someone you could say was a better 1B than Bagwell, ever.
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What's scary is that Gehrig played only 14 more games than Bagwell but drove in 466 more runs. He must've had somebody pretty good batting in front of him.
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What's scary is that Gehrig played only 14 more games than Bagwell but drove in 466 more runs. He must've had somebody pretty good batting in front of him.
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Don't you think it's interesting that the rest of the players that reached Jeff's numbers all managed to play MANY more years and end with "much" higher counting stats (the power numbers anyway)?
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You're missing the point. I'm not saying that Bagwell is in the same eschelon as these players. However, it is important if one is deciding Jeff's HoF worthiness. Look at it another way, Bagwell may be far behind these legends (and one a-hole), but no one else makes it at all.
Not missing the point. Just seeing it differently. Actually, here's the comparison through roughly the same number of games:Player G R H HR RBI BB SBAlso through that number of games:
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Bagwell 2150 1517 2314 449 1529 1401 202
Aaron 2119 1519 2618 481 1541 802 187
Bonds 2143 1584 2157 494 1405 1547 471
Mays 2157 1596 2540 542 1505 1019 281
Robinson 2196 1516 2427 475 1455 1086 193Player Avg OBP Slg
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Bagwell .297 .408 .540
Aaron .316 .374 .565
Bonds .289 .412 .567
Mays .312 .387 .591
Robinson .303 .394 .553
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Players (and years played) who accumulated 1500 runs, 2300 hits, 400 homers, 1500 RBI, 1400 walks and 200 stolen bases in their careers:
Hank Aaron (23 years)
Barry Bonds (20 years and counting)
Willie Mays (22 years)
Frank Robinson (21 years)
Jeff Bagwell (15 years)
That is all.
Carve these names on a bat, and use it to beat anyone who claims that Bagwell is even marginal for the Hall.
With all due respect to Bagwell, one of these things is not like the other:Player R H HR RBI BB SB
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Aaron 2174 3771 755 2297 1402 240
Bonds 2152 2841 734 1930 2426 509
Mays 2062 3283 660 1903 1464 338
Robinson 1829 2943 586 1812 1420 204
Bagwell 1517 2314 449 1529 1401 202
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I'm as big a Bagwell fan as there is, but for this to be an honest comparison, you really ought to point out when each of these men passed that threshold. For all I know, Aaron also passed it in his 15th season, but kept on playing for 8 more.
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I'm about to get all sentimental.
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HD's strength (aside from an amazing ability to ignore facts and reality) was his inventiveness with language: "gorvelling" (which may have started out as a mere transposition error but has since become a fixture), "bush-neck", and others sprouted from his fertile (fetid?) mind. I think he deserves credit for the "more presents under the Christmas tree" dig, too. It was almost too perfect when we learned that he worked at Enron.
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Players (and years played) who accumulated 1500 runs, 2300 hits, 400 homers, 1500 RBI, 1400 walks and 200 stolen bases in their careers:
Hank Aaron (23 years)
Barry Bonds (20 years and counting)
Willie Mays (22 years)
Frank Robinson (21 years)
Jeff Bagwell (15 years)
That is all.
Carve these names on a bat, and use it to beat anyone who claims that Bagwell is even marginal for the Hall.
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most of which was done during the dome years.
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The only problem with this is that then you'd have Gary Sheffield on your team.
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Most first basemen aren't known for stealing bases.
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the worst part of it is, thomas's comeback with the A's this year might actually cement this stupidity in alot of people's minds.
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Some (HD in particular) weren't exactly trying to be funny, either.
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Mr. Lyons, who admitted being drunk at the time...
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There is the off-chance that a national sports writer from the north east (in other words, Peter Gammons) will take it upon himself to champion Bagwell's cause. Who knows. I'm not going to worry or even think about his HOF odds until 2011. It's not worth the frustration. It also wouldn't hurt if the local writers, and I use that term loosely, would actually support his cause when his name shows up on the ballot. But I don't want to set the bar too high for them.
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Actually it is based on the last game you played in, so 2006 does counts towards his wait. So I guess 2011, we can have a party.
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Let's see. If I take Friday off...I can be in Ruidoso some time around midnight. If I fish Saturday and leave Sunday at sun-up, I can make it back to Houston in time for work Monday.
Wow.
32 hours of driving for 8 hours of fishing! Genius.
You're not committed to winning.
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I've never gone, but my understanding is that it gets pretty crowded after a stocking
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And don't let these guys talk you into an acoustic, if you really wanna shred. True, if you just want to sit around the pool and pick some Jimmy Buffett tunes, an acoustic is probably more handy. But if that acoustic just won't get loud enough for you, go for it man.
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Ah.
It was more the posts than the people. I don't care about the Golden Scott thing, just wanted to see a bunch of funny in one place.
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What the fuck? Why did the Men In Charge stop doing this?
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You know it is all about Chelsea.
Go Ballack Go.
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Shiner 97 Bohemian Black Lager. Pretty good.
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True enough. Liverpool or Arsenal then? or are you going to keep me guessing...
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I say we deport Limey.
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ARghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! Drogba scores....Unbelievable. Barca is in bad shape so far this season. Are you a Chelsea fan? or maybe United?
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Cheers indeed. Retire #5 on opening day in 07 and leave room for #7 in 08. I was fan way before these two but they will always define Astro baseball.
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Well, I'm assuming that Berkman is better off permanently at 1B. I certainly think he is.
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Ok, but if we're going to do that, why not just put Lamb at 1B and Lance back in RF? Lance is a much better OF than Lamb would be. Then you get both bats in the lineup and don't have to worry about a guy at a new position.
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But a general question...am I the only one thinking it's not the craziest idea out there to try to make Mike Lamb an outfielder?
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Lee scares me: I think last year was his career year, and that whoever signs him will wind up overpaying. I think Soriano will cost more, but I think he'll maintain his production level.
Doing this would probably make it impossible to sign another pitcher, but signing Ramirez and Soriano would certainly liven up the offense. Of course, you probably can't do it for less than $25M-26M/year.
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forget it. sign Lee as a FA and keep the pitchers.
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call-in radio idiots
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Dammit Jim, I'm an accountant, not a spell checker.
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He said a "good" tax consultant.
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Shiner 97 Bohemian Black Lager. Pretty good. Still waiting for Dunkelweisen to reappear.
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For all the early ridiculous talk about Mario Williams being a bust, Reggie Bush is averaging 3 yards a carry and has 1 touchdown (and even an interception).
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Anyone here know of a good tax consultant, preferably with International experience?
PM me or e-mail at [email protected]
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Vince Young is the most overrated player to come out of college since Ryan Leaf. He will not be an impact player in the NFL. He will not last 5 seasons in the NFL.
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Limey - I hear ya from a symbolic standpoint, my point is that from a football standpoint, singularly, Vince's performance yesterday in no way should be enough to validate one's (negative) opinion of the draft, unless you have a pre-existing emotional attachment to said player passed over. Besides, the 2006 draft class is shaping up to be the best one yet for the Texans, of course the previous clusterfucks make that achievement less substantial.
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vince is hardly tearing the league apart by any measure you wish to choose. once he can throw the ball past 15 yards that doesnt cause the WR to stop and turn around to catch it, then maybe he might actually be of worth in the NFL.
and besides, considering it was only the fans clamoring for vince, who wasnt going to be drafted by the texans, mario williams or no, i think this a bit of a reach.
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the real culprit is the editor; i honestly and sincerely don't think the chornicle employs any.
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Oh, not just the draft.
Vernand Morency, 3rd round pick - 101 yds rushing; traded for
Samkon Gado, UFA - did not play, inactive, coaches' decision.
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The Texans' 2006 draft lunacy, as you put it, was debatable prior to yesterday's Titans/Texans game. I'm not sure what Vince's 7/15 for 87 yards exposed, Carr out performed Vince and he (Carr) was benched for the whole second half.
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Which we will be reminded of twice a season from now ON.
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the Tennessee Vince's beat the houston texans and david carr was benched.
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I tend to think that if players really do change their approach with RISP, it won't help them too much. You want them to expand the strike zone to make sure they don't walk?
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Also, fuck the Jakes.
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we have to call them the 1stinals. What a freakin ride for Jeff Weaver this year. I still hate them. But I think my hate for the AL is bigger and more uncontrollable. Screw your DH and All-Star wins.