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QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 26, 2007 -> 09:48 AM) Yeah but unlike you, she is too pretty to go to jail. Maybe I should get one of those separator-thingies installed in my teeth. Would that help? On a different subject...

Link.

Adrian Peterson re-injured his shoulder in the Fiesta Bowl. The injury has previously only been disclosed to NFL teams. IMO, this kid keeps looking like a riskier and riskier pick for the health reasons. There are just some people who seem drawn to these sorts of freaky injuries.

Condi Rice to defy a subpoena. You know...if I were to do that...defy a subpoena (hopefully none are issued for me any time soon) I can imagine I'd wind up spending quite some time in jail.

So, question...does this mean that Rogowski was able to clear waivers and no one else had any interest in picking him up?

Tear them apart Jose.

Was Luis on the 40-man?

I dunno, it looked like it might have had some promise, but Fox started off by pissing me off by running the premier over the Simpsons/Family guy time block, and that's never a good way to start a relationship with me. Plus I just didn't really have time for another 1 hour show right now.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 26, 2007 -> 09:04 AM) Does that mean we shift more burden to them? Isn't that exactly what you guys have been trying to do with the tax code?

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 26, 2007 -> 05:50 AM) Personal plea: please re-think Edwards. Dig a little deeper - I think there is very little substance there. I'm still leaning in Obama's direction, but honestly, Edwards has run a much better and much smarter campaign the last 2 months. Just look at their 2 statements...Obama comes off whining about Rudy being mean, and Edwards just comes out and calls B.S. on a B.S. statement. The correct response to this sort of impugning of the Dems is exactly what Edwards did; call B.S. on it and actually come out looking strong. Edwards seems to be setting the curve on everything...trying to control carbon emissions as part of his campaign, being the first to pull out of the Fox News hosted debates, getting policy positions out there that make sense. Obama's a hell of a speaker, but in terms of running the campaign, Edwards seems a step ahead of him at every point. And we've seen in the past 2 elections that no matter what you do, if you run a crappy, disorganized campaign, the Republicans are going to win.

I think the biggest problem we're learning about with the latest data is that Europe did things the wrong way. The Europeans set up their system by going to the companies that were already using energy and saying "Here you go, here are all your carbon offsets" for the stuff they were already using. Thus, all of the power over the system was in the hands of the people who were already emmitting. Some of them did things the right way and actually invested in green technology to free up carbon offsets for sale...and it appears quite a few did not. It looks like this is giving us an important lesson in how to set up a better system if the rest of the world (aka the U.S. and China) ever get involved. Specifically, we can't put all of the power over the system in the hands of people who are looking to make a profit at any cost. It appears that it would be much better, rather than issuing carbon credits, to set up a carbon tax system, where an entity charges businesses that don't comply and rewards those that do comply rather than giving away carbon credits that businesses can sell.

According to this morning's Tribune:

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Apr 25, 2007 -> 09:57 PM) Steroids in baseball aren't a big deal to anyone. We all pretend they are -- Bonds is the devil -- but nobody cares. Well, except for the families of those dead kids.

That show has already played 4 times? Man, where have I been?

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Apr 25, 2007 -> 09:37 PM) We are channeling Pinella "We're really primed to hit the ground running this year" "Oh just wait, we're built to be a summer team" "We're going to close out this season strong, I can feel it." "Wait til next year"

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Apr 25, 2007 -> 08:52 PM) As far as we know, carbon-based is necessary for life, but we certainly don't know everything. I don't know if science has some how (accurately) ruled out other forms of life existing elsewhere. Life is remarkably adaptable, so it wouldn't surprise me if non-carbon life were out there. They key phrase that will usually be said is "Life as we know it". As far as we know, carbon is key to life because of its abundance and the way it behaves in chemical compounds. If there is some other energetic configuration out there that can give rise to a self-replicating organism on which natural selection acts, we simply have no concept of how it operates.

Well, at least Erstad saw 1 more pitch than Anderson. That counts, right?

This is going to do wonders for Both Boone's confidence and Ozzie's confidence in him.

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Apr 25, 2007 -> 04:42 PM) Look at the specific rule itself Again I ask, what MLB club is MLB connected with? Well, technically all of them in some fashion...currently most specifically the Brewers. But it's a stretch either way.

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Apr 25, 2007 -> 05:55 PM) Eric Young would vote for Ian Kinsler for AL Player of the Month. I find that funny for some reason That's not quite as bad as Steve Phillips saying that if he could start a team with any player in MLB he'd pick Papelbon. But close.

So does anyone else really, really want to see Danks get the chance to hit? Might teach the rest of our guys somethin.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Apr 25, 2007 -> 07:00 PM) I was thinking in Ozzie terms, here. Terrero isn't lefthanded. If Mackowiak goes down, he'll need another one. Well, Dye is a righty... God d*mnit Erstad...

God damnit Brian...

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Apr 25, 2007 -> 06:57 PM) Our lineup tomorrow may be disastrous if Mackowiak, Dye, and Thome are out. If Mack's down for a significant amount of time, which no one knows at this point, I imagine Sweeney would be called up. Terrero?

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Apr 25, 2007 -> 05:49 PM) I can't imagine worse. It involves Timo.