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QUOTE(AbeFroman @ Oct 9, 2006 -> 08:26 AM) Can someone the significance of a nuclear test? We've known for at least two years now that North Korea has at least one nuke. So what difference does it make if they test it? I'm sure we'll see all kinds of diplomatic responses now... but what good does waiting until after they test it do? Remember the Type-o-Dong 2? The missle that could hit the U.S. mainland but fizzled out over the summer? Now we know that those things work. And so does everyone else, including potential buyers.

USGS web site. A magnitude 4 event is supposedly equivalent to a blast of slightly over 1 kiloton in size.

So, this is one case where the topic title says it all. AP Link. CNN Link. The BBC ran with unconfirmed reports of a seismic event of roughly a magnitude of 3.5 occuring in the North of the country. Because bomb explosions produce a different sort of seismic signature from a normal earthquake, it will be possible at some point to confirm whether or not this report is true and whether or not it was an explosion. This follows several days of rumors and threats from the North suggesting they were on the verge of conducting a test.

QUOTE(SoxAce @ Oct 8, 2006 -> 02:37 PM) Us bears fans PWNing Wite and another poster's Bills (I forgot who it is).. priceless. Attention: Demarcus Ware is a beast. That is all. That'd probably be me as the other poster, but I don't really mind, all I was hoping to see from the Bills this season was a sign that they were actually on the way up rather than the way down, and we've already seen that. The only way the Bills had a shot was if the Bears didn't take them seriously...right now the Bears are way better than the Bills. The Bills have a shot to be real good in a year or two.

QUOTE(AirScott @ Oct 8, 2006 -> 01:09 PM) uuuhh...I don't think I ever implied I was "throwing up" at the idea of A-Rod for that price...nope, didn't happen. no implication that I was throwing up at the idea. but having A-Rod for as much as we're paying Konerko, Thome and Vazquez? that is ovulicious. We're only paying Thome abotu $6-$7 million a year. We got a truckload of cash from the Phillies.

So, seriously, Cowboys/Eagles is "The game of the year"? Yeesh.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Oct 8, 2006 -> 01:02 PM) No. I've been saying since after week 2 that I think the Bears are the team in the NFC to beat. I just thought I'd post my opinion on here. After last week...I think almost everyone who watches the NFL thought the exact same thing.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Oct 8, 2006 -> 12:57 PM) The Bears are indeed the best team in football. So doing that to the defending NFC Champs last weekend didn't convince you but doing this to a team that missed the playoffs last year did?

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Oct 8, 2006 -> 12:20 PM) I did too. And then he threw 14 INTs. I also dislike Terrence McGee. If he gets beat again...wtf do I care, he's been beaten like 4 times today and it's cost the Bills like 21 points. All I can do is hope they get on the board. Not much more. Coming into this game, the only way the Bills would have had a shot is if the Bears were sloppy all week and wound up not caring. Turns out they were ready. The Bills are on their way up. The Bears are at the top right now. This was bound to happen as long as the Bears weren't hung over. They're just a better team. Hopefully the young Bills learn something from this pounding. Sometimes you have to be pounded a few times before you can learn to pound on others.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Oct 8, 2006 -> 04:58 AM) lol... maybe it's just me, but we LIVE and BREATHE on planet earth and can't agree on the history of OUR planet. How much good could a few home videos and some snap shots do for our understanding of a planet millions of miles away? (that being said, I'm sure they'll do a lot of good...lol) Um, those who actually pay attention seem to agree about a lot of things about our planet's history. It's around 4.5 billion years old, life evolved on it very early, oxygen developed around 2.5 billion years ago, multicellular life after that, hard parts evolved around 550 ma, oceanic crust tends to subduct underneath other crust when it gets older than about 250 million years, 251 million years ago 98% of the genera on earth went extinct, 65 million years ago there was a large impact, etc, and on and on and on. Mars, we don't even know close to that much.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 8, 2006 -> 10:10 AM) Obama won't run. He has said clearly, numerous times, he won't. And for a guy like him, that sort of "word" is is reputation. If he goes against it, be buries the very thing he would use as his "in". But...he's also attending steak fry's in Iowa with Tom Harkin.

QUOTE(knightni @ Oct 8, 2006 -> 08:44 AM) http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2617224 ESPN confirms it. Just a note...ESPN isn't confirming he's going to be fired, they're only confirming that the papers in New York are making these reports.

QUOTE(knightni @ Oct 8, 2006 -> 12:17 AM) GO A'S! Screw the Tigers and (ha-ha!) Twins. And a gigantic, $250 million screw you to the moneybags as well! QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Oct 8, 2006 -> 12:23 AM) I've actually learned to respect this Detroit team a lot because of how little respect they've had all season. They won 95 games with dominant pitching and still nobody gave them a chance in October, hell almost everyone thought they'd be swept. They're a real good team with a legit shot at winning it all(I still think they will). Well, here's the other side of that...all that pitching turned out not to be enough to save Detroit the Central division despite the monster lead they built up earlier in the year. Detroit beat the Yankees because the Yankee pitching staff was a freaking disaster. The Yankees got what they deserved. It'll be interesting to see if Detroit can beat a team built more on pitching and defense rather than 95% on offense, and 5% on Rivera. They have a legit shot, because the playoffs are won by pitching, pitching, pitching. The Yankees had almost none. Detroit had a lot. But so do the A's.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Oct 8, 2006 -> 12:03 AM) What, exactly, does that say? That he really is not committed to the Yankees, and will not fight to stay there.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Oct 7, 2006 -> 11:43 PM) Eh, one guy compared to the whole city is a little bit different. You're right, we don't know how he'd react, but I think he'd be just fine. My only counterpoint is this: that's a lot of money to risk on that opinion.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Oct 7, 2006 -> 10:20 PM) Holy s***, just saw the high lights on ESPN. If I sound like a bitter Sox fan, so be it, but act like you have been there before, at least a little. Showering the fans with bubbly? Your going to the ALCS, win 8 more first. How many of them have been there before?

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Oct 7, 2006 -> 11:36 PM) The guy was pretty damn awesome outside of NY in the playoffs, hell he even did well in 04. Unfortunately for him, one bad postseason last season basically got every single Yankee fan on his back and I think it got into his head. Get him out of New York and I think he does just fine. Who knows how much NY has gotten into his head? Maybe Mariotti talks to him and his brain goes "here we go again".

Whoever plays the Mets and Frank Thomas.

QUOTE(AirScott @ Oct 7, 2006 -> 11:32 PM) grr...I meant to mention Ozzie. or the whole "hypocrite" comment fiasco. oh well. I need sleep. I can't comprehend the complexities of A-Rod on the White Sox. not now. After the apology and actual contrition from Guillen, I think the 2 would get along surprisingly well. My only question of course is what Arod would do if he carried us to the playoffs. I just have no confidence in him late in games or in the clutch. I would rather have Thome up.

QUOTE(AirScott @ Oct 7, 2006 -> 11:25 PM) when I think more about this, maybe A-Rod wouldn't be a good fit. think, he was happy on Texas, the team sucked, but he was unquestionably "the man." on the Yankees, Jeter is "the man," and A-Rod is second or third fiddle. in New York, A-Rod will never surpass Jeter. now it's weird in Chicago. Paulie's "the man" here, but he seems a quieter leader than Jeter. so would A-Rod's ego fit here? what exactly does A-Rod need to be happy, content, whatever? ARod's problem would not be Konerko, it would be Guillen. You need to ask yourself one question if you want to know whether or not ARod would have a problem here...who would Mariotti blame when the team didn't win 120 games and go wire to wire? ARod's only major competition in the media for control of this team would be Ozzie.

Linkity . They don't acutally say he's gone in anything but the headline, as far as I can tell.

Al Leiter pitched for the Yankees in 2005. He is therefore greater than any other normal non-Yankee human being.

The Mets will lose if they run into a genuine starting pitching group.

Go Frank. Hands down. Go Frank. I owe the Tigers a great debt for eliminating the "buy the trophy" Mother F***ers. But now that the deed is done, my use of them has finished, and I'll cheer for the greatest White Sox player in history, and the guy who would have won the 2003 Cy Young award had Manuel not made him pitch against the Twins when he was sick.