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QUOTE(valponick @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 02:42 PM) link? The link to the older thread should probably suffice.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 01:45 PM) Surely somebody else appreciates the trifecta of irony (OK, actually hypocrisy) of the fact that so many of those frozen embryos are the results of nominal Christians who not only think 'following God's Will' means persuing near-superhuman efforts to conceive, but also insist on carrying all 6 or or however many of the implanted embryos to term regardless of health risks to the fetuses, and at teh same time will not give a second thought to the dozen or so fertilized embryos left sitting in a clinic freezer that WILL end up being discarded. That would mean these nominal Christians are the willful participants and driving motivator in the creation and eventual abortion (= MURDER if I've been following their argument right) of thousands of "sacred" human lives each year. Go figure. Man, Flaxx...it seems to me like you're really stretching to find hypocrisy there. Yeah, I'm sure there are fundamentalist christians who are using these facilities and at the same time opposing the research, but I don't see much use in pointing it out unless you can prove to me that a large majority are. Seems like you're straining to find a group of people to go after specifically. I think it makes the point well enough to say that opposition to stem cell research for religious reasons not teamed with a desire to outlaw in vitro fertilization clinics that use current methods is quite hypocritical, whether or not people are making use of those services.

QUOTE(klaus kinski @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 12:42 PM) I can see the Yankees getting Carlos Lee Not with as weak as the NL Central is this year. The Brewers are still too close to start dumping, especially given how little they've gotten from Sheets thusfar.

QUOTE(klaus kinski @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 12:44 PM) There goes the Twins chemistry They still have Rincon.

Wow, so this working search function? Sweetness. Anywho, update on this thread. More exploratory drilling has taken place in this field, and it seems to be Significantly Smaller than President Fox's first estimates.

QUOTE(knightni @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 12:11 PM) Fox will send Lou doddering back to games next year? Oh for the love of Metamucil! Not if the Cubs hire him first.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 12:11 PM) Perhaps. If it were me, I'd put in Ryan, Papelbon, Jenks and then Rivera. I think he'll go with that, or a slight variance. Supposedly Papelbon is going to be the backup guy at the end of the bench who won't pitch unless it goes 10 innings, after throwing a lot of innings over the weekend.

QUOTE(bschmaranz @ Jul 9, 2006 -> 10:43 PM) Ann Coulter? TRADE HIM! If I can put up with Carl Everett...

Linky. Damnit, they keep Saturday Baseball. I hope to God they change the blackout rules. Those are the worst f***ing things...

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 10:45 AM) Why can't the Palis give up the soldier and just call it a day? /sits and waits for the Isreal is scumsucking power tripping assholes answer... after all the Palis are sooooooooooooooooooooo innocent. That would be a logical step on their part. So, let's assume they're idiots and don't do that. I'd say that this blockade is still unsustainable. You can't just starve a people into submission, no matter how stupid their actions are.

So, The Jerusalem Post is running this: In other words, something seems to need to change right now, or a lot more civilians will start dying.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 08:22 AM) Wow, the number of dead keeps going up quickly 135.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 09:54 AM) I just realized we're off until Friday. Isn't it usually just a 3-day break? Yup. Occasionally it comes up in the schedule where one of the off-days winds up sitting on the back end of the AS break. There's actually a fairly small load of games scheduled for Thursday anyway. And after Sunday, I think a lot of our guys could use the extra day off.

QUOTE(watchtower41 @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 09:58 AM) Has Rob even played LF this year?? Rob has actually come in a couple of times late in games as a defensive replacement for Scott.

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 09:46 AM) He will still be an elite defender for 2 seasons at least id say. Than his 3rd season probably will start a decline but still good. I dont know what to expect the 4th season at all but by that time he will be good trade bait with an expiring contract. There will also be value to be had in Big Ben even if he's in decline by the end of his contract. Sam Cassel isn't exactly the best point guard in the league, but look how useful he was for the Clippers this year. Big Ben is exactly what the Bulls needed...a vet who fits in perfectly with Skiles's system, who will work hard, who can kick the ass of some of the kids if they're not working hard, and who can take some of the pressure off of the kids when they're struggling. Even if his skills start to go down hill, he's a veteran with balls, which was one of the big pieces the Bulls were missing last year.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 08:10 AM) Actually I would argue that it has prevented much more brutal wars and invasions from happening. I won't argue that is a perfect system, but what is when you have sworn enemies committed to your destruction on all sides? People are afraid of Israel and for good reason. I'm sort of missing the connection here, I just fail to see how the wall itself has prevented more brutal "wars" from happening. I can understand how the wall has helped prevent quite a few suicide attacks, and probably prevented associated responses from Israel, but unless you consider what Israel to be doing right now to be fighting a war, I can't see how the wall has fit into that. Syria would not have invaded Israel if there was no wall today, for example. The thing that has prevented more brutal wars involving Israel since, oh, about 1973, has been the Isreali bomb, which has made it so that if countries were successful in driving Israel into the Med, those countries wouldn't exist to celebrate their victory.

Irish, it's actually worse than that. There are literally hundreds of thousands of frozen embryos in this country that people have saved through fertility clinics which will never, ever be used for anything. Typically a few dozen embryos are created during ain vitro fertilization processes, and on average, about 3 of them are actually used. The rest? They either are immediately discarded, or more commonly, they sit there taking up freezer space. There's never going to be anything close to enough demand for "Embryo adoption" or whatever you want to call it to satisfy the numbers that are created and stored during fertility procedures, so basically, these embryos sit in a freezer until they are discarded. We're not talking, for the most part, about aborted fetuses, not making use of things that have begun to develop at all. We're literally talking about frozen clumps of cells which are totally unregulated, stored, and will eventually be discarded.

Yesterday: Woke up @ 6:30. Read paper, showered, had breakfast, biked in to school, caught up on 2 weeks worth of news, email, etc., set up a meeting for later in the week, got ready to try another experiment, wasted a lot of the day on Soxtalk, went home, had dinner, went and saw Pearl Jam @ the Forum.

A CNN Correspondent was actually on one of the trains.

Shine on, you crazy diamond...

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Jul 10, 2006 -> 04:39 PM) I've always been a fan of the HR derby. They just keep getting amazing. McGwire's in Boston, Giambi in Seattle, Sosa in Atlanta and Milwaukee, Anderon/Pujols in Chicago, Tejada in Houston, Abreu in Detroit... Wow, you can actually track the improvement of those drugs with time.

QUOTE(Greg Hibbard @ Jul 10, 2006 -> 03:48 PM) I count about 3 games out of 250 he has played for us. In other words, about the same number Timo Perez has. Correct me if I'm wrong. Ok, seriously, comparing someone to Timo? That's hitting below the belt.

QUOTE(Damen @ Jul 10, 2006 -> 03:32 PM) Not saying it would or should happen, but supposing we were able to get rid of Pods in favor of Carl Crawford, that would be an improvement for this year. How is improving your team now akin to "selling"? That's like saying the Red Sox were sellers in 2004 because they traded Nomar. I was referring to the Angels giving us Figgins. Although it's interesting to note they're just as far back as we are.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Jul 10, 2006 -> 02:27 PM) If by little value you mean he has a shot at being our leftfielder next year, then I guess he has little value. If you read Merkin's piece on Whitesox.com on Fields, you get the sense that a positional change for Fields is in the future and it's even discussed by Razor Shines. No way he gets moved for Tom Gordon. Here's the article you mention. I for one am surprised he hasn't had some Playing time in LF already. And a bit disappointed too. It'd be very nice to use Podsednik as our version of Rowand (trade bait) this offseason if we felt like Fields could fill that role next year.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Jul 10, 2006 -> 02:19 PM) So how come when a Muslim bomb blows up innocent Muslims, it doens't spawn more people willing to fight against the terrorists? Hmmm. How many people have you heard about who enlisted in our army after 9/11? (With Israel, it's a bit of a different story, since military service is mandatory there IIRC)