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QUOTE(Rex Hudler @ Mar 16, 2006 -> 11:39 AM) UCLA Belmont game is game 2 in San Diego. The IU game is game 4 in SLC. Even with a 2-hour delay they won't conflict. You're right, that's a relief...if everything starts on time. I'll probably miss the Zaga game, but the game i want to see with them is their loss on Saturday anyway.

QUOTE(Soxbadger @ Mar 16, 2006 -> 12:13 PM) Best situation for me really. BC wins which means I get the points, but they have to play 2 OT game going into Sunday's match up. Most of the time I've seen in the tourney...the game beforehand usually winds up having almost no effect on the team the next game. They've got 2 days to rest, and they got a real test. Sometimes they come out lax after a game like this, sometimes it just makes teams more determined, and you never know which will happen. All that matters is they got the W.

Well, Pacific had plenty of chances but just couldn't close it off. This game's over.

QUOTE(ChWRoCk2 @ Mar 16, 2006 -> 12:12 PM) Aww snap, watch out Pacific fans the real BC has showed up "The Real BC" has been here a couple times already...start of each half...Pacific's come back each time. They just might not have enough clock here, and they can't shoot all of a sudden.

Damn, Pacific may have missed their best chance in that first OT.

Moraker's suddenly ice cold.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Mar 16, 2006 -> 12:06 PM) That foul was complete and utter bulls***. There was plenty of contact, but I don't think I'd have called that. Hell, it was pretty close to a charge.

Man, why didn't Pacific call a TO there?

Man, that didn't look like a foul to me.

BAM! BYE BYE BC! Edit: That's what you call speaking too soon.

Man, Pacific was NOT ready for that press.

A DAGGER! 71-65 Pacific.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Mar 16, 2006 -> 11:53 AM) There's been 2 games. Pacific's gonna win this b*tch.

Armando Benitez of the Giants had a cortisone shot in his knee and won't be pitching for a few days. Pedro Martinez threw to live batters for the first time this spring, thus putting him about 3 months ahead of Mark Prior. An Atlanta group is looking to purchase the Braves. Rich Harden is also throwing to live batters...minor leaguers, but live ones. And the Minor Leagues are facing a possible umpire strike (Anyone looking for a job willing to be a strikebreaker?)

PACIFIC TIES IT ON A 3 BY MORAKER WITH 10 LEFT ON THE CLOCK! Damn this is why I love this day.

And Wichita State does the first bit of damage to my brackets.

B.C.'s center fouls out, and Pacific Goes on a run...now down by only 2.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Mar 16, 2006 -> 11:22 AM) Reports are that the games will be delayed by 2 hours.... This is a good thing. There should be an old-school late game on tonight. s***, that puts the UCLA/Belmont game on at the same time as the Indiana/S.D. State game. Mother F***ing drug dogs. Now I'll almost guarantee you I won't get the IU game.

So can someone tell me how exactly you can have both the Marquette/Alabama and UCLA/Belmont games from the Oakland Regional and the Washington/Utah State and Illinois/Air Force games from the Washington D.C. regional in the same stadium (Cox Arena, S.D.)? How can you have 2 regionals, based on opposite sides of the country, in the same stadium?

QUOTE(klaus kinski @ Mar 16, 2006 -> 11:14 AM) Last year we rode out the injuries with depth. We still have depth-EXCEPT the bullpen. A couple of moves need to be made there and the late finishes for Gload & Borchard will help acquire someone. Any opinion of Scott Williamson from the Cubs? We had him before and they have some problems-but not their bullpen. The Cubs right now would have to be absolutely out of their mind to trade anyone from their pitching staff. Hell, if I were in their place I'd try to figure out a way to start the season with 13 pitchers on my roste.r

QUOTE(Reddy @ Mar 16, 2006 -> 11:05 AM) i'm glad you brought this up cuz i was about to. people ALWAYS get little injuries in spring training because they're getting back into the swing of things and fans ALWAYS get themselves worked up about it. Buehrle was fine, pods and jose probably will be too. it's still early guys. not time to panic quite yet. These sort of injuries are precisely why the WBC is so poorly timed. These sort of injuries ALWAYS crop up when people go from being fairly inactive to being more active when the season starts. And if they start exerting themselves fully too soon, you increase the chances of guys like Lee or Damon doing something that will affect them for quite some time. Fact is, if you don't go through these sorts of injuries now, as you're building up to full activity...you start running into pulled hamstrings and such when the season starts, and that's even worse.

CNN The U.S. has reportedly been considering for some time stepping up air strikes as a method of compensating for some of the shortcomings of the Iraqi troops as the U.S. tries to pull back its forces before the election. The problem of course is that bombing is basically the most risky method of trying to pacify a population if your goal is to avoid simply destroying a country. Why? Because it's just to indiscriminate, not matter how accurate your bombs are. Every so often, you hit a building with a dozen or two dozen civilians in it, you leave rubble everywhere, and you give even more people reason to fight. Given the Catch-22 we've put ourselves in, well, I guess all we can do is hope that this assault on Samarra will be more successful than the last major offensive in Samarra, and hope that this doesn't cost too many more lives.

B.C. with a 7-0 run to start the 2nd half...now up by 5.

San Diego is the location for the Washington/Utah State and Illinois/Air Force games later today.

So, here we have another idea which, as far as I can tell, is bad on every level unless you own a ton of stock in an insurance company. It's bad for folks who like states' rights, it's bad for folks who dislike the government spending money on health care, it's bad for almost everyone who has health insurance, but it'll make insurance companies a freaking fortune. So, let's quickly go over why this is bad on so many levels. 1. State's rights? Duh, that's pretty damn obvious. 2. Like lower taxes? What will happen if you get rid of every state minimum insurance requirement? There will likely be many procedures which suddenly are not covered by the plans people are on. And unless you read through your insurance manual fully, most customers won't know which ones aren't covered until it's too late. What happens then? Well, either the people end up bankrupt, or the government will end up footing the bill. 3. Like having health care? Well, this is an easy way to start eroding the health care that you personally have. As Ezra says: Obviously, yes, this sort of action would allow insurance companies to offer lower-cost plans. The problem is...those lower-cost plans would be lower cost because they simply wouldn't cover anything. People would wind up in a plan, and then later on, wind up getting ill with something that isn't covered, and would wind up in the same boat as your average uninsured person. But at least the insurance company would make out like a bandit. Any time you allow lower-risk groups to contribute less money to the insurance pool, you also risk cutting the amount of money in the pool as a whole, as the money that pays for the sick comes from those who are healthy. So if you're going to find ways for the healthy to pay less, then there's only 1 group who can foot the bill for the remainder...the sick.