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QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Jan 16, 2006 -> 10:40 AM) ^^^ I'll confess I haven't seen the Seahawks enough this year to judge their secondary's performance, but if he's as good as you 2 suggest...he's the key to winning that ballgame.

So, naturally, with the Jack Abramoff mess going on, it makes some logical sense for the Democrats to try to make a major campaign issue of Congressional corruption. After all, the Dems have been fully out of power for 3+ years, and it's damn hard to be corrupt when you don't have a shred of power, so this should be an obviously easy issue for the Dems right? Throw in the billions of reconstruction dollars missing from Iraq, the fact that their majority leader is going down in a blaze of glory...and it's almost being handed to the Dems, right? They couldn't possibly find a way to screw this one up, right? It's just too easy. :banghead :banghead :banghead Guess who the Dems are using to clean up the House?

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Jan 16, 2006 -> 10:14 AM) 55% to 41% in that district is HUGE #'s for what it's worth. Huge in what direction? I was under the impression it was hugely anti-Delay compared to all of the previous years. It's still a ton of votes that need to swing to remove him, but that's still a very large step. In 2002 it was something in the 60's to something in the 30's.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jan 16, 2006 -> 09:43 AM) In India, cows are sacred. In the USA we eat ground beef. They must think we are a disgusting society. Muslims won't touch pork. We eat it tons of it every day. Long ago they hatched a plan to take their revenge out on our arteries...

I'll take bets on how long it will be until PETA sends out an anti-clinton press release.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 16, 2006 -> 08:26 AM) Notice another Texas Republican turned independent to avoid running in the primary against a machine candidate. The GOP is not going to lose this district. The GOP candidate will win, and that candidate will be Tom DeLay. President is a stretch, but he will be back in congress. Is it worth pointing out that the Dems at least made this almost a credible race in 04 when most of the stuff about Delay hadn't broken yet? I believe that Delay's 55-41 win in 04 was actually his closest since he entered Congress.

Man, after reading the article in the first post I was all set to point out how the CIA was already linked to 1 attempt at a coup against Chavez...then I scrolled down.

For the first time in decades, Peta finds an issue around which can garner them the support of the entire sane population of the U.S.

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Jan 16, 2006 -> 09:21 AM) Seahawks win this one. Who do the Seahawks have that can cover Smith?

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jan 16, 2006 -> 07:08 AM) They were overrated since they were 1-3? Or when they were giving up the least points in the NFL?? I guess the "ratings" really had something to do with that performance huh? Go back to your hole. Personally, I don't think the Bears were all that overrated, I think the Bears today were outcoached and outplayed. Their defense came out looking rusty, like they hadn't played togehter in a few weeks, and they weren't attacking like they were late in that winning streak. And furthermore, the Panthers devised half a dozen little ways to get around the Bears defense, like loads of WR Screens to smith & so forth. But the thing that really hurt the bears was the coaching. Presumably a few people here have noticed how Smith was able to find seams in the zone or run over CB's who were trying to single cover him, so I won't dwell on that.

Foster = Broken Ankle btw.

"Moving quickly through the minors" - probably the most important thing right now, since it looks like we will be down to 5 starters either this year or next, and if he have a decent middle of the order guy in AA...that would be useful.

Opens closet door...finds old 2000 AL Central champs shirt Puts on 2005 AL Central Champs shirt Smiles

I'm just sure the Dodgers are thrilled that Nomar will be getting extra playing time this season. I'm sure it'll do wonders for him in overcoming all those other freak injuries he's suffered over the past few years.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Jan 14, 2006 -> 09:45 PM) Tampa Bay did very well here. If there's one thing they need more of, it's quality pitching prospects. Tiffany's a good one, and I think if Jackson's handled properly, he can maybe produce what everyone thought he was originally going to do a couple of years back. I'm not so sure about that...Jackson "if handled properly" might be able to produce, but he's already pitched in the big leagues so I believe his arbitration clock has already started, and he's only on 1 down season, so it may well be possible that Coletti thinks his stock would be dropping lower in the near future and dumping him now.

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Jan 16, 2006 -> 09:02 AM) Probably would've been Count, Sweeney, and Woodson. As long as none of those prospects are named McCarthy.

Back in the fall when this first came up, Buehrle said his sore arm was mainly due to actually having too much rest during the playoffs, not too much work. In his words, if I remember correctly, the extra time off let things heal up a bit too much. Kinda like when you take 2 weeks off and then go back to the gym for the first time.

Pretty much as expected...the new line is that he's not among the dead. Damn.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Jan 13, 2006 -> 05:22 PM) It'd be neater to give him the head lice inspection and humiliate him. Bin Laden is the one that we need to capture alive, because capturing him alive humiliates their whole organization. Zawahiri...we can do whatever we want to him, whether its killing or capturing, because he's not nearly as much of a symbol as Bin Laden.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Jan 13, 2006 -> 04:37 PM) I would almost dispute this. Bledsoe was getting good protection in our early games, no doubt. Then Flozell Adams got injured. So you've got Torrin Tucker and Rob Pettiti as your Offensive Tackles. Marco Rivera never recovered from his back injury before training camp. Al Johnson still gets pushed around by huge nose tackles because he's not big enough. And Larry Allen is just getting too old now. Exactly the point...Bledsoe was sacked 20 times in the 1st half of the season and 29 times in the 2nd half. His QB Rating in the 1st half was 97, in the 2nd half it dropped to 70. Bledsoe's season looked decent for the time he was getting decent protection. He would not have gotten any protection at all with the Bills, because their O-Line was constantly terrible. He may very well have wound up hurt. He probably would have been better than Losman because he's a veteran, but it wouldn't have been by much because he'd have had no protection and he'd be on the ground all the time. Personally I think that, especially once Spikes went down, it became a good idea to just start getting Losman more playing time so that maybe he can develop into something. Bledsoe wouldn't be QBing the Bills to a title 2 years from now even if we held onto him. Losman, however, is still a piece that can grow into a system, and he did show some promise at the end of the year.

Pakistani sources are suggesting that a U.S. airstrike a few days ago inside of Pakistan on a suspected Al Qaeda safehouse may very well have killed Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the #2 man in that organization and the guy who probably deserves most of the credit for its construction. No confirmation yet and there probably won't be any for a couple days, and I think it's been reported a couple times that he may be dead and none of them have panned out thus far, but this would be a wonderful victory if we got him.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Jan 13, 2006 -> 03:32 PM) That might be true because the precedence had already been set, if you know what I mean. I think this has been done for 20 years or more, and was just now blown out of the water because Bush is the man they want to take down. JMO, of course. If that's the case, can we send Tenet to jail now for lying during his testimony before Congress a few years ago where he said they were getting the FISA warrants?

QUOTE(RME JICO @ Jan 13, 2006 -> 03:30 PM) First, I don't see how this is a youth movement. This was the same exact players that played in the ALCS, just in different positions. So this is more smoke and mirrors. There actually is no change. The Angels will be 2nd in the West next year. Kotchman, McPherson, and Mathis played in the ALCS?

In other words...there are more people on the East Coast than on the West Coast.

Oh god, there's a #4?