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QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 02:23 PM) www.kli.org/tlh/phrases.html nuqDaq 'oH puchpa''e'. Only at SOXTALK would a thread of this nature digress to Kli-speak. :rolly At least 1 of the phrases on that page is either wrong or out of date...they said the Klingon for "Today is a good day to die" in Episode 1 of Star Trek DS9: Season 4, and that's not the phrase they have on the page. How scary am I right now?

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 02:23 PM) nuqDaq 'oH puchpa''e'. Only at SOXTALK would a thread of this nature digress to Kli-speak. :rolly My work here is done.

QUOTE(Greg The Bull Luzinski @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 02:25 PM) Konerko will shock us all today and steal third right before he comes home on a passed ball by the sinker baller. By the way...that commercial with the guy in the laundry room yelling "It's the cycle" when Konerko's up to bat...have other people seen this one...I'm wondering how many people realize the inherent problem with that one.

QUOTE(SpringfieldFan @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 01:58 PM) Sure, try Brandon as a reliever, but... Just promise me that if he is dominent in the pen that he won't be considered "too valuable" a reliever to be used as a starter again (i.e. the "Cotts" theorem). SFF That is 1 promise I can give to you 110%. I want this kid throwing 7 innings every 5th game starting next year. The last 2 games have at least sold me on that...especially if he works on adding in another pitch in the offseason. I still don't think Cotts has the pitches to be a dominant starter, but he has the pitches to be a dominant reliever. And on top of that...he's a lefty...and lefty relievers that can get people out are a hell of a prize in this game today.

So is anyone else worried that A.J. won't be getting any sleep when the playoffs roll around?

AFC East 1. Bills 2. Jets 3. Patriots 4. Dolphins AFC North 1. Steelers 2. Ravens 3. Bengals 4. Browns AFC South 1. Colts 2. Jaguars 3. Texans 4. Titans AFC West 1. Chargers 2. Chiefs 3. Broncos 4. Raiders NFC East 1. Eagles 2. Cowboys 3. Giants 4. Redskins NFC North 1. Vikings 2. Lions 3. Packers 4. Bears NFC South 1. Falcons 2. Panthers 3. Saints 4. Bucs NFC West 1. Arizona 2. Rams 3. Seattle 4. 49ers Playoffs Conference Colts over Chargers, Vikings over Eagles Super Bowl Colts over Vikings Awards MVP: Peyton Manning (is he ever not?) Coach of the Year: Mike Mularkey

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 02:08 PM) No, they aren't bannable offenses. Presumably, the logical thing for an admin to say is that it's fine to criticize players ability, decision making, or even the fact they're getting playing time... But it's not tolerable to insinuate that players are getting playing time in exchange for sexual favors from the manager.

QUOTE(Steff @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 01:54 PM) I say "that's incorrect", followed by the correct information. That seems to work. It also helps not to resemble a condescending donkey. A condescending elephant however, I'm sure is fine. Blast this place and it's secret right-wing innuendoes!!!

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 01:37 PM) http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0907051fema1.html I think Bush's "What didn't go right" last week still tops that one.

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 01:51 PM) Can we use negative context in foreign languages? Just asking. If I swear at someone...but I do so in Klingon...do I get banned for nerdiness?

Wow...opening at home again...2 years in a row...I was starting to think I'd never see the first time. Anyone else wondering whether sometime between June 20 to 25, we'll be seeing a world series rematch?

Damn...if people get on base...that is one incredibly fast lineup (outside of PK, AJ, and Jurassic of course)

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 12:01 PM) The first few years he could've done a better job with, but he was probably learning to be a manager. But when you basically give the division rival Cubs your best players at the time and give up Giles and have Kendell leave, there's not a lot you can do. Not to mention the gigantic contract that they gave to Kendall...I mean come on, the guy's getting paid $10 million this year...hasn't hit a single home run, and is batting .255.

So...is anyone else quite happy we got this guy out of our organization right now?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 01:27 PM) And if I understand it correctly, it is the very levee system that is the biggest source of the problem as it did not allow for the natural deposit of silt in the low lying areas down there, which has contributed to them being further below sea level than they would have been. Ironic. Actually I believe the big problem with the levee system is that it has heavily damaged the coastline of the delta itself, rather than lowering the city...the levees take the sediment carried by the river and pipe it directly into the gulf, when normally it would be dispersed across the delta. When that sediment is out in the gulf, it doesn't come back, but when it is carried out in a normal fashion, it implants itself throughout the delta, giving rise to barrier islands and other more secure channels when it is reworked. The city is subsiding because of groundwater pumping from all that I've heard...the sediment supply is an issue of the coastline and how it functions (barrier islands are a wonderful protection against storm surge when they do exist)

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 01:24 PM) Bienville founded New Orleans where it was because of its accessibility, located right between the Mississippi and Lake Pontchartrain. So from that standpoint it made sense. The growth of a settlement to a metropolis on the same site, that was not so well thought out. Truth is, though, there has been a lot of land subsidence since then. The site is worse now then it was ehen it was founded. You should also note WHY the land subsidence happens...the key cause of land subsidence is actually human action...when you pump water from a ground water reservoir, you reduce the pore pressure in that reservoir and thereby cause compaction of the surrounding sediments to get the pressure back up to a point that can support the weight of the overlying strata.

QUOTE(tonyho7476 @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 01:18 PM) This is why I will stay in Chicagoland....I know, we have tornadoes...but I'll take that over this s***. It almost sounds to me like a city shouldn't even exist there. Actually...you're well within the range that could suffer damage in the event of another large quake in the New Madrid fault zone...the zone which produced the largest earthquakes in U.S. history in the early 1800's. It wouldn't hit the city itself, but the city is close enough that it would feel a fair amount of shaking, and since the buildings in that area haven't been designed AT ALL to sustain earthquake vibrations...well you get the idea.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 01:06 PM) Who knows what formula they use. If you stop and think about it, right now there are literally thousands of things that people are making studies of, and reporting that if this isn't fixed, some fatal flaw could lead to people dying, and all that it would take it a bunch more funding to fix it. The problem is deciding which projects are truely the most important with whatever cost/risk analysis they are doing right now. I'll tell you one thing, if I am somewhere like LA on the west coast, I am screaming my head off right now for more funding to prevent the samekind of disasterous response after an earthquake. It will be interesting to see if we see a shift into more funding of preventative maintence towards natural disasters, or if we see the same see-no-evil philosophy that has been prevelent in our government for decades. I think that the fact of the matter is actually quite simple...we had a gigantic budget surplus a few years ago and a known set of needs for infrastructure upgrades and maintenance in this country...we chose tax cuts. There are a huge number of things not getting fixed all around the country because of them. The Levees in New Orleans were just 1 item on the list.

QUOTE(LVSoxFan @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 01:10 PM) I thought we'd be better this year, but 35 games over .500? C'mon! What an insanely successful year. Insanely successful? Not yet. An excellent year to be sure...but for it to be "Insanely successful" we need to be 3 games above .500 after October 3rd.

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 12:59 PM) If Podsednik is getting on base, anybody can drive him in...be it Goochi, PK, Everett, Dye...and it is a run. Podsednik getting on at a .400-.450 clip would almost assure the offense of being top notch throughout the playoffs.While he was hurt for a time...Podsednik's OBP this year is .350. His career OBP is .344. He has had 2 months in his career with an OBP over .400...none since 2003 (although he's at .429 for September. You're assuming that AJP can still be a solid .300 hitter and hit for power at the same time...his power numbers have gone up the last 2 years, but his batting average has hovered in the .270-.280 range. That may be the kind of hitter he is now. During no season in his career has he hit for a ton of power and an above .300 average at the same time.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 12:58 PM) Space Shuttle flights might be delayed for a year, partially because of logistical problems from Katrina, partly because of exsisting problems. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9241242/ Maybe (in this 1 limited case) this is a good thing, just on the grounds that it gives technicians more time to work on that foam problem.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 12:49 PM) How much it would have saved is debatable. The original intent was to always secure the levees to withhold a category 3 storm, it was decided in either 97 or 98 I believe that it wouldn't be cost effective to try to make the levees secure for a category 5 storm. I wonder what the difference would have been, because the basic underlying problems still would have exisisted, and that is the incompetent response of every layer of government in this disaster. When they judge something to be "cost-effective", do you think they judged it to be cost effective relative to how much extra tax dollars would have to be spent on the project, or do you think they judged whether or not it was cost-effective relative to the cost of rebuilding the entire city? Somehow, I doubt that they judged it was cost-effective relative to the value of New Orleans.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 11:39 AM) Bush is set to ask Congress for another $51.8 billion in aid for Katrina. It is estimated that FEMA is spending $1-2 billion A DAY in aid right now. Estimates are also being put at $150-200 billion to pay for this disaster. Quick point. $150-200 billion to pay for this disaster. $1-2 billion 5 years ago to start upgrading the levees. Ignore the loss of lives and just think like an American taxpayer...this is where tax cuts can really hurt you...you cut back in spending in places where you really need it. And the bills can get a lot larger down the road.

(emphasis mine) AP.

I think the most amazing thing about the previous post is that the writer actually seems 100% convinced that he knows for sure exactly where technological development will take us. "By 1960, experts believe man will have established 12 colonies on the moon...ideal for human habitation."