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Is there anyone in the minor leagues capable of stepping up and taking a shot if Floyd, Danks, and/or Contreras don't work out? Having Danks as the #3 doesn't make me very confident going into the season.

That's one hell of a cop-out, imo.

QUOTE(Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 14, 2008 -> 10:23 AM) The producers have said in one of their podcasts that the 8 has no significance. Jack was just covering for Kate and threw out a number. Similiar to the newspaper clipping with the guy in the coffin, we're supposed to ignore it. No significance overall beyond that it is their fabricated story, and if Jin wasn't one of the 8 they claimed survived, then his date of death would be 9-22-2004. That's why they'd choose that date, because as far as the outside world is aware, everyone but the Oceanic Six plus two more died on that day.

QUOTE(Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 14, 2008 -> 10:04 AM) I thought last nights was pretty meh, but it sets up more interesting questions. Is Jin really dead? Why would they choose the date of the plane crash when we know he was alive months and months afterwards? Was it all a setup? Is Jin still on the island, waiting for Sun to return or for the rest to be rescued? In Jack's testimony, he said that 8 survived the crash and 6 made it off the island. Maybe he was one of the ones they said died in the crash?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Mar 14, 2008 -> 09:09 AM) Tough situation, you have to play him to show his rehab progress, but want to hide that .080 You can't show what might not be there...

That was a crap episode. They basically confirmed what everyone already knew. The only new piece of information was Jin is dead. The rest of the plot didn't advance at all.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 03:13 PM) I would agree if it became legal. At this point it is not, so im not going to continue to argue "well this is also/more dangerous, why isnt it illegal as well?" because it is pointless. I never said anything about a breathalyzer for pot, sleeping pills, pain killers, or cough medecine. I said you could be tested (blood, urine)for narcotics in your system at the time of arrest. Early on, Steve made a comment that pot will not be legalized unless they're some sort of on-the-spot test like their is for alcohol, and I was pointing out examples of other things that impair your driving but for which there are no on-the-spot tests. I was talking about that line of thought, not what you said.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 03:10 PM) Step back for a moment. Why are people taking cough medicine and why are they smoking pot? There is a difference in application which is probably relevant. Not too many are texting all their friends to take some Nyquil, but they are making invitations to get baked. That wasn't the case at my HS. And plenty of people take the other drugs I mentioned for the purposes of getting high. My point was that there are many substances out there that significantly impair driving but there are no tests for them. I do not agree with the claim that anyone drives better drunk or stoned.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 01:24 PM) Sure, they can test you if you have a some sort of ephedrine in your system. And they put on the bottle "Do not drive or operate heavy machinery...." Put the same warning on the pack/bag of pot. Lots and lots of things can make you too messed up to drive. Can they do breathalyser tests for sleeping pills? pain killers? cough medicine?

Great. They'll charge Comcast $1/ subscriber, and Comcast will charge me $5 a month for a channel I will rarely watch.

So what does that mean for the votes? The Democrats sure are doing a great job of disenfranchising voters this year.

QUOTE(Jordan4life @ Mar 12, 2008 -> 07:13 PM) Yes, Ace. You as well. There's been about 10 people from this site that haven't completely taken a dump on him the last two years. I stood by him but got sick of having the same argument over and over.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 12, 2008 -> 03:00 PM) California alone gave Hillary 203 delegates. Add in her 139 from New York state and you have dwarved the total of those 11 states that quick. Yet winning those 11 states is somehow put on a pedistool like it is more important. Its misleading and dishonest. Those states are going to go Dem no matter what. Hillary winning in solid blue states like NY and CA doesn't say much. Hillary winning* in solid red states like Texas doesn't say much. Their outcome is pretty much guaranteed in the general. It is the swing states that matter. Hillary won Florida* and Ohio in that area, to her credit.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 12, 2008 -> 12:09 PM) It wouldn't really need to be much larger. Mass transit doesn't need to be trains, necessarily. It wouldn't need to be trains only, but even a bus from my front door to O'Hare (I work about a mile away from the airport) would double my commute with all of the stops and generally driving slower. I just don't believe that mass transit is a feasible option for everyone. I do what I can and carpool with my gf who works down the street.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Mar 12, 2008 -> 11:58 AM) That's cool it you live in a relatively large city or the suburbs of one. Unless you need to commute from one suburb to another and not into the city. I can't imagine how much larger the mass transit infrastructure would have to be to help with all the people that take 355, 83, or 294 from the southern suburbs to the northern suburbs. It would take me about 2 1/2 hours each way to use public transportation right now.

Ferraro: "They're attacking me because I'm white" http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/11/fer...ents/index.html Barack Hussein Obama is so fortunate, so lucky to be a young, half-black man who went to a Muslim school in Indonesia, has a middle name that's the same as a dictator we recently took down, and has a last name that's one letter off from America's #1 enemy. That's the type of person America loves. No wonder its been easy for him! There seems to be more and more racism coming from Clinton's camp. It started with Billy boy in South Carolina, then her latino supporters in Texas, and now this.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,336849,00.html Related to this article: http://www.esquire.com/features/fox-fallon The article credits Fallon with "brazenly challenging his commander in chief" over a possible war with Iran, which Fallon called an "ill-advised action." A line states that if Fallon gets fired, we're going to war w/Iran.

QUOTE(ChiSox_Sonix @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 02:07 PM) Could it possibly be Mikhail? We dont know that hes actually dead...although i dont think Locke would have to "sit down to hear that" He wouldn't have to sit down for that. Mikhail was already one of Ben's best guys, and I don't remember Desmond telling them the details of what happened to him.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 12:09 PM) Then I would never vote for him, his daughter, or one of the family ladies, kicked my ass in a tournament in Aurora Rep I assume? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Oberweis The race was over Hastert's seat, so it was a big pick up for the Dem's.

http://www.pkarchive.org/column/31500.html

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 11:50 AM) Did your economics professor explain pricing and supply and demand and how it doesn't get set by the oil companies? Now yes, they benefit, but they don't set the prices. Just want to clarify the point, is all. Right, sorry if that wasn't clear. The market has set gasoline at $3.25 a gallon today. People are going to pay that regardless of whether or not .30 of that goes to the government.

QUOTE(spawn @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 11:34 AM) Crede hit 30 homers his last full season ('06). The only reason Fields got the job was because of Crede's injury. And if it's his job to lose, why was he playing the outfield towards the end of the season? As has been mentioned, Crede is a much better defensive 3rd baseman that Fields. And with the uncertainty of the pitching staff this season, the last thing you want is to be giving teams extra outs by putting in a sub-standard defensive 3rd baseman based solely on the fact that he hits homeruns. I'm not saying that Crede shouldn't be traded, but if he's on the roster when the season starts, he should be the starter. He was. He hasn't shown, at least to this point, that he still is.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 11:29 AM) Every Crede fan on this board is talking about Crede as he is 2006 Joe. He isn't. 2008 Joe is coming off major back surgery, has looked awful at the plate, and has committed 4 errors so far. There is no guarantee Crede is the same as he was in 2006. I agree 100%. Hopefully one of them steps up so we don't have to choose the one that manages to break .200 at the plate and commit less than 10 errors in ST. Right now, the situation doesn't like great with either choice, but it is only March 11th. I think I'd rather have near-GG defense, career mediocore hitter Crede than mediocore defense, good power hitter Fields. There's no guarantee we get either, though.

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 10:59 AM) Fields hit 23 homers last year...why should he have to win the job? It should be Crede who has to win the spot from Fields and money should have absolutely nothing to do with it. Crede, if healthy, is a much better defender than Fields. Given our current rotation, that may be more important than a few extra dingers in a lineup full of guys who can and will hit HR's.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 10:57 AM) Of course, economically, this is a terrible idea. If you have a commodity that is only available in a limited amount, and you lower the price of it, then all that is going to happen is you're going to watch demand try to surge to make up for the price decrease, and things will come right back in to balance. So you might lower prices by a few tens of cents initially, but they'd go right back up as people bought more, and all that would happen would be that the Saudis would make more money on each barrel while the governments in the U.S. would make less. And then your property taxes would have to go up, or your sales taxes would double, or something like that. That's pretty accurate. In one of the econ classes I took last spring, the professor went over this example and showed how lowering the taxes won't save the consumer anything up front and will cost them (through higher taxes or decreased service) later on. The market has already set the acceptable price given demand. If you take out .30 in taxes, you're just increasing their profits .30. The price of gasoline won't really move and the only ones benefiting will be the oil companies.