StrangeSox

More bloodletting today, it looks like. Is major inflation on the way?

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Nov 7, 2007 -> 02:27 PM) From everything I've read it's quite inefficient. It's not bad if you've got the right crops for it (Brazil has success with sugar cane), but its very inefficient with corn.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Nov 7, 2007 -> 05:56 PM) Here's a controversial statement: cheating is good. Getting caught is bad. Getting caught because your whiny former assistant, well, whined is embarrassing and bad but not necessarily a knock on you. That's what every Coach in the NFL understands: that's why the Ravens embarrassed Mangini the very next week. Ethics be damned!

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Nov 6, 2007 -> 11:22 PM) wouldn't want to participate in that study. "ok, we're gonna torture you for a while then you fill out this questionnaire. "

2007: The Year Chicago Sports Teams Fell Off A Cliff

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 6, 2007 -> 05:51 PM) If you were being tortured, wouldn't you make up anything to make it stop? While the reasons are compelling, the whole save a million lives kind of thing, but bottom line, the information at best gives a false sense of accuracy to someone's already formed idea. Study after study shows this to be true. Information gained under extreme duress is not even remotely reliable.

QUOTE(Shadows @ Nov 6, 2007 -> 01:55 PM) Yes, I don't know how many times I have to say this.. we can play basketball And yes, they are inferior because they are women.. hence why I KNOW that we could beat them You honestly think you and four of your buddies are more talented than professional basketball players? How many of you even sniffed a scholarship offer?

QUOTE(Shadows @ Nov 6, 2007 -> 12:55 AM) Im not just some guy who is spouting off claims.. I have a legit 5, not just a group of my buddies I just wrangled up.. One of the guys is 6'7 and glancing over their roster they don't even have a player to stop him alone.. also considering one of the other guys was one of our better players on our high school team and has good size himself.. As for the other three, I never played basketball in high school because football was my love, but we aren't just five guys who think we can walk out onto a court and beat anyone.. I love it when some guys, who are mediocore at best, think they could beat a team of professionals just because said professionals are (obviously inferior) women. You have one guy who is tall...great. Is he good at basketball? Can he handle the ball? Play great defense? Being "one of the better players" on a HS team isn't saying too much, either. Did he play in college? Get recruited at all? If not, he's not that great. It'd be a rout. As for the poll, I voted "no" because my friends and I all suck at basketball.

Saw the Darjeeling Limited. Not my favorite Wes Anderson film, but it was pretty good. Theater was empty though, maybe 5 people total on a Friday night.

Ty Cobb being a racist has nothing to do with Ty Cobb setting baseball records. Bonds has admitted to taking steroids unknowingly. I think that's BS and he knew 100%, but that's besides the point. He still gained an unfair competitive advantage. He still cheated.

QUOTE(29andPoplar @ Nov 4, 2007 -> 02:15 PM) Mackowiak was a better bat and the plan all along was to get him in there to shield Anderson from certain tough pitchers. It was not as if he was suddenly inserted in the lineup as soon as Anderson started hitting better. It was the plan all along. Should they have had a better CF candidate, absolutely yes. One could argue Mackowiak helped with the bat as much as he hurt defensively, but why get into that debate? You will have your pro-Anderson stance and I will have my Anderson is not a good player stance. That would be nice if it were true, as the Sox may have been playing in the '06 post-season. But it wasn't even close to true. Mack wasn't accomplishing much at the plate and was horrible in the field. For someone to argue that Mack helped with his bat as much as he hurt defensively, he would have had to hit about .350 with 20HR's in the 2nd half.

QUOTE(Felix @ Nov 4, 2007 -> 02:37 PM) I haven't seen the new episode yet, but I was told it was bad. It wasn't laugh-out-loud funny, but it was extremely-awkward funny. It reminded me of watching a Wes Anderson film or "the graduate."

Just heard on ESPN1000 that he's out for half the season next year.

QUOTE(NUKE @ Oct 31, 2007 -> 10:52 AM) With todays inventory report it shot right back up to those levels. Oil doesn't trade according to fundamentals, it trades based on speculation and fear and has done so for a long time now. The top economist from the Soros foundation said that the fundamentals indicate oil should be around $65.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Oct 30, 2007 -> 11:51 AM) Ya, thats exactly what the wants to do. Please. He is going to get paid a pretty good sum to have Foxsports weed out thousands of emails with decent questions, and will probably answer 7 or 8 softball type questions. The guy came off as a complete tool, and was not only being ripped apart be the MEDIA, but also the fans calling in. If I was Urlacher, I would be firing all my media relations personal, as they are doing a terrible job advising him on how to act. Urlacher's good buddy at Foxsports.com insisted that Urlacher wasn't getting a dime for this today.

QUOTE(Rex Hudler @ Oct 29, 2007 -> 11:01 PM) Forgive me for thinking the current status of "news" today blows. We don't really have news, we have rumors that spread at lightspeed. The 24-hour news cycle forces reporters to come up with stories and to jump on new information without much regard of its truth. Most people read a headline on the internet, hear something about it on tv and their friend talks about it and all of a sudden they are an expert on the situation, when in actuality they don't know s*** about it. Fact checking? Vetting information? In-depth reporting? Who need it!? It's all about 10-second sound bytes and "sources say" speculation and rumors! The way reporting should be! I agree with Rex that this is a non-story at this point.

QUOTE(Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 29, 2007 -> 10:20 AM) what did he say? Nothing. His answers to every question were: "Don't know" or "Maybe." Oh, but he'll be generous enough to answer some softball questions from fans on foxsports.com.

Anyone going to see QOTSA tonight?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Oct 25, 2007 -> 02:35 PM) It depends on what exactly he is talking about... Is he talking about giving more to teachers, police, firefighters, social workers etc? How about professions like medicine which require a whole lot more college years, and leave the students with a huge pile of debt when they are done? If that is the case, what is so bad about that? With the low pays that lots of societitally beneficial positions have, there are chronic shortages in those areas (think teachers and nurses for example) what would be wrong with encouraging those nobel fields? Teachers and nurses are pretty clear-cut beneficial degrees. The problem comes in discouraging any field not viewed as "useful" by the government. Should we cut aid for fine arts? Sociology? Philosophy? Theoretical physics? Who determines what's useful, how useful they are, and how much money they get? As NSS pointed out, it would set up a permanent struggle for funding and defining these extremely large and subjective fields.

Romney wants to set federal student aid based on how useful your degree is to society. http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/...ticleid=1038792 Seems like the worst idea, by far, from any of the candidates, and a lot of dumb s*** has been floated already. It would just result in colleges pumping out corporate drones and nothing more.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Oct 24, 2007 -> 03:41 PM) how about 20%? Your arguments always veer off into ridiculous statements like "Why do you think he should donate 100% of his income!". No one has said that, you aren't even addressing any of our statements with a legitimate counter. Is 20% any less arbitrary than what he currently gives?

This is the NFL, not High School or even College football where the skill levels and oppurtunities for different programs are vastly different. These are all professionals who are paid a king's ransom to play a game. If the Dolphins don't want the score run up on them, then stop them. I wouldn't be surprised if Belicheck is allowing the Patriots to dominate into the second half as a big "F--- YOU!" to everyone who questioned him and the Pats' previous Superbowl wins.

I fundamentally agree with "one person, one vote," but find it troubling that Britney Spears' opinion on who should be President holds as much sway as someone with a PhD in Political Science.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 24, 2007 -> 08:42 AM) Except on the Federal level, you cut taxes when you can't pay for everything!! You're right, my point needs to be amended: Problem: Budget Shortfalls Democrat Solution: Raise taxes to record levels. Don't worry about how it will take money out of people's pockets and slow down the economy. Don't worry about it driving away business and investment. If we can add just a few more social programs, all we be well. Republican Solution: Cut taxes. Everyone knows that cutting taxes = more tax revenue* always no matter what. In the mean time, we'll spend billions fighting overseas and borrow money from China to pay for it all. The only programs that should be cut are stupid liberal hippy programs, like education and children's health care. How can it possibly go wrong? *edited for clarity

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Oct 23, 2007 -> 02:48 PM) The problem is Cook county is extremely wasteful. These massive tax increases will continue until people have had enough and demand a more efficient local government. Those in government don't seem to grasp that. Not enough money? Don't bother cutting costs or increasing efficiency, just raise taxes! That's the solution to all of the county's/state's/country's problems!