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QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 10, 2015 -> 02:05 PM) So are you proposing that we just go back into the stoneage and not use oil (as essentially that is what we would have to do, as we'd have a pretty limited oil resources globally). That said, US would be one of the lesser impacted countries as a whole but I'm fairly certain that would end up resulting in numerous other battles and wars. Taken to its logical conclusion, all those automakers (and their attendant lobbyists) who have "conspired" with the oil industry to fight back against building up electric grids/battery charging stations and stunted the development of cars running on alternative energy sources are the real culprits here, not the consumers... Or do we want to say that neighbor with no kids driving a huge SUV is more of a terrorist supporter than someone with a Prius, bio-fuel or battery-powered vehicle?

Shuck and Taylor were already options ahead of him, especially with Bonifacio on the roster. Not a big deal, but always sad to see, especially for a speed-based player. Odds are pretty high that someone else will be added to the roster before Opening Day via the waiver wire or trade.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 10, 2015 -> 08:57 AM) Thanks, good to see a little more info on UNI. http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/rpi/_/teamId/2460 Not much of a resume as of yet, other than spanking Wichita St. at home and beating Iowa at a neutral site. Their other three wins over Top 100 RPI teams...those opponents were all in the 80's. It would have helped if they were able to match up with Iowa State. The VCU loss by six on the road is probably their third most impressive accomplishment...high-scoring game.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Feb 10, 2015 -> 10:53 AM) I'm sure we'll get a back story at some point but ya, I have no idea. http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/features/4072...etter-call-saul Paranoia or schitzophrenia? Fear that the government is spying on him and/or fear of technology? Fear of leaving his house? Guess we'll find out sooner or later this season, according to the interview. Hopefully they'll move on soon from the bit about the stickers and parking ticket validation. A few times, it was cute...

When is the 6th GOT book supposed to be published? I was just finishing the fourth and he signed off saying it (the 5th) would come in a year or so and it ended up being almost five years. Was the book series originally planned to end at 6 or is it getting extended as well because of the success of the HBO series? EDIT: Guess it will be anytime from 2015-2017...The Winds of Winter, with A Dream of Spring following hopefully when everyone is still alive and interested in the series. They're really going to have to show down the t.v. series and stretch it out while waiting for WofW.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Feb 10, 2015 -> 08:29 AM) Dylan O'Brien and Ansel Elgort would be good picks. Drake Bell actually wouldn't be a bad pick, but I'd avoid it. Zac Efron has been cited. Also: Stay away from Donald Glover / Maguire / Gyllenhall. They're all too old for a character that will likely be in his late teens / early 20s. Also, they aren't going to make Peter African-American because they have Miles Morales and they explicitly stated that they aren't doing Miles Morales. Zac Efron's too overconfident/cocky to play geek Peter Parker.

QUOTE (Brian @ Feb 10, 2015 -> 07:20 AM) Is he still a teenager in these upcoming movies? Good question. I have faith Kyle will know the answer...

Anton Yelchin (Star Trek), Robbie Amell (Firestorm on the Flash), Ansel Elgort (The Fault in our Stars/Divergent), Drake Bell... Tobey Maguire, which would be the most interesting and controversial move Dylan O'Brien (The Maze Runner), Dave Franco (James' brother), Logan Lerman (Percy Jackson), Freddie Highmore (British), Donald Glover (African-American Spiderman?) Drake Bell (cartoon voicework only so far), Elgort, O'Brien or Maguire would have to be considered the four favorites at this point.

So who plays Spider-Man with Andrew Garfield likely to be out?

http://www.sfgate.com/tv/article/TV-Don-t-...off-6062113.php I think this is a very fair critical assessment of the first three episodes of Better Call Saul (BCS won't work as an acronym for obvious reasons). No spoilers...

QUOTE (Tex @ Feb 9, 2015 -> 07:43 PM) The take away I get from Balta's posts are we tolerate the exact same behavior from our "friends" that we condemn our enemies for. We do have some level of hypocrisy on this level. I do believe we would have a greater moral platform if we didn't use capital punishment as a deterrent to acts we find deserving. We execute people people as well but we do it humanely (maybe) and for better reasons. Well, even that last part's debatable if you look at all the issues with Old Sparky in Florida. https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/...ommon-practice/ Another thing to consider is the mutilation that all the victims of drone strikes suffer...and how it interferes with the traditional Muslim funeral rites. When you look at all the collateral damage, can we really consider ourselves to be standing on a moral high ground?

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/how-james-shi...-195000246.html Jeff Passan article on the blunders made by Shields' agent Fister, Iwakuma, Porcello, Latos and Gallardo would be nice consolation moves if they can't keep Samardjiza in the fold, but I'm not sure how much better those moves would be compared to the Shields signing (this year), which would have cost a much lower draft pick. OTOH, having Shields in the rotation would have pushed back Rodon a year...in the end, it just wasn't feasible with Danks' deal still on the books. However, knowing what he did end up signing for, I would have preferred to save the money on Cabrera and Robertson and gone with lesser options there to invest the money into that rotation. But hindsight is 20/20. For example, Aoki and Shields....and a cheaper closer.

They do and they don't. It's hard to say there's zero impact psychologically on the seedings for the NCAA's. There's always going to be an imperceptible bias towards power conference teams...especially the most storied programs. Oklahoma playing their best game of the season. Ok. State has become a dangerous team as well. Baylor and ISU going backwards a bit.

QUOTE (fathom @ Feb 9, 2015 -> 06:51 PM) Lego Movie has been such an incredible discovery for my kids. My Chinese wife just didn't quite understand the humor and mostly the cultural references...and a lot of times the translations online aren't very accurate either. It's criminal how that movie got overlooked by the Oscars and Golden Globes. Frozen was a huge hit here. Big Hero 6 is coming soon here, that's a very good one as well.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Feb 9, 2015 -> 06:15 PM) I agree, if Montas can prove it at the AA level and dominate as a starter, I think he would soar through the rankings and become a very valuable trade piece when our rotation could be locked up for a long time (assuming Samardzija resigns) Hopefully he follows the Yordano Ventura trendline...he didn't come out of nowhere, but it sort of felt like it. Both with explosive stuff and their array of doubters. Where was Ventura the last two years on the Top 100 lists?

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 9, 2015 -> 02:35 PM) 1) Didn't that series sell 100 million copies? I don't think many people got sick of it. I know a lot of women, my wife included, who read them and thought they were pretty terrible, yet somehow "managed" to finish all of the books. 2) I thought pre-sales were really strong, especially in the conservative-oriented South? http://www.fox16.com/story/d/story/arkansa...4kUWAjH0NrFNDEA I'd like to see more substantive evidence than that. Ridiculously small sample size. I don't even understand how they could claim AR and MS are the two highest in the country with those numbers...maybe the first state to have a theater sell out in pre-sales, but that's still pushing it since the theatre is very small compared to the majority of multiplexes in the country. At any rate, I believe a lot of moviegoers are also waiting for some of the initial reviews. If it's trending more like a Cinemax-quality movie than something you'd pay $10-15 for....plus, we all know with an R rating that the majority of sex scenes are getting cut, so what are you actually left with if you strip all that away from the movie? At metacritic and rottentomatoes, no critics have been able to screen/review it yet. That's USUALLY a bad sign, 90% of the time.

The Rays and the Padres are the two-dark horse teams, although anything's possible with SD these days, seemingly. TB desperately needs some type of "win" for that fan base after all the disheartening losses of coaching/front office staff/talent from the roster.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Feb 9, 2015 -> 05:32 PM) Woodbury also isn't very good at basketball He's typical of most highly-recruited seven footers who get immediate playing time but take a lot more time to develop. Considering that Dominique Uhl and Uthoff would be playing post without him next year, they're still better off with him than without him. And he's played a lot better the past couple of games when Iowa has seemingly turned the corner.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 9, 2015 -> 02:10 PM) I am not trying to be really smart, just showing the guy who thinks he is really smart making all theses claims like eye tests tell you nothing, steroids won't make you a great hitter, that again, he is wrong. Sosa was a great prospect, though. He was smaller (The Panther) and more agile, better arm (Top 5-10 in the game) and running ability and projected to be a 12-18 homer guy when he was 18...that's why the White Sox preferred Juan Gonzalez in the Harold Baines trade, but Texas wouldn't give up both Gonzalez and Wilson Alvarez. Still, everyone could see he was a five tool potential superstar. Now, of course, his second season with the White Sox was a borderline disaster and got him traded for a "win now" George Bell, but that's another story. The other corollary example always used is Gabe Kapler, who had an incredible training process but was never more than a complementary player in his career. No matter how he honed his body (legally), it didn't make him anything better than a player who was hanging on to a 24th or 25th spot on a roster.

Did the writers even include 2014 statistics in their evaluations? Why should Almora even be in the Top 100 at this point?

QUOTE (Tex @ Feb 8, 2015 -> 07:48 PM) Capital punishment is capital punishment. Each group has its own laws and ways of carrying out the sentence. Balta, the SA argument should would also apply to SA, (San Antonio) TX. We execute a fair number of people each year for crimes that we find serious. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...tates-geography Removed law. There was once a Texas law that prohibited the milking of another person's cow. The penalty: $10 In Texas, individuals or groups seeking to modify the weather must first contact a local newspaper. The requirement is part of the Texas Agriculture Code. Not a law. It's not against the law to shoot buffalo from the second floor of a hotel. This alleged law is included among a plethora of other "strange Texas laws" on several websites that explore the subject. Removed law. Before this law was revised in 1973, it was illegal to plant Johnson grass—a destructive weed that kills crops—on another person's property. In western Australia it is still a hanging offence to steal your neighbour's dog.

Is the 5th book of the GOT series worth reading? After watching the all 40 episodes last week, I decided to read the books. Struggling with #4, especially the parts about Lady Brienne searching for Sansa Stark. The book really is dragging without much mention of Bran, Jon Snow, Tyrion or Danaerys. Personally, I think Terry Brooks is still the best fantasy writer alive today. He botched his Star Wars "moment in the sun," but I've never read a series like the Shannara books in the 1980's that could go on for hundreds of pages and I wouldn't even want to put it down once. Perhaps being in middle school and high school made those particular books more impactful? I guess others favor JK Rowling, then there's Robert Jordan fans out there as well.

QUOTE (LDF @ Feb 9, 2015 -> 02:26 AM) yeah, i know what was being meant. i was trying to disfuse the comment by trying to make a joke from a mel brooks movie. dang, rough crowd. however you should at least given me props from know the quote from the movie. For some reason, I thought it was Clint Eastwood at the beginning of Gran Torino...he said something similar to that about the Hmong. Of course, he grows to respect them greatly by the end of the film.

It's a far cry from the $144 million, Zach Greinke Dodgers' deal he was aiming for a year ago.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Feb 9, 2015 -> 01:30 AM) Chris Cotillo ‏@ChrisCotillo 53m53 minutes ago Sources: #Padres in agreement with James Shields on four-year deal. Includes club option for fifth season. Chris Cotillo ‏@ChrisCotillo 52m52 minutes ago Shields deal is pending a physical. Expected to be in $72-78 million range over four seasons. #Padres Eric Stephen ‏@truebluela 42m42 minutes ago The Padres won the Wil Myers / James Shields trade Depends on how Shields performs, and when/if he gets injured. He should be okay in the NL West, one would think. They still have a current outfield of Kemp, Maybin, Myers, Quentin, J. Upton and Venable, lol. They've already traded Seth Smith. Maybe the White Sox should reacquire CQ for LaRoche's at-bats against lefties? Maybin would be an interesting piece as well (4th OF), depending on how much salary they were willing to eat.