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uh whatever dude, obama has the most liberal voting record in the senate!!! [/karlrove] Voting record is what keeps most senators from getting elected. But there's really no way of knowing how their perspective will change once they become President. The last senator to get elected President was JFK. that's why i thought it was a good idea for obama to run now. the republicans bashed kerry's voting record and pinned the "flip flopper" label on him. if you're in the senate for 20 years, there are inevitably going to be some issues on which you change your opinion, and there will also be some votes that look really bad in hindsight. he doesn't have either problem going against him right now, so all the republicans can do is trot out the tired mantra of "most liberal voting record." funny how he was the 16th and 10th most liberal senator his first two years, but then the year that he started campaigning for president, he leaped to #1 on the list! amazing that the same thing happened to john kerry!!!
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sampson lied to ncaa investigators, that's where the major infraction was. and this wasn't alleged to be 10 3-way calls; the report refers to about 100 calls that may have been impermissible.
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Clemens' agent releases report refuting steroid allegations
TruffleShuffle replied to swordsman's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
yeah this has been reported by newsday, apparently they interviewed rep. tom davis. boy pettitte connecting roger to hgh would be really crippling for his defense. mcnamee is a trainer and i suppose one could find reason to question his motives, but pettitte is supposedly one of his best friends. -
kinda felt wrong that city won that game, since they were honoring the victims of the 1958 plane crash in munich. wonder what city will do about their goalkeeping situation. they have joe hart and kasper schmeichel, both good young goalies who probably have a future in international play. lately schmeichel has been on loan to cardiff, but this arrangement can't last for the next few years. one of them will probably have to transfer elsewhere.
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uh whatever dude, obama has the most liberal voting record in the senate!!! [/karlrove]
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hell if we got a pick in the 42nd round for jason kendall, that'd still be generous
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plz stop winning sixers
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Soriano - .288/.335/.565 Theriot - .275/.330/.352 Lee - .290/.378/.495 Ramirez - .315/.368/.562 Fukudome - .283/.370/.475 DeRosa - .276/.347/.418 Soto - .258/.323/.434 Pie - .245/.292/.403 Zambrano - 1.26/3.72 Hill - 1.17/3.47 Lilly - 1.27/3.95 Marquis - 1.42/4.87 Dempster - 1.41/4.42 Lieber - 1.48/5.21 Marmol - 1.02/2.34 Wood - 1.22/3.14 Howry - 1.12/2.92
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as good as crosby, maybe better. people are sorta starting to figure this out since crosby has been out and malkin has pretty much put the team's scoring on his shoulders. I really wonder what Pittsburgh will do for the next few years. Putting Malkin on Crosby's wing makes him a less effective (still great nonetheless) player but putting him on the 2nd line is going to limit the ice time for both great players and then you have Jordan Staal and in a year or two when he fully breaks out they're really not going to have enough ice time to go around, some of these guys' talent will be squandered when they can't get on the ice enough. You have to wonder if Staal gets dealt for a winger. there's also the money issue. malkin and crosby will both merit contracts around what ovechkin got - if not in length then at least in annual salary. if you are paying two guys close to $20m per year, that really handcuffs how much talent you can put around them. it's a catch 22... how do you let a crosby or a malkin get away? but how do you try to surround them with enough talent to win a championship?
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oh if ARam and the Cubs ever have a messy divorce, you can bet that 90% of the reporters in the chicago will make sure that he's thrown squarely under the bus. it's completely bush league but that seems to be how it works.
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Clemens' agent releases report refuting steroid allegations
TruffleShuffle replied to swordsman's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
i like the headline at the top there. canseco calls brian mcnamee a - quote - "dirty liar" don't the quotation marks sort of pass along the idea that it's a quote? -
The more I think about it, it may not be a bad move to franchise Berrian. Sure, he'd be overpaid, but only for 1 season. He'd be a tough sign for whoever the year after, assuming he doesn't want to take a massive paycut. he'd have to. they'd be paying him about $8m this year, which is absurd for a guy who is a pretty average #2 receiver. i think berrian would have enough sense to know that nobody is going to give him $8m on the free market, especially when the offers that come rolling in are about half that amount (annually)
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and people wonder why some of us think that prior is being thrown under the bus
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the tigers will have a great year offensively because they have gary sheffield [/joemorgan]
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as good as crosby, maybe better. people are sorta starting to figure this out since crosby has been out and malkin has pretty much put the team's scoring on his shoulders.
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there's the dusty we all know and love (hate)
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he did. it was a scrum and while tyutin didn't initiate a fight with downie, he did pull downie off somewhat of a pile. if it makes you feel better, downie fought today and ruutu pulled downie's helmet at the onset of the fight today. for some reason he didn't see fit to pull off his own helmet to even things up. what a punk. anyway, i was at that game. the seats my parents got me were amazing, 2nd row from the ice, just outside the blue line. saw five of the seven goals down our end and got into it with the pens' mascot during the 2nd period intermission. the only real negatives were the final score and the huge number of obese, unsightly pens fans. but i guess when you go to pittsburgh, that is to be expected.
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ugh. in case you've missed it, guys have suffered serious eye injuries from being hit in the face with a puck. i don't fault any player for wearing a visor. it's hard to take your helmet off to fight when you're jumped from behind by someone. if they want to make it even, the player should take off his helmet and the other non-visored player should also take his off. because otherwise you have one player taking blows all over his non-helmeted head, while the other guy leans forward and puts his head down so that the other fighter is raining punches on the hard plastic on top of his head. it's not a fair fight that way either. anyway, downie beating up tyutin and richards beating up dubinsky were the only redeeming things about yesterday's game. jim vandermeer was a disgrace yet again.
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might want to call every college coach in america and let them know that.
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this article is completely bogus for this reason alone... does anyone think that jim hendry shovels his own driveway? he doesn't look like he's gotten that much exercise in the past 10 years.
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Reds Sign Craig Wilson
TruffleShuffle replied to reds44's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
juan had a dynamite second half of 2001, and he might've been overrated as a result of that. well that plus his stuff was electric, but he never was great at locating it, even when he started to put it together that year. but yeah, 2002 the cubs really didn't give him enough of a chance as starter; they sent him to the pen when he wasn't pitching that poorly as a starter, and then left him there the rest of the year. it should've been either starting in chicago or starting in iowa. and juan cruz did have a really good year as a reliever this year, so he hasn't been a complete bust. -
zambrano is also less likely to trip over his own feet while fielding a bunt. i will do my projections a little later. my pie projection will not be pretty.
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New ballpark you're most excited about
TruffleShuffle replied to Paladin Cecil's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
avg monthly snowfall in minneapolis is 2.8" in april and basically nothing in october. avg high/low in april is 56/36 and in september it's 71/50. it gets really cold there really quickly, but it's not the 8-month deep freeze that a lot of people think it is. cleveland averages 58/37 and 2.4" of snow in april and they play outside. denver averages almost 10" in april. the twins will be fine playing outdoors. they'll have a couple of cancellations due to snow/cold, but nothing that other northern cities don't experience. in fact, you're probably likely to get more cancellations over the course of a year, and maybe just in april as well, in the northeast than you are in minnesota, since the northeast averages a lot more rain than the upper midwest. -
michigan lost 4 games this year. they're losing their QB, RB, best OL and two best WR. losing 3 or 4 games would be pretty miraculous. if they do lose that few, it'll probably be b/c of a soft schedule more than anything else.
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i'd say that barry sanders, herschel walker, red grange, bo jackson, tony dorsett, jim thorpe, earl campbell, roger staubach, dick butkus and charles woodson were better than vince young. and that's just off the top of my head