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Sammy Sofa

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  1. In years past, yes. Before I ended up as actually part of a package I would buy them or parts of them from season ticket owners. For several years me and group of family/friends bought 60+ games from single packages.
  2. the hell is a goober Not as good as a mammer jammer, but close.
  3. Bill James is pretty much a kook at all non-baseball stuff Ok because I was like "this is an incredibly bright person who I really admire believing in utter [expletive]." It did not compute. It's really bizarre how this theory has come back. It was posed in a book 20 years ago and the agent it accused sued the publisher and it basically went away. The only thing I can guess is that with the agent now dead they're trotting it out again with the anniversary since it's a theory that sticks out even among the most ridiculous conspiracies. [expletive], Bill Kurtis was hosting a special seriously debating it the other night. i am not a person who is knowledgeable about jfk assassination stuff at all. what is the argument that disproves all the stuff about the head shot coming from a secret service member at ground level? There was no physical evidence found of any other gun being used besides Oswald's. The autopsy indicates an entrance wound that came behind and ABOVE the motorcade. And while eyewitness testimony is always something that should be taken with a grain of salt, literally NOBODY on the scene claimed they saw or thought a shot came from the cars behind JFK's. Basically the theory is that Oswald was doing the shooting, but then the agent armed with an AR-15 in a car behind JFK's accidentally discharged the weapon while reacting to the shooting and hit JFK in the head. Even in the conspiracy theory "community" it's not taken very seriously.
  4. Bill James is pretty much a kook at all non-baseball stuff Ok because I was like "this is an incredibly bright person who I really admire believing in utter [expletive]." It did not compute. It's really bizarre how this theory has come back. It was posed in a book 20 years ago and the agent it accused sued the publisher and it basically went away. The only thing I can guess is that with the agent now dead they're trotting it out again with the anniversary since it's a theory that sticks out even among the most ridiculous conspiracies. [expletive], Bill Kurtis was hosting a special seriously debating it the other night.
  5. i think that there was a conspiracy. Maybe not a "high-level government" conspiracy, but I don't think Oswald "acted alone." Oswald's assassination at the hands of Jack Ruby just makes such little sense. I don't think any of them planned on anyone involved getting caught, but there were other shooters acting as fail safes if Oswald didn't hit his target. Ruby, on the other hand, was tied to organized crime and others that lost a lot in Cuba. To many, it was a very personal thing, and the murder may not have occurred for any other reason besides revenge, think Max Cady-type revenge, for the Bay of Pigs. If Ruby was actually tasked with killing Oswald, why was nobody sent to kill Ruby? Basically his killing of Oswald doesn't make a lot of sense because it was an irrational act based almost completely on chance. Oswald was actually transferred later than announced; Ruby was still asleep when Oswald was originally scheduled to be moved. He finally heads downtown and literally minutes before he shoots Oswald he's posting a money transfer at a Western Union office. He actually let the guy behind in him line go first; if that customer had taken just 30 seconds longer to finish his business Ruby would have missed Oswald's transfer completely. He brought his favorite dog along and left her in the car; everyone who knew him said he adored that dog and would have never left her in a car if he knew he wasn't coming back. Most damning of all is that Oswald was further delayed when he asked for a sweater. Without this act, Ruby yet again misses Oswald. The only way that was staged was if Oswald himself was in on his own execution. Nevermind that Ruby was in and out of police HQ throughout the weekend. He had multiple chances to kill Oswald during those times, yet if he's assigned to silence Oswald he waits to do it at a moment that requires a multitude of lucky breaks to succeed (the armored car couldn't fit down the driveway, the chief's car couldn't back right up to the door because of all the reporters, etc.). This is a very temperamental, emotional guy and he finally snapped (and his mob connections are vastly overstated; he was a hanger-on in Chicago and Dallas at best. It was basically inevitable that he would know made guys based on who he grew up with and because he ran strip clubs but he was never anyone really all that connected and basically would be the worst choice for mob hitman ever). If there were other shooters they literally left no trace of their existence. Dealy Plaza as a whole was scoured after the assassination and nothing was found besides evidence pointing to Oswald as the shooter. That's where any idea of a "small" conspiracy falls apart because a massive one is required to not only completely remove any evidence of anyone else but to also manipulate everything so that it points only at Oswald. It's just not realistic that something with so many moving parts and so many people required would have worked so perfectly. Hell, if anyone would be backing Oswald as the lone shooter I'd think it was you, sulley, since he killed him for Cuba and Castro. He's a true revolutionary!
  6. Losing makes too much sense at this point; this is the kind of game they will annoyingly win so that they end up with a middling draft pick.
  7. Grossssssssssssss. I'd rather see the White Sox become the best team in baseball.
  8. Oh, I would definitely pick the Bears and Cubs over them, but still, it would be pretty cool.
  9. Yeah the Dolphins Martin/Incognito saga sure was fun as is Loria and the Florida Panthers. It would be pretty awesome to see a single Chicago team that's not the Sox or the Blackhawks win it all.
  10. it would be pretty cool if you put the hundred dollar bill on your forehead and injected the heroin through it. give the paramedics a story worth telling. I like the way you think.
  11. Look how much fun LeBron and the Heat are having in that commercial. Other cities are so lucky.
  12. Time to spend that c-note on forehead smack.
  13. It's like they realized that the Rams had only scored 6 points since that initial flurry and decided to set things right.
  14. Impressively useless defense on that drive.
  15. I feel shellshocked. Bush is to Trestman as Macias was to Dusty.
  16. OH MY GOD, MICHAEL BUSH WAS PUT ON THIS EARTH TO PUNISH US.
  17. This is the stupidest game of all time.
  18. Yeah, I've got total battered spouse syndrome when it comes to that; I just expect it after everything.
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