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notice how there are no cubs on that list? high five everyone

Tree? I was gonna say is that our Johnny from Champaign... I gotta imagine the amount of Johnny's in Champaign that read BP has to be pretty low. My thought as well, but I thought tree might be afraid that I know his name. yes that was me don't worry ssr, i'll learn your name soon enough is it jeff

no one here knows that. Not true. not true

stay classy, jose

Bellhorn! Oh, I thought this was favorite. Steve Stone.

Agreed. I wonder what happens with Murton now? Package him in a deal for a lefty reliever?

Am I to understand that everyone else except Law is pretty high on Vitters? I'd say so.

A - Ryan Howard B - Matt Holliday B - Mark Teixeira C - Pat the Bat C - Aramis Ramirez C - Nick Swisher D - Nick Markakis D - Jeff Francouer D - Ryan Zimmerman D - Chase Utley D - Vernon Wells WC - Delmon Young

True...very true. How has Miggy hit this spring? .713 .713 ops that is. put the weight back on, dude.

i started to read this thread but i had to stop because im trying to have sex with salma hayek

every time someone wants to know how much time is left until opening day, just post in here and then i'll figure it out and reply

this is wrong in a multitude of ways

we could use a versatile lefthanded hitting OF

I love his game, even though he A.) goes to Texas and B.) boned OU He seems like a guy that will go in the mid-first round and then surprise people. He's definitely not a two, and he's not going to be a four, so he's kind of pigeonholed role wise. I don't think he can defend on the perimeter well enough to guard twos either, but he'll always rebound well and he can hit a jumper from anywhere on the floor, but he's not an off the dribble shooter, so he can't be a first option on offense. I think if you put him on a fastbreaking team with a good offense, he'll do well. Now that I say that, he reminds me a lot of Shawn Marion, with a little extra bulk and a lot less defense.

you know that you can set your dvr/vcr ahead of time

UCLA was getting away with murder down low all night. That last play looked clean though. I stand corrected. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v604/snoodmonger1/532752.jpg http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2008-03/37063269.jpg

runs and ERA, hits and batting average

i really, really, really hate theriot. but i hope he does well. no one is rooting for him to fail, and anyone who thinks that is off his/her/its rocker

the next person that posts a macro that has words ironically misspelled is getting killed

There it is - "be a man." Maybe my favorite cliche of any on this Board. Seems the list of Cubs that aren't manly never stops growing. Ugh. I think he meant "be a man" in the "be an adult" sense, not "be a tough guy." Yep. Communicate and have the guts to talk to your manager. Going through the press is like having your mommy or daddy solve your problems. How can you be sure that he hasn't? Maybe he has and that's why answering a question when asked is not a big deal.

also, white

aka: shut up

no but i can put cesar izturis on your team

196. Corey Patterson 197. Hiroki Kuroda 198. Johnny Peralta

Geovany Soto has been to Mars. That is why there is no life on Mars. no one has been to mars Past missions The first successful fly-by mission to Mars was NASA's Mariner 4, launched in 1964. The first successful objects to land on the surface were two Soviet probes, Mars 2 and Mars 3 from the Mars probe program, launched in 1971, but both lost contact within seconds of landing. Then came the 1975 NASA launches of the Viking program, which consisted of two orbiters, each having a lander; both landers successfully touched down in 1976 and remained operational for 6 and 3 years, for Viking 1 and Viking 2 respectively. The Viking landers relayed the first color pictures of Mars[70] and also mapped the surface of Mars so well that the images are still sometimes used to this day. The Soviet probes Phobos 1 and 2 were sent to Mars in 1988 to study Mars and its two moons, unfortunately Phobos 1 lost contact on the way to Mars, and Phobos 2, while successfully photographing Mars and Phobos, failed just before it was set to release two landers on Phobos's surface. Following the 1992 failure of the Mars Observer orbiter, NASA launched the Mars Global Surveyor in 1996. This mission was a complete success, having finished its primary mapping mission in early 2001. Contact was lost with the probe in November 2006 during its third extended program, spending exactly 10 operational years in space. Only a month after the launch of the Surveyor, NASA launched the Mars Pathfinder, carrying a robotic exploration vehicle Sojourner, which landed in the Ares Vallis on Mars. This mission was another big success, and received much publicity, partially due to the many spectacular images that were sent back to Earth.[71] Current missions Spirit's lander on Mars Spirit's lander on Mars In 2001 NASA launched the successful Mars Odyssey orbiter, which is still in orbit as of March 2008, and the ending date has been extended to September 2008. Odyssey's Gamma Ray Spectrometer detected significant amounts of hydrogen in the upper metre or so of Mars's regolith. This hydrogen is thought to be contained in large deposits of water ice.[72] In 2003, the ESA launched the Mars Express craft, consisting of the Mars Express Orbiter and the lander Beagle 2. Beagle 2 failed during descent and was declared lost in early February 2004.[73] In early 2004 the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer team announced it had detected methane in the Martian atmosphere. ESA announced in June 2006 the discovery of aurorae on Mars.[74] Also in 2003, NASA launched the twin Mars Exploration Rovers named Spirit (MER-A) and Opportunity (MER-B). Both missions landed successfully in January 2004 and have met or exceeded all their targets. Among the most significant scientific returns has been conclusive evidence that liquid water existed at some time in the past at both landing sites. Martian dust devils and windstorms have occasionally cleaned both rovers' solar panels, and thus increased their lifespan.[75] On August 12, 2005 the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter probe was launched toward the planet, arriving in orbit on March 10, 2006 to conduct a two-year science survey. The orbiter will map the Martian terrain and weather to find suitable landing sites for upcoming lander missions. It also contains an improved telecommunications link to Earth, with more bandwidth than all previous missions combined. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped the first image of a series of active avalanches near the planet's north pole, scientists said March 3, 2008.[76] Future missions Mars Polar Lander practices robotic arm control at a test site in Death Valley. Mars Polar Lander practices robotic arm control at a test site in Death Valley. The next scheduled mission to Mars, not counting the brief flyby by the Dawn spacecraft to Ceres and Vesta, is the NASA Phoenix Mars lander, which launched August 4, 2007 and is scheduled to arrive on the north polar region of Mars on May 25, 2008. The lander has a robotic arm with a 2.5 m reach and capable of digging a meter into the Martian soil. The lander will be in an area with an 80% chance of ice being less than 30 cm below the surface, and has a microscopic camera capable of resolving to one-thousandth the width of a human hair.[77] Phoenix will be followed by the Mars Science Laboratory in 2009, a bigger, faster (90 m/hour), and smarter version of the Mars Exploration Rovers. Experiments include a laser chemical sample that can deduce the make-up of rocks at a distance of 13 m.[78] The joint Russian and Chinese Phobos-Grunt sample-return mission, to return samples of Mars's moon Phobos, is scheduled for a 2009 launch. In 2012 the ESA plans to launch its first Rover to Mars, the ExoMars rover will be capable of drilling 2 m into the soil in search of organic molecules.[79][80] The Finnish-Russian MetNet mission will consist of sending tens of small landers on the Martian surface in order to establish a wide-spread surface observation network to investigate the planet's atmospheric structure, physics and meteorology.[81] A precursor mission using 1-2 landers is scheduled for launch in 2009 or 2011. One possibility is a piggyback launch on the Russian Phobos Grunt mission.[82] Other launches will take place in the launch windows extending to 2019. Manned Mars exploration by the United States has been explicitly identified as a long-term goal in the Vision for Space Exploration announced in 2004 by US President George W. Bush.[83] NASA and Lockheed Martin have begun work on the Orion spacecraft, formerly the Crew Exploration Vehicle, which is currently scheduled to send a human expedition to Earth's moon by 2020 as a stepping stone to an expedition to Mars thereafter. The European Space Agency hopes to land humans on Mars between 2030 and 2035.[84] This will be preceded by successively larger probes, starting with the launch of the ExoMars probe and a Mars Sample Return Mission. On September 28, 2007, NASA administrator Michael D. Griffin stated that NASA aims to put a man on Mars by 2037: in 2057, we should be celebrating 20 years of man on Mars.[85]