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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]

YOU picked sc?!?! Did it burn your fingers to type that? Heh. I thought they would win, they had been playing much better the last 2 months. Mayo's last 2 months totally changed my opinion of him as a player

if vandy goes down, it is going to bone a lot of people.

when i saw his name, i did a double-take. I was going to pick him earlier but I thought he was gone, so I just took Escobar instead.

/raisin mode *activate* OU is really looking sharp right now /rasin mode *quit*

no. do you realize how easy it is to find someone who can just be average - even a lefty? Even if we did go into the season with Piggy in a serious role, and even if he was terrible, we'd just sub him out for someone who wasn't as bad. I realize that this whole argument is a tangent, but no reliever is going to be allowed to be bad enough for a long enough time that Marte over him would make up the difference between Roberts and DeRosa.

andre dawson never walked aka i hate him

I like the "Boston and New York have the best lineups in baseball" line. Who knows what kind of lineups they ran out there those days. John Lieber has like a 1.20 era so far. This guy will be good, more than likely, but let's not start sucking our own popsicles yet.

Wolf, if I were you, I'd just repick. Cueto will show up in the free-agent pool (as a waiver acquisition I imagine) and I don't want to go through all the trouble of pissing people off and re-arranging rosters if someone else picks him up.

You should really listen to this, reds44. Because you know us. We're the type to say I toldja so. And we will be. Okay that's fine. What either of us say has nothing to do with what actually will happen. I know Dusty's past. I lived in the Chicagoland area when he managed the Cubs. I have no need to listen to what you say, when I already know what happend. you should actually, definitely, not listen to roast

fixed thanks for fixing that

I like. Is it that much less nasty with Piggy or Lahey instead of Marte? Or with Leiber in long relief and Hart in short relief? Especially when whoever gets the final pen spot will be basically the 25th man on the roster? Is it that much less nasty to pay more in money and prospects to upgrade it? That's the same point people make for not making the Roberts' trade. Getting Marte makes a good bullpen better. Of course, everything depends on cost. It's completely different. You are talking about getting better for 1 inning at a time, 70 games a year. With Roberts you are getting a 9-inning/ 150 game per year player. It's completely the same. You take a good situation and upgrade it to make it better. That 1 inning at a time, 70 games a year possibly could make a swing of 8-10 wins depending on the situation. I could argue the VORP of Roberts over DeRosa is less than the VORP of Marte over Pignatello or Cotts. I repeat, you make a good situation better in either case. lol Roberts in 2007 - 48.6 Derosa in 2007 - 21.3 Marte, in what was basically a career year, vorped 15.7 In other words, no.

if only Hill's dad were here... i think abuck's at work right now

It was perfectly clear to me and many others here. Can't help it if you weren't paying attention like the rest of us. [-X [-X I simply want the Cubs to win the division, the league and the World Series this year, that's all. To put any hope on having Wood as the closer, given his history of DL stints and who knows how many games he wasn't or won't be available, is bad decision making. Again, he has ZERO saves in his career. How would you ever determine a closer if they're not allowed to ever get their first save? Everyone starts at zero. check their dna for the closer sequence

As long as they're buying low, I'm down. Some of the rumors I'm hearing (reading) have it being a late round pick (5th or 6th rounder) and Jones agreeing to turn a large portion of his contract into incentives. My guess is this happens some time in the next week or so. Fantastic. If he's stayed in shape, it will be worth it to the return game if nothing else.

As long as they're buying low, I'm down.

remember, i cant put guys like this on your roster until they appear in a game.

typical. kicks sand in your face

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