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  1. Banedon
    And stats just can't measure fire and intensity. And grittiness. And veteran-ness.
  2. Banedon
    Those are gross generalizations and doesn't help this discussion at all. If anyone truly questions the difference between Republicans and Democrats, this link gives a good overview of the views that each party traditionally holds. Yes, electable candidates need to stay close to the center. That's true. But that doesn't mean there isn't a difference. I think our last two Presidents illustrate that as much as anything. The US had huge deficit (and debt) from the Reagan and the first Bush administration. When Clinton left office, he had a $127 billion surplus. Last year, Bush had a $163 billion deficit and that was the lowest that it's been in 5 years, and that's with the war being "off budget". http://www.eriposte.com/economy/other/demovsrep.htm Yearly budget deficit: 1962-2001 Democrats: $36 billion Republicans: $190 billion Increase in National Debt:1962-2001 Democrats: Total debt increased by $.72 trillion Republicans: Total debt increased by $3.8 trillion Inflation is increased under Republicans, GDP growth is down under Republicans, and unemployment is higher under Republicans.
  3. Banedon
    yes its almost funny looking Every time they showed Tom last night, my wife would pipe up with "Just looking at that guy make me look cold!! Look at him!" This while numerous other guys were in giant thermal coats and ski masks. Anyone else get the comedy of announcers constantly preaching that this is a quarterback's league and you can't make any noise without a good QB, but the last 2 NFC QB's are Eli Manning and Rex Grossman? I'm just sayin...
  4. Banedon
    they almost beat NE in week 17 tho Yeah, when the Pats had everything sewn up except the perfect record. Means little, if anything. They both played their starters the whole game. Yeah, that game was a great game. I don't know how you can say that game meant little. The Giants gave them a real run for their money.
  5. Banedon
    The Giants tried and tried and tried to give that game to the Pack, but the Pack wouldn't take it. Thank God. The Pack would've made the Super Bowl unwatchable. And you know, the Giants nearly beat the Pats in the last matchup. I wouldn't write them off.
  6. Banedon
    Cronyism
  7. Banedon
    Couldn't disagree more. I wonder if you're even being serious.
  8. Banedon
    Really sheds some light on a few individuals...Prior, Jacque, Farnsworth and Hundley on the negative side. And Aramis and Wood on the positive side. I still don't like Hendry as a GM (Theriot sucks) but I'd love to hear more of his thoughts like this.
  9. Banedon
    You may very well be right, but just so you know, if Cuban DOES buy the team, this will be my new sig... 8-)
  10. Banedon
    Oops. My bad. Kaplan never named who it was, and I jumped to conclusions. My apologies to Mr. Levine.
  11. Banedon
    Like I said in the post where I pointed out the bin Laden thing...I knew I was nitpicking. :P
  12. Banedon
    Dave Kaplan said that he's gotten so many people calling him and telling him about a rumor that "a reporter for another radio station in town" (pretty clear reference to Bruce Levine I think) said that the Brian Roberts deal is done, and that they are holding off announcing it for the convention. So Kaplan called Roberts agent, who said that he's shot down about 10 rumors so far and this is number 11. He said there is NO DEAL IN PLACE, that Roberts is not in Chicago, and will not be in Chicago this weekend. He said that Angelos has not shot down any deals, and that the only deal that has been brought to Angelos was the Tejada deal. Numerous times Kaplan called the rumor ridiculous, and more or less ridiculed Levine's report.
  13. Banedon
    Let us know if it's anything substantial. I'll wager on that not being the case though.
  14. Banedon
    Just by reading many, many posts in the rants and social forums, that would have been my guess for many, if not most of the posters here. Not a knock, just an anecdotal observation. I'm somewhat surprised by the vote so far. I think the Dems are a little louder these days.
  15. Banedon
    Dem
  16. Banedon
    3.5M w/ $4M in incentives. So if hes healthy all year you get a league average pitcher for $7.5M for 1 year, while the going rate is about 4 years $12M per. That greatly depends on exactly what his incentives are.
  17. Banedon
    The words "try to come up with somebody else" do not exactly inspire overwhelming confidence.
  18. Banedon
    Hopefully this works out as well as the "Trachsel comes back to the Cubs" deal. Clement would've been a better signing as far as "returns" go.
  19. Banedon
    I think he was pretty good at his best. Unlike most Cubs pitchers, he didn't give away first base. But no, he isn't good anymore. I'm not sure why people are so certain "he can still pitch" and will be better than Marquis and Dempster. I think among the three you might find one who doesn't stink, but who knows which one that will be. Maybe the philosophy is to get as many "maybe" pitchers as you can to increase the odds of one being not horrible?
  20. Banedon
    You're assuming that we were in any of those rumored deals.
  21. Banedon
    I might hate the Pack more than I hate the Cardinals. It's close.
  22. Banedon
    All of them play on the North Side of Illinois.
  23. Banedon
    Have you been talking to Ryan or Mike? Cause the Bayou Basher isn't a Cub any longer. Huh? Who isn't a Cub? Todd Walker. I see. That's what was strange about it. When I searched for Bayou Basher, the first thing that popped up was an article or two about Mike Fontenot, and the second reference to Bayou Basher was an article or two about Ryan Theriot. Nowhere on the first two pages of results is a reference to Todd Walker as the Bayou Basher. Since the term seemed to reference two current Cubs, it didn't make sense that he said the Basher was not a Cub anymore without some type of knowledge. The Bayou Basher is a reference to the nickname that Steve Stone gave Todd Walker when Todd complained about Stone liking other players and giving them nicknames...or something like that. EDIT: Actually I've got that wrong. Todd was complaining that Chip and Steve didn't have nicknames for the players like Hawk did across town.
  24. Banedon
    Chicken.
  25. Banedon
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v421/Banedon/Lovethisthread.jpg
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