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There was a play under 2 minutes in the half in the Dallas-Eagles game where Dez makes what looked like a catch but he was ruled incomplete. I'm not certain it was a catch, but it was close enough that even Aikman and Buck said it looked like a catch. The Cowboys waited until 1 second on the play clock until snapping with no review. Now, I'm not complaining about it being ruled on the field incomplete. It definitely was close...and with enough reviews I may even think incomplete. My complaint is that if coaches cannot challenge under 2 minutes, then all close plays should be looked at. If not, give coaches the ability to challenge.

Drunk Roger Goodell ‏@FakeCommish 59m The 0-4 Steelers are considered underdogs against their bye week. Bye week is a 14 point favorite today.

I was about to ask is there a worse team than the Giants...but then I remembered the Jaguars.

Link I could get behind this idea. I've always been in favor of reducing the number of preseason games I have to pay for. The playoffs are always fun to watch and adding one team on each side will increase the drama in my opinion.

Well, that sucks. Good game to watch, though. I didn't think LSU was MNC caliber this year, but I wanted them to keep rolling. I did think there were lots of uncalled PI .

This LSU-Georgia game is fun to watch, but can smeone kill Gary Danielson's mike?

Go Cowboys!

LSU vs Georgia should be a good game.

Watching the Chiefs defense against the Eagles is making me feel better about the Cowboys loss on Sunday. Not a lot better, but some

I don't understand the notion of "allegations that hostesses had sex with recruits." That's what they do. That would be like alleging that a football fan drank beer. Well, other than being against the rules, a number of the recruits are only 17. That would make college hostesses having sex with them illegal, eh? possibly, but in many areas, the age of consent is 17.

Dallas- Roger Staubach Dirk Nowitzski Emmit Smith Nolan Ryan (2 Cowboys and no Stars- because DFW area doesn't give a [expletive] about the Stars)

ROMOSEXUAL DEZBIANS (0-0) SLOT PLAYER, TEAM POS ACQ 10 team league. (Roster 1 QB, 1 RB, 2 WR, 1 RB/WR, TE, D, K) QB Tony Romo, Dal QB RB Jamaal Charles, KC RB RB/WR DeMarco Murray, Dal RB WR Dez Bryant, Dal WR WR Larry Fitzgerald, Ari WR TE Owen Daniels, Hou TE D/ST Steelers D/ST D/ST K Blair Walsh, Min K Bench Darren McFadden, Oak RB Bench Rob Gronkowski*, NE TE Bench Andrew Luck, Ind QB Bench Kenny Britt, Ten WR Bench Emmanuel Sanders, Pit WR Bench Ronnie Hillman, Den RB Bench Cordarrelle Patterson, Min WR

Dez Bryant got an entire season just for lying about eating dinner with Deion Sanders, which wasn't even a violation The NCAA is so inconsistent. Manziel commits a known violation (even though I don't think it should be is irrelevant) and gets 1/2 game while Dez lies about a non-violation and gets a whole season. I really hope the former players win the lawsuit against the NCAA because I'd love to see the whole thing come crumbling down.

I have tickets to the LSU-TCU game in Arlington. Looking forward to that one.

I pay more than that for the Extra Innings package now and would easily pay double if it meant getting a channel with more Cubs content, pre and post game shows and all (or most) of the games no matter what the state of the team. Hell, just not having to listen to the other teams' announcers on the road would be worth it. I pay quite a bit for EI as well, and while I do watch other games, if I could just get a Cubs channel with all the games, I'd probably do that and drop EI without thinking twice. I'm sure lots of others would too.

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So, can someone give me a quick rundown of who all we signed and where they ranked? Also, are there any interesting names still unsigned?

Don't [expletive] with Dejesus.

interestingly enough, many viewers also fantasize about hawk dying during a broadcast. Yankees are in town in less than a week. Just saying. *praying that his statement was prophetic*

don't ask, we might just find out.

There's a kid who really has faith in Sandoval.

I find this comical. You would have no problem if Aaron took greenies regularly because they were legally and readily available, but steroids outside the US were legally and readily available, yet you have a huge issue with it? You seem to make a lot of speculation about Sosa, when in fact none of it is based on fact. There really is only a small amount of direct evidence he took anything- outside of your "well, just look at him" test. Sosa was never caught using. One NYT reporter claims from an unamed source that Sosa tested positive in 2003 on a test that was supposed to be anonymous. Sounds like heresay to me....even more so that if one of Aaron's teammates came out and said he took greenies all the time. You like to play the Sosa wouldn't appear to be smart enough to only take PEDs in the offseason in his home country....well let's flip that motherfucking coin. Assuming how many of Sosa's teammates disliked him (Wood, Grace, etc), if Sosa was taking PEDs during the season, don't you think one of those guys would have come out with some direct evidence and happily shared it with us. Do you think he would have been smart enough to hide it from all the people who were out to get him? Players far more smarter than Sosa (Clemens, McGwire, etc) have been busted by the testimony of others, but Sosa- even though everyone was looking for evidence against him- really has no evidence except an anonymous second-hand heresay accout that he failed what was supposed to be an anonymous test and "well [expletive], he sure looks like he took something!" And it's not that I'm saying Sosa was clean. In all likelihood he juiced the [expletive] out of himself and his nuts are likely the size of a small piece of gravel, but really there's no evidence. No more than anyone else. And frankly, I have a hard time punishing anyone (and yes denying the HOF is a punishment to a lot of these guys) with no evidence. And then the flip side becomes how do we know who really did or didn't? Body size isn't a good judge. So then we end up with the [expletive] that we have now where the voters aren't voting anyone in. It's stupid. Baseball screwed the pooch. If they wanted to punish these guys, they should have tested regularly. Since they didn't, I think we should just acknowledge the players who were the best of their era while acknowledging that we don't know who of that era (or any previous era for that matter) really enhanced performance. Aaron was one of the best HR hitters of his era. Sosa was one of the best of his. That's what we have and what we should acknowledge. The rest is just bs.

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Please quote the exact rule that says that prior to the current testing regime. In case you can't find it, here it is. It is quite vague. It says the use of illegal drugs by MLB is prohibited. Yes, it mentions steroids, but the key prohibition was on illegal use and/or possession. Now, while it may seem like a technicallity, but if Sosa received his injections in the offseason under the care of a doctor in the DR, then he never violated the policy as it was stated since his use of such was not illegal in the country he recieved them. Now, maybe you don't like that...and surely it violates some of the competitive spirit of the law, but since there was no testing of "prohibitive" substances and since Sosa's only implication is a heresay rumor that he was among those who failed the 2003 test which was simply for "informational" purposes, I don't see how you can point at him and clearly say he used, yada yada yada, while ignoring the same level of circumstatial evidence that say someone like Aaron used. My take isn't to protect cheaters, but it was clear MLB turned a blind-eye to PED's for a long time, and not until Congress and public pressure got serious about it. If someone wants to refer to the 1990-2003 as the steroid era, go ahead, but I think that the best players of that era should get the same recognition as the best players from other eras.

My point is the only evidence we have against Sosa is a heresay report in the NYT that he was on the 2003 list. While he certainly looks to have the body of a user, I'm not sure that is air tight proof of anything. Furthermore, since MLB began testing, Sosa (and many others who have been connecting to PED use) were never implicated by a positve test or anything else. Sure, one can point to the 1991 rule, but that rule is quite ambiguous and without testing, it was never enforced. You made legality an issue, and steroids at the time were not illegal in the DR. My take is this. It is certainly fair and right to punish those who are caught under the current system of testing, but those prior to the current system weren't really breaking any rules, and then to romanticize players from previous eras who used whatever means available to them is quite hyporcritical.