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John Buck's batting average: .351. OBP: .350. - Tim Apr 13, 11:24 1
- This was asked last week. Sac hits and so. -- nm - nubby, Astro-lord, koozie aficionado Apr 13, 11:24
Way to go Halos...4 straight losses at home..including 5-0 last night..to the Astros. -- nm - budice Apr 13, 11:20
Hunger Games is streaming on Netflix -- nm - amoxy Apr 13, 11:09 1
- also on Amazon Primo! -- nm - budice Apr 13, 11:13
Braves/Natinals spoilers - David, Halo Legend Apr 13, 10:56 6
- I just noticed if you add the averages of BJ Upton and Jason Heyward you get .180. - Tim Apr 13, 11:06 1
  - That's exactly right. The top of our lineup has been dreadful. - David, Halo Legend Apr 13, 11:10
- spoiler - nubby, Astro-lord, koozie aficionado Apr 13, 11:00 3
  - *sigh* Yeah. - David, Halo Legend Apr 13, 11:07 2
    - Where'd this Gattis come from? How long is McCann out for? -- nm - Tim Apr 13, 11:18 1
      - McCann will be rehabbing early next week, eyeing early May to return. -- nm - nubby, Astro-lord, koozie aficionado Apr 13, 11:24
Masters: Tim Clark having the round of his life -- nm - budice Apr 13, 10:50
"Watch Emma Watson pole dance in this clip from The Bling Ring" -- (link) - Mop on Macbook Air Apr 13, 10:45
Hmm. Who here is self-employed? -- nm - Beryllium Apr 13, 10:21 9
- My consulting counts as self-employment, but I have a regular gig. -- nm - nubby, Astro-lord, koozie aficionado Apr 13, 11:32
- is this a poll or do you have some question? -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 13, 10:26 2
  - It can be both! But mostly a poll. :) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 13, 10:27 1
    - I am self employed, always have been, in fact only a couple times ever held a job -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 13, 10:47
- In what sense? I'm sure many STers own their own companies in some sense, as I do. -- nm - Mop on Macbook Air Apr 13, 10:24 3
  - Yes, that counts. Basically I mean - primary or sole income source via ones own enterprises -- nm - Beryllium Apr 13, 10:26 2
    - I think ML is probably the most prominent small business owner on ST. -- nm - Mop on Macbook Air Apr 13, 10:31 1
      - CQ -- nm - Roger More Apr 13, 11:26
- well, if by "self-employed" you mean "UN'employed" ... me -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Apr 13, 10:23
Masters: Mickelson spoils....*boom*... - budice Apr 13, 10:19 1
- it's the Lefty - Tiger connection ... 1 does well, the other does well, 1 stumbles, the other stumbles -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Apr 13, 10:20
I have something to say .... - i'm not dead yet ! Apr 13, 10:07 1
- My my, hey hey. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 13, 10:20
Where is the Masters? CBS has got some bullshit cartoons on right now -- nm - Bacon Apr 13, 09:58 7
- ESPN, then CBS. -- (link) - Mop on Macbook Air Apr 13, 10:00 4
  - ESPN doesnt have coverage of the round -- nm - MDH Apr 13, 10:18 2
    - True. But live stream online right now. -- (link) - Mop on Macbook Air Apr 13, 10:25 1
      - (not full tournament coverage) - charlie Apr 13, 10:28
  - Bah, I dont' get ESPN -- nm - Bacon Apr 13, 10:04
- You are questioning that cartoons are on Saturday morning. Congratulations, you are an old man. -- nm - con_carne Apr 13, 10:00
- 3pm -- nm - MDH Apr 13, 09:59
Masters: Tiger on the practice range for today's round. -- nm - budice Apr 13, 09:21 3
- he holds the rules of golf as sacred as the vows of marriage - charlie Apr 13, 09:36 1
  - He's a big douche, but if he DQed himself it would really help his public image. - Bacon Apr 13, 09:41
- *orgasm* - Mop on Macbook Air Apr 13, 09:33
I hate Kilmer. - David, Halo Legend Apr 13, 08:50 11
- what did I do now? -- nm - Remlik Apr 13, 11:22
- He hasn't done anything good since Top Secret. -- nm - Mop on Macbook Air Apr 13, 08:57 9
  - Uh, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang -- nm - Bacon Apr 13, 08:57 8
    - He meant Pete. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 13, 09:30 7
      - Whaa..?! -- nm - Mop on Macbook Air Apr 13, 09:32 6
        
        I was joking that you meant Pete. :) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 13, 09:34 5
        
        We need to start calling him, RePete -- nm - Bacon Apr 13, 09:35 4
        
        Everyone in this thread who isn't me is a moron. -- nm - David, Halo Legend Apr 13, 09:51 3
        
        Mop = Moe, Bery = Larry, I must be ..... Woooooo Woooooo Woooooo Woooooo Nyuck Nyuck -- nm - Bacon Apr 13, 10:06 2
        
        Carl? -- nm - Mop on Macbook Air Apr 13, 10:08 1
        
        no he's Curly Joe. -- nm - Remlik Apr 13, 11:22
The problem as I see it is that they've now opened up a big window for a bunch of pedant sitting at home with stopwatches. -- nm - Reagen Apr 13, 08:31 3
- that window was always open. just the opposite, this sets the precedent that even non-trivial intentional violations can be excused at the whim of the - charlie Apr 13, 08:34 1
  - I mean that the combination of the two incidents so close together basically encourages people to do this. -- nm - Reagen Apr 13, 08:35
- Remember when the bird watchers called in and said they were pumping fake bird noises into the Masters broadcast? - Bacon Apr 13, 08:32
Yes. We are not done with The Matrix. -- (link) - Spawn Apr 13, 08:29 5
- and he bitches about being signed for more Marvel Movies -- nm - Remlik Apr 13, 11:19
- Hugo Weaving gotta eat? -- nm - Tim Apr 13, 10:15
- I've decided that's awesome. -- nm - Mop on Macbook Air Apr 13, 09:02
- That is pretty cool, but eerie thought -- nm - budice Apr 13, 08:32
- yes, we are - charlie Apr 13, 08:32
Facebook down for anyone else? Can't get in mobile or PC. -- nm - Bacon Apr 13, 08:19 6
- I'm having troubles reaching a few different sites today. Yahoo among them. -- nm - Reagen Apr 13, 08:36 2
  - It's all probably related to the Spamhaus fight going on. - TWuG Apr 13, 08:52
  - I couldn't get to Spawn's link above either. -- nm - Bacon Apr 13, 08:38
- Worked for me. -- nm - Krusty Apr 13, 08:29 1
  - I can get on with the Android app now but not the PC -- nm - Bacon Apr 13, 08:30
- Just overloaded with Tiger feedback -- nm - budice Apr 13, 08:20
just heard the new Jonas Brothers song on the radio...everyone associated with it should be embarrassed - Beaker Apr 13, 07:53 1
- ...by how awesome they are? -- nm - Mop Apr 13, 07:56
Tiger got the two stroke penalty because of the interview in statement by the Masters -- nm - budice Apr 13, 07:36 10
- Nick Faldo loses his cool saying -- nm - budice Apr 13, 07:53 3
  - Tiger should "do the manly thing" (Deadspin vid) -- (link) - budice Apr 13, 07:53 2
    - I'm sure last night he did the manly thing a couple of times. Probably once or twice more this morning. - Mop Apr 13, 07:55
    - he should retire too !! -- nm - Beaker Apr 13, 07:55
- The refs are ruining this game! -- nm - Mop Apr 13, 07:42
- statement from the rules committee (pic) -- (link) - budice Apr 13, 07:39 [Image]
- and because he's Tiger Woods -- nm - charlie Apr 13, 07:37 3
  - I'm Tiger F*cking Woods! I'll win this whether I'm three strokes back or five strokes back! - Mop Apr 13, 07:44 2
    - Since he hasn't won a major in 5 years not being penalized, I say his train comes off the tracks here. - Bacon Apr 13, 09:36
    - even if he did win, it would be tainted forever. all the more reason for him to DQ himself -- nm - charlie Apr 13, 07:45
Good decision, Augusta National. Made the right call -- nm - Boxing Judges Apr 13, 07:31
Finally finished the Halo 4 campaign. It's been long time since I've felt like playing a game was a chore. - Shaun Apr 13, 07:30
"Fixing wins everything" -- nm - Nike Apr 13, 07:28 2
- ha! -- nm - prayformojo Apr 13, 08:13 1
  - What was the final grade for Big Trouble in Little China? -- nm - Bacon Apr 13, 08:13
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- duh, you dissiminated the email further and therefore are now DQ'd, sheesh, its said right there not to, not like its some obscure rule -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 13, 10:51
- If you haven't already deleted it, forward it to [email protected]. -- nm - CovingtonCat Apr 13, 09:52
- Well....get on it and register that account! I'm sure you can do a lot with that $197.44....... -- nm - Meg Apr 13, 07:31
I'm with the old golfer in this being a crappy rule. It's the only sport that watches video and changes the outcome the next day. If I saw - Krusty Apr 13, 06:58 9
- golf is a sport? - DaneDukeNuuk Apr 13, 07:28 1
  - A good walk spoiled. -- nm - Mark Twain Apr 13, 07:50
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- oh no, it's always totally on the player to sign a completely accurate card and to DQ themselves even if it's brought to their attention afterward -- nm - charlie Apr 13, 07:00 5
  - How are you the #1 playing in the world of your sport and not know the rules. You can't use that defense in a court of law. And there have been cases - Valar Morghulis Apr 13, 07:10
  - I don't even know why I care. Just seems very wrong to watch video and then penalize someone. Where were the officials during the match? Why - Krusty Apr 13, 07:03 3
    - He should have asked an official his options.Happens every week so the player has his ass covered. -- nm - Zunk Xometimes Apr 13, 07:35
    - it's the code of golf. you are the first rules official yourself. even if nobody else saw a violation, it's your duty to enforce it on yourself -- nm - charlie Apr 13, 07:05 1
      - The code of marriage is not to diddle other women and he didn't abide by that rule either. -- nm - Bacon Apr 13, 08:12
Rick Reilly is an idiot. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 13, 06:52
2 shot penalty for Tiger Woods, no DQ - stewie Apr 13, 06:35 46
- Eh, he is done. He should have retired. -- nm - Spawn Apr 13, 09:16
- That rule is one that I don't get completely. - Will Hunting Apr 13, 06:55 2
  - ignoring whatever is in the rule book and just look at the distance between where he put the ball and where the last shot was - stewie Apr 13, 06:58 1
    - I agree with your IM line...i think they need to put a number on the "Close as possible" becuase if you're choosing to drop there - Will Hunting Apr 13, 07:01
- The Golf Channel guy with the great hair and 3 piece suit absolutely hammering Tiger. Sorry, not sure of his name. -- nm - Zunk Xometimes Apr 13, 06:42 34
  - Charles Barkley. -- nm - Mop Apr 13, 07:51
  - i don't see how you can have a penalty assessed without being DQd for signing a wrong card - charlie Apr 13, 06:54 32
    - "...a player can have penalty strokes added afterward when facts were not reasonably presented at the time of scorecard signing." -- (link) - Mop Apr 13, 07:54 3
      - yeah, that's the new escape hatch for the Dustin Johnson situation where the player had no reason to know he was violating the rules. Tiger had every - charlie Apr 13, 07:57 2
        
        They can call it the "Tiger Woods Rule", but whatever it is, it's the rule. -- nm - Mop Apr 13, 07:58 1
        
        it's being misapplied -- nm - charlie Apr 13, 08:00
    - this -- nm - Beaker Apr 13, 06:56
    - THey changed a rule last year after someone got dinged in a tourney (someone big iirc) where if you get penalized - Will Hunting Apr 13, 06:56 26
      - it was Dustin Johnson supposedly not knowing he was in a bunker at the PGA i think. this isn't even the same kind of situation -- nm - charlie Apr 13, 06:58 25
        
        Well, that there was 100% horseshit. - Will Hunting Apr 13, 07:02 24
        
        except it doesn't make it any less of a violation just because someone notices it after the card is signed -- nm - charlie Apr 13, 07:04 23
        
        it's unfair to hold the players on tv to a higher officiating standard than the others -- nm - stewie Apr 13, 07:07 11
        
        they're not. he should be DQd if he did the same thing in a local country club tourney. a violation is a violation -- nm - charlie Apr 13, 07:10 10
        
        by the others I mean the guys in the same tournament that don't matter enough to be on tv and have their video scrutinized - stewie Apr 13, 07:16
        
        IF it was noted while he was playing...yep. - Will Hunting Apr 13, 07:14 8
        
        nope. -- nm - charlie Apr 13, 07:15 7
        
        I"m just going on the words on my tv saying that if the player could not have reasonably known or was aware of the penalty, he would be given 2 stroke - Will Hunting Apr 13, 07:18 6
        
        You are a professional player. How do you not know the rules? -- nm - Valar Morghulis Apr 13, 07:23 4
        
        There are hundreds of rules with overlap. Things happen. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 13, 07:29 3
        
        Yup. The gold rule book is massive. -- nm - Krusty Apr 13, 07:31 2
        
        *golf* -- nm - Krusty Apr 13, 07:31 1
        
        it's not. it's pretty thin actually -- nm - charlie Apr 13, 07:34
        
        i understand the exception. i'm just saying it's bullshit -- nm - charlie Apr 13, 07:20
        
        There is a rules official with every group. If the player doesn't get notified of a potential violation, how the hell is it fair he be DQ'ed for some - Will Hunting Apr 13, 07:05 10
        
        Yes we mush forgive the #1 player in the world for not knowing the rules of his own sport. You are pretty f'n lazy if you can't read a rule book. -- nm - Valar Morghulis Apr 13, 07:15 9
        
        There are thousands of rules and it's not easy to know them all. Shit, even umpires and refs get rules wrong and that's their only job. -- nm - Krusty Apr 13, 07:32 8
        
        this is not obscure. this is a basic rule. but even if it wasn't, it doesn't matter -- nm - charlie Apr 13, 07:33 7
        
        It's crap. If they don't catch it when it happens it's too bad and the golfer gets to keep the error. Complete crap that fans can call in after the - Krusty Apr 13, 07:40 6
        
        The fan called in before the round was over. The penalty was only applied after Tiger's interview -- nm - Roger More Apr 13, 07:46
        
        that's not what happened here. he violated a rule that he knew or should have known -- nm - charlie Apr 13, 07:41 4
        
        It is what happened. He wasn't penalized until the watched video after he was sitting home. What sport does that? What sport goes back to the tape - Krusty Apr 13, 07:46 3
        
        I stand sort of corrected. They were fine with the drop after watching the video and only penalized him after his statement about the drop. - Krusty Apr 13, 07:49 2
        
        it will be awesome going forward when tiger uses NO COMMENT for every interview. PGA can reap what they sow -- nm - Beaker Apr 13, 07:57 1
        
        Yup. -- nm - Krusty Apr 13, 07:59
- What a stupid! -- nm - Roberto Di Vincenzo Apr 13, 06:40
- I'd have loved to seen the chaos that would break out if he was disqualified -- nm - prayformojo Apr 13, 06:39 1
  - I was thinking this.. -- nm - Jammed Uzi Apr 13, 06:39
- The masters doesn't fuck around. They nailed THE feel good player of this year with a fucking slow play penalty -- nm - Beaker Apr 13, 06:37 3
  - assessing the first slow play penalty in 77 years to a 14 year old foreigner seems like the definition of fucking around -- nm - stewie Apr 13, 06:41 1
    - heh -- nm - prayformojo Apr 13, 06:51
  - this sums it up nicely -- (link) - Beaker Apr 13, 06:38
Folks in Vatican City have a penchant for lesbian and anal pron -- (link) - Beaker Apr 13, 06:33
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"CB Antoine Winfield just told me he's agreed in principal to a 1-year deal with the Seattle Seahawks" -- nm - Beaker Apr 13, 06:22 1
- $3 mil -- nm - Beaker Apr 13, 06:23

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