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roll, for chrissakes. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Sep 17, 11:01
Sports talk discussion in the car: Matt Carpenter - should he be in the discussion for NL MVP? Discuss. -- nm - Jim Sep 17, 10:34 4
- I didn't realize the numbers this kid was putting up. 72 RBI - from the leadoff spot? That's insane. - Jim Sep 17, 10:40 1
  - Sure, in the range of 4th-7th as a no-chance of winning, but a top player (aka Josh Donaldson) -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 17, 10:51
- In the same way Freeman should...as a candidate with no real chance of winning. -- nm - David Sep 17, 10:35
- sure, in the discussion. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 17, 10:35
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- No. He's the epitome of a good player who's career was inflated by a hitter's park and era. -- nm - Inigo Sep 17, 10:40
- "Similarity Score: 1) Edgar Martinez (881)" - David Sep 17, 10:25 7
  - I would give it to Edgar before Helton. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 17, 10:27 4
    - Oh, absolutely. Edgar is easily the best player not currently in the Hall of Fame who is eligible. -- nm - David Sep 17, 10:27 3
      - not true at all. -- nm - Don Homer Sep 17, 10:29
      - The **** you say. -- nm - Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens Sep 17, 10:28 1
        
        I -do- say. - David Sep 17, 10:29
  - you have proven our case!! -- nm - Don Homer Sep 17, 10:26 1
    - about what pinheads you are! -- nm - David Sep 17, 10:27
- The 2000 Colorado Rockies had a team Batting Ave of .294, but had a team ERA of 5.26 - amoxy Sep 17, 10:25
- The Coors stuff kills him; his numbers are inflated by park and era to a degree that's just not good enough. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 17, 10:18 1
  - more specifically - "his road numbers kill him" (not his "Coors stuff") -- nm - Don Homer Sep 17, 10:24
- nope -- nm - Don Homer Sep 17, 10:17
- Consulting my encyclopaedic knowledge of all things baseball, despite the fact that I love that guy, I say no -- nm - prayformojo Sep 17, 10:16 11
  - Do you know who replaced Todd Helton at QB at UT? - David Sep 17, 10:19 10
    - Tee Martin? -- nm - crash davis Sep 17, 10:23 3
      - No but Tee Martin did replace HIM. -- nm - David Sep 17, 10:33 2
        
        I don't understand your post. Tee Martin is the best QB ever at UT. So Tee is HIM -- nm - crash davis Sep 17, 10:44
        
        HIM? The Gay Villain from the PowerPuff Girls? -- nm - amoxy Sep 17, 10:41
    - Johnny Manziel? -- nm - amoxy Sep 17, 10:21 5
      - I'm not 100% sure he was born yet. -- nm - David Sep 17, 10:23 3
        
        Ooh, Manziel would have been almost 2! - David Sep 17, 10:24 2
        
        So, more emotionally mature than he is now? -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 17, 10:27 1
        
        Ha! -- nm - David Sep 17, 10:27
      - Manziel is 40? -- nm - groiny Sep 17, 10:23
- Career OPS of .953? Absolutely. -- nm - David Sep 17, 10:12 7
  - Which puts him 9th for that hitting era. -- nm - Inigo Sep 17, 10:43
  - in Coors. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 17, 10:12 5
    - Nobody else has done it. -- nm - David Sep 17, 10:18 4
      - No one else also overlapped the entirety of the steroid era there. - Will Hunting Sep 17, 10:20
      - no one else has played there for 20 years. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 17, 10:19 2
        
        Exactly. -- nm - David Sep 17, 10:19 1
        
        don't see how this helps his case. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 17, 10:20
- No. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 17, 10:11
Mapping 92 years of Sasquatch sightings... -- (link) - Don Homer Sep 17, 09:56 3 1
- i wanna know the stories behind those far-north sightings, like over in Alaska and up near the Hudson Bay - i'm not dead yet ! Sep 17, 11:08
- Sponsored by Jack Links Jerky -- nm - Dr.Vermin Sep 17, 10:14
- I highly approve of this post -- nm - crash davis Sep 17, 10:07
Received by email from a friend...I suspect by way of her Welsh son-in-law..... - Meg Sep 17, 09:55 4
- It's sad that John Cleese seems so dated -- nm - Roger More Sep 17, 09:57 3
  - He's been on a comedy tour here on the west coast the past few months. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 10:11
  - Or the email's been in circulation for some time and just the title's been update. -- nm - Meg Sep 17, 10:09 1
    - Ah, snopes says that Cleese didn't write it. I feel better now. -- (link) - Roger More Sep 17, 10:13
Fun: TNG Trek crew in TOS uniforms.... -- (link) - Remlik Sep 17, 09:50 2
- They should also do TOS crew in TNG uniforms. -- nm - mara Sep 17, 09:55
- Looks good, except Worf's head looks too small -- nm - amoxy Sep 17, 09:52
In Focus: Raising the Costa Concordia... -- (link) - Don Homer Sep 17, 09:48
Sean Weatherspoon, Atlanta's best LB by far, is out at least 8 weeks. -- nm - David Sep 17, 09:33 4
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    - Expect 4 weeks. We do injuries the NE way. -- nm - David Sep 17, 10:06 1
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As a tangential result of the project for which I needed the cinder blocks at work last night, I broke my glasses - prayformojo Sep 17, 09:26 2
- you have duct tape, fix them -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 17, 10:06
- Life can be dangerous at the Cracker Factory, Milhouse. -- nm - David Sep 17, 09:29
Sleepy Hollow: 10.05M viewers/ 3.4 demo -- nm - MDH Sep 17, 09:24 3
- wow. great numbers! -- nm - Jovian Sep 17, 10:02
- C'mon, audience retention. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 17, 09:26 1
  - Very solid numbers. Will be curious to see how it fares with all of the networks running new series. -- nm - MDH Sep 17, 09:28
I feel like I've been 10 feet off the ground all day and I can't even explain why. -- nm - David Sep 17, 09:23 4
- Nice -- nm - amoxy Sep 17, 09:29
- It's because tomorrow is your birthday :) -- nm - oblique Sep 17, 09:24 1
  - Nah, that just means my youth has slipped me by. - David Sep 17, 09:28
- Braves have the possibility of clinching today? -- nm - Qale Sep 17, 09:24
Now listening to David Arnold/Matt Berry's film music show. Next week it's Cillian Murphy's picks. -- (link) - LMS Sep 17, 09:23
A new (huge) international market just opened in town. It's...wow. We're going to eating a lot of new foods. - kelly Sep 17, 09:20 14
- wow, ten pounds of dried minows! -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 17, 10:02
- Nice -- nm - con_carne Sep 17, 09:53
- My favorite international market - that opened a couple of years back - has recently closed. Their next closest store is way across town and really - Meg Sep 17, 09:43 3
  - I'm amazed at the size of this place. It has seemingly everything. -- nm - kelly Sep 17, 10:03 2
    - A supermarket called El Super opened near my mom's house. She's thrilled - con_carne Sep 17, 10:53
    - jealous -- nm - Diva Sep 17, 10:05
- "You go now!" - oblique Sep 17, 09:23 1
  - as long as it's food and there is a lot of it, I don't think he minds -- nm - Remlik Sep 17, 09:34
- what's it called? -- nm - Diva Sep 17, 09:22 5
  - G Mart. -- nm - kelly Sep 17, 09:36 4
    - ours is H Mart - I wonder if its the same company? -- nm - Epiphany Sep 17, 10:35 2
      - Ours is X Mart. - Spawn Sep 17, 10:42 1
        
        hee -- nm - Epiphany Sep 17, 10:51
    - cool. you'll have to lettuce know what you find there. - Diva Sep 17, 09:43
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Pope Francis reveals plan to modernize the Catholic Church -- (link) - znufrii Sep 17, 09:18 4
- "I see polished concrete countertops in the kitchen. Viking appliances, obvie. Rain showerheads in ever shower, glass enclosures, too...." -- nm - TWuG Sep 17, 09:19 3
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    - Sadly, he's still leaning toward polished brass fixtures. -- nm - TWuG Sep 17, 09:30 1
      - can't be worse than what's there now. - znufrii Sep 17, 09:32
Big Brother fans, here's part 1 of the HWDYK recapping the season -- (link) - prayformojo Sep 17, 09:13
How does Merriweather not get a game? TWO hits in the same friggin' game by a multiple repeat offended. -- nm - Beaker Sep 17, 09:11 1
- Becuase the NFL is a joke of an organization supported by millions of fans who prove weekly they don't give a f**k. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 17, 09:13
TIL - Rick Neuheisel helped set up the Football Beach Scene in Point Break -- nm - amoxy Sep 17, 09:10 1
- Then bet $50 on Johnny Utah's team. -- nm - David Sep 17, 09:24
John Green (the Neatorama list guy) tackles health care in the US. -- (link) - TWuG Sep 17, 09:04 [youtube]
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- Do you never go to a barbershop, like ever? - con_carne Sep 17, 09:55 2
  - Sugar Ray Robinson's the greatest fighter that ever lived! -- nm - Dr.Vermin Sep 17, 09:58 1
    - His momma call him Clay, Imma call him Clay -- nm - con_carne Sep 17, 10:35
- Yep. Better not to ever discuss it. Maybe it'll solve itself, if we're lucky. -- nm - TWuG Sep 17, 09:25 1
  - the first rule of gun control! -- nm - Don Homer Sep 17, 09:37
- If only we'd had the conversation following that case where the gunman was talked down by the school official without shooting anyone here in GA. - Qale Sep 17, 09:16 1
  - that was awesome. -- nm - Diva Sep 17, 09:22
- we have another 3 days of this. - Epiphany Sep 17, 09:04 5
  - this is one of the reasons I'm making posts about tittie models. that and because I am sometimes vapid. -- nm - Diva Sep 17, 09:09 4
    - everyone can get behind tatas! -- nm - Epiphany Sep 17, 09:11 3
      - *quietly eyes you and my wife, over a beer, as you discuss boobs* - Mel Profit Sep 17, 09:40
      - So of us prefer to be in front of them...but I think the point is the same. -- nm - Jim Sep 17, 09:29 1
        
        Or some of us. ugh -- nm - Jim Sep 17, 09:29
- I just noticed that Jax made the best argument against gun control on B2. -- (link) - Dr.Vermin Sep 17, 09:03 [Backboard]
- *shoots ML in the face with a crossbow* nm -- nm - groiny Sep 17, 09:03 2
  - *tackles you before you can reload* - Will Hunting Sep 17, 09:25 1
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4 dead in ongoing standoff in Austria (including 3 policemen) -- (link) - Beaker Sep 17, 09:01 6
- BAN AUSTRIANS! -- nm - groiny Sep 17, 09:03 5
  - Finally, you're starting to talk sense. :-) -- nm - TWuG Sep 17, 09:18 1
    - instead accidentally bans australians -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 17, 10:06
  - You know who else was an Austrian? -- nm - LMS Sep 17, 09:05 2
    - The Terminator? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 09:06 1
      - Spoilers - LMS Sep 17, 09:08
Checks, training, and the NRA... - Dr.Vermin Sep 17, 09:00 24
- I agree with what you say, however I don't think the current or immediate future leadership of the NRA is interested in common sense ideas like that, -- nm - Remlik Sep 17, 09:38 8
  - Probably not. And I don't entirely disagree with them. - Dr.Vermin Sep 17, 09:43 7
    - and what do you envision is the end goal that those people see this as a "small step" towards? -- nm - znufrii Sep 17, 09:46 1
      - I think that is obvious. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 17, 09:48
    - so, people won't allow things they actually think are right and logical because it might mean another step later that they don't agree with? - Andie Sep 17, 09:45 4
      - I think that's exactly it. -- nm - loosilu Sep 17, 10:24
      - Good intentions do not guarantee against unintended consequences, no. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Sep 17, 09:51 2
        
        Exactly the reason why America has liberal gun ownership laws and high rates of gun homicide. -- nm - Roger More Sep 17, 09:59 1
        
        touché. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Sep 17, 10:00
- They won't back any regulation including mandatory testing. They will advocate that their members get it, but "no laws". -- nm - pmb Sep 17, 09:23 11
  - They are also against registration and government lists of gun owners... - Jim Sep 17, 09:27 10
    - i wish you all could know how this sounds to people outside the USA.... -- nm - Andie Sep 17, 09:32 7 1
      - oh, it sounds that way to me as well. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 17, 09:33 6
        
        respectfully, i really don't think it does. -- nm - Andie Sep 17, 09:35 5
        
        okeydokey. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 17, 09:38 4
        
        you just can't (and i don't mean "you" specifically). You are seeing it from within. it's different. -- nm - Andie Sep 17, 09:43 3
        
        it's really not. - groiny Sep 17, 09:50 2
        
        i wasn't just talking about the NRA list though.... -- nm - Andie Sep 17, 09:52 1
        
        no, I understand that. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 17, 09:52
    - A mailing list. OMG. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Sep 17, 09:31
    - My favorite part : "Criminals won't target people they know could be packing." *lists those packing* "WHY ARE YOU PUTTING A TARGET ON THEM??!?" -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 17, 09:30
- I'm sure a lot of NRA members would be okay with it, but not the leadership -- (link) - Roger More Sep 17, 09:08
- My guess is they wouldn't dare mention a single bit of support for this becuase it'll be seen as a capitulation to regulation. - Will Hunting Sep 17, 09:07
- it is all about the money, money -- nm - Epiphany Sep 17, 09:05
Re: Federal gun control laws. You should read up on what happened when the EPA tried to ban lead in ammo and fishing tackle. - loosilu Sep 17, 09:00 1
- California has a bill on the Governor's desk right now to ban lead bullets. -- (link) - Meg Sep 17, 09:17

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