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Gronk does not think the Brady punishment is too harsh! -- (link) - Spawn May 13, 12:23 1
- "Cheerful ogre" lol -- nm - Shaun May 13, 12:24
I can have, right? Hello, Lily -- (link) - oblique May 13, 12:22 [youtube] 5
- GoPro should have gotten there first. -- nm - Max May 13, 12:32
- Woah. That's pretty awesome. -- nm - IrishStephen May 13, 12:26
- saw this this morning. seems pretty awesome - although the 20min flight time is limiting -- nm - decline May 13, 12:25
- spoils - Beryllium May 13, 12:24
- HWatched earlier. Half price if you get it now! -- nm - Spawn May 13, 12:23
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- effin' nazis -- nm - decline May 13, 12:24
Fox movies: The New Mutants to be helmed by Fault In Our Stars director -- (link) - Remlik May 13, 12:15
Thanks to rounding, Mad Max has ticked up to 99%. -- nm - Der Frühlingshafterbaron May 13, 11:58 2
- Those are some Mad Maths -- nm - Beryllium May 13, 12:14 1
  - meet the new math, same as the old math . . . -- nm - call me Ishmael May 13, 12:17
So wait, CBS is putting Supergirl in the same timeslot as Gotham? - Spawn May 13, 11:52 14
- Of course - professor smartbrain May 13, 12:03
- dvr -- nm - Remlik May 13, 12:02 3
  - Nah. -- nm - Spawn May 13, 12:07 2
    - dvr it old man. that's the way the world works -- nm - Remlik May 13, 12:12 1
      - I DVR everything. But see the "Thursday" post below. -- nm - Spawn May 13, 12:13
- You knew eventually some of the comic book based shows would overlapped - eag May 13, 11:59 5
  - Disagreed. You move an hour and do not run at the same time. Or pick a day that is still open. - Spawn May 13, 12:02 4
    - Im probably not going to watch it myself - eag May 13, 12:11 3
      - If it were on Thursday, I might be more apt to. But Monday, against the best and the day before two more? I simply do not care about it enough to mess - Spawn May 13, 12:13 2
        
        *rolls eyes* dvr it old man and watch it later in the week when there isn't anything else on! -- nm - Remlik May 13, 12:19 1
        
        I have actually deleted entire seasons of shows lately and have decided if I do not care enough to watch in the 24 hours, not worth it. -- nm - Spawn May 13, 12:24
- probably figuring that Fox will come to their senses and cancel that crappy show -- nm - decline May 13, 11:59 1
  - wah? Gotham is a great show! -- nm - IrishStephen May 13, 12:23
- CBS has BBT dude. It can win anything. - Shaun May 13, 11:54
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- But what does the Vikings say? -- nm - spamlet May 13, 11:41
- All Day! -- nm - Spawn May 13, 11:41 2
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    - Does he still rock that goofy ass dirtball teen mustache? -- nm - Shaun May 13, 11:44
It's not lunchtime yet and I've already had two cans of coke. -- nm - Beryllium May 13, 11:35 4
- I probably won't even have lunch today but I will go get a discount frappucino from SB. -- nm - Diva May 13, 11:47
- a smoothie, a cup of coffee and 2 glasses of water -- nm - decline May 13, 11:46
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- *likes* -- nm - Spawn May 13, 11:39
Also, that Schefter article on B2 is just a ridiculous waste of space. Some guy made a prediction based on the quality of Brady's lawyers and that's - pmb May 13, 11:34 3
- yep - that was stupid. -- nm - Diva May 13, 11:35 2
  - It's a shame that the poor NFL won't have high priced lawyers too. Oh, wait . . . -- nm - pmb May 13, 11:38 1
    - including my cousin-in-law. -- nm - Diva May 13, 11:44
UCL: Juventus v Real Madrid 2nd leg starting now (Agg Juventus 2-1) -- nm - budice May 13, 11:34
longest. week. ever. -- nm - Beaker May 13, 11:26 2
- Cal Zabo would disagree with you -- nm - eag May 13, 11:56
- TGIF! - Spawn May 13, 11:34
2014 M -- nm - oblique May 13, 11:20 1
- SFEK. 2014 Milk Splash calendar -- (link) - oblique May 13, 11:20 [500px]
House panel votes to cut Amtrak budget hours after deadly crash -- (link) - budice May 13, 11:13 40
- I'm absolutely certain that the one way to improve Amtrak is to give it less funding. -- nm - TWuG May 13, 11:47 1
  - Naturally. Reduce the budget to $0 and accidents will vanish. Ta-dah! -- nm - Der Frühlingshafterbaron May 13, 11:50
- *blames Rep. Koch* -- nm - professor smartbrain si May 13, 11:25 1
  - They hate it with a passion -- (link) - professor smartbrain May 13, 12:05
- But with another 250 million dollars maybe the engineer would have only gone 90mph through the curve!!! -- nm - Ender May 13, 11:21 7
  - Or they improve the condition of track to make it safer at a higher speed. -- nm - znufrii May 13, 11:53 6 1
    - Or implement measures that can automatically slow a train going above a posted speed -- nm - znufrii May 13, 11:56 5
      - Or do so more effectively, at least - znufrii May 13, 12:04
      - Or maybe not everything is a reason why the government needs to spend more money. -- nm - Ender May 13, 12:04 3
        
        Except we're talking about a specific case here, not "everything" - znufrii May 13, 12:12 2
        
        A case that wouldn't have been fixed with another 250 million dollars. -- nm - Ender May 13, 12:14 1
        
        Incremental improvements are better than none -- nm - znufrii May 13, 12:16
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  - You do realize that Amtrak makes actual money on the NYC-PHL-DC line right? Like profit, which has to subsidize all the other lines. -- nm - MDH May 13, 11:45 23
    - He realizes -- nm - professor smartbrain May 13, 12:02
    - Actually setting ridership records in California as well -- nm - budice May 13, 11:53 21
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        His point was that *portions* of the system are profitable. -- nm - ty97 May 13, 12:10 14
        
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        So are roads. -- nm - ty97 May 13, 12:16 12
        
        L3. -- nm - Strongbad May 13, 12:35
        
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        See spamlets poll: 68% of road cost is subsidized. -- nm - ty97 May 13, 12:21 7
        
        And how much are we subsidizing Greyhound each year? -- nm - Ender May 13, 12:24 2
        
        They pay for their own roads? - znufrii May 13, 12:28 1
        
        We ain't just paying from rails with Amtrak. -- nm - Ender May 13, 12:59
        
        (But of course, you use roads so you don't mind) -- nm - ty97 May 13, 12:22 3
        
        You know there's a difference between railroad track and amtrak, right? -- nm - Ender May 13, 12:25
        
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        And for most people, they don't have any other option. -- nm - znufrii May 13, 12:26
        
        Except people, you know, actually use roads. -- nm - Ender May 13, 12:18 1
        
        Good thing no one was affected when that empty train derailed last night then. - znufrii May 13, 12:19
        
        Government subsidizes plenty of things that don't make money -- nm - professor smartbrain May 13, 12:10 4
        
        And most of them are more useful than a passenger rail train from Chicago to California that loses 67 million dollars a year. -- nm - Ender May 13, 12:16 3
        
        But I *need* my train to Kansas City :( -- nm - Meg May 13, 12:25 2
        
        Oh sh!t, duck, here comes Meg. :) -- nm - znufrii May 13, 12:27
        
        If you're willing to pay another $187 per ticket it could break even. -- nm - Ender May 13, 12:27
  - Starve the beast! -- nm - professor smartbrain May 13, 11:39
- it looks like that's coincidental timing, not based on the news. -- nm - Max May 13, 11:16 1
  - They specifically rejected a measure to increase funding proposed in response to the crash as well. -- nm - znufrii May 13, 11:55
Two other trains in the Amtrak route were apparently struck by projectiles prior to the crash -- (link) - professor smartbrain May 13, 11:11 3
- yeah, saw that this morning - they don't think it's related -- nm - decline May 13, 11:22
- I saw a dude tweet about this last night but wasn't sure it was real and/or related. - ty97 May 13, 11:12
- yikes -- nm - Beaker May 13, 11:11
so are you telling me that the CBA allows for the league to snoop into your phone? - groiny May 13, 11:09
Dan Marino and Troy Aikman basically said that there's a snowball's chance in hell that Brady was not involved. - Shaun May 13, 11:09 57
- You can think he broke a rule, think that rule is stupid, and think that the NFL is inept and overly penalizing for that rule break. - Will Hunting May 13, 12:02 15
  - "It's a rule that at best, is begging to be broken given the NFL has no oversight apparently." - b. May 13, 12:23
  - You are more pissed at the incompetence of Goodell and the NFL at handling infractions over the last few years. - Shaun May 13, 12:07 7
    - I'm not saying it's not a big deal. It's a pitcher putting an emery board on a ball. Suspend him a game. - Will Hunting May 13, 12:26 2
      - I think it's more along the lines of a team getting busted for using corked bats, since the bats, like the ball, are in play 100% of the time... - Shaun May 13, 12:30 1
        
        Okay, a corked bat then....that puts you at 12-15 games iirc. Which is in the 1-2 game range - Will Hunting May 13, 12:32
    - The fact that he used "sting exercise" tells me all I need to know about his opinion. - Spawn May 13, 12:10 3
      - Well, I'd like to think that if the NFL is told about something the night prior, they would try to actually make sure it doesn't happen during the gam - Will Hunting May 13, 12:13 2
        
        Uhm, this is all over the place. -- (link) - Spawn May 13, 12:19 1
        
        And these are the guys sitting in judgment! -- nm - Will Hunting May 13, 12:27
  - He may have done 65 in a 55 but then he went to trial and told the judge to get lost. -- nm - zork May 13, 12:05 5
    - No, he went to trial and said, I'm not obligated to make your case for you. - Will Hunting May 13, 12:14 4
      - In other words, he is admitting he is guilty. Thanks for playing. -- nm - Spawn May 13, 12:20 1
        
        No, he's admitting he doesn't have to do the NFL's work for them. -- nm - Will Hunting May 13, 12:28
      - OK, what about "Here's a search warrant" "Sorry Sheriff, but I don't want you to search my property" -- nm - zork May 13, 12:17 1
        
        Let Roger get a search warrant, it's not currently in the CBA. - Will Hunting May 13, 12:30
- It never, ever would have occurred to me that all the balls were not provided by the refs/league, each team uses different balls, and same for kickers -- nm - zork May 13, 11:57 1
  - Would anyone let baseball teams pitch with their own balls, and for them to use still different ones in bunt situations? Or for the DH to bat against - zork May 13, 12:03
- How could he not? His job is to handle those balls every day. There's no way he doesn't know what perfect balls feel like. Imperfect ones would stand - TWuG May 13, 11:36
- I really do not know what good an under inflated ball is going to do? - groiny May 13, 11:10 34
  - Here we go. - Spawn May 13, 11:13 8
    - Here is the whole article. -- (link) - Spawn May 13, 11:14 4
      - have to look at this later. nm -- nm - groiny May 13, 11:14 3
        
        Have a look at this. -- (link) - Shaun May 13, 11:15 [Image] 1
        
        again, I can't see that here, so I will look later -- nm - groiny May 13, 11:16
        
        Seriously, it is insane. Here is more. - Spawn May 13, 11:15
    - so Brady is a running back now? -- nm - groiny May 13, 11:13 2
      - Uhm, QBs fumble. WRs fumble. -- nm - Spawn May 13, 11:14 1
        
        not nearly as much as the other guys though. - groiny May 13, 11:15
  - It would benefit every single offensive player who would handle the ball in the run of a game. - Shaun May 13, 11:12 1
    - This. But I guess the RB's and wide receivers that have handled footballs tens of thousands of times didn't have a clue. -- nm - Zunk xometimes May 13, 11:43
  - Groiny knows hard balls -- nm - professor smartbrain May 13, 11:12
  - Easier to grip and catch. -- nm - Spawn May 13, 11:11 21
    - at a sacrifice to distance. And what about the kicked balls by the kicker? -- nm - groiny May 13, 11:11 20
      - Kickers use different balls. -- nm - Spawn May 13, 11:12 19
        
        no other sport has a different set of balls for home and away, kicker and offense. - groiny May 13, 11:18 17
        
        The silly part is if they each get their own balls, why can't they make them exactly how they want them? It only matters if they have to use the same - pmb May 13, 11:30 13
        
        I have a great idea, lets just ignore the rules that we do not like! - Spawn May 13, 11:33 12
        
        I have a better idea. Let's get rid of rules that make no sense. Also, let's not pretend that all rules require the same level of enforcement. - pmb May 13, 11:36 11
        
        Agreed. - Spawn May 13, 11:41 6
        
        I get why you're so angry. I would be too if it was my team that lost in that circumstance. But you're getting outraged over things that should have - pmb May 13, 11:50 5
        
        Uhm, the ruling pretty much states it was ongoing for many years. - Spawn May 13, 11:57 4
        
        I thought I read that they did ultimately get the phone, but apparently not. Doesn't really change my view a lot, but it's something. I think there - pmb May 13, 12:06 2
        
        Here (Troy Vincent letter to Brady) - Spawn May 13, 12:15
        
        They gave a lot of options for phone. They did not want him to give it, they wanted him to scroll through and click the relevant so they could be - Spawn May 13, 12:08
        
        Isn't most of the penalty for not cooperating with the investigation rather than the actual "crime"? -- nm - zork May 13, 11:59
        
        If it didn't make sense, why did Brady cheat and alter the balls so that they were out of the league specifications? -- nm - Shaun May 13, 11:40 3
        
        The rule itself makes no sense. Brady likes the balls with a lower inflation level than the league arbitrarily set. But the rule itself serves no - pmb May 13, 11:44 2
        
        WE ARE ARGUING THE SAME SIDE, THEN! -- nm - Spawn May 13, 11:50 1
        
        I disagree with the penalty. I agree he and the team have to be punished, but I think it's way out of proportion to the crime. I also think they - pmb May 13, 11:52
        
        K balls. The league did this because prior to the new balls, kickers were allowed to fuck with and manipulate the balls however they wanted. - Shaun May 13, 11:21 1
        
        so yeah, different balls for kickers and regular players. nm -- nm - groiny May 13, 11:23
        
        *shrugs* -- nm - Spawn May 13, 11:21
        
        well that is just dumb. nm -- nm - groiny May 13, 11:13
- The guy denying he even knows the guys but then calling them/texting them how many times? -- nm - Spawn May 13, 11:10 1
  - Yeah, I wouldn't expect him to have any of their phone numbers in the first place. -- nm - zork May 13, 12:15
- well, with evidence like that... -- nm - Beaker May 13, 11:09
Thanks for the feedback on the video guys! It seems like when it was uploaded, the You Tube altered it...which is why the text moves, etc. - IrishStephen May 13, 11:06
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I just longed both the call and the put for tomorrowland. crazy? -- nm - amanda May 13, 11:06 7
- i did the same, but i only bought the Put for Poltergeist for now. -- nm - Andie May 13, 11:12 1
  - I shorted that call. ha ha. $35M. -- nm - amanda May 13, 11:19
- nope. both call and put derivatives are usually long at the end of the first day of trading. -- nm - Diva May 13, 11:09
- I think it is overpriced big time (but I am terrible at the game) -- nm - Beaker May 13, 11:09
- One of the insiders on the other board said advance sales were turrible - professor smartbrain May 13, 11:08 2
  - the only ads I've seen make it seem like a kids movie, and Clooney seems to be talking in his sleep -- nm - zeitgeist May 13, 11:24
  - The bathtub is not testing through the roof? -- nm - Spawn May 13, 11:08

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