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Quote from: Brownie on February 16, 2009, 11:00:06 AM
Now if you excuse me, I'm looking for the text of the Stimulus Bill online so I can read it.

Like this? http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/arra_public_review/

Quote from: Wheezer on February 15, 2009, 11:50:43 AM
Right?

Two things came to mind:

1. That was an extremely fascinating article.

2. That guy has Steatopygia.

MODS!

Quote from: JD on February 12, 2009, 08:06:50 PM
Edit:  Ok, they don't save the manager's activity.  I got my ways, though.  Don't you worry.  I got my ways...

This activity?

Quote from: Kermit, B. on February 10, 2009, 11:44:27 AM
The 2K9 Developer Diary is up at O.S.  They're sure saying all the right things.  Hit Influence sounds exactly like MVP 2005's hitting system, but I'm very intrigued by Zone Hitting.  I haven't played a cursor-based hitting game since All-Star Baseball.  Baserunning sounds much improved.

Does that mean the ball is going to flash a different color to indicate the type of pitch?

Quote from: Andre Dawson's Creek on February 09, 2009, 09:37:46 AM

Quote from: ChuckD on February 08, 2009, 06:29:47 PM

Quote from: TDubbs on February 08, 2009, 10:36:30 AM
Wait .. so did this movie come out a long time ago too?  And it's out now as new?  When are we?

That was then. This is now.

When will then be now?


BTW, it opened in Europe many moons ago.  It's just making it's debut stateside.

On every iteration of the bacon loop where i>1.

Quote from: TDubbs on February 08, 2009, 10:36:30 AM
Wait .. so did this movie come out a long time ago too?  And it's out now as new?  When are we?

That was then. This is now.

Quote from: IrishYeti on February 05, 2009, 09:42:37 PM

Quote from: ChuckD on February 05, 2009, 09:34:03 PM

Quote from: Kermit, B. on February 05, 2009, 05:50:01 PM
The second teaser takes us inside beautiful Tropicana Field.  It looks very pretty.  Sort of gives you the feel of the "living ballpark" thing.

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Ahmad Adawiya at 5:24pm February 5

Yeah it looks great can't wait to play it! I agree with Jim it's about time there's new commentators! I mean Morgan and Miller are good in real life but they sound stupid in the game.

Although Morgan and Miller are douches the announcing sounds better. They sound less like they are reciting from a script and more like they are reacting to the actions in the game. This might also be doctored due to it being a video, but still. It looks pretty good.

Um, I agree (?)  I just posted it because of Ahmad's implication that Morgan not only doesn't sound stupid all the time, but that he actually sounds good in real life.

Quote from: Kermit, B. on February 05, 2009, 05:50:01 PM
The second teaser takes us inside beautiful Tropicana Field.  It looks very pretty.  Sort of gives you the feel of the "living ballpark" thing.

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Ahmad Adawiya at 5:24pm February 5

Yeah it looks great can't wait to play it! I agree with Jim it's about time there's new commentators! I mean Morgan and Miller are good in real life but they sound stupid in the game.

Quote from: 5laky on February 02, 2009, 08:50:49 AM

Quote from: TDubbs on February 02, 2009, 08:06:33 AM

Quote from: JD on February 02, 2009, 07:51:02 AM

Quote from: Weebs on February 02, 2009, 07:38:01 AM

Quote from: JD on February 02, 2009, 07:30:36 AM
I thought it was funny.  I really enjoy how easily confused Andy is. 

This line was great:

"Meredith, you've had sex with so many men you're starting to look like one.  Boom!  You're roasted!"

Other than that, I thought the episode was pretty terrible.  Can't the writers ever have anything go wrong with Jim and Pam, or does it always have to look like Jim's about to be in the doghouse and then suddenly Pam loves whatever he did?  It's called tension, fucknuckles!  You were awesome at it for three years.

Yeah, I wish they were more like Ross and Rachel, too.  I want a series of break-ups and then them getting back together in a variety of awesome ways.  I'd like more "very special" Office episodes.  That would be stupendous. 

Weebs, you're a fucking retard.  The tension was b/c they weren't together.  Now, they are.  Not every relationship is like the one you have with your Xbox where one day you hate it b/c you lost a game on Duty of Warship 7, but then the next day you love it b/c you killed a cyborg on Steamboat of Death 19. 

THI.

Me too.

Quote from: Tank on January 29, 2009, 10:34:35 PM

Quote from: ChuckD on January 29, 2009, 10:02:51 PM

Quote from: Tank on January 29, 2009, 08:56:25 PM


The other white meat.

Morph morphlink, morph.


Morph.

Happy, pappy?

No homo.

Quote from: Tank on January 29, 2009, 08:56:25 PM


The other white meat.

Morph morphlink, morph.


Morph.

Quote from: Jon on January 28, 2009, 08:26:59 PM

Quote from: thehawk on January 28, 2009, 08:14:41 PM
Checkmate.

http://www.bbqaddicts.com/blog/recipes/bacon-explosion/

Oh. Your. God.


It's...so...glorious...

I either want to impregnate it or eat it.

Quote from: JD on January 26, 2009, 10:21:56 AM

Quote from: ChuckD on January 26, 2009, 10:12:04 AM

Quote from: JD on January 26, 2009, 10:00:59 AM

Understand my words if not my numbers as Bill James should have said.  

Yeah, well how about you give me a formula that equals how awesome it is to see your teammate poke a seeing eye single through the left side, hustle around first, go down hard and dirty, and grab an extra bag. Or how about you tell me how many more zRBIs a player gets for chewing a big old wad of Red Man instead of those sissy Big League Chew or sunflower seeds the PC police are forcing down baseball players' throats these days. How many wins is a good old fashioned towel-snapping competition with a bunch of naked, soaped-up dudes in the locker room worth? Naked, soaped-up dudes that you'd go to war with 162 times a year.

You see, I know the answers to these questions because I know baseball. But you, man? You just know math.

I can answer your questions with answers, caveman:

1) awesome=a, teammate=t, poke=1(because it's a single), left side=6(average number of left side positions), hustle=1(these guys are professionals and hustle is a constant), hard and dirty=h*d, extra bag=.5...therefore your formula is:
(at)~1*6*1[h*d]/.5=your precious formula
2) Red Man would add 16 more zRBI to a player but subtract 2.4 years off of his career, therefore the total affectation on career stats would be minimal.  Bill James's cousin did a study on this 2 years ago, Bowzer.  Read your blogs.
3) 4 wins in odd years and -1 win in an even year

I have no idea what that means. That doesn't make any sense. It's like you have no idea how BASEBALL is played. All you stat lovers are like a parroty of yourself. I don't know if I should make fun of you or just PITY you.

Quote from: JD on January 26, 2009, 10:00:59 AM

Quote from: ChuckD on January 26, 2009, 09:49:06 AM

Quote from: JD on January 26, 2009, 09:43:19 AM
Yeah, but how did you KNOW it was a triple?  What?  I couldn't hear you.  Yeah. That's right.  Math.  

Circle gets the square root of 64 multiplied by 7 minus 4 equals a win for me and math.  

Fellas, we can argue statistics until we blew in our faces, but it's not gonna change the perplexion of the game as it stands right now.  But, I'll do it if that's what it's gonna take to turn some heads.  It's on like donkey dong.

10 things even worse than Alfonso Soriano:

1-9. This post.
10. Communism.

I'd love to give you my formula describing why Communism is NOT worse than Soriano OR my post, but you'd probably screw up the parameters with your STUPID FACES.  

AND, according to my calculations, Soriano isn't even THAT good OR bad.  Especially on Wednesdays, when he is perfectly league average in many statistical numbers during day games and slightly LESS SO in night games at home.  Matter of point, if it were me, I would look at his historically best days and play him then.  THEN, I would figure up the same formula for EACH player on the cubs and play said player on the correspondingly BEST days while SITTING him on his historically WORST day of the week.  I would have SET WEEK lineups with positions so there would be no surprised because I have proved numerically that players in set lineup positions do historically better than those that DON'T play everyday.  And I did it all on my laptop calculator with a pen and pencil and ruler and dirty hair grease.  I have a mohawk that's quadratically correct, you caveman.  

Understand my words if not my numbers as Bill James should have said.  

Yeah, well how about you give me a formula that equals how awesome it is to see your teammate poke a seeing eye single through the left side, hustle around first, go down hard and dirty, and grab an extra bag. Or how about you tell me how many more zRBIs a player gets for chewing a big old wad of Red Man instead of those sissy Big League Chew or sunflower seeds the PC police are forcing down baseball players' throats these days. How many wins is a good old fashioned towel-snapping competition with a bunch of naked, soaped-up dudes in the locker room worth? Naked, soaped-up dudes that you'd go to war with 162 times a year.

You see, I know the answers to these questions because I know baseball. But you, man? You just know math.