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Anything that eliminates seniority is doing great work--and most of the benefits described are probably insane relative to the strength of the business and the industry as a whole.

The benefits that a union can capture shouldn't be independent of the health of the business, but instead, they should be dependent on it.  I'm in favor of businesses going to some model of modest benefits for all (whether it be CEO or entry-level employee) and then using profitability as the sole determining factor in doling out extra benefits on a year-to-year basis.

If you can't run a profitable company, you don't deserve bonuses.  If your company isn't profitable, excessive union demands shouldn't make the bottom line worse.

But anymore unions--especially the auto and public sector ones--are awful entities that need to have a sledgehammer taken to them until what's left is weak and unrecognizable.

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Quote from: CBStew on September 09, 2009, 06:10:30 PM
I have nothing sarcastic to post.  Just a question.  This is only NFL, not NCAA?  If I post again in this thread I promise to insult someone.

Correct.

Just join the league already before they put you in a museum.

Shouldn't they be putting Stew's posts in the museum?  They're what's memorable, right?  Or are we talking a wax museum?

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Quote from: Slak on September 09, 2009, 12:04:58 PM
I took the Saints. Werd.

Intrepid Reader: IAN

I like the Saints.

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Let me tell you something about Pittsburgh, though.

Take them when they're playing the Browns in Pissburgh.

Quote from: Dave B on September 09, 2009, 11:00:13 AM
The Vine is probably the best place in Coralville to drink. The only "bars" would be the American Legion, Charlie's, and Nickelodeon (all shitholes). The Edge, Flannigan's (in the IRP building), and Old Chicago are eating/drinking combos. Bennigan's and Chili's are near the mall.

Coralville used to be a nice refuge from the student areas, but it has become a refuge for those seeking a quicker welfare check.

There's that bar that's in the same building as the Power Company or whatever that nice restaurant is...but the bar is decidedly less nice.

If I want to drink at the Vine, I go to the one on campus though.  I'll probably be spending many a Monday there this fall before I move to Minneapolis.

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Quote from: Ghost of Dave Rosello on September 08, 2009, 02:19:37 PM
According to the NCAA rulebook the kicking team can recover - and advance - a blocked kick or punt that is picked up behind the LOS. I assume this is still true in the NFL as well.

OK.  Then there is no logic to this being considered the same as an incomplete pass.

I now have a new direction for my bile now that Alfonso Soriano is in the right place to help the Cubs the most.

Actuallly, there is nothing I can find in the rulebook that indicates why they don't restart the clock once the ball is spotted in that situation. I just assumed they treated it like a forward pass.

They would have to stop the clock to unpile and determine who recovered the ball but in any other instance they would restart the clock unless there was a change of possession.

There would have to be a clock stoppage, since if the kicking team recovered, it would either be a first down, in which case the clock stops until the chains are moved, or change of posession on downs.

This is assuming the only non-fourth-down kicking situations occur when there's no time left on the clock for another play.

Except the first field goal in this case was on third down, not fourth down. UNI couldn't pick up a first down on the recovery unless an Iowa guy gained possession of it then fumbled it back to them. I looked at the play-by-play on line and it didn't indicate that UNI took a time-out.

It probably worked to UNI's disadvantage--there was the review, which required the clock stoppage... UNI could've been in position to snap and kick before the Iowa D was really set, if you think about it...probably a higher chance of not getting blocked.  Maybe a higher chance to miss, but given the outcome...

But the ref said the clock stopped by rule.  Maybe there's something with kicks, that the clock stops after the completion of every legal kicking play?

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It's worth it to sign up for this, if only to see some of the handles.  I'm trying to decide which is funnier--"Sweatpants in Public" or "Riding shotgunW/Stallworth".  Well done, whoever you two assholes are.

http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/survival/20819/memberlist

Two assholes named Ryan.

(One a local asshole. The other probably some asshole PenHead knows.)

Didn't realize that "sweatpants" was RV, so of course I'd like to replace that with "Surviving a Patrick Kane Fare."

I'll own up to that one.

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Quote from: PenFoe on September 08, 2009, 03:35:43 PM
Either way, you'll probably fail, you stupid potato head.

Hey!  Watch your language! 

I think it's all kosher...

Not if it has bacon bits.

Sweet...5 Jew posts all in a row by 4 unique users.  We're taking over!

Quiet, Oleg...this is supposed to be a covert op sneak attack.

We've got a problem'd.

Quote from: Dave B on September 03, 2009, 11:37:11 AM

Quote from: SKO on September 03, 2009, 11:35:33 AM
Green Bay Sucks.

You hate to put too much emphasis on the first game of the season, but beating those pud-whacks at home would make for a damn good start.

Well, seeing as the defending Super Bowl champs are the second game of the season, and there's that annoying graphic that always gets shown for 0-2 teams (the Giants were the only team ever to start 0-2 and win the Super Bowl, right?), I'd say week 1 is a bit more important than usual.

But Andy says we'll win both, and I'm good with that.

Quote from: Shooter on August 29, 2009, 12:55:53 AM
86 RBIs with various awful, awful hitters batting ahead of him all season.

Bradley, sure...but Theroit and Fukudome have been on base enough to give him chances.

Quote from: Slak on August 20, 2009, 11:13:55 PM
See guys: Guzman had a bad outing today. His first in a long, long time. So now, naturally, he stinks.

Guzman has actually strung a few shaky/bad outings now in a row.  Even Len talked about it.

Quote from: Dr. Nguyen Van Falk on August 20, 2009, 11:47:17 AM
Because, if so, you can call him whatever you want.

He called me Greenhorn.  I called him Tony Randall.  It's a thing we had.

Also--An-hell Gooz-man is not the answer.

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Quote from: Andy on August 20, 2009, 05:18:17 PM
Dusty is nothing but efficient.

I'm sure you'll all be shocked to know that Cueto had ridiculously high pitch counts in just about all of his starts.

Yeah, but did Dusty ever pitch him in 4 innings of relief between starts?

No but he did have a string of 11 straight starts where he threw 98 or more pitches and only went beyond seven innings once.

The Latin American Rich Harden?

Quote from: Ivy6 on August 19, 2009, 04:12:07 PM
Their third-order pythagorean record puts them at about 62-59, good for 11th in the Majors, and 6th in the NL. 

In this division/league, "good" is a relative term.

But that's based on stats pre-trades, without Charisma Carpenter for a few weeks, and Todd Wellemeyer in the starting rotation.

As the Cardinals are built right now, they're the second best team in the NL, and they have the only offense that can compete with Philly's.

In all honesty, I think it's time to remove STL from the thread title.

Nice job by Gregg to piss all over one of the best-pitched games of the year.