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Every night you come into my room
and pin me down with your strong arms
aou pin me down, and I try to fight you
you come inside me
you fill me up
and I become the Night Man...


So good.

Quote from: butthead on December 06, 2008, 09:19:12 PM

Quote from: De Jesus on December 06, 2008, 08:21:01 PM

Quote from: RV on December 06, 2008, 10:24:18 AM

QuoteWithout the benefit of public funding like most teams in our sport, we have also made sizable investments in Wrigley Field.

Boo fucking hoo.

As far as I'm concerned, fuck it.  Get the state and city funds.  Build a new ballpark. 

Turn Wrigley into a Cubs museum/tournament park and give it to the Chicago park district in exchange for new land.  All the new seats you gain are worth more than the land was, anyway.  They could even play the home series against the Sox there every year.  People would probably pay double for those tickets.  Build the new stadium right on the lakefront.  Make the park district give up a piece of that golf course just north of Lincoln park.  It's not like people won't have plenty of golf courses to go to when it's gone or reduced.  Sell the naming rights to the highest bidder for all I care.  Just make sure there's ample parking.  I'm sure it will be for the $20 it'll cost. 

Parking is overrated. I don't care what happens to Wrigley, but don't make me go to a mallpark surrounded by a sea of asphalt.

If they build it on that golf course, even if they surround it with asphalt, it's only half a mile away from the old one.  Some people walk that far to park their car now.  You can still hang out in Wrigleyville before and after the game.

Quote from: RV on December 06, 2008, 10:24:18 AM

QuoteWithout the benefit of public funding like most teams in our sport, we have also made sizable investments in Wrigley Field.

Boo fucking hoo.

As far as I'm concerned, fuck it.  Get the state and city funds.  Build a new ballpark. 

Turn Wrigley into a Cubs museum/tournament park and give it to the Chicago park district in exchange for new land.  All the new seats you gain are worth more than the land was, anyway.  They could even play the home series against the Sox there every year.  People would probably pay double for those tickets.  Build the new stadium right on the lakefront.  Make the park district give up a piece of that golf course just north of Lincoln park.  It's not like people won't have plenty of golf courses to go to when it's gone or reduced.  Sell the naming rights to the highest bidder for all I care.  Just make sure there's ample parking.  I'm sure it will be for the $20 it'll cost. 

Quote from: ~Apex on December 05, 2008, 08:45:31 PM
Fuck Maddux. Larry Himes

Quote from: ~Apex on December 01, 2008, 07:52:21 PM

Quote from: Andy on December 01, 2008, 03:12:18 PM
Blyleven, Dawson, Rickey, Jack Morris, Tim Raines, Jim Rice, Lee Smiff

And yes, I only voted for Rice because I voted for Dawson, but putting Jim Rice in the HOF is a small price to pay for having Andre in.

This'n. Minus Raines. WTF?

I hate to be the one to piss in your wheaties, Pex...but when you ignore homer thoughts and look at independent metrics *puts on Saberweenie cap*, Dawson had a weaker career than not only Raines, but also Harold F'in Baines.

Career OPS+
Raines 123
Baines 120
Hawk 119

Even if you don't weight it and just look at the raw OPS, you get:
Baines .821
Raines .810
Hawk .805

Other than Rickey, Raines was the best leadoff hitter in baseball for most of his career.  He was a monster on-base machine.  Dawson wasn't very good at getting on base, with a few years excepted.  He hit for the best power of the three.  Baines was almost a perfect hybrid between the two.  It gets worse when you look at Jim Rice, and his OPS+ of 128.  He was Baines with more power.

You can't vote for Dawson and dismiss the other three, unless you're cool with the hall of fame being about as accurate a judge of baseball ability as, say, a gold glove.

Quote from: ChuckD on December 01, 2008, 08:44:18 PM

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Quote from: ChuckD on November 24, 2008, 09:41:44 PM
Dexter's chair tossing, monitor smashing, lab destroying scene tonight? Fucking aces. I love this show.

Oh fuck - it is on. Miguel? The Skinner?

Cuz this is REAL.

I read some speculation online regarding the end of last night's episode but I kind of wish I hadn't since it makes so much sense.

Dexter was grabbed by Masuka/Quinn and they're taking him to his bachelor party.

This is what I thought.  Otherwise, they'd have to end the show.  Miguel or King would have made sure he was unconscious, rather than just tossing him in the trunk without so much as a gag.  The only people who wouldn't care about noise would be his cop buddies.

Quote from: Furious George on November 24, 2008, 05:43:53 PM
Bumped for to ask, "whatever became of MikeC?"

I think he was captured by Obama's secret Black Muslim Homosexual Communist army.  Likely in a reeducation camp now, learning to hate America and love dudes.

Quote from: TJ on November 20, 2008, 01:18:10 PM

Quote from: De Jesus on November 20, 2008, 01:11:30 PM

Quote from: TJ on November 20, 2008, 11:23:18 AM
For those interested Libertarians, this is a Cato Libertarian Institute Fellow talking about the U.S. health care system vis-a-vis other countries' systems.

Accurate portrayal of the Cato institute'd

I hate the Cato Institute.  Not always for what they stand for, but for the fact that they pretend to be non-partisan. The truth is that they may criticize both sides, but they're "nonpartisan" in exactly the same way that the National Organization for Women or Planned Parenthood are.

QuoteThe mission of the Cato Institute is to increase the understanding of public policies based on the principles of limited government, free markets, individual liberty, and peace.

Yeah, they're libertarian.   I thought by saying it was Cato, you'd understand it was libertarian-minded.  Even so, this speech outlines the problems in health care are not limited to the U.S.

It's a stretch to call them non-partisan, because I suppose the Libertarian Party is their dog in the fight. They've hardly coddled the Bush Administration.

My point is that they do skew things and cherry pick facts to support their point of view.  I could easily post a link to an institute that does the same thing to show that full-blown communism or Islamofascism are the direction to go with our country.  We've all avoided posting links to partisan websites in the political threads because they're really not credible.  Sure, there are a lot of links like that from Liberal websites that I wouldn't have minded posting in here, but they would have gotten the same reaction, and rightly so.

A link to the Cato Institute website is roughly equivalent to a link to the RNC or DNC.  After all, they're probably the most organized group of Libertarians in the country (certainly more so than the actual Libertarian Party of Splintered Clusterfuckedness).

Quote from: TJ on November 20, 2008, 11:23:18 AM
For those interested Libertarians, this is a Cato Libertarian Institute Fellow talking about the U.S. health care system vis-a-vis other countries' systems.

Accurate portrayal of the Cato institute'd

I hate the Cato Institute.  Not always for what they stand for, but for the fact that they pretend to be non-partisan. The truth is that they may criticize both sides, but they're "nonpartisan" in exactly the same way that the National Organization for Women or Planned Parenthood are.

QuoteThe mission of the Cato Institute is to increase the understanding of public policies based on the principles of limited government, free markets, individual liberty, and peace.

Quote from: ChuckD on November 17, 2008, 10:10:58 PM
Normally I don't get a warm and fuzzy feeling when people lose their jobs, but this made me smile.

A lot.

"Great job on keeping those godless fags from ruining America, Joe.  Unfortunately, we spent your salary on advertising for Proposition 8.  Gotta let you go, my man.  We'll pray that there's plenty of government cheese for your kids, buddy."

Newsweek does their best Fonzie imitation.

Quote from: Mike D on November 15, 2008, 09:56:35 PM

Quote from: ~Apex on November 15, 2008, 09:22:31 PM

Quote from: Mike D on November 15, 2008, 09:04:15 PM

Quote from: ~Apex on November 15, 2008, 08:18:35 PM
Fuck if I care if you don't like my Hillary rants. I hope they bug the piss out of you.

FAIL

"Bore".  Not bug.

Even better. You can skip them and read a few graphs some of Hoff's Puppies' latest manifesto. That oughta wake up that leg of yours.

Opposite end of the same coin?

No thanks.  That shit makes my anus itch.  Even worse. 

Nothing a little universal health care wouldn't fix.

You asked for it.

We finished watching the Brit version.  Then we watched the newer show with Gene Hunt in it, Ashes to Ashes.  It's not as good, but it's watchable.  I watched the US re-imagining on my own.  Mrs. Jesus wanted no part of rewatching the same script with different actors. 

1. Harvey Keitel is not a good Gene Hunt in the pilot.  Gene Hunt needs to be an imposing Grizzly Bear of a man for his actions and dialogue to work.  Harvey Keitel doesn't pull it off.  He's a hardass trapped in a nursing home resident's body. 

2. The new chick is ok, I guess, but I miss Liz White's British accent.  That did things for me.

3. Michael Imperioli's Roy would definitely be better if he was an asshole like the English one.  It doesn't make sense that Sam Tyler appears, gets the job Roy wants, and Roy acts all lovey-dovey with him.

4. The Chris Skelton character barely exists in the pilot.  Boo.  His retarded gheyness was good for some comedy in the real version.  "So when you launder money, you don't really wash it, Guv?"


Not sure whether I'll try to watch the second episode.  Wikipedia says that the rest of the season so far is basically remakes of British episodes, anyway.

Quote from: Thrillho on November 07, 2008, 11:24:30 AM

Quote from: De Jesus on November 07, 2008, 11:13:21 AM

Quote from: IrishYeti on November 07, 2008, 12:00:29 AM
I make a dumbassed assumption that De Jesus is talking about me rather than IAN.  I still hate poor people.  I also talk some false shit about George Clooney, Michael Moore, and Alec Baldwin. But I gave a little to the United Way!

George Clooney?  He's on the board of your United Way.

George Clooney? From what I've been reading and seeing, he's been up there with the Congress, trying to get everybody to go over there and solve that thing.

You been reading about all that?  You been seeing that?

Poor Matt Vasgersian.

Quote from: IrishYeti on November 07, 2008, 12:00:29 AM
I make a dumbassed assumption that De Jesus is talking about me rather than IAN.  I still hate poor people.  I also talk some false shit about George Clooney, Michael Moore, and Alec Baldwin. But I gave a little to the United Way!

George Clooney?  He's on the board of your United Way.  He also raises and donates millions for a huge variety of charitable foundations each year.  Michael Moore is with Habitat for Humanity (aka Houses for Poor People) and Raising Malawi.  Alec Baldwin gives for PETA, some renewable energy research charities, Habitat for Humanity and a few other anti-homelessness charities, and a lot of charities based on cancer/AIDs research.  Which other liberals do you want to talk out your ass about?  I know everyone hates George Soros.  He's given away over 6 billion dollars over his life.  Warren Buffet was one of Obama's earliest supporters (and one of the most vocal).  He just gave away 30-odd billion.  Google is your friend.  Except it's not.  They're one of the most liberal businesses in the world.  You should still use them to find this shit before running your mouth, though.

Liberal celebrities ARE giving big money to charity.  The problem is that other than them, there's not a ton of people giving.  The fact that parts of America look like poor African cities is proof that not enough is being done.  

Again, if you support the obstruction of state provided health care for poor people (obviously charity isn't getting it done), you're a poor-hating douchebag of a human being, no matter how you spin it.