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Everything posted by MattZ
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Yeah, I forgot that they signed Redding. I guess Redding starts the season as #5 until one of the young guys (eg, Niese) is ready.
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Mets
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Matt Ward is still an unknown. Many more people know FoC than him. And I am not a fan of FoC. Just saying.
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If Lowe got 4/60, I will take Ollie at 3/36. Seriously. Ask me again in August, though.
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wowee zowee (it's february)
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I understand what you are getting at Moe. Penalties break up the flow of the game, and a long drive that is the result of pass interference calls or personal fouls is boring. Still, I blame the players for that, not the refs (assuming that the refs are making the right calls). So yes, regardless of whether they are the right calls, they take away from the flow and excitement of the game.
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I'm with caliber. I thought a lot of penalties were called because a lot of penalties were committed. Hard to imagine how many stupid personal fouls were committed at crucial points in the game. Left a bad taste in my mouth.
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I am remembering why I was so burned out on this band by the end, the last go-round. Shows selling out immediately. Tickets on ebay/clist for 5x face value. Ugh.
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This thread got me depressed and this song/video helped. kin a
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I guess this is just a classic case of being on different sides of the same issue, but yes, while tort reform is necessary, we need tort lawyers. Fuckers that dump shit in the drinking water need to sued. Its not so easy to have tort reform that is smart and sensible and doesn't swing too far the other way. I agree that tort lawyers stifle companies and innovation, but tort lawyers also recover money for people whose lives are turned upside down because a company decides it is cheaper to dump their waste in the river than the dump. And yes, lawyers are enriched, but so are the people who s
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I was just being a wiseass about the Bill of Rights. Since lawyers bring cases on behalf of plaintiffs under the constit... wait a second, I think it was lawyers that drafted the constitution!! (ok, i am going to stop being a wiseass, I really was just joking about the Bill of Rights)
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And I was just making the point (and I think TheBunk is with me here) that any law that gives people reasonable time to sue will be welcomed by victims and opponents of discrimination too. Which ultimately, is a good thing. Sure, lawyers benefit, but I guess we can argue until the cows come home about whether that's the takeaway here. Ok, this is your opinion, and I can respect it. But I also think it's reasonable to think that someone who is employed at an unfair salary for 3 years is discriminated against that whole time. I dont think there's anything wrong with triggering the statu
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500 years? What are you talking about? Not sure about you, but 180 days into my current job, I didnt know what everyone around me was making. I would have had no way to know one way or the other (if I was a minority or woman) if I was being discriminated against. This new law stands for the proposition that the statute of limitations should not expire within 180 days of being hired, and that it resets after each paycheck, because each paycheck is a separate "discriminatory act." If an employee leaves, she will never have more than 180 days after leaving her (theoretically) discimnatory w
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If women don't have enough time (180 days from their first paycheck) to figure out they've been discriminated against, then the laws that are "already in place" don't do them much good. And as for "good and legitimate reasons why statutes of limitations exist within the legal system," well, good and legitimate reasons exist within the system to correct statutes of limitations that hinder fairness. I suppose you blame lawyers for the Bill of Rights too?
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nick drake? This is going to be one really uplifting mix, huh?
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They call it a B-side in a nod to the Beatles. True story. Or not.
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Just think how loud the booing from Mets fans will be there!!
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They may collapse every year there, but at least their run differential and OPS+ won't be that bad!! That's all that matters anyway!!
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Just imagine how much you will love the hate from Cubs fans!! Love all around!!
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It just about made my day that the Mariners already gave up on, and traded, Aaron Heilman. Enjoy, Cubs fans!!
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I am 350 pp into Infinite Jest now and I love every page. Every single page. Almost every sentence is wonderful. It feels like a long, lonely journey. I have no one to discuss it with -- all my friends gave up somewhere between page 1 and 100. Or they dismiss it out of hand by reference to "Pynchon" or "post-post-modern." It's unlike any experience I've had with a book (never read DFW before). Every review I have seen/read talks about how funny the book is. And yet, I can't stop thinking about how sad it is. I only wish I had read it when DFW was alive. I am virtually certain tha
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My anecdotal sense (with my company and friends' companies as evidence) is that lots of places are hanging on for dear life and doing everything they can to weather the storm in the hopes that things turn around. And if they don't soon, there's going to be a pretty heavy round of layoffs/bankruptcies. So, as bad as things are, I think it's pretty clear that if we dont see some miraculous turnaround by the middle of the year, things are going to get much worse.
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If this is all I have to live without, I will do jumping jacks. Sign me up right now. There was a time (not so long ago, I might add) when I had none of this stuff. EDIT: also, I assume this means that I can keep my Ferrari?
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I think I have changed my mind too. I retract my prior statement. Something clicked between listens 5 and 6.
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Happy birthday!!