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He'll report to Fort Myers on Friday, and will play primarily SS, but the Red Sox have some plan to get him on the mound as well.

OK, I don't see a link, so what's the best way to purchase this baby to put the most $$ in the musicians' pockets? EDIT: Never mind. Found the Reptet website. EDIT2: Chicken or Beef AND Do This are on the way to me. EDIT3: I forgot to ask, do they come with jewel cases?

Casey Kelly signs. Details TK.

I vote to just boycott the corporate names altogether and go with Cleveland Field, Giants Park, etc.

Beautiful. You're very lucky.

I'm on board with the team with the best record having home-field advantage. Imagine a scenario where a dominant team from the AL plays an average team from the NL and that average NL team has home-field advantage (or visa versa). ... Course, if one team was so much better than the other, shouldn't make that much difference in the end anyways ... so ... ah, forget it.

Happy birthday mon ...

Yeah, I figured as much. But your average Joe doesn't, does he? ... I am reassured that those who create technology can't control it.

Yes. "Local" being the key word here. Could even result in more business for you in the end.

Basically, anything you can view or listen to on a computer can be ripped or copied, though in some cases there is a loss of fidelity and the hassle isn't worth it for the majority of people. It can't be encoded somehow, like those iTunes files?

This guy is a super nice story. His exhibition last night was unreal. I didn't see it live, but the highlights were a good 15 minutes long at least.

Lends new meaning to term "long-term policy" ...

7 straight down the tubes. The Rays had a shot to be the first team other than the Yankees or Sox since the 1993 Blue Jays to be in first in the AL East at the All-Star break. Only way that happens now is if the Sox blow a late lead against the O's. I was half listening to Kalas interview some Rays front office guy who claimed they were ready to be very aggressive ahead of the trade deadline but that teams were asking for too much in return (didn't mention any players by name, but I'm reassured. I'd rather they ride the rest of this year with what they have than deal away a Price, even if they do go in the tank).

How fitting that Gomes scores the first run of the game ... on back-to-back walks. BTW: I can't help but notice on these Indians broadcasts, there's either an unusually large number of attractive women who attend Cleveland games, or they have a camera devoted to tracking them down in the stands. Either way ...

To me, the worst aspect of this is that we're forcing decisionson our descendants for thousands of years. I don't think it's right to force decisions on others, now or later. So far, we've created problems that we've had to solve pretty well immediately so that we've had to take the consequences of our decisions ourselves in real time. No one's trying to think up a way of us solving this problem in real time. And yet, in principle, the technology to do so is available. If you fill a series of unmanned spaceships with the stuff and boot it in the direction of the sun, the cost would be very high indeed, but doable and not greatly different from the costs involved in what we're doing now. MG Can you imagine though if something went wrong during the launch of one of those spaceships? I recall a few years ago the U.S. military launched some satellite or something into orbit that contained a significant amount of radioactive material for some purpose (good intentions, I'm sure) and there was no small concern here, relatively near the launch site, about what the fallout would be in the case of launch failure. But yes, I agree, the idea that we're creating dangerous waste that will last for thousands of years is mind-boggling. (For some strange reason I'm reminded of the George Will thread about how civilization dealt with water pollution by drinking alcohol, and how people who could tolerate it were the ones who survived.)

Nuclear power has clearly gotten a bad rap here .... I suspect that table depends on where you live. I think the real issue with nuclear power is decommissioning - how long will it take before a power station becomes harmless? how long before the waste material becomes harmless? and the costs of keeping that site and material secure (REALLY secure) for that length of time. Decommissioning costs for 20 closed British nuclear power stations are presently estimated at £72 billion over the next century - though Greenpeace reckons £100 billion, because some matters have been left out of the estimates. But it takes ten thousand years for spent fuel to decay to safe levels. Civilisation is only about six thousand years old. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/oc...try.environment MG Yes. I think the pie chart might look a little different several thousand years from now. ... (For one thing, it would be 3-D, interactive, hyper-sortable and be touch-screen activated across all 85,000 system platforms in use both here and on Mars, but still would occasionally cause Windows to crash when importing it. They'll be working on a patch.) ... One would hope a solution to the problem of nuclear waste would be found by then. But, as you say, the cost and dangers of dealing with it in the meantime is not inconsequential.

Nuclear power has clearly gotten a bad rap here ....

Uh, yeah! Sounds like great fun.

I'm stuck in some recurring nightmare in Cleveland ...

Poop, scoop ... it all ends up in the same place ...

I prefer the crisp to the crumble or the cobbler. Here's a picture of an apple crisp: yum. Little scoop of ice cream there. Makes yer teeth hurt just looking at it!

They're hurtin' man. ... Still searching for a run ... anyone? ... anywhere? Although they were going against Lee tonight. Still, terrible. But ah ... Barry wouldn't fit it, I don't think. We're pretty stacked with left-handed bats, don't ya know.

I wanted to chime in, but waited to see which way the wind blew.

You're probably right, but I can't help but imagine Josh Hamilton in right field! :excited: :excited: Or just an every-day right fielder with a dependable bat. ... Actually, maybe what they really need is a new hitting coach. I don't know much about Henderson, but hitting is certainly the weak link so far. With their aggressiveness once they reach base, if this team could manufacture more runs with some situational hitting, stop hitting into double plays, etc., they'd be even more fun to watch. Right now, just getting somebody on base is an achievement.

God, I hate cherry pie. I'm shocked pecan scored so low.