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could be she's claustrophobic and is afraid of elevators...

I'm kind of sad. watching him these last couple of years was like watching a 200-car pileup on an icy interstate. it's hard to witness, but still fascinating and impossible to look away from.

I'm very much pro-gun, and I don't particularly care for the NRA, but his comments are WAY out of line.

Inflategate. :)

very strange case.

Parquet is definitely at or near the top. If HJ wasn't so balanced this year, he'd be a clear #1 IMO. As it is, he's still a big contributor in an offense that has 6 or 7 guys consistently scoring 7-10 points a game.

Looked great tonight. Needed that one

Doesn't look good for them!!

The difference was the play of the o-line, And them finally committing to the run in general. i would rather replace him with a capable back who might not be quite as good, but will still perform pretty well behind the O-line than try to replace matchup nightmare Dez and his 16 TD catches. And that's not even factoring in the success of the other WRs who benefited from single coverage or holes in zones because opponents had to concentrate so hard on slowing him down. Factor in all of the fumbles by Murray, along with how interchangeable backs have started to become in the NFL, and dez is a no-brainer.

Dez is more important.  any decent running back can put up pretty good numbers in that offense, plus probably not fumble 62 times during the season.  there's only a couple of guys in the league who can do what dez does. 

The only put down name I can think of for Kentucky has a term for a woman's nether regions that I can't post on here ;)

Hopefully he gets really puffed up about what he did this year and does the same thing next year ;)

I agree. but that being said, I don't see how acting out the stereotype that Dems have placed on them doesn't count as a loss. You're absolutely right that the GOP better start courting Hispanics.

yup. any warm body can get 1000 yards behind that line if dallas keeps running consistently, and will likely fumble less than murray to boot. there are only maybe four WRs in the league who can do what dez does (Green, Julio, Megatron, Dez), and you can't replace him.

that's a guy I'd trade three prospects for.

I'm okay with it.  I'm still ready for him to be gone, but nobody can deny that the moves they made this past year completely turned the franchise around.  that being said, we'll see what they do this year with all of those free agents to keep the team together.

On a slightly different note, i do still open a regular door for my wife.  we were at a restaurant last night and i opened the door for her, then immediately hit the button so she could open her own car door :)

crazy ordeal

Dallas is going to have some holes to fill after people start signing. I'm curious to see where.

Remember when the braves sent saltalamacchia, andrus, feliz, Harrison, and beau jones to texas for mark teixera? This could end up like that, except teixera was at least a proven all-star, and at the time one of the elite in the game. Here we are a few years later, and Harrison is a good starter, feliz is a great pitcher (when healthy), andrus is the face of the organization, and salty provided a few years of decent service. It could be that in 2-3 years all of these prospects will have a major impact for the braves, and the stros will have a 30-something 6-hole hitter batting .265 hitting 20 homers a year.

Awful move. 3 top prospects for a pretty good bat. And Gattis only has two years in the majors, but he's almost 30 years old. It's not like he's some 23-year-old future stud with a ton of upside. He's 28, and likely not going to develop into much more than he already is, although his numbers might improve a little joining the American League and playing half his games in Houston. But at his age, two years averaging 20 homers a year is not enough for two top prospects, much less 3.

Minus Eli. Eli 3-4 years ago, sure. And as good as Wilson is, he's also more of a product of the team around him. He's an elite game manager.

Because I don't have access to Obama's 8-year total yet. His general totals based on the graph Smitty provided with the original link are actually lower than they were a year and two years ago, so it's not like the number is constantly rising. In my original post I believe I allowed for the number to rise a little, but say I was wrong, and the amount of people who receive benefits under Obama double what happened under bush. 30 million new, vs. 15 million new under bush. I still maintain that they both failed, even if Obama failed much worse.

I agree, but that cuts both ways as well. I think most of your radicals on both sides (not all ultras either way are radicals) are perfectly okay with the government enforcing morals as long as they fit their belief systems.

conservative with policy would be fine. ultraconservative with views on social issues will not work, though.