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I think the phrase is "batten down the hatches."
A batten is a strip of narrow wood used to secure the hatches on a sailing vessel or ship...
Mainly if I recall, they are used to be placed in pockets of the sails to give the sail more rigidness?
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Owens concluded the interview by noting that his contract did not require him to talk to anyone. His relationship with Andy Reid, he said, was “same as it was when I was in camp. I don’t have to say anything. I know how to play football. I don’t have to say anything to Donovan. I know how to play football.” When asked if he and McNabb could succeed in this climate, he responded: “I don’t think so and I’m just being honest
Sounds like TO has a budding career as a government contractor. If it isn't in the contract, you don't have to do it!
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I see what you are saying and logically it would seem that the offense would benefit from practicing against a good defense.
The only analogy that I can give you would be a skiing analogy.
Ski behind a great skier and you will pick up all their good habits, lessening your bad habits. Now if you are a good skier and continually jump off a cliff smacking into the same big rock all the time... I take your confidence will become shattered and might look for radical answers that would greatly affect your basic skiing?
Now... If you had a great skier to follow behind as they jump into that couloir... Things might be a little different, actually finding your way through it!
To put that into real football terms. That rock is your great defense you practice against... You have no great offense to "lead" you into the gorge. So... Things are gonna be pretty bad until you can figure it out.
So, what I am saying is the good defense hurts you... It would be better to have a great offense to emulate in practice.
Get it? Not sure, I really do.
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Right, I only meant to suggest that in one sense it is analogous: Physicians are a sector of people who by dint of their organization can exercise some control over accreditation and other regulations (I assume) and can therefore influence the supply of labor competing for their services. Many professional organizations work in this way with varying amounts of influence. So though not unions, in addition to other objectives they work for the advancement of their members (this point is probably not aknowledged by the AMA, so its just my personal opinion).
Exactly.
I understood your analogy Finknottle without have to split technical hairs and definitions.
But, then again... Take that for what it is worth, I am just a lefty liberal that wants to give everyone else's hard earned money away!
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Don't let the cap cloud your views. It has been about 10 years since the NFL instituted the cap.
The last 4 WS Champions have been:
Angels
Marlins
Red Sox
White Sox
Besides the Marlins (expansion team the last decade), I don't recall the other three winning a WS in recent history. I am not going to fail to admit that the Halos, Marlins, BoSox, and ChiSox these last 4 years did a lot to put down going to a cap. What timing??
IMO, I say there is parity in baseball. It just gets clouded in the Juggernaut they call "the season." If the major leagues would go to a 16 team playoff format... Heck, let everybody into a "playoff tournament"... You would see a lot of surprising results. You wouldn't see that in football because the truly "good" teams would be up for the games and wouldn't lose. Again, IMO... Truly fugged up opinion!
MLB:
Only 6 (well under roughly 1/3 of the league @ 20 %) baseball teams in the majors haven't been to the WS in the last thirty years. Tampa (<30 yrs. old), Texas, Seattle (almost 30 yrs. old), Wash/Mont (almost 30 yrs. old), ChiCubs, and Colorado (<30 yrs. old). All very young clubs with the exception of the Cubs and Rangers.
Now look at the winners of the WS in the past 30 years... Of those 24 different teams that made it to the WS, only 5 failed to win the WS (Cleveland, Houston, Milwaukee, San Diego, and San Fran).
The NFL:
10 (@ 31 % of the NFL) football teams in the NFL that haven't sniffed (okay, maybe "sniff" is a bad word) the SB in the last 30 years. NYJ, Cleveland (new Clev, <30 yrs. old), Indy/Balt, Jax, Houston (<30 yrs. old) , KC, Detroit, NO, Seattle, and Arizonza.
Looking at the winners of the SB the past 30 years... Of those 22 different teams that made it to the SB, 9 failed to bring home the Lombardi Trophy (Buffalo
, Miami (missed by one year since 1974 was 31 years ago... ), Cin, Tenn, San Diego, Philly, Minn, Carolina, Atlanta). I am still gonna wait for the numbers to come in through the years. Even with salary cap, I want to see if the NFL can get those 9 teams down to about 5.
The NFL might move closer in closing this gap this year with Indy (and maybe Seattle) finally making the SB.
Still pretty even... Even with the NFL and almost 10 years of cap under its belt.
End of Rant.
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That was my thinking. More importantly, who uses something and then wins with it.
Weapons of Mass Destruction in one man's hands can become Weapons of Mass Democracy in another's.
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This thread got me thinking Stuck (Yes, I said thinking!
) We were always a Courier-Express family growing about until they ceased and Buffalo became a one-paper cesspool.I was searching for the editions of the BEN and came up with this one. Did you ever hear of the Emergency Edition? Not really true. Funny though:
Emergency Edition, Friday, July 20, 1956
For all you Cold-War, goldy oldies out there!
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Dude read the link Webster Guy provided, the evidence against TO is astounding, and the majority of it is toward Andy Reid, and the Eagles organization, not McNabb. Are you going to now claim that if Andy Reid truly wanted to win he was put his feelings aside and let TO play? You have to draw the line eventually.
Why don't they just keep the star player and get rid of Andy Reid?
Now that has never happened before.
Just playing devil's advocate.
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Why is that so hard to believe in sports?
Not to sidetrack things... Just throwing this out there:
Look what the Sabres went through to make Hasek happy? Basically blackballed Ted Nolan right out of the league... To his (Ted Nolan) credit, he had ideals and moved on to more important things.
TO, now where would he be without playing in the NFL? Too bad he can't tell the league to eat a bowl of eff and move on with his life doing more important things in society. For some reason, I just don't see TO as that kind of guy.
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I think GG summed it up best. Wasn't it a pagan thingy? Every year this topic gets started with a new twist.
Anything you want it to be? (the tree that is)
Keep it up all year and change the ornament theme!
Schusssss... Don't tell my wife because I might get one parked in my living room year round!
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The Mega Blok sets are much cheaper and contain more "pure" building pieces than the modern Lego "system"... Yet, the quality is a noticable drop off. We joke in our family (my 7 year son lives for Lego/Mega Blok) that "Mega Bloks is raw"... They literally make your hands raw when you gotta put some pieces together!
They are a quality toy for money spent... The hours spent with them in quality playtime blows all other toys away. Quality of play (and time spent giving parents peace...
) IS ALL THAT MATTERS! Independent thought and play is emmense with this toy.The universal set I had growing up in the 1970's is still in service today... Not to mention the thousands and thousands of pieces that my son and family inherited and purchased throughout the years!
The only drawback I have noticed through the years is Lego corp's weakness when it comes to motors and electrical connectors... This weakness goes wayback, I noticed, since the beginning.
But, the Danes make up for that in their building system and basic design 500 fold!
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what does prosper and get ahead mean?
people deserve to get paid what they CAN get paid. unions have done a good job getting their members more money, but if you are the client you get left holding the bag.
i'd rather products get made in china for a better price with equal or better quality for my money, it's not like your ditch digger (or any labourer) in north america deserves my money anymore than one in china does.
I guess not fall behind in regards to inflation, debt and how your job is perceived and valued in society.
If people deserve to get paid what they can, wouldn't slavery still exist? The absolute best is that they would work for free?
Yes they do (red part above). Because you will end up shelling more money into the tax system. Case impoint is Wal-Mart... Where the "working poor" have to supplement their income with goverment aid.
You can say educate, educate and move yourself up. True. Can the system really support itself with such a highly mobile, better off class that demand premium jobs? Who is left to do the basic work? And, if that basic work is mainly being done by a huge, poorly paid underclass... Is that good? It is a time-bomb ready to go off. Is that a good societal model?
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Amen to that. I miss that place like crazy. I've been here in Atlanta for almost ten years and I still can't call it home. Was talking to my wife about it today, the taxes are job situation are just too bad for me to consider it seriously, for now.
She's from here, but I think even she is getting sick of the "keeping up with the Jones'" that the larger area has about it. Ever feel underdressed at a Mall? Yeah.. I'm longing for good 'ol Hamburg.
Even WNY is getting "sprawled out" to and a lot more "nationalized."
Still in a slight time warp though. If it isn't going to be WNY, I will probably retire in the UP of Michigan. Then, I think the only thing left is to move out into the woods and become a hermit! ... I would still bother you guys with a wireless laptop.
Living windward of Lake Michigan, I really do miss the the massive snows, especially this time of the year... Heck, WNY has probably had (almost already) all the amount of snow we will get here all winter (I live 25 miles from the lake).
Nothing like a good foot of snow and getting dark at 4!
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Isn't that just ridiculous? Retailers shouldn't have to spend the additional $$ needed to provide babysitters and an adult sized play-pen. You know damn well the only reason they're doing that is to avoid the inevitable lawsuit from the high-school dropout in the four-year-old sweat suit.
Stores shouldn't have to take steps like that.
The worst part? Most of these people are probably shopping for their children, which means they've already reproduced.
Bah...
"The crowd of shoppers outside BrandsMart USA in Sawgrass Mills, angry at being forced to wait by security personnel, pushed their way under the security gate and down a hallway into the store, forcing dozens of people against the walls and trampling the woman."
If those security guards had tazers strapped to their belts, everyone would have been real fkin' polite.
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I totally agree Jeff!
Just like cards and holidays... It is amazing how many people love to be commercialized and do these things.
Diamond ads always get me going. Did you see the latest puke they are putting on TV?
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Did you ever go through life and not know something that everyone else knows? For some reason, you never learned it, but everyone else did?
I never knew that the day after Thanksgiving was a big shopping day. I look at the Circuit City ad (3 years ago). I see a great price on a 19 inch TVs ($69) and 32 inch TVs ($299). I look in the ad to see what time they're open. I see they open at 7:00 AM. I think "Great, I don't have to work, I'll go really early!"
I leave my house at 6:45AM and pass a Walmart with a full parking lot (still dark). I am thinking "they must be doing inventory or something". I drive to Circuit City and I see this massive line. I want the 32 inch TV, so I stand in line. TV crews are interviewing people. Radio stations are passing out coffee and doughnuts. After 5 minutes in line, I look behind me and see the line's length has doubled.
They open the doors and it's like Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman trying to claim land at the end of "Far and Away". I refuse to run. I say to myself that I will not run like a crazed idiot. People are banging into me- hard. I tighten my elbows in my side (like I am doing curls) and continue to walk into the store and wham! This lady, about 50, runs into my elbow and she got it bad. If you ever hit a hardball on the sweetspot, well, this lady got it good and I hardly felt a thing. She goes down hard.
I helped her up and she was hurting, but she continued running into the store. I walk in and go wait in a long line at the TV section. (I later learned I should have gone to any department in the store that wasn't busy, they could have rung me up). I finally get to the cashier and the store announces they are out of 19 inch TV's. They had only 24 of them and they were out in literally 3 minutes.
Riots were starting to form. Grown men and women were bitching to managers..."bait and switch! bait and switch!". A high school kid who worked at Circuit City took over and calmed the crowd down. People left swearing their head off, but no violence occurred. This high school kid really took control of the situation. I thought I was gonna see a fight.
I find out they only had twelve 32 inch TV's and I got the eleventh one.
I had to now get in line to pick up my merchandise with 30 people ahead of me, but thats another story.
I learned one thing: Avoid Black Friday shopping at all costs. It is a shopper's fantasy football draft day. Except there's thousands of em in one place. Never again.
Wow!
I guess you learned the hard way.
Call me weird (
), cheap, or whatever but, not clueless when it comes to comsuming.Heck, I still got the 19" color TV that my mother (God rest her sole) won back in 1990 and gave me when I moved out of the house with. It is still the only TV in my house if you don't count the tuner card on my PC that was installed in my computer back in 1997 (and that thing is still ticking).
Sh*t, I feel guilty if I can't get my weeks garbage (family of four) into one can on Wednesdays!
This isn't to say I don't possess quality things or lack any modern gadgets and technolgies either. I never lived without cable... Even halfway through the 1970's we had color TV and cable. Now my wife's family got rid of the rotary wall phone not more than 10 years ago and she didn't have color TV till the mid 1980's... She grew up never knowing Grover on Sesame Street was blue!
As you can tell, I (most definitely my wife) are way off the beaten path...
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Minimum wage happy-to-be-working-in-the-US employee? AND you think this is Wal-Mart's fault? I bet you have a great welfare plan you'd like to tell me about. In fact, we should right now begin the Remove Personal Accountability Act of 2006.
Christ, man, how about the person in line acting like a !@#$ing human being? How's THAT for starters?
But no. This is Wal-Mart's fault. Because they are trying to be profitable. And they like the press. And they piss on employees because they can.
Grow up. Or do something to help the less fortunate. But blaming Wal-Mart? Lame, dude. Very lame.
I was being sarcastic... I thought I made that clear with the winks.
It is a win-win situation for Wal-Mart with people like you.
That is why you wouldn't find me anywhere near the place, let alone in a situation like that.
It is everybody's fault... More so the individual that puts her/himself into that situation.
Geeesh!
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What the heck kinda bar were you in where half the patrons responded with "tactical battlefield weapons?"
Notice I put the emphasis on tactical...
That is some colorful wording.
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Just think. Your loved one receives one of those Wal-Mart laptops that you so eloquently nabbed with a "shoestring" stop, while bouncing benignly to you off the floor, gets to return it to Wal-Mart on 12-26 and perpetuate the mass frenzy you so wonderfully took part in.
Again, the "gift that keeps on giving!"
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Ya... Sure thing, GOOG (Google).
About 12 months ago!
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I don't know why every store has not gone with the ticket system for these products. You go out 1/2 hr before the store opens, give tickets entitling the people who are first in line products they want. Do this until all your tickets are gone. That way there is no mad rush, just people picking up
Ah... Because it is OUTSIDE of Wal-Mart... There is no way you let your minimum wage, thankful to be working in the US employee not locked up locked in the store... And besides, it would actually cost money to pay that employee a whole half hour before starting time... That would cut into the bottom line!
Anyway, it looks good on TV when people act like animals... You can always point your finger at the individual!
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Exactly!
Side note to that interesting special is that they mentioned that Shula when he coached would be picked up promptly at 1700 each day by his wife... Chuck Knoll would also leave the office at the same time. Both were quoted as saying "if you can't get it done 9-5, you are disorganized."
When Gibbs made his first HC debut, things started to change in that thinking. It really is a "copycat" league.
How Ridiculously Talented Are NHL Players?
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Good point about talent.
With the shootout now in the NHL. Do you think it hones their talents even more?