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Webster Guy

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  1. DirecTv schedule doesn't seem to say. When do we know?
  2. Actually, it's up to 5.5 now. Over under 38.
  3. What has changed? Well, our QB can move, NE lost Ty Law, both coordinators, Bruschi...just to name a few. I like your analysis though. If we win ONE of the four games against NE and the Jets, we're 10-6. If we merely split with the Jets and Pats, we're 11-5 according to you. I'll route for your scenario right now- good call!
  4. Hey we won nine with Old Ironlegs Bledsoe in there last year, I say the kid will do at least as well and be CERTAINLY more fun to watch. This year I'm gonna sit back and enjoy this team and it's 7 pro bowlers, watch us win some games, and maybe we'll get another shot at a playoff spot like last year. Say what you want, Losman is fun to watch with Clements and Wyche and MM's creativity and this team is entertaining. Unlike watching Ralph Wilson's wife play tennis........
  5. (from USA Today Sports) In his book The Physics of Baseball, retired Yale University physics professor Robert Adair writes that the moment of contact when a bat strikes a ball lasts just 1/1,000th of a second. But the skills required to execute that at the highest levels require years and years of training. You'll get a multimillion-dollar contract if you can pull it off successfully anywhere near three out of 10 times. "Players like Ted Williams and Barry Bonds are absolutely extraordinary athletes and can do things that other people can't," says Adair, who published his book at the suggestion of his late friend, former baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti. "What's remarkable about them is not their muscles or anything like that. It's in their brain. Their brain really works better than yours and mine at this." Consider that a fastball thrown at 95-100 mph reaches home plate in about 0.4 seconds. Adair notes in his book that it takes 0.15 seconds for humans to voluntarily blink their eyes in response to visual signals. When a big-league fastball is on the way, you must do far more than just blink. You must swing the bat to precisely the right spot at precisely the right time. "If a person from another planet was told what's involved ... they would say it's impossible," says Porter Johnson, a physics professor at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. It becomes even more challenging when pitchers throw curveballs and other breaking pitches. They also can throw the batter's timing off by mixing their fastest pitches with the slower changeups. But skilled batters can be tipped off by the motions of pitchers. They can make split-second assessments of how the seams on the ball are spinning (indicating various pitches) and gauge its path toward the plate. "It takes good eyesight, years of practice, good concentration," Johnson says. But in the final analysis, he says even good hitters are simply making well-educated guesses. "You've already committed yourself to swing at a particular point and a particular time. It's just a question of whether the ball happens to be there." Adair says that when a fastballer such as Randy Johnson throws a pitch in the high 90s, the hitter has only about two-tenths of a second from the time the ball leaves his hand to process "the last information that does you any conceivable good whatsoever" — and then swing. "After two-tenths of a second, they can turn out the lights in the stadium," Adair says, "and it won't affect your hitting him at all."
  6. Friendly bet: 2 of those teams will make the playoffs... which 2? I don't know, but at least 2 of them will.
  7. Yahoo Messenger (newer Beta version) has that feature as well.
  8. If you take away how each team is doing that year, and just compare general franchises, I would say BILLS 99 SABRES 1.
  9. Will kids like this movie? say 6-7 years old?
  10. This sounds interesting... Is this the first year of the league? Or are the 2 people inheriting existing teams? Also, how does the salary cap come into play? for trades?
  11. Steve, I think that taking KerryCollins in the second round is way too high. Here's a cheat sheet from TheHuddle.com. He throws a lot of INT's, I'm sure they cost ya. QUARTERBACKS Tier 1 1 Peyton Manning IND 8 2 Daunte Culpepper MIN 5 Tier 2 3 Marc Bulger STL 9 4 Donovan McNabb PHI 6 5 Brett Favre GBP 6 6 Trent Green KCC 5 7 Matt Hasselbeck SEA 8 8 Carson Palmer CIN 10 9 Jake Plummer DEN 9 10 Tom Brady NEP 7 Tier 3 11 Aaron Brooks NOS 10 12 Michael Vick ATL 8 13 Drew Brees SDC 10 14 Kerry Collins OAK 5 15 Byron Leftwich JAC 7 16 David Carr HOU 3 17 Chad Pennington NYJ 8 18 Brian Griese TBB 7 19 Jake Delhomme CAR 7 20 Kurt Warner ARI 6 21 Joey Harrington DET 3 22 Steve McNair TEN 10 23 Kyle Boller BAL 3 24 Ben Roethlisberger PIT 4
  12. How many regular season wins will each NFL have this year? Here are the Las Vegas over/unders for the number of wins for each team. Example: The NY Jets number is 9. I can bet the Jets OVER 9 (10-6 or better, I win) or UNDER 9 (8-8 or worse, I win). If they go 9-7 it's a tie and no one wins. Please list a few of your BEST BETS. I may just use them. Indy 11.5 Philly 11 N.E. 10.5 Baltimore 10 Pittsburgh 10 Atlanta 9.5 Carolina 9.5 Minnesota 9.5 KC 9 NY Jets 9 Dallas 8.5 Denver 8.5 Detroit 8.5 Jax 8.5 Seattle 8.5 Buffalo 8 Cincinnati 8 Oakland 8 Arizona 7.5 Green Bay 7.5 Houston 7.5 N.O. 7.5 Wash 7.5 T.B. 7 Chicago 6.5 NY Giants 6.5 Tennessee 6.5 Miami 6 Cleveland 4.5 San Fran 4.5
  13. Your links in your post worked fine, but the links on the front page seemed like dead links.
  14. Bra size for dummies.... http://www.glamography.com/edu/fitbra.htm
  15. Brees' or Brees's is acceptable. You put a 's at the end of a singular term (which Brees is). You have the option for a singular term that ends in "s". Chris's Carlos's Brees's
  16. Uh, no. This stars Dennis Weaver as a guy in his car who passes a truck and the driver of the truck gets pissed and chases him down for the whole movie. They never show the truck driver and when you think that Weaver finally "loses" the truck, the truck shows up and finds him again.
  17. Only if you choose to listen to him. Personally, I can take him once a week.
  18. "THERE.......ARE........FOUR..........LIGHTS.......!!! outside the wonderful hotels you can stay at by purchasing through SideStep. Have a girlfriend? Bring her down to a SideStep Hotel and "Engage!" Planning an island getaway? "Make it so" through SideStep...enjoy our complementary tea, Earl Gray....Hot!
  19. We have always had free Yahoo but they have all but abandoned any plans to upgrade it. It has been stagnant for 3 years now. Since they have given up, I have looked for other sites. League Pricing: Yahoo PLUS ($125) CBS Sportsline ($129 minus $20 for early sign up) Fanball ($60) Plus I always spent $10 on Yahoo stat tracker so Fanball is actually cheaper than free Yahoo. Question: Any Fanball opinions out there? Thanks, Jeff
  20. Encyclopedia Brown's wife, Sally Kimball, was fooling around with another guy named Bugs Meany. When confronted on this issue, Bugs confessed.
  21. How Smart is Your Right Foot? This is so funny that it will boggle your mind. And you will keep trying at least 50 more times to see if you can outsmart your foot, but you can't. 1. While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles. 2. Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction. .....And there's nothing you can do about it!
  22. The name of the show is Urban Explorers. The episode is entitled "Buffalo". The description is "A trek in to the forgotten era of BUffalo, NY". Don't know what this is. Could it be the Hank Bullough era? 5:00 PM Discover Channel
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