I’m actually a fan of these “inter-active ads”. A lot of cool little political sites to click on.
Posts made by Yanny
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RE: Mmmm, ads
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RE: Should PMs be posted or private?
There is a reason why PMs are sent to only specific people.
Otherwise they would be open.
There is no real issue here.
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RE: Yet Another Debate Thread! The Designated Hitter…
All right. It’s time for me to chime in here.
My case is to eliminate the DH. My points:
1. Affect on the Roster
a. By eliminating the DH, you place 6 men on a MLB bench instead of 5. This is a good thing because the team no longer has to pay 9 everyday players, lowering player costs significantly. An everyday player costs more than a bench player. It also opens up space for more specialized bench players - 3rd catchers, glove men, or speed demons who lack in other aspects of the game.
b. It forces the manager to actually use that bench. Without a DH, AL teams barely need to pinch hit or pinch run.
c. Using more specialized players and the entire bench leads to a more strategic game. Too many AL managers are absolutely terrible at managing significant aspects of the game, and this gives the advantage to the team with the more crafty manager.2. Fairness
a. When playing against each other in NL parks, the National League gains a big strategic advantage over the American League. American League pitchers don’t know how to hit, bunt, or run like the NL pitchers do.
b. In addition, American League pitchers risk injury much moreso than their NL counterparts, because they are performing actions that they are unused to. Do you really want to see your ace sliding into 2nd base in the 1st game of the World Series?
c. In terms of the designated hitter himself, not having to field gives him a huge advantage over his peer hitters. Guys like Frank Thomas, David Ortiz, and Travis Hafner can pile on the muscle without needing to worry about general agility. Similar players of size who have to play the field every day (Example, Jason Giambi, Richie Sexson) are constantly troubled by nagging injuries due to size.
d. The balance of power. The mound was lowered. The brush back pitch was taken away. Newer, lighter bats with huge sweet spots were introduced. The balance of power has shifted too much away from pitchers, resulting in more offense than at any time in baseball. Eliminating the designated hitter will shift that balance back toward pitchers. It won’t solve anything, but it will make their job much easier.3. History
a. Baseball is a game of history. Moreso than any other sport, baseball fans see their record books as sacred. Look at the controversy surrounding steroids allegations for Bonds. The Designated hitter is a departure from the times of Maris, Mantle, DiMaggio, Williams, and Ruth. It completely changes the record books. Look at a guy like Frank Thomas. He is putting up numbers for the ages, but could not do so with his size if he wasn’t a DH for 15 years. -
Yet Another Debate Thread! The Designated Hitter…
That is right. I am about to ask you the greatest debate question of all time.
Should professional baseball have a designated hitter? Why or why not?
I’ll chime in with my argument soon.
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RE: An Exciting Find for Science (and Paleontologists)
No Mosquitos and Frog DNA?
Damn.
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RE: Math thread
I have no knowledge of the math thread being deleted.
Must be a database error. Feel free to start from where you left off.
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RE: So what is above Heavy Bomber?
Hit ten thousand then I’ll think about adding one :)
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RE: Technical support problems…..
A little more exposition would be nice.
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RE: Pilots and what they do
He did what is called a slide or a skid.
I used to have to do it all the time when I was landing gliders. I would be coming in too high and not have the runway to overshoot by much. I’d put my air breaks on (which that huge plane doesn’t have), toss my wings one way and my tail rudder the other way.
My mother was watching the first time I did it and thought that her 14 year old son was crashing.
But to do it with a friggin Jet? Of that size? Hats off.
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RE: Words of Wisdom
From my grandfather, when I told him that I may have to settle as a business major:
“EJ, stop trying to make money. Do something that you enjoy. Don’t spend your entire life trying to make money. You spend most of your conscious time as an adult working. You damn well better enjoy it. Your a smart guy and you’ll make money wherever you go. You have that opportunity, which your father and I didn’t have”
And so, I decided to major in political science.
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RE: Favorite Quote
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
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"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. "
From the great Edmund Burke.
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RE: Media Whoring
The old line comes back:
“In every focus group, people say they don’t want to see anymore negativity on television. But they remember each piece of negative advertising perfectly, and fail to recall specifics about the positive”
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RE: Media Whoring
Chasing the police blotter is easy. It’s cheap, quick, and requires little skill or journalism. People enjoy crime stories.
I really have stopped watching TV news entirely. There is no point anymore.
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RE: Guess Who's Back? Back Again…
I love my SF Avatar :) It’s the perfect size and look.
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RE: Exodus Decoded program
Yes, a volcanic eruption is documented at a certain time in history. It’s not like Egypt isn’t right next to a major fault line. One such eruption happens to coincide with the rough time period where we guess that the legendary exodus took place.
In terms of that time period - it’s a guess. It may very well be right, but its an educated guess. The show makes the mistake of using words like “fact” and “proof” for conjecture.
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RE: Exodus Decoded program
Just watched the program. Interesting, but I didn’t buy a lot of it.
1. - It assumed that a massive geological event would cause C02 to rise up in the Nile River, causing it to turn red, causing thousands of frogs to hop out of the river, causing lice, flies, and disease to exit the river, etc until the first born (who sleep in the “royal” lowlieing part of the house) all die of poisonous gas. Its one piece of conjecture after another. If one fails, everything else falls down.
2. - Massive uneducated (demonstrated by one of the museum staffers questioning the host’s deductions) guessing after looking at some of the Minoan inscriptions. What the host saw as a picture of Moses in front of the parted sea the expert in the museum saw as a chariot race (similar to the one depicted in the Aeneid). Same with much of the conjecture about the location of Mt. Sinai. His reference to Homer is complete B.S., as the host used a generic term for Greeks (Dannub or Dannuins) and applied it to one specific Greek city, even though the full word wasn’t present, just a presumably early form of the word.
3. We saw little evidence of “hundreds of thousands” of Israelite slaves present in egypt. We saw little evidence of Moses himself existing. We saw some limited evidence of a group of former slaves who left Egypt and settled in Avarice and with the Minoans. Most of the B.S. about Minoans and Egyptian contact was completely irrelevent. The Minoans were a great trade civilization, which has nothing to do with the Israelites.
Seemed like more Da Vinci Code investigation to me.
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Bows, Arrows, and Shooting Stuff
I entered the summer knowing nothing about the sport of archery except that I would be running a range all summer. Today, I come home from my endeavor an experienced archer, equiped with my new Parker Buck Hunter compound bow (Draw Weight 55-65, 75%).
Any other archery fans out there? I’m thinking about taking a deer down with my bow, but for now I’m going to stick to targets.