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How could I forget Gallardo? Yeesh. The thing with Sheets is that if he could just stay healthy (for once) he's a potential 20 game winner, or thereabouts.

I laughed at Vyce's post over at the Trog Board. He forgot to say the money's cool if it's a lot more of it for Iraq, though.

Dane Cook is almost as bad as Johnny Cougar.

I think Linebrink/Turnbow could turn a good trade together. Matt Wise is practically worthless so they should get what they can for him. Shouse & Spurling weren't all that terrible, McClung should stay as well. I'm not sure what they will do with Capuano. Trade? Bullpen? Hope he returns to form in the rotation? It would be really nice if Sheets could play a full season. Sheets/Suppan/Parra/Villanueva/Bush or, better yet, an improvement with a signing or trade would be a solid rotation if weird & consistent injuries stay away (Hey Ben). No offensive upgrades really needed. Jenkins and Koskie will both be gone & won't be terribly missed. Will any team give Jenkins that kind of money? Milwaukee should try to keep a third catcher in the majors next year, there were plenty of times when a switch would have been good but Yost didn't want to risk being without a backup.

Tonight the dweebs suffer for Czech's Cubsfan pain.

That was a hell of a fight on Versus tonight.

Is that Old Man Thompson?

Best defense for focusing everything on Iraq rather than anything on stuff like this/Darfur/Katrina/etc he could think of.

Yost will manage Milwaukee next year. Doug Melvin says he will 'aggressively' try to keep Cordero. Geoff Jenkins is all but gone.

Wu Tang Clan - Heart Gently Weeps

If Detroit & Green Bay hold up, that Thanksgiving game will be their most important since those early 90s Wild Card matchups.

As a libertarian I'd prefer that neither need be done. But being sensible, the difference between a big expense (for Americans) and a HUGE expense (for foreign people not showing any particular glee for our 'help') is just insane. Even as a libertarian I agree that America should play some role in world affairs but not at the trillion-dollar-for-practicaly-nothing level. The rhetorical battleground here is 'socialized medicine' vs. 'hates children'. Neither is accurate. The fact remains, though, a Republican President is going to end up spending at leat 1 trillion dollars on a folly in another country but has vetoed a bill to spend a fraction of that for people in his own country, only then using his misinformed idea of 'conservatism'. Nutshell = pathetic.

Why is the 1-3 trillion for Iraq cool for 'conservatives' but the tiny fraction of that for health care for actual Americans bad?

The new Wu Tang song, 'Heart Gently Weeps' (you know the sample), is fuckin' nice.

The new Pumpkins' isn't that bad but I agree it's pretty far from AOTY considerations.

I laughed.

Don't non-driver's-license-holding people still need a state-issued photo id for various things such certain movies, cigarettes, bars, clubs, etc? How much tax cash are we looking at for this proposal anyway? More or less than our own Great Wall?

So many locals still think it's an actual killer that just happens to be targeting drunken meatheads. Bright folks 'round here.

Not Mexican at least.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WI_...EMPLATE=DEFAULT

Hmm.

I'd rather we all just be branded on some bodypart of everyday prominence.

Yeah. It's always ok to do dumb shit as long as someone else does something dumber.

Congress has already condemned Rush like they did moveon.org, right?

What is the 'electric snake hot-wire hookup'?