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  1. Willihammer
    Dick is right about that. Arcia could swing at that pitch 10 times and whiff on all 10.
  2. Willihammer
    And now Smalley! Yep, I'm definitely snoozing in 3...2...1..
  3. Willihammer
    LOL. All that and still got the call wrong. At least they can't stall looking at anymore replays. Now if we can knock Pelfrey out, and blow our own challenge, this game might become watchable.
  4. Willihammer
    Yawn
  5. Willihammer
    Still can't believe the Tigers gave Pelfrey 2 yrs.
  6. Willihammer
    Morris is right, IMO. Pelfrey lacks confidence in his off-speed pitches. Any 3 ball count and batters can sit on the sinker. Its the only pitch he can command worth a damn.
  7. Willihammer
    For starters, doctors were among those givingi ballplayers the PEDs in the first go-around with this. And players often sited injury recovery as the reasoning, not performance enhancement. So the notion that the drugs would be used up to the point of health recovery and not an inch further is pretty naive IMO, as well as the notion that any team would be justified in telling a player "no you're not hurt" when he insists he is. It would require a complicated system of checks and balances and even then, I'm not sold on the worthiness of it. I don't want a league full of HGH-healed, 43 year old Bartolo Colons hogging roster spots well beyond their natural decline.
  8. Willihammer
    Always, do we need to call Social Services on your parents?
  9. Willihammer
    "Secular music." No, its just music.
  10. Willihammer
    Mike, you might remember that the entire impetus of the Congressional investigation into PED use in the first place, was because kids were taking PEDs just to keep up with the Jones's. One CDC report said half a million teens were using steroids. You might disagree with that in principle, but in practice allowing professionals to use PEDs sure seems to trickle down.
  11. Willihammer
    Teams need almost no reason to DL players, and in the past, have used it just for the purpose of making roster space. There is way too much room for abuse if being DL'd is the only criteria for using PEDs.
  12. Willihammer
    Sunday maybe. It would be Milone's turn and Twins are TBD on who's starting. http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/schedule/index.jsp#date=04/29/2016
  13. Willihammer
    In that link, the author says past warming eras were kicked off by polar ice melting (which is happening again), and that 90% of warming occurred after the CO2 release. The myth its debunking is that CO2 is a lagging indicator. It does feel arrogant to think human activites impact the earth. But as this link explains, 5000 years worth of CO2 increase has occurred in the last 120 years, and the explanation is that the Earth's ability to absorb the additional output caused by humans is limited. So it compounded over the years to the point now where its meaningful.
  14. Willihammer
    Plouffe was on KTWN during the rain delay yesterday, he sure sounded confident of a complete recovery in time. FWIW.
  15. Willihammer
    I think you're mistakekn. Just as a quick check, I plotted the NASA data and had excel run an equation for line of best fit. The polynomial equation fits best. http://i.imgur.com/a3i6eFe.png
  16. Willihammer
    https://youtu.be/lPgZfhnCAdI?t=510 OK you already understand the concept. I admit I don't know off hand that x temperature rise will equate to y- inches of water rise. But I have been to Florida, and anyone who's been quickly gets an idea of how badly things could go for them with just a small increase in the water level. Ditto NYC, Honolulu, Annapolis, Corpus Christi, etc.
  17. Willihammer
    Re: historical weather data Its true that hard temperature records are limited but we have tracked things like migrations patterns, and other cyclical events for longer. Eg. monks in Japan and Finland have recorded the dates of certain lake freeze/thaws going back 700 years. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/ice-lake-suwa-japan-torne-river-climate-change-monk-shinto/
  18. Willihammer
    That breakeven point is bunk. There are no guaranteed payouts, how many times do I have to say that. All payouts go to Fantex. Fantex redistributes them at its whim (likely the minimum needed to keep selling new IPOs). Practically speaking, these aren't equities at all. They're debt notes with 1-15 year expiration, not convertible at term, and coupon rates of... "???"
  19. Willihammer
    Go to Fantex's website and get a quote on, say, Alshon Jeffrey. There are 800k outstanding shares but no volume at all. Once Fantex gets your money, you are stuck with an asset that guarantees no payouts and you can't sell. Its a scam.
  20. Willihammer
    On the investor. The player gets cash in hand, unlike the investor, who is guaranteed nothing as I understand it.
  21. Willihammer
    The man-made theory of warming is based on the earth's limited ability to capture and re-store greenhouse gases. It is true that man is resopnsible for a small portion of the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the problem is that the yearly output has for some time exceeded the earth's capacity to recapture and store these gases. So the effect has compounded since the industrial revolution to the point we are at now where global temperatures are increasing exponentially. I agree with the rest of your post. The sustainability movement has a lot of "feel good" aspects to it that are soft on facts and easily can be twisted for profit. I liken it to the organic food movement.
  22. Willihammer
    Looks like a scam, I would steer clear.
  23. Willihammer
    OK if the Twins have SubZero in right and Liu Kang in left, who (or what) is Santana?
  24. Willihammer
    Gritty pitch there Fiensy.
  25. Willihammer
    I think McCallister was just suprised Rosario swung at it. And hit it. Into fair territory.
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