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And barnden donnelly is the only current red sox player listed and the sox just non-tendered him... so he doesn't even play for the sox anymore....
Eric Gagne is a Red Sox player. They might have traded him after the season was over, I'm not sure. But he sure played (like shit) in 2007.
If you look at the report, you'll notice that the Sox are not the only team that does not currently have a player mentioned in it. There are, I believe, two people that Mitchell talked to, in the presence of federal agents. Their information is limited to the teams they worked with.
Another thing, the Red Sox new management is very observant about steroid use. IF you read the parts about Gagne and Donnelly, you will see that it is noted that Theo Epstein, the GM, was very concerned about whether or not the two were still on the juice, and questioned the people who worked around them when they traded for both. Considering that both pitchers sucked, especially Gagne, while playing for the Red Sox, it can be assumed that they were forced to stop the steroid use once coming to Boston.
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This is for you Ferm666
Can I just say that this is perfect timing? I'm playing through Bioshock again on the new TV and it's abso-fucking-lutely amazing and beautiful, and just as awesome as it was the first time around...well, almost as awesome because now I know all the twists and everything. I am playing on easy to get some of the harder achievements and find every nook and cranny that I may have missed. It is one of the best games I have ever played since I started gaming in 1986. Oh, and if you sign onto X-Box Live you can download four new plasmids for Bioshock when you go to that game in the Marketplace, and they are totally free.
Where did you find that sign and what was it made for? I want it.
On the Halo 3 note, the game is still pretty fun, but it does get repetitive. The graphics are fucking incredible and the level design is amazing, one scene later in the game has you looking over this half-circle waterfall that is breath-taking. Still, there is a huge section where you have to fight the Flood in this ship they took over that is far too long and aggravating. Then, right after that you think that they're all over and dead, but you have to do this whole thing where you run through the snow and try to get to the top of a building where like, 50 billion Flood dudes start dropping from the sky and killing you. I'm playing on the Normal setting and it's fucking impossible, I gave up after like six tries. I call total shenanigans.
When I exchanged the 360 at BB I got 50 dollars credit, which I put towards the new replacement plan, and the two games that got packaged with the new model, as well as the new HDMI port that makes all the difference. So one of the games is Forza 2, and my friend and I were trying to play it and it fucking sucks, man. It's impossible to get the cars to drive right, especially the class-D cars. It's a complete joy-killer, and what makes it worse is that the car selection is so awesome, yet they all suck once you play the game. No fun at all, certainly not as fun as Flatout: Ultimate Carnage. No wonder they give it away for free. Still haven't tried Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, but I am sure it will be fun because I liked the Legends games.
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That's because he is guilty.
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I'm reading through the list and there are several other players who have played for the Red Sox or have just been traded.
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Mo Vaughn also played for the Red Sox and was a big star here.
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Gagne plays for the Red Sox right now and Clemens started his career and broke many of his records in Boston. He played for the Red Sox for 13 seasons. So you're wrong, unless you are talking about the OTHER Sox, the White Sox.
Or the Black Sox, but there was no steroid usage back then.
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I was gonna be amazed if I was the only one with this perspective. In all honesty, I do not give a fuck if he used steroids.
Did it impact my life negatively? No.
Did I feel pressure to use steroids? No.
Did I think that if I were to be useful in the clubhouse I would need to perform beyond my already stellar statistics? Particularly when I am slated to be the poster child of baseball (My godfather is Willie Mays for christ sake). Oh shit, I don't play professional baseball.
Was my appreciation of the sport of baseball ruined by someone performing a task well beyond my capabilities regardless of the help it took to get them there? No.
Fuck off everyone.
We accept the modification of perspective all the time through prescription drugs, yet when someone chooses to modify themselves to entertain us as a public we get upset? We should be so fucking happy that people think so little of themselves as to be our puppets of entertainment.
Stop sucking your own dick and recognize that barry bonds has done what no one else has, namely exactly what he has done.
You got it all wrong, man. Using steroids is against the rules of the MLB, first of all. It has nothing to do with you, and everything to do with the rules of the game.
Second of all, prescription drugs are not used to enhance a person, when prescribed responsibly, as opposed to steroids which are secretly prescribed to athletes to enhance their performance. Prescription medication is used to help those that are deficient in some manner, to help people who have chronic pain, and/or to help people who have mental disorders and illnesses. Prescribing Lithium to someone who is bipolar is hardly the same as Barry Bonds using steroids to cheat at baseball. It is a game based on natural abilities, and if you don't have those abilities then you lose. He couldn't accept this, so he cheated.
Life, on the other hand, is not a game, and people with mental illnesses or physical deficiencies can die if they do not have their medication. You need to take a better look at the situation and what you are saying about it.
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on the huge importance that's placed on sports, i think it's because if you don't have much going on in your own life, like most of us americans, you kind of diversify or whatever and get your jollies indirectly, through others.
Or it's because you truly enjoy watching and following sports. It is a game, after all, and games are meant to be enjoyable. It has nothing to do with how much of a life you do or don't have. Look at Steven King, one of the greatest novelists of all time and often compared to Dickens (it is true), and he is a die-hard Red Sox fan who goes to a lot of games every season, they always show him on the TV sitting up front in the good seats with his "B" hat on. He even wrote a whole book about a girl who fantasizes that Tom Gordon, a former Red Sox pitcher, is with her as she's dying in the woods, or some such shit. If you don't like sports then fine, but that doesn't mean that everyone who does doesn't have a life or is an idiot or is just wasting their time. It's one of the pleasures of life.
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but like seriously what did mark ecko do to you guys that so personally makes you hate him?
was it because of his bastardization of a culture that you people have abso-fucking-lutely no ties to its beginning?
was it because he brought "graffiti to the mainstream" like it has been since the late 80s?
Ask Raven, he'll tell you.
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Idiocy. How many of you are environmental scientists? None of you. Especially not you, casek. More stupidity from you, as usual (to use your words, asshole). Almost every scientist who denies global warming, and there are very few, are tainted by oil money. Idiots like you (using your language, again) think it's some big conspiracy to control the masses, but you don't see the actual, glaring conspiracy on the other side, the one that denies global warming so that the oil industry can continue to make immense profits.
But you are a moron, and one of the most uneducated people I've ever talked to. So you buy into whatever conspiracy you can find, and you switch between them like cable TV channels. Your latest kick is right-wing paranoia, but soon you will get bored of that and find a new fringe group to promote. I'm glad I've kept you on ignore all this time, and believe me I will not be re-visiting this thread to look at whatever, idiotic, untrue, and insulting response you might have. Especially since you almost always respond by calling people a faggot and so forth, because you have no creativity and you have no debating skills and you have very little independent thought, relying instead on fringe trends and conspiracy theories to do your thinking. You've put all your trust into a TV personality, a weatherman, NOT an environmental scientist, and have used his silly little rant to try and prove to us that the argument is now over. The evidence is now conclusive! A TV news personality has explained it all! Look, he is a founder of a cable television station, he MUST be an expert!
You rely solely on the internet for information, perhaps the largest flaw in your misinformed mind. Idiocy, pure idiocy. Goodbye, asshole.
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Dude, I know it's old, I follow this stuff closely as well. Some dudes even have mind-controlled hardware on Second Life.
The point is, it's gonna be on toys now. All scary technology eventually trickles down to the consumer.
Yeah, it's nuts. Imagine our kids, they will grow up with mind-controlled toys being the norm.
Aside from military technology, it has also been used in the medical industry for those who have been paralyzed, in order for them to communicate through computers. The was some hour-long special on The Science Channel last year that talked a lot about that. There was another kid who I think fell off a roof or got into a car wreck cause he was drunk, and is now brain-damaged, and this scientist developed a synthesizer that the kid can use with his mind. I wouldn't be surprised if in ten to fifteen years we will be able to experience true VR, jacking an implant into cyberspace.
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COD4 by far.
Halo 3 is definately overrated. If you played a lot of Halo 2, then you'll get tired of it pretty quick.
See, I never had X-Box so I never played the first two Halo games in single-player, just a few one-on-ones at my friend's house. /nohomo
So this being my first time playing the series, I'm really enjoying Halo 3 now that I've gotten used to the whole concept of having to use cover. Took me a little while since I'm a run-and-gun type of player. I would say, even if you played the first two and are a bit tired of them, part 3 would be worth picking up just because it looks so goddamn'd pretty, especially in 1080p. You might want to wait until it drops in price or get it used, though, because from what I've heard it doesn't offer much new other than the incredible graphics and new levels. Even the weapons are the same, for the most part. And I believe the enemies are the same, too, though I haven't really played the other games in single player.
COD4 will be the game I will get over the break, and I will play the bejesus out of it.
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Well I'm alot older than you and believe me when I tell you there's been dumb broads forever. And bitches that play dumb to get attention. Long before Paris Hilton came along.
You must be blind if you haven;t noticed the change in how fourteen year old girls dress over the years.
Good night.
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LMAO!!!
Paris Hilton uses her bimboness as a form of self expression. Same difference.
No, because what she does is not art. It is decadence.
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It's more hilarious when that person thinks that everything is hilarious and everything is just shits and giggles all the time. I just can't get that way anymore.
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Paris Hilton is just a dumb broad. Dumb broads are a dime a dosen. With or without Paris Hilton in the lime light.
If you think people actually try to emulate Paris hilton then you're a fucking idiot.
Also, she was only convicted of DUI and driving without a license. Not raping babies. What's your hardon with this broad?
I have no hardon on this broad, she's got a head like an alien and she's a fucking vapid cunt. Just turn on MTV for five minutes and you can see the havoc she has wrecked on culture. I go to college now, after being out of school for five years, and I'm surrounded by 18-year-olds that worship the bitch. So no, I'm not a fucking idiot at all.
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yea there are a lot of kids who base their whole life around pot
but they oculd be doing far worse things
True, but once I started hanging out only with potheads, things became so goddamn'd boring after a while. All that would happen was that we would sit around and watch TV in silence. Plus I now get intense paranoid delusions whenever I smoke and aside from the body-high, it is not enjoyable in any way (yet I still smoke occasionally). My girlfriend smokes pretty much every day, and while sometimes it pisses me off because it makes her too lazy to do chores, she works at least 50 hours a week and it doesn't seem to affect her all the much.
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The 10 minutes of an episode I watched had them wearing only speedos trying to make each other get boners. I turned it off and will never watch it again.
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But if it has an HDMI port and will upscale 720p games, wouldn't it upscale DVDs, too?
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bullshit.
who does a drug because a celebrity did it?
most people will tell you the reason they did the drug was to get HIGH
edit: i belive thats the fucking main reason why people use drugs right??
Are you kidding? Of course they use it to get high, but seeing other people get high is what wants to make them get high. Especially if that person is some rich, successful celebrity. I'm not saying this is the case with all people, but you are ignorant if you do not think that people are influenced to use drugs by other people, or that peer pressure is just a myth. I myself have convinced many people to get stoned, literally begged them to smoke pot with me when I was a teenager, and they did.
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oh please, so i guess everybody who listens to black metal goes out and burns churches??
people who can't own up to their own actions piss me off.
That is completely different. Black Metal bands and Ozzy Osbourne use their music as a way of self-expression. Completely different.
And I do think that far too many kids are smoking pot like there is no tomorrow. There are a lot that can handle it and go about their daily business and be useful to society, but too many just sit around and smoke all day and do nothing, and just want to be rappers.
What is really troubling is that the politicians, the people who run our country, get off scot-free for far worse crimes.
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ok, anybody who tries to say that they were "influenced" by someone else to do drugs is a fucking piece of shit
people should just owe up to their own actions. nobody tied you off, and put that needle in your arm
Are you trying to tell me that rich, spoiled, stupid sluts like Paris Hilton have not influenced a huge amount of the youngest generation to become stupid, spoiled sluts? Because that is just not the case. And tons of people get influenced to do drugs. Tons. They just don't want to admit it because they have too much pride.
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So I bought a 40-inch Samsung HDTV today, 1080p, and it is absolutely mind-blowing. I played Halo3 single-player for like, 4 hours straight. I didn't like the game the first time I played it, but now that I've figured out that you need to use cover a lot, it has become strangely much more fun. It looks absolutely mind-blowing at 1080p with HDMI cables.
I got the X-Box 360 with the HDMI ports by exchanging it at Best Buy with my replacement plan. I lied to them and told them that I got the RROD and I was having DVD-Drive problems, and they didn't even test it. Plus, I got to keep my old HD so I didn't lose any of the saved games (except strangely the Halo3 game was missing). Even better, because of the price-drop and the bundle, I got two free games and a 50-dollar credit which I then used to buy another replacement plan in case it dies on me like the other ones did. It's shitty that the HDMI cable costs 50 bucks, though. Do you HAVE to use the official Microsoft cable or can I buy a regular HDMI cable and use it? Cause there's an independant electronic supply company here called "You-Do-It Electronics" that sells all sorts of electronics parts for contractors and such, and they sell HDMI cables for 35 bucks. This way, I can return the HDMI cable to Best-Buy and use the 15 extra bucks towards COD4.
Also, is there really a picture and sound-quality difference between say, the 35 dollar no-name cable and the 120 dollar HDMI cable? Forget the Monster brand because I refuse to support their shitty, immoral company, but there are many other more expensive HDMI cables. If the only difference is that they will still work after the Armageddon, then I don't give a shit, it's not worth it.
I can't wait until more HD channels are added to cable, especially when all the channels will supposedly go HD in February of 2009. The difference is so outstanding.
Also, does anyone know if the 360 upscales DVDs? I would hate to buy one of those up-scalers, because that's an extra 200 bucks right there. I will not buy Blu-Ray or HD-DVD until both their selection expands to that similar to regular DVDs and until one of them finally becomes the winning format. And until the prices drop significantly.
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I got stuck on that part where you're underground tryin to defuse the bombs, but it's like a fucking brick wall I can't beat it. Does it even make sense to restart the game so I have an easier time or what? Any more tips would be cool, I hella want to beat this fucker ...
You have to use a combination of the motorcycle or convertible outside the garage, then drive it it to the truck at the north part of the garage, then get in that, because it is the most durable, and start collecting the bombs, if you have to, pick up the Lexis-like car at the Paradise Plaza entrance to finish it. And avoid the zombies carrying propane tanks at all costs.
A good way to practice is to get the achievement where you have to kill something like 5,300 zombies. It takes about four hours and basically you have to get the truck, drive it in a loop to the car in paradise plaza, drive that back to the truck, then quickly go into the butcher room and go back out and the truck and car respawn and repeat the process, using the zombie propane tanks to take out as many as possible. It can get repetitive, but it is also gruesomely fun and as long as you then let the remaining time run out and get an ending, any ending to the game you will get the megaman gun that spawns in the utility room and has 300 shots. It kills everyone in one shot, all bosses in three or four shots max, and the special ops in two shots, and makes the game so much easier. Especially cause you can use it to take out the convicts that annoyingly respawn in the outdoor part in one shot each.
Another tip, and this is important, is to kill the clown at the beginning. You kill him by keeping your distance from him and waiting till he blows up a balloon, then pop it while he is doing it and he will become stunned for several seconds and lay into him with machine gun fire. You then get the mini-chainsaw that respawns every time you enter that area so you can carry as many as you want. It doesn't drop out of your hands like the regular chainsaw, and it lasts a while and kills fuckloads of zombies, great for big crowds. Be sure to get the hardware/mechanics book, the sword weaponry, and I believe the one other book that will make it last three times as long as it normally does. You are basically unstoppable with that, especially if you get the Megaman gun.
Just be careful not to swing it around when you are escorting survivors, because one hit will take away like half of their life. Use bats and pipes with the hardware book when you are escorting survivors, because they are common weapons and great for their accuracy and crowd-control.
I am a master of this game. I have gotten every achievement possible except for two, one is the the "last 5 days in survivor mode" and the other is "last seven days in survivor mode". Respectively, they take 10 and 14 hours of non-stop gaming to achieve and I just don't have the time for that, plus the game likes to crash a lot after a couple of hours of play. The 5-day one nets you a cool, real lightsaber, which I want, but the 7-day one only gets you the heart boxers from Ghosts and Goblins.
Among the 48 achievements I've gotten were to save at least 50 survivors (it is only possible to save either 52 or 53, which I have done), escorting eight survivors at a time, and escorting eight female survivors at a time. I have played through the game dozens of times, and unlike other games, when you get an achievement you always get a cool reward. I love the game to death, and it was my obsession for a straight month. I know every trick. One of my favorite games ever.
Clemens, Gagne, Pettit, Tejada!
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What a load of bullshit. If baseball is boring, then don't watch it. There are millions of us who love the game, every aspect of it, and hate the fact that it has been tarnished by illegal steroid use. It is a game about natural abilities, just like every other sport, NOT about unnatural abilities. The beauty of sports is when a player has so much natural ability that they excel above others in sports. It is what makes those of us tear up when we hear Lou Gehrigs' retirement speech and what makes us remember Willie Mays' over-the-shoulders catch more than any other catch. It's what made names like Ted Williams, Babe Ruth, Cy Young, Joe DiMaggio, and Hank Aaron house-hold names.
What you want is to cheapen the sport so that it amounts to a bunch of people shooting up drugs to hit home runs. That is what is truly boring, and pathetic.