M's part company with Baldwin, Creek

Relevant part I want to comment on. “The Mariners had been interested in slugging outfielder Cliff Floyd, but after the arrival of Randy Winn from Tampa Bay, general manager Pat Gillick said there is no interest in the free agent. “I don't think Floyd is on our radar screen,” he said. “I don't think he figures for us.”"

Excuse me? Come again? Let's look at that for a second.
(BA/OBP/SLG/OPS)
2002:
Winn: .298 .360 .461 .821
Floyd: .288 .388 .533 .920

Career:
Winn: .279 .342 .400 .742
Floyd: .284 .361 .494 .855

Gillick so should have retired rather than come back. That's just a fuckin retarded statement to make. Winn isn't even as good as Garret the Piker Anderson, ferpetessake (although it's close). Yeesh.

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Namibia wisely spurns M$ 'gift' in favor of Linux

Boy, when those dudes and dudettes in Redmond try and get sneaky vis a vis Namibia, you know they have no soul.

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Office 11 won't run on Win9x, says MS

Sweet! I'll officially be a MS luddite at that point. They better hope some compelling games come out that are XP or 2k only, because otherwise? They're not getting a cent from me. Well, their hardware division might. Definitely no software, though.

The funny part? The reason they are using is security. Security! BWA!

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Mac O'Lanterns Light Up Halloween

These are cool. Would require a hell of a lot of manual dexterity, though.

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Jam Master Jay Shot Dead

Wow. I always thought he was the good lookin one in the group, the silent-but-powerful type. I wonder what the real story was. Given our media culture, perhaps we'll find out.

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Brussels to spend ?250k on Linux migration study

“netproject has been hired by the Commission to draw up guidelines on a move to open source technologies and to help define EU IT strategy on desktop computing. The German state of Mecklenburg-Pomerania
is to be used as a test bed in defining this strategy, which goes beyond the investigation of a switch between Windows and Linux PCs.” dum dum DUMMMMmmmmm. Ask not for whom the bell tolls…

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Simpson and Lachey Wed

From the I? Could Not Care Less files, but I like my pop culture icon.

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Neohawks: Leftists Who Love the War Too Much

Good article with good points. I didn't know Dan Savage had become a proponent of the “war.” Funk him.

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Consumer Confidence Plunged to 9-Year Low

Great, just what I need to hear: hey, it's a true recession, at least in the minds of consumers. Who, it turns out, are the real wheel that drives this economy. I ain't never getting a job. *sigh*

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The Top Ten Conservative Idiots (No. 89)

If it's not too redundant to use “Conservative” and “Idiot” in the same sentence… Anyway, here's week 89.

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It's Officially Winn for Piniella (and Perez)… making the M's big losers

They gave them Antonio Perez too?! Great negotiating there, Gillick. I hope they turn Winn into a couple good prospects now, because they absolutely don't need him. Perez too? Perez too?!? Ye gods.

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Taking Liberties With the Truth

Finally, someone taking duhbya to task for his lies. We'll get around to his stupidity, hypocrisy, greed, and complete lack of self-awareness later. Yeah, yeah, I know it's a week late, but I didn't want to jump on the bloggersmustlinknow bandwagon.

Of course, Dana Milbank (the author) has since been blacklisted by the administration.

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Essex County's Top Official Arrested on Corruption Charges

What, no RICO indictment? I've been watching too much Sopranos… but it all just rings of the don of NJ, doesn't it?

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Prof. resigns; faulty gun research cited

There's really no excuse for fabricating data to support you thesis. Shame on all the anti-gun people who relaxed their editing and fact-checking standards on Bellesiles' piece, simply because his thesis agreed with their points of views.

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Smith Becomes NFL Rushing Leader

It's the end of one record, and the birth of a new. Quite fortuitous timing, what with coming up agains the Seahawks, who have the league's worst run defense, and at home to boot. Hooray for the Seahawks! They're the greatest doormats history has ever seen.

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