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Well here we go with a baseball thread for all. I have some opening thoughts, but everyone feel free to chime in. Pitchers and catchers in two days.
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Nov 21, 2009 12:39 AM
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Let's see if Massa gets to win a race next year.
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Nov 21, 2009 12:38 AM
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> why would button sign for $10 mil for three years
> when midling drivers like massa get over $16 million
> per year?
Button signed for $18 million over three years.
Button signed with McClaren because he was tipped by Norbert Haug that his services would not be needed at the new Mercedes Grand Prix team that was formerly Brawn GP. That being the case, Button signed for even less than he was being offered by Brawn before the Mercedes buy out.
Let me see if you can see the picture here: New Ferrari major sponsor, Santander, is paying Kimi's salary to not race at the Scuderia, they are also paying Fernando Alonso's salary. Santander is based in Spain and has been a long time supporter of Alonso. Santander was VERY unhappy with the way McClaren treated Alonso and ceased to be a McClaren sponsor. Are you seeing where this is heading? Massa will have to be content with getting a salary that he would not get anywhere else and drive in support of Alonso's drive for the championship.
BTW, Lewis Hamilton makes $11 million a year. Tell me with a straight face that Massa is better than Hamilton.
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Nov 19, 2009 8:54 PM
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why would button sign for $10 mil for three years when midling drivers like massa get over $16 million per year?
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Nov 18, 2009 9:45 PM
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Har!
Toyota didn't have a single winner in the IIHS top safety pick list. Subaru had 4 winners. Honda had 2. Lots of American cars made the list- Dodge, Chrysler, Buick, Ford.
IIHS safety winners
Camrys suck!
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Nov 18, 2009 2:48 PM
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Button officially at McClaren
Kimi out of Formula 1 for '10 season
Mercedes buys Brawn GP and renames it Mercedes Grand Prix.
Nick Heidfeld and Nico Rosberg the likely pairing at Mercedes GP
Timo Glock at the new Manor GP team
Luca Di Montezemolo steps down as head of the Formula One Teams Association (FOTA)
Renault needing 30 million Euros to continue the team, is looking for investors. Kubica close to signing with Renault, is going rally racing this weekend in a ....Renault rally car.
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Nov 12, 2009 9:42 AM
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>Hi Guy... are you still on a high from the series win?
Hey Kugs,
A little better than sex, but not as good as a stock market score.
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Nov 11, 2009 11:38 AM
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> > Derek, Andy and Jorge were on with Conan last
> week.
> > All dressed in suits and lookin' fine
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> > y DJ). I might have to switch allegiance!
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> > (I mean, let's talk about the important stuff!)
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> Maybe you could be Thursday Night's Light, Kugs.
Hi Guy... are you still on a high from the series win?
btw, I meant to say those guys were on Letterman. Even in suits, the Sox don't look that good!
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Nov 11, 2009 8:34 AM
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> Derek, Andy and Jorge were on with Conan last week.
> All dressed in suits and lookin' fine (especially
> y DJ). I might have to switch allegiance!
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> (I mean, let's talk about the important stuff!)
Maybe you could be Thursday Night's Light, Kugs.
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Nov 10, 2009 9:29 PM
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> if enough guys move over to 3rd like a-rod and young,
> for example, you'll eventually get down to him.
***Uh huh.
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Nov 10, 2009 9:13 PM
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Derek, Andy and Jorge were on with Conan last week. All dressed in suits and lookin' fine (especially DJ). I might have to switch allegiance!
(I mean, let's talk about the important stuff!)
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Nov 10, 2009 9:12 PM
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if enough guys move over to 3rd like a-rod and young, for example, you'll eventually get down to him.
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Nov 10, 2009 8:56 PM
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I don't know how the overrated Jeter won it...
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Nov 10, 2009 6:35 PM
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> The Captain wins the Gold Glove, Teixeira also.
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> Can't imagine how Mauer won it over Jorge.
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The Captain wins the Gold Glove, Teixeira also.
Can't imagine how Mauer won it over Jorge.
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'Track design to blame for lack of overtaking'
Tuesday 10th November 2009
Finally, someone is making sense as Williams' tech director Sam Michael admits it's not the cars, rather it's the tracks, that are preventing overtaking in F1.
This year's Championship saw a whole host of new regulations introduced governing the design of the cars in the hope that Formula One would see more overtaking.
But it didn't happen.
Instead, races turned into boring processions that even the lights, opulence and the longest straight in F1 at the season-ending Abu Dhabi GP could do nothing to rectify.
But it's not the cars that are at fault. Rather, Michael says, it's the design of the tracks.
"I think that clearly the (rule) changes made the cars easier to follow, however, there's a lot of work that still needs to be done," he said.
"One of the things that wasn't addressed in the 2009 rule changes was circuit design. If you look at tracks like Barcelona where no one overtakes and take exactly the same cars to tracks like Monza, Hockenheim etc, there's plenty of overtaking. The difference is circuit layout.
"Organisers need to look closer at creating slower speed corners which feed onto straights and at removing chicanes.
"If you look at somewhere like Abu Dhabi, there are some good aspects to the circuit, but there are fundamental mistakes. There wasn't good enough racing there and the organisers need to rectify that before next year.
"You can't keep blaming car design. The FIA are looking into this now and will hopefully solve the problem."
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