I have stated on this board his ass should be in Des Moines. It is like the treat him as a fucking veteran who has earned something. I appreciate what he has done in the postseason but for fuck sakes he is killing this team now. If he cannot hit he is worthless.

Heyward is the highest paid Cub of all time, he was in year one of a multi year deal last year n he plays GG defense... Schwarber is making 505k and he's a fuckin butcher in the field. Easy decision on Kyle

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Yet they won't make it.

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Elections have consequences.

I think you missed the point, Bob. Contact is a Christian propaganda film.

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I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

Written by Carl Sagan?

I thought the whole point of the extraterrestrial taking the form of her father was to make communication easier...but it's been a while since I've seen it and even longer since I read the book.

In the book, Sagan did kind of hint at a version of intelligent design, where if you took Pi to like the trillionth digit, it became a series of 1s and 0s and was a hidden message waiting for humans (or whoever) to become sophisticated enough to decipher.

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Every single reply to a Caller Bob post should start out this way.

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So was it fair to question Schwarber coming off injury yet? Caller Bob and 312player can you confirm?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

That probably wasn't Sagan's intention, but the screenplay supported the Christian viewpoint of McConaughey's crazy preacher, didn't it?

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

no

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

That's how it came off to me. At the very least there was the suggestion of a higher power.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

I've watched him in person the last three days. He needs a Heyward-like overhaul, but to get more line drives and less high flies.

They really don't need him on the 25-man this year, they proved that LAST year. Send him down and let LaStella rot on the major league bench.

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i made that joke about 3 pages back and it bombed

I keep my contacts in plexiglass cases.

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Flapjacks, the topic is Schwarber and/or the awful movie Contact. Don't derail the thread.

The suggestion was presented and dismissed. The alien interaction scene confirms that the higher power is not an immortal.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Schwarber's 5th among NL outfielders in all star voting on MLB.com

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Seems low.

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White Sox are last on the list of MLB teams anyone cares about.

Sounds like you're still angry about finding out they're the most popular team in Chicago

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Evidence-based thinking wins out in this story, though McConaughey is presented as a relatively chill preacher.

About Sagan at his deathbed, Sagan's (hot) wife said that he knew he was saying goodbye forever (i.e., no heaven).

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I could not be happier about the Chicago Bears....I am a Miami Dolphin fan. As baseball goes please tell yourself over and over the Sox are more popular. It may help you sleep at night.

I think Schwarber could hit 50.2 home runs per season while batting .100.

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You know me like that.

I think it's a pro-faith message.

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

You think a movie where:

1. The majority ifnot all of the protesters against the embracing of alien life are portrayed as religious based; and

2. In one of the climactic scenes a christian evangelical commits an act of domestic terrorism that murders dozens of people and destroys property that belongs to the US government and a consortium of other governments; and

3. The only faith based character with protagonistic qualities is so committed to his faith that he can't become an ordained man of the cloth because he likes fucking chicks too much (who can blame him.)

has a pro-faith bases message you probably think that Titanic has a pro-iceberg message.

Those are just clear examples.

The John Hurt character, a clear protagonist, Haddon, he's about to die, he's terminal. Literally he's about to have a "coming to Jesus moment" for people of faith. What is he doing with his life? He's building the structure that everyone of faith based messages are condemning. Also, he needs a miracle cure to survive. Is he praying for a miracle, using the powers of faith? Nope, he's using his money to hang out in a space station with some Russians. He's really embraced spirituality.

That is the faith. Faith that man should trust some plans from out of the sky. The message is a little more subtle than a hillbilly with a huge crucifix around his neck screaming against science.

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

Uh, the plans didn't come out of the sky, they came from extra terrestrial life. People can debate whether non-earth based intelligent life would be friendly or not, but that has little or nothing to do with Christianity.

And where is "extraterrestrial life"? Under the sea? Isn't "God" extraterrestrial? Or does he live in your basement?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

The ending was just Jodie Foster's first orgasm.

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oh, ok--in a larger way, yes. stories are recycled, definitely, especially the ending from the heavens. Contact offered very little that was new in narrative. but in an even larger way, it's sentimental: "you humans are an interesting species," the alien says. ugghh!!!

i guess there's a reason why sagan wasn't a novelist. fantastic non-fiction writer, though. hot second wife, too.

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Just heard on Kap that there's a report out there that Schwarber was seen leaving with his own bats indicating he may be headed to the minors . If true , I guess it's no longer early.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.