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The reason why this is particularly disappointing is that even though we had no love for Turk, there was room for us to be wrong. That maybe people on the inside know more about the situation than us on the outside. Therefore you can sometimes accept that an organization goes forth with purpose and determination that is contrary to the wishes of the fans. They are the professionals. But when you do this 10 days before the season, you can see for a fact that the rodeo clowns are out in full force and there is no deeper understanding of this organization from within OBD than there is from mom's basement in Indiana.

Cancer or not - at least he'll keep me laughing this season.

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every 7-9 team can say that though...

Does it make you angry that other people in this world chose to be "optimists" when it comes to their entertainment?

The problem with the "Ralph is cheap" line of thinking is that you can point to several big spenders across the league and see similar results. So, if spending more money doesn't automatically equate to better results, then it is reasonable not to go down that road. I think the problem is that he, just like countless other owners, haven't historically chosen the best people to run the team.

Hammer has been very good to us over the years. While some may have their own deal - I encourage the TBD community to give back to the people who have been good to us... With that said, I just sent messages to the people I know who are going about your deal Hammer.

my take on it is that was last year's deal and this year they are looking to improve it. Maybe the website hasn't been updated yet? Or maybe they don't want to put it in writing, or else someone will complain that 1:05 minutes after the game they want a full refund.

Most cable, Dish, and FIOS customers will be getting the Red Zone channel this year too...

The standard is offensive to a "reasonable person"... Sorry!

there's probably a five hole joke in their somewhere...

haha, no clothes line... My dryer is broken and FedEx delivered the part to the wrong house. Anyway, sometimes I dry my hockey jerseys out on the deck and I put my shower towel out their too (I play in a men's league). Damn, I'm WAY to soft to be drying with that piece of 100 grit.

it's like a sheet of cardboard?

not yet. whenever I bite the bullet and upgrade (a 10 hour process minimum) then we'll have something similar to SS.

it could possibly be done for certain sites with a bit of coding. Of course it becomes a PIA when they change their URL structure, but maybe that's the price of doing business.

to be honest, that will probably never come in the way you want it. RSS feeds are a way to syndicate your content. Well, if we just give everyone a way to bypass our site to go straight to someone else's - what's the purpose? Someone could make their own "TBD" and and never do anything, but setup an RSS feed parser.

I could use some suggestions on what links you would like easy access to on the links page. Serious suggestions only, please don't waste my time checking this thread for the comedy hour...

It still has a long way to go to include some stuff, but the basics are there. The "Links" link is not functional right now. http://www.twobillsdrive.com/mobile/ soon to be: http://m.twobillsdrive.com/

it ok, I got it. It was just a config line or two in Apache...

for the life of me I can't remember what version of mysql we were running. grrrr.... it might be a 5.0 vs. 5.1 issue.

look at Jay's name in the pinned golfing thread.

gotta get some sleep. Those black squares you see scattered around the site is some sort of character encoding issue that changed upon the OS install. I don't know the issue yet...

Elkridge, as a whole, is an old community and quite frankly is a bit of an armpit along the old route 1 corridor. I am on the western tip of Elkridge away from that scene. Most people would think we are Ellicott City. I'm only 1 mile from both EC and Columbia. My area has the nice feel of EC w/o the price penalty of being officially in the zip code. Schools are funny in HC. Some are nice, some not so much, some have a great rep like Centennial HS, but have so much money that drugs are 1000x worse there. We love Rockburn Elementary and and Grace Episcopal Church childcare is outstanding. We are always under the threat of redistricting because MD, as a whole, is very transient, so the child density in any one area fluctuates quite a bit. Unemployment in the county has been about 2% or so, but may have climbed to 4-5% in recent months.

did they wrap their cans of soda in tin foil?

Nothing wrong with moving the chains. The problem is they aren't even doing that...