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Are you talking about JAIrus Byrd and practice in the same sentence? Practice? Not a game. Practice?

JAIrus Byrd skipped the OTAs because of "final exams", then he signed a contract with a big bonus, then he had to have surgery just before his first practice. Practice? We're talking about practice? Not a game. Practice.

So Maybin is holding out because the guy picked before him has an inflated view of his own value? Maybin realizes this but decides to use it to his own benefit and get #6 money despite being #11 and he is somehow a victim of circumstance? Poor Maybin. If Crabtree gets paid more than the #5 or 6 pick should that guy try to re-negotiate? Will the planets soon see the light and start revolving around Crabtree?

Why does he need #10 to sign first? If this was the case then the last pick in the seventh round would have a long wait every year. Why can't he use other data points like #9 or 12 or 13 or 8? It is because he is hoping Crabtree gets top 5 money and he can piggy back from that. Blaming Crabtree and his agent is an absolute joke. He was the #11 pick. He does not deserve #6 money. Is it possible the Bills FO is the holdup? Sure. But blaming Crabtree is dumb to an almost Canadian level. Don't be suckered in by this. It is like believing JAIrus Byrd really wants to practice but first he had finals and now he all of a sudden needs an operation. The fact of the matter is some of these guys are not about football.

Right. He can't take the #6 and #16 numbers and figure something out? #7 and #15? #8 and #14? #9 and #13? He absolutely needs #10? Maybe he's like JAIrus Byrd and hates to practice. We're talking about practice man. Practice. Not a game. Practice.

IMO there is not any good answer here. Let's face it, these kids grow up feeling it is ok to steal music and other copyrighted materials. Why would they think that candy would be any different? It's not like the Whooper factory can't just stamp out a few more malted milk balls. You can't really do anything about it. If you called the cops the kid would end up more confused than rehabilitated. It is more of a problem with society than with any individual.

What kind of business are you in?

The elephant is the groom. What the heck is that supposed to mean?

If this was enforced evenly, 75% of Belgiums and people who visited Belgium would be in jail for life.

Dude this is getting ridiculous. Nineveh? I went the long way home in the Bently from a Bills game one time and I went through Nineveh. That place is a dump, no doubt. Put it this way, I couldn't wait to get to Binghamton. But how in the heck is a whale going to get to Nineveh? And I'm pretty sure the whole Binghamton area didn't exist during the Bible anyway.

Why do you think Tony Dungy was in Canton?

That is why I'm pretty sure you made this whole thing up. I don't remember the Bible suinng Pinnochio for any copyright issues. Now I'm sure you're way off. First, Miami did not exist yet when the Bible was written and secondly he would not have been sent there in a whale, he would have been sent on an innertube.

Dude the Bible ripped off Pinnochio for a story line? I doubt it. Where was God supposedly sending Jonah anyway? I only made one promise in the belly of the whale. I promised myself I'd phase out the frequent flier program. That thing must have cost billions. They used the spinning plate technology from my seafood restaurant idea to stabilize all the furntiture and stuff. I played a whole game of 9-ball while we were diving to the bottom of the big trench thing. Not one ball on that pool table even moved a bit. It did make it hard to play though because I did not have plates on my feet and I kept falling.

I don't get it.

Well that was some fishing trip. My attorney, Jimmy Spagnola, invited me on a one day deep sea fishing trip for winning the "last post wins more" thread. We were having a great time. I caught a couple of pretty small fish and we were about to get the bait for the big stuff. Jimmy went to get it. The next thing I know something hit me in the head. It felt like a wrench. I remember falling off my boat but I was a little groggy. When I fell into the ocean I saw Jimmy up on the third deck looking down. I was wondering how he would get down there to save me in time. He must have been thinking about that too because he wasn't moving at all. I think the fear had him cat toniced. The hit to the head impaired my swimming ability. I started getting thrown around in the water and thought I was a goner. The yacht had acutually turned away in its search for me. They must have not seen me for a while because they were too close. The thing almost hit me three times. Then along came a miracle. They say in life the nice things you do for people often come back to you. Thank God that is true for me. I do so many nice things for so many people, I should have realized I'd be fine. Anyway, one of the things I do for clients is allow them to collect "frequent flier" points. Usually they get something like a trip to Tahiti or a Skooby car but some of the real slutty women or desperate males can sometimes get bigger gifts. Anyway, these poor kids I code named the Jonah Brothers to keep their privacy have hired out some of the girls thousands of times. They are young, rich and have lots of free time. They don't look that smart but they must be because the combined their frequent flier points. Instead of three super Skooby cars, I was on the hook for a custom designed Googlebot vehicle of their choice. I checked the fine print about combining points and they had me by the short ones. This thing was expensive to build and I never thought even code name Ennifer Janiston would be slutty enough to compile that amount of points. Anyway, just as I was about to go under; their Googlebot vehicle of choice, a Googlebot whale, opened up and rescued me. At the time I thought I was being eaten. I wasn't too upset actually becuase I was out of swimming power and at least I had a chance being eaten by a whale. I remember the famous story about living in a whale. I'm pretty sure Pinnochio survived for weeks. As soon as I was in I realized this was no whale at all. The Googlebot went all out on this thing. It was sweet. It must have cost me a fortune. So for basically the next few weeks I cruised the oceans with the Jonah brothers and the gals they had procured. I just got home late last week. That was fun but when I arrived home things got disturbing. The first thing I saw was Jimmy running out the back screaming. I couldn't catch him or figure out why until I went into the house. There I saw my bloodied accountant Irwin trying to break into my safe. His right eye was beaten to a pulp as he has tried to use it on my security device over and over and over. I think the sheer sadness of losing me and the stark reality of Irwin's greed was too much for Jimmy. He snapped and fled. As for Irwin, he has some phony baloney crap about how he was worried and came to the house and then Jimmy beat him up or something. It is really disgraceful. I am torn on what to do about this. Irwin has made me a lot of money over the years and this is his first time trying to steal from me. I may let him off with a warning but he will first have to find Jimmy, apologize and bring him back. He is resisting this. Anyway, it is good to be back to normal.

Your list is pretty good up until the end. How could Lynch's suspension save him? He will still play in the preseason games and if they cut him they will cut him, suspension or not. Personally I think he is the best RB on the team and it would be a HUGE surprise if he were cut. HUGE. It doesn't make any sense. If Lynch gets cut, which I doubt, it will be because of his suspension, not in spite of it IMO. Otherwise a good list.

Jimmy Spagnola said he'd take the winner of this contest on a one day deep sea fishing trip today. I'll let you know what I catch. I'm glad I won because he has seemed a little mad at me lately and we'll get a good chance to talk. I told you the last post wins more.

Hey, you, get off of my clown.

Careful or Jimmy Spagnola will sue you.

Higher standards result in better sentence structure.

College kids. Smoking a lot of pot does not make you an organic chemistry whiz.

Pawned

bump

I win.

Wow there have been a lot of passionate statements made in this thread, but if we go back to the beginning and analyze the initial post, it is really hard to draw any conclusions about the systems themselves. How can you compare the American system to the Canadian? At first blush you would compare statistics and results of various types including medical and financial. That is overly simplistic and leaves out a lot of factors. For one, Americans do much of the world's medical research. The costs of this are built into our numbers and skew them. I seriously doubt Canadain research labs are doing anything too expensive. Studying the impact of how many extra teeth get knocked out if your hockey puck is 2 degrees colder is neither expensive nor meaningful. It is not expensive because they can just keep pucks outside to make them colder and it is not meaningful because there are very few teeth there for the knocking out in the first place. Meanwhile, Americans are studying the makeup of humans gene by gene. It is a joke to compare costs. The wait times in Canada on the other hand are probably overstated. Sure there is some waiting, but I'm sure a large part of that has to do with the patients. Three years to find a family doctor sounds unrealistic until you take into account how long it takes the average Canadian to fill out the form. Governments are known for long forms. Imagine the confusion. Americans also have to worry about too many doctors going into lucrative fields like plastic surgery. Think of how many miillions were made from Michael Jackson alone. And he is only one person. Why remove kidney stones in an emergency room if you can make more money continuously adding and removing boobs? To be a plastic surgeon in Canada would be difficult due to citizens lack of resources and the sheer uphill battle. Can you imagine being a plastic surgeon in Canada and having any hope of ever completing a job even on a rich Canadian? Think of the work involved if Celine Dion, the ultimate Canadian sex symbol, walked into your office and said: I want to look like an average American. Where would you begin? Over time, how could you not becaome depressed? If we going to look at changing our health care system, we should analyze the choices on their own merits. Comparisons like this are wasted time.