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Carl Spackler

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  1. As a Cubs fan, let me just say that no Cubs lead is safe with Chicago's bullpen. None. Nada.
  2. I have to laugh because it's Boone getting run. OTOH, it's pretty alarming when Wendelstedt can say "I don't care who it was" and he knows there likely won't be any repercussions for him.
  3. Better warn him that it could be, uh, malodorous while he's there . . .
  4. Why does he hate his family?
  5. I do not understand how Drew Smyly remains in the bigs. Sweartogod he gives up a dinger almost every time he pitches.
  6. Got a recommendation from that brand? My local place often has several types of Vago in stock, but I have no clue which one offers the most bang for the buck.
  7. Ilegal Joven is literally the only bottle of mezcal I've ever purchased. It's definitely smoky, but because I have never had any other mezcal, I cannot say whether it is more or less smoky than most other brands. I don't dislike the Ilegal, but I have to be in a mood for something smoky in order to drink it.
  8. Mark Leiter of the Cubs gets 3 outs on 2 piches. That's pretty efficient.
  9. Carl Spackler

    Bob Seger

    I gotta go with Skynyrd's cover of Call Me The Breeze, but Get Out Of Denver is really, really good, too.
  10. Those Buck 110s are burly. I've got one, but I don't carry it too often in part because of the weight. My mother-in-law gifted me the Schrade Uncle Henry that her second husband carried for years before he passed away. It's a USA-made Schrade (prior to 2004) and is about the same damn knife as the Buck except the pins are flush with the handle, the blade shape is a little different, and the steel is 440A instead of the Buck's 420C. I love messing around with both of those knives.
  11. The failure to seek a change in venue from downtown LA to Santa Monica was a monumental blunder. The difference between the downtown LA juror pool and the Santa Monica juror pool is enormous. I'm not prepared to say it was the only reason for the acquittal, but it was absolutely a huge blunder by Garcetti. Police screw-ups and Fuhrmann's use of the N word certainly didn't help, but it would have been far easier for the prosecution to overcome those obstacles in Santa Monica. You say "[t]he jury would not have unanimously found him innocent anywhere in the country if not for the police screw ups." I can think of lots of places in this country where a jury very likely would have found Simpson guilty notwithstanding the issues with the police handling of the investigation -- Simi Valley, for one. (BTW, criminal defendants are not found "innocent." In general, there are two possible verdicts in criminal cases -- guilty or not guilty. Depending on the jurisdiction, there might be other options like "not guilty by reason of insanity" or "not proven." But "innocent" is not a possible verdict in a criminal trial.")
  12. No. He claimed he had injured his hand previously (he could not recall how/where when interviewed) and then re-opened the cut when he was in Chicago after he broke a glass in "anguish" over the news about his wife's death. He was in Chicago for some corporate golf outing for Hertz. That's what you may have been thinking of. Bugliosi wrote a whole book on how the Simpson prosecution screwed up. It's called "Outrage." Suffice to say that if Bugliosi had been prosecuting the case, the outsome would have been different.
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