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>> take the bat out of the greatest hitters hand in baseball. i mean, thats -- that is as unimaginable as having like a $200 million payroll and limping into september and bringing up pitchers from catholic high school. >> the memories, he won you two world series -- >> come on. hey, im theo, im smarter than everybody in baseball. come on! bill simmons wrote it, how can you watch nesn every night of the year, which mike knows, watching nesn, watching these games night in and night out and come s...

Basically smuggle tobacco in here or drugs. they can light it off of that. >> disciplinary action is given to the inmates that are caught with illegal items. >> what well do is like these guys that have razor blades on their bunk, ask somebody, yeah, it was mine. okay. we write an incident form out and we send them to our adjustment center down in the 900 building. >> for 37-year-old inmate terry scranton the dorm search is just part of being a prisoner. >> well, actually, it dont feel too well ...

Well, thats a book marker, leave it. if we werent looking for things, we wouldnt find it. >> like a game of chess, inmates try to outwit the deputies by finding new and different ways to break the rules. >> yeah, they pulled the caps off the lights to expose the wiring. what they do is they basically hotwire it, get a little spark, and light stuff on fire. they can either get -- they basically smuggle tobacco in here or drugs. they can light it off of that. >> disciplinary action is given to the...

Want to waste time and energy on such small potatoes as unemployment benefits and waiting for their major plan to cut the defense budget from 800 billion to 500 billion per year. still waiting. carl writes, nobody wants people to go hungry, but the anecdotal evidence is that people with six mons unemployment coming dont run out the door, but look at it as a breathe r and why not take advantage of a program they have paid into and then with a month or two left, they look in earnest. and larry s...

Earthquake in chile and last months devastating earthquake, of course, in haiti but there are -- but there have been so many this year already. take a look at all the earthquakes from the last 30 days. look at those dots. theyre everywhere including -- look at all of them in the united states. is there something behind all this recent seismic activity or are we just simply better at keeping track of these things? >> well, lets ask somebody who knows all about it. science expert and professor of ...

Like you can start with for instance lets ask somebody whos responsible for being in the room when it was time to go to the rose garden with the president. because the president announces momentous events. >> glorious events. >> thats the presidents trophy case. who, nicole would have a president of the united states go out to the rose garden with a father who told his son to follow his conscience of deserting fellow troops in battle at one of the most dangerous outposts in afghanistan. we have ...