I was busting your balls (presently in your wife's purse?) for the SUV comment. Nice to see that she's got you begging for mercy ;)

I can see what you're getting at with respect to the BIG SUVs and FU $, but with a lot of these people, I'm not sure that they've ever considered why they want the car and how it affects the state of the environment and/or other people around them. It seems to me that there's a lot of the "follow the herd" mentality. I guess the exploitation of these large groups of people is where marketing is quite remarkable, in both good and bad ways.

For example, assuming your wife insists on having a SUV for safety and hauling kids around, she's probably going to be safer and have more interior room for the kiddies in a volvo station wagon. SUVs have remarkably little interior room for how big they are. It's just that people have had it pounded in their heads that SUVs are safe and spacious despite plenty of data to the contrary.

Of course, the whole rationalization of which car would be best goes out the window when she says "because I want it" or "because I said so". This, I completely understand.

i imagine colin thinks magglio is an injury/decline risk, due to the past and/or his age.

we're also playing the odds. who is more likely to miss significant time for their team: guys who are older/have injury histories like sheffield, ordonez, rodriguez, and guillen or guys who are younger/have little to no injury history like hafner, martinez, and sizemore? it's pretty obvious that the expected amount of missed time is higher for the tigers. the likelihood of significant time missed is also higher for the tigers.