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QUOTE(Soxy @ May 31, 2006 -> 02:22 PM) Well, as long as you're sorry. Oh, I'm sorry all right.

Goldman Sachs is a bunch of smoke and mirrors, at least from my dealings with them. Believe me, they're just like any other "company".

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 30, 2006 -> 08:39 PM) The Ethics "problem" if we really want to focus on it would be the "Quid Pro Quo's" in Congress...i.e. a lobbyist offering something to try to convince a person to vote a certain way, and the person voting that way. So yes, given that the tickets seem to have failed to influence him, yeah, it probably was ethical. If I offered you $10,000 and didn't ask you to do anything at all, would it be ethical for you to accept the $? (Assume that it's not laundered money or anything like that.) Hand it over and I'll tell you. Seriously, I don't disagree, however, I do think that this could influence something that is perhaps NOT related to said bill. If you KEEP giving me $10,000, I might just be more influenced to vote your way. It's a slippery slope. My point is, (surprise!!!) they all do it.

QUOTE(Palehosefan @ May 30, 2006 -> 04:37 PM) Not if I come down there and rob you of them first. Well, maybe, if they get there, and I do get some tickets, I'd try to hook you up. I actually might have a connection or two to get tickets.

Did he take the tickets, or not? It doesn't matter how he voted. Was it "ethical" to take those tickets? Personally, I could care less that he took them. But it can look bad.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ May 30, 2006 -> 08:24 PM) I'm not sure why people still think this will happen. Cleveland's pitching staff is ten times worse than last year. Listening to sports talk radio here in Cleveland today, no one in this town has any hope of them making a run like last year. That's true, they don't have the staff they did last year. But I also think that they are a 85-87 wins team. Detroit is about 90 (even if they go .500 for the rest of the year now), and so are the Sox.

So, it's a "smear" when it happens to a Democrat, but it's corruption all over the place when a Repulican is involved in the same types of things? They are all b****es to the money, power, and lobbyists. Period.

You all are right, TOR is probably more likely to fight for a spot then CLE, but I think that CLE is going to catch fire in the second half similiar to what they did last season.

So, the schedule heavily favors Detroit coming down the stretch. Look, these guys aren't going to go away. Teams that get off to this kind of start are definitely hard pressed to not make the playoffs. The thing is, this year, there's 5 teams for three spots (NYY, BOS, CLE, DET, and CWS). Then you have the last spot going to whoever comes out in the West (probably OAK with around a 85 win total or so).

Come on, little b****. Get to it, NOW!

Interesting note:

They did do their homework, and I think this is for a (big) reason.

So what do you propose? And I don't want to see some cut and paste whacko job, either. What do YOU propose that we do in our current form of election politics and the cycles that have formed around them?

It all comes down to how you train the dog.

I'd like to see a Mavericks/Heat Finals. At least that would be somewhat entertaining. If that happens, I think I'm buying some tickets purely to sell them on E-Bay. Face + Handling.

ok, just wondering.

A certain Motley Crue song comes to mind: Don't go away mad, JUST GO AWAY.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 30, 2006 -> 12:12 AM) FYI, Sox are 2-0 since the rant outscoring the opposition 18-5. What the f*** ever. Just go back and f***ing post your worthless s*** ass posts. Maybe someday you'll reach your full potential of posting something worth reading. You haven't posted anything meaningful in about 20,000 posts. Wake the f*** up...

So why did you join December 11, and just now start posting?

Detroit has set themselves for the future, but I don't think the future is this year. Not quite yet.

QUOTE(Soxy @ May 29, 2006 -> 07:07 PM) It is my gift, it is my curse. Priceless.

Tex, go have another beer.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ May 29, 2006 -> 06:48 PM) Kap, you can't be wrong about EVERYTHING You just suck, that's all.

Right. This goes along with what you've said repeatedly in the past, and I think this is an instance of this. They all have good intentions, their efforts are there, but then in the end, the beauracracy gets to them all.