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QUOTE (Marty34 @ Apr 3, 2011 -> 02:41 PM) Might have to think about a way to get Teahen in the lineup against righties like Masterson. Well if he didn't wear his mitt on his head he would be. He is Josh fields bad at d. Its hard to find a spot for him.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Apr 3, 2011 -> 02:33 PM) Ah well... it's still a series win. A winnable game until NL 2.0 had to inject "strategy" into the game.

One day our manager will realize that this is the AL and bunts before the 7th inning are something that should be avoided. And that the use of bad loogy's just because they favor their left paw is going involve runs scoring in bunches. A stubborn man whom hopefully is going to be someone else's problem.

Well it's time to flip that switch. A slow start is not going to work this year. It starts on Friday. To win your division you need to beat your division.

QUOTE (striker @ Mar 23, 2011 -> 03:59 PM) If Flowers continues to hit well in AAA and Pierzynski's bat never comes back, what would you do? Even if it does come back he tops out at about .330 OBP. It would be tough to trade AJ since he took a pay cut for us but business is business. If Flowers is tearing it up then it's hard to ignore him, and you can't keep trading everyone away. I personally was hoping AJ left and we gave Flowers a chance. If he continues to hit and AJ struggles then I say we ship off AJ. What would you do? You realize that its ST right. The same place where Brian Anderson looked like a god. Lets see what happens when the bell rings.

QUOTE (oldsox @ Mar 23, 2011 -> 01:18 PM) My glass is half empty on Dunn. He strikes out about 40% of the time and is barely hitting .200. At least he doesn't clog up the bases. We gave up a lot of money and a #1 draft pick this year. This will go down as one of Kenny's worst moves, I believe. You must of been in a coma last year when we had Kotsay as our DH. You remember the guy who rocked a .683 OPS.

Real Saturday morning cartoons. Not the 9 different versions of crappy anime that pushes stupid dueling cards. Kids get so short changed on the crap they get to watch when they are young.

At the beginning of spring, the sox trainers warned of potential setbacks. While unfortunate, it's not out of the realm of expectations. The best news is that they are keeping Jake from doing his hero routine. And causing future injury.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 14, 2011 -> 09:51 AM) When it comes to a persons resume, and this is from a person that interviews people from time to time, sometimes, less is more. Things I hate and immediately notice when going through resumes: 1) Super busy resumes filled with nonsense that nobody cares about, strewn about the entire surface of the paper as to make it look more impressive than it actually is. To me, that shows the person is trying to throw stuff at the wall rather than being concise about what it is they can actually do. On a resume, WHITE space = good. I want to know the basics about you by glancing at the top half of page 1, and if I can't...I'll find another one that can. 2) Resume fabrication whores that do nothing but flatter themselves in their "scope of work"/experience section with gobs of what I call "impossibilities". For example, a person claiming they installed a network of 50,000 servers, spread over 14 states. Reason: Because no you didn't...you assisted many other people with such an implementation, but you didn't do it yourself, so don't make it sound like you did. 3) The "Impossible Skillset liar-face". Example Skillset: Windows 7, Windows XP, *nix (Linux/Unix), Mac OSX, VAX, Mainframe, C++, Java, C#, Scripting, Perl, PHP, HTML, Cisco Routers/Firewalls, Checkpoint, etc... Basically, they claim to know everything about everything related to a specific industry. These are immediately dismissed, because no you don't...and if you did, you wouldn't have to look for jobs...ever, because jobs would look for you. 4) The "I work at every company for 1 year and move on, and in that 1 year, I did 50,000,000 things" exaggerator. This is the guy/gal that has a list of previous employment that reads like an encyclopedia. 9 months here. 8 months there. 1 year here. 11 months there. This means you can't hold a job, or you are a unloyal b****face (which is fine to look out for yourself, but don't let your past employment spell this out in big bold letters), because I'll take a chance on someone that might be more loyal out of the box. Oh, and somehow, during their short little stint at the company, they somehow accomplished 5 years worth of work/projects...which again...no, they didn't. 5) The "10 Pound Resume" dickface. If I need to work out with Rock in order to lift your stupid resume, you aren't working here. There is some information you do not need to include...such as where you worked 20 years ago. If there is a need for me to go that far back in your employment history, I'll ask for it...but if it's going to make you're resume more than 2 pages, just stop. 6) The "MVP Award" Whoremonger. A.K.A: I was a superstar MVP employee at all of my previous places of employment and won awards for being so awesome, yet I need a new job. Why? If you were so awesomely invaluable, why didn't they promote you to some position that paid you millions of dollars to assure that they kept your awesome services? ----- If it's on your resume, it's open game. For example, if you claim you can type 90WPM, you might run into an interviewer like myself that says...ok, show me the money, Jerry. So if you printed it, you'd better be able to do it...and not only do it, but do it under pressure, such as in an interview. I have many tips for resumes/interviews, but so much of this skill is in feeling out your interviewer...and figuring out what they like, and somehow talking about it. For example, I got my first job in the IT industry because the interviewer found out, during the interview, that I played the game Quake online. The people who put expert on their resume for a subject matter that they have maybe seen once or twice in their life. I had a person put expert in F5 load balancers. I asked them a basic F5 question about persistence, and I get the well I didn't actually install it. I just logged into the gui a few times. WTF. Really. You apply for a senior engineering position and every product you put on your resume is something you just maybe have logged into once or twice. Or people who are supposed networking people that can't explain the TCP 3 way handshake. How do you put stuff on your resume that you haven't the slightest idea how to install it, configure it, or work with it. I am sure this is the same across other industries.

Comrade Fatty is on a rant again. So if you work for a bank you are on his list. Of course you can distract him with the well placed donut to escape.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 11, 2011 -> 09:44 AM) Then we subsidize the consumers instead of shareholders. Or maybe their margins will just have to shrink a little, now that they're not sucking at the government teat! Lazy deadbeat government welfare corporations. Because thats how it works. Corporations will just shrink margins and annoy their shareholders. Its not like they will say f*** it and raise the price to keep that same profit margin. I mean they never have raised prices before.

QUOTE (hi8is @ Mar 9, 2011 -> 02:54 PM) Announcer on the Giants feed said that Peavy was on the mound showing discomfort - then Guillen jumped up and took him out right away. It's hard to tell what happened just from a radio feed. He gave up a home run and they took him out. I wouldn't read more into it.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Mar 4, 2011 -> 02:36 PM) What is the best way to remove semen from a keyboard?

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 2, 2011 -> 01:24 PM) A 3G hotspot. How cutting-edge. When 4G gets released let me know. The 3G plus crap that is being marketed as 4G is just a gateway drug to the real thing.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 18, 2011 -> 11:39 AM) I can't speak to every case, or even this case in particular, but there are a number of times when simply "Having fewer employees" translates to spending more money. The IL gov is claiming this is the case with some of his additions. The classic example is the IRS. You cut funding for IRS employees, and suddenly you have a lot more fraud, you take in less revenue, your cuts actually cost $10 for every $1 you cut. If the Republican national level cuts actually take hold, some of them, like cutting the management budget for social security, will lead to more uninvestigated fraud. They really need to audit state and county employment overall. Proper slotting of pay and skill shoudl happen. No double dipping on pensions. No last minute promotions right before they retire to boom their pension. You make 50k and all of a sudden you get to 120k for the last few years to bump your pension. No secretaries making 160k because they know someone and are politically connected. Janitors making 150k. No relatives of a elected person getting high paying jobs. I worked in Cook County and I remember a secretary who would sleep at her desk with her arms drapped over the typewriter. She made 140k and couldn't type, couldnt spell, never answered the phone. She was angry and beligerent to people and made phone calls to get people harassed if they tried to get her to work. I would love to tell you that this was a one off, but no. Lots of examples of that in my time in the county. I don't believe its changed all that much. My dealings with the state were about the same. Unqualified people holding positions based on patronage are a blight and cost the tax payers. If you are qualified and work hard, sure you deserve your pay and your benefits. But if you want a place to sleep, talk on the phone with your friends, or abuse the system then go away.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 18, 2011 -> 11:09 AM) Not that Quinn isn't an asshat, but I'm so glad Brady didn't win. Otherwise IL would be going through the same s***. Yeah but Quinn is the other side of the coin. We have all these financial problems as a state. He wants to raise taxes and now he wants to add about 1000 new employees. You can't have it both ways. You want to raise taxes, then also cut some of the spending. You can't use raising taxes as the endless money pit to grow government. Can't we have something in the middle.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 16, 2011 -> 12:43 PM) I've been married for 4.5 years. Steve checking account Wife checking account Joint savings account I would not have it any other way. I have the same setup. Hell at my house I don't open up mail addressed to her, and she doesn't open up mail addressed to me. If its a bill it has both of our names on it. We split up some of the bills and just keep track of our responsibilities. It not a matter of trust. Both of our names are on all of the accounts and we can go into each others stuff at will.

I am on a roll of "destination nowhere" trips for work. An old can of Spaghetti Os is better than the hot garbage the local contacts recommended as the "Italian Restaurant" they wanted to go to. So its either fast food or a trip to Cracker Barrel. I can't wait to get back to Chicago to eat something decent again.

We are beyond our payroll targets because we are "all in" this year. Why would it make sense after extending Konerko and AJ and picking up Dunn to start to deal from our position of strength. You are not getting Brett Gardner for a year of Jackson. I understand people don't like the body language or the ginger-ness of Floyd but he is a solid well priced starter in the AL and not something that we should give up.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 28, 2011 -> 12:28 PM) The entire "cloud" hysteria going on right now is a pet peeve of mine. As replace "cloud" with "cyberspace" or "information superhighway" or "internet" and um...it's the SAME f***ING THING, and has been from the start. Every website in the world has run on "the cloud" from the get go...rephrasing it as if it's some new technology is annoying to me. It's a silly re-branding of "remote access", and I hate it. I just had to explain to a customer that their dual OC3's are nearly maxed out because their CIO decided to move their email system to the cloud. In their haste to save a few bucks they forgot to ask the question so how is this actually going to work. Well they just finished the last large group of users over the weekend and now their links are pretty much pegged. Don't worry however, the magical cloud company told them that we can fix this with a settings change on their border router. LMAO

Had this loudmouth on the train today doing his Jay Quitter and how if he was playing he would of manned up. I turned to him and said "I love the tough guy approach from the sunday drunk who's most athletic moment yesterday was getting up off the couch and fumbling drunk trying not to piss on their shoes. Carry on though Mr Athlete."

QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 23, 2011 -> 11:26 PM) When you act like an asshole, you're not going to get the benefit of the doubt. It's pretty much that simple. Yet murder a few dogs, and lay on a few screaming women, shoot up a nightclub and you are okay.

QUOTE (Friend of Nordhagen @ Jan 23, 2011 -> 11:04 PM) Ouch. From Michael Wilbon, not exactly a "meatball" . . . http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nfl/colu...&id=6052280 I guess Cutler will need to murder a few dogs, or get some rape charges dropped before he gets the respect of his NFL peers. What a dumb article. Attack his play sure. Attack his toughness, come on now. Hanie after the game was talking about how Jay was helping him keep under control. How he was keeping his head level.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 23, 2011 -> 04:02 PM) I'm sorry, but it's the NFL. You have quarterbacks playing months with stress fractures, ligament tears, etc. In the biggest game of your career, you ask to come out of the game cause of a knee injury but you're able to walk on the sideline? You are going with the assumption that Cutler said take me out and that Lovie and the staff didnt just take him out. This is a guy who has been particularly tough and durable. The last time there was outrage about Cutler being a p**** he had a concussion.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Jan 23, 2011 -> 03:57 PM) Cutler quit...p**** I love the amazing strength and courage people have sitting on their couch. You probably have a great story on how you managed to get all the way to the fridge after you banged your knee into the table. Clearly thats comparable.