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Amount of power dennis kucinich has in the democratic party:

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 28, 2011 -> 08:13 PM) I'm always amazed at how many people on this site are friends with actual MLB players.

I must have missed the part where the president is suggesting only raising revenue.

halladay.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 05:55 PM) DeAngelo Williams just got 21 million guaranteed. He is 28. Ugh. best lockout ever!

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 06:41 PM) He gets benched. So they are going to sit Mr. Salary for a hungry kid. Maybe their plan is to suspend Rios if he acts up. Can you suspend a guy and not pay him if he becomes a detriment on the bench? No free agent would ever come to the white sox ever again.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 07:04 PM) Its a terrible package in theory, unless Rasmus just falls off the earth somehow. It does seem odd that no other offer was better than what they received though. Why is that? Because they have a terrible GM? Seems to me that word leaked out pretty early that they were looking for a pretty reasonable package.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 06:59 PM) Kevin Goldstein. http://twitter.com/#!/Kevin_Goldstein And it was one thread on a s*** Cards board thats not even populated. Its not a good deal for them, but you still cherry picked the posts that proves your point of hating KW and the Sox. And still you wont follow up on your statement to take a break from the Sox and this board. All talk no action. You love to be as miserable as possible. I went to school in missouri. None of my friends are happy. Regardless of whether they "liked" him, absolutely all of them would rather have kept him than received this package.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 05:48 PM) And the link is.................... He was doing the math on your anecdote.

out.

I think he meant "1 billion" per season.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 06:28 PM) For this year. Going forward? I smell an early 90's like run by them. This is no hyperbole. AA shredded two of the top 5 worst contracts in baseball, fattened up their system, and got a stud 5-tool CF for two relievers and a #4 starter. He's done this in like two years. Honestly that is an unbelievable 2 year run.

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 06:26 PM) Yeah why would KW sign Dunn knowing full well he would hit .160 What an idiot!!!!! Yeah...dunn is the only problem, isn't he.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 06:21 PM) Lash out at Jerry or the players. Jerry gave the sell order, and the players are the ones who sucked. Yes, don't lash out at the person who put together the team.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 05:55 PM) Jays fans are probably pretty excited about getting Rasmus. However this will certainly die back down when they realize they have zero shot at winning their division or even making the playoffs any time soon. I know the feeling.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 05:59 PM) Also, someone tell me why I should sell the farm for an OF that has 1000 PA, mediocre power, run production, batting average, etc. that also is a below average fielder according to UZR? Yeah, toronto really sold the farm.

QUOTE (Elgin Slim @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 04:25 PM) I know that the problem is the structure of our gov't. We shouldn't need a super majority to pass anything, but we do. I just gave an example of what it feels like when I read the paper/listen to the news about what is going on here. It is bulls***. It seems that the politicians don't care about the consequences of their inaction to its citizens, they just want to bicker with each other and name call. Also, super majorities are bad for the country, because that means that a congress can pass whatever laws they want without hearing the other side, and the other side could be valid and good for the country. What we really need is another couple major parties to compete with the Dems and GOP for votes. Then maybe if there is no super majority possible, then there will be compromise again. there won't be compromise, there will just be a long-term give and take.

QUOTE (dmbjeff @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 05:15 PM) you could probably put joe borchard back in charlotte and he would be our top prospect again. our farm is a bunch of crap. okay, we get it, but a top 50 prospect would be top 5 on a lot of teams.

Edit: where are these "sox get money back" posts coming from. Are they just implying the salary dump or is someone saying they gave us cash?

I go on vacay for a week and am so behind. So De Aza is CF?

site crashing for anyone?

Yeah, you guys are right. Nobody knows what a debt ceiling is. And (hint: it has nothing to do with this hint I just stated). And in a fragile, prolonged recovery after a banking crisis, taking money out of our citizens and soldiers hands is a great idea. I mean, it might even dip us into a second recession, where the GOP can then take the presidency and start passing great deficit busting laws like Medicare part D again and launch war with Iran.

Eh. Whatever. Your characterization of what's happening isn't true. And the real problem is the structure of our government. It wasn't built to be able to handle disciplined partisanship like the current atmosphere is. It was fine when political parties weren't as ideologically defining, people LOVED when southern conservative democrats were democrats because of jim crow, and it made compromises so possible. But the senate and house have written up so many rules it makes it too difficult to get anything to pass. The Senate is a check on the house, and vice-versa, that should be enough, it also has a president to check them AND a supreme court. BUt apparently we also need a super majority to pass legislature in the senate, etc. etc. If we make it so the voters vote a party into power, that party rules to their ideological vision, they succeed/fail, new party comes in, passes their new vision and cuts old party ideas except for ones the voters like, rinse repeat. People are putting too much emphasis on the personalities of congress and not enough on the structure.

I wonder if i'm old enough yet where Rongey can no longer use it to discredit my statement that it doesn't matter if mark kotsay wasn't the sole reason we lost the division last year.

thanks doods.