bmags

that's a disgusting, though provocative name for something.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 6, 2009 -> 01:35 PM) http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseb...0,7511697.story Tigers? Doubt that.

God I can't wait to find someone with the last name McSlappington.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Nov 21, 2009 -> 11:33 PM) Meh the presence of Joe Scarborough hosting a show in the morning (nevermind who Mika's father is, she is easily convinced by whatever Joe says) and the fact that Pat Buchanan is taken seriously on that network already kind of throws a big dent in that. Of course MSNBC is biased overall, and is pretty unapologetic about it, but they aren't anywhere near as good at blatantly pushing an agenda and dominating the direction of a national argument as Fox is. If they really were trying to be the liberal Fox they would try harder. Once again, MSNBC is liberal leaning, Fox is republican. The National Review, for instance, is conservative. The Weekly Standard, bats*** republican. Larison - conservative. Kristol, et al. - Republican. There is a difference between political ideology and party ideology.

QUOTE (knightni @ Nov 22, 2009 -> 12:51 AM) Pssst. Dey have dis thing called the "Internet", see... Ha, trust me I know, but I can't even imagine how long it would take me to torrent a movie. For much of the day my internet is close to 56k speed.

unfortunately, I don't think it is. Nonetheless, it was among the dumbest things I've ever read in my life. So a single university was able to concoct and cover up climate change through changing data numbers, as if all data comes from one, central source. British conspiracy theorists are even dumber than american ones.

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Nov 19, 2009 -> 10:02 PM) bmags, IIRC you're a Mamet fan. Have you watched 'Edmond' with William H. Macy? Curious to hear your thoughts. Damn, no. And unfortunately, it will be difficult to any time soon.

QUOTE (Cali @ Nov 19, 2009 -> 08:52 PM) The av club releases their best albums of the decade list this was a really fun list until #1 came.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Nov 21, 2009 -> 05:17 AM) Here's an interesting question: Would we have been better off not acquiring Teahen and signing Omar? Then we'd have Gordon at third, Omar at short, Lexi at second and Paulie at first. After a year of Omar, we then the following year acquire another OC or Omar-type ss. No, we wouldn't "have" that, they wouldn't move Alexei again for Omar Vizquel age 43. Why has this signing been so polarizing again? We have an excellent defensive infielder who can play 3 positions, which was a BIG problem last year.

Man I really can't stand reading Don Cooper comments. 'Get their minor league people and their DNA knowing what we do...' ugh.

Surprised how pissed people are over a backup? It's not like we signed Andy Gonzalez and handed him the role.

ah, once again, the only person you can make fun of on this forum without worry is AHB.

QUOTE (Pants Rowland @ Nov 20, 2009 -> 06:48 PM) What did you say when James Baldwin was the staff ace? "James Baldwin is the BOMB"

Well, it appears that yes, we are upgrading our defense. Hope to God an upgrade to offense comes before December, you know, for Christmas sake. OR DURING! I forgot how late it was in November.

When is the report going to come that he ACTUALLY SIGNED WITH THE GIANTS?! and then we win the WS.

I usually say "Mark Buerhle is my favorite White"

Clearly KW was sick of the Getz/Nix talk on ST forums.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 20, 2009 -> 05:06 PM) From 1999 to 2009, give or take, the equity markets were essentially unchanged. I believe that is the only 10 year period if its kind since the Depression. That is what he means by the Lost Decade. Historically, over longish periods of time, like 10+ years, you could rely on the broader markets to make you about 7 to 10% on equity year over year, with some variance if you played with the 10 years you picked. But zero gain, the complete loss of the equity premium, for 10 years, is unique. it's not unique if it's happened before.

He´s pretty good looking though.

With that contract and age and poor results I have to kind of laugh. How would he net them a good cleanup hitter? Time machine to 04?

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Nov 20, 2009 -> 01:00 AM) I know this is a message board. But is it really necessary to start a thread about every White Sox "rumor", no matter how ridiculous, that pops up on the net or in the papers? Well, we could always talk about how we shouldn't talk about things, that's always entertaining.

The problem I have rex is a big part of what duke said, in that there are no real laws. Reading PoliSci articles, for me, is maddening to the nth degree. One had a fairly convincing argument that tax funding for one program was used to skim off state budgets. And used to show that increasing federal funding for states didn't always lead to them applying that funding to anything other than deficits. And they couldn't even prove it! It was nothing more than a correlation, that at the end completely untied itself with it's admitted faults. And more, I'm so tired of reading political science articles that are mostly asking other people to create the data to definitively say what this p. scientist couldn't. I appreciate them trying to scientifically explain how government works, and I suppose I'm talking about an area different than others here, but to me it's a load of hogwash that I"m no better off reading way too often.

i just threw up looking at that lineup.

I've read some interesting polisci articles, but for the most part, no. They try, though. BUt no.

I don't think people realize how far ownership, especially who would have been in control of the cubs, and a section of their paper, like the sports section, really is.