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was that the former Stl Cardinal reyes?

How is that not the point kap. Y2hh, you talking about someone besides Jim Cramer? Balta? SS2K5? You are defending someone you don't even like. You want to talk about fairness in media, fine...well then how about Jon Stewart, with a comedy show on comedy central, calls out a news station, CNBC, and specifically Jim Cramer. Jim Cramer then gets on 3 major news networks, NBC(Today Show), MSNBC (Morning JOe), and there is the entire network in question CNBC. Together, I'd imagine, they net a way, way, way higher % of televisions than Jon Stewarts, and allow Jim Cramer to stand up for himself, and convince people that at least he wasn't wrong about everything! And he can continue to sell his bad info for profit while his audience suffers. And NBC keeps their audience. Now that's good television. That's good synergy.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Mar 11, 2009 -> 03:25 AM) NO ONE saw what was coming. NO ONE. It's easy to b**** and pick nits after the fact. I love how the messengers of Barack's failures are now a part of the mainstream to assassinate the s*** out of them. Yea, this is a different breed of politics that we were promised all right. I think it's worse. Jesus Christ, this is not about assassinating the "messengers of Barack's failures" this is about media irresponsibility. You usually love this stuff. You don't even like Jim Cramer. You are defending him for really just argument sake. He's terrible at his job. CNBC is awful at analysis, and makes up for it with bells and whistles, unfortunately, this is LITERALLY BELLS AND WHISTLES. They report to a less educated financial crowd in a way that is not educational, but irrational, mob like and irresponsible. Is anyone here after Crain's? Is anyone out here after Bloomberg news? No, we all love them. They are just miles and miles above CNBC. Bloomberg dominates CNBC in Europe, in wire services and in business subscriptions. But CNBC has TV, and they got there with sensationalism. They have more shallow coverage than headline news, except they are dealing with people's money. They just parade CEOs up there and the CEOs all just say "we're doing great" and they say "oh that's excellent" and then BUY BUY BUY, or now SELL SELL SELL WE'RE F*****. Meanwhile, poor bloomberg news tried to make a network based off of no frills, all content. Bloomberg must not have researched broadcast news, people don't want quality information with context! They want a screaming man giving out information, good or bad. Okay, I'll give poor poor Jim Cramer a break on Bear Stearns. How about his nationwide lectures telling people to buy Sears when they were like triple their value, or to buy google at the height of their value. He's. Not. Good. At. His. Job. And its worst for him, because he's causing people to lose money.

Is there a person in here who likes Cramer and takes his advice?

QUOTE (GREEDY @ Mar 11, 2009 -> 02:06 AM) My gut instinct is due to Nix's route to the bigs is that he isn't anything overly special at 2nd. more to do with his bat than his glove, which by all accounts rate him very high.

it appears Nix is better than average.

It makes sense, it's why Paul Konerko and Jim Thome never get criticized, but Jermaine Dye is always s*** on by us. edit: I realized maybe I should put GREEN

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 11, 2009 -> 12:51 AM) Yeah, but I mean like a majority of funding. That's stuff the states run. Nonetheless, the states are still governments so these are government provided goods.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 10, 2009 -> 11:34 PM) Most of those things you listed aren't paid for by federal dollars, or at least shouldn't be. Except military and homeland security. federal money goes to quite a bit of that stuff.

Always hatin on dweezy for NO REASON

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Mar 10, 2009 -> 09:29 PM) 2B - Getz SS - Beckham CF - Ramirez Beckham and Getz play their natural positions and Alexei moves to a position he has handled in the past. With this configuration you limit the number of bad players you're plugging into these positions. If Alexei plays short there will be a bad player in center, if he plays center there will be a green but talented young player at SS. That's all. It's harder to find an excellent offensive player who can handle SS than it is to find one who can handle center. So for Alexei playing short would likely make him the most money and on most teams he'd be most valuable at short. However this team has another young player who looks like he's going to be a very good offensive player who can handle short. So to the Sox Alexei would be most valuable filling one of the other holes in the lineup (CF) while the other young shortstop takes his position. We weren't disagreeing, one bit. I was apparently setting you up nicely though.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 6, 2009 -> 03:02 PM) We had the top pick when krause drafted Brand, FWIW. yes but what about when we averaged 11 wins for 1999-2003

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Mar 10, 2009 -> 09:50 PM) Yeah, his personal value is at its highest when he's playing short (assuming of course that he doesn't suck defensively) but his highest value to the team would be in CF since we actually have some good, young middle infielders and really nothing of value in CF. Why move Beckham though, who has played SS for quite a while and likely could develop into a great SS, and move Alexei, whom has seemingly played outfield before for quite a while? Is Alexei's highest value to the team at SS?

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Mar 10, 2009 -> 09:28 PM) Except it just so happens our #1 prospect who could be major league ready RIGHT NOW is a shortstop. right, I'm just saying we shouldn't move him to CF, he's more valuable as is. I think Alexei should move a bit north.

QUOTE (SoxFan101 @ Mar 10, 2009 -> 09:26 PM) I forsee our opening day lineup being this: CF: Jerry Ownes 2B: Chris Getz LF: Carlos Quentin DH: Jim Thome 1B: Paul Konerko RF: Jermaine Dye C: AJ Pierznski SS: Alexi Ramirez 3B: Josh Fields Not saying I agree with it, but Ozzie being Ozzie, this is what I see happening. I really don't buy that. Frankly, each off season we give our ideal lineups and say, 'oh but ozzie is too stupid to do that because he has a man crush on x, etc.' 'If owens hadn't gotten hurt Quentin would've never played' etc etc. But last year we were all saying how the best place for swish to hit was at the top because of his high OBP, but we all said that ozzie's obsession with speed would never let that happen. He let it happen, and it failed, and he made due with the best he had. I think Getz will be our leadoff hitter, but I don't think it is good for Getz to hear it's his position to lose. For Fields, I think it was better for him to hear this was his shot, don't f*** it up. But for Getz, the competition is healthy and he just needs to worry about his position. I think we've created a caricature of Ozzie that is not realistic. He's not perfect, but more often than not he just strings us along for a while before making the correct (in our opinions) decision.

Naw, for as difficult a time as we have had, CF's are easier to find that great hitting short stops.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Mar 10, 2009 -> 08:57 PM) I thought Perry Ferrell is no longer involved/affiliated with Lollapalooza? He seems to be there every year introducing bands

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Mar 10, 2009 -> 07:41 PM) ^^^^^^^ I'd also like to give Lexi a shot at the 2 hole - it may "force" a little more patience on his part and increase his OBP to acceptable levels. He's a very smart and instinctive player who may be able to adjust. Me too. And even though Alexei doesn't have the ideal measures for a #2 hitter, he's great with RISP and he has some pop. So if our leadoff man gets on, I think Alexei and his aggressive nature could work out well. I'm not sure if it would force him to walk more, but perhaps the opportunities with a man who hopefully will get on enough, Gets/Nix, whoever, provides the incentive for Ramirez to focus the way he seems to with men on base. That, and considering his power and ability to net doubles, I'd rather him have hitters like Q/Thome/Kong behind him, rather than him trying to hit these slow pokes in. Now, granted, with Ramirez being so good with RISP, you'd have to wonder if putting him so high up will be giving him less chances. And then, I don't know. I'd just like to see how AR reacts to the #2 hole. But, it likely is not the best place for him.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Mar 10, 2009 -> 08:33 PM) Im actually excited about Janes addiction. 3 days is still one of my favorite songs of all time, maybe since the original lineup is reuniting I can catch them playing it live I wasn't disparaging them, just making the joke that Perry Farrel put his own (albeit former) band as the headliner for his festival.

QUOTE (jenks45monster @ Mar 10, 2009 -> 07:24 PM) I would guess so. They own the lots, don't they? hmm, last year I thought someone told me a different company owned the lots but that may be the UC I'm thinking of.

I feel like this is good news, and I'm pretty much in the same boat as the majority of the comments so far posted. But, for the sake of discussion, I will now become an irrational D'wayne 'Wayne' Wise homer: What are you guys crazy talking about we don't have a legit option in CF? Ever Remember Wise? He hit that 3 run homer against the Rays in the playoffs? He hit that grand slam? When was the last time BA did anything with the bat besides put it back on the shelf after striking out? Wise is the next Ryan Ludwig! Clearly! He, too, a career minor leaguer. Then, starts hitting all these home runs! He's the tall, dark and handsome Ryan Ludwick, and you guys want to try out Josh Kroeger?!?! ARE YOU F&&&@& SERIOUS?!

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Mar 10, 2009 -> 07:31 PM) That's a pretty big step down from Radiohead, Wilco and Kanye West. KoL are good live, the Beasties are fun... but that's about it. I'm shocked that lollapalooza could nab Jane's Addiction!!!!

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 10, 2009 -> 02:58 PM) Its the Rock Island line, already exists. But one of the plans Metra has is to re-route a couple other south suburban lines, that currently run just west of the park, over the RI line east of the park. So then the station would be on 3 lines instead of 1. Cool, I think they should rework the line to wherever I end up living next year.

Bearsox brings the funnies.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 10, 2009 -> 02:45 PM) Southwest suburbs, Orland Park etc. That sucks. IRRESPONSIBLE SPENDING.