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QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Mar 17, 2009 -> 07:29 PM) But we should also do whats smart for the company we own. How many of these retention bonuses were paid to people who since jumped ship? 11

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 17, 2009 -> 02:13 PM) Not really, I go to CNN.com. I don't watch lowest-common-denominator network news anymore except for the occasional hour here and there. My laughter, stands.

Haha Lost watches CNN.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 17, 2009 -> 01:45 PM) If someone gave me Z's contract but said I had to be a Cubs, Packers, and Pistons fan, I'd go out and buy season tickets for all 3 that same day. I smell a new stimulus package!

Oh man, KHP just reminded me I've never been more wrong in my life than when I was mad at KW for not signing Andruw Jones last year. Never let me be a GM. I'd be worse than hawk.

f***, duke, this thermals album is realllly awesome. Chalk up 2009 as a success for me.

I've liked seth rogan since he was the best character of the older kids in Freaks and Geeks. I believe he isn't the funniest in the movies he's cast because he isn't supposed to be, because he can do both.

I liked the first single a lot.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Mar 16, 2009 -> 08:19 PM) I think you guys are crazy and are taking a few extreme cases and assuming that everybody behaves in the way. I mean we are talkilng about a 20,000 seat ampitheater (where DMB & THS are playing in St Louis) I am sure a lot of those people listen to a lot of other music. The Hold Steady are headlining a show in St. Louis on April 6 at a place that holds less than 500 people, I will keep a look out for their next healiner show and where it is. I would be willing to bet that it is at a considerably bigger venue. Not really. I encourage you to go to this show and ask the people how many live shows they have of Matthews, they'll start bragging.

If Abreu got $5 mill, what do you think Edmonds would net?

I found okkervil river when they opened for the decemberists.

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Mar 16, 2009 -> 04:30 PM) Dude, I was gonna say that, but figured everyone would jump down my throat for generalizing. Every last one that I've met does exactly that. They have an I pod full of DMB. I'm not sure it is generalizing. There are wishy washy matthews fans, for sure, but the one's who go through all the hoops to get to his shows, it's just the oddest music love affair with the guy. There are bands I surely love, and love live, but, it's just not necessary. To me, it comes across as very childish - very "fans of beatles at shea stadium"

slow news day

Eh, Dave Matthews fans are pretty f***ed up. I'd bet a large majority of those people listen to nothing but live dmb tapes.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 15, 2009 -> 11:42 PM) Petraeus > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Jindal > Sanford >> Palin I have no idea if Gen. Petraeus is a registered Republican though. Neither was Eisenhower.

Interesting he'd put himself out there like that for no reason.

maybe we can trip him like we did that dude last night.

when you got that spider bite on your hand Thought it would surely break up the band also: I didn't know John Locke lived in Col! LOLOLOLOLOLLLLO

Oh jesus christ we're going to end up with a swiss model, the swiss model, that country where all the b****y companies *those 6 companies, you know, those galt companies that are so smart they left despite no real difference b/w here and america* and it will be incomplete and whatever but we will adjust. Blah blah blah blah blah. Earmark reform will never happen because its a stupid platform to run on, it's a stupid (i'm going to change things) platform that will never happen because everyone benefits from it. Oh f*** Utah for getting federal funding to reduce an insect that effects their agriculture I buy! f*** them! But thank you, I will take my new highway. We deserve it. I will re-elect you, congressman and senator, at a 94 percent rate. Go McCain! YOU FOUND THE PROBLEM! It wasn't deficit spending using emergency funds for two wars or not dealing with the entitlement spending! It was the 1% of the budget going towards social projects! That would've saved the doubleing of a 10 trillion deficit in ten years! YOU ARE SO GOOD AT MATH!

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Mar 12, 2009 -> 08:43 PM) A player that would seem easily attainable, realistically, and would fit at least one, if not many needs for the White Sox...Gregor Blanco. I wonder if Kenny Williams inquired about his availibility during the Javier Vazquez trade talks. He seems like an odd man out in Atlanta with Jordan Shaefer, Brandon Jones, Jeff Francouer & Jason Heyward as the future of the Braves outfield. That's Gregor Blanco, folks, CF, potential leadoff hitter, speedster, good defense, only 25. He's playing for Venezuela in the WBC if you want to check him out. You could add any major league player in the world, and you chose Gregor Blanco?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Mar 12, 2009 -> 10:25 PM) How is Dean an idiot? He became DNC Chairman, stayed out of the spotlight and quietly built a political ground game that netted them a huge majority in the house, nearly filibuster-proof majority in the senate and the executive branch, a party looking at huge favorable ratings, and meanwhile the minority party has just hired Michael Steele.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Mar 12, 2009 -> 09:41 PM) That isn't necessarily true either. The Wednesday Journal, which is an Oak Park local is either closing/selling a bunch of its affiliates. Mostly they are Chicago residential communities. For instance, the Wicker Park/Bucktown/Uk. Village one is being shuttered. The other ones, mostly north side, are being sold off and either closed or combined. Now the Oak Park, Forest Park, Riverside, etc. are fine. But, the print media, as a whole, are in trouble. That's a nice anecdote, but what he said was true. Those are all pretty close to the city and have overlapping markets. The Beacon, NW Herald, etc. are all doing fine. The problem with the big city dailies closing down is scary, but it's easy to get national news everywhere. Community news is specialized and unthreatened, really only dealing with rising paper costs, that most are solving with tabloid format/moving to morning delivery (saves costs). I had this really long post defining the future of newspapers that hit right as the site closed, and I'm not going to write that all down again. But, many of these large papers are in trouble because of dumb investments by their owners that had nothing to do with print. And finally, the Times is not in trouble. Yes, they are leasing in a building they built, a smart move that will save them millions. They have by far, the largest staff in the country, probably the world. They have maintained that staff through this. Are they in a crunch right now? Who isn't?

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Mar 11, 2009 -> 12:45 PM) I think the Cardinals would call Reyes a disappointment. That's not what I meant. They have these pitchers and hitters that, seemingly, come out of no where, then fizzle just as quickly.

It'd be a shame to lose the Miami Herald, along with the St. Petersburg Times, have really the only original latin American reporting not done by the AP. But yes, I agree we won't know what is lost until its gone. (not with the ST). All these blogs who ridicule newspapers will be feeling the heat when they have no articles to steal and then comment on.

If I were to look at the current construct of the team and pick someone to "plug a gap", I'd take Hanley. If I were to take the best player and be allowed to send Konerko or Thome down, It'd obvi be Pujols. Guy is clearly the best hitter in the game.