Balta1701

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Sep 3, 2012 -> 04:00 PM) The options aren't that limited, but health care and defense are real expensive. Anyways, here is a NY Times interactive thingy that is fun. You can balance the budget! http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11...ts-graphic.html Don't forget of course that most of police, fire, and education is paid for at the state and local level, so balancing the federal budget doesn't do much for keeping them employed. It does a little because the feds pay for a little, but that isn't where the real money is for those jobs. We've seen state and local payrolls shrink by nearly 750,000 workers since their peak in 2008. This is what you get if you try to balance budgets and cut taxes. This is what we're supposed to want.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 3, 2012 -> 03:44 PM) Then donate more of your money to the government. nobody is stopping you. You are selfish in your own way as you just don't want to be the only one to do so, so you want to make everyone else pay as well. Just pay more and stfu if you feel so strongly about it. And fyi, the only thing Dems DO cut is education and police and fire. Just look at what they target first when they do't get their tax increases. Always the scare line "if we don't get this tax increase, we'll have to lay off 100 teachers/police/firefighters'. Never that they will have to lay off half their assistants or cut from any other office, they always go there first. If you really look at where the government spending is...you've got defense, you've got Health Care, you've got pension plans at the state and local level in particular (usually covering...teachers, police, and firefighters), and within that you've covered a substantial majority of the government. If you put defense cuts off the table, and you take Medicare off the table, where do cuts fall? Thanks to state level budget cuts in the recession, we're at about the same number of teachers this country had in 2004. We're not making this up. You cut the budget, you take defense off the table, that's what is left.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 3, 2012 -> 03:41 PM) Esmiel Rogers for CLE? I'm guessing Perez is out? Tey just said Paternity Leave.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 3, 2012 -> 03:22 PM) Ugh. That is scary. We lead all season and now all of a sudden it looks like the Sox are not gonna be playoff bound. I'm thinking at season's end everybody will proclaim this season a vast success. It's going to be revealed that Konerko needs surgery or something and we all know about the other injuries. Should be interesting to see if this team is indeed out of gas or beats the crap out of a horrendous Minnesota team and gets back on track. Frankly, yes, this season has been a decent success. If nothing else, they have turned around the "We keep getting worse every season" ethos and actually fielded a team that stayed competitive through September at the very least. On top of that, we suddenly have a whole lot of cheap young guys already contributing, particularly in the bullpen, who are likely to get better and clear salary for the future. Next offseason we can get back to the "Where the bleep did that come from" kenny williams signing/trades rather than the "we need to get rid of this salary" trades, and see where we can go.

Yes, Viciedo is really 23. He is a legitimate kid.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Sep 3, 2012 -> 12:36 PM) Romney got a post convention 2 point "bump" (if you can call that a bump), lowest one since they've been keeping track of it since '84. ROFL Can you add a link to the particular poll? There's like 8 companies that do polling and I'm sure that statistic has to be one particular pollster.

QUOTE (knightni @ Sep 2, 2012 -> 06:03 PM) Moonies cult leader Sun Myung Moon dies at 92; claimed to be the Messiah. He controlled those people selling flowers on street corners that you see. And the Washington Times. And his own Navy, I believe.

Start earning that rotation sllot for next year, Hector.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 3, 2012 -> 04:33 AM) Liriano's ERA with the Sox is 4.54. Nothing great, but he's still improved on his season averages with the Twins since joining us. Better than regressing, like Greinke did for awhile. Of course, many would now argue the Angels' chances for the post-season are about the same as the Sox. Of course, since Liriano's history is one of inconsistency, he's one start away from putting his Sox ERA back over 5.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 3, 2012 -> 02:16 AM) Fair enough. But let me ask you a question. Right now I want to open a thread entitled, "We should have kept Buehrle." But I would never do that cause of the scorn I'd get. So I'd put it in catch all instead. My question to you is ... would that be a fair thread to start? The problem with that thread is not the catch all thread. It's that the topic has come up in probably 3-4 other threads, maybe more, across the entire trade deadline time. I wouldn't pounce on you becasue of the catchall thread, I'd pounce because its an idea that we've heard before repeatedly unless there's something new and thoughtful to contribute.

Come on Chris.

This thread appeared in the front page as "If you could bring a dead rock". I would have gone with a nice archean lightly metamorphosed sandstone. Anyway, John Bonham. Put Zeppelin back together.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 1, 2012 -> 09:28 PM) And Soriano playing was going to be enough to overcome the Tigers and Twins? Don't think so. Hell, I'll still go to my grave saying we'd have won that division in 06 if Mackowiak had never played CF.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 1, 2012 -> 09:21 PM) We didn't need hitting at that point, unless it was in CF. It was the pitching that collapsed in the 2nd half, and Jenks was injured. Sox were the #1 offense in the AL before the break and #9 offense in the AL after the break.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 1, 2012 -> 09:19 PM) Soriano probably wanted to make sure he played in a warm climate Well, the extra $75 million he got by refusing that extension probably keeps him pretty darn warm.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 1, 2012 -> 09:16 PM) Not unlike mid 2006 when Dye, Konerko and Thome convinced KW they didn't need to add anything to the roster in order to get to the post-season. That worked out well. That's why KW traded McCarthy for Soriano, but lost the deal when Soriano decided he wouldn't sign an extension and watned to test the FA market.

Sigh.

Well bullpen, that's 2 impressive outs.

That third pitch was a strike to me.

Throw strikes, Septimo.

You know, if we could somehow come back to tie this, the Tigers could be furious over how many chances they've blown.

Took the first pitch straight fastball, swung over the top of the 2nd pitch unhittable slider.

QUOTE (Cerbaho-WG @ Sep 1, 2012 -> 08:32 PM) "it's off jimmy john" Lulz I liked.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 1, 2012 -> 08:29 PM) It's all about adding depth, as it's easy to envision a situation where they might need Humber to start a game down the stretch as things currently are constructed. And adding Bedard would leave it...exactly as easy to envision a situation where Humber would get a spot start. Except we'd also have to come up with another 40 man spot.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 1, 2012 -> 08:26 PM) If you're using "why didn't we get Bedard" as something to complain about as a failure of the GM, then yeah, I'm going to criticize. Maybe, maybe, maybe he'd be better in a spot start...but at the very best it's another crapshoot. Oh, and Bedard's ERA since June 1 is 6.35.