Balta1701

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 07:03 PM) I meant to say Ryan. But anyways, both are leading and Obama is failing. Also, your "only goal" statement is ridiculous. So is calling anything in Ryan's budget a "Solution". Obama could make up something just as honest. Claim he'll cut taxes 20% for everyone, triple defense spending, double social security benefits, and balance the budget. By the standard you just used, those would be great ideas. Sure they don't make sense if you use addition, but he has ideas!

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 06:34 PM) Balta, there are details in his budget and he is willing to listen to good suggestions and compromise. Things can change as needed. Perhaps the highest tax bracket stays the same. That's fine with me. The difference is Walker is leading, while Obama only blames and makes excuses. Walker has solutions, Obama merely creates more problems. Walker who? And anyway, all not true, but whatever. The whole point is to slash the highest tax bracket. That's the only goal. You ought to know that.

QUOTE (Wagz @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 06:31 PM) Did I read Aviles on waivers. Perfect player for the sox to get. decent bat, can play middle infield and 3rd then you keep Wise and JorDanks up. Send Rey down and tell Odawg sorry man you just are not the guy you used to be. Tflow should have been moved 1-2 years ago when he still had a little worth, but he is a cheap back up make 483,000. I mean IMO he calls a pretty good game behind the plate and plays D pretty well. Hitting wise I would say way below who we thought he would be. What happens if we dont resign AJ. Is TFlow going into spring training the #1 catcher? Is Boston actually going to let him go for nothing or do you have to pay for him?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 06:04 PM) What is your argument here Balta? It is profitable, so it isnt stupid? He just lost his job and probably severely hampered his ability to get a similar job in that profession, called his integrity into question which also affects him getting a job outside of his profession. It was a stupid lie Would he have ever gotten the jobs before Villanova without embellishing his resume?

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 05:41 PM) You even said "Reddick doesn't move"? I used "looks up".

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 05:29 PM) Seems like a while. It is still pretty damn stupid If it helped him get a job for 10 years...then that's a pretty profitable lie.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 01:02 PM) i love that the NY Daily News has a headline "Tim Tebow dazzles with his legs during debut for NY Jets in preseason opener against Bengals" 4 of 8 for 27 yards and an INT. 18.2 QB rating Did he have a shirt on?

Even if these accusations were true, I find it incredibly difficult to believe they'll ever be proven. Basically...how would anyone ever prove this? Would there be a paper trail? Unlikely to me, "Trading off little boys" seems like something of a "Cash only, no documents" business. Beyond that, how would you get someone to tell the feds about it? Would someone who actually had one of the boys admit anything? Not unless caught for some other reason. Would someone else who knew about the transaction tell the Feds? No, because suddenly they'd be liable, they're better off just lying. Finally, if Sandusky knew about things, would he tell the feds? Only if the Feds would give him some variety of leniency, which they're not going to do for a multiple child rapist, they're happy with him put away, and the Feds didn't bring charges anyway, because the state did its job. Basically, what would need to happen is that one of the men who was directly involved in having sex with a boy through Sandusky gets caught otherwise and agrees to testify against Penn State in exchange for leniency...which requires them being caught and requires the feds to have more of an interest in Penn State than in that rich guy's abuse case. Basically, if this happened, the people involved are above the law.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 05:24 PM) http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball...me-inaccuracies seriously, nowadays why would you lie about something like this? How long do you think he's been telling that lie?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 05:21 PM) Speaking of slogans and talking points. Would you like me to go into more detail on any of those? I'd be happy to. My problem is...I wouldn't post that stuff normally, because I'd know I could be challenged on any of it and I'd have to back it up more. But...a person posting a silly column from a pretty bad Washington Post writer and saying "See!" doesn't seem to know that people might reply to the points in it.

QUOTE (SouthSidePride05 @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 10:38 AM) After hosting the World Series last year as an analyst on Fox, he's come back as a different player this season. Being a part of that 7-game World Series had to have motivated him. He probably said to himself he would do everything in the offseason to get more fit, get stronger, prepare for a career year, and get his team back into the World Series. If his job as Fox analyst had anything to do with it, thank you Fox! Or maybe having a different manager organizing camp in spring training?

I'm pretty sure I matched Hawk's HR call on Danks to within 0.25 seconds, word for word, by the way. My wife got mad at how loud I was.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 03:06 PM) Has any active athlete come out as being gay? Has anybody on this site come out as gay? Is it improper of me to ask? Society is still backward on this issue. I don't know any active athlete in MLB, NFL, NBA, or NHL who has come out. A former basketball player for the Jazz did. With the several thousand people in those leagues, numbers say that several dozen players across the leagues should be homosexual, on average. Yes, we have people on this site who are openly gay, and I will choose not to speak for them now since it really shouldn't be a big deal either way.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 03:04 PM) I just can't believe how bad a President he's been. The economy is just getting worse. Did you read that column? In answer to your question, though, I don't know. Probably not. I am not an expert on these things, but in Obama I see an incredible campaigner/politician and that's it. I want him to be good, but I fear four more years truly will result in a depression and I don't like the way society is going either. Getting worse. Meaner, angrier. We are in trouble, folks. And Romney is a horrific choice. So I just fear for our country cause Obama is not any good. His column is bullsh*t. Why was there no big rebuild from the stimulus? Because 2/3 of it was tax cuts, in order to get the republicans on board. That made the stimulus less effective...and yet we still went from losing 800k jobs a month to adding 150k jobs a month. It should ahve been bigger and less loaded with tax cuts to be more effective, but we had to get it through the senate. The policies that he spent a decade advocating led to that collapse. We cut taxes like he wanted, we gutted regulation like he wanted, wall street went crazy, and they nearly destroyed the world. The Senate didn't take up a cap and trade bill, correct. Of course, with the 60 vote requirement, it wasn't "Rejected" by the senate. That is a lie. The pipeline was rejected not because of any evaluation of the pipeline. It was rejected because the Republicans passed a law that would make approving it "illegal". He also fails to tell you that the pipeline is set up mainly for exports...so in the midwest, you'll actually pay higher gas prices, because that pipeline will allow refined product from the midwest to be exported through New Orleans. And of course...he then continues to pretend that climate change isn't an actual problem....so we're going to spend $20 billion in drought relief just this year. That money is free right? Meanwhile, by the assessment of anyone in that industry, the stimulus literally saved wind and solar pwoer in this country and built a battery industry that never existed beforehand...we're generating several times as much power from those sources as we were in 2008, we are employing hundreds of thousands of people in those industries, and that's our only real chance to deal with climate change. The Affordable Care act will cost money yes. But we're spending that money anyway. He's scaring you by quoting large numbers. $1.68 trillion, sounds horrible, right? You know how much the government would be spending on healht care if nothing was changed? $7-$8 trillion or so. The coal plant regulation? If you think that's a bad idea, my lungs want to fight you. Sick to near death of having 40 year old coal plants down the county dumping crap into my air. Cough. That was regulation that we were supposed to have finished 20 years ago, but the government has dragged its feet, and that has probably sickened thousands of people. It's all slogans. Posting an op-ed piece that is nothing but filled with slogans and challening someone to take it on is shooting fish in a barrel. If you want to take on people who can support themselves on these issues, don't rely on the weakest columnists out there.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 12:29 PM) Cutting spending needs to be an important part of Romney's platform. Sure the Dems can run ads of Romney pushing granny of a cliff in her wheelchair, but they will do that anyways. The problem continues to be...with both the Ryan plan and the Romney version of it, the tax cuts they want for the highest income levels are so massive that it's literally impossible for their cuts to make up for them. They usually just refuse to namea nything they'd cut and say "we'll figure out that later" so that they don't take the political hit for it...but that's a joke. You can say "I'm going to cut taxes by $10 trillion and then cut spending to match" but if you don't tell what spending you want to cut...you're not going to get the spending cuts. That's how Ryan got called a "Flim flam man". His budget works and balances...if he accepts that unemployment immediately falls to 1%. That of course...is impossible, that would produce enormous levels of inflation, it's a joke.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 10:44 AM) You have to be on the 40 man roster by the end of August to be eligible for the playoffs correct? Right now, we only have one position player (Morel) in the minors on the 40, which is pretty insane. I would think that would be a hugr concern for the front office. If we have a serious injury in September, we'd basically have no fallback options as of now. Also, Johnson and Jackson are unlikely to clear waivers if the callup is indeed temporary, which makes things extra complicated. I still think you send Olmedo down until September and keep one of the two power bats the rest of the way. If you have an injury those rules can still change. You can't put someone on the 40 onto the playoff roster if no one goes tot eh disabled list. If someone goes to the disabled list, you can use their spot. That's how teams sometimes pull off September trades and still wind up with the guy on the roster...someone went on the DL.

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 10:51 AM) Morel was all ready optioned once this year. Multiple call ups and options in the same year only count as one. He's also not out of options yet either, he should have 1 left for next eyar.

QUOTE (SOXOBAMA @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 11:24 AM) I want defense, so it should be Morel, play Youk at 1B. If Morel isn't back to 100% health, then he won't even be that effective on defense.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 11:41 AM) According to Tdog, DA wins Huh? Axelrod?

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 10, 2012 -> 09:21 PM) What happened? Hard to insert link from phone.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 10:56 AM) Picking the guy who wants to end Medicare as his VP kinda makes that easy. Well, anyone who really believes in these budget cuts ought to be happy. Considering that the Obama campaign has said they've run into problems when they tell people the details of the Ryan budget and people can't believe Romney would support it, I'm not going to complain either.

Greg, are job losses in January, 2009, hung on Obama?

Ball hit hard.

Ok, that ball was hit kinda hard.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 10, 2012 -> 10:11 PM) Balta, that was from Wednesday's game Lol, popped up at te top of the espn app game feed