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QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 07:49 PM) I'm getting a serious case of Romney blather fatigue Only Romney?

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 06:49 PM) Maybe most if not all teams saw De Aza as a potentially good 4th OF type and Kenny was the only one who felt he was worth a roster spot, which would say more about the Sox minor league depth vs. other teams than anything else. Maybe other teams would have taken De Aza too if they didn't feel they had better players in their own organizations to protect from the Rule-5. And maybe Kenny would have kept those same other players over De Aza. De Aza has been an overachiever here and it has to be pretty hard to "find" those types of players. De Aza is far from a flashy athlete and IMO his success has a lot more to do with his work ethic, attitude, overall baseball aptitude, durability, and ability to make adjustments as necessary. I imagine it's very hard to scout for those kinds of qualities and I highly doubt Kenny knew he'd end up with such a good everyday player when he made that waiver claim. Also, for every De Aza there are probably 10 more Danny Richars, D'Angelo Jimenez's, Armando Rios' etc. who KW scouted from other farm systems and then traded for or claimed, only for things to not work out in the end. No...the problem was that most teams saw De Aza as extremely unlikely to be worthy of a 40 man spot due to the catastrophic leg injury he'd suffered previously.

Guy gets arrested at theater in Ohio with a bunch of knives, a loaded Glock handgun, and several loaded additional magazines. Will be charged with about all they can charge him with...carrying a concealed handgun without a permit and carrying a weapon while having a disability. Had a nice arsenal of a dozen or so guns, few thousand rounds, gas masks, and body armor left at home.

QUOTE (Brian @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 06:03 PM) Whedon signs on for A2 Whedon will also develop a pilot TV show for ABC centered in the Marvel universe (no other details here other than that).

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 06:09 PM) Juan Uribe would look good on this team about now. Then you'd realize that Uribe is owed $8 million next year as well, and basically therefore if you wanted Uribe, you'd have to pick which of Youkilis and Pierzynski you didn't want.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 04:39 PM) States have gone and passed laws forbidding the type of takings in kelo. Which is also what the Court found...it could pass constitutional muster to take property for "Economic reasons" under their interpretation, but states were free to ban the practice.

No Alejandro again

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 03:28 PM) I guess you don't know what eminent domain actually is? Or the fact that you just proved we have never enforced what we claimed at all, again proving me right? And despite the panic after the Kelo v. New London decision, there have been comparatively very few uses of Eminent Domain since then. The state is not going out and seizing people's property willy-nilly. Furthermore, it's not like eminent domain wasn't actually a standard doctrine at the time of the writing of the Constitution, and the takings clause of the 5th amendment explicitly allows for eminent domain as long a "Just compensation" is paid.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 03:29 PM) I don't know what that means. :/ Just google it.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 03:14 PM) Sanchez doesn't seem all that different than Escobar in terms of value to me. Escobar rates as the better defender and obviously Sanchez has a better hitting record coming up through the minors. Of course, the jury is still out on Escobar's value. That seems like a very odd comparison to me. A guy who puts up an OPS in the .600's in the minors but plays good defense at an infield position seems a lot less valuable than a guy who hits .300 throughout the minors and plays average defense at an infield position. If they keep putting up those same numbers, the .300 hitter winds up starting for a few years, even if he's not an all star, while the guy with the low .600's OPS winds up being a utility guy.

QUOTE (hammerhead johnson @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 03:12 PM) Haha, you think Kenny saw something in De Aza that nobody else did? Wouldn't that be ironic. Yes. Loved that pickup in 2010 from the moment it was made.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 02:52 PM) How far apart are those things from each other? Damn you LPL for not including a scalebar and forcing me to do math. That image covers about a kilometer in width, if I've read LPL's scale bar correctly. So everything's a few hundred meters apart.

QUOTE (hammerhead johnson @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 12:36 PM) Man, that can't be. A 36 year old catcher who is having an outlier year will be offensive priority #1? Yikes. It's gotta be Youkilis. AJ is my favorite player on the team, but who cares if he goes elsewhere? This is no spring chicken we're talking about. You get to pick from that list and Tyler Flowers, if you don't re-up with AJ.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 12:24 PM) Sanchez have an outside shot at a 2013 call up if he continues this pace and Beckham continues his? It might be particularly beneficial to be patient with him to see if he can build something of an additional power stroke.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 12:47 PM) It shifted the national conversation away from the stupid debt ceiling and austerity, austerity, austerity to discussing inequality. And sadly...look how much has been accomplished in that regard. Absolutely nothing.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 11:07 AM) And back to the pointless nitpicking... I get that. It means we have never actually enforced what we say. Take property and other economic rights today for example. If you really want to go into whether or not we're "all created equal" or whether rights are being expanded or contracted, and you want to hang your hat on the affordable care act and the limited attempts to re-regulate wall street somehow proving your case that rights are being dramatically curtailed, you really don't know your history well. Seriously, just look at the expansions of rights in this country. We started off with Slaves being 3/5 of a person. Freed them, declared "Equal protection under the law" even if we kinda faked it, gave the vote to women, desegregated the country, expanded the vote to people who were 18 and people who were of non-white background, created more business and property opportunities than we can count, began establishing workplace rights for women and people with disabilities, decided that people in fact did have some right to expect the environment around them to be clean, and now we're working on rights for gays. And that's just in a minute of writing. We're less than a decade removed from the Supreme Court declaring anti-sodomy laws unconstitutional. Yes, there have been a few backsteps. The rights of workers to organize have been dramatically curtailed over the last few decades, but I don't hear much complaining about that. The rise of a class of super-rich who have more rights than I do might strike some as anti-democratic, but again, that wouldn't fit into "property rights". Economic rights in the sense you view it seem like they would have been dramatically expanded, through the deregulation craze of the 1980's-2000's, consolidation of finance, the expansion of "Corporate free speech rights" through Citizens United.

(If you have a good eye, there are also at least 3 distinct geologic units in the area).

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 10:58 AM) Judging by how the constitution is interpreted today, it means nothing. Not surprising, given that the phrase "All men are created equal" does not appear in the Constitution.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 10:42 AM) While it's a nice phrase...it's also not reality. So let's try to make it the case.

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QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 07:39 AM) The appeal is just a formality leading up to a lawsuit. However, stop and think about this: I know they won't, but just suppose that they did win their lawsuit and the penalties got overturned because of lack of due process. Then the NCAA goes through the motions of due process and decides to implement the death penalty. Is that what these people want? You have to understand...they think they did nothing wrong. They think Paterno did nothing wrong. Whoever they blame, whether it's McQueary, or Spanier/Curley, they think the university did nothing wrong, they think Penn State football did nothing wrong, and most importantly Paterno did nothing wrong. The Freeh report was either totally one-sided or biased or poorly researched or lies or whatever excuse they're making. It's really a perfect example of a "football culture" gone awry, gone to the extreme, which is exactly why the NCAA stepped in.

Having Yelp linked in with the maps might well be worth the iphone upgrade to me alone, right now with the amount of traveling I've been doing.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 06:42 PM) Seriously, why was KC the first place to get Google Fiber? Didn't they pump a ton of "Lobbying money" bribes in to make sure it happened there too?