Balta1701

Mercy.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 6, 2012 -> 09:29 PM) I thought he should have crushed it I'm going with "legit late movement/sink on the pitch just got down on him".

We keep hitting the ball hard, just right at people.

Rios really did just miss that ball...too much sink on it.

QUOTE (Baron @ Jun 6, 2012 -> 09:13 PM) Turn him lose and he gets thrown out Really can't ask for more than "Ball gets hammered and happens to be at someone".

QUOTE (knightni @ Jun 6, 2012 -> 09:01 PM) It's ridiculous how much of Prometheus' plot and major scenes are being shown in the previews. If you say so. I haven't watched much tv the last 4 days, but I have no idea what I've been shown in the previews or how it fits together with anything.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Jun 6, 2012 -> 09:05 PM) I'm pretty sure "flu like symptoms" translates to "hang over" 81% of the time. Not when it lasts for a few days and guys are coughing in the dugout.

He may not be helping with the bat, but well...that was great.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jun 6, 2012 -> 08:54 PM) Actually its about money. If I can spend $1mil in lawyer fees and cause $5mil of expenses to my competitor, I just did something good. These type of tactics go back as far as the Wright Brothers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wright_brothers_patent_war You really think "$5 million in legal fees" is a major hit to the performance of a competitor? When Apple is sitting on a hundred billion?

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Jun 6, 2012 -> 08:39 PM) In reality you have to think of it as an $18M option when you factor in the $4M sunk-cost buyout. But the answer is still almost certainly no. Just food for thought. I wonder if the "insurance" on him would cover that year if it was picked up. There has to be a substantial cost to that part too if it's there.

QUOTE (Noonskadoodle @ Jun 6, 2012 -> 08:49 PM) Quintana is a fighter man. Is he one of our top prospects or just somebody we through in the fire? He's a KW/Cooper "Where the Hell did this come from" special.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 6, 2012 -> 08:47 PM) Wonder why he is there and Dunn isn't? Flu like symptoms hitting the Dunn currently?

QUOTE (kapzk @ Jun 6, 2012 -> 08:45 PM) Flowers not looking too good at 1B If you give them some time and avoid stepping on them, they'll eventually grow and bloom. Water and food help too.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Jun 6, 2012 -> 04:08 PM) Ha, that's classic. For a trade that got repeatedly blasted, Kenny ended up winning it. Dollars paid to player following trade: Tony Pena: $2.8 million Brandon Allen:

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 6, 2012 -> 02:40 AM) Jimmie Lee Solomon fired by MLB... http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/busine...ie-lee-solomon/ Am I supposed to knwo well enough who this is that I'm motivated to click on the link for some reason?

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 6, 2012 -> 07:22 PM) http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/06/apple-c...g-galaxy-s-iii/ The data tapping patent is possibly the lamest and most unimaginative patent ever. That's something anyone can come up with. It's like Oracle suing Google over range check. Anybody can write that code, it's so easy and straight forward that it pretty much has to look the same in everybody's code. Seriously, I hope Apple's lawyers burn. Dont' be mad at Apple's lawyers, be mad at the Congress and lobbyists who wrote the patent laws.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Jun 6, 2012 -> 07:07 PM) Very true. It shouldn't be nearly as frustrating for Democrats as it is for Republicans. For every dollar spent by the Democrats in Wisconsin over the last couple months, Republicans spent 8. That's assuming they don't have infinite funds. If buying out every election in the country costs $50 billion, and you can cut upper class taxes by $1 trillion over a 5 year period...well there you go.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 6, 2012 -> 10:53 AM) Good timing http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/04/news/compa...tm?iid=HP_River What, 8 months, and still 0 criminal charges despite $2 billion being stolen?

QUOTE (Jose Paniagua @ Jun 6, 2012 -> 08:14 PM) Is there any way the Sox keep Peavy for one more year on his huge option salary? They could rationalize to themselves $22M for Peavy and Quintana instead of $10M for Floyd and Quintana(plus in the mind of Jerry, you avoid the large Peavy buyout). And (hopefully) assume you keep getting this great value from young guys up and down the roster No.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 6, 2012 -> 08:36 AM) They already do this now. I'm simply saying they can shift their way of doing it. Remove older officers from street duty and put them on desk duty...right now you have a mix of older/younger on desk duty...IMO, younger able bodied police should be on the street, not working behind desks...but it's what they do...some younger officers never see street duty after their probation period ends, they somehow end up working desk jobs their entire lives. IMO, it's a waste of a youthful body. Police departments shouldn't hire qualified people for non-enforcent positions, they should fill those positions with people who were in different jobs for 30 years and spend the money to reeducate them. After all, guys who started driving police cars in the 80s are awesome at database and resource management strategies. Yeah.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 6, 2012 -> 09:27 AM) The problem is they packed that roster with three max players and didnt leave them much money left over to fill in with quality supporting cast. Quality supporting players aren't that expensive, especially when guys will sign there to try to win a title. Integrating quality supporting players into a team where 3 guys just want to get their highlights is a much bigger problem.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 5, 2012 -> 11:47 PM) For that matter, is it acceptable to have ANYONE working until 67? Not sure...but we seem to do it anyway. As I said, there are jobs in those departments that do NOT require young bodies...they could be moved to those jobs. It's not rocket science, guys...let's stop pretending it is. Not every officer or fireman is a "street worker"...a LOT of them work simple desk jobs that any elder on their force could perform. We don't keep police and fire and construction desk jobs around ajobs taxpayer funded jobs program.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 5, 2012 -> 11:40 PM) Has to. And then Pat Riley and Co. need to take a look in the mirror and fire themselves. You have to give them the Bosh injury. But they've done a piss-poor job of putting together a sufficient cast around their stars. Other than Chalmers, there isn't one player on this roster I would accept a free autograph from. Personally I think there's some actual quality in their supporting cast, and it really does include the things the big 3 don't do (rebound, shoot 3 ball), but to have them be effective against tough challengers would require the Heat to play good, organized team ball. That's not what the big 3 want, they want the rest of their roster to get out of the way and not be needed while they get the sports center breakaway highlights. If a team puts pressure on them though, the big 3 need to count on them, but there's not trust or effort because they never bothered building that up. That would take effort an practice, and practice spoils the party.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Jun 5, 2012 -> 08:29 PM) I would propose a bill matching gov't workers retirement age to private workers social security eligibility. You solve the pension crisis and put the state on more sound fiscal ground. And you could even let the saps keep their healthcare. Is it acceptable or useful to keep police officers and firefighters on the payroll until age 67? Or even 55 in many cases? In the event that they are physically unable to do those jobs until the rising social security eligibility age, what do we do with them?

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Jun 5, 2012 -> 08:15 PM) When it's free, yes. How wealthy do you need to be to live?