Balta1701

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 23, 2012 -> 03:02 PM) Welcome to the light! Why doesn't this same mentality work for something like pregnancy or drug use? If you choose to do it, deal with the consequences....not societies responsibility to pay for it... (Of course, if society were to choose to provide better public transportation options, then people like me who would like to have a few drinks at a restaurant but still be able to get home would be likely to purchase more products at those establishments as there was a safe path home, thus providing a significant boost to that sector of the local economy, and the failure to do so thus is a negative impact on those businesses, on the local economy, and on tax revenues in general)

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 23, 2012 -> 02:52 PM) How did he throw away more than one season? I thought he quit the last week of last season? If he threw games purposely, then he should be banned from baseball like Pete Rose. If the Sox players had been playing worth a s*** and we'd been winning, he wouldn't have gone to Miami to begin with cause he'd remain the King of Chicago if we kept winning. His ego would have never let him consider leaving if we were WS bound again. Like when Bobby Jenks was doing whatever the Hell he was doing in 2010 that led him to be practically unable to pitch, would come in and get shelled, Ozzie would say that's it he's lost the closer's job, and then the next time there was need for a Closer after the Kotsay/Pierre led lineup squeaked out a lead, Jenks would be back out trying to blow it again? That was throwing away a season too.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 23, 2012 -> 02:36 PM) You can't deny his record. For a franchise as bad as the White Sox franchise historically, his W/L record was stellar. He kept the clubhouse loose. The fact a guy like Mark would play for him AGAIN does say something. You can't tell me he'd have gone there ($$$$) only for the cash if he despised Ozzie. If Miami wins the NL this year and it is possible, will you guys melt down or be just a tiny bit happy for Ozzeroo? No. This guy quit on my team and threw away more than a season so that he could get a nice payday. Him succeeding with that payday won't make me forget that, any more than him failing to win the NL would make you suddenly have issue with anything he ever did.

QUOTE (Tex @ May 23, 2012 -> 02:01 PM) I see your point, which leads me to this; If he is going to bet his freedom on the exact wording of the stand your ground, I'd suggest he skip the jury and go with the judge. I believe the defense has a right to request an explicit "SYG" hearing before the prosecution could bring their actual case.

QUOTE (Tex @ May 23, 2012 -> 01:57 PM) I believe it will help the defense by adding to the uncertainty. Hello shadows of doubt. This is such an odd case that I'm not sure uncertainty helps the defense. Zimmerman's best defense is the stand your ground defense, that no matter what happened beforehand, the kid had come after him, he was hurt, he had no choice but to pull the trigger. Uncertainty here means...well, we're not quite certain what happened or who was the aggressor, but we are certain a kid wound up dead. That could hurt the "Stand your ground" defense.

QUOTE (farmteam @ May 23, 2012 -> 01:37 PM) I'm guessing it doesn't really matter which side they change it to; if they change it at all that hurts the prosecution, doesn't it? Not if they would have wound up being witnesses for the defense based on their original testimony.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 23, 2012 -> 01:51 PM) There is nothing stated about the recipients of the information knowing it was MNPI. The first part of your decription, releasing information to select traders, is what the investment bank is alleged to have done, not sure if I wasn't clear on that.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 23, 2012 -> 01:42 PM) The underwriters here are the ones who could be in trouble. Releasing info to only certain traders is a big time no-no, and even more so if the people receiving the information knew it was material non-public information, and traded off of it. That is, of course, what Morgan Stanley is being alleged to have done. (Of course, cynical viewer of Wall Street that I am, I might feel the urge to ask how often they pull tricks like that under the table and don't get caught, if they're happy to break the rules on one of the biggest, most public, most widely covered IPO's in a long time).

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 23, 2012 -> 09:08 AM) An interesting write up on why the Bulls should chase Howard, even if he sign long term. http://www.csnchicago.com/basketball-chica...tm_medium=email Now that Rose is down for the count this actually makes some sense...but it makes the most sense in terms of "clearing the Bulls' big contracts". Howard isn't going to turn them into a champion next year without help, Howard's never going to get along with one of the NBA's best coaches, Howard's not going to stay in a situation that doesn't grant him total authority over everything. But, basically what the Bulls would be doing would be trading 2 long-term contracts for 2 shorter ones. Howard could still be movable at the trade deadline, and the Bulls could get to the "Cleared space" point fairly quickly if they got rid of both Deng and Noah's deals while still having the amnesty option.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ May 22, 2012 -> 11:35 PM) Well at least we all now officially know that Pauly is Jesus. I thought he was but never had confirmation until now. Well, he does hit the fastball very much

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 23, 2012 -> 08:32 AM) Either you approve of the job he's doing or you don't. False. And as always, just another attempt to force everyone into saying "KW m ust be fired!". Just like every other one of your posts.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ May 23, 2012 -> 01:05 AM) I'll join, in all honesty its just hard to find time these days If all people did was drop by the game threads rather than commenting on every Bulls game here, it'd get the board going/back to life a lot more and make this thread easier to follow.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ May 22, 2012 -> 11:54 PM) No way SAS and OKC is a short series. Ill take the Thunder in 7. If Bosh is ready to go then Miami is going to roll Boston. I've seen zero to suggest that Bosh will be ready to go any time soon.

This is how every Floyd Twins matchup goes.

Black eye, meh, here's a double

Becktackylar!

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 22, 2012 -> 08:03 PM) Looks like I get Dick Bremer and Ron Coomer...karma for ripping Bremer in the other thread... Wow...that Twins ad was just torture.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 22, 2012 -> 06:31 PM) The last few have been so disappointing. This'll be a renter for me. Really? Mind if I ask you to elaborate? I really enjoyed the last 2 Bond films. More character/plot development than the latter 3 Brosnan films, fewer ridiculous space laser chases.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 22, 2012 -> 06:25 PM) Ugh on the GM lovefest. If you replace the word "GM" with "Ozzie", you have the exact response we have to 75% of your posts.

Hanging in the dugout tonight:

QUOTE (zenryan @ May 22, 2012 -> 06:11 PM) Not a good fit when your team has young QBs. Also worth wondering how short of a leash he's on though, especially if S.F. can come out and repeat what they did last year and be a legit team, where he can't back into the playoffs at 8-8. I wouldn't say "Hot seat" yet, but if Flynn comes out and struggles this year and they wind up with 5-6 wins, that'd be 3 mediocre seasons in a row, which is more than some coaches get.

Double uniform patches now

QUOTE (Baron @ May 22, 2012 -> 05:56 PM) Yeah it either seems you get the extreme homer or the guy who knows the game as well as anyone but is dull as ****. I don't even know that the dull as bleep guys know the game all that well. I certainly don't hear as many good stories with those guys as I get with the extreme homer guy.

QUOTE (Baron @ May 22, 2012 -> 05:49 PM) Im just wondering who is going to replace Hawk then? Any names? That's the real problem. We've seen how much "New guys" have struggled when brought in, not just to the Sox (Singleton, DJ) but elsewhere around baseball. There's really no balance that seems to keep everyone happy outside of "Vin Scully".

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 18, 2012 -> 04:20 PM) Arizona's Secretary of State goes birther, requests confirmation of President Obama's birth from the State of Hawaii in response to email requests from his constituents, adds threat to keep him off of the ballot in November. The Arizona SecState's "investigation" in this matter was supposedly based on 1200-ish received emails asking him to look into the question. Logically, this has led people to conclude that 1200 emails is sufficient to convince the Arizona SecState to investigate anything. So far, there are now 15,000 people signed on to a petition calling on him to investigate reports that Mitt Romney is a unicorn.