Balta1701

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 10, 2012 -> 05:53 PM) Zimmerman's legal team has declared that they apparently no longer represent him as they've lost contact with him. Zimmerman's former legal team also stated that Zimmerman reached out directly to Sean Hannity for an off-the-record conversation. (also against their advice).

Zimmerman's legal team has declared that they apparently no longer represent him as they've lost contact with him.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 10, 2012 -> 05:08 PM) And this was done in order to accomplish feeding the largest number of people possible. Unfortunately they have no idea what they're doing from a financial standpoint or a nutritional standpoint. Really, no it wasn't. It was done to support preferred, politically connected industries. If we were trying to feed the largest number of people possible we wouldn't be processing so much of our corn into corn syrup, plastic, and gasoline. We're trying to "produce the largest amount of a commodity we can possibly justify in order to support several well-connected industries". Fundamentally different from trying to feed people.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 10, 2012 -> 05:08 PM) The Simpsons live in Springfield, Oregon. I'm glad he said this. I'm still annoyed at the fact they called them a "Northern Kentucky Family" in one episode of the Simpsons. I like the confusion.

QUOTE (sunofgold @ Apr 10, 2012 -> 05:36 PM) We stay on rotation, right? Humber vs. Masterson or Gomez. They might use Gomez b/c he has pitched well against the White Sox. Or they might use Masterson who has pitched well against the White Sox. lol. Sox don't have another scheduled offday until April 30th. Push everyone back a day and have everyone on extra rest this time through. No reason not to use Philip while overtaxing the other guys.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 10, 2012 -> 05:32 PM) Yeah, I'm not 100% sure they'll run Masterson out there tomorrow if they don't need to. Its going to be cold and windy, its early in the season, etc. I guess we'll see what they decide. They have a travel day Thursday, so Masterson would be on 7 days rest if they didn't use him tomorrow, but then they play the Royals over the weekend with Lowe and Jiminez as the next 2 up in their order.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 10, 2012 -> 05:16 PM) Stinks because we'll miss their #5 and get Masterson instead tomorrow. They're going to just skip their 5th starter? Who is their 5th starter?

QUOTE (K-Rock @ Apr 10, 2012 -> 05:22 PM) no doubleheader tomorrow? They'll put the game later in the year to try to get a better turnout if they can.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Apr 10, 2012 -> 05:09 PM) You know, I'll just add too that it's odd to me that someone like Balta (liberal-commie....j/k!) is probably on the other side of the fence when it comes to the death penalty because it's rare to have a case where it's 100% certain that someone did the crime, and in some cases because of DNA testing and whatnot convictions have been overturned. So in those cases it's "NEVER assume anything, ALWAYS assume that the evidence is wrong and the person is 100% innocent." But in this case it's absolutely flipped. We STILL do not know exactly what happened, it's all a bunch of reports, which if the last Illinois men's basketball coaching search taught me anything, it's that reporting and journalism is pretty f***ing worthless these days. Even so, he's 100% guilty and a dirty racist to boot, and now he's going to go scot-free and this just proves that all whites hate all blacks and the world will end in 21 days. I think it's pretty 100% clear that the kid is dead. Do you disagree? You shouldn't be able to chase a kid and wind up gunning them down without punishment. I don't care what the details are, the part everyone agrees to, the part documented by recorded phone conversations, says that is what happened. If it's legal to do that, because some stupid state has decided that everyone should be armed to the teeth, then that state is wrong and people shouldn't be armed to the teeth.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 10, 2012 -> 05:01 PM) No. They recommended diets which, as you mentioned, were cheap and could feed the masses most efficiently. Unfortunately, when you do nothing but sit on your ass and stare at a screen for the majority of your days, that diet produces heart attacks. They also then gave enormous subsidies, on the orders of hundreds of billions of dollars and approaching trillions of dollars in total at this point, in order to make sure that the unhealthy food was so cheap and so ingrained into society that it couldn't be ignored. They then partnered with the food producers to make sure that the "food" was consumed, whether it wound up in schools, whether it wound up in fast food restaurants, whether it was repackaged into something even less resembling food, etc. Did you know that taxpayer dollars foot the bill for a large part of those Domino's "we're now using real cheese!" ads last year? That was part of the Ag department's gift to the big dairy producers, finding another large consumer for its product and then financing the ad campaign to go with it. So yeah, the government has actively endorsed, paid for, and encouraged its citizens to eat crap diets.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 10, 2012 -> 04:56 PM) So over the past 50 years, our government has deliberately recommended we eat diets which produce high rates of cancers and heart disease? Abso-f***ing-lutely.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 10, 2012 -> 04:53 PM) Ultimately, Zimmerman may very well be innocent. But that decision should be made by a jury, not by a Prosecutor who is concerned about their conviction ratio. As others ahve noted repeatedly in this thread SB, the law itself in question also raises the level of certainty that a prosecutor must have before he can bring charges. Thus, you should at the very least include the state legislature on that list somewhere.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Apr 10, 2012 -> 04:52 PM) Some would say that Balta likes to blow things way out of proportion. yes, that's fair. An unarmed kid getting gunned down isn't a big deal, and there's no reason for outrage when the person who did it walks.

QUOTE (Tex @ Apr 10, 2012 -> 04:48 PM) It is getting harder to sort the facts and how the law is applying them. There seems to be so much pressure to prosecute that everyone from the locals to the feds are trying to get this guy to court. I'm not suggesting the public outcry is a bad thing. I just don't want it to pervert our system of justice. After all he is innocent until proven guilty. We seem to have found him guilty and are trying to figure out a way to convict him. It might feel right, but it isn't how our system was meant to be. I really believe he escalated this and should be held responsible. I also do not believe it was premeditated. As I've said before, two guys who feared each other meet and a terrible thing happened. One guy is dead, the other should also pay some price. Some would call a law that raises the threshold for charging a guy with a gun crime in a self-defense case to an obscene level, where prosecutors default towards not charging people, to be a perversion of justice. Some would also call having a 17 year old kid dead because some guy found him suspicious to be one huge perversion of justice, no matter what happens.

QUOTE (Tex @ Apr 10, 2012 -> 04:35 PM) I agree. Would you agree that ultimately his punishment will be a couple notches worse because of the public outcry? If this had happened in a state where he was charged immediately, was prosecuted fairly and quickly, he may have pled to some reduced sentence, perhaps involuntary manslaughter, etc. But with the publicity and adding all of our societies burdens on him, he'll receive a harsher sentence. Perhaps it is the correct sentence and everyone else is treated too lightly. But I do believe he will be punished a few notches more than had this not blown up. I'm still incredibly skeptical that there will be any punishment. However, he would have been let off the hook completely and the case would have been closed without the public outcry. Which is a damn shame in itself and something others should be punished for.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 10, 2012 -> 04:38 PM) Tex, We don't even understand how best to feed ourselves. I don't believe this is true. We have plenty of good ideas on how to feed ourselves. The real issue is how to do so "Cheaply". Which is also the real issue for dogs as well. We know it's not exactly good to be downing tons of high fructose corn syrup and cheeseburgers...but that's one real cheap way to get your calorie intake. Loading up dog food with processed corn may not be the best way to feed a dog...but it's a darn cheap way to do so.

QUOTE (Julius @ Apr 10, 2012 -> 04:05 PM) It's a terrible lineup. Ventura was probably afraid of offending Rios. If you want Fuku to play, Rios should've been the odd man out. I don't have enough data to call this one terrible yet without more idea of what Ventura is doing. I could see, for example, that he might want to get Beckham up and put a certain set of thoughts in his head...like "Stop thinking about what the person before you saw and just attack the ball" or something like that. That could mean put Beckham in the leadoff spot, so he's facing the guy completely fresh. That means you can give De Aza a day off. Just hypothesizing. Not sure I'd want to keep seeing this setup regularly...unless it works.

QUOTE (ScottyDo @ Apr 10, 2012 -> 03:52 PM) WTF is going on? Does he think leadoff will help Beckham's approach somehow or something, or is this just due to a complete lack of leadoff candidates when De Aza's out? I'd have gone Fukudome.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 10, 2012 -> 03:40 PM) Thanks J4L...I never said Jackson is significantly improved. Just saying that if he HAS improved (which is very possibly), then that lineup went from dangerous to potentially great. And that rotation and bullpen are still very suspect.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 10, 2012 -> 03:37 PM) $10 million. $12 million, but you're right my number was off. I was going off of initial reports that Ozzie would receive $4 million a year. Guess the fish only gave him $3 a year. My bad.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 10, 2012 -> 03:35 PM) Does anyone here really think Ozzie Guillen would pay attention to or utilize a media consultant? Ozzie Guillen is on a $16 million contract. How many of those dollars would he be willing to sacrifice to get rid of that requirement?

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 10, 2012 -> 03:24 PM) Tigers on verge of winning again. If Austin Jackson has significantly improved from last year, that's just not fair. Austin Jackson currently has a BABIP of .727. Let's wait just a little, shall we?

Beckham leading off? Krazy. Fukudome sighting.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 10, 2012 -> 03:17 PM) That team's gone unsupported despite winning two titles in two decades. This fake outcry is getting ridiculous. Ozzie says stupid things. No one down there should be surprised. He also said these things about Castro well before he was ever hired. With Ozzie, you know what you get, and that's Ozzie being Ozzie. I'm just glad he's not our problem anymore, because his act and his inability to manage the past few seasons had gotten incredibly old. Honestly though, if you're the Marlins, and you've made the decision to risk the reputation of your franchise on making Ozzie Guillen one of the games highest paid managers, how do you not also hire him a media consultant?

QUOTE (Tex @ Apr 10, 2012 -> 02:58 PM) I'm not dismissing the people or the instiutional injustice. I'm pointing out that Zimmerman is now the person who will pay a penalty for more than what he did. He will also pay the penalty for the instiutional injustices. In other words, he will pay a penalty beyond just what he did. He will pay the penalty for those who should have paid but got off. He started a fight with a kid and wound up shooting him. It isn't farfetched to believe that this guy deserves to be in jail for first degree murder, or at the very least manslaughter. Being a social pariah for the majority of the country and a hero to the part of the country happy a black kid is off the streets (See the images on his website) seems kinda paltry compared to that, wouldn't you say?