Balta1701

I guess from where he was, going 5/20 is an improvement for Dunn. Especially since that's coming off an 0/15.

Rum + potatoes, I assume?

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Sep 20, 2011 -> 01:35 PM) Beckham, Gordon. Alexei's turned into a pretty darn good glove man as well.

The fact that these sat here unmerged tells me how much everyone else cares too.

He who mashes is himself mashed.

Forget about the ones planted to grow new potatoes?

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Sep 17, 2011 -> 07:09 PM) lol@Craig Kimbrel. My f***ing god. This guy is stupid f***ing good. No one chimes in when Kimbrel blows a save in a game the Braves really needed?

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 19, 2011 -> 09:34 PM) How the hell are you only out a month with a dislocated knee? Either that timeframe or that injury is incorrect. Link

Do we get to make Chicken gravy?

Konerko is the one flower in Walker's cap, the one guy who has seemingly done everything right and come up with big benefits. Can we keep Walker as a Konerko-only hitting consultant?

Bump. The US Dept. of Justice announced yesterday that it will oppose the Texas Congressional map and challenge its constitutionality/legality in court.

OSX Lion passwords can be changed by any user with physical access to your computer.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 20, 2011 -> 08:52 AM) Thanks Mr Obvious, you're a life saver! Correct.

Blasphemy!

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 20, 2011 -> 04:11 AM) http://www.chicagotribune.com/site/newspap...0,2328106.story Konerko, "It's Failure" on the Sox missing the post-season yet again. Correct.

David Ortiz, JD Drew, and Mike Cameron's contracts come off the books for them this offseason. They're currently at $166 million this year and their commits for next year are $122 million to 11 guys. They have a $6 million team option on Scutaro and a $3 million option on Dan Wheeler, in addition to a number of pre-arb guys, so push that to $138 million to cover those guys. They still have maybe $25 million to play with this offseason to get back to the salary for this year. Youkilis is a FA at the end of 2013 (with a 2013 option), 2012 ends and they get rid of Matsuzaka and Jenks as well. Pedroia is locked up through 2014. They could use a 3b to push Youkilis to DH/1b next year if they get rid of Ortiz, in addition to pitching and a corner OF. But they're going to have money to spend each of the next 2 offseasons.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 19, 2011 -> 08:27 PM) Gah! Typing from my phone. Was trying to edit a previous post of mine but wound up quoting myself. You're saying this new phone of yours stinks and is useless? Thanks. Good to know. :-)

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 19, 2011 -> 08:09 PM) Well to be fair, me, you, Balta, fathom, jenks, and strangesox are all accounts I made up as well. So no one would suspect anything when it came time to dominate an argument, I use them to argue with each other over things like politics and game threads, that way when it came to own a guy who was just blowing my arguments away, I could do so. Next up, trading at UBS and funding social security. Wow, you're incredibly determined to argue with yourself about politics. There's no way this is healthy. Precious. Preeecious.

available the rest of the week.

You shoulda seen that afterwards...

QUOTE (Whitewashed in '05 @ Sep 19, 2011 -> 07:15 PM) While that makes sense, I can't see the situation where neither of those teams would not be interested. Especially the Yanks with their patchwork rotation. I wouldn't be surprised if they were interested, but yeah...the $50 million posting fee...won't be happening.

Somehow, regarding Summers and Emmanuel, that doesn't surprise me in the least.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 19, 2011 -> 02:25 PM) I don't care if someone who is making more than 99.99% of the world "feels" wealthy, it's still a really, really stupid thing to say and shows how divorced he is from the reality of most people. edit I don't disagree with what you're saying there, just that ignorance isn't a good excuse. What you should realize is that the problem here is the existence of the hyper-rich. When you have the hyper-rich class, the people taking $400k a year home are going to feel poor. That's just how the psychology would work. These people don't feel rich and telling them that they are won't make them feel rich.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 19, 2011 -> 02:22 PM) #plutocratproblems You may ridicule it...but that doesn't mean that a person taking home $400k a year in this economy feels wealthy.