Balta1701

Germany hit >20% of its power from renewable sources in the first half of 2011.

At what point does it become fair game to hope that Katia takes aim at Florida rather than turning north and re-hitting the Northeast? (Sorry Flaxx)

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 1, 2011 -> 11:14 AM) All you have to do is look at yesterday to understand we need a long reliever. If Peavy goes out and gets destroyed again in the second inning, we toast our pen going into the biggest series of the year. Then call up Philip Humber, keep Stewart on the Roster, and bring in Reed and that one other guy from AAA people keep mentioning who's name I keep forgetting.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Sep 1, 2011 -> 01:49 PM) beat you to it. Slowing down with age.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 1, 2011 -> 01:07 PM) Kevin_Goldstein Kevin Goldstein No, but I would like to see him start next year. Potential 2/3. RT @shawngidley: @Kevin_Goldstein Does Chris Sale project as an ace? I'd love to know what he projects as an "Ace"/#1.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 1, 2011 -> 02:12 PM) With nothing real to base it on, I wouldn't be surprised if Belle was in that juicing category. Not the Albert I meant. But interesting thought.

QUOTE (sunofgold @ Sep 1, 2011 -> 01:58 PM) Konerko could wind up with some better numbers than Thomas. This could be an interesting debate...who is/was a better player? Konerko is still a work in progress if you are comparing the two...but... Career Hits: PK: 2008, FT: 2468 Career Average: PK: .283 FT: .301 Career HRS: PK: 393 FT: 521 Career RBIs: PK: 1248 FT: 1704 Career Rs : PK: 1003 FT: 1494 Career OBP: PK: .359 FT: .419 Career Slugging: PK: .502 FT: .555 Konerko would have to play at least 4-5 more years to catch Thomas in some of these departments like HRs, RBIs. He has a good chance of getting more hits than Frank (maybe 2 1/2 - 3 years away?). Also have to think about defense and other intangibles. Speed...Thomas is faster and 32 SB to PK's 9. lol! Paul Konerko will never be the hitter that Frank Thomas was at his peak. Outside of the juicers, I don't know that we've ever seen a hitter like that. Maybe Albert. That said...Frank Thomas had a long career, but Konerko keeps dragging on in a different way it seems. If Paulie somehow keeps up this current production level through this contract, then he's going to have had an incredibly consistent career, even with the couple of injury-weakened seasons.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Sep 1, 2011 -> 02:04 PM) Production from Rios and especially Dunn were givens. I also think the Hudson trade hurts Williams here. If anyone took production from Rios as a "Given" considering his 2009 season, then that's fireable right there. And yes...the Hudson trade hurts KW, because that trade caused KW to spend an extra $10 million or so between 2010 and 2011.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Sep 1, 2011 -> 02:01 PM) That has nothing to do with it. Jerry might feel that there are a lot of issues this season but that KW and Ozzie are like sons to him and deserve a second chance in 2012. Family is strong. 2012 would be a 4th chance.

I will add...PECOTA had the White SOX in 3rd place, as a .500 team, because it predicted a falloff from an aging Paul Konerko. So the Sox are slightly outperforming PECOTA on record, but their run differential (-2) is right where Pecota thought it would be.

QUOTE (Tex @ Sep 1, 2011 -> 01:55 PM) Plus what KW's plan is going forward. If he can inspire JR, if he can convince him that his strategy is sound, he probably is back. I would imagine that startegy and vision will involve a bew manager and at least some change in the coaching ranks (Walker?) I wouldn't really care what his plan was going forwards. He's saddled this team with a series of bad contracts and bad trades. If he admitted that last season and the Chairman still said "Here's the money"...then that's the Chairman taking responsibility.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Sep 1, 2011 -> 12:27 PM) BALTA can you pull the following information Sox team projected WAR at the start of the season The current White Sox WAR This will give us an indication as to what kind of job guillen is doing and what kind of job he should have been doing. The WAR projections are seemingly more than I can do, Fangraphs doesn't appear to publish that except based on fan voting.

In terms of KW being removed...in my opinion, it all comes down to what he told JR when he convinced him to spend the money last year. If he told him that he could spend $125 million and be competitive but that he'd still give it a 50/50 shot of winning the division because of these caveats (Peavy's arm, Konerko having a down year, whatever)...then the Chairman made the call on spending that money. If he told him that "I'll stake my reputation that if you spend $125 million we will win the Central..." well...

QUOTE (Tex @ Sep 1, 2011 -> 01:44 PM) I've been laughing all morning. Thanks. Senility?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 1, 2011 -> 11:10 AM) I don't care if Birmingham is in the playoffs or not. Chicago is more important than Birmingham. Hell, then use Sale more. We already have 3 lefties.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 1, 2011 -> 11:07 AM) Chicago>Birmingham well, um... Playoffs > no playoffs?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 1, 2011 -> 10:59 AM) It will be interesting to see if he gets the recall to operate as the long man. BHam still has a playoff run ahead of it right?

Unless there's a different muscle I'm not regularly working out.

At least he found his groove again.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 1, 2011 -> 10:03 AM) Did you really just compare Dewayne Wade to Joe Cowley? :lolhitting :lolhitting Not deliberately. I read something about Miami accepting Chicago's garbage, and there you go.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 1, 2011 -> 10:01 AM) In terms of economic impact, it would vary greatly. The biggest differences being that some of the programs you are talking about actually have people paying taxes, and many don't. So if you are talking about a tank or welfare, yes the economic impact is going to be greater, especially for beloved government spending, because they will actually get some money back from that spending. The economic impact of infrastructure will also be less, because after the initial spending, the work is gone, which is why the labor union giveaway version of the stimulus is also so short sighted. You'll get timesavings impact potentially, most likely temporary as more traffic moves to fill the added capacity, but then again if no one is working because the job was temporary, where are they driving to exactly? But then that is where you are missing the whole point of an actually successful stimulus program. It isn't supposed to be to create temporary work for the President's favor donors, it is supposed to be to spur the private sector into a recovery, so the government doesn't have to be the one supporting everyone. The thing that really bugs me about this post is that if you subbed in "Tax cuts", I'd actually agree 100%, and you'd disagree 100%. You're completely right on most of the logic here...that the best thing you can do for stimulus is taking people off the rolls of the unemployed and adding them to the employed...and that the government actually saves a ton of money on that deal right now since that's taking people off of unemployment and Medicaid and moving them into jobs. That's exactly the argument I made for why tax cuts are ineffective as stimulus and tax increases are only a weak negative on the economy, while infrastructure investment is a strong positive and job cuts are a big negative. The one different point I can make on "Welfare" as you call it (which is, at this point, a very small program), or if you want to lump in unemployment benefits as well go ahead...is that in those cases, the money gets spent almost every time because the people receiving it actually have very little other income. That increases the multiplier in those cases. But you're completely right...the best thing you can do is take people who are unemployed and actually employ them in good jobs. Some of your post is incoherent though. The benefit of infrastructure is less than that of building a tank because once the infrastructure is built the benefit goes away? The exact same standard applies to hiring people to build tanks...unless you destroy the tank, once you build the tank, you no longer employ anyone to build it. Except if you built a road, or solar panels, whatever, you continue to get economic benefits from having that new road or power plant...whereas if you have a tank, it sits around unless something needs blown up. Also...the obligatory shot at unions doesn't work that well when you're defending spending that also goes to unionize defense contractors.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 1, 2011 -> 09:53 AM) I didn't know Miami had an agreement with Chicago to accept our garbage. Dwyane Wade says hi.

Really, you want to tell me that spending money on a tank is better for the economy than spending money on 100 teachers? Or on a road? Rail line, whatever?

Happy Birthday!