Balta1701

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 09:08 PM) You know we'll pitch Thornton, Sale and Santos tonight...and then not be able to pitch them tomorrow due to overuse. We won't be in a close game tomorrow either will we?

The opm list I checked says that government hiring was 13,000 jobs between 2009 and 2010, except that was with census jobs counted in 2010, which would mean the opm says ex-census the federal government cut jobs after Obama took over. It also shows that the Feds added 100k jobs between 07 and 10 everywhere outside of the defense department, which was the rest of the hiring and only accounted for 180k over that time, which is probably a consequence of fighting 3+ wars.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 08:56 PM) Yep. Addison Reed too, whenever he's ready. Viciedo obviously. You want Ozzie to have his chance with them?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 08:56 PM) Mike Martz doesn't believe in pass-catching non-blocking tight ends His team also needs blocking.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 07:02 PM) And actually that graph is incorrect. At least according to the OPM numbers. Link?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 07:02 PM) Exactly. Because of Twitter, everyone thinks that Domonic Brown and Brandon Beachy should be White Sox now, but no one knows exactly what KW was offered for those two and what they actually could have received. Given the amount that other teams got for similar players, there was a deal to be made, just not a stellar one. An ok deal would have been ok.

QUOTE (Cali @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 08:44 PM) They've had some bad luck at Camden over the years... I swear Jenks blew like 5 saves there. That was where the Don't stop believin' night came from.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 08:36 PM) How the f*** do you go to your owner and say "If you want me back, you need to do this, this, and this" when your team is 4 games under .500 in August with the largest payroll in team history? Arrogance be damned. "if you don't, look at the kind of crap I'll do. I'll pitch to Cano with an open base and 2 runners in scorin position. I'll bunt in the first inning down 4 runs and play for 1 run. I'll play Rios everywhere, everyday!"

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 08:41 PM) Yeah, it was as critical as Hawk/Stone have been on the air about Ozzie Lets me clear last nights Colbert Report out of the DVR

QUOTE (Cali @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 08:42 PM) So 1 more vs. the Yankees, 3 @ Minnesota and 4 @ baltimore. 13 game losing streak? Well get a win or two in Baltimore.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 08:40 PM) You don't even want to know about the top of the 1st I'm reading. At least it seems fun bad now.

Well I see were not getting shutout. That's good.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 06:48 PM) Ah, see? One of the two responses that I expected I got nothin' if you're waiting on me for the other one.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 05:24 PM) A bad farm system forces you to over pay guys like that. I hope they commit long term to AJ and use him in the farm system. He seems like one of the few in this organization that really knows the game. I can't even fathom how someone would think this is a good idea

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 05:15 PM) And that pretty much proved my point about the expansion with the massive peak. You do realize that's entirely the census, correct?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 04:59 PM) Ah, my mistake, I thought federal employment was down as well. Give this current deal a chance to work for 6 months or so and you'll be right. Edit: Gives me a chance to show this graph. Starts from Dec. 07.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 04:56 PM) I'm pretty sure the number of government employees is down significantly and the ACA is considerably less expansive than the Great Society and was unrelated to the economic downturn. Be a little clear here...local governments are down by nearly a half million employees, State governments are down a little (because the Feds helped them out temporarily) and federal employment is currently up by 100k or so since the start of the crisis.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 04:53 PM) Nice Rahm quote. And we got the largest expansion of the federal government since the new deal, so he got it. You seriously expect me to believe that anything done in the past 3 years is bigger than the Great Society programs of the 60's in scale?

MLB is investigating ARod for having participated in illegal, underground poker games.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 04:50 PM) They look hit or miss in the previews. Some look real and others very fake. I dislike CGI as well, but one thing I CAN say is that they're definitely getting there. The main ape is played by Andy Serkis.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 04:48 PM) No it didn't. It produced numbers that didn't install a panic. That was the big thing at that time. Yup. And the Republicans have not ripped on anyone for saying that the crisis produced a beneficial policy situation. No one wanted a crisis, they just didn't want a crisis to go to waste.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 04:39 PM) They are just as patient as any other organization when it comes to coaches. Somewhere in the afterlife, Billy Martin was just fired because you wrote this.

Except in this case, the BEA (and BLS) produced numbers that hurt the ability of the sitting government to get its policy through.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 04:22 PM) Let me take a stab: These numbers are never available quickly enough and therefore it's impossible to craft good government policy to address them. A better answer might be that if there's reason to suspect that there is a rapid change happening in the market, then we ought to assume that the models are underestimating its intensity and we need to really go above and beyond what the standard response should be. Hopefully I'm not alive the next time someone needs to remember that lesson.