Balta1701

QUOTE (flavum @ May 5, 2011 -> 08:59 PM) Viciedo just walked!!! Balta, I'm talking to you. I am mollified

QUOTE (knightni @ May 5, 2011 -> 08:53 PM) Speedy, limited power, flashy at SS. I don't think either of the last 2 apply to Castro

QUOTE (flavum @ May 5, 2011 -> 08:29 PM) ...and a homer for Viciedo. Um, so yeah, we're going to have to ask you to get on a plane to Seattle. Talk to me when he takes another walk

QUOTE (knightni @ May 5, 2011 -> 07:48 PM) Starlin Castro reminds me of Elvis Andrus. Why?

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ May 5, 2011 -> 01:39 PM) Last 10 games (43 AB) for Dayan: .349/.341/.558/.899 2 HR, 3 2B, 11 RBI, 0 BB, 9 K TAke note of course of the 0 bb's when I say he's still not ready

QUOTE (hi8is @ May 5, 2011 -> 08:30 PM) He's on the 40 man roster. Really? He's not on the 60 day dl?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 5, 2011 -> 08:12 PM) Higher interest rates would be good for the economy? No one said that, of course you're probably right that the fed would raise rates, since high unemployment is their new goal

1 game suspension for Artest

QUOTE (Tex @ May 5, 2011 -> 06:22 PM) I believe the point he is making is we actually borrow that money for them. Which is kind of interesting, if debt is so damn good for a country, why don't they just borrow it themselves? Because that would strengthen their currency, which is a bad thing for them.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 5, 2011 -> 06:06 PM) Putting Quentin back up there would probably result in one of his patented cold streaks. Carlos is already 3 for his last 24 with a .393 OPS.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 5, 2011 -> 05:27 PM) Fixed Dude, first of all China owns less than 10% of U.S. debt, most of it is held by the Federal Reserve and private U.S. investors. Secondly, if China stopped buying U.S. debt, it'd be a good thing for the U.S. economy and a very bad thing for the Chinese manufacturing market.

QUOTE (Tex @ May 5, 2011 -> 05:05 PM) So I'd guess Pakistan believes they are a real country with flags, holidays, police and laws and all that s***. If Pakistan is Angry, I'd suggest the first thing they should do is turn down the $3 billion we give them in aid every year out of protest. Otherwise, they aren't really angry.

QUOTE (Tex @ May 5, 2011 -> 05:05 PM) You mean if they photoshop a pic of him in 6 months holding a newspaper you will believe it? The fake photo thing will go both ways. Some will say the US photos are a hoax and the "alive" photos are real. Others will claim the dead photos are real and the live are faked. It'd actually be interesting to see what he looked like last Friday.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 5, 2011 -> 04:05 PM) We might as well start Viciedo at 1B in Charlotte and get him up here as soon as we can trade away Paulie. NO MORE POSITION CHANGES FOR VICIEDO GOD **** IT

QUOTE (fathom @ May 5, 2011 -> 02:29 PM) Last time there was a source at a hospital story that came out, it ended up being about Quentin and his broken wrist in '08. That was not the last time there was a source at a local hospital for a story.

QUOTE (oldsox @ May 5, 2011 -> 10:39 AM) Pierre should go. Sacrifice 3/4's of his salary. We won't get a draft pick for him. We should call up The Tank and see what happens. Can't be any worse. That will open another spot in minors for someone, as well as the 40 man roster. We have to find out if he is the real deal. Pierre's remainning salary is wasted anyway. Come on Kenny, do something. If the Tank is simply not ready (and he's still been struggling to start the year) then yes, it can be worse. Not just this year, but in terms of solidifying bad habits for the long term.

The Metropolitans have zero room to take on Peavy's contract.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 5, 2011 -> 10:47 AM) The Twins have pulled the plug on Casilla as the everyday SS and were THIS close to pulling Liriano and Blackburn from the starting rotation before we faced them.. Just think...we've made them give both of those pitchers 3, maybe 4 more starts before they get pulled from the rotation for struggling. What a brilliant sabotage plan!

Apple put out an iPhone OS update today that supposedly turns off the automated hidden location cache.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 5, 2011 -> 10:24 AM) Providing photographic evidence is not a stronger message than just relying on US government statements/press conferences? Seriously? From the perspective of people we're talking about here? We already know the operation happened. We've seen the destroyed helicopter on satellite photos. We've seen the guy who twittered the thing live. The Pakistanis are annoyed. We've seen the blood. No one is just relying on US government statements/press conferences.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 5, 2011 -> 10:07 AM) I'm talking about doubters in the middle east. Apparently we're so worried about offending them with a gruesome picture (or "p****footing" around with the photo issue as Palin called it), but we're not worried that we'll leave open the conspiracy that he was never killed in the first place? Seems pretty dumb to me. The doubters in the Middle East will look just as stupid as the doubters in the U.S. Hell, I haven't even seen a purported "Al Qaeda" statement denying that he was dead, have you? Pandering to the beliefs of idiots is not a very solid reason to release those photos, and it's still a far cry from your statement that it'd somehow be sending a message in a way that the actual killing of UBL did not.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 5, 2011 -> 10:00 AM) I think there are various types of deniers out there. There's your extreme conspiracy theorists who won't believe anything, even if they see it with their own eyes. But I also think there are skeptics out there who question whether Bin Laden is really dead and a picture of proof (including perhaps pictures of his burial service) would leave no doubt. Look at the birther issue. Nearly 40% of the population kinda bought into it. Obama gave proof, and now you're just left with the nut jobs who think it's all a fake. Proving things to crazy american nutjob conspiracy theorists is a far cry from what you said in your previous post to justify Palin saying that Obama was "p****footing" around with the photos and that releasing them would be a warning. Furthermore, I don't care what some conspiracy theorists think. He's dead unless someone releases a photo of him with today's newspaper, and anyone who, 6 months from now is still saying he's alive will look pathetic. You don't need to cater to them. No one, whether they're on fox or not, in their right mind should be thinking he's alive.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 5, 2011 -> 09:52 AM) Well, it is a warning in the sense that even if it takes us 10 years we're still going to find you. I think Palin is an idiot, but I honestly don't think she said anything wrong there. How does releasing the photos change that?

President Bush Reacts to Osama Bin Laden's Death with Will Ferrell from Will Ferrell

More Sony data loss.