Balta1701

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 10, 2011 -> 01:19 PM) b****, please. You aren't looking at 10-16 inches of snow tomorrow. Call it what it really is. "Tuesday."

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jan 10, 2011 -> 12:55 PM) took me about 2 seconds to find this gem. there's a lot more as well if i wanted to waste my time digging them up. http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/06/14/o...we-bring-a-gun/ “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” That's actually a good one.

You saved the stool sample I hope.

Will you submit to blood-tests to make sure?

Useless non-poisoned consumer.

Someone needs to fatten you up.

Quit applying your arbitrary standards of health and beauty to everyone else.

Obviously, they're just enforcing the will of the people

Meat has better lobbyists.

Kids need their vegetables to grow up healthy.

I guess my digestive system would be content with that.

Gotta believe it'd be tough to get there with the conditions here, but you should still try. A V-22 might do it.

Everyone would fit, right?

Can we come?

QUOTE (IChaseBlackWood @ Jan 10, 2011 -> 11:34 AM) Bad news for any Buch fans ...after he decided to wake me at 1:30 AM with 4 consecutive phone calls to Chase's VERY loud cell phone, I am considering taking a hammer to his throwing arm ...just sayn!! lol "Power" button.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 10, 2011 -> 11:27 AM) But's it's still a fallacy to assume that because B lies between A and C, B is a good compromise. It could be that A is terrible, B is bad, C is good, so compromising from C to B would be a bad idea. Basically it assumes that the current political window represents the true range with extremes on each end and good, pragmatic solutions in the middle. What these guys are doing though isn't really that fallacy...it's probably a step sillier. They're advocating for policies that they want (lower upper class taxes, social security and medicare cuts used to pay for them, etc.) and declaring that those policies are the centrist position. Their game is to claim that "D" is between "A and C" and therefore, D is the centrist and just and correct policy. And D just happens to be everything that would benefit them.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 10, 2011 -> 11:02 AM) I think we all kinda owe LeBron at least a semi-apology. The Cavs are 1-18 since December 2nd. They are f***ing awful. My goodness. Let's not forget...Lebron was the one dictating most of their personnel decisions through last year.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jan 10, 2011 -> 11:09 AM) The projection systems don't like any of the Sox starters. I think they're probably the most pessimistic projections I looked at. They thought all the starters were going to sport FIPs around 4. Which I find kind of unrealistic since Floyd has been around the 3.5 range the past two years. I can see it for Danks and Jackson, but those are probably the base projections. Danks had one bad year FIP-wise and that was 09. Jackson's probably going to end up in the high 3s. I can definitely agree with Buehrle's projection though. They also lose 1.5 WAR in Putz and replace him with Crain, who is at .7 WAR. Thornton's not projected to be a 2 WAR pitcher like he was last year. Jenks also had an uncharacteristically high WAR despite being bad. This is where bWAR and fWAR differ since one looks at FIP and the other looks at ERA. Also, you can add in a possible regression for Sergio Santos. It's not huge losses across the board, but these things add up. I figured it was a number of things, but I also figured that somewhere in there it was projecting worse years from a number of our starters, which I wouldn't buy, and you've confirmed that.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 10, 2011 -> 11:04 AM) Oh please. The guy is a 31 year old white male with left wing leanings. Odds are that he got more out of FPS games and Hollywood than he did Sarah Palin. Funny, that doesn't get mentioned, with the left wingers here that jumped on this first because it was a Dem Congressperson who got shot. If it was really an attack on the "climate" of hate, IT WOULDN'T BE ONE SIDED. When you are posting from just one side, you are trying to take advantage of dead people to further your own selfishness. And if you really want an answer, find me where I defended the ad, at all, ever. That is complete bulls***. You can take advantage of this all you want, but at least have the stones to not act like this is something it isn't. Please...give me examples of these people on the left who are advocating second amendment solutions to our problems, who are saying don't retreat, reload, Who are bringing signs to events saying "we came unarmed this time" regularly, who are bringing weapons to political events, etc. Please give me examples of the people on the left who are going over this line.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jan 10, 2011 -> 11:00 AM) 20 WAR isn't bad, but it's a 5 WAR downgrade from last season. Can you be more specific as to which spots we've downgraded @?

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jan 10, 2011 -> 10:43 AM) His comments were in relation to middle relievers not closers. He said don't even get him started on closer. I disagree with that as well but it's a different discussion. I agree that a bullpen is more than a closer but he seems to think that good relievers are a "dime a dozen" but I just don't see them everywhere in baseball. I'm reading this wrong? It sure seems to me, even on a second reading, that he's saying Closers are a dime a dozen.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 10, 2011 -> 10:47 AM) It's not about bringing her back, I've already covered this. He's now a drain on the economy, nothing more, and he never will be anything more. He CHOSE the life of suffering and loneliness, he KNEW the only two outcomes of this were 1) he dies or 2) what he gets now...the little girl didn't choose what she got, however. He's more of a drain on the economy if the State chooses to kill him.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 10, 2011 -> 10:28 AM) Who said that? No one here, but you know as well as I do that's what's going to be on the table. The right wing has been fairly relentless in decrying public employees as "overpaid" over the past year, and it's quite clear that pension cuts nationwide are going to be a major part of the states balancing their budgets this year.

Congresswoman Giffords's husband Mark has an identical twin brother named Scott Kelly. Mark, I already noted, is an astronaut. Turns out Scott Kelly is as well. Scott Kelly, interestingly enough, is currently orbiting the Earth.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 10, 2011 -> 10:17 AM) It does for me. Anyone caught red handed should be dealt with in this same way. I'm not talking about people accused of murder...I'm talking about people we KNOW did it, so there is no in-between or possibility of innocence. And I take a lot of pride in the fact that our system doesn't work the way you want it to.