Balta1701

QUOTE (Real @ Aug 7, 2010 -> 07:00 PM) Dude is a fatass This is what we mean when we say that we don't like insults that add nothing to the conversation.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 7, 2010 -> 09:18 PM) Aj is an idiot and he finally got burned during his antics. I don't feel bad for him at all. How was that injury related to his "Antics"? He over ran the base.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 7, 2010 -> 08:11 PM) I absolutely agree with the point you were trying to make about minorities being even more qualfied. Guess what? I want them in my department, in a heartbeat. And it's not because of woman, black, white, purple, gay, whatever... they are QUALIFIED. Is it right, though, that I have to hire a less qualified woman or hispanic or african american then the white guy? The simple answer is that you're always going to find more qualified white guys...because the system as it stands is set to churn out qualified white guys, and qualified non-white non-guys aren't the norm in our system. So, what step can we take to fix that? We can't go back in time and undo whatever damage was done on the way up, and we can't make the people who refuse to hire people because they're a minority go away either.

Did AJ at least limp off on his own power?

Crap, AJ is not going to be healthy for a few games there.

If Kotsay had stayed at 1b, we'd have the lead.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 7, 2010 -> 09:06 PM) That has to be his 6th out made on the bases this season. That's all? He has 2 in 2 days.

Yay, power came on. Nice to see Kotsay screwing up immediately.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 7, 2010 -> 05:44 PM) Well, to be fair, I did say that in my post a couple back - white guys do think they're entitled, and I don't like that point. For me, it's not that "mexicans are taking the white guy's job", it's that they have positions held for them for one of two reasons: the law makes you, or they're cheaper. I said and I agree that white guys, especially older ones, think that they are entitled to walk up and get crap handed to them. I have NEVER thought that way, I think that the best applicant should get the position. When I just went through my 18 month fiasco, I know for a fact that I was a finalist for two positions that I didn't get the job because I wasn't a minority. I was told that - should I go sue? It's against what I'm about - so I don't - but I know the predetermined minority hiring happens. AA is one of those things that was needed, and in a lot of cases unfortunately still is needed. But my entire point is in any situation like this, you've now changed the mindset to where white guys get passed over just so AA is met, and that is just as discriminatory in practice as the crap that AA is supposed to prevent. The problem we've got right now is we're out of the situation where every minority applicant is unqualified...but the inherent disadvantage hasn't been removed, so it sets up the scenario Kap cites here. I think the salary data right now clearly suggests that even with guys like Kap being passed over for positions, no one can argue effectively that we've reached a position of true "equality" in employment/hiring practices. The problem is...no matter what we do, it's totally unfair to someone and it's going to piss some people off. If you get rid of all AA programs, then when an African American gets turned down for a job at some bank or some company by a guy who happens to not like White People, he or she is going to be just as angry as Kap. Or, if the minority applicant just can't get into a top college because he or she didn't go to an exclusive enough high school, same boat.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 7, 2010 -> 05:47 PM) Be honest - is Sotomayyyyyyyyor or Kagan an "average legal mind"? Beats the Hell out of me.

QUOTE (Soxy @ Aug 7, 2010 -> 05:28 PM) In the next 30 years the only changes I see are a shift to online schools and more jobs requiring a BA or more. It's worth noting how poor of a job the for-profit, online-type colleges are doing right now as well.

Link, read whole thing.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 7, 2010 -> 05:15 PM) It would be encouraging and wonderful if the bachelors degree lost prestige in the next 30 years or at least some other higher education systems gain footing. I'm not sure how either of those are genuinely plausible.

On a different subject...Fareed Zakaria FTW.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Aug 7, 2010 -> 02:22 PM) don't blindly disavow a system that is designed to help the disadvantaged regardless of race. remember, the students you are talking about here would certainly qualify for assistance based on need, rather than based merely on race. One thing worth pointing out in response... College costs are the only thing going up at a rate that makes health care costs look cheap. When we start talking about the disadvantages according to economic status...the last 30 years have seen massive increases in those disadvantages as part of conscious policy choices at the Federal and state level. Retirement packages other than Social Security have been eroded. Medical care costs have skyrocketed, and businesses that offer medical benefits have cut back. Average wages have eroded. Educational costs have gone up, and they've gone up without any sort of offset. These are deliberate choices in many cases. Some have described them as the "ownership society" plan. We finally have slapped a bandaid on the health care part...but that especially only does so much in our new 10% unemployment world.

QUOTE (Real @ Aug 7, 2010 -> 04:37 PM) He said the rule had recently changed, and also I dont think Rios had any NTC let alone a full one I think he almost certainly had some level of NTC protection, it was asked about last year. His contract has a partial NTC the next few years and a full NTC in its final years.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 6, 2010 -> 08:03 PM) There was concern that extended into his slow start this year (he was hot the 2nd half of last year) but I don't recall anyone saying he was outright a bust. If anyone did they'd need their f***ing head examined. Yeah, there was some genuine talk of him as a bust. If nothing else, he dropped off of everyone else's top prospect list other than true Sox fans before the season because he didn't rock it last year.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 6, 2010 -> 11:38 PM) lol, Balta you kinda walked into that one I gotta say Huh?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 6, 2010 -> 08:34 PM) Being able to sign younger sure has been a big deal in the NBA. And it hasn't exactly been known for creating a generation of well adjusted, mature, intelligent players, has it?

Bring it G!

QUOTE (J.Reedfan8 @ Aug 6, 2010 -> 07:08 PM) This better not be no Rudy. I'm assuming this is likely more depth, which is solid.. though I'm not a big fan of his. What you probably need to start looking at in terms of Fernandez is whether or not contracts like this one match up with his come trading deadline time.

Aren't we long since past the point of pretending that being one of the top legal minds is a key qualification for the Court? An average legal mind but intense party loyalty has long since taken over.

"Awwww"

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Aug 7, 2010 -> 01:43 PM) Yeah but what was left of those soldiers died on Okinawa, the remaining Japanese Army was not as tenacious as what the US encountered on Guadalcanal and Iwo. They had no airplanes, fuel, vehicles, bullets or rifles. Japan was incapable of even mounting a resistance against the 1940's American war machine. Also, when you task 22,000 soldiers to defend a tiny island its a lot easier than having the same number defend all of mainland Japan. If there was a pocket of fanatical resistance we could just bomb the tar out of it and go around. If you really look at it, Japan would've surrendered in the time it took our tanks to drive from one end of the island to the other. Maybe you would have roughly the same number dead as in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but you wouldn't have opened the whole can of worms that is nuclear warfare. My opinion is...2k5 is half right. If the option was a full invasion of Japan...the death toll was going to be in the millions. By the time you got on shore, there wasn't going to be a surrender. OTOH, and the reason why in hindsight Truman was willing to be more hesitant...if the U.S. was willing before they dropped the bomb to accept some measure of the Emperor maintaining his role as the U.S. did after dropping the bomb, it might have been settled without either invasion or the bomb. Then again...

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Aug 7, 2010 -> 01:30 PM) nobody outside the White Sox and other MLB front offices know how Daniel Hudson was valued at. Doesn't mean we can't have that opinion based on our evaluation of his talent.