Balta1701

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Aug 1, 2010 -> 12:58 PM) I really hope Palin runs in 2012 I can't make up my mind. I want the 60-40 Obama win, but I don't want to have to endure that year.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 1, 2010 -> 11:56 AM) I had my 10 year class reunion last night. It was so much fun... going to the picnic this afternoon. Get off my lawn!

DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT LISTEN TO THE POSTER AHEAD OF ME. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO GET A CREDIT SCORE FROM ANY PAY CREDIT REPORTING COMPANY. They will find whatever way to rip you off that they can. The best you can do...right now...in terms of getting an actual score, is checking the report. The recently passed financial reform bill requires these credit companies to actually give you the score number if you want it, but that was only passed a couple weeks ago and isn't going to be active for a few months at the least. Not sure exactly the schedule on it. Prior to that bill, you had zero right to actually get the "score" number that they pass around, so no company would give you access to it. The best you can do is go to www.annualcreditreport.com for now. This is the official, once-a-year, actual free credit report website. You won't have to sign up or cancel any stupid fees to get the access. They hide it as well as they can by using those other "Free credit report" sites with easier names, but that is the one to go to. You can't yet get the score, only a report, but at some point soon, that should change. One thing worth noting is that the actual "credit score" you get reported back on a loan application is usually the credit score on that loan, not necessarily an overall score, so the actual score can vary depending on the type/level of loan you're getting approved.

2 pitchers matching up who only 3 years ago were traded to the Sox together. G!

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Aug 1, 2010 -> 01:35 PM) I would be completely shocked if Kenny doesn't add a bat next month. You could have said that every month since late January.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 11:31 PM) I know you're not talking about Josh Fields in 2007? We were raving about what he was doing there. 23 HR, .788 OPS as a rookie, and he won that team a decent number of games. Despite only playing 60% of the season, he was 7th in ROY voting.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 11:29 PM) This. I'm sick of (though I love watching) other teams with all this young elite talent. Nice to have a young stud you can truly get excited about (and I haven't forgotten Beckham. But I can't stroke him again until he gets his average up to .275). We've had a young stud step up and put up a very good year with the bats each of the last 4 years.

QUOTE (mmmmmbeeer @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 11:27 PM) good power but exceptional doubles power. If he stays in shape, a lot of those doubles will start traveling 425 feet by the time he's 25. And he doesn't look to have a poor eye. A poor eye is swinging at bad pitches. That leads to strikeouts. He's aggressive, but he's aggressive within the strike zone.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 11:16 PM) I can't say for certain. But Vicedo can be on the roster. That's not the issue. Will he be used? They didn't sign Teahen to a ridiculous extension not to have him be the primary 3B (then you've got Omar who obviously warrants playing time). And you know Kotsay is going to get his ABs no matter what. So there won't be much run for Dayan regardless. The sad thing is, you've noted 1 guy who hasn't earned at bats through performance.

I keep thinking Vlad. You have to work to walk him, but you throw him a strike and you're in trouble.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 11:24 PM) I thought there'd be more complaining about our hitting tonight vs. the A's on a night we made no improvement in the offense. We're 0-1 post trade deadline. Kotsay wasn't in the lineup, Viciedo was effective, and Jones had the Sox's RBI, even though he had some defensive issues.

September 11th 2010: Burn the Quran day.

Really, justify for me why this judge is an attention hog. She's completely right on the merits of the clauses of the law she suspended; they're not likely to survive judicial review. She was recommended for the position by Senator Kyl. She's an Arizona judge, she didn't exactly request the case, she was the appropriate person to decide the case. Prior to this, none of us had ever heard of her before. Basically I can't see any reason why she's an attention hog other than "She ruled in a way I don't like!!!"

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 09:38 PM) That would sicken me as well. He's hit the ball just as hard as anyone else since he's been up. He also gives great balance to the bottom of the lineup to go along with Beckham swinging well. Jones needs to be used to give Rios some days off in CF, as Rios has really slowed down since the ASB. Actually, Rios is still hitting .305 since the AS break. The difference is that all of Rios's power came in May (1.106 OPS, 8 HR).

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 07:03 PM) who gives a f***? you can get death threats for just about anything if there is enough exposure. this judge is just an attention whore. Can you justify that beyond simply saying "she ruled in favor of non-white people"?

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 07:06 PM) balta, you do realize your sacred Democrats allow government 'stimulus' contracts to off-shore 100% of contract work? nice to know my taxes, designated for US job creation, go to pay for jobs in India. Unfortunately, there's a reason for that...because the WTO says that "Buy American" provisions are illegal. I'm conflicted on this matter. Sometimes the WTO does well, sometimes it doesn't. Of course, if we had developed a legitimate clean energy manufacturing setup over the last decade instead of letting Germany and China develop it, then the money would have stayed here anyway.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 01:23 PM) well I've been on sites where "dick" was in a word filter but it'd always come out as *bleep* Cheney when you were talking about politics. lol. "ass" isnt in the word filter either. The best one I've ever seen was the one by the Family Research Council, where they had the word "Gay" on their filter, and had it always replaced with the word Homosexual. During the 2008 Olympics, they ran an article about the sprinter "Tyson Homosexual".

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 06:47 PM) So if the Manny thing doesn't work then who else is there? Name a bad contract.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 09:33 PM) That a boy Viciedo! With the deadline passing, just play him every day and hope for the best. Hope has very little to do with it.

Is it possible that Olney and the Pirates is like Law and the White Sox, such that he won't ever say they did something right?

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 08:59 PM) do a little bit better defensively than Dayan at 3B. Were all 5 runs tonight DV's fault? Otherwise, I disagree.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 09:26 PM) Funny stat: the player with the most home runs against Tampa over the last year and a half is....Nick Swisher. Guess he really was upset to not be in the lineup against them in the 2008 postseason. LOL, he'd have struck out almost every at bat.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 06:47 PM) No one would want Berkman up until the last few weeks, as he had looked terrible at the plate. Because he's been hurt. He'd have been a reasonable gamble compared to Kotsay even if he hadn't started swinging a good bat.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 06:44 PM) Yeah, cause I said that, right? From what I can take out of this whole deadline is that KW wanted Dunn right from the beginning, and was going for Dunn or nothing. Once we fell out of the Dunn sweepstakes (I'm gonna guess it was yesterday afternoon after the Nats said they didn't want Jackson), that's when we heard about Berkman declining a trade here and today when we heard that we were going after Manny. If you don't think KW knew the asking price for Berkman mid-June, you and I know different KW's.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 05:45 PM) Haha not only does the plan involve Kotsay losing at bats, it involves him being designated for assignment. Which is why it'll really never happen. He needs to become a bench coachh.