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QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 20, 2010 -> 08:12 PM) The thing is Hendry was sitting right next to him, he couldnt just say I don't know if I will keep him around next year. He had to say what he did, but many people have said that before and changed their mind when it came down to it. With all the bad money on the roster right now, I see no way Hendry comes back. Furthermore, until you actually fire a guy, you really don't want to say anything that undermines him.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Jul 21, 2010 -> 11:08 AM) They did. I know, and despite MTV's cutaway for precious VJ Prattle and the limited number of songs performed, it was nice.

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QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 21, 2010 -> 11:00 AM) And again, these ads will do next to nothing to address the lack of knowledge. Seems to me like it's gotten attention.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 21, 2010 -> 10:42 AM) I'd do Putz + prospects not named Dan Hudson for Werth. I can't really forsee the Phils having interest in anyone in our system other than Hudson. They need a RH power bat to replace Werth so Viciedo at least is that...but they have no opening at 1b and I doubt they'd want to plug him in at 3b in their IF.

QUOTE (MattZakrowski @ Jul 21, 2010 -> 10:41 AM) Maybe they'd be interested in Putz. Not that I want to get rid of him, but I really want Werth. Now that's a starting point of a deal that I'd seriously consider if I were the Phils and I still thought I had a run in me this year.

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QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 21, 2010 -> 10:32 AM) As bad as Bobby is sometimes, he's still more consistent than Brad Lidge, who is currently their best option out of the pen. And if they're going to trade for someone, they can do better than Jenks without really trying. Hell, Dotel would be a better option. They can sit there and wait for the waiver wire reports if they just want to add someone who's struggling and overpaid.

QUOTE (Controlled Chaos @ Jul 21, 2010 -> 10:29 AM) Show me the graph where these people are unware of how AIDS is transmitted. You can't put the f***in condom on for them. Link

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 21, 2010 -> 10:26 AM) That doesn't mean that a city strapped for cash and basic services should be paying for ads about it either. Basic services, like say, public health clinics that wind up treating the new HIV infections?

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 21, 2010 -> 10:20 AM) I think Bobby Jenks would be somebody they would like. They can probably find guys on the waiver wire or DFA candidates who are just as effective. Hell, they can probably attempt to pick up Jenks off the waiver wire in a couple weeks.

Yes, and Yes. AIDS has been hammering the poor and particularly the African American community in this country for about a decade. Most of the rest of the country stopped paying attention after 1996 when the modern cocktail of drugs came out, but that segment of society is still being ravaged. There was a beautiful example of this effect that I still remember in the 2004 Vice Presidential debate; Gwen Ifill (an African American) asked John Edwards and then Dick Cheney explicitly about what steps they'd take to help with the rate of AIDS infections in the African American community in this country, and both of them gave answers about Africa because they knew nothing about what was happening in the U.S. The number of new AIDS cases in this country actually bottomed out in the early 2000's, and in a number of places the infection rate has actually been increasing for the past decade. Including in Chicago. Worth noting in addition...like many public health campaigns...if an anti-AIDS infection campaign is even remotely successful, it's not going to cost you a thing, it's going to save a ton of money, because having people get AIDS, especially poor people, is tremendously expensive, both for the government and Society. If you're spending a couple million on an ad campaign and change the circumstances enough that a couple dozen people don't get infected, you've likely just paid for the entire campaign.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jul 20, 2010 -> 06:47 PM) So Reggie Bush has to give his heisman back huh? That's up to the Heisman committee, and so far they haven't done anything.

QUOTE (girlslikebaseballtoo#26 @ Jul 20, 2010 -> 11:25 PM) I'm almost 100% positive that it's a girl he used to date. She doesn't want to mess with me! LOL Does she happen to be a friend of either of yours on facebook or something along those lines, such that if you wanted to you could casually put up a message that she'd be likely to read? For example, you could put up a status update saying "Someone tried to hack into Chase's facebook account today. Ugh, but we've got the IP address and we're going to refer it to law enforcement".

Wow, that bug thing in your sig is crazy annoying.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 21, 2010 -> 06:38 AM) Paulie might make the best picks of anyone. Ryan Zimmerman had a diving stop last night and threw the ball past Adam Dunn for an error that allowed a bunch of runs to score. I couldn't help think that PK14 woulda had it.

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QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jul 20, 2010 -> 07:27 PM) Maybe they were all AFRAID to vote against it? Afraid of being thought of as bigots if they voted against it, or perhaps of potential violence. And just because the board voted for it does not mean that the people of NY are for it. If the Muslims in the area were truly interested in fostering cultural sensitivity, they would realize that a lot of people wold see them building a mosque on the sight of 9/11 would be considered insensitive, at best, to many. Are there any other locations they can choose in NYC? Does it HAVE to be that area? Think of the positive PR they would get if they said something like "We didn't realize the reactions many would have to our desire to build our center here, and how some would consider it poor taste. We desire to get along with all peoples and will look for another more suitable location'. But no, they willcry foul as usual, while building a 'monument' to their biggest strike against the Great Satan to date. First of all, if they're voting for something they believe is wrong out of fear of violence, they ought to lose their jobs. Second, let's try this another way, something that you'll get. Think of the positive PR that a white family who lost their farm because an African American social worker refused to help them would get if they just said "oh, we didn't realize the reaction we'd get from those sorts of organizations, we should have gone elsewhere for help."

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 21, 2010 -> 08:44 AM) You know, you just the other day screamed about the Leftis extremism in politics being a problem. Now a Republican who crosses party lines is a whore? Fixed.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 20, 2010 -> 09:13 PM) It cracks me up how the filters, context, gotta be careful how this looks, etc. crowd here would be like flies on s*** to condemn a Republican in this instance, context or not. And, there'd be 5,354,852 videos, posts, and comments about what an evil, racist bastard that Republican is, again, context or not. Usually, the explanation we get from your side 2 days later is "Oh he/she was joking".

QUOTE (striker @ Jul 20, 2010 -> 11:54 PM) How about DHing Quentin and putting Teahen in RF? He'd hit better than Andruw. Teahen's probably not much better than Q out there in RF right now. That said, a Jones/Teahen RF platoon with Q at DH sets things up pretty darn well. Keeps Kotsay on the bench unless Konerko's getting a day off, keeps Teahen from ever having to face a LHP with his numbers against them.

QUOTE (Knackattack @ Jul 20, 2010 -> 11:32 PM) Could swing him in a 3 team deal to get Huddy in a Oswalt deal. Huh?

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 20, 2010 -> 07:20 PM) Kenny hasn't majorly overpaid in a trade in a long, long time. The Swisher trades...

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 20, 2010 -> 06:13 PM) I'm saying that hypothetically, had there been some kind of gradual assimilation or co-existence instead of being wiped out by diseases and war, the Indians would've traded with the Europeans, adopted their technology, gone to universities, etc. and wouldn't have just frozen in time like the other statement I was making would suggest. This is about as far into the hypothetical realm as possible, but I wonder how much the imperialism and control and wealth of the European powers wound up being key to the technological revolutions of the 1600's through 1800's, just along the lines of the old "you have to have enough food for everyone before you can sit around and think about how gravity works" setup.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 20, 2010 -> 05:47 PM) Also it's been like 400 years and it's kind of silly to suggest that Indians should be living exactly how they were in 1721 or whatever. They'd be using guns, electricity, driving cars, have running water, and so on, just like we do now. Not trying to be too arrogant as a European, but do you really think that every culture has been on an inexorable technological climb, such that this is really the case?