Balta1701

Last week's south park episode has gotten the attention of some Islamic websites.

These are amazing.

In case you haven't been following this story...Mercy, 56,000 images.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 18, 2010 -> 03:24 PM) Simon Johnson and James Kwak on Moyers. Finally getting around to watching this today. This blurb made me think quite a bit about 2k5.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Apr 19, 2010 -> 01:52 PM) Sure but do you think that the follwoing year people are going to pay the prices they are asking. Eventually the novelty will wear off. The team was awful in the 90's and built its fanbase rather than having it shrink.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 19, 2010 -> 02:34 PM) Are the Twins better than the Yankees or Rays? Probably not. Which is scary, because they're clearly better than us and DET. Do you think the Twins at the end of the season will have the 2nd best pitching staff in the AL?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 19, 2010 -> 01:32 PM) Or stepped on a third basemans back? Or he sticks out an elbow at a 1B trying to reach around him to get a wide throw? Do those compare to the way Rondo threw Hinrich into the crowd last year?

I haven't yet tried to bike in here, I did it almost every day at the last job, i've gone from 1 mile away to 4 miles away and from CA weather to middle-American weather. Plus I need to replace a tire.

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Apr 19, 2010 -> 01:45 PM) It can very easily be out of our grasp sooner rather than later if Minny keeps doing what they're doing. Seeing teams overcome mid-season 10 game deficits has been the norm over the past few years...not something abnormal.

QUOTE (hogan873 @ Apr 19, 2010 -> 01:43 PM) On the flip side, if this home stand ends up 2-4 or worse...I shudder to think what will happen. Aside from a few more "Boo"s in the ballpark, nothing. The fan sites are already freaking out like crazy, there's still every statistical reason to believe it's just a crappy start that will correct, and any GM or owner who makes a drastic change in late April based on panic over a few slow weeks deserves to wind up with a decade of losing.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Apr 19, 2010 -> 01:35 PM) We give Egypt roughly the same amount of money we give Israel. They are bribes to keep the two from going to war again. We actually give Egypt something like 60-75% of what we give Israel in a typical year, although the amount given to Israel occasinally surges forwards.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 19, 2010 -> 01:30 PM) I believe the Twins to be the best team in baseball. I strongly disagree.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Apr 19, 2010 -> 11:04 AM) Also the prices the cub charge make a fire sale tough. Why? Haven't they done most of their ticket sale damage by the time the deadline rolls around?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 19, 2010 -> 01:21 PM) Run diffs in the ALC: MIN +22 DET -3 CLE -5 KAN -8 CHW -2 And right now...Minnesota is sporting the #2 team ERA in the AL to pull that off.

QUOTE (SteveB23 @ Apr 19, 2010 -> 01:16 PM) But rockets and explosive belts cost $, and this money has to come from somewhere. Yeah, like $800 a pop for the rockets. You could raise that by just walking into a Mosque and taking up a collection. That's kind of the whole point of the style of fighting out there...one side is massively over-equipped compared to the other side.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 19, 2010 -> 01:14 PM) We've lost a lot of very close games, and won a few by large margins. So its possible. If we're -2 runs with Quentin sporting a .727 OPS and Becksy 6...that's plenty of reason to stop panicking.

Wait, that's it?

QUOTE (SteveB23 @ Apr 19, 2010 -> 01:03 PM) The US also sends billions of dollars in aid to Arab nations (including the "Palestinians"), and they are not what any sane person would consider "allies"! Military aid to Israel is something like a factor of 10 times larger than aid (virtually all of it humanitarian) to the Palestinian Authority.

QUOTE (docsox24 @ Apr 19, 2010 -> 12:58 PM) No its not a shock. But it also shouldn't have been a shock this was a bad idea in the spring and its should be pretty obvious that its a horrible idea now. It's not a shock that he's trying it now. What's going to be a shock is if he insists on keeping it up.

QUOTE (chisoxfan09 @ Apr 19, 2010 -> 12:46 PM) Don´t think you are over-reacting. Another thing that has tobe addressed is whether Pierre is going to be our lead-off answer long term. His BA is terrible and his OBP not much better but it is early and he does have 6 stolen bases in 14 on base opportunites (10 hits/4 BB´s) which is very good. Hope his BA goes up to at least .270. Juan Pierre is a .300 career hitter. It's always plausible he's finished completely...but he's actually moving on the base paths as shown by your SB numbers, so I see no reason to expect that he doesn't have his legs under him. What's more likely...he's forgotten how to hit completely, or he's in a slump to open the season and by the end of the year he'll be back up somewhere above .280?

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Apr 19, 2010 -> 12:48 PM) They aren't saying anything about a white flag in April. The point that was made is "red flag" and if this is what we are facing in 2 more months then trades mighnt be possible and they specifically mentioned a-gon If this is what we're facing in several months...then that means a severe sophomore slump for Beckham with a sub-.700 OPS, that means Quentin is essentially finished (he's sporting a .727 OPS), that means AJ and Pierre are finished, and that means Alexei's early season slump lasted for more than a short burst. Oh, and Alex Rios is the unluckiest guy I've ever seen (105 OPS+ and Babip of .289). And that Jake Peavy and Freddy Garcia are finished and Gavin Floyd has fallen apart completely.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Apr 19, 2010 -> 12:09 PM) Pods wasn't the answer. We need to stop pretending that he was, because all it's going to do is make us even angrier in the weeks to come. If Pods keeps up a 1.000+ OPS for the full season and we let him go...then yeah, we have every reason to be angry, because someone should have seen that coming.

Until the U.S. stops sending Israel several billion dollars a year in military and other aid...the U.S. is not turning against Israel.

The Rockies last year were 12 games under .500 and 15.5 games behind the Dodgers on June 3. They finished with 92 wins.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 19, 2010 -> 10:37 AM) Like I said, you already have the rules in place. This is a complete waste of time. Just like everything else big the Obama administration has done so far, it completely misses the heart of the problem, and instead creates a strawman to represent the problem. More laws solve nothing. Repeating strawman arguments over and over again doesn't change that. Until you change how we actually regulate the banks, all of the laws in the world aren't going to fix a damned thing, no matter how much you go on to demonize our system. Frankly, you're half right. This law "Solves" nothing as written. It would make things better and make the next bailout lest costly for taxpayers, but it wouldn't end them. However, a well-written law that limited leverage, created an independent consumer products version of the FDA, created penalties that increased based on the size of the financial institution, ended the conflict of interest on the part of the regulating agencies, ended the conflict of interest on the part of ratings agencies, and bringing the "shadow banking" system of derivatives, overnight lending, and all the other off-the-books stuff onto the books...that actually would very likely end them. At least until the next time we decided to deregulate the financial system.