Balta1701

Quothe the Floridian...nevermore.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Oct 19, 2009 -> 04:17 PM) A 3 yr deal would be very foolish. Would you do 2/$20 to beat the Angels offer?

Do the Yankees have their pitcher batting?

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Oct 19, 2009 -> 03:04 PM) Sciosc better win the manager of the year award. Gardy?

QUOTE (Friend of Nordhagen @ Oct 19, 2009 -> 02:50 PM) It's like the same story every year for that team. If they go down again, will Scioscia feel some heat? Probably not, but I do wonder if they tend to press when on the ropes. No.

Made that contour plot my B****! After about 8 hours of work, that is.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Oct 19, 2009 -> 02:42 PM) Sugarcane says hi. Half the emissions of regular gas. Rapidly renewable, its what led Brazil to energy independence. No, finding oil supplies offshore did that. They've made a dent with sugarcane, but the U.S. isn't exactly the climate for that. The U.S. actually consumes more ethanol than Brazil does as well, because Brazil consumes so much less energy. According to the EIA in 2006, ethanol made up ~50% of the fuel for Brazil's passenger vehicles, but only 20% of it's total fuel consumption (Diesel trucks, etc.) Sugarcane is a niche thing in terms of ethanol production. If you have the right climate it can work. But if you have to cut down, let's say, a gigantic rainforest to clear space to grow the sugarcane, you lose all of the possible benefits of replacing oil with ethanol in terms of carbon emissions and pollution. And you lose some irreplaceable rainforest too.

I wonder which team batting average will be higher...Angels in 2005 ALCS or Angels in 2009 ALCS?

Yeah, of course that stuff is out, it's post-June.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 18, 2009 -> 04:32 PM) There's no way the Bills can beat a team with THE Mark Sanchez at QB is there? Nope. And folks, right there, that's why Dick Jauron is not a winning NFL coach. You get within difficult field goal range with 1:30 on the clock, you run the ball thrice, call time with 4 seconds on the clock, and you're still facing a 45 yard kick.

There's no way the Bills can beat a team with THE Mark Sanchez at QB is there?

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Oct 18, 2009 -> 03:31 PM) Never really understood the argument that a team "running up the score" in the pros deserves to have a player get injured. Do your f***ing job and stop them from scoring. Because the odds of that team losing the game are so low at that point compared to the odds of injuries happening that it's really a stupid bet. You gain absolutely nothing by having your A team on the field in a 52-0 game, the other team isn't coming back, and if they score 35 in a row then you can put Brady back in. But almost every game there's a player or two who go down with some sort of injury. If you're playing your A team when they don't need to be, you're just asking for one of them to go down.

No denying that's what he was indicating.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Oct 18, 2009 -> 03:24 PM) I would love to see an NFL team win 84-0 or something similar. And I have no problem running up the score in the pros. The other players are paying paid to stop you, if they can't F them. I'm guessing the NE starters are probably done now though. And I'd love to see Brady throw that 9th touchdown and then have someone roll in to his knee again. Because that's exactly what a team doing that would deserve.

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Let's not give any more details about your adventures, ok big spender?

With normally sound defensive teams and normally sound pitchers/closers randomly blowing it against the Yankees, you have to wonder if they haven't just already bought that trophy.

Just another lazy sunday, back working on to chapter 2...

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 18, 2009 -> 08:28 AM) If only we had some sort of agency responsible for banks that could prevent these sort of problems... I believe G.S. bought them out about 3 years ago.

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Xcuse me. I've been writing a thesis. That chapter just hit 50 pages. And I don't double space.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 16, 2009 -> 11:50 AM) Sort of. Its not that black and white, which I am sure you know. As long as they could issue corporate bonds backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government, which they can quite literally do, then of course they have the capital.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 17, 2009 -> 05:22 PM) There are many worse moves the Sox could make. Switching to Manny's doctor, for example.

Wow, this thread got bumped? I'll say again, if it costs us anything in terms of talent or the Cubs chip in less than 60% of his salary, not interested.

And once again I'll reply to your defense of G.S. that whether or not they repaid back the TARP money specifically they're still the beneficiaries of hundreds of billions of dollars worth of government largesse from the Fed, the destruction of Lehman brothers, the bailout of AIG, and the implicit guarantee that comes from them being too big to fail, amongst other things. They're still at the casino with a big chunk of your money knowing that if they lose big time, they won't have to pay it back.