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QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 29, 2009 -> 08:45 AM) Great first step. but it does not cover BLM or NPS land, which are under Interior - hopefully Salazar will make a corresponding move. Then, ideally, the oversight of such roadless areas for development should be combined in a single reviewing body, instead of spread out over seperate departments and agencies. And as a final cement, take all the internal recommendations for Wilderness designations and upgrade all the WSA's out there. Well, there's a reason why these are spread out amongst different agencies though...the road access is for different purposes. I'm not sure it makes sense to have a single agency be a clearinghouse deciding where logging can go, where mining can go, and where tourist and other transit travel can go. Different purposes for each.

Usually I prefer skim milk for drinking an 2% on cereal/for other cooking. Therefore, 1% winds up being a reasonable compromise.

Well, Orlando had their shots and that was a Hell of a comeback, but they just didn't have it in them to finish tonight. They ought to just come out and stomp on the Cavs in game 6.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ May 28, 2009 -> 08:00 PM) The Cavs really needed a laugher today,you get the feeling that if it's close in the final seconds,the Cavs will self destruct under the pressure. That means someone has to stop #23.

Magic need to survive the opening of this quarter with Howard on the bench...

Today's commercial of the night I have to mention: Pizzeria Uno commercial on the magic broadcast. I'm so going to go cry now.

Get the feeling right now that the Magic are just on the edge of breaking the Cavs spirit.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 28, 2009 -> 06:35 PM) By the logic bailing out the banks was the smartest thing we have ever done because of the additional multiplier effect through lending. Somehow I doubt you really believe that. If the economy actually turns around rather than falling off a cliff when the next couple bumps hit...then I'll have little choice but to start believing that...because the Fed/treasury bailouts will have worked. I've been fairly amazed by the market's ability to absorb bad news for the last 2+ months and still shrug it off. (The counter-point to your argument, if I wanted to make it...is the math again. If there's a similar multiplier for the banks, then letting the banks fall would have taken out $25 trillion or so in GDP, based on the $700 billion from the Treasury and the $2 trillion+ from the Federal Reserve. That basically means the world would go back to an agrarian, hunter-gatherer society, I think).

18 37 35 21 Scores by quarter.

QUOTE (hogan873 @ May 28, 2009 -> 06:22 PM) I was reading up on this and thought I saw JR's name mentioned. The other interested party was looking to move the team to Hamilton, Ontario. I wonder if Reinsdorf's intention would be to move the team, and if so where? I know that the Glendale location is terrible for that team. I don't know if the Chicago area could support a second hockey team...not that he would move them here. Is there a 2nd stadium somewhere they could play in? (Is there possibility of one from the olympic bid?)

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 28, 2009 -> 06:18 PM) Excellent. Now you get why it is even dumber to be pissing away tax dollars into the auto industry under the guise of "high paying jobs". There's a big difference though. In the case of the defense department, 100% of its financing is public money. In other words, if I want to generate a high paying job, I need to have the taxpayer spend 100% of the cost of that job. In the Automobile industry...GM in the first quarter reported revenue of $42 billion and a loss of $3.3 billion. If I assume those numbers are accurate (I have no idea if they're being treated like a bank or not)...if the government covers the entire loss, then the government is paying less than 10% of the price of running the company. GM is therefore in this case analogous to the PPIP the Treasury is trying to work...it's paid for by a combination of government funds and private dollars, except the public is always going to fund a portion of the company willingly, because the public gets cars out of it. And the multiplication factor is important...if the government doesn't cover that 10%, then the other 90% goes to chapter 7 and vanishes. A $3 billion dollar cut produces a $50 billion loss to GDP. Whereas in the DOD, a $1 billion cut to a DOD program = a $2 billion cut to GDP.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 28, 2009 -> 06:12 PM) Why, you made the same analogy for the defense budget? Is the total number of dollars in the defense budget going up or down? Until the wars end, I'd say that if you count all dollars being spend on the department of defense, they're still going up, whereas if you count all dollars going towards automobile production, public and private, the latter is going down. More money is being spent on the DOD, less money is being spent on the department of automobile manufacturing.

The Cavs can't shoot 80% for the whole game can they?

This Time Magazine profile of defense secretary Gates made him grow on me a little more.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 28, 2009 -> 03:56 PM) Sure we are. Who the heck do you think is financing all of this? Santa Claus? I just find that a bizarre way to look at the auto industry bailouts. Yes, the line item in the federal budget for "The auto industry" has gone up, but at the same time the auto industry is contracting substantially. Just struck me as a very weird way to think about the changes in that industry...to say that "we're increasing the budget for the auto industry" when the total amount of dollars (public + private) going in to automobile construction has dropped off.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ May 28, 2009 -> 05:27 PM) Just saw Carl Crawford's stats and wow. 30 SB and 0 CS. How much longer is here a Ray for? I would have to think the Sox would make a run at him in FA or via a trade. Offseason after 2010. Why is this in the Cubs thread?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 28, 2009 -> 05:24 PM) The could resign him before arbitration. Or the Sox could offer him arbit, and if he declines, they can still negotiate with them. The Sox would almost certainly not offer him arbitration, given that he's making $14 million this year. Thome's camp wouldn't agree to let the Sox do that and then decline it; they'd be hurting the market for their player because Thome'd likely be a type A free Agent, and thus it'd cost a draft pick to sign him.

QUOTE (Brian @ May 28, 2009 -> 04:53 PM) I voted 2010 cuz I dont want to waste an option on him this year when I don't think we will be there in the end, but this idea rocks. Unless he is sent back down at some point in his career because he's struggling..(not a rehab assignment)...then there is no difference in terms of arbitration clocks/free agency/etc. between him coming up on June 2 of this year and him starting with the big league team next April. You have to delay him until some time in next May to legitimately gain another year before he hits FA/arbitration (I don't know the exact date and I'm not sure anyone else knows yet - depends on the schedule and some collectively bargained number that varies from year to year.)

QUOTE (BearSox @ May 28, 2009 -> 03:34 PM) People are sleeping on Thome. I would not be surprised to see Dye gone next year, and Thome being brought back at around 5 million for a year. All things considered Thome will probably be cheaper, he's a left handed bat that we don't otherwise have...and if he stays healthy the next 2 seasons he's got a legit shot at 600 by the end of 2010.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 28, 2009 -> 03:32 PM) Same with the auto industry. Huh? We're increasing the auto industry budget?

I actually didn't do that. The computer did. I'm going to blame Bill Gates. I had the sentence typed normally, then I added the link and the text decided to move.

China is planning to adopt gas mileage requirements that are far more stringent than the ones President Obama just announced. Gotta admit, it's a smart business move if they're looking to develop their auto industry. If the U.S. is making cars that can't legally be sold in China because they consume too much fuel, then you eliminate competition from any of those models.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ May 28, 2009 -> 03:25 PM) One. Kind of...they could probably shuffle their rotation so that he pitches the first day back from his suspension. They will lose him as a pinch hitter though.

QUOTE (tommy @ May 28, 2009 -> 03:17 PM) I think Slayers debut depends solely on Josh Fields' performance, with that said I voted before ASB. Even if Gordon gets called up this year and plays the reminder of the season and postseason at 3B I agree with Heads that Gordon will be playing 2B in 2010 with Tank or FA being our 3B. Long term, how can you not like the idea of having his bat at 2b, with Alexei and Beckham's bats up the middle. That's a ton of offense out of 2 defensive positions.