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Any chance that's an immigration issue?

QUOTE (Reddy @ Apr 6, 2009 -> 11:50 AM) i actually think you're wrong. The A's have the potential to be a very solid team - and VAfan is right about the weak LAA rotation, and their lineup is weaker than in the past. Tell me how you think they're going to play at a 100 win pace this season. The thing that might keep them at a 100 win pace is if Seattle and the Rangers are as bad as last year and if Oakland doesn't start hot. Billy Beane isn't going to keep the veterans on that team if they're not winning, we all know that. Holliday, maybe Cabrera, whoever else he can move that isn't cheap will be moved to whatever team will give up talent for them.

Do we have anyone on the 60 day DL?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 6, 2009 -> 10:31 AM) And I have said all along that Minneapolis building an open stadium is just assinine. Perhaps they're just planning ahead. 5-10 years from now I'd expect Winter in that area to end a full week or two earlier than it currently does.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 6, 2009 -> 10:09 AM) That's what I figured. 12? 200 staff members right? How many of them wind up giving prepared speeches during any given day?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 6, 2009 -> 09:50 AM) Part of the reason this isn't done is that they try to avoid the Sox and Cubs being home at the same time. Still happens a couple times a season, but that's it. If you put both Chicago teams on the road the first 2 weeks, that means you end up having them both at home for almsot 2 weeks of games. There was actually a genuine meteorology guy from Western Kentucky who did the math on this a few years ago. His results are interesting. Long, worth glancing through, but interesting. Bashes the Twins a bit for not sticking with a dome.

Zambrano and the Cubs fans are on the same schedule as Rush Limbaugh and anyone who criticizes him: 36 hours until the apology. Every time like clockwork.

Took some Googling to find because it seems no one cared before now, but here's a New Zeland Herald article on the size of Bush's entourage. As usual, IOKIYAR (It's ok if you're a Republican). (Googling Bush trip entourage brought up about 1-2 hits involving Bush, one of which took me to that site, and about 10 people already complaining about the current President taking the exact same sized group.)

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 6, 2009 -> 09:41 AM) What? That cannot be right. You cannot legally own a fully automatic weapon as a civilian. If his AK was fully auto, then it was changed to be that way, or he got it illegally. Can't tell for certian that it was fully automatic. There are repeated reports of it being "automatic".

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Apr 6, 2009 -> 09:35 AM) Also, if they arent completely banned already, civilians should not be able to purchase any type of military style semi-automatic machine gun. I see no reason someone would need one. Semi-automatic? Hell, we don't even ban fully automatic, large caliber, military style heavy weapons. The guy in this case had a fully automatic AK-47 and it was totally legal for him to have it, and that's a hell of a lot more powerful than what you just said.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 6, 2009 -> 09:31 AM) You don't want to give the government too much power but are going to have the gov't decide whether you are mentally capable of owning a weapon. The government can already decide whether you're mentally capable to do a number of other tasks (Stand trial, go to jail, choose to get treatment, work a wide variety of jobs, be an active member of society in a number of other ways).

MJ, the Admiral, and Stockton are this year's HOF class.

QUOTE (rangercal @ Apr 6, 2009 -> 09:28 AM) If there was an easy solution for guns to be in deserving hands without banning them altogether or creating a doorway to ban them altogether, then sure, I would agree with you. I'd be game for trying the things you just suggested...more screening than a simple background check when people try to buy them.

QUOTE (rangercal @ Apr 6, 2009 -> 09:22 AM) I'm all for strict screening processes, mental evaluations and re-evaluations. Then you'd be for gun laws that are vastly stricter than what currently exist in this country.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 6, 2009 -> 08:57 AM) The Cubs should win this division by 10 games. St Louis would need every single thing to go right for them, including some key Cubs injuries, for things not end up as a blow out in the NL Central. I still don't buy that. If Carpenter and Wainright are actually healthy, then the NL Central is going to be a lot better this year than it was last year. There's 4 teams there that can give the division a run if things go right for them. And it sure seemed to me like the team that had every single thing go right for them last year was the Cubs.

QUOTE (rangercal @ Apr 6, 2009 -> 09:07 AM) You can't shoot in a crowded theater either. I don't get your point. Let's just go down the constitution and see what cool rights we can take away. The point is fairly simple. If you want to argue absolutes, such that any restriction at all on guns is totally equivalent to a complete banning of all of them, then that also implies that any restriction at all on speech is totally equivalent to a ban on talking. I responded with an example where, for public safety, we have abridged the right to free speech. Hardly anyone would dispute that people do not have a right to endanger people's lives using words. Thus, you shout fire in a crowded theater, people die in the stampede, and you go to jail. The right to free speech is therefore not absolute. Similarly, we can't pretend that the 2nd amendment is absolute and that you should have the right to bear whatever weaponry you wish under whatever circumstances you wish.

QUOTE (rangercal @ Apr 6, 2009 -> 09:02 AM) Let's ban freedom of speech next. You can't shout fire in a crowded theater.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Apr 5, 2009 -> 05:06 PM) the only solution is to ban all guns, knives, and pointy sticks. The obvious solution is more guns. If the dog had been packing, this never would have happened.

The President seems to have nailed a couple key questions in the last few days. First, a trap question in a press conference, does he believe in American exceptionalism, one of those ideas the Bush admin. used to justify America's ability to do anything regardless of the laws. Jack Welch for one loved it

QUOTE (JorgeFabregas @ Apr 5, 2009 -> 12:03 PM) They think it's too much pressure. I don't. I think being a starting infielder for the Chicago White Sox puts pressure on you--if you can handle that, then leadoff duties should be no sweat. Is he not going to feel pressure batting 2nd? No. Q hits 3rd, and his awesomeness projects to the spots around him and absorbs fear in a bell curve shaped pattern.

Kellogg's Frosted Flakes boxes are currently featuring the Enterprise.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Apr 5, 2009 -> 11:06 AM) I don't pay any attention to these so called experts. How often have they been correct? I still loved how in 2005, the only guy who picked the Sox preseason was Rob Neyer. The Sox then surged to the best record in baseball in April, and suddenly Neyer started picking against us.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Apr 4, 2009 -> 08:29 PM) White Americans are the minority now, taken as a whole. So, I guess we are getting in the way of progress. Actually, no.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Apr 4, 2009 -> 05:57 PM) Let me answer a question with a question. Is taking away guns going to solve it? Are you in support of abolishing the second amendment? Usually I say no. But then every time I try to say no, something like this happens. People who can completely legally get guns but who are essentially completely insane, and people wind up dead because of it. So, I'm asking...offer me a different option.

QUOTE (JorgeFabregas @ Apr 4, 2009 -> 05:34 PM) The problem is not just with Wise leading off--the problem is also that he is our starting centerfielder. I have much less of a problem with him being the starting CF, or even a platoon CF, than I do with him leading off. If Anderson and Wise are hitting 9th as a platoon to start the season, I'm dramatically less angry about Wise playing that day.