Balta1701

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Mar 31, 2009 -> 02:55 PM) Wow, so no more curve ball for BMac? I remember when everyone on here was slurping him. With good reason, he had excellent stuff. I wonder if he'd have been able to stay healthier with a different training/coaching staff.

Podsednik with a ground rule double over Quentin's head. And then Alexei and Getz double him up on a liner.

For God's sake please stop calling guys grinders! ARGH!

Pods steals 2nd off of AJ/Buehrle.

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Mar 31, 2009 -> 11:38 AM) Just look at his motion. He'll always struggle to find control. That's the reason we released Andy Sisco, who is another guy that if he could ever control himself would be lights out in the pen. No it wasn't. We released Sisco because he blew out his arm, Tommy John IIRC, and wound up still on the DL when he ran out of options.

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QUOTE (Kalapse @ Mar 31, 2009 -> 10:39 AM) Looking ahead to the 2010/2011 offseason already? Because that's when he hits free agency. He's still arb-eligible next year? Wow, that's surprising. Guess it's all the time he spent in the minors. Trade him if we can.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 31, 2009 -> 10:26 AM) Another point I haven't seen mentioned is the huge leap that the games of Tyrus and Noah have taken upwards this year. If VDN gets slammed for the bad, he should get equal credit for the good. Finally giving the guys minutes after everyone he kept playing in front of them was traded away is not what I'd call a solid endorsement. Hell, we're still complaining about Noah getting benched for no reason in the last game.

Sigh.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 31, 2009 -> 10:06 AM) Looking at the plus minus stats for the Bulls, Hinrich is +181, Gordon is +59, and Rose is -96. The only guy who has a lower number than Rose on the Bulls is Tyrus who comes in at a horrible -132. I'd rather have missed the playoffs with those guys playing the minutes than make the playoffs on the strength of our dominant small lineup.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Mar 31, 2009 -> 09:46 AM) He wouldnt even have to hold out. If there was just one team willing to pay it then he'd go to them in the first round. If that ends up being a serious asking price, team's unwilling to even go anywhere near that number wont even bother drafting him. I think he'll probably go #1 this year, but if the Nats simply don't want to go that high he'll go in to next year's draft with everyone knowing the kind of money he wants, and wind up with the Yankees or BoSox or Tigers or someone like that.

And if the Yankees would be willing to pay it, then Boras can hold the kid out for a year or two until he winds up with a team willing to pay it. It delays his arb clock a year but if the kid is getting $50 million anyway...

QUOTE (rangercal @ Mar 31, 2009 -> 09:29 AM) Rather than agree with your pre-season concerns, I am going to look at the net results. Playoffs + ROY= he stays. He's going to stay anyway for $ reasons, but just from watching the results on the floor, I'm just tired of him. So many random things. Call it death by a thousand accidental cuts because he can't figure out that he's holding a knife. From constantly being outschemed to the crazy in-game rotations (we'll bench Rose during the 4th for the month of Feb., that'll show him!), he just doesn't cut it for me. If the players like him, that's a start, but I'm really tired of us being outsmarted at the end of every game.

The only way you need to think about it is this...if you were the Yankees, would you give him that contract?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Mar 31, 2009 -> 08:20 AM) What I'm saying is some of these companies did NOT ask to be bailed and were forced to take money. Which was of course one of Secretary Paulson's many, many, many, many, many, many mistakes with the first tranche of that money. But its a mistake that can be rectified. If the banks don't want those restrictions, then they buy the shares the government took in them back. They'll still come out ahead since Paulson under-paid for everything, but that's a good enough start for me.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 26, 2009 -> 07:08 AM) Want to go to 4.An active volcano in action Hehe.

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QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 30, 2009 -> 06:36 PM) I want VDN fired. ^ that.

Link.

One more. Gibbs today gets asked about whether or not having the White House step in to fire the head of GM while failing to do so with the banks is actually acting to increase the entropy of the universe. His response is gold.

On another note, did anyone here post Taibbi's response to the NYT op-ed by one of the AIG bonus guys last week? It's priceless. Getting this response is almost worth the price of a couple of those bonuses.

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Mar 30, 2009 -> 03:59 PM) I agree, but if MacD starts off the season well, that may change. I hope KW jumps at any chance to trade him, and we don't assume he's "fixed". He is with us for at most one season. If he pitches lights out, he might be able to work himself back in to being a type B free agent.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Mar 30, 2009 -> 06:14 PM) all it's doing is creating more problems than it's solving. you notice other countries aren't going along with this madness that Obama is subjecting our economy to. the Obama economic plan is an outright disaster. And in this case, they are wrong. (Wait a second, did you just tell me I was wrong because of something Old Europe was choosing to do? I thought Old Europe was wrong in everything. I'm so confused. )

This seems particularly noteworthy for the Sox since we're already concerned about Wilder having falsified some of these guys's ages. Someone can move this to PHT if you think it belongs there.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Mar 30, 2009 -> 06:07 PM) ah of course avoid the 'great depression' fear mongering. Balta, you do realize that was the EXACT argument in favor of writing a blank check for trillions to the banks? if anything this deficit spending will end up destroy our economy. Obama is saving nothing in terms of jobs. Unemployment is raising, his stimulus plan will be a bust. We could see 15% national unemployment in 2 years. Actually, it's really quite remarkable how effective the deficit spending has been at avoiding the fall that happened when the credit markets seized up in 1929. And we will see 15% unemployment if we simply let the auto industry fail. And another note, I said "Depression", not "Great depression". There is a specific technical economic definition of a depression. It's unemployment over 10% for a certain amount of time or unemployment hitting 12% period. If you instantly in one fell swoop put everyone out of work who is currently in the auto industry, that is mathematically unavoidable, because so many millions of people work directly or indirectly for that industry.