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I'm not sure how I see Thomas right now...but that's pretty much all correct. The problem is finding an actual trading partner willing to take any of Gordon, Nocioni, Hinrich, or Hughes. And getting some actual development minutes for the guys who might benefit from them. And having the guys actually benefit if they do get those minutes.

QUOTE (Nixon @ Jan 28, 2009 -> 11:36 AM) They don't really have money to waste. Most member states are delinquent in their payments. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-04-09-dues_N.htm That said, the security council needs an enema and they need to stop electing sac-less hippies like Annan and Moon as SGs. Welcome to the forum. If you wish to keep posting in this forum, please read the rules found in this thread and acknowledge with a reply that you have in fact read them.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jan 28, 2009 -> 11:36 AM) Kind of appears that he may have still had an idea what was going on. Then if that is the case, I turn to my other point and ask...why exactly was he $1100 behind on his electric bills? How was he able to still keep his house, keep it well kept, shop for groceries, and yet could not pay that bill? Were there other bills he was falling behind on? Did he have a mortgage on the house? If so how was he able to still pay that? Were there no other financial shenanigoats he could undertake in order to free up some $ to pay the electric bill? Especially since no one was really counting on him for an inheritance.

QUOTE (La Marr Hoyt HOF @ Jan 28, 2009 -> 11:27 AM) Do we have any update on where (if) Crede is going to land? Heyman

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jan 28, 2009 -> 11:28 AM) I dont know but isnt this why we have social services type of programs? And we dont know he didnt have his wits about him. Also, not having children doesnt mean he didnt have nephews/nieces in the area. We just dont know. Also, did the electrical company inform him of what they did? If not, they should have, but it still doesnt make them 100% culpable. Furthermore, wouldnt you think if your power got shut off and it was cold he would have called someone? These 2 points argue against each other.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jan 28, 2009 -> 11:25 AM) If he wasnt he shouldnt have been living by himself That was the point I was trying to make. But if all his family is gone, who exactly is the one who is supposed to be making that decision for him?

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jan 28, 2009 -> 11:23 AM) The man knew what he was doing. He was 93 years old. Are you sure?

When I first read about this, it struck me as a hard case to evaluate. Yeah, the city's device wound up shutting off the power in his house, and yeah, he didn't have family to check on him, but that can't be all of the story. How does he continue to have a house yet have $1100 in unpaid electric bills? Was that the only bill he had unpaid? Did he still belong in that house if he was unable to pay the bills for its maintenance or to figure out how to deal with problems for it?

QUOTE (spiderman @ Jan 28, 2009 -> 11:15 AM) Will he still strike out once a game? On average, probably yes. I'll take an Adam Dunn number of strikeouts if he's also giving me an Adam Dunn number of home runs.

QUOTE (joesaiditstrue @ Jan 28, 2009 -> 11:15 AM) THANK CQ hopefully we have heard the last of "we should sign jon back", seriously JG will be likely available again next offseason, will probably be a type B FA at the best again (Which means no draft pick given up for signing him) unless he pulls together another 18 win season, and the Sox will have a lot of money coming off the books next offseason in the form of Contreras, Dotel, probably Thome, possibly Dye, probably Colon. Depending on the development of our young pitchers, it's entirely plausible we could find ourselves needing a starter next year again as well. And we may have more money to spend as well, esp. once we can move Contreras off our books, as that's the one really hurting us right now.

Stolen from the other thread: A Reply:

Overall, the U.S. saves money by not spending it on installing these installations. The Russians save money by not spending it on counter-installations. The Czechs and Poles have fewer missiles sitting on their borders. Iran finds Prague an easier target for their non-existent weapons. The U.S. immediately improves its relations with Russia. Yay.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 28, 2009 -> 11:02 AM) There are a lot of players who could be pretty good if they learned to hit right handers, fastballs and how to field. At least with the way our division looks...if one or two of these guys can step up and we get average years from the normal group (Q, Konerko, Dye, Thome, AJ, Buehrle, Danks/Floyd, Jenks, Linebrink) then we'd have a really good shot at the division. We survived last year with a couple positions sitting as gaping holes for most of the year. One or two guys step up to fill those holes and we're a better team than we were then right away.

AIG will pay $450 million out in taxpayer money in the form of bonuses to the 400 or so employees in their Financial Products business. Their Financial Products sector, of course, was the one selling off Credit Default Swaps. The bonus money therefore is a reward for totally destroying the company. Gotta retain top talent I guess. Because there's so many other Wall Street Firms just jumping at hiring these guys.

QUOTE (longshot7 @ Jan 28, 2009 -> 10:44 AM) It definitely makes one wonder what they'll do in 2010 when their new stadium is done considering it's outdoors and they're built for the carpet. Freeze to death.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Jan 28, 2009 -> 10:40 AM) There is still a cost above and beyond the coupon price. Basically they want the "rabbit ear" set to spend money so someone else can use the frequency. I agree with Southsider, (a lot today it seems), the process was flawed from the start. The only way to assure it worked was to offer the converters free. I guess the poor need better lobbyists.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 28, 2009 -> 10:32 AM) The White Sox allowed 34 runs in 12 games in the 2005 postseason; simple math says that's less than 3 runs a game. Ozzie-ball didn't win, what won games for the Sox in the postseason was the 3-run homer, because a 3-run homer won almost every single game. Also worth noting is the fact that the Sox scored on average a full run more per game in the 2005 postseason than they did in in the regular season IIRC. The offense was clicking for those games, although one or two big explosions can dominate that a bit for a short series of games.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Jan 28, 2009 -> 10:30 AM) I agree it is the right decision. But consider this. Who will be using the devices that will now use the spectrum? It probably will not be the "analog TV and rabbit ear" set. So we are taking from the poor and non tech citizens to give to the non-poor and tech class. Which is of course...why the government had that large program to help people buy the converters available...until it ran out of money in the late part of the previous administration.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jan 28, 2009 -> 10:10 AM) What? From testimony given before the Small Business Committee last summer. For every dollar you cut in corporate taxes, you get $.30 back as GDP gain. For every dollar you cut in the payroll tax, you get $1.29 back, because of how regressive that tax is. For programs that actually create jobs, it keeps going up. Corporate tax cuts have among the lowest multipliers out there. The money just winds up either horded or in the hands of the shareholders who receive the largest amount of dividends, aka the people who don't spend the extra money if its given to them.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Jan 28, 2009 -> 10:02 AM) Are we seriously still going to be complaining about a couple errors if Fields can even come close to replicating the offensive numbers of his rookie season? That depends on the manner of his errors.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Jan 28, 2009 -> 09:52 AM) I agree that action is needed right away, but that article is incredibly dire in it's portrayal of things. It was hard to read it and not feel like it was saying, to a certain degree, it's too late. I don't think it's too late, and I don't think science feels that way either, but that article sure seemed to be talking that way. The sad part is that if it is indeed "very very close to being too late", I am not sure things can be fixed in time. Too many hurdles to clear worldwide in that regard in my opinion, even with a skilled orator like Obama running the free world. The latter part is probably true. There really isn't the political will to make things be fixed on time. We've demonstrated that. You want to get it fixed on time? Commit to Al Gore's 100% renewable electricity by 2020 goal. If you can't do that, then you're probably too late, and you're going to suffer some major catastrophes. And that isn't even counting the ice sheets.

QUOTE (R.J. @ Jan 28, 2009 -> 09:43 AM) Wonder what we could have gotten back if we traded him at peak value. I think we might have been able to deal him straight up for Scott Linebrink back in 2006. Wonder what the world would be like if the Sox had gotten their hands on Scott Linebrink.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Jan 28, 2009 -> 09:41 AM) The screw up is the public isn't buying into it. From what I read, broadcasters are ready, but it's the public that is screwing this up by not going out and spending the money to continue watching "free TV". We are forcing consumers into something they do not want. Anyone that is still watching an analog TV through an antenna clearly is not all that concerned about picture quality, or any of the benefits of HDTV. Instead they are being told to spend money on something they don't want. Which is why the industry went to the government in the first place and asked for a mandatory conversion date. The public wasn't demanding it. The fact that the public wasn't demanding it doesn't mean it wasn't the right decision if it frees up a chunk of the spectrum for other uses. The public just expects that everything (Cell phones, radios, TV's, Wifi, etc.) is going to work, it doesn't care how that happens. In this case, that requires some change on the part of the public, and that's not going to happen unless it's done forcibly.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Jan 28, 2009 -> 09:36 AM) I still have to agree with Southsider on this one, if they have some really great evidence, which is what we all seem to believe, they could have released some stuff a few notches better than this. And they can't "save stuff for the trial", they have to disclose their case to the defendant. Perhaps both sides prefer some of this to remain private until it has to be disclosed. If this was a city councilperson in Smithville (pop 428) then that is one thing, but if you are going to prosecute the Governor of Illinois, take a lethal shot early. I think there's another possibility to consider here. Fitz may well have actually blown his case in order to make it so that the governor couldn't sell that Senate Seat. Having him actually sell the seat would have set him up incredibly well for prosecution, but until the money is exchanged, the governor's hair can argue that he was just being taken out of context, which is what he's saying now. If you're in Fitz's chair...ask yourself this question. You have to weigh; either a successful prosecution and a corruptly purchased senate seat, or an unsuccessful prosecution but an exposed and handicapped governor who's unable to sell the seat and who is removed from that position by impeachment hearings. If that was the case, I can see why he'd choose the latter option, even if it hurts his case in the long run.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Jan 28, 2009 -> 09:30 AM) This article almost sounds like a case of using exaggerated scare tactics, but it appears they have science that causes them to believe it's actually true. Maybe all of the enviornmental arguments and healthier for the planet/"greener" ideas don't matter because it's too late anyways. That is a sad thought if true. Actually, "too late anyways" is not what it says. The CO2 concentration given in that article is 450-600 PPM. We're currently approaching 400. What we've already done is bad enough, but every year that goes by gives you another 4-5 ppm or so, depending on the economies of the world and China's coal use. But what it does say is it is getting very very close to being too late, and we already going to see major shifts based on what we've already done.