Balta1701

QUOTE (Reddy @ Nov 7, 2008 -> 09:24 AM) my theory on alaska is simple. they called the race for obama before their polls closed. so i will guarantee you people went home and didn't vote. what's the point? yeah, congressional races, but i can see people just not giving a s*** after hearing mccain lost or, in the case of obama, not feeling like they need to vote anymore and assuming since all the polling had begich up by a lot that it didn't matter. Then why is that effect so much larger in Alaska than in Hawaii?

A pox on all those Crazy Obama supporters who now think they own the world and can do anything they want. Crazy fools.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 7, 2008 -> 11:06 AM) Just an awful package. If I am the Pads, im asking for no less than Giovany Soto as my centerpiece. Pie, Cedeno and Marshall cant even get playing time for the cubs. Samajdjijajia came up, was good for a bit, then showed who he really was. I dont think that kid will be much more than a decent set up guy. A few days ago someone challenged me when I pointed out that getting a ton of press coverage for a prospect, i.e. someone coming from Boston or NY, could be an excellent way to make another team think he has higher value. I will hold this as a prime example if that deal happens.

QUOTE (fathom @ Nov 7, 2008 -> 10:56 AM) Yet we still don't have a CF. The Phillies have little with regards to young pitching besides Carrasco. Kyle Kendrick is terrible, and they're not going to trade Madson. Then we need to find a taker for Anderson as well.

Stop trying to find us Outfielders! We have 4 not counting Wise and Owens! We're not trading 1 OF to keep having too many OF's!

Wow.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Nov 7, 2008 -> 07:02 AM) Levine has them or Atlanta getting Peavy. That payroll is going to be $200M in no time and as you see with the other teams that are trying to win with huge payrolls it doesn't necessarily work. Really sad that St.Louis and Houston have nothing to offer. St. Louis actually has Ludwick to offer if the Padres think his season last year wasn't a fluke. The Cards have a kid coming up behind him that they want to work in, and that makes one of their OF's expendable.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 7, 2008 -> 08:53 AM) I LOL'd at most of this article... "Moderates to blame for GOP losses, conservative leader says" This guy thinks they need to move further right on social issues. Wow. If guys like this are going to lead the GOP, then they are going to be relegated to being a purely southern party. They can kiss control of either house or the executive goodbye for some time. Fortunately, I am pretty sure that these FRC-type folks are not in the majority of the GOP leadership any more. Well, in a way they are to blame. All their moderates have lost over the last couple elections. The only ones surviving are in deep red districts where there aren't any moderates. Therefore, it's the moderates fault, because they lost.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 7, 2008 -> 05:32 AM) This one is a little more detailed... Going back again to the theme of the banks, this is the type of stuff that starts to happen when they aren't lending. Just to reinforce the point I had made before about how this stuff cascades through the economy, think of this specific project. Leins have been slapped on, and contstruction is halted. How many contractors and construction workers do you think it takes to build a 2000 foot building? Its not a big leap to see when that many people laid off and to imagine the multiplier affect that their contraction of spending has on the economy. http://archrecord.construction.com/news/da...1106chicago.asp So what you're saying is the government needs to take some sort of drastic steps to force the banks to start lending again? I have a suggestion. Let's go back in time over a month and give them $700 billion dollars. That ought to free up the credit markets by now, right? I mean, if we dumped a bunch of money in to the banks wouldn't they have to start lending it? They woulnd't hoard it or use it all to keep their dividend payments high would they?

QUOTE (BearSox @ Nov 7, 2008 -> 09:07 AM) So, by your point of view, would it be okay for a brother and sister to have children, even though their kids would very much likely be deformed? Actually, I believe there have been studies done on this in recent years, and it turns out that the probability of developmental issues is higher than with a standard, random coupling, but it's not tremendously high compared to the average population, and there are other matchups (i.e. people who's families have a history of birth defects, disease, etc.) that probably have a higher rate of developmental issues. Not necessarily taking a stand either way here, but I think it's fair to try to get the facts right on that matter - if you're going to ban one type of coupling because it leads to an increased probability of developmental issues, then logic follows that you should ban other types that lead to even higher rates.

Something remarkable, either in a good way, or a bad way, seems to be taking shape out here. There have been spontaneous, unorganized demonstrations against prop 8 just randomly popping up, usually organized only through Facebook, with a couple thousand people showing up, happening here or in S.F. COuple arrests, the groups seemed quite angry at a mormon church for some reason.

Yummy.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 05:47 PM) How are they going to decide who gets homefield for a Wild Card tie-breaker where the teams played a even amount of games and ended up tied for the season series then? You can always add tie breakers. Go to division records then.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 02:57 PM) I think the 'Bradley' effect could be true here, people just didn't want to admit to voting for a felon to pollsters. Palin is popular there, she can bring in votes. I'm not buying the 'voter irregularaties, stolen election, conspiracy'. It's one the Dems don't get, that pretty much the story. Well, on the "Voter irregularities" part, it sounds like there's just a lot of counting that still needs to be done, probably including a bunch of provisional ballots, and right now we just don't have the numbers on those. So I wouldn't say stolen, especially since all of them are following the same trend (try to steal 4 elections and only succeed at one of them?). But yeah, the reverse bradley thing might well mean something laso.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 02:35 PM) That OR contest was one I had a feeling would go Dem. MN is in almost impossible to call, will come down to recount madness. GA and AK still fairly safe for GOP, I just don't see the Dems taking either. Don't know if anyone's posted Silvers "What the Hell happened in Alaska"? yet but here it is. Read the rest. That's one confusing slowly melting state.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 02:31 PM) Random thought. The Democratic nominee has won the popular vote in 4 of the last 5 Presidential elections. Why do I keep hearing we are a center-right country? Only 1 broke 50%.

Well, guess this may be where the Penny savings go.

This can either go here or in the Dems thread, but the company "Sands" that owns the Las Vegas Venetian/Palazzo resorts amongst many others and who's owner, Sheldon Adelson, is one of the richest people in the world and is a big Republican donor, is facing bankruptcy if they can't secure financing for some of the projects they started during the boom times.

QUOTE (santo=dorf @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 11:41 AM) I was just going to ask for the rumor mill sub forum to come back At least for now, we're keeping it as it is now. There's no reason to have another forum if all that forum does is wind up leaving PHT a ghost town.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 01:14 PM) Wow, that gets really steep, even in '11, let alone the options years. Only for any team other than the Yankees.

QUOTE (NCsoxfan @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 01:38 PM) Who represents Burnett? What do you all think his contract demands will be? 4/48? Who is said to have interest in him? His agent is Darek Braunecker. Yes, THE Darek Braunecker. Here is MLB.com on his rumored asking price. He left 2/$24 on the table by opting out.

QUOTE (knightni @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 01:23 PM) How safe for work is this link? No nudity, but a bathing suit photo and a couple party photos.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 01:10 PM) Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the "Secretary of Energy" a "White House 'energy czar'"? I can see putting a group of people around the Secretary of Energy. I have no problem with that. But like it says, it has to balance with the "Council on Environmental Quality". Sometimes, reorganizations can work well or produce better ideas. I have no idea where they'd be going with that though.

For what it's worth, it's also possible that someone else could step forwards and become a leader. I'll give you an example. 8 years ago, the President-Elect could not get in to the Democratic National Convention. He had to watch from outside at a viewing station. Things can change awfully fast in politics.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Nov 6, 2008 -> 11:36 AM) Balta's science-nerdiness makes me look downright cool by comparison. Your encouragement does not phase (rule) me!