Balta1701

More notewothy than that: No sign of Crede.

QUOTE (sox4lifeinPA @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 05:56 PM) http://www.theblackfriday.com/ so far only Sears has published their ad Sears Samsung 32" LN32A300 LCD HDTV $499.99 And noteworthy...that's a leaked ad, not a published ad. Sears is considering asking some places to take it down. They may well be wanting to do some more cutting than that, the early reviews of their TV discounts didn't impress people.

QUOTE (Kid Gleason @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 07:09 PM) Hey...are they booing Selig!?! The Phillies have been complaining a lot about how the whole suspended game/no idea when they'd be playing for the TV schedule thing worked out. And this is Philadelphia. They'd boo Jesus.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 06:32 PM) They said in the Trib today Grant Park will hold about 70k for the event. Daley said in more detail that the 65k is just the ticketed section, and there will also be an unticketed, GA section.

QUOTE (Brian @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 06:32 PM) Lidge. "I don't think that taste is there."

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 06:24 PM) I have to admit, even though the series is possibly almost over, I've slowly been rooting more and more for the Phillies. I wouldn't be upset with either team winning, but there are plenty of guys (especially older guys) on the Phillies that I'd like to see win it all, while the Rays are mostly young and may have more chances in the future. At least we can stop hearing for a while about how no Philadelphia team has won a title in any sport since the early 80's, and go back to focusing on who the world's truly great losing and suffering team is.

QUOTE (Brian @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 04:36 PM) Watching on the free preview for league pass, Curry getting boo'd out of MSG at intro's. I don't even know half the names on the Knicks roster. MSG announcers so excited about Duhon. Ha Ha. Knicks are currently up 17 on the Heat in the late 3rd. Crawford has 23. Curry and Marbury have not entered the game.

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 05:00 PM) I can't figure out how to watch games on NBA.com, how do you do it? I'm at NBA League Pass TV right now but can't figure it out. I've never been able to get video from NBA.com, only free audio through them. IF there's a video option you might have to purchase it.

Oden sprains foot, out 2-4 weeks.

QUOTE (fathom @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 05:48 PM) The 05 Astros No, their opponent was just better. The Stros were actually in every one of those games and really didn't blow anything by stupid mistakes. They just flat out got outplayed.

QUOTE (fathom @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 05:46 PM) Tampa's been just terrible in this series. From their 3/4/5 hitting to their awful defense to some horrific managing. Who was worse, them or the 06 kittens?

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 28, 2008 -> 05:35 PM) Interesting, the one I got just says: Thanks for signing up for an election night ticket. You will receive further information in the coming days. Im wondering if they are giving out tickets to people who donated and/or volunteered first. So we finally have an update on the procedure for the ticketed area.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 05:38 PM) If I was McCain, I wouldn't bother with the infomercial. I'd pour the 5 million in Virginia, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. Putting that money in to a ground operation at this point isn't really that useful. it takes a long time to gear up a ground operation, you can't just buy it at the last minute. And also, I'd ignore PA, shoot for Colorado, VA, Florida.

You poor, poor SOB. I'm sorry for you. Does the big, bright McDonalds there still do the 50 piece McNugget on nights after Purdue football games? Getting in and out of town is only a problem if it's snowing usually.

QUOTE (santo=dorf @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 04:51 PM) That remains to be seen, and I was talking more of using that spot to protect one of our players, not trying to acquire another Soria, Santana, or Hamilton. I really don't think there's a whole lot sitting at AAA that needs protecting right now. Side effect of a couple bad drafts.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 04:56 PM) not really. but you guys can keep blaming everything on the Nader boogeyman Florida was so close in 00 that I have like 14 things I can blame the disastrous last 8 years on. Back on to the subject of the thread...Al Gore comes to mind...flame away.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 04:55 PM) I guess I didn't realize the Dem party was that bad before he took over. Especially after 2000, 2002 and 2004 were just a mess for the Dem party. The party leaders didn't care about party building at all, they just cared about whether or not they won their next election. That was a big driver for dem votes for the Iraq war, for example. They kept doing these votes to try to "Take national security off the table" when we were involved in 2 wars. They were scared of the south. They were scared of having Bush show up and campaign in their district. A few pollsters and the people around them seemed to be running almost everything. The Dean campaign in 03 literally started as a rejection of that, and that's why the money started pouring in for him in late 03 from the online donor system.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 04:51 PM) I actually have a lot of respect for Nader. Without him you wouldn't have had your president in office for the last 8 years

Palin on 2012..."I'm not doing this for naught". Reaction from the McCain campaign: "long pause....huh..."

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 04:33 PM) just means they can slam through bad legislation like the stuff that led to the banking collapse. Because all that happened under so many Democratic Congresses.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 04:30 PM) public financing is dead. Obama has made sure of that. unless you want to give each candidate over a billion each, no one is going to take the public financing when they know their opponent can out spend them by a large margin. Compared to the tens to hundreds of billions of dollars we waste on things that lobbyists ask for, that's still cheap.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 04:11 PM) I agree. The party has to get back to the middle. For the same reasons the Dems lost in 2000, the Repubs lost in this one. Extremism (either fiscally or socially) is not a winning strategy. I've been ashamed at what my chosen party has been the last 6-7 years. The Dems were running as fiscal extremists in 2000?

QUOTE (santo=dorf @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 03:45 PM) 40 man roster spots are valuable IMO, especially before a rule 5 draft. At our spot in the Rule 5 draft, we wouldn't be finding a better gamble than Nix for a 40 man spot anyway.

Reforms I'd like to see. 1. Fully public financing. Of everything. With enough money that we don't need lobbyists. Distantly: 2. Reorganize the primary calendars to have closer to regional or national primary days. No reason at all for Iowa and New Hampshire to achieve that level of importance every single time. Vary the opening states or have much larger blocks happen, where there are 3 or 4 days of primaries with adequate spacing in-between and that's it. And no more weird 6 week gaps like we had before PA, that was just excruciating. 3. I think I agree wtih Alpha, those exploratory committees are just silly.

Let's assume for a moment that the polls are accurate and the Republicans are in for a bloodletting next Tuesday. Bigger Dem majorities in the House than we've seen in 50 years and 60 or so Senate seats for the Dems. After the 04 beating the Dems took, the first thing to come up was the election for the DNC. A bunch of the people who were sick of the way things were being run out of Washington in the party banded together, put out a "50 state strategy", and picked a guy who wanted to head a strategy like that, Dean. The Repubs and Fox news naturally went after the Dems, "They're lurching left", "Yeaaargh!", and so forth, but in hindsight, the strategy wound up working. The next race for the Repubs to decide anything is the same race. And I think the same sort of thing is going to happen. The Religious part of the Republican party is a little fed up right now. They helped push guys like Bush in to office and they got nothing. Abortion is still legal, gays are destroying their marriages left and right, etc. In this race, the nominee for the Republicans is someone that they really don't like, McCain. They're going to go out and say "if only you'd listened to us" and try to find one of their guys to put in that spot (Huckabee? Palin?) On the other hand, the corporate part of the Republican party...hell I have no idea what they want right now, I think they're more worried about the stock market than anything. But they still have a ton of money and a lot of influence, and they know how to use it. And they really don't have much respect for the other groups, for example see their lashing out at Palin over the last couple weeks as the race has turned. I really don't know how this will end up. It may well not be decided until the 2012 primaries when the actual party voters wind up picking a leader. But if there's a bloodletting next Tuesday, there's going to be an awful lot of infighting over which way that party is going to go, and personally I think that the evangelical block is the strongest one there, because they probably have the most people.