Balta1701

QUOTE (knightni @ Sep 19, 2008 -> 05:46 PM) His mom wouldn't let him go to that Star Trek convention. That actually offended me enough to get me mildly angry. Bah.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 19, 2008 -> 05:22 PM) Horrible timing on this post, lol Pretty much sums my day up 100%.

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Sep 19, 2008 -> 02:06 PM) I see Glenn Robinson written all over him unfortunately. If you put Glenn Robinson alongside DWade, he'll still be an effective player.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Sep 19, 2008 -> 06:18 PM) The Royals don't have the Tigers offense, but it doesn't matter. If Buehrle is going strong with 80-85 pitches, you let him work another inning or so. You are in race for the playoffs, and have to do everything in there power to make sure they get a W tonight. Worry about tomorrow later. IF we were talking about Floyd or Danks, I'd say you pull them. But this Mr. Reliable on the mound. Let him go until he says "That's it" or until the Royals start gettin ghim.

Wow, first good news i've gotten all day is thanks to Alexei.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 19, 2008 -> 11:08 AM) For those that care about the national polls today's Gallup Poll has Obama 49% and McCain 44%. Tracking poll or independent poll?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 19, 2008 -> 10:51 AM) So Palin has her Rev Wright now? Actually this is like her 2nd or 3rd, the media just hasn't paid that much attention. The head of "Jews for Jesus" spoke at her church a while back also, amongst some other people.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Sep 19, 2008 -> 10:44 AM) I'd put it at 50% and I'd have absolutely no problem with it. Is there any hope of Contreras being available in the 2nd half or is that a 2 year injury he suffered? I'd rather not pin all of our 5th starter hopes on a combination of Richard/Broadway/Garcia, but if we only had to get through a couple months of that then It'd be a better bet.

Yowza. That's some holy entertainment there.

I just had to try 5 different computers before I was able to get one page of a paper to print correctly.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Sep 19, 2008 -> 09:14 AM) Can I be the first to say we will sell off hard from here. Either late October or more likely November. Next target: 1998 lows near 990. If the government is going to print another couple trillion dollars and hand it casually to the bankers and say "Here, no questions asked, just keep the lobbyists working", why exactly would there be a selloff any time in the near future?

Turns out Michael Beasley was involved in whatever it was at the NBA Rookie camp that Mario Chalmers and Darrel Arthur were involved in. He got a $50k fine for it, while the other 2 got 20k fines.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Sep 19, 2008 -> 07:48 AM) They say that doing nothing would cost more. And although that may be true, isn't it necessary for the market to correct itself? It's funny how these bailouts are socialist when it comes to protecting money, but not people. We do have a basic safety net for most people, in the FDIC, right? Why do we need to protect more than that? I just think it's amazing that we've had 2 periods of the free-market, non-socialists in the white house over the past 30 years, and it looks like both of them are going to end with the federal government dumping hundreds of billions to trillions of dollars in to the banks. Privatized profits, socialized risks. Great period of history to be a banker.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 18, 2008 -> 08:51 PM) While trying not to defend data mining, data mining and reading your emails and making them public are two very different things. Is your address book posted in the NYT? Emails about private matters splashed on FoxNews web page? Date mining is a serious issue, but is not related to this. Why should I trust the government with my emails more than you'd trust the New York Times with yours?

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 18, 2008 -> 08:40 PM) Why are they reading your emails? Because they're data mining everyone's. And I'm clearly a Democrat. Anyway, in all seriousness...why is it a good thing for me to give up my privacy to the government but it's a bad thing for someone in the government to lose that same privacy? Whether they're reading my specific ones or not doesn't matter. If Governor Palin isn't breaking any laws then why is it a bad thing for her emails to be made public?

So, just to change gears a bit, who else has a problem with the fact that governor Palin's emails being posted online is a bad thing but the government reading all my emails is a good thing and worthy of the support of both of our presidential candidates?

QUOTE (watchtower41 @ Sep 18, 2008 -> 01:03 PM) whoever left Hurt off this list doesn't deserve to be a Sox fan. Maybe it was KW?

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 18, 2008 -> 12:59 PM) But with their almost systematic abuse of the voter registration, someone higher up should be the one getting in trouble, and they should not be getting government contracts until they can show some kind of verifiable changes to their systems to prevent further fraud. A serious question. Are there other companies that do the same level of voter registration work that we could compare their performance with? I can tell you from experience that ACORN is not the only group that ever has trouble with people filling out or inventing voter applications to meet their goals. At IU when I was an undergrad the student government at the time launched a voter registration drive that brought in an enormous number of applications, a lot of which had either wrong data or were just illegible. I believe I was one of only 2 students who voted at my dorm that year. Any time you put together a drive to gain thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of new voter apps, some of them are just going to be crap. That's why there are organizations that have the job of checking those applications to see if the data is reasonable, and why there is such a thing as a provisional ballot if there's any question. So my question to you is...yes, you're going after this company for its performance. Can you offer up some comparison to prove that they're consistently worse than other groups or companies attempting the same work at the same scale?

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Sep 18, 2008 -> 12:36 PM) To be fair to Josh Fields you may be correct. Question is did he suffer from a knee problem ALL year long? He struggled mightily at AAA On May 8 of this year, Josh was placed on the AAA DL with Patella Tendinitis...aka a knee problem. I can't say for sure which knee was giving him the problems then...but something tells me the answer to that question is yes. He was on and off the Milb DL in the early months of this season.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 18, 2008 -> 01:27 PM) Yeah, but Harden and CC are two different situations. CC has been pretty durable his whole career and always takes the ball, so overusing him now probably wouldnt affect him until later down the line. Actually, I think this is incorrect. He's been fairly durable, but until 2007 he always seemed to be hurt for a while every year, especially in April.

Hmmm... In a $100 million deal signed in 2006, AIG agreed to become the principle sponsor of the Manchester United soccer team. Congrats Americans! We own a big sponsorship in European soccer!

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Sep 18, 2008 -> 12:57 PM) Senator Joe Biden,speaking at a campaign event in Maumee, Ohio, yesterday: "I used to be a councilman. I left that for this job - for the Senate - you know why? Your job is harder. Keeps giving and giving and giving. Seriously, that qualifies as a gaffe in your book?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 18, 2008 -> 11:38 AM) So how do you think people feel about dropping all of that money on all of those nice new Fukodome jersey's now? They still don't like Dome's, so I think they'll be fine.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Sep 18, 2008 -> 11:45 AM) tie Shoelace

Link. I'd have been willing to deal with BofA and sell the whole company to them for less than $5 million.