Balta1701

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 5, 2008 -> 09:58 AM) Well Bush also had a GOP-dominated Congress that let him do whatever he wanted. You can even tell, there's a pretty stark contrast between the first 6 years of his presidency and his last 2. He used to walk and talk like a badass, like "cmon I dare you to do something - that's right, you can't." He's a lot more subdued now. McCain won't have that luxury. One thing I meant to mention on this topic yesterday, forgive me for continuing to post in this thread...back in 2000, a lot of the so-called "Neoconservative" people, the kind of folks who led the war in to Iraq, Bill Kristol et al., the real hawks who answer the question "Iraq war, great war or Greatest war" with "Get back to me when we've invaded the other 9 countries on my list", those guys were pretty solidly behind McCain instead of Bush...because McCain was viewed as the more reliable hawk.

One other random economic question...love to hear any suggestions on it. The "Unemployment percentage" has for like 15 years been held down by the growing number of people considered out of the work force because they weren't actively looking for work or for some other reason. The only way you're going to get as big of a spike in the unemployment percentage as we saw today while the economy only sheds 48,000 jobs (it's been losing ground for a couple months now and we saw nothing close to this much of a spike) is if a good number of people come back in to the system. I'd love to hear suggestions about why for one month the numbers would suddenly show a significant number of additional people looking for work compared to the month before.

The more I thought about Collins the less I liked him in that role anyway.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 6, 2008 -> 12:24 PM) My question is has demand or supply really changed enough to cause a $10 price bump in the last 24 hours? Or is it people speculating that demand or supply will change enough? The downwards trend of the past few days is probably, honestly, the mistake part. The $10 bump in 24 hours is just regaining a little bit of ground that it shouldn't have given back. The best evidence I can present that oil isn't being driven by a speculatory bubble right now is in last week's inventory report. Right now, inventories on everything aren't historically low, but despite the price run up, they're not historically high either. So unless someone is hording oil somewhere in something that the EIA doesn't know about, the rapid upwards trend is supported by the supply and demand fundamentals.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 6, 2008 -> 11:56 AM) Switch hitting catcher? That's kind of a rarity. I don't know this guy from Adam, but, if he has any kind of talent at all at the high school level, seems like a good shot. How many catchers is this for us now? Three? Good stuff. The system needs more of those, and they are always in demand. And catchers named McCann? Even better.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 6, 2008 -> 11:45 AM) a convert to the dark side Seriously when did I say anything otherwise? A small price bump I could see being built in due to speculation, because the price would go up and that wouldn't be enough to really put a hurt on demand, but we're talking about a $10 bump today and like $60 in the last 6 months. If this was a speculatory bump, then it won't be long before there's a gigantic glut of oil sitting around somewhere that people can't sell at those prices.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Jun 5, 2008 -> 09:14 PM) Good to see guys like Fisher, Odom, and Gasol taking the shots and free throws at the end of the game. MJ never did anything like that- he wanted the ball. Sorry, Kobe. You're just not him. LOL, was I the only one who watched the clinching games for titles 1 (Pax) 3 (Pax) and 5 (Kerr)?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 6, 2008 -> 11:39 AM) Hey SS, I see Balta has come to understand the dark side. ^^^ What, have I ever blamed this on speculators? I've been the one blaming this on the planet running out of oil!

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 6, 2008 -> 11:53 AM) We still want to say that this isn't being driven up on speculation? Only when the price reaches a point where there's more oil in the market than there is demand for. If it was a speculatory bubble, it would cause a glut of supply to build on the market before it bursts.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 6, 2008 -> 10:31 AM) I like the globex options better personally. But that is just me. Crude oil could very seriously go limit up for the first time that I EVER remember. Heating oil already did for a little bit. Insane. What is the limit?

Give em Jell, Havy.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 6, 2008 -> 08:52 AM) well, I mean william jennings bryan lost because he basically made his platform on changing the gold standard to silver, which was completely dumb and wouldn't work. Wasn't that one of FDR's 100 days acts?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 6, 2008 -> 09:05 AM) So who wants to form a commodity fund with me? Didn't you tell us like 2 weeks ago that you bought in at $131 or something around that level?

Ok Thor, nice recovery, thanks.

If you're going to have Masset up why don't you have him in for Guillen?

F*** Thor

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Jun 5, 2008 -> 06:34 PM) Horrible play by JD in right, should be an error. So far it's listed on GD as a double.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jun 5, 2008 -> 06:34 PM) Masset warming. Presumably he gets Guillen.

Konerko dropped back below .200 again.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 5, 2008 -> 06:24 PM) I kinda wanna see Loaiza pitch. I don't give him the 8th with Dejesus and Gordon both in the order, but I could see giving him the 9th if there's still a 5 run lead.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 5, 2008 -> 06:21 PM) Anyone know if we'll face A. Cook when the Rockies are in town? The way the pitching matchups are set right now we'll miss him, he pitches against San Fran on the 11th and we play them the 13th through the 15th.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Jun 5, 2008 -> 06:16 PM) thorntons throwing Gotta figure he comes in for the 8th with Dejesus leading off.

Anyone know if the Pen is up?

Be really nice to open this up a bit more here.

Konerko's got one more shot tonight to slip under the ol' Mendoza line...