Balta1701

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Feb 2, 2008 -> 03:31 PM) If we pooled all our money here, we might just get $100,000 to buy yahoo. 1/450000th should be enough for a down payment, right? About a year ago, if you were buying real estate, the answer would have been yes.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Feb 2, 2008 -> 03:28 PM) Swisher charges Padilla http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/multimedi...ve.jsp?c_id=oak Ohh, against Padilla? This I like. The more people we have going after him the better.

Both the Gallup and Rasmussen national tracking polls moved back towards Hillary today. Lotta possible reasons. Still that leaves 15% or so undecided in both of those. If those broke heavily one way that could sway anything.

Newscorp may also be trying to put together a bid for Yahoo.

The more amazing thing than that math? The actual race is several times more complicated. Because you literally seem to have to go down to the district level.

An interesting Daily Kos post noting that the 2nd biggest zip code for fundraising for Ron Paul has a total of 9000 inhabitants and is in the middle of no where in Iowa. Read for more details.

When he came up in 2006, he hit 9 home runs and put up an .872 OPS in his first 166 at bats. That's some serious power.

One little note...Rudy 9iu11ani seems to have actually run the worst campaign in history...in terms of dollars spent per delegate. Rudy spent about $50 million and won 1 delegate. The worst before that was $11 million for a delegate in 1980.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Feb 2, 2008 -> 04:54 AM) Microsoft has never been serious about disaggragating/decentralizing productivity apps or particular chunks of functionality of them, and I don't see them suddenly getting it now. At least in the short term. And even when they do try such things, usually they don't work very well

La Opinion, LA's largest Spanish language daily, endorses Obama. As far as I can tell, it appears to be a virtual sweep for Obama in California Newspaper endorsements. Sacramento, LA, San Fran, Oakland, and on and on and on. If you want a test of whether or not newspaper endorsements mean anything, it's Tuesday out here. Because this is about as one-sided as you can get.

This is the kind of article that could make the Patriots whole house of cards come down if someone (Specter?) pushes hard enough on it. ESPN interviews the guy who was doing the video-tape work for the Pats before about 2003. He doesn't come out and say anything specific, but he sure as hell hints that he knows stuff that people in the Pats organization wouldn't want the rest of us to know about.

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Feb 2, 2008 -> 09:41 AM) from June and beyond he was a stud...ERA of 2.33 in 46.1 innings. While not saying Viz was bad, I would say that I think there is some of the "Marte" effect in there also...where he's pitching ok, but his ERA looks even better because any time he gets in trouble, he hands the ball off to Cotts/Politte/Jenks/Hermanson and the baserunners vanish. On the other hand, there were a couple times in the first half where ozzie beat up his ERA because Ozzie ran out of pitchers and had to use Viz for too long just so that someone would get outs.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Feb 1, 2008 -> 08:28 PM) Well I don't think the Mavs should trade for Kidd either, I'm just saying what I've heard. I do think the Mavs will try to make some move though. What we really need is for the Mavs or Suns to freak out when they see this deal and then decide..."hmmm, we really need another defensive stopper inside so that we're not overwhelmed when we play the Lakers. Hey, the Bulls might want to move that Wallace dude, and man, 2 years ago he was the DPOY!"

You can remove that Santana dude. Sheets, Garland, and CC seem to be the only ones on there who actually would be worth even thinking about.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Feb 1, 2008 -> 07:19 PM) From what i heard, when they get the power as high as they want to, the projectiles literally make whatever they hit 'explode' from the energy release. A few destroyers with these things on them can probably do the same damage as a fully stocked aircraft carrier! (and at less cost, too!) In other words...this is a weapon that given enough development could put an end to the heavily armored capital ship as we've known it for the last 100 years, by making it so that the most important ship in the fleet could be destroyed by something far weaker.

QUOTE(rockren @ Feb 1, 2008 -> 06:50 PM) The Mets knew a ballpark figure going in on what Johan actually wanted. All they did was posture....they were willing to pay Johan what he wanted the whole time and pretty much did. They'd have been stupid not to posture a bit. Might save them a million or two in the long run. It's business.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Feb 1, 2008 -> 06:53 PM) I could see the Lakers getting Kidd. But I also think the Mavs and Cavs are going to do a deal before the trade deadline, both want Kidd as well. The Mavs would actually be kinda silly to do that deal, because Devin Harris is pretty much putting up better numbers than Kidd already. The Cavs would be a fine fit...if they had anything to trade that the Nets might actually want.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 1, 2008 -> 06:04 PM) The trade sucks, but they could offer one thing that we could not. Salary cap relief. The Bulls could have done that if they wanted to. They could have re-upped with PJ Brown, who they still had the rights to, and used him as cap relief. Truehoop has an interview with things from the Memphis side. See if you buy it.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Feb 1, 2008 -> 05:22 PM) How much is Odom making compared to Kidd though? Odom is at $13.2, Kidd is at 19.2, so the Lakers would need to include another $2.5 million worth of contracts to make it work.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Feb 1, 2008 -> 02:33 PM) but she sells lots of books, i think you all should take her in as one of your own. it'll be fun. trust me. So now not only does my side need to arm itself, but we need to adopt book burning rallies too. The horror, the horror...

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Feb 1, 2008 -> 02:30 PM) hopefully Ms.Coulter will leave the GOP for good. Go to the Dems, they can have her/him/it (not sure what coulter is) Oh God no....and Oh God, we're unarmed, so we can't force her to stay away! Damn these liberal beliefs!

The Grizzlies are also sending Stromile Swift to the Nets for Jason Collins.

McCain scores the other LA Times endorsement.

Obama scores the first LA Times Presidential endorsement in decades.

I'll bet he's killed something while wearing that jersey.