NorthSideSox72

QUOTE(DrunkBomber @ Sep 6, 2006 -> 03:54 PM) A. do you know what a 1099. If you get paid tax free you are an independant contractor and are responsible for reporting their own taxes B. for the 50th time, your referencing grandmas and grandpas not reporting their income has absolutely nothing to do with this conversation, I said it is a bigger issue then minimum wage, I didnt say it was the end of the world, I realize lots of people do that and it is just as bad. http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?page...ssuecenters7fd8 Although the United States’ welfare rolls are already swollen, every year we import more people who wind up on public assistance: immigrants. Many immigrants are poor; indeed, that is why they come here. The immigrants we admit are much poorer than the native population and are increasing the size of our impoverished population. As a result, the share of immigrant households below the poverty line (18 percent) is much higher than the share of native households that are poor (11 percent)—nearly twice as high. And immigrant households are more likely to participate in practically every one of the major means-tested programs. Immigrant use of welfare programs (21 percent) is 43 percent higher than non-immigrants’ use (15 percent).1 Each year, state governments spend an estimated $11 billion to $22 billion to provide welfare to immigrants.2 There are some of your precious numbers You know... if you had presented these numbers earlier, and hadn't laced all your posts with insults... people might not be ganging up on you. Here in Buster, we try our best to promote discussion. Sometimes it is heated. But if you go back to your posts early on they were fairly inflammatory - so you got the same in return. It seems you have some very good points to make - just try to be careful how you make them.

The lineup I'd like to see tonight... Ozuna LF Iguchi 2B Thome DH Crede 3B Pierzynski C Gload 1B Sweeney CF Mackowiak RF Cintron SS Call it the all-hustle, grinder ball, balls to the wall lineup. I'm tired of watching PK lope down the line, Dye is said to have a mild injury, and forget about Pods. Go ahead, tell me this is dumb. Maybe it is. But I'd like to see some fire under the team's belly.

If it comes down to it, I'd rather see the Tigers in the playoffs than the Twins. We match up better against the Tigers.

Along the lines of SS2K5's joke... When the astronauts were training for the first missions to the moon back in the 1960's, they did some of their training out in some remote mountains, where the terrain was similar to what they thought they'd see on the moon. While they were out there training, they noticed a couple Indians from the nearby reservation had come out to watch. The younger Indian said to one of the astronauts, "My father would like you to bring something with you to leave on the moon... something from my people" The astronaut grinned proudly, and said "Sure thing. What is it?" The old Indian scribbles something on a piece of leather, and hands it to his son, who hands it to the astronaut. The astronaut tries to read it, but its in some form of Pictography or symbols. So the astronaut asks the boy, "What does it say?" The boy reads it and laughs, then replies, "It says: 'Don't trust these people. They will steal all your land and kill all you food.'"

Detroit losing to Seattle 4-1 in the 8th. I'm not sayin'.... I'm just sayin'. It would sure be nice if we actually won tonight and gained a game on the Tigers. We'd be 4.5 out, despite all the doom and gloom.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Sep 6, 2006 -> 01:48 PM) Meh. Stingrays are generally docile creatures. One of the most deadly poisons a spider can carry is housed in the body of a daddy long legs. Of course we have no problem messing with them. Daddy longlegs can't bite into human flesh. Can't get the mandibles around it.

Woohoo. Due process and a speedy trial for all. Sorry, I just can't get excited about this, at this point.

Its amazing how difficult it seems to be for people to accept that there is NO SINGLE REASON for the fact that we aren't dominating baseball. The reasons are many - some from management, some from staff. Plenty of blame to go around. I'm frustrated like everyone else, of course. I'm just not ready to give up, and I'm not going to delude myself into thinking there is one easy solution to making the team better.

Cheers, my Filibuster brother! Enjoy your day to the fullest!

QUOTE(DrunkBomber @ Sep 6, 2006 -> 01:01 PM) Actually, they make about 5 cash, collect government benefits and live in subsodized housing, dont pay taxes, and send money they make to their families that exchanges at enough for them to live comfortably off of. Amazing indeed This is akin to a Hollywood movie - you took individual, spectacular elements of truth and combined them into one whopping picture. Except, many of them don't make 5 cash an hour. Some do, some don't. And most don't collect much in the way of government benefits, since they avoid anything governmental like the plague. Mind you, I have been one on this forum to argue FOR tougher immigration policy. But your statements are a bit over the top, I think.

Anyone on this site who bikes regularly with gloves is already familiar with the concept. Ever wondered why there is usually a patch of soft, fuzzy fabric along the outside of the thumb of those biking gloves? Thats what its there for. Snot, sweat, dirt, blood, rain, mud, whatever gets in your face.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Sep 6, 2006 -> 08:08 AM) The White Sox as a team have been notorious for not running out grounders. I remember reading an SI article in 2004 when they were talking to a scout. He said they couldn't get the White Sox players times down to first because no one ran balls out. I also recall many moons ago, Hawk actually calling out Ozzie one game, albeit it very quietly, for not running a ball out. Hawk just said he hated when Ozzie did that. Thome runs them out, although now he has to take it easy with his hammy, Mackowiak goes down the line as hard as anyone in baseball, other than that, its pretty much a team full of courtesy joggers. Yup. The only guys I see really hustle it down the line are Thome, Pablo, Mack, Anderson, Gload and Iguchi. Note that 3 of those are bench guys. But I think that was different last year. There was more hustle on that 2005 team, even from the same players. Ozzie benched a couple different guys mid-game last season for not running out grounders. Maybe he needed to do some of that this year.

I am all for a Pablo/Sweeney platoon in LF for the remainder of the season. Heck, I'd be all for any combination of Ozuna, Sweeney, Mack and Gload out there over what Pods brings right now. But I don't think it will happen.

I only have one issue with Paulie this year... he appears to not run out ground balls. Yeah, I know he is the slowest guy on the team. But its more than that. The double play he grounded into last night, would have scored a run if he had beat it out, and frankly he didn't look like he was running too hard. That just bothers me, especially for a team captain, and especially when I see Thome (who is also slow) running out every ground ball like he does. That irritated me.

QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Sep 5, 2006 -> 04:51 PM) Wow, that's a felony? Looks like an A level misdemeanor to me. Pretty much any sort of physical battery on a child by an adult is felonious.

QUOTE(Steff @ Sep 5, 2006 -> 04:26 PM) However it does not kill instantly. It's moot now, but the poison likely would not have killed him if they could have gotten him medical attention in a realistic time frame. The poison went direct to the heart. The poison would almost certainly have killed him, if the barb didn't. All venoms fall into 2 categories - hemotoxins and neurotoxins. If this was a hemotoxin, getting all its barbs right through the heart, then all the body's ability to reduce the flow of it through the blood stream would be moot. Thats not even to mention that if its deep enough to hit the heart, then it got a LOT of surface area inside the body cavity, thus resulting in very large amounts of poison being presented. If it was a neurotoxin, it would have very quickly immobilized the twitching muscle of the heart, resulting in cardiac arrest. He was dead either way.

QUOTE(juddling @ Sep 5, 2006 -> 03:46 PM) Actually, I believe they are SUPPOSED to be called not-for-profits, since a good number of them do indeed make profits. MAybe thats how they make the profit? Do you have any sort of proof of anything more than isolated incidences of not-for-profit companies making a profit? And by profit, for this purpose, it means money that does NOT go to the target audience or plowback into expansion or infrastructure.

Ah yes. Hmmm... 11 minus 9 is 2... just two months left to elections!!! Time to ratchet up the fear mongering and strident overtones!

Hermy needs to retire and become a really good pitching coach. I get the feeling he'd be great at it.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Sep 5, 2006 -> 01:55 PM) Garcia is 110% GONE! He is done, he will never pitch another inning in a White Sox uniform after this season, that's what happens when you suckass at your job but run your mouth and insult your teammates anyway. Vazquez on the other hand is KW's baby, he will and should be here next year for sure. I really hope you are right. I do. I just wonder, with Ozzie...

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Sep 5, 2006 -> 01:50 PM) Even with this year's dissapointment looming, I feel pretty good about the rotation of Count, MB, Garland, BMAC, plus whoever we get our hands on. I hope you are right about that rotation, but somehow, I doubt we get rid of Garcia, thanks to the Ozzie connection. Vazquez maybe. Honestly, I'd rather keep Vazquez around than Garcia - Vaz at least looks like he is trying out there, and doesn't blame the offense for his struggles.

QUOTE(AssHatSoxFan @ Sep 5, 2006 -> 01:17 PM) lets put vazquez down for 8IP 18Ks 1BB 2Hs 0ER...right? People here seem to be forgetting that Vazquez has been the second best starter on the team in the last month or so. Not that its saying much... but it is the case.

QUOTE(Hangar18 @ Sep 5, 2006 -> 12:52 PM) I actually have the numbers skewed towards overtaking Detroit. It is the same principle, because if we DO NOT HAVE better than a 3 game lead in the Wild Card by the time 9/29 gets here, the SOX are in big big big trouble. The Twinks will not lose in that dome the last weekend of September if their wild-card lives are depending on it OK, well Detroit is another matter. We are 5.5 behind them. If we aren't within a couple games of them after our series against them, I think that is a done deal. If we have at least a 2 game lead going into MIN, we'll be OK. We'd just need to win 1 game up there, which we can do.

QUOTE(Hangar18 @ Sep 5, 2006 -> 09:25 AM) I'll be completely honest. As soon as the Red Sox tied it in the 9th, and knowing Jenks cant pitch more than one inning, and knowing how our bullpen cant hold a lead ............ I turned the TV off. Are you serious? We have one of the better bullpens in baseball. Our pen is a lot stronger than our starting staff, actually.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Sep 5, 2006 -> 10:28 AM) They can't go .5 games better than Minnesota. One of the 2 teams will not play one more game than the other. 162 games each. They have one more game remaining than we do.