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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 11:56 AM) The private sector is adding jobs right now while the public sector is cutting jobs. Private sector job additions have been anemic. Its been enough to stave off a 2nd dip, so far, and probably still will be, but its not enough to get the economy going with some real steam.

QUOTE (since56 @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 09:32 AM) My feelings exactly. If they are so damn good then where are the World Series trophies? I don't buy all the accolades. Such a great organization, when the league was talking about downsizing a few years ago they were one of the candidates. They have a good September record but what about October? For any of you Twin lovers out there I hope their plane goes down with you on it! P.S. This season is not over yet. GO SOX! Some of the more violent posts about the Twins and their fans are starting to go a bit far in here. Can we maybe tone that part down just a bit? Hoping for someone's death is really not OK.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 09:05 AM) Why are those funny? All seem logical to me. Or are you simply saying it will never happen? Because that's probably true.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 08:47 AM) No, we should just extend unemployment benefits. Screw spending money to create jobs, lets just pay people not to work. Trust me, eventually they'll WANT to go back to work, even if they are being paid to sit at home. $250B for alt energy and energy infrastructure each year for 4 years - limited amounts in research grants and competitive awards, more so in loan guarantees, tax breaks to business AND consumers of a wide array of alternative technologies, and partnering with the various regional energy agencies on energy load balancing nationally. This is our only current hope for a 1990's like run at economic strength, when we got ahead of the curve in computers. Need to get ahead in this next wave. $100B each year for 2 years in tax credits for hiring full time employees in any job, if retained at least one year. $100B each year for 3 years to purchase property in distressed urban neighborhoods and rural areas, work with local governments to find best use for them - free property to new businesses for building, parks to green up areas and lower the amount of available property, whatever each area feels is best. Where do we get this money? Here are some areas I'd start with... --No more governmental monetary support for oil, coal and gas, period. --Close the capital gain as income loopholes in the tax structure for individuals whose employed income comes from those sources --Remove all tax credits or other incentive programs that pay anyone anything for building new homes --Whatever the amount of tax credit per employee hired is, have the reverse done for each job removed if replaced overseas - a tax penalty --Allow the Bush income tax decreases for the top few brackets to expire

Win, and we're 4 back with 6 weeks to play and having felt like they weren't completely overmatched against Minny. Lose, and we're 6 back and beaten up by the piranhas. Need to f***ing win, then start a run in KC. One more time... GO YOU WHITE SOX!!!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 08:37 AM) Exactly, it's time for more stimulus. What its time for is a measure that doesn't provide just a temporary and artificial bump. Its time to do something that will help energize private sector jobs that will actually result in growth.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 11:39 PM) i hate joe cowley but he's right - one hot week and we're back in it. and lets face it, this team is streaky. For that matter, so are the Twins. They have gone something like 25-8 recently, eerily similar to the Sox run. Neither run is sustainable for much longer. Win tonight, and its not over yet.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 08:09 AM) On paper there is between 6 back and 4 back...but mentally, I think they're flat out cooked. They had their run and now they're back to where they were in May, with suddenly everyone's confidence broken, no belief that they can hold a lead/win, and Ozzie going off like crazy about everything and everyone other than the team. Disagree. Mentally, winning tonight then moving on, would be a far better place to be then getting swept. Looking at the way they played the last couple games, this team still has fight in it. That might not be enough, I don't know, but if they win tonight, they are far from cooked.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 08:06 AM) Wha? Taking 1 of 3 in Minny will teach them that they can win in Minny? Taking 2 of 3 in Minny didn't teach them that earlier this year. You seriously don't see a difference in winning tonight versus getting swept?

QUOTE (Dizzy Sox @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 10:12 PM) Trayce Thompson back in action. Good to see him back! Nice. Phegley and Thompson returning this season is two pleasant surprises, in a year where injuries have plagued the system.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 07:34 AM) So has everyone gave up on the season already? 41 games to go (without tonights game), we need '31-10' kind of run after we beat the Twinkies tonight, to win this division. (97 wins takes it? if not I tip my cap) SOX: 3 at KC 3 vs BAL 3 vs NYY 3 at CLE 3 at BOS 4 at DET 3 vs KC 3 vs MIN 3 vs DET 3 at OAK 3 at LAA 4 vs BOS 3 vs CLE If we can somehow win tonight, we're 4 back with about 6 weeks to play, and we will have a team that knows they can beat Minny in Minny even when they are red f***ing hot. Twins will not stay this hot the rest of the season, they are on a run like the Sox had earlier, and its not sustainable. We don't need a 31-10 run. But, we need to win tonight. Getting swept is not only a 2 game swing from here, it would also be crushing mentally.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 06:28 AM) Bush - Obama - In terms of Iraq? Yeah, that's about right. Glad to see we are on the same page.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 07:40 PM) House values didn't go clear out of control here, either. Markets like DFW and Chicago didn't get as out-of-control high, so no surprise they aren't dropping as far.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 04:00 PM) they do get earthquakes. In fact, a former co-worker of mine just moved there. It's about the closest you can get to perfect. And wildfires.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 01:31 PM) Don't you also have to account for the likely correlation between draft slot and amount spent, beyond just looking at the total # of picks? I suppose, but I like making fun of the Cubs.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 03:17 PM) Pierre LF Ramirez SS Rios CF Konerko 1B Quentin DH Pierzynski C Jones RF Vizquel 3B Beckham 2B Floyd P That's about the right people to play against Liriano. Beckham should be higher, but otherwise, best case lineup. No Kotsay, and Ozzie noticed that AJ actually looks OK against Liriano last time out.

QUOTE (Big Daddy Kool @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 01:20 PM) This is pretty interesting: http://bizofbaseball.com/index.php?option=...s&Itemid=39 So for the top 5 rounds, the Sox were 19th in total spending on bonuses. More than the Twins or Tigers (or Cubs for that matter). Indians and Royals spent significantly more. Cubs spent less than any other team that actually signed everyone, with 2,446,000 for 5 players.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 12:49 PM) Pitcher Jeff Sues signed and sent to Winston-Salem. Former Pirates farmhand and Vanderbilt pitcher. Was #7 prospect in their system as recently as 2009 according to Baseball America. Looks like a fly ball pitcher who also walks a lot of guys, and he's 27.

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 12:03 PM) This is a message forum; I was expressing an opinion. You have confidence that the White Sox will win the next two games, I take it. Is this, perhaps, setting up one of those "real fans" rants? I have seen nothing from this team to indicate they are capable of doing what it takes to beat the Twins head to head, outside of a pure fluke. I have very little confidence, actually. And you've never seen me go off on any sort of "real fan" rant, because that's just silly. I was laughing at the idea that anyone considers any two games in the future a "done deal". If you had said that last bolded part, I could understand it.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 12:45 PM) Palin and Gingrich, as much as we would like them to not be non-entities, are entities. They are legitimate contenders for the Presidential nomination in 2012, and what they say - can to an extent - matter. Did Obama's statement hurt Democratic chances in November? Maybe. But I think he did absolutely the right thing over the weekend by affirming the freedom to practice the religion of your choice over the continuous and growing astroturf outrage over the Burlington Coat Factory mosque. When I say non-entities, I mean that they hold no high political office, and therefore I have no expectations for their conduct in these matters. If they are idiots, which they often are, I don't really care. I care more when the President does things he shouldn't.

QUOTE (maki @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 11:59 AM) no way, the normal play of running into a catcher is coming from 2nd on a throw from the OF, and it's never the attempt to go at the head of the catcher, especially when they're standing straight up. He went out of the basepath by 2 feet and went arms out at AJ's head, not quite an attempt to jar a ball loose or an occurrence you might see in the normal course of a game with a catcher blocking the plate. It's bad, dirty baseball and he should have gotten tossed for it. QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 11:59 AM) That was a dirty play IMO. He didn't try to bowl over AJ to knock the ball out of the mitt so that he could score. He went nowhere near the plate and aggressively shoved AJ in the face. That's bush league. Eh, I only saw one brief video of it, maybe I needed to see it from 10 angles. But it looked like he knew he was dead, and tried to do something about it.

Trib says Cubs about to trade D-Lee to the Braves.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 10:48 AM) Excellent post elgonzo and I'm still bewildered that the ump didn't toss Young out or that no one from the Sox bench got up. What Young did was just smart baseball, he had no other chance to score. Not sure why it requires any sort of retaliation. QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 10:55 AM) IMO, put it at a 6 game lead because it is a done deal. The most important thing is to LEARN something from this, but I don't know that that's possible with this organizational structure in place. Stubbornness is a hallmark of Guillen's tenure, and until his tenure is over, we have to live with "his way". Our only hope (and it is a slim one) is that they lose 6 of 7 vs. Texas and we are able to beat other teams and make it a race during the last two weeks of the season. hahahaha, a done deal before we even play the next two games?

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 11:49 AM) For that matter, its not Sarah Palin's place either. Nor is it Newt Gingrich's place. Nor is it Mitt Romney's place. Or Harry Reid. They all did make a stance. And in reality, it was those stances that forced a presidential response. Or maybe its the GOP PAC's that are spending money on a TV campaign to generate outrage to try and stop getting a community center built in an old Burlington Coat Factory because Muslims are the new gays. Sarah Palin is a non-entity, same with Gingrich. Reid should have kept his yap shut. I don't care what people who are basically just media shills (Palin, Gingrich) say. The President and the Senate Majority Leader (who represents Nevada) would better serve their party and their roles by not saying anything.

Pinned for your pleasure. Gawd I hope BS is right. A win tonight is huge.