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QUOTE (sircaffey @ Oct 18, 2009 -> 11:46 AM) Isn't Bradley said to be a good teammate from other players' perspectives? None of his problems seem to be with teammates. This isn't the case - see the comments made by Cubs players just this season. And these are guys who are trying to be nice, and to protect their teammates, but even they had to say some things.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 18, 2009 -> 08:43 AM) I honestly believe Bradley would work very well on our team. We would probably be the most hated team in baseball, but I think he would fit in well with us. I don't believe our fans would get on him as the Cubs fans did. I think they would appreciate his skills and live with his eccentric nature. Between Ozzie and AJ, I think he would find some personalities he would mesh well with. Does that mean I want him on our ballclub? Not really. But I do think the south side of Chicago would be one of the better fits for him as a player. Why do people keep up with this idea that because AJ and Ozzie and others are "eccentric", that Bradley's "eccentricity" would fit right in? Why does it make sense that crazies will get along with other crazies? This isn't the Black Sheep Squadron. Bradley's is well and truly mentally unstable, not to mention violent. Saying he'd get along with Ozzie and AJ because they are also unusual is like saying the raging paranoid psychopaths should be put in the same room as the OCD's and the autistic folks in the nut house, because hey, they're all mentally addled, so they'll get along great! No, they're more likely to kill each other.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Oct 17, 2009 -> 02:15 PM) There are about 310 million people who live in the United States. With that many people everywhere unusual s*** happens every single hour of every single day. But when the lead on every network and every homepage is about something as pointless as this it just reminds me of how mundane all of our lives really must be to even care. Unusual s*** that qualifies as news is something like landing an airliner in the Hudson River or sawing your arm off to get out from a boulder. Those were feats that very few people could even have fathomed doing, OTOH this story is a pretty standard case of stupid people being stupid. Yeeeeeaaaaaaaahhh.... reports of a 6 year old boy floating away in a homemade weather balloon? Pretty standard.

QUOTE (flavum @ Oct 17, 2009 -> 04:42 PM) CJ is the bomb. Its hard not to love a guy who went undrafted, and just continues to rake in every league he plays in.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Oct 16, 2009 -> 03:00 PM) I would love to have Bradley in a Sox uniform. Forget all of the naysayers... I believe that the guy would be motivated and could possibly return to his 2007 form. I hope Kenny goes and gets him... Every team that has signed him has thought this. They all thought it would be different. Seven teams later, it isn't. Its incredibly unlikely that somehow this time, in the same town where he already failed, would be the magic key.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 16, 2009 -> 02:49 PM) I'd take him. Only because I think Ozzie can handle him and because I think he would be motivated by sticking it to the Cubs and their fans. I think he would behave here with our fans, especially if he just continued to s*** on the Cubs org. That would be new. You think he'd suddenly stop being mentally unstable because his manager would also be mentally unstable? Seems more like a recipe for disaster than a solution to me.

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 16, 2009 -> 02:51 PM) If everyone here agreed that this sort of hypocrisy is common to both parties and not worth our time, we could eliminate 25% of the posts. It keeps cycling over and over again based on who is in office. Frankly, I'm bored by it. Yes. Ignore it, its just noise, and posting it over and over again only propogates the problem.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 16, 2009 -> 01:47 PM) They had the capital before that, as long as the government didn't allow the entire system to cascade apart, which was there was no way was going to actually happen. Sort of. Its not that black and white, which I am sure you know.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 16, 2009 -> 01:36 PM) So that they couldn't have the terms of their business dictated to them, yes. That and that they had the capital to do OK without it at that point. I'm sure others still into the pocket of the government would like to be freed up to, but they can't do it realistically, yet.

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Oct 16, 2009 -> 01:15 PM) That would be a beautiful thing to see. Also works well with the fact that it gives the relievers in AA and AAA to show what they have for a couple months, so you can see if one bubbles to the top and you can plug them in at that point. You will probably have to do that anyway during the season.

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Oct 16, 2009 -> 01:11 PM) I agree he is fringe, but that was kind of what I was saying. We have other fringe guys in our list too IMO. I was just using Cassel and Santos as examples since I had been looking at the AFL thread. Once you get below about #10 or so, as others have stated, there is a whole batch of players (through to about #30 or so) in our system right now that are very similar in potential (just differences in how developed they are versus ceiling, how their results are versus projectability, etc.). Hard to really get on someone for a guy being 15 versus 20, or 30 versus 25. I have Cassel as my AAP, so I should be his biggest cheerleader, but even I realize he is fringey at best, and he didn't even make my Top 30.

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Oct 16, 2009 -> 01:00 PM) First half: 2009: 32.2 IP, 1.93 ERA, 1.29 WHIP 2008: 38 IP, 2.37 ERA, 0.92 WHIP 2007: 39.1 IP, 2.52 ERA, 1.09 WHIP 2006: 42.2 IP, 2.74 ERA, 0.94 WHIP Second half: 2009: 23.1 IP, 8.49 ERA, 2.19 WHIP 2008: 8.1 IP, 9.72 ERA, 1.80 WHIP 2007: 31 IP, 5.23 ERA, 1.61 WHIP 2006: 33 IP, 4.64 ERA, 1.58 WHIP You have to go back to 2005 to find the last time Linebrink had a good second half. He's had excuses every year, but 4 straight seasons looks like a theme here. Maybe we keep him, then at the deadline next year trade him to someone desperate for a reliever. That would be extracting max value.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 16, 2009 -> 12:53 PM) Wasn't GS one of the first to pay back its bailout money? On purpose? Yes.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 16, 2009 -> 12:38 PM) And once again I'll reply to your defense of G.S. that whether or not they repaid back the TARP money specifically they're still the beneficiaries of hundreds of billions of dollars worth of government largesse from the Fed, the destruction of Lehman brothers, the bailout of AIG, and the implicit guarantee that comes from them being too big to fail, amongst other things. They're still at the casino with a big chunk of your money knowing that if they lose big time, they won't have to pay it back. And yet, they didn't lose big time, even in the biggest financial crisis since 1929. Because they are good at what they do, and don't take risks that they cannot absorb. In the case of many other institutions, I agree with you. I just disagree on GS, as well as Northern Trust, Allstate and some other big financials who had enough sense to steer clear of risk they couldn't handle. I prefer not to villify the entire industry, for the sins of only some.

CNNFN ran this article today, about GS's $3B profit for the quarter. Give it a read, and see what you think. To me, the whole article is really inciting an irrational, and dare I say mildly socialist, point of view. It basically is telling us that "people" are upset that GS is making big bucks at our expense. This is patently false. The "expense" of money we sent to GS, was all not only paid back in a very short period, but was paid back at a substantial rate of interest. It was a loan, and one that GS paid in full and paid off early. And now, they are making a big profit. This is exactly what we should WANT the recipients of these bailouts to do. It is utterly bizarre to me that GS is getting s*** for this, when other banks have lost tons of money and are still in the pocket of taxpayers are getting less flack then GS is. This makes no sense to me. Here are some kickers: Here, the writer tries to make GS look bad for being responsible. Seriously, think about that for a second. And another one: Guilt trip much? Note the disconnected attempt at a parallel there. He didn't say GS made $3B and laid people off - it said GS made $3B, and a bunch of other companies laid people off. This is an absurd stab here. I don't usually side with the tea bagging, Obama-is-a-socialist/communist crowd, because I think they have taken things way too far. But here, I agree with the thought that there is too much of a sense of entitlement prevading in society right now.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 16, 2009 -> 11:03 AM) I think the best Republican commentator on CNN is Ed Rollins. He criticizes liberals without being insulting or obnoxious. Not that I watch cable news anymore though. I agree - during the primaries, he was one of the few talking heads I could listen to and not cringe (often).

So yesterday, I was walking into the train station, and by a bookstore. I glanced over to see a big shiny display of a new book they apparently just got in - called "Arguing with Idiots". Its written by Glenn Beck. I LOL'd.

QUOTE (WCSox @ Oct 16, 2009 -> 10:33 AM) Sounds like he wants as much money as he can get. That means that we won't be signing him. Every player wants as much money as they can get. And yet, the Sox still have a team, and still sign players to contracts.

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Oct 15, 2009 -> 05:50 PM) Even though I've known this, watching that video just made me think about how I love all the basketball powerhouses 4 of our 5 starters were from: Central Arkansas, NE Oklahoma St, New Mexico, and Miami (Oh). Haha. Maybe Paxson's way of building a team (by drafting guys from highly successful programs) is all wrong... Not an elite program, but, UNM has sent teams to the NCAA tourney more often that not over the years, so they're not exactly obscure either.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Oct 16, 2009 -> 09:31 AM) I was talking with my sister, and she said she read that supposedly the balloon was incapable of even lifting a small child... especially a 6 year old. Anyone see the Mythbusters Episode where they tried to fly a small child with helium balloons? A balloon of this stories size simply couldn't lift the child. It can't be that simple. There is math involved - if there is enough helium, weight of child, weight of balloon, weather factors, etc. You can't simply look at a balloon and say "nope, couldn't do it", unless it was patently obvious (like, no, that party balloon twisted into a cute doggie could not lift Refrigerator Perry into the sky).

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Oct 15, 2009 -> 11:20 PM) This might be the ultimate example of just how stupid the American media is. Talk about falling for a blatant hoax. I don't blame the media for taking the story, at all - media is a business, and people are fascinated with s*** like this. For so many obvious reasons. This is actually an example of the media being smart. Family all tells the same story - we are fairly sure the kid is in there. So, the cops and media do what they both had to do - follow the balloon. The cops should have ALSO searched the house, sounds like they did, just not well enough. The people to blame here are the goofy ass family.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Oct 16, 2009 -> 08:43 AM) Why is this family putting a six year old on national television 18 times immediately after this event if it wasn't for publicity? These people make me kinda sick. Yeah, the amalgam of all this info - the publicity hounding after, the kid's weird statement, the parents subjecting their children to being part of a show called "wife swap", the kids doing rap videos out on YouTube at age 6, the goofy alien stuff... these parents just seem to scream attention hounds. These parents make me ill.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Oct 15, 2009 -> 05:17 PM) Also just so you know, there is no way theyre going to throw it out when you walk up there. They will give you the minimum fine and a short supervision period if you plead guilty. If you plead not guilty they will give you a larger fine, and if you try to explain yourself he will enter a non guilty plea and tell you to sit down and choose between a bench trial after all the cases have been called or a continuance for a jury trial. If you dont have a clean driving record, I would get a lawyer for a couple hundred bucks so they dont suspend your license. Thats only if you have 2 or 3 tickets on your record in the past year or two. If its in Addison, pay it and get it over with and be warned that the deputy will ask people to pull their cells out of their pocket and prove theyre off randomly and if theyre not he will throw you out. Asking to see the radar? Might have well told him you pay his salary. Apparently you had some issues in Addison with tickets (which you seem to have gotten a lot of). But your experience is not my experience, at all. They throw out stuff all the time, though you may have to still pay court costs in some cases, or go on probation/supervision. And giving a reason why the ticket is wrong will not make things worse on you, that I have ever seen.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Oct 15, 2009 -> 04:23 PM) Hot Air is updating this thing pretty well. Sounds like the boy really did make it into the baloon, the issue here is that the Box he was inside is gone. http://hotair.com/archives/2009/10/15/awfu...unaway-balloon/ Latest from there: Update: A sheriff’s deputy thought he saw “something” fall. This is really awful.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 15, 2009 -> 03:21 PM) Anyone see "Antichrist"? Not lately. Did you lose him?