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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 23, 2011 -> 08:56 AM) Actually, for once that is good news, I'm planning a ****load of driving in 2 weeks. You won't see that reflected at the pumps for a while, but the prices should be falling anyways as prices have been on a pretty steady decline for the few weeks anyway. I saw $3.55 when I left this morning.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 23, 2011 -> 08:49 AM) Pension funds aren't investment funds that receive money and invest them? Huh? I pointed this out yesterday but I'll point it out again now. In the period 1970-2010, Pension funds averaged returns of about 8%. If you look at the period 2007-2010 alone, they returned about 0.5%. They're underfunded now because the economy and the markets have yet to recover to 2007 boom levels. That of course does not mean that there are other problems, but saying that they are underfunded now is exactly the same as saying that your 401k is underfunded now because it hasn't made up the dent from the 2008 implosion. If they aren't funded, they aren't receiving money.

And for some happy news, Dollar is up big today, Crude is trading an 80 handle, and gas futures are down nearly 20 cents a gallon.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 23, 2011 -> 08:44 AM) If the stock market falls and wipes out 30% of the value of your 401K, is your 401K "not invested" in? 401k's are actually money that has actually invested into something. You pay a portion, and your employer pays you a match. If you haven't funded a pension, the money isn't there. You can't invest money that isn't there. Its like a Social Security IOU sitting in a vault somewhere.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 23, 2011 -> 08:34 AM) Don't they have to win 2/3 in Wrigley in order to worry about parade routes? I hope you didn't just jinx that series. If they win one, they keep the Cup by virtue of winning it last year.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 23, 2011 -> 08:41 AM) why is it too bad? you want your team to be successful against teams that are better than .500, this is a good test. And already the Sox have taken 2 of 3 from the dodgers(should have swept if not for a 9th inning meltdown) and 2 of 3 from the Dbacks. The above .500 teams haven't been the problem this year. Its been the bad teams that have killed us. I think if we were .500 against the under par teams, we'd be in first place right now.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 23, 2011 -> 08:42 AM) Which we already discussed the reasons for yesterday. Underfunded also means "not invested".

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 23, 2011 -> 08:39 AM) Remember, pension funds are investment funds. While we're sitting around this 9% unemployment mark...wall street is doing spectacular. That's got more to do with the free money sale at the fed than anything else. Remember pensions are massively underfunded right now.

Can we go back to "Irrational Exuberance" instead of "I got nothin'"? http://blogs.forbes.com/afontevecchia/2011...mys-soft-patch/

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Jun 23, 2011 -> 08:23 AM) Yeah, I loved A Bug's Life. My favorite is probably Monsters, Inc. I'm not going to make a complete list, as I really enjoyed almost all of them and it's hard to even rank them. I agree with this for sure. Even the #10 movie on the list is still a really damned good movie.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 23, 2011 -> 08:18 AM) For the top guys there always seems to be teams out there that would surprise you. San Francisco could fit on that list. It'd be crazy with the deal they gave Beltre, but Texas's books look a lot better now. San Fran is about to come into some big assed deals with their starting pitching. If they sign Albert, it probably means dealing Lincicum.

And other assorted off-day non-sense thread...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 23, 2011 -> 08:08 AM) IMO...this is only a non-issue because the team won the game. If the game had been blown after Peavy left, then both of them would be a lot angrier at each other. And in that case...no, I don't think the opposite would be much worse. I agree it would have been a much bigger deal if they had lost. Besides, this conversation is a least new. I really didn't want another day of what a sucky suck that [insert sucky player here] is.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 23, 2011 -> 08:05 AM) There were a couple of them hanging over the Sox dugout in the 9th inning. I liked the two of them you could see from the side camera angle with two outs. It made me smile.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jun 23, 2011 -> 08:15 AM) Ha. I'm sure in the end that would only frustrate one person. Me. Seriously if the outage is small enough, they might not even know about it. Plus the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

I'm trying to figure out even what the market could be for Albert. Most of the big spenders are set at 1B. The Yankees have Tex and Boston has Gonzalez. I don't see Albert moving either of them to DH, and I don't see Albert wanting to be an expensive DH right now. The Mets and Dodgers are out for obvious reasons. Detroit maybe? I could see Little Ceasar wanting to make a splash, but then he has to figure out how to move Cabrera to DH without sending him to rehab. I know the Cubs have been said, but with the debt load that Ricketts is carrying, and their attendance slipping like it has, do they really have the money? I haven't see anything yet that tells me that family is going to be pulling money out of their own pockets for players yet. Anaheim makes logical sense. But they also have some really bad deals on the field there too. Philly is set at 1B, and if Milwaukee would spend that kind of cash, they would just keep Prince. Could Washington be a wild card after their crazy contract offers to Tex and Werth the last couple of years? The only other team I could think of would be Baltimore, but that might be a little salty for them too. I know they have chased after some people lately, but first off no one wants to play there as bad as they are, and second, that is an assload of money you'd have to put up to get him there. I won't even go through the rest of the teams for payroll reasons... They are already out.

I wonder if there is any chance the Bulls can package somehow and move up? There hasn't been any buzz from them.

I wouldn't be upset if Kane went. You'd hate to see a kid screw up a life like his has potentially in front of him. Best of luck to him.

QUOTE (He_Gawn @ Jun 23, 2011 -> 06:54 AM) I started at ISU in Terre Haute, and am now at Purdue in West Lafayette. Nothing beats the Terre Haute smell. In the summer, you can't even go outside. West Lafayette is a hellhole though. Just keep telling myself one more year.... If I ever miss downstate Indiana, I remember days like this, and then I am happy again.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Jun 22, 2011 -> 06:08 PM) Didn't the Sox wear a hat in 1959 with a sock on it with a wing off of it? I think that was their World Series hat, IIRC. It wasn't their regular one for sure. That was was black, with a red SOX.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 22, 2011 -> 05:04 PM) No dice on the Portland gig...I asked them for a status update and they wrote me back a very sarcastic reply and said I did not make the short list. They strung me along for 12 weeks since my phone interview. I don't think asking for a status update was rude of me. Of course, just as I accept my fate that I will be a Las Vegas resident, SoCal Edison calls me to recruit me for a position there. Oh my, I don't know if I could live in LA... 12 weeks and they were dicks about it? Eh, it is probably a good thing you didn't make the cut.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jun 23, 2011 -> 07:12 AM) Still have no power from Tuesday's storm. Where you at ComEd? Call them. Repeatedly.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jun 23, 2011 -> 12:49 AM) That might be the worst defensive outfield in the history of the game. And that is saying something after the 2003 post ASB Sox.

QUOTE (Andrew @ Jun 23, 2011 -> 01:12 AM) He showed up Peavy - the f***ing pansy, making $16M while he's done s*** to help this team and AJ (helped them get a title), took a lesser contract to stay the 11th hour (got offered more from LA). If it's "this kind of s*** that he's been known to do...blah blah blah" - shut up, gas bag....., You can SIGN ME UP FOR MORE TOO. What the f*** investment do you have in Jake goddamn Peavy anyway? He's a f***ing disaster of a trade. Nobody would even argue that.........He brings special "never happened" injuries and recoveries..... You can cut my leg off for $16M and yet he gets that a year to not play 1/2 the time and suck when does. But no - "Don't no catcher call him out of line...." ~ Real Ridiculous. "Real"diculous Seriously this argument is terrible. I've seen it a couple of other times in this thread. If you don't have anything better than the "are you related to him" type posts, just go away.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jun 22, 2011 -> 11:34 PM) Apparently no one in this thread has ever gotten into an argument with a close friend. Unless you showed your best friend up in front of a large group, it isn't quite the same.