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QUOTE (danman31 @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 11:56 AM) Yeah, Bryce Mosier, catcher. He sounds like a pretty good prospect, but obviously any prep player taken this late is probably a tough sign. Committed to SDSU. Story on the 34th rounder. Also a high schooler, but that makes it sound like he will sign. I wonder what the deal was on a suspension?

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 11:37 AM) Is there any truth to the rumor that Danks has requested a trade to whichever team has the most games remaining with Seattle? He'd have to get into line.

http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/news/artic...ws&c_id=cws

Back underway... White Sox 31st rounder: Michael Johnson, SS, L/R, Samford. 5-9, 175. .342/.415/.433

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 11:15 AM) So are the property taxes now all equal? Or are their areas where they still have a high property tax but now their school systems are not getting equivalent funding? How do people in the higher property tax areas feel about this? I can't remember how relative property taxes are factored into it honestly. It wasn't an issue on Michigan City's end (we are fairly low property tax-wise) during the election, so I never thought to research it honestly. The rich schools hate it. Absolutely hate it. I'm waiting to see if it makes a difference in performance or not.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 11:11 AM) Konerko has some stiff competition as does CQ. Alexei and Santos should be on the team with out a question. Anthony Wiener is not going to the all-star game.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 11:06 AM) Is that in their contract already? Im sure teachers want to teach, and I hope/appreciate that they do want to, but many teacher unions would fight (understandably) if their employees had to teach longer than signed upon. From what you've told me at your school, there isn't much else that can be done besides forcing the student to stay after hours, which doesn't sound viable to me. Its not in any contract I know of. Teachers do it voluntarily.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 11:05 AM) How do they do that? With property taxes being the #1 way states pay for education, it is hard to take local property tax money and move it to poorer communities. 50% is just an amazing number. I'd like to see Texas just come close to spending the same for every kid. All of the property tax money now gets sent to the state. The state the redistributes based on a per student dollar amount based on the make up of each school system. Systems with higher poverty, and higher special education numbers get a higher amount. Schools with lower populations get less. Last I knew schools in Gary were getting over $10k/yr/kid, while somewhere like Valpo was right about $7k/yr/kid

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 11:05 AM) I 100% disagree with this. It's Ozzie's job to find a place in the lineup for him with Dunn/Rios being unplayable. You're not going to want to play Lillibridge 7 games a week anyways, and you can get Viciedo some time at LF, 1B and DH. There's nothing left for Viciedo to prove in the minors. At the end of the day, we aren't winning anything if Dunn and Rios don't contribute this year. As long as we are still "in" for this year, Ozzie has to find a way to get them going again.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 11:03 AM) C'mon, I try to make a completely optimistic and happy thread, and this is all it gets I even tried to throw a joke in it. Sorry man.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 10:59 AM) Humber and Alexei and Quentin Because of the positions they play, Alexei might be the leader at this point.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 10:59 AM) We are in the top 3 nations in spending, per student, amongst industrialized nations. The money is already there. It just needs to be spent more effectively. And I know with education reform in Indiana we spend A LOT more in poor communities per student than rich. Nearly 50% more at the extremes.

Except what it doesn't explain.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 09:45 AM) Took an unoffical to UConn last week and was offered a scholarship with an option to take it for this year or next. Apparently he liked the school, he tweeted something before taking it down. Link Damn. I am hoping for IU. If someone can get in his head about his work ethic, he is going to be a lottery pick. He is the most complete HS big man I have ever seen, including seeing Zach Randolph and a few other Mr Basketballs in IN over the years.

Couldn't care less.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 09:48 AM) My students come from a wide range of economic conditions and shack is somewhat correct. There are a lot of lazy kids out there who would have been removed from most schools in other countries. Here we not only attempt, but demand that every kid be in school until 16. It really frustrates me that kids around the world are fighting for a chance to go to school, we force them to go, feed them two meals a day, and even provide school supplies, and kids put in less than zero effort. Not only are they not doing anything, but they are distracting the students around them. They can't bring a pencil or notebook but have $2 for a no uniform fundraiser and nice cell phones. To me it shows how much they value school. Give me a room full of recent immigrants, my experience tells me most will actually care and be thankful that they are getting an education. They don't think of it as a birthright. I saw a scary amount of this even in seniors. The wife deals with it a ton in freshmen who haven't been "allowed" to drop out yet. I really wonder if their attitude towards education would change if they faced a test at some point which told them they weren't allowed to attend school anymore like in some other industrialized countries?

Ah, X and Z shouldn't be near each other on a keyboard.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 07:24 AM) DeAndre Daniels commits to UConn. With him, Lamb, Napier, Roscoe Smith and Boatright also coming in that's some serious firepower. Not to mention they are all Fr/So (Oriakhi as a Jr only upperclassman). Then you take into account that they are the presumptive favorite for Andre Drummond next year and also the favorite for Omar Calhoun and a finalist for Mitch McGary...wow, could be a couple more really good years up in Storrs. I though McGary was a go for IU?

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 02:31 AM) Simmons owned LeBron. sportsguy33 Bill Simmons Highlights of LeBron's performance tonight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBWQCHb95rg That is awesome and I hate him for posting the Wiggles all at the same time.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 09:22 AM) You speak Ozzie? Maybe. I'm not even close to sure.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 08:31 AM) I was talking about the middle of the field...catcher/middle infield/center field.... As of right now, we are pretty light there with the exception of Alexei, and he isn't exactly Ernie Banks. Assuming we know what Morel is, at least this season, we'll need to have Gordon and whomever plays CF to continue to hit for some power. Eh, I don't hold that you have to get power out of certain positions. If we have bats in the middle of the line up, and a nice complementary cast, I have no problems with not getting power out of somewhere like 3B if we are getting 75/80 type defense

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 08:48 AM) I can't for the life of me figure out what the bolded one even means. I translated it to mean that everyone should leave him alone, even his close friends.

Z-raying squirrels would be cool.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 7, 2011 -> 08:02 PM) But your point is irrelevant. Even if I grant you that their appointment is ultimately inconsequential, it doesn't legitimize refusing to allow a vote on their appointment. It's a red herring. It's an attempt to deflect away from a discussion of the larger Republican tactic of refusing to allow confirmation votes on dozens or hundreds of appointments. bmags already addressed your point, by the way, by accurately pointing out the hyperbole. No one claimed they would "save the world," but said that "hey, maybe its a bad idea to hold up fed board nominations for no reason, not good, not bad, but literally no reason during an economic crisis." You responded with a pretty lame and pretty unreasonable standard of "well show me a specific vote they would have changed!!!" Which, again, is irrelevant to the actual issue: preventing Executive branch appointments from even being discussed or voted on as a matter of policy and nothing more. Except that the whole point of Baltas thread was that all of these economic issues could have been fixed if these two people had been appointed. That is why there was that specific reaction to his post. The result of voting or not voting these people on is the Red Herring, which came from the original post.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 08:24 AM) But do we have enough offense at other positions to make up for a corner infielder hitting 7th or 8th? You had better have some above-average power up the middle if you're going to have a corner infielder with a sub .750 OPS. With PK, TCQ, and AD you should be fine with the middle of the order. Especially if you get anything from Rios, and some of the projected power development from Gordo, plus Alexei's numbers.