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QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jun 3, 2011 -> 11:55 AM) Too much smooching. Too bad it wasn't with Miguel Cabrera or Justin Verlander.

We should be seeing Teahen for Marquez anytime now.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 3, 2011 -> 10:14 AM) This Oliver guy appears to be trash. We should rock his ass. As long as Detroit didn't acquire Darren Oliver...

Now we have game thread.

For the same-ish money, I'd rather have Kirk back over Ben Gordon on a player vs player basis. Again, the #8 pick is what that deal with Detroit would really be all about. Gordon would get his 20 to 24 minutes on most nights, but getting a two guard early in the draft would be the lynchpin.

QUOTE (WHarris1 @ Jun 3, 2011 -> 09:39 AM) I was on the train that got hit and derailed at Union Station today. I was actually sitting on the car that got hit it was pretty intense the doors were caved in people were freaking out a 35 week pregnant woman almost went into labor on the train That is one thing I have never done. I have been on trains that have hit cars, but never train on train action. Hope you are OK!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 3, 2011 -> 09:29 AM) Oh. Melosh only wants to play for Tokyo.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 3, 2011 -> 09:33 AM) In 2010, the EPA assessed a total of $41 million in fines, down from $96 million in 2009. Where else should I be looking for this money? I forget the EPA is the only one passing fines and assessing fees

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 3, 2011 -> 09:31 AM) But that has nothing at all to do with the rate at which foreclosures were processed through the system. Relative to distressed sales, the tax credits had the exact same effect that price erosion would have had...bringing low-level buyers into the market. I'm impressed here...you're so desperate to blame the government for everything that you've actually got me defending the Housing Tax credit, which was a terrible program and a bad waste of government money. Prices have nothing to do with foreclosures? Geesh.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 3, 2011 -> 09:24 AM) Although the government delayed the "bottom" of the housing prices clearly...I'm not sure how the federal tax credits could possibly have served to delay the processing of the foreclosure bump. In the case of this data, the federal tax credits probably did help clear some of the inventory by bringing borderline buyers back into the market. The government has clearly exacerbated the situation by allowing the rise of these unaccountable foreclosure mills, and the government could have had a chance to actually fix the situation much sooner by effective policy, but effective policies would have been unfair and provoked a rash of people complaining about "Paying their neighbor's mortgage" so we decided that the best thing to do was have it last 15 years. Forestalling the fall of prices by years has us where we should have been in 2009, right now.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 3, 2011 -> 09:22 AM) Do you really think those are large enough to even show up on that graph? 3% of revenue in the U.S. is mostly reflecting things like the gasoline tax. An extra 1% of total revenue would require ~$20 billion a year to be raised in fines and fees. I would guess they are actually.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jun 3, 2011 -> 09:13 AM) Heaven forbid these hackers not hack! I'm glad someone else said this... Where is all of the outrage for the people committing crimes? Weird.

Why don't we do it in the road was a great song.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 3, 2011 -> 09:10 AM) Swiping a graph. If you project forwards along a line, we'll be through the glut of distressed sales sometime in the range of 2020. Assuming that the government doesn't swoop in and delay things another few years again.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 3, 2011 -> 09:16 AM) A new working paper from the IMF shows that the rest of the developed world receives a much higher share of their tax revenue from "Pollution taxes" than the U.S. does. Effectively, its cheaper to pollute in the U.S. than it is anywhere else in the OECD. That is pretty misleading to include only taxes, and not fines and fees paid for the exact same thing.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 3, 2011 -> 09:06 AM) Despite having a couple very bad outings in the past week or two, Remenowsky's ERA is still in the 2's. But even better: 27.2 IP, 9 H, 3 BB, 39 K. That's 0.98 BB/9, 12.69 K/9, and 13.00 K:BB. AvgA is .165. I sure hope he sees Charlotte this year. Man, those are some nasty peripherals.

Work

Uh, huh.

Still

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jun 3, 2011 -> 08:44 AM) I really wish the NBA would adopt flopping/acting penalties to players like the NHL did. An unsportsmanlike conduct penalty? Sounds kinda like what they quit enforcing as soon as Miami started complaining about every single call against them.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 3, 2011 -> 08:38 AM) Seriously Steve...What Cap Space? I assume you're dealing Noah and Rose for Expiring contracts sometime soon? http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/06/02/bul...minor-upgrades/

Queen still rocks after all of these years.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jun 3, 2011 -> 08:34 AM) Sqwertradomous "A story about a porno making psychic, which got 92% on rotton tomatos..."

Old man Balta

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jun 3, 2011 -> 08:17 AM) +1 Lost a lot of respect for Buster. Cousins did nothing except play the game the right way. Shut the f*** up and deal with your unfortunate injury as a man. Well said.