southsider2k5

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 07:52 PM) At this point, Beckham's another failed Sox top hitting prospect under Walker. The funny part is that I remember thinking during the game, I bet this is the night that Fathom states we have to send down Beckham.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 02:26 PM) Oh, I'm well aware. I'm fully expecting the White Sox to score about 8-10 runs today. Boy would that be nice. Of course when it happens, that will be the night we give up 11-15 runs...

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 01:44 PM) It was a stupid promise to make. Then don't make it. That's what I am saying.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 01:46 PM) I hate to say it, but you have to shop Seabrook if you can. I would not be surprised to see one of the top 4 guys dealt. that means pretty much either Seabs or Hjal because of contracts.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 01:28 PM) Seriously...in a state-level issue, what more can the President do? Edit: There is an active petition drive existing right now to put that law on the ballot this fall, and the POTUS just put himself behind keeping the issue at the front of hte newspapers. How about live up to your promises?

Thata way to stand in the picket lines with guys!

QUOTE (Controlled Chaos @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 01:11 PM) Looking ahead.... http://committedindians.com/blackhawks-ros...-it-looks-good/ That cap number increase would be awesome for the Hawks. It would give them much needed breathing room.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 12:45 PM) The flip side of that is you lose the argument either way because you support Republicans! I think you call that a win-win.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 12:38 PM) Who builds, produces, designs or provides a better product/service, the people who own something or the people who actually do the work? Without the people who own something, the rest of that doesn't happen.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 12:34 PM) Wait, so, the fact that I bought a civic when I needed a car instead of waiting the 5 years before buying a true gas/electric car is similar to me voting for a non-perfect Democrat? I guess I can see that. I was going more towards not buying the inferior American car even though it represents everything you hold dear (employees making lots of money, huge benefits and pensions, cheap and full health insurance) and instead supporting the opposite of that (including trade deficits). You pretty much voted "Republician" because the "Democrat" wasn't good enough.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 12:29 PM) You know quite well that if they had produced enough of the Volts to satisfy the pre-orders, I'd be in line. This vaguely seems like the talk about voting for a bad Democrat being better than voting for anyone else yesterday...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 12:24 PM) I haven't bought a GM car because of their ownership group for the last 20 years, does that count? The government owns it now, you should be rushing out to buy one!

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 12:16 PM) I would not disagree with employees (stakeholders) everywhere getting a larger share of profits, so I guess I win either way? Here's the rub. If there is no profit incentive, there is no innovation, there is no creation, and there are no jobs. The more profit incentive you take away, the less reason there is to build a better product to compete, the less reason there is for expansion and hiring of more employees. There is also less reason for companies to go into businesses to lower prices in a marketplace. Everyone supposedly hates monopolies, but taking profit away from industries ensures they will be there because no one goes into those industries.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 12:18 PM) As awful and frustrating as Boozer has been, we're going to need him to win a championship, so hopefully he gets healthy and gets his s*** together.I'm also hoping that Orlando can win game 6 to give the Bulls bodies a little more time to heal. I really couldn't care less who we play next round as neither team will give us too much trouble but I want the extra rest for our guys. This. The team needs his scoring to give Rose a little less to shoulder. They can't win as just the Derrick Rose show. He has to get some support from somewhere. Even Michael couldn't do it alone.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 11:06 AM) -What a game. That's why you can't beat playoff hockey. Crawford was unbelievable, the only reason it went to OT. In the end, I think the Canucks were just the better team. That 3-0 hole was too much, its hard to beat a good team like that 4 straight times. -It's funny how the perception of a season can change so quickly. A first round loss is always disappointing. But it went from backing in the playoffs and being down 3-0, to waking up and almost pulling off the comeback on the Nucks. The full season feels a bit different than it did last Sunday night. -The cap situation isn't ideal, but with the MVP bonus gone and I believe a slightly higher cap, they at least will be able to keep Crawford. Hopefully they can keep some of their RFAs and add a little depth too. Either way, with all this talent and a full summer off, no reason why they can't make a deep run in the playoffs next year. I think anyway you look at it, a seven game series with the top points team in hockey is an acceptable way for this team to go out. Yeah, you want to win the Cup, but realisitically, did anyone think that this team was capable of that, especially after seeing their 82 game block of work? This version of the Hawks just wasn't nearly as good as the 2010 team.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 12:12 PM) They already have a significant share of the profits, in fact a majority of the profits. Players salaries are also at record highs. To frame this in the "poor players" light is not accurate at all. But to the example, there are pools of atheletes who can perform the same job in the same respect that car makers can be replaced. No they aren't going to be as good, and probably will require training to do the job adequately. Even then they probably won't be able to do the job as well as the person that they replaced. But if you were to ID GMs "star" employees and try to replace them would have a disasterous effect on quality, just like it would in the NFL. If the general public knew that GM's top employees were all gone and replaced with "7th round picks" they would stop buying GMs just like if the NFL brought in all new players to replace the striking ones, a large chunk of NFL fans would quit going to games. The top 1% of anyone's employees are impossible to replace. The bottom 50% are easy. Why do you think the NFL has a 7 round draft every year? Because they replace a ton of players every single year, already. To pretend the NFL is different than anywhere else is disingenuous. And replace profits with total revenues.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 12:01 PM) GM could likely find equally capable non-union labor to perform the same job. The NFL/MLB/NBA/NHL can't. Asking if I'd support union-busting efforts or regarding humans as another commodity or raw resource input, equivalent to tons of steel, brings personal politics into it too much. But working in that system, a millwright is a relatively common commodity who helps generate a small portion of GM's overall revenues while an all-star QB is extremely rare commodity that generates a significant portion of an NFL team's revenues. The only way for the NFL owners to fight giving players a significant share of profits is to behave in a monopolistic fashion and collude to keep players' salaries low. They already have a significant share of the profits, in fact a majority of the profits. Players salaries are also at record highs. To frame this in the "poor players" light is not accurate at all. But to the example, there are pools of atheletes who can perform the same job in the same respect that car makers can be replaced. No they aren't going to be as good, and probably will require training to do the job adequately. Even then they probably won't be able to do the job as well as the person that they replaced. But if you were to ID GMs "star" employees and try to replace them would have a disasterous effect on quality, just like it would in the NFL. If the general public knew that GM's top employees were all gone and replaced with "7th round picks" they would stop buying GMs just like if the NFL brought in all new players to replace the striking ones, a large chunk of NFL fans would quit going to games. The top 1% of anyone's employees are impossible to replace. The bottom 50% are easy. Why do you think the NFL has a 7 round draft every year? Because they replace a ton of players every single year, already. To pretend the NFL is different than anywhere else is disingenuous.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 11:47 AM) Interview #1 of 2 today just completed. Pray for me folks! Good luck M!

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 11:32 AM) My point was to differentiate between replaceable Engineer Smith at GM and non-replaceable Peyton Manning, Derrick Rose, Jonathan Toews, etc. So you'd still buy a GM if you knew that some random strikebreaker came in and built your car?

http://www.csnchicago.com/04/27/11/Sox-Dra...&feedID=661

QUOTE (Knackattack @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 11:26 AM) AND Ozzie takes him out for pizza after games.. True dat

QUOTE (djcollie03 @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 11:13 AM) Lillibridge looks so young to me. All of the photos on the jumbotron, etc. make me think he looks young enough to still need his mom to drop him off at the stadium. I'm glad the little guy made the plays last night. I'm sure he was very excited when his mom picked him up after the game. Maybe she took him for ice cream? I hope she did because he deserved it. We all laugh at him, but he is the one in the major leagues making like 10 times what most of us make, just to play a game. I think he gets the last laugh.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 11:10 AM) That was an afterthought. When I buy a car from GM, I'm not buying it because Engineer Smith works at GM and is a bad-ass engineer. When I go to a Bulls game, I am going to see Derrick Rose. Professional athletes and entertainers cannot be compared to typical employees because equivalent replacements are essentially non-existent. And you wouldn't be buying a GM at all if the ownership group didn't exist.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 11:09 AM) I hate your signature. Jinx times infinity. No joke. the world is going end in 2012. Everyone knows that.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 10:56 AM) I dunno, I think that telling your voters that the President is a Socialist Muslim Fascist who is coming for your Medicare and will take it back with him to Muslims in Kenya might be a decent turnout message. This reminds me a lot of the stereotypes you were making yesterday about those evil Republicians.