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the premium candy hearts for Valentines day instead of the crappy ones they make now.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 01:44 PM) I wonder what kind of salary/revenue level we'd be looking at if we won the 2011 and 2012 Central divisions and had 1 deep playoff run in there. I don't see too much more being in the coffers unless the economy really improves a lot and we win a lot. The biggest thing that I see being the problem is that Danks is going to be really young when he hits the market, and he will be looking at something from 6 to possibly 8 years depending on how his next two year go. We went to four years for Buehrle as a major exception. Seeing what is going on with Peavy is only going to strengthen that resolve against long extensions for pitchers.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 01:40 PM) He meant Jackson will get 5/75 if Jackson puts up those #'s. Even if he puts up numbers close to what he has, he is looking at a much longer contract than the Sox will ever sign him too. Forget about Danks, he is already gone. Mark my words. John Danks will not be on the White Sox in 2013. Though I am sure that is just me being a blind homer again...

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 12:49 PM) And if he wins 20 games he'll command 5/75. No thanks. Especially when we still have a much better pitcher in Danks to worry about. Danks will be getting 7 or 8 years if he puts up those kind of numbers, which roughly translates to not a chance in hell.

QUOTE (flavum @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 12:48 PM) Cuts... De Aza, Flowers, Bruney, McPherson, Gray, Lindsay, Kinney, Infante and Danks. Down to 29, and that includes Peavy and Viciedo. So they're down to 27. With Lucy just there to be a 3rd catcher, it's really just down to Lillibridge or Milledge. I think Humber is the 5th starter, and Marquez will be in the pen. Sounds about right. I would imagine that Flowers is ahead of Lucy now on the depth chart, but they want Tyler to get his ABs. The starting line up in Charlotte will be interesting.

QUOTE (YASNY @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 11:18 AM) I predict Pearl becomes the new head coach at Arkansas. Kind of a Pearl before swine type of thing. Nice work

My new favorite random quote... “I don’t believe that Obama filled out his own bracket. That would have required him to make 63 decisions in a short period of time.”

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 09:58 AM) F*CK, that clearly means bad news for Sharp. He's probably done. Yep. Kiss this season good-bye. Damn.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 10:01 AM) Do we really need another Peavy bashing thread? But this one is NEW and IMPROVED!!@#!

QUOTE (oldsox @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 09:47 AM) "I'm certainly not the guy the Sox thought they were trading for," .... This quote in today's Trib says it all. I wonder what Kenny's reaction was when he read it this morning. What a misrable trade, and he followed that up with getting rid of Dan Hudson to the DBacks. Kenny is kind of the Josh McDaniel of MLB GM's. Except when you look at guys like John Danks, Gavin Floyd, Matt Thornton, Carlos Quentin and company, it isn't true.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 09:17 AM) The bottom line is people are getting more for less, however they're tending to use more and do more, thus why they pay more...as they should. I have no issues with tiered data plans, to be perfectly honest, I don't see data usage/consumption as much different than any other consumer product/commodity. If you use a lot, you should pay more than the guy that hardly uses any. It's that simple. These one size fits all unlimited plans never made sense to me. If a person uses 300 GIGAbytes of data per month, they SHOULD pay more than a person that uses 35 MEGAbytes. However, I feel that the data plans should be cheaper than they are, or have many more/better tiers. The fact that you can buy 200MEGAbytes, OR 2 GIGAbytes is silly to me...and kind of pigeon holes you into having to buy the more expensive 2gig plan. None of this is surprising to me, though. Verizon said they aren't even going to bother contesting the AT&T-Mobile acquisition, either...and further, they have zero interest in Sprint. Yeah, I have a hard time saying that prices are increasing, when the reality is that apples to apples, prices have decreased. people are getting more service and paying more for it. To me, that isn' a price increase, that is an upgrade. Spending more for a bigger package isn't price increases. That is akin to saying going from basic cable to the full package is a price increase.

QUOTE (striker @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 09:32 AM) http://www.fan-exchange.com/mlb/standingsp...s.asp?UserID=53 Twins in third. Gutsy.

QUOTE (chwhtsox @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 08:54 AM) No, you got this right. I'm the exact same way, I see these stories on the news and then look at my little one...I just can't comprehend it. @ Lost, I'm sorry, man. Yeah, I agree totally. My level of anger has multiplied with these types of stories since I had kids myself.

No joke. The most important thing you can do when it comes to a sales setting is show some personality. They want to know that you will be instantly comfortable with strangers, which is exactly what sales work is.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 08:10 AM) Why do you think he was calling for a tax cut? I got that part. I also got the part where it only helps one day a year.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 08:01 AM) Yeah, FSU was a scary matchup for ND. FSU has a top tier defense going up against a team the relies on jumpers. The perfect storm for a FSU romp. Which is the story of the tourney. Match ups are everything.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 08:04 AM) Then your point isn't an objection, because if they already have a negative income tax rate in this particular tax, what does it matter if the negative tax rate is made more sharply negative while being offset with a consumption tax? It isn't a tax reduction at that point. It is a subsidy or social entitlement, depending on how you package it. It also means that for 364 days a year the taxpayer is paying a regressive tax and losing income, which is made up for on the one day a year when they get their tax refund. It is a terrible idea that hurts poor people's spending power for pretty much the entire year. Sales taxes are incredibly regressive, and shouldn't be used if at all possible. Same with any other sort of usage tax or fee.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 07:59 AM) No they don't. They do on "the Federal Income tax". They don't if you count Social Security taxes, Medicare taxes, State taxes, and local taxes. He isn't talking about those taxes, as was outlined in his post. There was a specific reference to federal income taxes, so I really didn't feel I needed to repeat federal income taxes to make it obvious that I was talking about federal income taxes.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 07:58 AM) No, what's happening is that a large company which has worldwide business and facilities in only a few locations has managed to do business with a lot of small operators, and in exchange that large company has in effect demanded huge state-level subsidies to keep the small operators in business. Which is exactly what happens every day in towns all over the US, except replace state with local. It is all the same pursuit for jobs and spenders. If your policies are more anti-business, your community (or state) loses. In the cases, the State of Illinois decided that taxes are more important than jobs. The other side of the coin is that governments do this all of the time with other regulations as well. Things that make it more expensive to do business somewhere, drive away businesses. In Economics 101, we call this the Law of Supply.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 07:55 AM) Oh they hesitated - but its simple math. They can lose a bunch of affiliates - most of whom direct very small amounts of business to them - or they can lose a heck of a lot of customers among the entire state population because they are now being taxed. They chose the lesser evil. Still not what they want (they'd rather the law just not change at all), but its better than the alternative. I don't blame them for making that choice at all. I will say though, there's a good chance that lots of states will enact similar laws in the next few years. So eventually, this will be a non-issue. Sure there will be a few states that consistently avoid it, but if a majority of states (particulary if they are key, large population states) do this, then it will in essence level the playing field. So I don't necessarily blame Illinois either. But here is what I'd love to see happen (I know it won't)... have the US government enact a national sales tax, solely on non-essential goods (excludes store-bought food, clothing for example)... lower the federal income tax by that amount for all brackets, but specifically targeting the lower ones more significantly... and then allow the states to decide whether or not to increase their state income taxes to fill that gap. What this does essentially is, without adding any more net tax dollars, shift the national nature of shopping online to the federal level where it is more effective, and give the states back the revenue via a transfer of burden. The lower two quintiles of American taxpayers have a negative tax rate. Plus sales taxes are horribly regressive in their nature.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 07:50 AM) But as Tex has pointed out, those "locations" do a small enough amount of business that Amazon doesn't hesitate to close down 10k of them. Nobody in their right mind is looking at Amazon's affiliates and thinking "Here's the next big thing for our state". Or they realize that the cost of shutting them down, and finding someone else to do them in the next state over is cheaper than paying the local tax rate. Either way, it is a jobs consideration to some extent. It is no different than Wal-Mart opening up across the street from the Chicago city limits to save the four percentage points of sales tax, knowing that it will draw more customers, or operating in the next town over because they get a better incentive package from them. Tourism isn't the best thing for Michigan City, but it is something better than 20% unemployment. In the big picture this really isn't any different. if you aren't competitive, you lose. That is exactly what is happening to these states right now.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 07:40 AM) There's a good possibility that he was lying on purpose. He really wants to return and patients will go into denial. He may be thinking "it's really not that bad" or " I just came off surgery so it's going to feel a little different." Either way you can't trust his subjective information regarding the pain but I wouldn't rush to judge him and necessarily say he was outright lying. The blame really is on his shoulder(s) as the Sox can only go by what they see, he was doing well, and what he reports. Honestly reading Jake's quotes and the organizations quotes, that is how I was thinking that this went down. We always hear that pitchers have soreness, so how is he supposed to know that this specific soreness is something bigger, until it becomes something bigger. They also told him to expect soreness, so when it happened, why would he be worried about it? Its a catch 22 from the way I read it.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 07:48 AM) Never said he should have come here, but he should've gotten a major league deal, no matter where he went. He and his agent should've realized that with Freddy's stuff diminishing rapidly, that risking have to have an impressive spring training to make a squad would be a very risky move. I would bet no one offered it. There would have been no reason for him to take a minor league deal if a major league one was out there. The other thing that makes me think that is how late in the process he signed.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 07:44 AM) You know full well why that's a bad example...it doesn't take into account Tex's point about subsidizing jobs out of state, rather than in state. This is Michigan City paying a big tax abatement to build a mall in New Buffalo, MI. Except Amazon does have locations in state, or they wouldn't have locations to shutdown. So no, it isn't a bad example.

Reading that list, prison is too good for the SOBs. They deserve the same treatment the kids got.