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QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 7, 2010 -> 09:22 PM) I have 50 shares of IAU (about $600-700, I don't remember what I paid for it though) but no way would I buy more of it right now at this inflated price, that's money that could be spent on some dividend stocks at a cheap price or even buy like 100 shares of AMD and wait for it to regain value in a couple of years (I think the company is worth a lot more than what it's trading for right now, less than $8) I'd do it. I wouldn't be surprised if we get one more stupid run up in gold, just to really give it the ridiculous run up before the collapse. I could see it going to $1500 before falling apart. That being said, if I owned gold, I'd sell it today and not even think twice about it, even if it did run a bit more. To me, this is a classic bubble, and when it breaks, it is going down for a while. Heck look at an oil chart for something pretty similar.

QUOTE (WhiteSoxfan1986 @ Oct 7, 2010 -> 08:16 PM) Unbelievable how bad the Twins have been in the postseason. Hopefully they can somehow come back, or at least make it a series. I just can't stand the Yankees. 11 straight losses.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 7, 2010 -> 08:10 PM) Twins/Yankees is the same as White Sox/Twins, only the Twins switch roles. The really sad part is that the Sox had a much better shot at beating the Yankees than the Twins did.

Just this one time, I will agree with Balta.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 7, 2010 -> 09:13 PM) Yeah but odds are you'd have bought something else with that money whereas if you don't trust the stock market and think it's a bubble, it's not really that much of a risk if you buy a bunch of shares of a blue chip companies after a market crash/panic and then just cash in 2 years later. It's not a gamble, you know the stock is going to shoot back up from its depressed share price relatively fast, and you go in with that knowing you're going to sell (not hold) because you're already skeptical and think it's a bubble. When people sell their condo after 3 years it's usually because they're moving into another place (buying). 2¢ Speaking of bubbles... Gold is ridiculous right now. Once the economy shows any real signs of recovery, gold is going to fall at least 50%, if not back to something like $500.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 7, 2010 -> 08:24 PM) That happens a lot, especially now because a lot of companies were undervalued from everything crashing. 2008 would've been a good year to have $10,000 cash laying around because you could've gotten a lot of solid companies for like half their price, now everything is starting to recover. 2K5 you remember about a year ago in this thread around the time everything was bottoming out (but we didn't really know it was bottoming out yet) we were talking about CDs and savings interest rates and you said it'd be interesting to see what $1000 did in a regular CD vs. investing it in stocks? Or something like that? Man do I wish I had a bunch of cash to invest then! Yeah I remember that conversation, for some reason I was thinking we were somewhere around 8500 in the Dow, so I'd be up 30%, while people in CDs got about 3%. It seems like no one wanted to take up the other side of that bet. All though with us back at about 11000, I'd be a seller now. I think stocks are building in a Republican win in the House, and I don't think it really matters fundamentally all that much right now over the medium term.

The best line of the day is that Marty Turco gets to decide how big of a legend that Annti Neimi becomes.

Falcons

The XXL Chalupa commerical would have been way funnier if Girardi called for Sabathia.

Dude he hasn't been relevant since the 90's.

Zero idea if I should go with X or Z since X was skipped, but I think I will go with Z

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 7, 2010 -> 02:55 PM) I don't believe the "doesn't know how or why" part of it. It wouldn't be the first time that happened in this Congress...

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 7, 2010 -> 01:14 PM) Yes there is. A lot of playoff revenue and most likely increased season ticket sales when your team makes the post season. Then by that logic, winning 88 games and getting a crappy draft pick is better than winning 75 and getting a top 10 pick because of the increased revenues as well.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Oct 7, 2010 -> 11:58 AM) Using 2005 or the Twins' playoff record (doesn't help that they play a 200 million dollar juggernaut every year) as some kinda ultimate security blanket as a rebuttal for them kicking our asses every year is kinda corny. As a fan, I don't give a s*** if the Twins go 0 for their next 80 in the playoffs. I most certainly do care that they're the ones keeping us from getting to the postseason to begin with (save 2008, which was only because of a stupid coin flip). The bar keeps changing, that's the problem. All regular season long we hear how anything but winning the World Series is a failure. Then when the Twins beat us out, it is all about how we should be like the Twins. Then when the Twins playoff record comes up it doesn't matter what they do the in post-season anymore. In that first standard, there really isn't a difference between winning 88 games and staying home and winning 94 and being the Yankees b****.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Oct 7, 2010 -> 11:37 AM) Yeah, where is this written? Just because the Twins are the team that humiliate us on a regular basis, we don't have to emulate them. We just have to emulate a team that wins. It's almost a straw man argument. We get it thrown in our faces that the Twins can't win anything in the postseason, but we're really just upset that we can't beat them in the regular season. The postseason has nothing to do with the argument. They prevent us from winning in the regular season, and that's the main point. So we can only listen to people b**** about the Twins beating us, and ignore the rest of the story? That's a pretty crappy discussion if you ask me.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Oct 7, 2010 -> 09:36 AM) I saw where you were going immediately with this. Still though, you think there's no difference between continually making the playoffs and missing the playoffs the vast majority of the time? (Cue World Series rebuttal) That was five years ago, and they haven't come close to repeating it since. They win one title, and since everyone is used to never being competitive, every non-player has job security for life. And yet the team are supposed to emulate hasn't won a title in 20 years, and choke every year in the first round.

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ Oct 7, 2010 -> 08:23 AM) The rectal probe, or keeping the lights off? Yes

http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Chi...1179/story.html

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 6, 2010 -> 04:59 PM) First oil spill report rips the administration for downplaying the severity of the spill repeatedly, all the way through August. Rolling Stone reported this months ago...

That is Michigan City's own Don Larson.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 6, 2010 -> 11:58 AM) Reading the Thome article in today's Sun Times makes me wonder how both Kenny and Ozzie are back next year. The interesting thing if you read between the lines, is that Thome pretty much admits he wouldn't have been nearly as motivated if the Sox did bring him back.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 6, 2010 -> 07:50 AM) D1 has a couple things going for him that aren't worth noting there. First...generally better numbers. 2nd...pitches with his left hand. Both of those make him reasonable as a trade option. The reason the Sox might actually do it though is his FA status. And that is the biggest difference between Danks and Floyd. Floyd is locked up to a friendly deal. Danks isn't.