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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 17, 2010 -> 10:53 AM) 6 IP, 2 BB, 2 hits, 1 ER for Marquez. It'd be really nice to see him find a groove the next month or so. He seemed like he was really overthrowing everything in his outing here. I'd like to see him over a couple of weeks to see what he has.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Jul 17, 2010 -> 11:27 AM) The Bulls also have interest in T-Mac, Josh Howard and Rasual Butler. They're not going to be content going into the season without another shooter. It would be interesting to bet on a superstar rebounding. If it works, it would be huge.

QUOTE (ICP! @ Jul 17, 2010 -> 10:22 AM) Go Team Anything less than a 9 game winning streak and you are less of an admin than both Heads and I.

If Konerko had sat on the first pitch fastball, the game would have been tied at least.

I really wanted to see the hit and run in the 8th with Pierre on 1st. Of course that is when Alexei grounded into the double play. I don't know why they didn't either run, or hit and run there. Ramirez has been hitting everything in sight.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 16, 2010 -> 02:11 PM) Like Mauer? I don't even know a Mauer...

ACH is by far the best funding option if you can get it done. Money moves very quickly between your bank account and your brokerage account that way. I'd try going to a branch, but take all of your info for both accounts so that you can be sure to be able to get it done easily.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 16, 2010 -> 12:20 PM) How is it false? Subsidized means using tax dollars against cost. That is exactly where 99%+ of the road funding comes from. I suppose I should have said your roads are 99% subsidized, not 100%. SOME of that money comes from TARGETED taxation - gas tax, etc., as you mention. Its still tax money. Except for those very few toll roads in the US, you don't pay for use. Virtually any train ride you take, you pay to ride. I am not against either being true, by the way. Having all roads be pay-for-use is completely impractical. All I'm saying is, people want to know why tax dollars should go to mass transit at all (not you, I was addressing some who truly do say this), and those are the people who don't get it (in my view). The federal and state governments (and localities as well) build and maintain roads, and to an extent rails and other transportation infrastructure. Its accepted by most everyone that this is a function best left to the government to manage. That being the case, it behooves that same government to attempt to allocate transportation infrastructure spending in a way that maximizes efficiency. That doesn't mean everything is on rails - but there have been umpteen studies I've seen that make it clear that a relatively small (compared to the total transportation budget) bump in rail transit funding would pay huge dividends not only for riders, but for drivers and flyers, as well as taxpayers. That function isn't infinite of course, rail has its limits. I'm just saying, there is every reason to believe that the balance of the equation should be a little more towards rail and mass transit than it currently is, if we want the most bang for our taxpayer buck. It is also worth mentioning that no where near the cost of the railroads is being paid by tickets to ride them. I know that well over 50% of the money that the passenger railroad based in Michigan City comes from state and federal governments. About a third of their budget comes from tickets being bought.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Jul 16, 2010 -> 12:07 AM) I would be willing to a shot at him depending on the price, but I see the Yankees saving him to move in a bigger deal or just try and fix him by themselves. Champerlain has proven to be one of the dumbest pitchers in baseball though. Ironic that these two are in the same sentence.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 16, 2010 -> 12:12 PM) D. Lee would be a great addition I said before I would love to see it happen. Plus Ozzie and Lee were together in FLA, so that should help

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 16, 2010 -> 12:10 PM) This new park isn't doing the Twins any favors. Especially since their roster looks like the 2003 Sox...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 16, 2010 -> 11:19 AM) With what type of weapon? Prospects and begging...

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jul 16, 2010 -> 11:42 AM) My favorite part of the game last night was the bottom of the 1st when Span tried to dump one of those bulls*** shank jobs into short left field. All of the Twins fans started cheering because it was a blueprint of the kind of hits that have killed the sox in the Dome for year. Of course Pierre used his speed to run it down and completely shocked the fans and the players of the home team. The thing that continues to amaze me is the amount of balls that die in that place. The catch Rios made at the 411 sign last night would have been into the ivy at USCF, or into the centerfield wall at the old park. This year it is another routine catch made by Rios tracking a ball over his head.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 16, 2010 -> 11:18 AM) The value of the gasoline tax has declined by about 1/3 over the last 20 years due to not being indexed to inflation, let alone when compared to the increase in gasoline prices. Which is still hundreds of billions of dollars different than this "free" thing getting bandied about. Without knowing the numbers off of the top of my head I'd be willing to bet that the percentage of roads being paid for is way higher than the percentage of railways being paid for by their respective users. The reality is 180 degrees different from what is being presented here. Yes we need more mass transit, but there is no need to just make up stuff to try to justify it.

QUOTE (qwerty @ Jul 15, 2010 -> 07:03 PM) So you traded one s*** name, for another s*** name, just to go back to the original s*** name. Sounds kinda like Reeds career.

I'd rather target one of the Cubs bats than Lilly

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 16, 2010 -> 10:30 AM) If MB pitches another decade or so at this pace (or until he's 40-ish), gets another few trophies of one kind or another (GG, WS, All Star), he's got a good shot. If he adds a Cy Young somewhere in there, he's probably going to make it. But anything less than that, he's a long shot at best. His stuff is already fading. Honestly I don't see him as a White Sox after 2011 unless he takes a major paycut.

Dunes National Lakeshore and Dunes State Parks are about an hour from you Shipps here in Indiana, and they offer some great and challenging hiking, beautiful scenery, camping, fishing, nature walks, and a ton of other stuff. We take the kids out there a lot.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Jul 14, 2010 -> 09:20 PM) That's the exact opposite of what I thought. I liked The Men Who Stare at Goats, while I thought Burn After Reading was pretty blah and certainly wasn't funny. I'm with you. Burn after Reading was awful. Men Who Stare at Goats was pretty entertaining for the most part.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 16, 2010 -> 10:27 AM) Just do it yourself. Its really easy, unless you have an all-electric car or something. Even on a hybrid its easy, though you need to be careful about what order you do things in, in that case (see your manual). Its scary if you haven't done it before, but if you follow the manual, you will be safe and save yourself some money. No joke. Why pay for something that is an EASY job.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 16, 2010 -> 10:45 AM) You can cite a few places where the roads have a direct net cost to their use. Can you cite for those of us who want rail development where the free mass transit, similar to all the other roads you can use for free, are? (The only places I can think of I've lived with any sort of free mass transit are the college towns...and usually there the mass transit fee is paid by the university anyway so it's not free to anyone other than the people at the school). Unless you are walking or biking, you aren't using roads for free. You are paying taxes on that gasoline that is transporting you around, which is supposed to go directly to fixing those roads. If you are walking or biking, you really aren't hurting the roads anyway.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 16, 2010 -> 09:49 AM) Yeah, I agree with that. He should have caught it, but it wasn't his ball to begin with. I would have charged him the error, he had the ball in his glove. It looked like it hit the palm of his glove even.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 16, 2010 -> 09:57 AM) Liriano's been getting hit hard. 8.31 ERA in July. His peripherals still look great, part of the reason why his ERA is that high is due to a .429 BABIP. So he's not losing it, it might be a bit of bad lucky combined with bad location. Or his slider isn't as sharp as it was earlier this year.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jul 16, 2010 -> 10:08 AM) Poof. Beavis and Butthead Duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh...

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 15, 2010 -> 11:47 PM) excellent, all these people using gasoline are sucking the teat of the government. the lazy bastards. Why do you hate poor people?